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Thanks to my mother-in-law we can make a whole bunch of new eye pillows! She brought them with me straight from the Provence! It's the best lavender I have found, since the smell lasts for years, without even exaggerating. I don't know exactly how long this will last me, but luckily, she goes on holiday there every summer!


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"Fog-Drip" May Hold Key to Drought Relief (Jun, 1931)
"Fog-Drip" May Hold Key to Drought Relief
by CALVIN FRAZER
Scientists, spurred on by last summer's disastrous drought, are still vainly seeking a method of controlling rainfall. In some parts of the world fog is a more important source of moisture than rain, and various methods, as described here by Mr. Frazer, have been proposed to make fog yield water during arid seasons.
THE hilly region of the Downs, in southern England, is one of the few remarkable places in the world where people may go to the hill tops to obtain water in times of drought. On the summits of these hills are found many artificial shallow ponds, most of them centuries old. When the wells and springs in the valleys below fail on account of protracted dry weather, these upland ponds still contain an abundant supply of water. According to popular belief they are fed by dew, and hence they are called "dew ponds".
The phenomenon of these English dew ponds was thoroughly investigated some years ago by E. A. Martin, with the aid of a special grant from the Royal Society of London. He found by actual measurements that the water in the ponds does not grow cold enough during summer nights to condense moisture from the atmosphere upon its surface, after the manner of leaves and other solid objects on which dew forms. Hence the ponds are not fed by dew.
As rainfall increases with altitude, they doubtless receive a good deal more rain than the valleys adjacent, but regardless of this source of water they get an ample supply at all times from the dense fogs that drift in, especially in the early mornings, from the English Channel near by. The water in these fogs is caught by trees and shrubbery and drains into the ponds.
The bottom of these ponds consists of a layer of puddled chalk or clay which is impervious to water, so that there is no loss by seepage. In most of the ponds this watertight bottom is covered with a layer of broken stone, serving as a protection from the trampling of sheep and cattle, which come to these ponds to drink.
The process by which the dew ponds obtain their water is known to science as "fog-drip", and is of considerable practical importance in certain other parts of the world. Thus, during the almost rainless summers of southern California the fog that rolls in daily from the Pacific affords plenty of moisture for growing a big crop of beans and other products along the coast. As much as 0.05 inch of water—equivalent to a moderate shower of rain—has been deposited from a California fog during a single night. On the coast of Peru, where the rainfall is negligible at all seasons, plants grow luxuriously during several months of the year, moistened only by the "garua", the celebrated drizzly fog of that region.
There have been many schemes for collecting fog-drip on a large scale for purposes of irrigation, but none appear to be practicable. A scheme of this sort was submitted to the Weather Bureau during the severe drought of last summer by residents of Bismarck, North Dakota, who planned to construct an experimental dew pond on one of the hills back of that city. The promoters of this project received no encouragement from Uncle Sam's meteorologists, who explained that the successful operation of the ponds in southern England depends upon local climatic conditions entirely different from those prevailing in the Dakotas. Fogs are rare in North Dakota, records for Bismarck showing only about four or five a year.
Inventors in California once proposed to set up a tall screen of wire netting to catch fog near the coast and to store the water in reservoirs, from which it could be piped to adjacent farmlands. This beautiful plan was knocked in the head by a cold-blooded meteorologist, Dr. W. J. Humphreys, of the Weather Bureau. Humphreys showed that a screen 250 feet high—the cost of which would doubtless be prohibitive—would provide irrigation water for a strip of land only about half a mile wide back of it. However, the scheme may still have possibilities, and inventors are continuing their investigations of the odd phenomena in various parts of the world. Their findings have proved interesting.
On the summit of Green Mountain, in the Island of Ascension, there is a small artificial pool, surrounded by a bamboo thicket, and known as the "Dew Pond." It was constructed, in imitation of the English ponds, for the purpose of catching water from the trade-wind clouds that constantly drift over this mountain, and it serves as a watering place for cattle. Water is scarce in Ascension, which has no springs and a very scanty rainfall.
Fog-drip also explains the legend of the rain tree". This famous tree, described by many early voyagers, is said to have grown in the island of Ferro, one of the Canaries, and to have supplied water for all the needs of the islanders. Fog condensed on the tree and drained into a cistern.
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Jason says: January 25, 20104:20 pm
They're still using these in Peru.
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evaquin is the brand name for an antibiotic in the fluoroquinolone class of antibiotics. It is a strong antibiotic that is frequently used after other antibiotics have failed to clear up an infection, or in life-threatening and severe cases. However, Levaquin's effectiveness is marred by a serious side effect: an increased risk of tendon ruptures, especially rupture of the Achilles tendon or the shoulder, and tendonitis. That's why Missouri Dangerous Drug Attorneys increasingly help families pursue injury cases against the manufacturers.
A Levaquin tendon rupture is most common in people over the age of 60 and in people who are taking corticosteroid drugs for conditions like arthritis, allergies, inflammatory bowel disease or asthma. Unfortunately, those two groups tend to overlap, which means older Americans may be at serious risk when they use Levaquin. In response to studies showing a strong connection between Levaquin and tendon problems, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2008 added a "black box" warning to Levaquin's label about the risk of tendon rupture.
This tendon rupture is spontaneous, which means it doesn't happen in response to overuse or misuse &mdash: it happens without warning. This can be literally crippling. Tendons connect muscles to bones, and those connections are needed for the affected area to work properly. When the tendon snaps, the patient loses the ability to do things with the affected body part. In the case of ruptured or painful Achilles tendons, that means the ability to walk: the rupture makes patients unable to lift their foot from the floor. Patients may need surgery to fix the tendon, or they may be able to treat it with physical therapy and restraint in a special boot. In either case, the patient's movement will be restricted to some degree for weeks.
A tendon rupture is a serious problem for people of any age. But for older people, it can be a trigger for fears of losing independence, or cause actual loss of independence. Levaquin's maker, Johnson and Johnson, has faced thousands of Levaquin lawsuits in recent years from older people alleging that they suffered serious injuries from taking the drug. These cases allege that Johnson and Johnson failed to adequately warn patients of the risks of taking Levaquin, by attempting to downplay them in both the drug's label and in the medical literature. The advocacy group Public Citizen called on the FDA to include the black box warning about tendon rupture risk for two years before it was added, and St. Louis Defective Drug Lawyers have claimed that Johnson and Johnson failed to tell patients that Levaquin was more likely to cause tendon ruptures than other fluoroquinolones.
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Impressive field comes together for Perth International Track Cycling Grand Prix
Meyer, Kent, Romanyuta and Dillier confirmed starters
Meyer crosses the line on the final lap to take the first Australian victory at the event in over 20 years. (Image credit: Berliner Sechstagrennen)
Sarah Kent (Australia) in the individual pursuit (Image credit: AFP)
Swiss duo Silvan Dillier and Claudio Imhoff (Image credit: www.isaphoto.com)
Evgenia Romanyuta rides in the omnium pursuit wearing the world cup leaders jersey (Image credit: Gerry McManus)
A blazing international field of national, European and World Champion track cyclists will once again descend on Perth to tear up the boards at the Chevron 2012 Perth International Track Cycling Grand Prix.
