Videogame Christmas has been and gone for another year, and left in its wake only memories of sweating executive producers and promises of future delights. But E3 2017 wasn't simply a meat market for games. I mean, yes, it was that, but it was also a window into the attitudes of the industry's most prominent creators, financiers, and overcaffeinated-whoop-from-the-crowd-ers.
Make sure you're caught up with everything that happened at E3 2017.
With the cardboard cutouts now disassembled and the world's game journalists dispersed back to whence they came, it's now time to reflect on the commonalities that gave this year's E3 its character. And in doing so, perhaps, discover a bit about the industry's trajectory. Let's begin.
I've got some bad news, dubstep producers of the world. When it comes to putting together sizzle reels for videogames, wub-wubs are out and songs by bands who sound a bit like the Black Keys, and which sound like they're the theme to a hit TV show but aren't… are in.
For long enough, game trailers relied on original scores to get their point across, and it didn't tend to vary much by genre. Hans Zimmer drums and moody, orchestral tones were rolled out for RPGs and racers alike, but that all changed when Ubisoft discovered dubstep. Syncing up a slow-mo melee kill with a bass drop was the be-all and end-all of trailer design until recently.
E3 2017's crop of licensed songs isn't hugely diverse, but it's striking in its change of approach. It looks like the big publishers have been watching lots of Netflix and Amazon shows, and they took some notes.
What it tells us: Dubstep is dead. Game creators are looking at original TV programming's recent successes for marketing cues.
The show's headline acts belonged to established franchises, but on display just before them – to warm up the crowds – was an encouraging bushel of completely un-numbered titles, which generated excitement not with their names but with their ideas. Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons creator Josef Fares revealed his fascinating prison break game A Way Out. BioWare trotted Anthem out onto the stage. Ubi sent naval combat game – aka AssCreed IV without the bad bits – Skull & Bones in front of the masses. The Last Night turned heads. Microsoft, too, had plenty new to show at their conference, Ashen proving a standout.
What's interesting to observe is the stature and treatment of those new IPs. Before this year, new announcements usually took the form of an indie title's logo flashing up in front of three seconds of gameplay footage, before the publisher's giddy 'look at all the indies we're funding!' trailer galloped away onto the next one like an overstimulated child perusing a pick-'n-mix station. This year, the fresh meat was given due attention and respect on the stages of the big publishers, and that can only be a positive.
What it tells us: The industry's becoming less risk averse. The words 'franchise fatigue' have drifted back to the industry bigwigs' skyscrapers like a bad smell.
When the artists at Valve first put pencil to paper and drew out the broad strokes of Team Fortress 2's characters, they must have known they were onto something good. What they probably didn't anticipate was that they were giving birth to an entire movement of videogame art that would, in a decade, see scenes of unspeakable violence rendered in child-friendly hues.
Some people call the sort of visual design seen in The Darwin Project and Fortnite the 'Overwatch reskin', but I don't think that's entirely fair. Yes, Overwatch looks like a deleted scene from The Incredibles playing at 32x speed, but it's neither the progenitor nor the apex of this bizarre trend. We're probably reaching that apex now though, as we watch battle royale contestants turn each other into cartoon jam with close-range shotgun blasts. Thanks, Darwin Project.
While still capable of impressing – look at the moody colour palette of Ashen and tell me you're not a bit in love – this TF2-era art direction needs to evolve or make way for a totally different approach, like photogrammetry, the industry's next attempt at photorealism.
What it tells us: Game artists work for many studios during their careers, and they're all pretty much in agreement that going for animated movie looks is a great way to keep under the resource ceiling.
Sales figures for solo games over the last 12 months haven't been encouraging. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided sold just three copies from August 2016 to present, for example, and legend has it that Bethesda are still awaiting their first sale of the magnificent Prey.
But that's not deterring the game industry. Some of the biggest games of the show are relying on your enduring desire to sit alone in a room and shut out the world. Metro has always been a self-styled longform, lights off experience, and Exodus represents no tonal shift. Assassin's Creed has never given more than a polite smile towards multiplayer, and once again in Origins the meat is in solo play. Life is Strange: Before the Storm is single-player gaming personified, and personally I can't wait to hermetically seal my study for a week when Wolfenstein II comes out.
Will they sell? Christ knows. Who do I look like, Michael Pachter? The important thing is that the biggest publishers in the industry think they will.
What it tells us: The data gatherers at Ubisoft et al think there's still a big market for playing with yourself.
The news at six: Bong! Man kills entire occupying Nazi force one by one, so America's fine now, and he'll presumably be the new president. Bong! Violent cult all murdered by violent man, Montana saved. Bong! Negotiations break down with invading alien force so it looks like we'll probably have to fight them. Bong! World destroyed, walking around shooting things now absolutely fine.
It's no wonder some people don't like watching the news. And, look, these games all look like tremendous fun. Personally, I can't wait to shoot the dystopia right out of them. But it makes me wonder whether this slightly base reaction to current unsettling global events might soon make way for a subtler treatment, one more comparable to the nuanced broken societies of movies, TV shows, books and, well, society.
It felt like Watch Dogs 2 already found a way to evolve the classic videogame dystopia in 2016, so in some ways it's surprising to see E3 2017's showing be so route one about it. On the other hand: no one would play a Wolfenstein game about organising protest marches.
What it tells us: Game makers have been reading the news, but they're still using the old narrative frameworks to feed current events into their games.
To best demonstrate this, here are the PC games announced at E3 2017 that definitely won't be out until summer 2018 or beyond: Anthem, NBA Live 18, Skull & Bones. Message ends. That's not counting Beyond Good & Evil 2, which doesn't thus far have a release date. Even so, that scant list of games indicates a growing trend in the industry for lightning-fast transitions from announce to release, which began with Fallout 4 in 2015.
That might be because all our attention spans have been corroded by social media. Maybe it's that no one wants another No Man's Sky on their hands, where developers are placed in the impossible situation of trying to sell a game they haven't properly defined yet. Or it might just be the most effective way to keep fans interested. Hand on heart, when was the last time you thought about Shenmue 3?
What it tells us: Game marketing has changed its approach significantly in the last few years. Vaporware titles will become an increasingly rare phenomenon.
Well now. That wasn't so bad, was it? We didn't have to chastise the crowds for cheering over grim decapitations again or anything (though they did get a little too worked up at the sight of intestines in State Of Decay 2). In fact, there's every indication the industry is moving in some positive and exciting directions. Keep your eyes peeled during E3 2018 for a TV-style episodic, cartoon single-player game adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale, released the following week after announcement, featuring music from The Black Keys.


NASA's Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA) 11 mission is paving the way for long-duration human space flight. Tess Caswell of the SSERVI Environment and Evolution of Exploration Destinations (SEEED) team recently spent 30 days in the HERA space station habitat at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX, simulating a journey to an asteroid.
NASA is researching how best to keep astronauts physically and mentally healthy during months, or even years, aboard a small spacecraft hurtling through space. The answers aren't simple. Through years of effort, NASA and its international and commercial partners have evolved a network of support structures that maintain astronauts' mental and physical health throughout their months of hard work in an isolated, extreme environment.
Because astronauts' health and safety are paramount in human spaceflight, NASA constantly strives to make life better for crews as they push the frontiers of human knowledge in deep space.
HERA is a simulated spacecraft in which crews of "astronaut-like" volunteers live for weeks, allowing scientists to examine the physical and psychological effects of long-term isolation in a stressful environment to advance the cause of human spaceflight.
The mission began after the crew underwent a comprehensive medical and psychological screening similar to what astronaut hopefuls go through. Having been deemed suitable in mental and physical health, the crew was selected from a pool of applicants, consisting of a geologist and engineer, an Air Force Reserve officer, a medical doctor, and an image scientist.
