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BMW says it can build electric cars and regular ones on same platforms: interview
John Voelcker January 25, 2018
As the auto industry plans more electric cars in higher volumes for the 2020s, one of the great debates is whether they will need to be designed from the ground up solely for battery power. Doing so allows designers to offer larger cabins due to the more compact drive motors and electronics. One of the best examples of that idea is the upcoming Jaguar I-Pace electric SUV. DON'T MISS: BMW will have 25 electric cars, plug-in hybrid models by 2025 The I-Pace design is clearly that of a Jaguar, but its proportions include a shorter nose and longer cabin than would be possible in a...
BMW will have 25 electric cars, plug-in hybrid models by 2025
The last 12 to 18 months have seen a slew of global automakers promising rafts of new plug-in electric vehicles on sale by deadlines set several years into the future. Working to move past its worldwide diesel-emission scandal, for instance, VW Group has promised 30 battery-electric models on sale...
Toyota electric-car tech to come from venture with Mazda, Denso
Very little is known for sure about the long-range electric car Toyota will launch around 2020. Over the last two years, the company—by far the industry's strongest proponent of hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles—has concluded it must field a battery-electric vehicle to stay competitive...
John Voelcker September 28, 2017
Chevy Bolt EV not on shared architecture, but platform name secret, GM says
The 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV had a fast and unusual development process. General Motors partnered closely with Korean electronics firm LG, whose LG Chem subsidiary provided its lithium-ion battery cells. Other LG units contributed both electric and electronic components and now act as contract...


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Blackstone Swears Off Oil-Patch Investing as Private Equity's Retreat Widens
By: Bloomberg via YahooFinance – After watching big banks curtail lending and asset managers pare bets, fossil fuel producers are now losing access to some of Wall Street's deepest pockets.
Blackstone Inc., once a major player in shale patches, is telling clients its private equity arm will no longer invest in the exploration and production of oil and gas, according to people with knowledge of the talks. The firm's next energy fund won't back those upstream investments — a first for the strategy. Blackstone's credit arm is swearing them off too.
The pledge by the world's largest alternative asset manager comes after its energy returns have see-sawed and culminates a years-long retreat by the industry from the oil patch after hefty losses for some players. Apollo Global Management Inc. has also been pulling back, and recently told prospective backers its next buyout fund won't make fossil-fuel investments. Long-time energy investors including Riverstone Holdings are among others that have shifted focus.
At Blackstone, the view in the executive suite has hardened: The world will rely less on extracting hydrocarbons from the ground for energy needs. Though its energy private equity arm hasn't made a new oil and gas investment since 2017, the formal prohibition is new, and it's getting stitched into its rules. Since that year, buyout firms have slashed their annual spending on U.S.-focused energy and utility investments by more than 60% to $11 billion in 2021, according to data provider Preqin.
Meanwhile, fundraising expenses for oil and gas projects, known as their "cost of capital," have been climbing, giving urgency to Republican efforts to head off a broader retreat by financial backers. After a number of big banks said they will stop financing artic oil exploration, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a law last year to ban state dealings with any companies that cut ties with the industry.
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Private equity's withdrawal adds to a number of pressures on the American oil patch that have contributed to the pain at the pump for U.S. consumers. Now, with the economy bouncing back from pandemic lows and a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine looming, crude oil has shot to nearly $100 a barrel, the highest since 2014. The dislocation is at least bumping up stock prices: Publicly listed energy companies have far outperformed the S&P 500 in the past year.
Blackstone has been taking advantage of those rising valuations to sell out of holdings, leaving more opportunities for firms such as Quantum Energy Partners that remain bullish on the sector.
`Reading the Signals'
Blackstone was among the most prominent backers of the U.S. shale boom a decade ago. As hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling opened up new frontiers for private equity, it raised multi-billion war chests for energy plays. Companies in its portfolios included those in a variety of upstream strategies, such as natural gas developer Vine Energy and ventures focused on deepwater exploration in the Gulf of Mexico.
Blackstone is now betting that the wave of government policies aimed at combating climate change will boost companies whose businesses ease the economy's reliance on fossil fuels.
"Over the last several years, we have found that the risk and return characteristics on our energy transition investments are more attractive than in the upstream sector," David Foley, who leads Blackstone's energy business, said in an interview.