Australian track stars to tune form for Worlds at Perth International GP
This year marks the 12th running of the Perth International Track Cycling Grand Prix. Now a UCI Category 1 Event, this competition will showcase track cycling at its very best and will act as a warm up event to the 2012 World Championships to be held in Melbourne from 4-8th April.
Perth's cycling fans will witness local stars, including multiple world champion Cameron Meyer, compete against elite-level riders from around the globe, all chasing UCI points in an extravaganza of speed and action at the Midvale Speeddome on March 24th.
Event Director Murray Hall was delighted to secure local champion Sarah Kent, "World Champion and world record holder Sarah Kent is now confirmed to ride which adds great depth to the women's endurance events and the fact that she is Perth born and bred is great news for the local fans. We are thrilled to have her on the start line".
Kent was also thrilled to be competing at the Grand Prix: "Racing in front of your home crowd in an event of this magnitude is magnificent for the morale. It simply doesn't get any better than this!"
Local legend Meyer also spoke of his eagerly awaited appearance at the event, "The Perth Grand Prix will be my final hit out before defending my World Title in Melbourne. I have my sights set on the Grand Prix double, the points and scratch races. I have the form to do it."
The field includes riders from Japan, USA, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand, The Philippines, Germany, Switzerland and Australia as they prepare for the upcoming World Championships to be held in Melbourne in April.
"This is the biggest event on the WA cycling calendar in 2012 and a great opportunity to see some of the world's best track cyclists in action here in Perth as they prepare for the World Championships in Melbourne in April" said Garry Chandler, chief executive of Cycling WA.
"The Grand Prix also gives local cycling fans an opportunity to see our home grown champions racing in front of their home crowd which they don't often have the chance to do" he continued.
Other confirmed starters include an array of World, European and National champions including national and European champions Silvan Dillier currently ranked world no.1 in the madison, and Cyrille Thiery (Switzerland), national champion and Track World Cup Winner Charlotte Becker (Germany), European and national champion Evegenya Romanyuta currently ranked world no.3 in the omnium (Russia) and Asian Champion Kazunari Watanabe (Japan).


As of September 09, 2016, several ballot committees have filed funding reports with the Massachusetts Office of campaign and Political Finance (OCPF).
Thus, there are no out-of-state billionaires providing substantial funds to Save Our Public Schools, nor is Save Our Public Schools primarily funded by any out-of-state organization.
Save Our Public Schools is primarily funded by an in-state teachers union, the Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA).
None of MTA's 2013 revenue came from out-of-state billionaire donors, or out-of-state nonprofits (lobbying or otherwise), or out-of-state business execs or hedge funders.
So, if the corporate reform set wants to complain about the largest funder of Save Our Public Schools– MTA– it needs to complain about the 110,000 Massachusetts-based members of MTA who are each willing to pay on average $382 annually in order to exert their collective influence.
The largest individual contribution supporting Massachusetts Question 2 comes from two Arkansas billionaires, siblings Jim and Alice Walton. The two of them together paid $1,835,000.
In other words, Arkansas residents Jim and Alice Walton by themselves paid to Yes on 2/Campaign for Fair Access an amount equal to what 4,806 MTA members likely pay annually to belong to MTA.
Consider as well that the largest individual out-of-state contribution to anti-Question 2, Save Our Public Schools was $50, paid by Pennsylvania attorney Chuck Pascal.
You read it right: $50.
Compare that to the largest individual out-of-state contribution to pro-Question 2, Committee for Fair Access was $1,125,000, paid by Arkansas resident and Walmart heir Jim Walton.
Jim Walton's contribution alone accounts for over 10 percent of the total $11 million raised by all four pro-Question 2 ballot committees combined. Factor in sister Alice's $710,000, and the two Walton siblings account for almost 17 percent of that entire $11 million and over 10 percent of the total $17.8 million spent by all five ballot committees (pro and con) together.
The fact that $17.8 million has already been spent on Question 2 is already obscene; the fact that over 10 percent of that money came from two people magnifies the obscenity.
The largest contribution from an out-of-state organization opposing Question 2 was Washington-DC-based NEA: $1,900,000. The second largest out-of-state contribution came from AFT: $450,000.
That's a total of $2,350,000 from the two national teachers unions in opposition to Question 2– which happens to be 41 percent of the total to date ($2,350,000 / $5,750,000) that New York-based Families for Excellent Schools Advocacy has paid to date in support of Question 2.
And that's not even accounting yet for in-state contributions from, say, Massachusetts bankers and hedge funders in support of Question 2. Thirty-three such individuals contributed a total of $437,410 to Campaign for Fair Equity– an amount equal to the average estimated annual dues of 1,145 MTA members.
Twenty-four of the above hedge funders/bankers identified as employees of Fidelity Investments residing in MA. These 24 contributed a total of $56,360 to Campaign for Fair Equity– an amount equal to the average estimated annual dues of 148 MTA members.
Those footing the pro-Question 2 bill are top-downers who have decided to do charters to Massachusetts.
However, democracy is not top down; Question 2 is a ballot measure, not an executive decision. Thus far, the funding behind Save Our Public Schools can be connected to more actual Massachusetts residents than that of all four of the pro-Question 2 ballot committees combined.
We will find out how that pans out on November 8th.
I'm not an MTA member, but as a Boston Teachers Union AFT member, only a small percentage of dues paid goes to political action. A member has to elect in to contribute to pay those dollars over the regular dues. Before I retired, the standard contribution was $2.00 per pay period. That would total $104 per member for an entire year, much lower than the $382 you have calculated, and it's voluntary; dues cannot be used for political action.
I have a little while till I can even think about retiring. The first 10 years or so of teaching were hard but also full of great moments with my students, working on a block schedule which gave me enough time to really dig into a topic and have activities that got the students really engaged and full of aha moments! I miss that so much. Since PBIS, discipline has gone down the tubes, the kids have seized on this, what teen wouldn't? They flaunt the rules and I play Whack A Mole all day with minor infractions that sick so much time out of the classroom. In parent conferences or during phone calls I wish I could be honest and tell parents that their child needs discipline. That what their child is displaying isn't self-esteem but learned spoiled, selfish behavior. A parent told me recently, "You teachers need to be careful! The charter school near us is building more classrooms and parents could start pulling our kids out of public schools and then you will have no one to teach!" I just felt, in the words of the Star Trek enemies, the Borg, "resistance is futile!" Thank you for writing about what is happening here in Louisiana and elsewhere as the 1% dictate the education system for all of us that guarantees them a profit. While it seems so emotionally draining day in and day out, if teachers could work together, we could resist! Louisiana has some fantastic teachers and I think many of my friends and peers who pay attention to what is happening with public schools are also feeling so betrayed by our new governor. Our dues are pretty high but we pay them hoping for change, but imagine what might happen if every teacher joined a professional organization? We read and share your blog and feel at least we know the truth behind all this mess!
Mercedes, thanks for this deep dig! We need all the ammunition we can get and it looks like you have the keys to the magazine!