Together they flew a simulated mission to the asteroid Geographos. An actual mission to Geographos would take about 715 days – but NASA compressed the mission into 30 days. Before "launch" the crew became very familiar with astronaut training. Over the course of two weeks prior to the mission, they took classes on the spacecraft systems and the science experiments that would be conducted onboard. This crash course in spaceflight prepared the crew to seal themselves into the HERA habitat for an entire month!
Finally, "Ingress Day" arrived. Dressed in their team flight suits – black, with their mission patch standing out proudly– the crew were issued a warm sendoff. "Final Countdown" blared over the speakers as a large countdown clock spiraled down to zero. There were a few handshakes, a few steps up into the 'Hab'… and the door closed behind them. They wouldn't see the other side of it for 30 days!
The HERA habitat is an upright cylinder 2.5 stories tall. The first level is the "workshop," with a workbench, medical station, science glovebox, piloting station, and the controls for a robotic arm that the crew would control during the mission. A small airlock protrudes from one side, while the "hygiene module" (the bathroom) extends from a hatch opposite. In the center of the module, a ladder leads up to Level 2.
Level 2 is the living area of the spacecraft. There the team could sit comfortably around the galley table, adjacent to a small kitchen, and enjoy a movie in the evenings. Much of the food was stored on L2, in Space Shuttle-style storage lockers adjacent to an exercise area. The space was just large enough for an exercise bike and a clever set of weights, which nested together and allowed adjustments to varying levels of exertion.
Finally, two short ladders in opposing corners of L2 led up to their sleep stations. Roughly the size of a 2-man tent, the crew quarters were sheathed in thick, padded fabric to mute outside noises. Combined with a memory foam mattress and a pillow brought from home, they were very cozy!
Days aboard the spacecraft were very similar to those of astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS). After waking up and crawling down from their sleep stations, the days began with breakfast and time to prepare for the day ahead. The crew lived on a timeline, just like "real" astronauts, following a daily schedule determined by the Mission Control Center (MCC). Daily activities varied and ran the gamut of maintenance, scientific experiments, and adventure!
Just as if they were on a real spacecraft, the crew had to perform various tasks to keep the spacecraft running smoothly during the trip to Geographos and back. The crew also performed scientific experiments on themselves, to better understand how human bodies and minds respond to long-term stress and isolation, with a few fun experiments to keep them busy! During the course of the mission they raised brine shrimp, grew plants in a hydroponics unit, analyzed geologic samples, and used the spacecraft's robotic arm.
Though the true purpose of each HERA mission is to understand the medical and psychological effects of prolonged isolation on the crew, they had a simulated mission to accomplish: exploring Geographos! The simulated spacecraft arrived at the asteroid halfway through the mission. It was awesome! The crew conducted several expeditions down to the asteroid's surface over a three-day-long rendezvous, collecting geologic samples to return to Earth. These "extravehicular activities," or spacewalks, were done via virtual reality. The team flew a small pod, called the "Multi-Mission Surface Exploration Vehicle" (or MMSEV), to the surface of the asteroid. Once there two members of the crew got to spacewalk on the surface! Much of the mission was devoted to training for those three excursions.
After a month onboard the spacecraft, it was time to come home. "Egress Day" had a surreal quality. Soon the shiny silver door would be open once again. The crew all felt how quickly the time passed! They were satisfied with a mission well-done, but they were already lamenting the end of a month living the life of an astronaut and each felt honored to have played a role in building the future of human spaceflight.
Read the whole story on Tess Caswell's mission blog.


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Gunmen yesterday attacked the residence of the Chairman of Katsina Ala Local Government Area, Mr. Alfred Atera, killing three policemen attached to him and two other men.
According to the chairman, who spoke to THISDAY on the phone, the gunmen besieged his house yesterday morning demanding to know his whereabouts.
He said luckily for him, he was in one of the visitors' lodges detached from the main building when the assassins came into the compound.
"They asked my security guard were I was, and before he could reply, they shot him and others, and in the end, five people were killed and several others wounded. However, I narrowly escaped," he narrated, adding that those who sustained injuries have been taken to the Katsina Ala General Hospital.
Meanwhile, the state Governor, Samuel Ortom, has condemned the attack on the chairman, describing it as unacceptable, and urged security operatives to bring the perpetrators to justice.
He assured the people of Sankera and other parts of the state that his administration would not relent in its collaboration with security agencies to curb criminal activities in the state.
Ortom commiserated with families of those who lost their lives in the attack on Atera's house, adding that their killers will not escape justice.
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Just a few exercise breaks — or "snacks" — a day can provide significant benefits, a new study says. Specifically, it found that short sessions of intense stair climbing spaced throughout the day can improve heart and lung (cardiorespiratory) fitness.
To strengthen your back — the most commonly injured part of the body — it's important to condition both the muscles in it and the ones that support it, notably the abs.
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Miach Orthopaedics' BEAR® Implant Granted FDA De Novo Approval for Treatment of ACL Tears
WESTBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Miach Orthopaedics, Inc., a privately held company dedicated to developing bio-engineered surgical implants for connective tissue repair, today announced that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration has granted the company's De Novo Request for the Bridge-Enhanced® ACL Repair (BEAR®) Implant, resulting in marketing approval for the treatment of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears, one of the most common knee injuries in the U.S. The BEAR Implant is the first medical technology to clinically demonstrate that it enables healing – or restoration – of the patient's torn ACL. This new approach is a paradigm shift from the current standard of care – reconstruction that replaces the ACL with a graft – and is the first new treatment for ACL tears in more than 30 years.
The Bridge-Enhanced® ACL Repair (BEAR®) Implant is the first medical technology to clinically demonstrate that it enables healing – or restoration – of the patient's torn ACL. The surgeon injects a small amount of the patient's own blood into the implant and inserts it between the torn ends of the ACL in a minimally invasive procedure. The combination of the BEAR Implant and the patient's blood enables the body to heal the torn ends of the ACL back together while maintaining the ACL's original attachments to the femur and tibia. As the ACL heals, the BEAR Implant is absorbed by the body, within approximately eight weeks. This new approach is a paradigm shift from the current standard of care – reconstruction that replaces the ACL with a graft – and is the first new treatment for ACL tears in more than 30 years. (Graphic: Business Wire)
"ACL injuries are all too common among athletes of all ages and can be a career-ending injury in the NFL, which is why the NFL Players Association has been a sponsor of the BEAR clinical trials since the beginning," said Sean Sansiveri, vice president, National Football League Players Association. "We're gratified to have supported Miach Orthopaedics in the journey to bring a better option for treating ACL injuries to patients in the U.S."
Every year, approximately 400,000 ACL injuries occur in the U.S. A torn ACL does not heal on its own, resulting in ACL reconstruction being one of the most common orthopedic procedures in the U.S. Yet the procedure has many drawbacks; many people are unable to return to the same level of daily activities or sports.
"There are a number of advantages to repairing a ligament instead of replacing it. That is why, more than 30 years ago, we set out to find a way to help the ligament heal itself," said Martha Murray, M.D., founder of Miach Orthopaedics and professor of orthopaedic surgery at Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School. "We've been encouraged by the results of the clinical studies at Boston Children's Hospital showing that repair using a BEAR Implant is a viable alternative to autograft ACL reconstruction. FDA approval validates the decades of work our teams have put into this technology and is truly rewarding. We are looking forward to seeing this technology become more widely available for patients everywhere."
The proprietary, bio-engineered BEAR Implant facilitates healing of the torn ACL and has several benefits over ACL reconstruction: It restores natural anatomy and function of the knee, is less invasive and has better patient satisfaction in terms of readiness to return to sport and one-year pain and symptoms. The BEAR Implant does not require a second surgical wound site to remove a healthy tendon from another part of the leg or using a deceased donor's tendon that requires special storage and handling requirements.