That lines up with demand for more sustainable investments from some of its backers — typically including pensions, university endowments, and family offices. Renewable funds raised a record $75 billion last year compared with a record low of $4.6 billion for traditional energy pools, according to Preqin. A key priority for Blackstone is ensuring its new energy fund and others meet European standards for what qualifies as an environmental, social, and governance-focused fund, said Jean Rogers, Blackstone's head of ESG.
"It's not a moral or ethical stance. It is reading the signals in the market," she said. "We're undergoing the transition to net-zero and need to be responding assertively if we are going to capture the opportunity."
Blackstone's next energy fund will focus on energy transition. It's seeking more than $4 billion, a person familiar with the plan said. As older funds wind down, it will consider prohibiting upstream bets for new funds that turn on, too.
Energy transition is a wide-ranging category that can include wind farms, lithium storage and technology for measuring carbon emissions. It's a sector that Blackstone says it got into 15 years ago, before ramping up investments three years ago — deploying some $15 billion since 2019. Over the past decade, the firm has been helping lay the groundwork for a proposed transmission project linking Quebec to New York City that's supposed to provide hydropower to the U.S. metropolis by 2025. This year it invested in Invenergy, which operates power generation and energy storage projects.
Yet the popularity of ESG investing already has driven up the valuations of renewables deals.
"Traditional energy managers are pivoting at exactly the wrong time," said Jay Yoder, who leads natural resource investing at consulting giant Mercer, which advises pensions and investors. "We've seen a lot of capital coming into the renewable sector for noninvestment reasons."
Blackstone isn't planning to get out of the business of transporting, storing, and processing gas and fuel. But it predicts pipelines will increasingly be used for renewables as well as carbon dioxide from carbon-capture projects. Firms make money from that business by collecting "tolls" that are less susceptible to price swings.
Humbling Experiences
Private equity investor Riverstone Holdings rode the flood of money that powered the shale revolution before a global oil glut sent energy prices and profits tumbling. One of its funds is still in the red, while another rebounded into positive territory as of year-end, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Founded by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. energy bankers, Riverstone no longer plans to provide financing for oil and gas extraction. It expects its next credit fund to lend to businesses in other parts of the energy supply chain that take steps to combat climate change, the person said.
Some firms are poised to take advantage of a less crowded field. In December, KKR & Co. built a shale-oil acquisition vehicle with the $3.7 billion combination of two explorers that created Crescent Energy.
The firm is betting that economies will turn to new sources of energy, but recognizes that supplying oil and gas is still important to communities, said Kristi Huller, a KKR spokeswoman. "Where we do invest in conventional, we emphasize progress towards a stable energy transition and improved ESG practices."
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For example, Crescent Energy recently joined an initiative to increase its reporting on methane emissions. KKR is also focused on making investments in renewables, said Huller.
Quantum Energy, which made its name betting on upstream oil and gas in the Permian Basin, raised consecutively bigger funds over the past decade. But in a break with that, it's targeting a $5.6 billion fundraising round, on par with the last one in 2018. That's a nod to the diminishing appetite from pensions and endowments. And in a change, Quantum decided to earmark up to 30% of the new fund for energy transition bets.
Chief Executive Officer Wil VanLoh has told pensions and endowments that investing in U.S. oil and gas helps the country by reducing dependence on Saudi Arabia, Russia and foreign rivals.
Blackstone's New Bet
Oil's slump in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 shocked executives across the industry and at Blackstone, where co-founder Steve Schwarzman is known for his mantra: Don't lose money.
That April, finance chief Michael Chae detailed on an investor call how "an unprecedented confluence of supply and demand shocks" caused energy to be the biggest drag on the firm's credit and private equity holdings.
Shale driller Gavilan Resources, formed with Blackstone money in 2017, filed for bankruptcy in 2020 after getting caught in a legal fight with another financially-challenged business partner. Several investments would rebound, and its energy private equity portfolio delivered net returns of 55% in 2021. Meanwhile, Blackstone has distanced itself from past energy bets when promoting its buyout track record. In a part of the pitch labeled "competitive differentiation," the company highlighted that its flagship buyout fund from 2020 had generated more than $6 billion in value. In a footnote, it disclosed that the figure excludes energy investments.
The firm has told investors that its last energy fund, now almost entirely invested in energy transition, was delivering 64% returns at the end of 2021 — though final results will depend on what Blackstone gets when exiting stakes.
Blackstone is confident it can find yet more opportunities there. How quickly it raises money for the next energy fund will show whether investors agree.