By the way, a parent activist going through the 60 day finance report, found that state Chair of the Board of Education, Paul Sagan, had made a contribution of $100,000 to the Yes on 2 campaign. The governor, who appointed him, claims there's no conflict of interest.
Christine, thanks for the details.
Sagan contributed his $100,000 to Campaign for fair Access, not Yes on 2.
So glad you are on Twitter!
Tangential- In 2012, two major city AFT Executive Directors/Presidents (Pittsburg and New Haven), were announced as Gates-funded Pahara Fellows and, two from state Education Associations, (Illinois and Colorado) were also announced.


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NEWS : 25th January 2019 : Referendum Information
The Lewes Neighbourhood Plan has been assessed by an independent examiner (Mr Andrew Ashcroft) and his report accepted by the South Downs National Park Authority. The neighbourhood plan will now move forward to a public referendum which will be held on Thursday 7th March 2019, when voters will be asked to answer simply YES or NO to the question of whether they want the neighbourhood plan to be used by the local planning authority in deciding planning applications within the parish up to 2033. Please make time to vote in this referendum – it is important!
NEWS : 30th August 2018 : Note from the Examiner
The SDNPA has appointed Mr Andrew Ashcroft as independent examiner of the Lewes NDP. The Examiner will assess whether the Lewes NDP meets certain legal requirements, known as 'basic conditions' and will consider the representations made on the Lewes NDP. Further details of the arrangements for the Examination including a summary of the representations received during the Submission consultation can be found on the SDNPA's website here
A note from the examiner, Mr Andrew Ashcroft, can be found here
NEWS : 11th June 2018 : Submission Consultation
The South Downs National Park Authority has published the submitted Lewes NDP for consultation in accordance with Part 5 of the Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012. The consultation is running from 9:00am Monday 11th June to 11:59pm Monday 23rd July 2018.
The Lewes Neighbourhood Plan, the Submission Plan and supporting documents can be viewed on the SDNPA website. Information on where to view documents, how to comment and guidance on what the representation should cover is also available on the SDNPA website.
NEWS : 18th April 2017 : Pre-Submission Consultation
The Pre-Submission Draft of the Lewes Neighbourhood Plan is now ready for its next important stage, a formal six-week public consultation which will begin on 8th May and end on 21st June 2017.
There will be a drop-in event presenting the draft plan at the Town Hall on 25th May from 1.00pm until 10pm and on the 26th May from 9.30am until 1.00pm. The full text of the draft plan will be available online together with a questionnaire in which you can tell us what you think.
There will also be printed versions available of both draft plan and an associated questionnaire at the Town Hall and the Public Library. We request that all comments go via the questionnaire as this is a formal process and everyone's comments must be properly logged. These comments will then be collated, reviewed and where appropriate incorporated into an updated plan which will then be submitted to the South Downs National Park Authority for further consideration.
The draft Lewes Neighbourhood Plan has been produced because of several previous public consultations from which the steering group were tasked with two important objectives, to ensure that the character of the Lewes and its natural environment is preserved as completely as possible and to provide low cost housing for the residents.
Lewes Low Cost Housing
From the earliest public involvement in the Lewes Neighbourhood Plan one of the issues frequently raised was the need for smaller housing units which would be affordable for Lewes residents. Unfortunately, the Government definition of "affordable" does not sit well in Lewes, with the combination of low incomes and high housing costs that we experience here. The latter is of course exacerbated by the town being in a National Park and having good links to London.
Our proposed solution is the concept of "Lewes Low Cost Housing" (LLCH) which seeks to give priority to smaller sites which could achieve new housing to rent or buy for residents on lower incomes. So, to give this concept the best chance of success we have approached landowners within Lewes town boundary including Lewes District Council and East Sussex County Council to identify suitable sites.
We have been able to achieve many potential sites for LLCH using this approach, but need residents' strong support to encourage landowners and developers to pursue this housing strategy.
Sustaining Our Community & Our Environment
As the largest town in any national park, Lewes is perhaps especially aware of its natural environment. The town did not expand as much as was usual in the nineteenth century because the seaside towns were the places that grew then and Lewes, on its hill, was not so easy to build in.
Even before the Downs were protected from building there were concerns that they were too exposed for comfort and the low-lying land around the river, much of which flooded, was reserved for industry. In particular, Every's large Iron and Steel Works in Phoenix Place, which provided the cast iron for the seaside towns and the railways that took people there. This means that Lewisians are used to be able to walk out in to fields and onto downland and are familiar with its inhabitants, from the bees to the sheep that crop the grass and enable the growth of the flowers that the bees feed on, who pollinate the crops in the fields around us, and the nesting places for the skylarks.
So, the draft plan pays especial respect to our surroundings and its connections, and the corridors into the town and its green spaces which help local species to keep numbers sufficient for successful breeding. Our draft plan asks developers to respect this whole ecosystem, from leaving spaces for wildflowers and adding boxes for birds' nests, to ensuring that green energy solutions both reduce carbon production and, importantly, the fuel bills of the future occupants. If we get this right we could have tourists coming to see how it can be done, and that would bring work too. We can even hope to offer a model of how to make a positive impact on the natural resources on which we, in turn, depend.
NEWS : 12th April 2019 : Made Plan
On 11th April 2019, the Lewes Neighbourhood Plan was formally "made" at the South Downs National Park Authority planning committee. Copies of the made plan can be found on the home page.
NEWS : 8th March 2019 : Referendum Result
The referendum votes on the Lewes Neighbourhood Plan have been counted (Friday 8th March) and the community has registered a very loud "Yes" to the plan! Just under 25% (3,276) of the electorate turned out to vote and the result was as follows: YES = 2,993 (92%), NO= 268 (8%).
NEWS : 14th May 2019 : Case Study Published
The Lewes Neighbourhood Plan seeks to practically implement an ecosystem approach to planning in the largest town in the South Downs National Park. The ecosystem approach is an emerging field, increasingly used by government and local planning authorities, to consider the environment when making planning decisions. Kirsten Firth was a member of the steering group and has written a case study on the ecosystem aspect of the neighbourhood plan. You can download it here.
NEWS : 5th December 2019 : Lewes Neighbourhood Plan wins prestigious award
The Lewes Neighbourhood Plan has received a commendation in Planning for the Natural Environment at the Royal Town Planning Institute's 2019 South East Awards for Planning Excellence.
The RTPI South East awards presentations were held on 21st November at the top of the Emirates Spinnaker Tower, Portsmouth and the award was presented by the President of the Royal Town Planning Institute, Ian Tant, and the Chair of the judging panel, Sue Percy CBE to Richard Eastham, of Feria Urbanism, who received it on behalf of the winners. The award was for a submission entitled "Lewes Neighbourhood Plan – Pioneering an Ecosystem Approach to Neighbourhood Planning" and goes jointly to Lewes Town Council's steering group, the South Downs National Park Authority, and consultants to the town council, Feria Urbanism.