"Preserving a patient's native ACL instead of replacing it with a graft has long been a goal of surgeons, and before the BEAR Implant, multiple approaches were studied and failed," said Martha Shadan, president and CEO, Miach Orthopaedics. "The BEAR Implant, which is the first medical technology to show that it enables a patient's own torn ACL to heal, represents the first substantial advancement in the treatment of ACL tears in decades and has the potential to change the standard of care."
The FDA submission for the BEAR Implant was based on the results of the BEAR II clinical trial. Two-year follow-up data showed the BEAR Implant was non-inferior to autograft ACL reconstruction in patients ages 14-35. Compared with autograft ACL reconstruction, the BEAR Implant also showed faster recovery of muscle strength and higher patient satisfaction with regard to readiness to return to sports and Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) measures of pain and symptoms. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) indicated that the BEAR Implant facilitates healing of the native ACL so that, at two years, its size, geometry and tissue composition are more similar to native ACL tissue than autograft. Pre-clinical studies suggest that the BEAR Implant may reduce the rate of osteoarthritis, estimated to occur in 78% of people with ACL tears, but this has not yet been confirmed in human trials.1
Miach Orthopaedics plans to conduct a limited market release of the BEAR Implant in early 2021.
About The BEAR® Implant
Miach Orthopaedics' new Bridge-Enhanced® ACL Repair (BEAR®) Implant is a proprietary bio-engineered implant used to facilitate healing of the torn ACL. Unlike reconstruction, which is the current standard of care, the BEAR Implant does not require a second surgical wound site to remove a healthy tendon from another part of the leg or using a deceased donor's tendon. The BEAR Implant acts as a bridge between the two ends of the torn ACL. The surgeon injects a small amount of the patient's own blood into the implant and inserts it between the torn ends of the ACL in a minimally invasive procedure. The combination of the BEAR Implant and the patient's blood enables the body to heal the torn ends of the ACL back together while maintaining the ACL's original attachments to the femur and tibia. As the ACL heals, the BEAR Implant is absorbed by the body, within approximately eight weeks.
The BEAR Implant is indicated for skeletally mature patients at least 14 years of age with a complete rupture of the ACL, as confirmed by MRI. Patients must have an ACL stump attached to the tibia to construct the repair. The BEAR device must be implanted within 50 days of injury.
About Miach Orthopaedics, Inc.
Miach Orthopaedics, Inc. is a privately held company located in Westborough, Massachusetts, dedicated to developing bio-engineered surgical implants for connective tissue repair. The company's initial focus is the Bridge-Enhanced® ACL Repair (BEAR®) Implant, which represents a paradigm shift in the treatment of ACL tears from reconstruction to restoration. The BEAR technology was pioneered by Martha Murray, M.D., founder of Miach Orthopaedics, at the Boston Children's Hospital Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, with initial research funding provided by the NFL Players Association, Boston Children's Hospital and the National Institutes of Health. For more information on Miach Orthopaedics and its products, visit www.miachortho.com and follow the company on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
1 Murray MM, Fleming BC. Use of a bioactive scaffold to stimulate anterior cruciate ligament healing also minimizes posttraumatic osteoarthritis after surgery. Am J Sports Med. 2013;41(8):1762-1770.
Joni Ramirez
Merryman Communications
joni@merrymancommunications.com
Source: Miach Orthopaedics, Inc.
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Chances are, at some point in your life, you're going to experience a recession or a depression. If you want to feel prepared, try picking up a few books on how to survive a recession.
Let's start with the basics; what's the difference between recession and a depression? I'll start with the more colloquial definition.
A recession is when your neighbor loses their job.
A depression is when you lose your job, too.
While you may have heard this borderline dad joke once or twice before, there's some truth to it. Recessions will impact most people, but depressions impact everyone to some extent.
Regardless, let's get official and formalize things a little.
A recession is a period of temporary economic decline lasting for a minimum of two successive quarters. Conversely, a depression is a long and severe recession in the economy. The level of severity is quite a bit worse, but recessions are trouble no matter what. If you want to prepare, picking up a few books on how to survive a recession might be the help you need.
Jason Schenker, a world-ranked financial forecaster, published his book Recession-Proof in 2016. If you want contemporary information from an expert in the world of finances, this book is a great starting point. This one is entirely focused on the individual, so if it's the ducks of your personal finances that you're looking to get in a row, this is the perfect book to guide you in doing so.
Even Fortune 500 companies listen to advice from Jason Schenker, so if massive companies are paying attention to his tips, individuals can too. If you think you might already be recession-proof, take a good, long look at your finances. How much should you save for an emergency fund? How much should you be saving for retirement? Is another recession on the horizon? This book can help you answer these questions.
House of Debt looks at the hard facts around how the stock market suffered, and how a staggering 8 million jobs were lost between 2007 and 2009. Depending on your age; for example, if you're a millennial like me; you might not remember the Great Recession as keenly as someone who lost their job would. You're aware it happened, you know it was a terrible event in or economic history, but it's hard to understand the pain and stress every single one of those 8 million people who lost their jobs endured. The job market is doing better now, but the recession left marks on many.
For a clear picture of what happened in households for years leading up to the Great Recession, this book paints a clear picture. More importantly, it also gives tips on how you can tighten your personal spending to ensure you'll survive a recession, should one strike again.
This book covers very unusual cases of people hit hard by recessions and ongoing changes to the job market. Bruder wrote her book about the new-world nomads, people who live in mobile homes and RVs in order to be able to pick up and work anywhere they can find a job. This group is mainly made of transient older adults as a consequence of the Great Recession. The job market changed dramatically and is still changing. It's not easy for anyone to get their finances in order, but it's even tougher for people who can't find stable employment.
When I was a child, while hearing about the recession that was afoot, I spent a lot of time in nerdy, online communities. The fun part of this was that these communities were global—I had friends in Malaysia, Australia, and Canada. They all knew about the recession happening in the United States.
Judis' book takes a look at how a massive recession in the United States has global impact. In particular, he examines how the Great Recession changed American and European politics. While the economic downturn happened here in the states, it had global ramifications.
The title of this book doesn't exactly give you a warm, fuzzy feeling, but sometimes you have to do some disruptive things in order to survive when recession strikes. The audience for this book is primarily businesses—if you have a side hustle that you partially rely on for survival, or if you're a small business owner, it wouldn't hurt to pick up a copy of this book.
Small businesses are typically hit the hardest during tough times, so being extra strategic and adaptive is vital. After all, the sad reality of being an entrepreneur today means that a lot of small businesses will need to take out loans at questionable interest rates. If you have any outstanding debt, it's important to be aware of what's happening at large in the economy.
For a more historical look at the relationship behind the Great Depression, and Great Recession, Professor of Economics and Political Science Barry Eichengreen shares his insights on the parallels and similarities between these two economic crises.
Eichengreen teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. If you haven't heard of the institution, essentially, it means this—he really knows his stuff. To learn about how the two events relate and what caused them, this book covers everything in a clear, concise manner.
In this book, Hetzel questions whether the Great Recession was the fault of the market or the government. If you want to learn about the nitty-gritty of the finances that led to the Great Recession, this book is the perfect choice. Understanding the larger financial factors that cause an economic downturn is key to being prepared for a recession.
The book covers cyclical instability, asset bubbles, credit cycles, and all the various financial fluctuations that landed the United States in another recession. It delves into the more complicated aspects of what brought on the recession, but if you want the whole story and every last detail, this is the book for you.