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Ghostface Killah & Apollo Brown – 12 Reasons to Die: The Brown Tape album review
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12 Reasons to Die: The Brown Tape is advertised as an "alternate version" of the original album produced by Adrian Younge. At this point, Apollo Brown already deserves a ton of credit for even thinking of remixing 12 Reasons to Die, one of the most impressive underground releases in recent memory. It's a daunting project if you think about it. First of all, the source material is a concept album, so any good remix will have to retain the story and tone. This is a dark one about an immortal crime boss by the name of Ghostface Killah.
The original is an absolute juggernaut sonically, and the instrumental version is a classic in its own right. Inspired by 70's R&B and Italian soundtracks from the same era, 12 Reasons to Die was meticulously recorded in Younge's all-analog, vintage studio. The entire production features live instmentation by Adrian Younge and his Venice Dawn band. The bar is very high here for Detroit Producer Apollo Brown, who was tapped to remix this behemoth. 12 Reasons to Die: The Brown Tape was packaged as an actual cassette tape to go with the initial release of 12 Reasons to Die on vinyl back in April. Copies of this tape were scarce, but Wu-Tang affiliated Soul Temple, the imprint that released 12 Reasons to Die, has given the Apollo Brown remix its own full release, complete with a set of instrumentals.
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Ghostface Killah – Twelve Reasons To Die album review
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Arguably Wu Tang Clan's best lyricist, Ghostface Killah, has released another high concept album, Twelve Reasons To Die, which serves also as the soundtrack for an Italian action movie by the same name. Twelve Reasons tells the story of Ghostface's alter ego, Tony Starks, an Italian mobster, who is a henchman for the DeLuca crime family, who falls in love with the kingpin's daughter. The story covers a lot in just 12 tracks, from Starks rise in the DeLuca family to a racy love affair with the Kingpin's daughter, ending with Starks death and the melting of his ashes into vinyl. Twelve Reasons is produced by Adrian Younge and executive produced by RZA. Younge, who arranged and produced the soundtrack for Black Dynamite, blends that same combination of blaxploitation and therapeutic rhythm, but Ghostface's established lyrical story-telling is what cements Twelve Reasons To Die.
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Some reviews of Twelve Reasons To Die have called the album experimental, but I do not believe that to be the case. I would argue Twelve Reasons is a classic Ghostface album, delivered at the top of his game. Twelve Reasons To Die is a must buy for any legitimate hip hop head. A valid criticism of Twelve Reasons is its lack of commercial or universal appeal, but Ghostface has gotten to a point in his career where his albums represent projects and concepts, rather than influential radio anthems or ghetto sing-a-longs, if you will.
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Twelve Bone McAllester Norton Attorneys are Named 2013 "Mid-South Super Lawyers"
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Nashville, TN – The 2013 Mid-South Super Lawyers list was released today, and 12 Bone McAllester Norton PLLC attorneys were included. Eight have been named as Mid-South Super Lawyers, while four have been included as Mid-South Rising Stars.
Mid-South Super Lawyers are selected through a multi-phased process, which includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations. The list is produced by Super Lawyers, a national rating service that includes more than 70 practice areas.
Super Lawyers also selects attorneys to be included in the Rising Stars list, which is compiled using the same requirements and selection process as the Super Lawyers list. However, to be eligible for inclusion in Rising Stars, a candidate must be either 40 years old or younger, or in practice for 10 years or less.
The eight attorneys named to the 2013 Mid-South Super Lawyers list include:
• James A. Crumlin, Jr., who made the list for Employment & Labor. He concentrates his practice in the areas of labor and employment law, small and mid-sized business representation and corporate business litigation.
• Sharon O. Jacobs, an attorney with environmental litigation experience at the federal, state and local levels, made the list for Environmental law.
• Anne C. Martin was selected for Employment Litigation Defense. She is a commercial litigation and employment lawyer, representing both employers and employees.
• Sam J. McAllester, III represents financial institutions and concentrates his practice in the areas of commercial lending, creditors' rights and financial consultations. He was named to the list for Real Estate law.
• Edward M. Yarbrough, a successful trial lawyer for more than 40 years, focuses his practice on defending major criminal cases, helps clients with government investigations and handles civil litigation for plaintiffs and defendants.
• Stephen J. Zralek made the Super Lawyers list for IP Litigation. Mr. Zralek assists clients with resolving sensitive, high-profile disputes through intellectual property litigation, business litigation and entertainment litigation.