Current Mayor of Lewes, Cllr John Lamb said: "All the contributors to the council's Steering Group over the past five years should feel very proud. Thank you, everyone involved, for a terrific achievement. This new approach to a neighbourhood plan has already received many accolades and was the brainchild of Lewes's own Dr Colin Tingle, who sadly died before seeing the plan completed. I hate to mention the "R-word" but it certainly helped our Lewes plan to receive a 92% "Yes!" vote in the statutory public referendum earlier this year! Enormous thanks to all who helped put the plan together"


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By Harsin, October 24, 2019 in Discussion
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Breakpoint is a great game, very few games are such polished coop experiences imo. Ignoring the woeful storyline, the exploration of the world and the core gameplay of invading a defended area and "doing something" is fantastic fun. You can absolutely stealth it, with friends, which is excellent. Then when something blows up, or you mate is spotted and it all goes loud you can defend each other and fight your way through.
The loot is just additional in Breakpoint, a head shot is a head shot whether it's a level 1 or level whatever gun. There is only one lesson (I think) Breakpoint should take from BoTW and that's just let me climb everywhere please!
HarryBizzle
56 minutes ago, scottcr said:
Everyone in Ubi needs to sit and play BOTW to completion...
I think it's fair to say they've been taking notes:
Ubisoft have been at the forefront of actively shilling purchases that allow you to skip/get through the game faster. That's right, selling you a product then hoping you won't want to play as much of said product so badly you'll splash the cash for the privilege of skipping stuff/making the experience go by faster. That's a fucked up business model.
20 minutes ago, Harsin said:
Is this just experience multipliers or is there a specific example of skipping stuff?
Personally I've never felt the need to buy an experience multiplier, but it's because it's never on the cards for me. I don't do microtransactions in any form. I do feel Odyssey has got too many filler sidequests but they've been adding much higher quality ones (for free) over time which fix it. But there are others who never felt it was an issue.
I don't think they would be adding such large and high quality content packs to their games (including the tourist modes), if they didn't want you to play them.
My general feeling is that Ubisoft do this stuff because if they didn't they'd be leaving money on the table in an increasingly competitive and difficult industry, but they're a company that top to bottom seem to love video games and care about putting out quality ones. Obviously, other people's overall impression might be different.
Gizamaluke
I called ubi out on timesavers in assassin's creed odyssey a couple of years back on here and everyone was fine with it. Didn't affect the gameplay apparently, and as everyone was having a good time with the game it got brushed aside.
I was quite surprised by BotW's cribbing from the ubi tree - the towers being the most blatant. Then again I never drank that games cool aid. Ubi's issue is in business model, not gameplay. The greedy gaas grabbing has done far more damage to their games than map clutter. Unfortunately they are now the m&s of videogames and making themselves relevant again will be a challenge.
Botw though... It was a good game but fuck off if that's the bar for open world games in 2020 and beyond.
b00dles
I think they did really well with the change to AC with origins as they were getting really stale before that one. I've not tried odyssey yet though.
Far cry 5 I finished but didn't bother with loads of the collecting because I realised I was basically playing it on autopilot because most of the missions outside of the weapons cache bits were pretty dull or the same outposts that were there since 3. I actually quite enjoyed the first person puzzles of the radio towers and the mountain climbing stuff too.
I think I mentioned this in a previous thread for 4 perhaps but an original tomb raider style treasure hunting/ spelunking type game could really be cool - physics based puzzles, maps with clues for treasure, selling on the stuff you find and almost making it like thief with a specific tunnel system/ mountain for "levels" I think would really work.
Won't happen as they always have to have shooting but I can dream.
SozzlyJoe
The timesavers are in theory not game affecting - if you are a completionist. I played through the most recent ACs that offered them, and if you do most of the side-quests then you keep pace with the level requirement for the main quest. Not sure how it shakes out if you just want to power through the main quest, it did seem like some sort of expectation grinding was built in - enter the timesaver!
I did also wonder, some of the side quests seemed to have a lot more work than usual - seemed to go on forever. I dunno if they were trying to make them more unique or actually trying to make them grindy to make people want to avoid them!
gospvg
Getting old & still playing video games
I've enjoyed the recent creed games, Odyssey is the best game I've played this year. I've avoided almost all of their other releases, not played a single Far Cry game since the 1st on the PC by Crysis. Got bored of the Division series part way through the 1st game & Wildlands was only enjoyable becuase playing anything with friends is fun.
Hopefully the poor performances of the recent releases will make them realise copy/paste does not work & gets repetetive & boring very quickly.
grindmouse
10 minutes ago, Gizamaluke said:
What? The towers in BotW were an excellent way of encouraging exploration. I was genuinely sad when I lit the last one up.
gossi the dog
I don't really get most of Ubisoft's games and they seem to have stopped making entries for the few games of theirs I thought were great. I'd really like a new Driver and a new 3D Rayman.
1 hour ago, HarryBizzle said:
Is this just experience multipliers or is there a specific example of example of skipping stuff?
Surely if you're paying extra money to boost your experience so you can just pass through the built in level gates for the main story, rather than doing the side missions that would lead to this naturally, then it's inherent that you're ponying up the dough to skip stuff?
Yeah, if that's the reason you're doing it. I always use the free XP booster just to unlock abilities faster, though. I also missed out on the end game Trial of the Gods content the first few times because I wasn't at max level, so there are other reasons to do it.
Personally, I don't think there should be any level gates at all, but I've gone back and forth with people who think if there's no level gates attached to the side missions, then they're pointless. They want that sense of progression. I think if the sidequests are not interesting enough to keep you doing them just because they're fun and interesting, then they're not any more enjoyable because I'm getting some XP at the end.
And to be fair, I've hit walls in the game where I'm not a high enough level and it has forced me to go off and explore the world and I've found great things that I otherwise wouldn't have, so I think Ubisoft have a fine line to tread.
I feel the opposite way regarding the towers - they're largely vestigial in Odyssey. All they do is unlock fast travel points and marginally upgrade your Eagle. I used to like going to them as soon as I got to an area to unlock the map and get the lay of the land. Now they feel pointless to me and trekking up to them is just a chore I do so that I have a fast travel point in the area. I think they'd be more fun if they did lock map discovery behind them.
There are presumably technical reasons for the level locking as well. Enemy scaling came as a patch long after release for Origins, so it's probably not that easy to balance a game of this size if you can just go everywhere and do everything from the off.
I'd imagine the considerations behind level gating are far more financial than technical.
1 minute ago, Harsin said:
Have you played AC: Origins/Odyssey?
Uncle Mike
I'm not so sure the level gates in Odyssey etc are money-driven. (I've played Odyssey, not Origins, and Odyssey has been the first AC game I've played since giving up partway through on AC3.)
It's a fucking massive game and the world is technically open from near the start. If you go to the higher areas at the start, you'll get destroyed. But I don't think that's about trying to get you to buy a microtransaction to accelerate XP progress. That's about the game steering you to where it wants you to go, and point you towards the next lump of tutorial-disguised-as-mission, or new mechanic or side character etc. What does feel unnecessary in AC Odyssey is the premium currency armour vendor. And then the presence of said premium currency seems to create a heap of other bullshit you can spend your money on. But I don't understand the appeal of the XP accelerator. If you're playing the game, you'll pop levels incredibly quickly anyway.
I think Ubisoft have issues they should have seen coming already and, indeed, have previously called out to themselves.