In the words of my old friend who lived in Malaysia—"When the United States sneezes, the whole world starts to catch a cold." No matter how you feel about politics in America, it's true that we're a big nation and take part in a lot of global commerce.
Moreover, the whole world is moving toward globalization at a steady place. International trade is more common than ever, and while that's great, it means that a recession in one powerful nation can send ripples all across the world's oceans. Adam Tooze's book digs into just that—examining what the financial crisis did to the global economy. This book will give you a good knowledge base as you make a plan to survive a recession.
If you want to get a broad understanding of bubbles, bursts, as well as recessions, and depressions, Weiss' book covers them all. Weiss guides readers through making a stable financial plan for today's economy; the book was recently updated to stay contemporary.
Weiss looks at all the different things that impact a recession—the credit crunch, housing bust, and the decline of the US dollar. These are all things you've probably heard of before, read an article about here and there, or saw something about it on the news, but this book takes a close look at all of those things, and acknowledges the possibility that America could face another recession in the near future.
When I saw the cover of this book, I immediately thought of my grandmother, who grew up during the Great Depression. She was a very young child during that massive economic downturn, but she has clear memories of lining up for rationed food and having very meager meals like ketchup sandwiches.
The recessions we've seen in more recent times weren't nearly as severe as the Great Depression. This ebook is a shorter, essay-length piece that gives timeless tips on making yourself recession-proof. After all, whether you're a homeowner or a renter, here's a sad truth; rent doesn't decrease with a recession. The cost of living only goes up.
Recession Proof your Relationship by Vivienne Green and Ronald H. Green Jr.
Here's one last book to help you plan for a recession—but instead of focusing on interest rates, or the stock market, this book looks at relationships. I know it might sound a little left field, but here's the thing. Financial strain has a massive impact on couples, especially those who live together, or are married. When the rent is due, but the money isn't in the bank, tempers run hot and feelings are easily hurt.
If you want to amass a collection of books on how to survive a recession, it's good to look at every different facet of the experience. You want to make sure your job is protected, yes. You want to work on saving money, absolutely. But you also need to make sure that strain to keep your job and survive a recession doesn't destroy your relationship with the person who means the most to you.
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Q: Trying to erase images generated by Soltar in JavaScript I am trying to do a simple drag and drop game in canvas.
The problem is that I can't errase the images or change the visibilty to hidden after I finish the drop.
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Thanks.

A: To clear an area of a canvas, you can either use fillRect to cover an area with the current background color, or you can use clearRect to erase everything in an area, leaving a transparent square.
Now, when you do this, you'll want to make sure that any objects that wouldn't normally get redrawn aren't clipped by either of these function calls. If they are, you'll need to redraw them as well. If performance isn't an issue, consider clearing the entire area of the canvas, and redrawing all the objects at their updated positions.

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"Walgreens & drugstores expand into brow waxing, beer on tap" by Tom Murphy at AP via Seattle Times. "At some Walgreen stores, there are health clinics staffed by nurse practitioners, cafes that sell barista-prepared coffee and Eyebrow Bars where professionals groom unruly facial hair. Oh, and pharmacists fill prescriptions, too. The nation's major drugstore chains are moving beyond drugs and Kleenex." Read more
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"Albertsons checking out of self-checkout" at Idaho Statesman via Retail Customer Experience. "The company is now getting rid of self-checkout at those three Boise stores and replacing them with "express lanes to provide a better, more personalized checkout experience," said Dennis McCoy, communications and public affairs manager." Read more
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"Back-To-School Shopping Extends into Longer Season" by Gabrielle Karol at Fox Business. "Industry analyst Marshal Cohen at NPD Group says this will play out as a shift in consumer behavior – not a cutback in spending. "The back-to-school season is extending into a longer selling season," says Cohen. "What you're beginning to see for back-to-school is that what used to be a June, July and part of August season is now August, September and part of October."Cohen says consumers are shopping more in-season, buying new items on an as-needed basis, as opposed to shopping for seasonal clothes ahead of time. "Retailers steeped in tradition are saying, 'We're not doing as well as in the past,' but they're not adjusting for this shift," he says." Read more
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"Retailers hope for a cool autumn" by Courney Reagan at CNBC. "The biggest beneficiaries of a "normal" fall could be retailers like the Gap, Macy's and Kohl's, which are heavily dependent on apparel sales. Off-mall department store Kohl's might especially need a cool fall. Most of its sales come from stores in the Midwest and Northeast, regions that saw particularly unfavorable summer weather. Company executives may just use that weather line again when earnings are released on Thursday." Read more
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Centenary celebrations set to culminate with parade
Hawick Scout Pipe Band leading the parade up Vertish Hill earlier this year.
They may have been almost a decade too late, but the celebrations marking the centenary of one of the Borders oldest pipe bands will culminate in a rousing fashion next weekend.
Hawick Scout Pipe Band is promising a spectacle of both sight and sound next Saturday, September 23 when they host a celebratory massed bands parade and free performances throughout the town centre.
This year's centenary events, which have included performances at Edinburgh Castle's Battle of Arras commemorations, the massed bands display at Floors Castle and a centenary exhibition at Wilton Lodge Park museum, have been celebrated regardless of a slight numerical calculation.
The celebrations were planned under the long-held belief that the band was formed in 1917, but shortly after plans were finalised for the big year an eagle-eyed member came across a photograph of the band printed in the Hawick News from 1914. Following some recalculations it was concluded the band was likely formed soon after the formation of the Scouts in Hawick in 1908. However, members chose to see the funny side and pushed ahead with the deserved celebrations regardless.
Hoping the parade will garner plenty of local support and attract a few tourists to the town, the band's pipe major Michael Bruce said: "We have received much support over the last few years from local people and organisations and the Council and while this year has turned out to be a little late to be our Centenary, at least we can give some entertainment back to the town.
"The High Street will be closed to traffic for the duration of this event, but local shopkeepers are pleased that an event is happening."
The parade will begin from the Scout Hall in Union Street at 3pm making it's way to the horse for a static performance then on to Tower Knowe for a few more tunes. After a short break there, the parade returns back along the High Street to the horse with the salute being taken at the Town Hall by Major General Jeremy Phipps, president of the Borders Scout Group, accompanied by provost Watson McAteer and the band's ex-pipe major Charlie Turnbull.
The band will be supported by friends from Jedburgh Royal British Legion, Melrose and District and Edinburgh Postal pipe bands. Additional performances are scheduled from the Edinburgh Postal Pipe Band's team of Scottish country dancers, subject to good weather.
New members, experienced or complete beginners of both sexes are always welcome to join the band, which meets at its headquarters in the town's Union Street. The band takes new members both from the local Scouts and anyone else who is interested, including adults.


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Spark Rising Kickstarter Campaign a Success!
It was 30 days of non-stop action! Culminating in a 48 hour marathon live stream on Twitch.tv. Our Kickstarter campaign is now over and we're just coming back up from the sleepy tomb as we gather our senses and start to work towards finishing the game. Overall more than 500 people backed our campaign, with an average donation of $40 a person. Over $21K was raised.
So what were some of the highlights?
Famous game designers like Mark Jacob, who is working on Camelot Unchained, and Chris Taylor, the creator of Total Annihilation, and the Stonehearth bros all backed our campaign. It's cool when your fellow creators believe in you.
Our Reddit AMA become one of the top ranked stories of the day, as I went online and shared how I sold my home to fund the dream.
We created a wicked awesome freeze frame trailer made all the more wicked with Russell the voice actor.
We held a 48 hour live stream on Twitch that ultimately attracted more than 650K viewers.
We had nearly daily updates showcasing new stuff never before announced.
We struck a deal with the creator of Qubicle to offer his voxel creation software for a dedicated tier.
Bane loves us! Or hates us. We can't tell.