Bone McAllester Norton's two of-counsel attorneys also made the list:
• John P. Branham, a civil trial lawyer whose practice focuses on business litigation and plaintiff's personal injury litigation, made the list for Business Litigation.
• Larry W. Bridgesmith was selected for the Super Lawyers list under Employment & Labor. Mr. Bridgesmith has more than 30 years of legal experience in dispute resolution and innovative workplace strategies.
The four attorneys with Bone McAllester Norton named to the 2013 Mid-South Rising Stars list include:
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Oral Health Observatory counts Italy and Japan among its ranks, OHO dentists eligible for FDI prize
06 March 2018 Research
Local dentists in Italy and Japan are leading oral health data collection efforts, extending the global reach of the Oral Health Observatory (OHO) across Europe and Asia.
FDI developed OHO to collect reliable, standardized data on oral health, which remains limited despite staggering rates of tooth decay and other oral diseases worldwide. OHO recruits local dentists to speak with their patients about their oral health habits and gather data on their oral health using a mobile app and online questionnaire developed by FDI.
Italy and Japan's commitment drives forward OHO's mission to compile an evidenced-based, global profile on oral health, which will be used to shape national oral health policies and advocate action on the most critical oral health issues around the world.
To encourage a comprehensive data set, FDI is introducing a prize element to boost dentist collaboration. OHO-participating dentists will now be eligible to win a free, expenses-paid trip to this year's FDI World Dental Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Activation in Italy and Japan
An estimated 1,400 patients from each country will be invited to provide data on their oral health, which selected dentists will collect using the OHO mobile App. So far, 27 dentists from Italy and 29 from Japan have been carefully chosen from different regions, across rural and urban areas, to ensure a complete picture of the oral health situation in the country.
OHO is organized in Japan through collaboration with the Japan Dental Association and is implemented by the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Translation of Oral Health Science at Niigata University. In Italy, OHO is run in collaboration with the Italian Dental Association, ANDI (Associazione Nazionale Dentisti Italiani).
ANDI President Dr Gianfranco Prada reflects on goals for OHO in Italy and offers encouragement to other National Dental Associations (NDAs)
FDI sat down with ANDI President Dr Gianfranco Prada to discuss the motivation behind ANDI's active involvement in OHO. Dr Prada said that OHO aligns with ANDI's long-standing mission to better understand oral health trends in Italy. For him, OHO represents a "well-crafted project, clearly aimed to acquire the most wide and detailed picture" on oral health data around the world.
Dr Prada hopes that OHO in Italy will serve to support awareness-raising activities on the importance of prevention in maintaining good oral health. He pointed to the most serious oral health issue in Italy being unaffordable access to oral care; with over 90% of the costs falling directly on patients "who tend to neglect the importance of oral health because of the economic difficulties that have occurred since the crisis of the last years." Dr Prada said that using OHO data to promote prevention strategies could improve oral health in Italy and help avoid costly dental procedures for patients in the future.
To other NDAs around the world who may consider leading OHO efforts in their countries, Dr Prada offered a few words of guidance: "My simple advice is to participate whenever possible in this type of project." Any project that leads to a better understanding of oral health issues at the national level "should be seen as a further step, an updated tool, which permits NDAs to act more incisively," said Dr Prada. He also encouraged NDAs already active in OHO to be mentors for others who intend to use OHO as part of their journey to reach optimal oral health.
The OHO contest: one dentist to win a trip to the FDI World Dental Congress
The OHO contest, open to all dentists participating in OHO, will run until the end of June. The winning dentist, chosen by a random draw, will attend the FDI World Dental Congress in Buenos Aires from 5-8 September 2018. The prize includes round-trip airfare and hotel accommodation for up to four nights.
All dentists who wish to participate and have not already received specific instructions from FDI, must complete the study in line with the following guidelines in order to be entered into the draw:
survey at least 50 patients by the contest cut-off date
conduct at least one patient survey per day
select the patient at random
OHO data collection on oral health continues in Costa Rica and India. OHO is expected to launch in Kenya and South Africa at the end of March.
Interested in participating? Have any questions? Contact Sean Taylor, Education and Public Health Coordinator, for more information on enrollment.
Oral Health Observatory compiles standardized data on oral health through an app that dentists can use to collect data on their patients' oral health.