All their big games smell the same. They iterate in too small increments between versions. The content within a single game is spread incredibly thinly, and all the craft is in the game assets, not the mechanics.
And then, apparently, they're seeing issues on top of that in their online multiplayer. Selling a new v1.0 title is going to be a tough sell when people are so invested in the previous one. You can look across at Destiny to see that.
One thing I think they've maybe not noticed is that Clancyverse is not very attractive outside of the US. The Division is such a MAGA NRA wet dream that I don't think plays so well in Europe.
31 minutes ago, HarryBizzle said:
Yes I have.
3 minutes ago, Harsin said:
Then what about the level gating makes you feel they're money-driven? I was over levelled throughout Origins.
I don't think the XP boosters are in themselves a huge problem, because people in general seem to want long games. I mean, I don't personally, and it feels anecdotally like the tide is turning on this a bit, as a few years ago a game that was less than ten hours long would get absolutely slated on here and elsewhere for being too short. It feels a bit different now, probably because people on here are getting older and having less free time, but I still suspect that for game developers and publishers, the commercial incentive to make games longer so that they can sell boosters is much, much, less than the commercial incentive to make games longer because there's this ingrained idea that a long game is good.
5 hours ago, scottcr said:
They did which is why we have Assassin's Creed Origins
The recent AC games seem to owe a lot more to the Witcher 3 imo.
Agreed. And Origins only came out about 6 months after BOTW.
It felt it was driving you to do a silly amount of identikit KILL ALL TEH BANDITS!!! mission, which started out fun then quickly became tedious, in order to be able to enjoy the more involved missions of the main story. Your mileage may vary.
But then why are they even selling these 'timesavers' in the first place. I mean apply it to any other industry and imagine them asking customers to pay more to experience less and it sounds ridiculous. If you can't be arsed to watch all of Avengers Endgame then pay extra on top of your purchase for a 2 disc pack that also contains one of those YouTube synopsis videos. Maybe dine at a restaurant where you can pay extra to skip the first course.
Oh those chests you can only buy through real world money can fuck right off though. Or at the very least have an option to remove them from an already busy map.
I'm not going to ever make a micro transaction for some equipment or costume and if I suddenly decide to, then let me switch it on in a settings menu or something. Obviously they would never do this as it's meant to be impulse purchase if you've got money to burn but it still fucks me off.
1 hour ago, Harsin said:
Maybe you played a different game?
I actually felt the levelling system ruined it, in that from the first big area I was consistently 3-4 levels above the tasks I was completing, and as such I was over-levelled for everything.
The side quests were great too, don't know what you're talking about. Most of them had multiple steps, decent plot, and usually included some sort of curve-ball you couldn't see coming.
They weren't quite on the same level as the Witcher 3's side quests (but what is?) but they were clearly Witcher-inspired, and came really bloody close fairly often.
8 hours ago, Wahwah* said:
Maps littered with icons and a screen full of objectives are generally not much fun to play in my opinion. Most open world games aren't much good, imo.
Someone called them "shopping list games" when I spoke about it a while back and I think that's about right. It's a chore to navigate to spot A, perform task 5 then go to spot B and do another of task 3 and on and on.
It's why most open world games aren't much fun for me. Travelling somewhere for 5 minutes to do a 2 minute objective that relies on AI reacting to your arrival often feels like a shallow experience. ...The actual bit you play when you arrive isn't very exciting.
If we had more focus on fun and less on ticking things off, games would have to be designed differently, I assume. If an entire game was a series of ubisofts assaults on strongholds (or whatever they call arriving at a wasteland and killing patroling guards who will call in reinforcements half way through) they'd have to be better. Put those into an open world game and they might be one of the best bits. ...if that's the case, surely the game can't be all that good? That's hidden by loot, ranking up and daily challenges. As noted above, a second job doesn't sound like much fun.
I'm playing Assassin's Creed Origins now and it's absolutely overdone with this stuff. The core combat is solid. It controls fine and all works ok but it's just a grind to make progress.
The next story missions are many levels above me already and the side missions I need to do are so boring.
7 hours ago, SozzlyJoe said:
I also think some people might take issue with the contention that what is wrong with the latest GR is too much half-arsed gameplay innovation.
2 hours ago, b00dles said:
In Origins? What chests?
28 minutes ago, nakamura said:
I haven't done any grinding in ACO either. Although I did 100% it, but that was after doing all the story. Enjoyed the whole game.
petrolgirls
2 hours ago, Gizamaluke said:
Agreed, complete with insipid combat.
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Several agents have been used for the treatment of prostate cancer such as flutamide, galeterone, abiraterone and others; however, some of these drugs can produce some secondary effects. The aim of this study was to synthesize a diaza-bicyclo-naphthalen-oxiranyl-methanone derivative using some chemical tools. The structure of all compounds involved in this study was confirmed by spectroscopy and spectrometry data. In addition, the theoretical interaction of diaza-bicyclo-naphthalen-oxiranyl-methanone derivative with the cytochrome P450-17A1 enzyme (3RUK) was evaluated in a docking model using some drugs such as galeterone and abiraterone as controls. The results showed that diaza-bicyclo-naphthalen-oxiranyl-methanone could interact with different types of amino acid residues involving 3RUK protein surface as compared to both galeterone and abiraterone. This phenomenon may be due to the differences in the chemical structure of compounds. All these data indicate that diaza-bicyclo-naphthalen-oxiranyl-methanone derivative could change the biological activity of cytochrome P450-17A1 enzyme which may be translated as good candidates for prostate cancer.
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Rice Observatory for LAC
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GRAIN QUALITY
General information - Environment and sustainability
The context section of the Rice Observatory aims to introduce the importance of rice cultivation in relation to other crops, both at the national and regional levels. The section is composed of two parts
Area: It presents indicators on the importance of the crop in relation to the cultivated area
Position of the crop in relation to the cultivated area: Indicates the position in which the rice crop is located in relation to the area cultivated with other crops at the national level
Rice area in relation to arable land at the national level: Proportion of the area cultivated with rice over the total area cultivated with crops at the national level, excluding the area destined for animal production (grasslands)
Rice area in relation to the area under temporary crops at the national level: Proportion of the area under rice in relation to the total area under crops at the national level, excluding the area for animal production (grassland) and the area for permanent crops
Production value: It presents economic indicators that contextualize the importance of rice cultivation in relation to value of production. Is expressed in nominal values in local currency
Agricultural GDP (Value Added): Sum of the value added of crop production at the national level. The value of animal production is excluded
Value of rice production: Estimated gross value of rice production
Value of cereal production: Sum of estimated gross value for all cereals grown nationally
FAO. (2019). Base de Datos FAOSTAT. Organización de Las Naciones Unidas Para La Agricultura. http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/EL
In this section of the observatory you will find data on rice production at different geographical levels. The data presented can be observed for the whole region and sub-regions (clusters). Depending on the availability for each country, you will also find data at the state, departmental, provincial, regional and municipal levels. In this section, three indicators related to production are presented:
Planted area : Area under rice cultivation (hectares)
Production : Harvested quantity (tons of paddy rice)
Yield : Average yield (tons of paddy rice per hectare)
To facilitate navigation, we have created an interactive map that allows you to explore the variables presented for the different countries and at a regional level. At the top of the map you will find two menus. In the first menu you will be able to select the cluster or region from which you want to visualize the information (Southern Cone, Andean or Central America and the Caribbean). In the second menu, you can select the indicator to be displayed on the map. In the map you will be able to select the country about which you want to visualize the information, as well as the different geographic sub-levels for which information is available. On the side bar to the right of the map, you can view the historical series of indicators for the selected section.