Christian dressing up like a penguin… twerking… live streaming… and enjoying it.
We're ultra thankful for everyone's support. It means the world to the team and I here at Wicked Loot. Over the next many months, we'll keep you attuned to all the development going on with Spark Rising, as this game will be shaped by your creative feedback.
We learned a lot along the way, met some great people who helped us out, and most important of all, got to engage with all you fans. Seriously, we love you all. You made all this so much fun. We promise only more crazy times to come! Now that we're all done, come say hi to us in the forums!


A 7.1 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of Papua New Guinea.
The tremor was recorded at a depth of 61km, 116km south-southwest of the city of Kokopo at around 6:06pm AEST.
It follows a strong 6.8 magnitude shock which struck yesterday at 9:30pm AEST.
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Cannabis edibles maker Dixie Brands outlines plans to go public in Canada
July 26, 2018 - Updated December 17, 2021
Dixie Brands has joined a growing list of U.S. marijuana companies turning to the Canadian capital markets to fund expansion plans.
The Denver infused product maker is pursuing a listing on the Canadian Securities Exchange via a reverse takeover of Toronto-based Academy Explorations – a former mining firm that has maintained its listing on the CSE.
The deal is subject to approval by Academy Explorations shareholders and is expected to close by the fourth quarter, the companies announced in a news release.
Before completing the reverse takeover, Dixie expects to complete a private placement of its shares that could yield gross proceeds of $12 million-$20 million, including a conversion of $2 million in debt in exchange for Dixie common shares.
Reverse takeovers (RTO), which often include a takeover of a public shell company, has become the go-to path for U.S. cannabis firms looking to tap into Canada's public markets.
Los Angeles-based MedMen and Chicago-based Green Thumb Industries recently completed RTOs in Canada, while other companies that have announced plans to pursue the maneuver include LivWell Enlightened Health of Denver and 4Front Holdings of Phoenix.
Dixie says the moves are part of the company's plans to expand its brands in Canada and other international markets.
The company has three portfolio companies under its umbrella: Dixie Elixirs & Edibles, Aceso Wellness, which offers hemp-derived products, and Therabis, which provides pet supplements.
Dixie also has a license agreement with Auxly Cannabis, which allows Auxly to exclusively produce and distribute Dixie branded products across Canada.
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the lack of any evidence that small countries have been achieving less productivity growth than large ones.
As far as I can see, the only OECD country where there might – just might – be a strong case for an active government role in trying to grow the population is Israel, surrounded by much more populous hostile states. And even then, Israel's survival so far – I remain a little sceptical that it will last longer than the Crusader states of earlier centuries – is more down to technology, organisation, institutions, and embedded human capital than to numbers of people.
But what prompted this post was a comment from the economist that not only should Auckland's population be markedly further increased – and the residents urged into apartments – but that governments should be actively aiming to increase the population of our other cities and regions. The specific aspiration that caught my attention was the suggestion that our second biggest city – at present, Wellington and Christchurch have similar populations – should have a population around half that of Auckland. I was somewhat taken aback and responded "but that isn't typically how things are in other countries", to which the confident response was "oh yes it is". So I thought I had better check the data.
I set aside very large countries, and extremely small ones. Most of Malta, for example, is Valetta. Even among the large countries there is quite a range of experience: Britain, France and Japan have single dominant city, while Germany, Italy, and the United States don't. But I found 22 advanced (OECD or EU) countries each with a total national population of between 1.3 million (Estonia) and 17 million (Netherlands), and I dug out the data, as best I could, for the populations of the largest and second largest urban areas in each of those 22 countries. 20 of the 22 countries are in Europe, and Israel and New Zealand are also in the sample.
Here is the share of the total national population accounted for by the largest city in each country.
Among these smaller advanced countries, our largest city's share of total population is a bit above the median, but nowhere near the highest share. Of course, as I have noted previously, except for Israel (Tel Aviv), our largest city has grown faster than any of these countries' largest cities in the post-war decades.
But what about the specific point at issue: the size of the second largest city relative to the largest city. Here is that chart.
There is huge range of experiences even among this group of relatively small advanced countries – from Latvia and Hungary where the second city is tiny relative to the largest, to the Netherlands and Switzerland at the other end. In those two countries, the largest city is quite small relative to the total population. There isn't an obvious correlation between economic success and the relative size of the second largest city. Ireland and Denmark are much richer than New Zealand, but so are the Netherlands and Switzerland. And Latvia, Hungary, Slovakia, Portugal and Bulgaria are poorer than us. New Zealand's number isn't much different from the median country's experience.
One thing worth bearing in mind in this sample is that in most of these countries, the largest country is also the capital. That isn't so in New Zealand, Israel, or Switzerland – or, for practical purposes, the Netherlands. All else equal, one might hypothesise that Wellington would be smaller if it were not the capital – but that might just have left Christchurch as the clear-cut second largest city.
Since there is a wide range of experiences across similarly wealthy countries in the relative size of largest (and second largest) cities, it might be wise to be rather cautious in concluding that government policy should be actively directed to altering the relative size of some or other groups of cities. Patterns across countries are likely to reflect some mix of history, geography, and economic opportunities. In some countries, outward-oriented economic activity is heavily concentrated in big cities (one might think of London), in others it derives largely from non-urban natural resources (one might think of Norway).
As it happens, as a matter of prediction rather than prescription, I do think that a successful reorientation of policy in New Zealand would increase the relative size of second and third tier cities relative to Auckland. But it would do so because (a) Auckland's population would no longer be supercharged by an aggressive immigration policy, and (b) because, as a result, overall population growth would be lower, there would be less pressure on real interest rates and the real exchange rate, and the outward-oriented economic opportunities, which are at the heart of the provincial economies, would be more attractive, and would see more business investment taking place.
If, instead, governments persist with large non-citizen immigration programmes then, for all the talk of the attractive lifestyle the regions offer, it is a recipe for even more of the same. Why wouldn't that happen – doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different result doesn't, to put in mildly, make much sense. For the last few decades, Auckland's population has grown rapidly relative to that of most of the rest of country. And its relative economic performance appears to have languished – there is certainly lots of activity to keep up (more or less) with the needs of a growing population, but little productivity growth. Indeed, the large productivity margin one might normally expect to see in the data for largest cities is quite small in Auckland, and has been shrinking further. There is no sign of some critical tipping point being reached in which – say – high speed trains are about to transform our economic prospects.
As for the regions, one hears enthusiastic talk from time to time of encouraging migrants to the provinces – and last year the rules were further tweaked in that direction. But that is simply a recipe for further undermining the quality of the migration programme – less able people who are desperate to get in will go to the provinces, to pick up the additional points on offer. We want people to move to Invercargill or Napier – if they do – because the business opportunites there are sufficiently good to attract people, not because the government puts points "subsidies" on offer, which simply mask the serious structural imbalances in the economy. The best path to better provincial performance – not an end in itself, but probably part of a more successful New Zealand – is likely to be the removal of the distortions and policy pressures that have given us such a persistently overvalued real exchange rate for so long. Using policy to simply bring in lots more people won't do that – any more than it has for the last 25 years.
This discussion is a microcosm of the why, how and where we've got to in Auckland to date. Both the economist and businessman are living in a bubble (probably a character Villa in Parnell and Ponsonby) and both definitely won't have to contend with living in squalid apartment conditions competing with knockdown cheap immigrants for their jobs into the future. Absolute zero consideration for the citizens that have to live in this scenario long after they've made their bonuses and profits and have passed on their wealth and estates to their children. What is it with New Zealand business and the fascination with rentier capitalism? Get creative and do something real and valuable instead of sucking the life force out of the economy.
Get rid of the tourists and you will get rid of the knockdown cheap migrants. These two come hand in hand.