Oral Health Observatory special symposium to be held at FDI World Dental Congress
Costa Rica, India and Italy complete recruitment of dental practices for Oral Health Observatory
Lucky participants win new tablets for oral health research at World Dental Congress


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Biya regime crumbling as more than 30,000 French Cameroonians flee to Chad to escape violence
More than 30,000 people in northern Cameroon have fled to Chad after the violence at the weekend that killed at least 22 people, the United Nations' refugee agency has said.
Violence broke out in the border village of Ouloumsa on Sunday in a dispute between herders, fishermen and farmers over dwindling water resources, the UNHCR said in a statement on Friday issued from Geneva.
It then spread to neighbouring villages, 10 of which have been burned to the ground.
The clashes have displaced thousands in the country, "forcing more than 30,000 people to flee to neighbouring Chad", the UNHCR said.
"At least 22 people have been killed and 30 others seriously injured during several days of ongoing fighting."
The violence is unfolding in Logone-Chari in Cameroon's Far North Region – the tongue of land that lies between Nigeria to the west and Chad to the east.
The UN figures for those seeking refuge, and the death toll, are far higher than numbers given on Wednesday by other sources.
The Chadian Red Cross had said there were at least 3,000 refugees, although the number was likely to grow, while the Cameroonian authorities said at least four had died.
Almost 80 percent of the new arrivals are women, many of them pregnant, and children, the UNHCR said.
They have found refuge in the Chadian capital N'Djamena and villages along Chad's bank of the Logone River.
The UNHCR said at least 10,000 have fled to N'Djamena from Kousseri, a town of 200,000 people whose cattle market was destroyed in the fighting.
Chad's military government leader Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno on Wednesday issued a statement to say the situation was "worrying" and appealed to international donors to help the arrivals.
A bout of fighting between herders and fishermen in August led to 45 deaths and an influx of at least 10,000 people into Chad.
As in the latest incident, the fighting began over management and access to water, the Cameroonian authorities say.
Violent conflict between ethnic groups is relatively rare in Cameroon compared with Chad and Nigeria, where fighting over resources between semi-nomadic herders and sedentary farmers is frequent.
Cameroonian officials say two of the parties in the conflict are fishermen of the Musgum community and ethnic Arab Choa cattlemen.
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Galil Motion Controllers Continue to Play a Key Role in Scientific Discovery
by MattK
Figure 1: Artist's Rendering of the Thirty Meter Telescope
Galil has a decades long history of collaboration with projects on the cutting edge of science. Astronomy, Physics, Biology, and Geology are some of the many fields of scientific research that call on the need for deterministic motion control and data collection. The ease of use and support offered by Galil makes it a natural fit for the rapid prototyping and automation that is characteristic of large scale scientific research.
One of the more recent projects to use Galil's latest generation controllers and amplifiers is the Thirty Meter Telescope. Scheduled to be built near the summit of Maunakea on Hawaii Island, the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) will be among the world's largest optical telescopes when its first images are taken towards the end of the next decade. Utilizing an innovative design first used with the Keck I and Keck II Telescopes, the main (primary) mirror of the TMT is composed of 492 hexagonal mirror segments, each nearly 1.5 meters across. These mirror segments are ground and polished to match the overall parabolic shape of the mirror then arranged in a larger superstructure that supports a much smaller secondary mirror and various Instruments.
The Thirty Meter Telescope is designed to peer into the deepest reaches of space, but given the nature of Earthbound Astronomy, it will be susceptible to much more terrestrial concerns. Mirror shaping and polishing is an exacting science and mechanical tolerances can be checked to the micron. Despite this, low order aberrations can make it through final polishing of the mirror surface and installation errors can misalign the segments. To counteract these effects, each mirror segment is supported by a system of actuators and strain gauges (21 per segment), known as a Warping Harness. Every few weeks, if necessary, the TMT will be calibrated against a known light source and all 492 segments then readjusted (via 10,332 actuators and sensors). Therefore, it is critical that the components and materials used in the Warping Harness be highly reliable. Any degradation in feedback or actuator effectiveness must be accounted for as well in order to ensure that images taken are consistent throughout the proposed 50 year lifespan of the Telescope.
Fred Kamphues and his team were tasked with designing and building a test fixture for the warping harness that meets the following criteria:
• Position control of individual warping harness actuators,using analog strain gauges as feedback
• Position control of all warping harness actuators of a single mirror segment in parallel
• Graphical User Interface for test engineers
• Application Programming Interface (API) for automated testing
• Portable, for easy transport between test locations
• Use of off the shelf components whenever available
Figure 2: Fred Kamphues and his team make adjustments to the warping harness and test fixture.