Important : To facilitate visualization, the graphs only present production aggregates from the six most relevant geographic regions for the selected area. To access the data in more detail, we invite you to download our production database for Latin America.
CONARROZ. (2020). Reporte de Área y Producción. Sistema de Información Del Sector Agropecuario Costarricense. http://www.infoagro.go.cr/EstadisticasAgropecuarias/PRODUCCIONDESEMPENOPRODUCTIVO/Paginas/ReporteAreaProduccion.aspx
DANE. (2020). Estadísticas Agropecuarias. Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística. https://www.dane.gov.co/index.php/estadisticas-por-tema/agropecuario
Fedearroz. (2020). Estadísticas Arroceras. Federación Nacional de Arroceros. http://www.fedearroz.com.co/new/index.php#
IBGE. (2019). Produção Agrícola Municipal. Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatistica. https://www.ibge.gov.br/estatisticas/economicas/agricultura-e-pecuaria/9201-LEVANTAMENTO-SISTEMATICO-DA-PRODUCAO-AGRICOLA.html?t=resultados
INEC. (2019). Encuesta de Superficie y Producción Agropecuaria Continua. Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos. https://www.ecuadorencifras.gob.ec/estadisticas-agropecuarias-2/
INEC. (2020). Superficie Sembrada y Cosecha de Arroz, Maíz y Frijol de Bejuco. Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censo de Panamá. http://www.inec.gob.pa/publicaciones/Default2.aspx?ID_CATEGORIA=4&ID_SUBCATEGORIA=11
MDRyT. (2016). Producción Agrícola por Departamento—Serie Histórica. Observatorio Agroambiental y Productivo. http://www.observatorioagro.gob.bo/
MGAP. (2020). Anuarios Estadístico de la Oficina de Estadísticas Agropecuarias (DIEA). Ministerio de Ganadería, Agricultura y Pesca de La República Oriental Del Uruguay. http://www.mgap.gub.uy/unidad-organizativa/oficina-de-programacion-y-politicas-agropecuarias/publicaciones/anuarios-diea
MAGyP. (2019). Datos Agroindustriales—Estimaciones agrícolas. Dirección Nacional de Estimaciones, Delegaciones y Estudios Económicos - Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería y Pesca de Argentina. https://datos.agroindustria.gob.ar/
MINAGRI. (2019). Serie de Estadísticas de Producción Agrícola (SEPA). Ministerio de Agricultura y Riego. http://frenteweb.minagri.gob.pe/sisca/
Ministerio de Agricultura. (2019). Estadísticas Agropecuarias. Ministerio de Agricultura de la República Dominicana. http://agricultura.gob.do/category/estadisticas-agropecuarias
ODEPA. (2020, April). Estadísticas Productivas. Oficina de Estudios y Políticas Agrarias - Ministerio de Agricultura de Chile. https://www.odepa.gob.cl/rubros/cereales
SIAP. (2019). Anuario Estadístico de la Producción Agrícola. Servicio de Información Agroalimentaria y Pesquera. https://nube.siap.gob.mx/cierreagricola/
The foreign trade section presents indicators referring to foreign trade, detailing the values and quantities of rice imports and exports over the year, as well as the destination or origin countries of these. The section consists of two parts:
Indicators : Presents indicators on rice foreign trade for selected countries
Value of imports and value of exports : Time series of the value of rice imports in relation to the value of exports. Annual aggregate values for all destination/origin countries as appropriate.
Quantity of imports and quantity of exports : Time series of the quantity of rice imported in relation to the quantity of rice exported. Annual aggregate values for all destination/origin countries as appropriate.
Balance of rice supply at the national level : Total quantity of white rice marketed at the national level. This value is composed of the quantity produced, quantity exported and quantity imported.
Value of rice exports and imports in relation to total food and beverage exports : Ratio of the total value of rice imports/exports to the total value of food and beverage exports/imports for a given year.
Trade flow: Trade flow: This tool presents in detail the flow of rice exports and imports for a given year, detailing the destinations or origins as appropriate, as well as the quantity and value for a selected year. This flow also allows disaggregating values and quantities according to the tariff item group of rice (Paddy, brown, white and broken rice) to which it refers.
To use the tool, you can select different filters described below:
Country : Country from which you want to view the information collected.
Concept : Exports/imports of rice.
Element: : Quantity / value of the selected concept.
Level : European Union rice tariff sub-item group (1006). In this case you can select for rice in general (Rice) or according to type of rice.
Product : Enabled by selecting 'Rice type' in the level filter. The four groups correspond to the European Union tariff classification subheadings Paddy Rice (1006 10), Brown Rice (1006 20), White Rice (1006 30), and Broken Rice (1006 40). For more information on the tariff classification of rice according to sub-heading, please refer to the following link: http://www.serloahn.com/Clasificacion_Arancelaria.php?page=1
Year : Year for which you want to visualize the information collected
You can also select in the map legend filters to categorize the destinations according to ranges of quantity values or reported values as appropriate. Also, the map results will be reflected in an area graph, where each destination/origin country is represented proportionally to the value or quantity of the selected flow.
In the time series of the national rice supply balance, significant differences are observed between the periods from 1961 to 2013 and 2014 to 2017. This is due to differences in the methodology used for the calculation of food balance sheets from FAO. Through the food balance sheets, FAO estimates the quantities of food produced, imported and exported; as well as its different uses within the respective national territories. As of 2014, FAO changed the methodology for estimating these indicators, resulting in significant changes in the temporal trend of the indicators, which is why the values can vary significantly between time periods, as well as from other reference sources on rice consumption at the national level. For more information, you can visit the metadata section of the new FAO Food Balance Sheets. http://www.fao.org/faostat/es/#data/FBS/metadata
Values and quantities referring to re-exports (when a good is imported to be exported) and re-imports (when a good that has been exported is imported again); as well as quantities destined or coming from free zones, overseas territories, ships, airplanes and other destinations or origins that do not correspond to a specified country within the map were reassigned within a single category called Non-Specified Geographical Area (NES Area, by its Spanish Acronym).
All import values are expressed in CIF values and exports in FOB values. Quantities of rice are expressed in white rice equivalent for the case of the aggregate tariff heading, while the quantities according to sub-heading are expressed in relation to the rice indicated in that heading (paddy, brown, white, or broken)..