How would you get rid of the tourists? I'm not sure I'd want to, altho an economically successful NZ might be a more expensive place to visit (over the long haul). No country gets rich on the back of tourism, but isn't just part of modern life (we do, and they do it)?
You can't have one without the other. Fact of life, get used to it. Tourism is a $14 billion industry and the target is $25 billion in the next few years. Tough luck. foreign tourists have foreign needs therefore expect Chefs, waiters, prostitutes, baggage handlers and cleaners to top the list of skilled migrants that NZ hospitality industry will demand more and more of.
Andrew Little is dreaming if he wants locals to be trained and be apprenticed as curry chefs, foreign language waiters and geisha prostitutes.
I'm sure the industry will "demand" them. A government with any serious regard for the interests of its own people would simply say no.
Which doesn't mean there are not some speciality roles in which temporary foreign workers might not be appropriate.
In fairness to my two specific interlocutors, neither is an Akld resident and one has a successful export-oriented firm. Nonetheless, I think your more general point stands.
Yes, I haven't got past the summary of Daan's paper yet, but will try to write something about it next week.
Re agglomeration, I guess the thing about Auckland is that the agglomeration effects seem (on average) to have been so small. Arguably what comes of pushing more people into a place, beyond the "natural" capacity of the location to support suich gains.
The problem with the common assumption of agglomeration effects, linked to size and form of cities, is that all the studies being relied on, actually fail to prove causation, mistakenly relying on correlation in what are limited data sets anyway.
The study that SHOULD be getting the most recognition, is West, Bettencourt et al, which look at a truly representative large data set of cities.
It does seem fair to claim increased outright city population correlating with higher productivity on average. However, I think your intuition is correct, Michael, that there are circumstances now prevailing in many developed-nation cities, that significantly undermine the capture of agglomeration efficiencies.
In fact as the New Geography article points out, many advocates are leaping to the assumption that higher density, period, is associated with higher productivity, and this is completely wrong. This assumption has rested, in the past, on analyses of data sets of cities where the dense and productive ones largely evolved this way. It is absurd to think that this evolution can be magically replicated simply by planning a more compact city footprint by way of growth boundaries and upzoning. For example, Manhattan obviously evolved like it did without any compact-city planning ideology, but because global finance clustering fortuitously happened there.
In the case of the UK, whose cities have all been arbitrarily constrained in their horizontal growth and forced to be higher density, for decades, the result is REDUCED productivity, not increased! Several papers from Cheshire and colleagues at the LSE, and several by Alan W. Evans and colleagues, cover this effect. In fact most agglomeration effects in most cities most of the time, were helped to evolve by reason of availability and affordability of land. Land being hundreds of times more expensive per square foot, and almost all already built-out, is a powerfully anti-competitive effect.
The USA is an instructive counter-example in this modern era, in that it is possibly the only nation that still has some proportion of its cities unconstrained in their dispersion, and hence still forming clusters in the same way that most cities once did. California no longer has low-cost exurban land available, due to regulatory overkill, but that very famous cluster, Silicon Valley, evolved in the first case on low-cost exurban land. What is most instructive about the USA is that growth and the associated clustering that is FOREGONE in the cities succumbing to regulatory overkill, merely shifts to those cities that are still freely dispersing, where there is space and low land costs.
Auckland might well appear to be "fast growing" compared to data sets of cities that share the modern planning fads that tend to deflect growth to elsewhere – and the largest cities in any given nations are the most prone to these fads – but it does not match the fastest-growing cities in the developed world today, which are all middle-tier and small cities in the USA without "planning" chokes on dispersion, which are capturing the growth foregone elsewhere in the USA. Auckland is most certainly not growing as fast as Houston, Dallas, Atlanta, Austin, Raleigh, and Charlotte; and possibly Nashville, Indianapolis, Kansas City and several others are ahead too. These cities are growing fast BECAUSE they are staying affordable, simply getting on and building whole new edge cities and financing the infrastructure for growth, properly.
I believe that in time, the economics profession will be unable to evade the realities of agglomeration, growth, opportunity and inclusion, which CAN and do co-exist. The cargo-cultist planning-driven approach is doomed to failure other than the provision of a few exclusionary cities with lucky economic back-histories; these fail anyway on the opportunity and inclusion factors – and all other cities that are not so lucky, will fail on everything.
NZ is making a massive mistake by default, pursuing the failed UK model where ALL cities are in planning straitjackets and there is nowhere for real honest growth to be deflected to. Auckland shares with several other "success story" cities (according to the planners), including NYC, London, and Vancouver, the dirty little secret that much of the "intensification" is actually overcrowding among immigrants (who were used to these living conditions in their country of origin) and the poorer incumbent locals (the following generations of whom will be completely priced out).
I think you have the wrong end of the stick as usual because it is actually industry the drives the type and the numbers of immigrants, permanent and temporary to get the jobs done. Government cannot change targets willy nilly because industry will at the end of the day prevail over time will force a minimum target. The 50k target has stood forever which does usually mean that it is the minimum time tested target. The recent 5k that National was under pressure to change downwards as a poll saving gesture will just put a lot of businesses under real pressure and I know a few restaurants that have closed because they were unable to replace their chefs. And clearly hoteliers are screaming for skilled chefs. Real businesses that need labour to get their businesses growing.
Therefore you cannot look at the migration targets and decide it is wrong because it is fundamentally a derived target time tested and not a dreamt up target.
If we want higher productivity then we have to change the type of industry focus from low skilled and low productivity enterprises to high skilled and high productivity type industry. Our top 4 industries, Tourism, Milk, Meat and International Students all require an army of low skilled labour and that will not change the productivity dynamics. It is about time you face reality and recognise that industry drives the type of migrants and not the government. So change comes from changing the type of industry focus and not to change the type of skilled migrants or even to stop migrants all together because our Tourist, meat, milk and student industry are already screaming for labour and its all low skilled, chefs, waiters, cleaners, hearders, butchers, baggage handlers, prostitutes and more cleaners and more cleaners.
But 'who' sets the direction of industry? I would say largely business people and per World Bank rankings, in NZ, this is a relatively free choice. After all, NZ is a magic destination which visitors are prepared to pay to experience so companies are established to meet the demand and while these enterprises may be staff heavy, they are typically capital light. Which is all rational: an entrepreneur eyes a return on capital – not aggregate productivity statistics. Better for the government to focus on education, education, and education…….
Education by itself does not create jobs if there are no highly skilled jobs in NZ we will continue to see mass exodus of young kiwis. That is why young highly trained kiwis depart overseas for better jobs and better pay in countries that provide those highly skilled jobs.
Don't we have a problem with unemployment among the unskilled among the domestic population?
Hospitality New Zealand(HNZ) general manager of operations and advocacy Tracy Scott said with the growth in tourism, vacancies were increasingly filled by temporary migrant workers.
Federated Farmers dairy chair Andrew Hoggard said he would be concerned if the supply of migrant workers was cut back. In low unemployment areas like Southland, it was hard to recruit Kiwis.
Turbo Staff recruits for the construction industry and managing director Ihaka Rongonui said he had about 130 Filipinos on his books in Christchurch and they made up more than half his placements.
People tend to become more willing to do such jobs when the pay rate is higher. If fewer immigrant workers were available, wage rates in those sectors would tend to raise and, on the other hand, interest and real exchange rates would be lower.
I'd say there's more economic upside in Auckland becoming a widely admired medium sized city – like say Kyoto, Barcelona or Vienna – than a large generic city.
Largely agree, altho I suspect Akld was mostly be a gateway rather than a destination. And Vienna's population is still almost 50% larger than Akld's.
I keep trying to point out that it is absurd for planners and politicians to postulate Hong Kong as the model for far too many cities including Auckland. Auckland needs to just run with its existing identity and be proud of it, like Nashville and Indianapolis have instantly recognisable identities, even worldwide. The kind of immigrants we want, should be the ones that want to share in our traditional way of life – Indy and Nashville get plenty of immigrants – not ones that will participate in turning Auckland into another borg-cube rentiers paradise.
The overall residence target is certainly "time-tested" – has been in place for 15 years or so (and was essentially a number plucked out of the air when it was devised), and in that time there has been no sign of an acceleration in productivity growth. Many of the details have been subject to quite frequent change, including the wave of new working holiday schemes, the ability for students to work while here etc etc.
Our actual inflows are a mix of business and govt-determined. At the limit, the govt could clearly stop any non-citizens coming, or it could adopt an open borders policy. Actual policy is nothing like either extreme.
I agree it would probably be unwise to make sudden non-foreshadowed changes of policy. But to give indsutry and indviduals say a year's notice of a progressive reduction in the residence approvals target, and a progressive tightening in the work visa rules (so that, say, over 5 years we get to the point where, generally, no one earning under $100000 pa is generally able to get a work visa) would be entirely reasonable and would, in my view, lead to improvements in NZ productivity and overall economic performance, and increases in real wages for NZers.
As long as industry is service driven then it is low productivity. I went into a top chinese restaurant in Melbourne recently and there was a separate waiter for each dish presented and a chef accompanying each dish presented. There were more waiters and chefs hanging around than there were clients, expensive but well worth the visit just to see the number of service personnel pampering your every need.
Sure works out for cleaners to be able to get a wage of $100,000 a year. But not sure if it works out for businesses if we have to pay cleaners $100,000 a year.
My young IT aspiring nephew with a honors degree just got his wings in Computer science is just weighing up his options as a lawn mowing gardener because I am paying $40 for a half an hour job to mow my lawns which meant that moving lawns was paying more than an IT graduate in Auckland.
How is that helpful if low skilled labour is paying more than high skilled kiwi labour even in the current environment where the person currently mowing my lawns is a migrant from India for $40 an hour? Oh yah thats because he bought the lawn mowing business off a kiwi bloke and i felt discriminatory against him if i dropped the charge out rate.
A high-performing economy eventually drives out low-paying (= low labour productivity) jobs, shifting the overall mix of sectors in the economy, and encouraging the adoption of technology as it becomes feasible/economic. The typical farmer milks many more cows than 100 years ago, assisted by the rise of technology. Telephone operator jobs largely don't exist any more.
By contrast, when I lived in Zambia many of my expat neighbours routinely had perhaps half a dozen servants (maids, gardeners, cooks, child-minders).
Sure, you may need fewer people to milk more cows but this is where your productivity equation falls over because in the past you did not have to worry about the waste of a small herd of cows. But now we are dealing with 10 million cows which need to be looked after, deticked with tons and tons of chemical wash, cleaners need to clean up the machinery, electricians to service the machinery, the waste water treatment, the leaching into waterways, the dirty waterways, the contaminated drinking water, the methane gas pollution in the atmosphere, the ozone layer depletion, the deforestation and maintainance of feeding grasslands that once was a mighty kauri forest.
The industry at $10 billion is already creating a havoc on the natural environment. There is nothing natural about exporting 99% of milk production. In other words, our local population do not drink all that milk that is being produced but the industry extracts a very heavy subsidy and the people pay a very high price environmentally.
Your productivity equation is totally up the creek when 10 million cows generate a export GDP of only $10 billion but 4.5 million people generate $160 billion in net disposable income.How can cows ever match humans for productivity. Only economists can dream up such nonsense.
The late Sir Paul Callaghan was a non-economist whose insights on this subject showed up the economists. Watch one of his presentations, "Beyond the Farm and Theme Park".
Does a nation of 5 million people need several international airports? The USA works on gateways, hubs and spokes, after all.
Certainly our largest airport, Auckland, suffers from an unlikelihood that it will ever be as efficient a gateway / hub as the famous US ones.
NZ needs a far-sighted program of "new cities", not planned to death like Brasilia or Canberra, but being pragmatic about what the country needs, and the practicality of the do-ability somewhere that land is low-cost, infrastructure is low-cost due to terrain, and NIMBYism is absent. Low-cost market-led growth in housing and business premises along the model of the USA's noted examples, should be a central element. All existing airports should become "spokes", and a real international one built somewhere else as a kick-starter of a new "opportunity urbanism" city.
The correct role for planners in such a city, is described by Bertaud, Angel, Romer and colleagues in various works including videoed presentations. Stick in rights-of-way for future trunk infrastructure to ensure that it can be done at low cost once needed. 100 years + ahead of the actual growth. It costs almost nothing to do this, and costs a LOT later on if you have NOT done it. I understand there is exactly 3 kms of "designated corridor" protected in NZ right now. DUH! DUH! DUH!


Potential Georgia Law to Crack-Down on "Ambulance Chasers"
Have you ever received a call from an attorney or someone representing an attorney after you were involved in an injury-related accident? These callers are what other legal professionals call "ambulance chasers" or "runners", and the practice of soliciting a personal injury case in this way is against Georgia State Bar rules and Georgia state laws.
We are Jones & Swanson are all too familiar with "ambulance chaser" or "runner" cases. We are often contacted by Georgians who had heard from these law firms prior to contacting us. They reported being called a few days after an auto accident or after a loved one passed away due to negligence. The caller promised unrealistic results, and in some instances even offered to pay the victims, in order to gain their business. These soliciting attorneys' offices are typically not well-known or well-practiced in their respective legal fields, which typically leads to cases being damaged beyond salvage. At the very least, cases represented by "ambulance chasers" would have yielded much more compensation to the victims if a more respected and experienced attorney had represented them. And it's not just legal professionals that engage in these unethical practices. Numerous medical clinics and chiropractic offices have been reported to use these solicitation practices to gain patients as well.
The current regulations for this type of solicitation are not nearly strict enough. Fortunately, Georgia legislature enacted a statute this year to make second offenses a felony. HB 828 was passed on March 20 th and is now awaiting Governor Deal's signature. This new law may not be perfect, but it is much more likely to decrease the number of "runners" soliciting innocent personal injury victims in Georgia. We are supporters of this law and hope that it goes into effect soon because in reality the people who are being hurt most by these practices are innocent Georgians.
If you are currently being represented by a law firm that contacted you after a loved one died or after you were injured in some way due to another person's fault, call our office today to find out what steps that you should take next. Not only will we provide suggestions to you, but we will report that unethical activity to the State Bar of Georgia on your behalf if you so choose. They should not be allowed to victimize others in the same ways that they did you. For more information on "ambulance chasers" or the potential new Georgia law, call (770) 427-5498 and speak with Attorney Andrew Jones. He has been representing victims in numerous types of injury claims for over 21 years, so he is very familiar with Georgia law and legal representation.


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Viet Nam's rice export price stands at lowest level over past two months
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Viet Nam's rice export volume surged by 12 per cent to 3.09 million tonnes in the first five months of this year. — Photo anninhthudo.vn
Higher rice supplies in the domestic market has made the export price of Viet Nam's broken rice drop to US$450 per tonne on June 19, the lowest level in the past two months.
Vietnam News Agency reported that domestic supply is increasing due to harvesting the summer-autumn rice crop. Viet Nam can export 2.3-2.5 million tonnes of rice from this rice crop after ensuring sufficient domestic consumption.
The export price on June 4 hit the highest level of $475 per tonne, as rainfall affected the harvest.
Meanwhile, India's export rice prices last week also dropped to the lowest level in two months due to weakness of the rupee and lower rice demand. The prices of five per cent broken parboiled rice in India fell to $366-372 per tonne on June 18, the lowest level since March 26.