ITC. (2020). Trade Map—Estadísticas de comercio internacional para el desarrollo de los negocios. International Trade Centre. https://www.trademap.org/Index.aspx
UN Comtrade. (2019). Base de datos de estadísticas de comercio internacional. United Nations International Trade Statistics Database. https://comtrade.un.org/
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The consumption section of the Rice Observatory aims to highlight the importance of rice in the local diets. This section is available at the country level and consists of two parts:
Overview of consumption : It presents indicators on the importance of culture in relation to its consumption
Rice position relative to other plant-based food : Indicates the ordinal position in which the rice is in relation to the consumed amount of other plant-based food. Were excluded from the analysis all animal-based foods and alcoholic beverages
Per-capita consumption : Estimated amount of rice consumed per person year. This value is calculated from the national rice consumption in relation to the population for a given year. This value should be understood as a national average estimate, which may vary significantly within a country.
Contribution to daily caloric intake : Ratio of the estimated caloric intake of per capita rice consumption to the estimated daily caloric intake for all foods consumed nationally.
Average family size : Average number of members per household at the national level.
Consumer price : Average price of 1 kilogram of white rice to the consumer. Nominal value expressed in dollars for a given year.
Average annual household expenditure on rice : Estimate of the spent on rice by an average household, considering the average annual consumer price of white rice, per capita consumption and average household size. Nominal value expressed in dollars for ta given year.
Historical consumption: It presents economic indicators that contextualize the importance of rice cultivation in relation to the value of production. Values are expressed in nominal values in local currency
Rice consumption at the national level : Estimated value of the amount of rice consumed throughout the country, expressed in thousands of tons of white rice.
Consumption from imports : Estimated amount of domestic rice consumption from imports, expressed in thousands of tons of white rice. In this case, it is assumed that all imported rice is destined for domestic consumption. Quantities destined for re-export, seed, animal feed or other uses are not considered.
Per-capita consumption :Estimated amount of rice consumed per person year. This value is calculated from the national rice consumption in relation to the population for a given year. This value should be understood as a national average estimate, which may vary significantly within a country.
Important: parrafo1_importante_consumo http://www.fao.org/faostat/es/#data/FBS/metadata
FAO. (2020). Herramienta de Seguimiento y Análisis de los Precios Alimentarios (FPMA). Sistema Mundial de Información y Alerta Sobre La Alimentación y La Agricultura (SMIA). http://www.fao.org/giews/food-prices/tool/public/#/home
Naciones Unidas. (2019). Base de datos de tamaño y composición de hogares. Departamento de Las Naciones Unidas Sobre Asuntos Económicos y Sociales, División de Población. https://population.un.org/Household/index.html#/countries/840
The Grain Quality section of the observatory consists of three parts:
Grain quality catalog of Latin American and Caribbean rice varieties :Presents grain quality information on 132 rice varieties from 16 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. White rice samples of these varieties were analyzed during 2017 to 2019 at FLAR´s Rice Grain Quality Laboratory. The characteristics evaluated were: white center, grain length, grain shape (Length/Width), amylose content and gelatinization temperature. In addition, a sample photograph from each variety is presented. This characterization was performed on single samples provided by plant breeders from FLAR member organizations, harvested in different environments and under non-standardized post-harvest handling and milling conditions. Therefore, this information may not represent the typical characteristics of the varieties in their countries of origin.
Methodologies developed in the quality catalog
Photography : It was taken in a light camera with a NIKON camera model D7100 with AF-S NIKKOR 18-105 MM 1:3.5-5.6G ED VR DX lens.
Laboratory tests : The following tests were performed
Grain appearance
White Center Long Length / Width (L / W)
Culinary quality
Amylose content Gelatinization temperature
Varieties comparator :It is a tool that allows interaction with the varieties obtained from the 16 countries, users can compare the grain quality characteristics between all the listed varieties
Digital repository of technical standards for grain quality in Latin American and Caribbean countries :grain quality standards, industrial grain quality standards and rice seed production and distribution standards.
CENTRO INTERNACIONAL DE AGRICULTURA TROPICAL. 1989. Evaluación de la calidad culinaria y molinera del arroz; guía de estudio para ser usada como complemento de la unidad audio tutorial sobre el mismo tema. Contenido científico: César Martinez, Federico Cuevas. Producción: Luz Medina. Cali, Colombia. CIAT 73 p. (Serie 04SR-07.01). Pag. 27-42
AACC. 2000. American Association of Cereal Chemists. Approved Methods. (11th. ed.). Determination of the pasting properties of rice with the Rapid Visco Analyser. Method 61-02.01. Saint Paul, MN, USA
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Q: If the number of requests are huge, can load balancer cause the issue while sending responses to respective clients? I do have architecture of a Load balancer followed by two Web Application server and Database, I am hitting thousands of HTTP requests to the server from Jmeter distributed testing environment.
At the time of getting response back, few request does not get response back from the server.
I checked Database logs, 100 % requests were responded.
Checked with Web Application servers access logs, 100 % requests were responded.
Can Load balancer cause the damage traversing these pending responses to the respective clients?
Every time different different request are getting stuck.
Thanks in Advance!!

A: If you suspect load balancer, look at 3 typical causes first:

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*Server takes longer to respond than load balancer is waiting

*Client has shorter timeout than it takes for server to respond.

*Port/thread/connection exhaustion on load balancer, or other LB configuration problems

In all three cases, I suggest looking at the load balancer logs. Since you didn't specify which LB you are using, I cannot say exactly how the log looks, but typically LB log gives you option to see:

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*How long it took for a request to be sent to a web server and for the response from the web server to return to load balancer. You can them compare those numbers to timeouts configured for load balancer and the client (problem 1 and 2).

*How long it took for a request from the client to be processed by LB and how long LB took to respond to a client. If it takes long, then something is not right with load balancer (problem 3)

*And then of course if you have any errors on load balancer, they may just explain what's going on.

If you cannot review logs for load balancer, I suggest changing your JMeter test temporarily to target servers behind load balancer directly. You can even configure your script to evenly distribute load between all servers (for example by using multiple thread groups). That would allow you to isolate the problem, and get more information on what's going on.

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Space technology to simplify the CAP – Phil Hogan
Odile Evans on 17 May 2017
The eye in the sky is the key to the future for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), according to European Commissioner for Agriculture Phil Hogan.
European Commissioner for Agriculture Phil Hogan.
Satellite monitoring of land parcels could replace most on-the-spot checks, the Commissioner for Agriculture told the European Parliament agricultural committee on Monday night.
"New technology can significantly reduce the number of field inspections," Hogan said. "Already, paying agencies are using free-of-charge data from the Sentinel satellites of the EU-funded Copernicus programme."
Copernicus is a European Union programme aimed at developing European information services based on satellite earth observation.
The European Space Agency has launched a €500,000 tender, Sen4CAP, which will provide useful knowledge on further possibilities of using Sentinel's satellite data in the context of the CAP.
The SEN4CAP project will be developed with DG-Agri, DG-JRC, DG-Grow and in particular with a selected number of national paying agencies.
"Together with DG CNECT, DG-Agri proposes to launch a Large Scale Pilot for digital solutions and e-tools to modernise the CAP," Hogan said.
"A consortium composed of national administrations will be supported to develop a model of a possible future IACS, which should not only allow member states to manage CAP payments but also provide for agri-environmental-climatic data."
Hogan told the parliament's agricultural committee that we will not necessarily have to wait for the new CAP before using these new technologies.
Agricultural drone market worth $32bn globally
How space can help farms produce an extra 70% in output
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Amtrak's Sunset Limited (Train 1 and 2) was the only transcontinental service across the USA and ran from Los Angeles, California skirting the Southern coast all the way to Orlando, Florida. For a short while it went all the way to Miami but the service was then terminated in Orlando meaning a change to either the Silver Star or Silver Meteor service if you were destined for Miami.
The Sunset Limited ran three services a week in each direction with journey times of nearly 3 days (68 hours) covering 2764 miles (4448 km) making it the longest passenger train service in the USA.
For 10 years since the eastern end of the line was closed following Hurricane Katrina, Amtrak has expressed no immediate desire to re-instate the Alabama and Florida portion of the Sunset Limited service east of New Orleans.
In February 2016 an Amtrak "inspection" train left New Orleans destined for Jacksonville to look into the feasibility of reintroducing passenger services between New Orleans and Orlando.
Prior to Katrina, Train 1 operated the westbound service leaving Orlando at 6:50 pm on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays arriving in Los Angeles the following Friday, Sunday and Tuesday. The eastbound Train 2 left Los Angeles at 2:30pm on Sundays, Tuesdays and Fridays and arrived in Orlando on the following Wednesday, Friday and Monday.
Amongst the main stops were Palm Springs in California, Lordsburg in New Mexico, Tuscon in Arizona, El Paso, San Antonio and Houston in Texas, New Orleans in Louisiana, Biloxi in Mississippi, Mobile in Alabama and then Jacksonville and Orlando in Florida.
Stops in Florida were Pensacola, Crestview, Chipley (Panama City), the state capital Tallahassee, Madison, Lake City, and then it followed the Silver Star and Silver Meteor route through Jacksonville, Palatka, DeLand, Winter Park and finally Orlando.
A number of destinations on the Florida Gulf Coast were catered for by a Thruway motor coach service (see panel).
To see the full list, check out the list of Amtrak stations in Florida including Thruway connections.
The Sunset Limited has been one of the most criticised and weakest performing long distance Amtrak routes so there seems little incentive for Amtrak to re-instate the Florida section of the route even though the New Orleans to Orlando section of the route accounted for around 40% of the passengers.
On March 13, 2012 Amtrak announced a new schedule starting May 7 with revised departure times and a reduced layover in San Antonio resulting in shorter journey times. But still no mention of a Florida service.
The westbound Sunset Limited (Train 1) will leave New Orleans on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays at 9 am, arriving in Los Angeles at 5:35 am on Wednesdays, Fridays and Mondays. This replaces the previous Monday, Wednesday, Friday departure schedule.
The eastbound Sunset Limited (Train 2) still leaves Los Angeles on Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays but the train will again leave earlier at 10 pm. Arrival time in New Orleans in 9:40 pm on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays.
The rest of the information on this page is written as the service was, prior to Hurricane Katrina.
Because you are travelling right across the USA from the Pacific to the Atlantic, you pass through several time zones en route, from Pacific Standard Time in the west to Eastern Standard Time in the east, a 3 hour difference. Note that Arizona does not observe daylight saving so local times will be one hour earlier during the summer.
Due to the long distance and freight railroad congestion, the Sunset Limited is often behind schedule and delays of 6 to 12 hours are not uncommon.
En route you cross the Mississippi River on the Huey P. Long Bridge west of New Orleans. At 135 ft (41 m) tall and 4.5 miles (7.2 km) long, it is the longest railroad bridge in the USA.
Volunteer rangers from the National Park Service provide a narrative along the route, courtesy of the Trails and Rails Program as you pass through the Southwestern desert close to the Mexican border before skirting the Gulf Coast and on through the Bayou swamps into Florida.
All seats must be reserved and the cheapest tickets are a Coach Seat or a Lower Level Coach Seat in one of the bi-level Superliner coaches which is a bit like a typical Business Class airline seat, which reclines with a fold down tray and individual reading lamp.
It you want a bit more privacy and to sleep in a bed then there is a choice of a Superliner Roomette, Superliner Bedroom or Family Bedroom.
The Superliner Roomette is designed for one or two passengers with two comfortable reclining seats facing each other by a large picture window. At night the seats convert into a bed and a second upper berth folds down from the wall. The cabin also includes a garment rack, fold-down table and climate control. Roomettes are situated on both decks of the Superliner sleeping cars.
Note that the cabin does not have a washbasin, toilet or shower; these are located nearby in the same car The Superliner Bedroom is similar to the Roomette but can accommodate three passengers at a pinch (two sharing the lower berth). Most of the facilities are the same as the Roomette, but the lower berth converts from a two seater sofa and the room also has an enclosed toilet and private shower and a separate armchair. Superliner Bedrooms are located on the upper level of the Superliner sleeping cars.
For a family of four (2 adults and 2 children), there is the Family Bedroom which spans the entire width of the car and has two picture windows.
A sofa and two reclining seats convert into two lower beds and the two upper berths (suitable for children) fold down from the wall.
Family Bedrooms are located on the lower level of the Superliner sleeping cars and have the same facilities as the Roomettes, i.e. they do not have en-suite toilet and shower facilities.
For larger parties there is a Superliner Bedroom Suite which is two adjoining Superliner Bedrooms.
The Superliner Accessible Bedroom spans the whole width of the car on the lower level and has ample space for a wheelchair. The lower berth is suitable for a passenger with a mobility impairment and the upper berth for a companion. There is also a wheelchair accessible toilet in the cabin and meals can be served in the cabin if required.
Thruway connections provide a co-ordinated train/motor coach service with connections at the Amtrak station.
From Orlando you can connect to Lakeland, Tampa and St. Petersburg.
American Coach Lines also provide door-to-door shuttle van service between Amtrak's Orlando station and Orlando-area hotels and attractions. Their vans meet the arrivals and departures of all Amtrak trains at Orlando.
With a Superliner sleeper ticket you are given First Class status and all your meals are included in the price of the ticket as well as fresh towels and bedlinen, soap and shower amenities, turn-down service, bottled water and a wake-up service with coffee, tea, juice and daily newspaper.
The Sunset Limited has a full-service Dining Car and a Sightseer Lounge Car.
Hot meals are prepared for breakfast, lunch and dinner for both Coach and First Class passengers.
The Sightseer Lounge/Cafe Car has a lounge on the upper deck with large panoramic windows extending right up into the roof with a cafe on the lower deck.
You can watch movies in the Lounge, play games or grab a sandwich, snack and a beverage.
Note that the Sunset Limited is a strictly no smoking service. Passengers wishing to smoke may smoke on some station platforms during stops but listen out for the 'All Aboard' announcements.
Each passenger is entitled to bring aboard up to two pieces of carry-on baggage (weight limit of 50 lbs per bag and maximum size of 28 x 22 x 14 inches) excluding personal items such as briefcases, purses, laptops, and infant items such as strollers, diaper bags and car seats.
At most stations, you can also check in up to three pieces of luggage at no charge (weight limit of 50 lbs per bag and maximum size of 36 x 36 x 36 inches). An additional three pieces can be checked in with a charge of $10.00 per bag.
Look out for the official Red Caps to help you with your baggage when arriving at the station.