Prices of Thai five per cent broken rice also plunged to $505-525 per tonne on June 18 from $505-533 per tonne the previous week.
Rice exports
According to the General Department of Customs, Viet Nam in the first five months of this year gained growth in volume and value of rice exports compared to the same period last year.
Specifically, rice exports surged by 12 per cent in volume to 3.09 million tonnes and by 26.6 per cent in value to $1.5 billion. While the average export price rose by 13 per cent to $485.1 per tonne.
In May, the nation shipped 953,950 tonnes of rice, earning $492.54 million while the average export price reached at $516.3 per tonne.
They were up 87 per cent in volume, 93.6 per cent in value and 3.6 per cent in price compared to April. They also increased by 40.6 per cent, 67.6 per cent and 19.2 per cent, respectively compared to May 2019.
During the first five months, Viet Nam exported the most rice to the Philippines with a total volume of 1.3 million tonnes, earning $598.6 million. Exports rose by 22.4 per cent in volume and 41.4 per cent in value year on year.
Rice exports to the Philippines accounted for about 41 per cent of the national rice export volume and about 40 per cent of the national rice export value.
China was the second largest market with an export volume of 429,261 tonnes and a, export value of $257.4 million, accounting for about 14 per cent of the total volume and 17.2 per cent of total value. The exports increased by 92.4 per cent in volume and 131.2 per cent in value over the same period of last year.
Viet Nam also gained strong growth to many markets, including Senegal (18.3 times), Indonesia (192 per cent) and France (171.6 per cent).
However, it saw sharp reductions to other markets, such as Brunei (92 per cent), Algeria (89 per cent), Angola (89 per cent), Turkey (83 per cent) and the US (69.2 per cent). — VNS
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Home » Insights for Government Agencies » Mobile Apps Continue to Shape Government Agencies
Mobile Apps Continue to Shape Government Agencies
October 15, 2014 Chuck Brooks
According to Flurry, an application analytics provider, users spend 2 hours and 42 minutes per day on mobile devices and mobile app usage accounts for 2 hours and 19 minutes of that time. Additionally, Gartner forecasts that mobile app stores will see annual downloads reach 268 billion in 2017 and total revenue of $77 billion.
Mobile apps are ingrained in our everyday lives – in and out of work. Every business leader is urging their company to develop and utilize apps that make life easier for their customers, even the leader of one very big business – Barack Obama.
In 2012, the Obama administration released the "Digital Government: Building a 21st Century Platform to Better Serve the American People" strategy as a roadmap to guide agencies to the future of the public sector. The President said that "Americans deserve a government that works for them anytime, anywhere, and on any device" and specifically asked each agency to create at least two apps to help the public make use of available technology.
Agencies have bought in, because not only do mobile apps give citizens the control they deserve, it gives them a quick way to connect with agencies and ultimately increases civic engagement. And as for the benefits to agencies, these apps provide a way to reach the masses and gather valuable constituent information that will revolutionize how agencies make better informed decisions about polices plans and projects.
Over the past couple of years, I've seen some really interesting and innovative apps in many different divisions of government. For example, in August, app developers created a free iPhone app designed to help military veterans who are distressed and need help readjusting to civilian life. Military and veteran suicide levels have been at an all-time high and the app will help vets find each other for moral support along with health centers, emergency care and job fairs. There's also a federal government app to track and catch child predators that helped the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations Division apprehend a suspect within 36 hours. And lastly, think of the impact mobile apps could have on tracking Ebola. Already, government agencies including the CDC and private commercial companies are developing tools to help control the disease outbreak and even tests body fluid and provide results in less than 20 minutes. These apps and tools could all play a critical role in stopping the spread of this contagious disease.
Two areas primed for additional app development are:
Transaction Processing: Almost every agency in the federal government has some sort of transaction processing. Whether it is electronic benefit programs, human resources including benefits, health and welfare or finance and accounting functions, one way to streamline business processes, shorten billing cycles, increase turnaround time and save money is through transaction processing on mobile apps.
Customer Service: By using mobile apps in customer service, agencies would increase response times and increase efficiencies. Agents would be able to flag app inquires by priority and respond to requests no matter their location. Customer service mobile apps can also go as far as including intelligent technology like interactive voice response systems to provide voice-based assistance and collect analytics to better understand issues and route calls accurately. This type of technology can increase internal collaboration by giving customer service agents the most up-to-date information on current customer service trends and allow agents to proactively provide information to constituents based on the context of problems occurring at that time.
It goes without saying that consumers are turning to their mobile devices and apps to supplement and/or enhance daily activities and it's critical that the public sector take advantage of those ready-made touch points. What apps would you like to see developed in the public sector?
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Revealed: EU publishes no-deal Brexit plans
by Mark Fitt Political Journalist December 19, 2018
written by Mark Fitt Political Journalist 19th Dec 18 2:20 pm
Just hours after the UK stepped up its preparations for a no-deal Brexit scenario, Brussels has today announced 14 temporary measures to try to reduce the impact.
.@EU_Commission is preparing for a #Brexit "no-deal" scenario – TEXT of the Communication: https://t.co/qEPUKvLDWh pic.twitter.com/xZb3MWjGig
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The measures include British airlines to operate flights into and out of the EU – but not within it, limiting disruption to the City and hauliers, protecting citizens abroad and easing the impact on businesses.
The European Commission further said that the arrangements will be strictly time-limited, and will be ended without any consultation with the UK.
The Commission added: "These measures will not — and cannot — mitigate the overall impact of a no-deal scenario."
With Brexit Day just 100 days away, the Commission stressed that it was "essential and urgent" to adopt its blueprint "today" to ensure the necessary contingency plans are in place in time.
"They are limited to specific areas where it is absolutely necessary to protect the vital interests of the EU and where preparedness measures on their own are not sufficient," the commission said, adding: "As a rule, they will be temporary in nature, limited in scope and adopted unilaterally by the EU."
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Bulgarian hauliers have been outraged by the discovery that not one kilometre of motorway repairs was carried out in 2022 and that the roadworks on smaller roads were much less than promised. They say that the road tolls in Bulgaria are just as high as the average in Europe, but the quality of the roads is well below that.
Bulgarian daily Dnevnik has recently published a thorough report about the state of Bulgarian roads and how hauliers are outraged over the missing roadworks that their government had promised. "The tolls we pay are at the average European level, and we don't have average European roads," claims Vladimir Maistorov, chairman of the association of small transport companies named "I have a truck". Maistorov brings up Romanian roads as an example, where the road toll for an HGV is 11 euros, and, according to him, the lorries can travel on very good roads for 500-600 kilometres.
According to the chairman, this is not the case in Bulgaria. Breakdowns caused by bad roads are acute problems for hauliers and cost a fortune. Dimitar Dimitrov from the Chamber of Motor Carriers agrees with Maistorov's view that the state of the roads is costing hauliers a fortune. He told Dnevnik that hauliers have spent tens of millions of Bulgarian levs for repairs of broken lorries. "The road infrastructure is not just the road, we don't have the infrastructure where these HGVs can stop, we don't have truck parks, we don't have appropriate conditions for the drivers," emphasizes Dimitrov.
Dimitrov also claims that, in addition to the road toll system, road construction and repairs must also be financed using 20% of the fuel excise tax. "However, this thing has been forgotten by every finance minister in the last 7-8 years. You don't forget that we pay the main part of the excise tax through the fuel we use to fill the trucks, which spend much more than cars," he notes.
Dnevnik asked for a list of all major road repairs carried out in 2022 from the Road Infrastructure Agency" (API) and found out that not a single kilometre of motorway or first-class road had been repaired last year.
Helen Demm