These requirements were handily met by the Galil DMC-4080 Motion controller combined with Galil internal D4040 Stepper Drives. The eight, 16 bit analog inputs on each controller take in the strain gauge readings and position the actuators accordingly. A custom GUI sitting on top of a custom built, python based API handles communication and coordination of the tests. Finally, the compact footprint of the controller and integrated amplifiers easily met the portability requirement. Once built, the test system was put through an exhaustive series of accelerated life tests. The DMC-4080 and API combination allowed the flexibility necessary to test multiple prototype harnesses for reliability and function, rapidly adapting to new designs and materials. Typical tests would include cycling actuators and strain gauges through hundreds of thousands of mechanical cycles in temperature and humidity chambers. As design constraints change, new components are run through multiple functional tests. The ease of use and programming of the Galil controller lent itself to rapid development of test scripts and data collection during these tests.
With the help of Galil hardware, software and applications support, Fred and his team provided the data and analysis required for the final design review of the Warping Harness, which was recently completed in July, 2018. Additional testing will no doubt continue well into the next decade as Galil continues to play a key role in Scientific discovery.
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Having seen all of Series 1 again, I conclude that the best episodes are Operation SAS, Ten Top Pop, and Midnight Blue. Does anyone beg to differ?I know why MOID really scared people: because he looks like the stereotypical figure of Death, with his skeletal face and hooded cloak. When he goes all soft at the end of Unseen Menace, do you suppose he is doing it for real, or just shamming to save his skin?I didn't realise before that Cystar's hair was all a wig, until I recently noticed that it goes askew at times, and she actually has a horrid bald skull. I hope it never comes off altogether, or I would puke! (The issue probably doesn't bother the rest of you as much, as she is not your potential aunt-in-law!)I think the episodes on volumes 3, 5 and 6 could be improved just a little bit if there was more of 101 in them. One of the funniest bits of the whole series is when Ninestein goads Zero by saying "I bet you don't even know that 2 + 2 = 5!" Zero protests, and Tiger says that just proves his point! Zero, bless his heart, does his research, and finds that it actually equals 22!
Apparently he does feature in at least one other episode, in Season 2, according to the brief episode synopses on Phil's site.
I'm afraid to say I think there is a flaw in the way Lord Tempo bends time: when he kills Kate, by turning time back to 2010 (before the bridge existed) why didn't Kate also go back, to being a little girl, not yet driving a car, and not yet old enough to be going to recording studios?
I think the idea is that he can selectively age specific areas. This is one of the few episodes I saw recently when I tripped across a tape in a second hand shop. If I remember rightly, he ages the suspension cords of the bridge to put Kate in peril, but doesn't age Kate or Hudson. He ain't called the Master of Time for nothing!
You say it is one of the few episodes you saw recently. It was a good stroke of luck you finding it in the second-hand shop, but have you not won copies of the other 5 volumes from Ebay, or somewhere, Andy? If not, I do recommend them! Perhaps you're saving your money for the brand new copies that will soon be coming out? I will be so glad when the second series is released. As I have good quality copies of the first series, (and spent over £90 on one, when competing with another avid bidder!) I won't be ordering the new DVDs of these same episodes, just yet.
I am indeed waiting on the DVDs - unfortunately until I qualify my ability to play the sniping-bid game on Ebay is limited, and the bill to keep this place up and running will be due soon!
I was pleased that my dad seemed to be getting back into Thawks when I was at home on holiday recently; he saw some of my videos with me, and it all came back to him.My mum saw a small part of it, and said it was crap! It's fortunate she has many good points, so I can forgive her bad taste! She couldn't understand why I was enthusing over the zeroids; she said they're just spheres! Good job Zero didnt hear that, as he has to put up with that attitude from Ninestein!
I will probably choose the VHS versions of the new releases, as I believe they are cheaper than DVD, and also better value for me, as I can watch videos at my own place, besides my parents' house!Yesterday morning on Radio 2 they played an old record that featured the voice of Windsor Davies, and another bloke. Sadly I can't tell much more about it, as it was played when my radio alarm had only just come into action, and I was still half asleep!
I remember an episode with the zeroids in where sergeant Zero was speaking to the "French" zeroid and said the following line:"Strange lad that one. He uses garlic for his oil!". Classic.


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Bilgili, historically Eski Eruh, () is a village in the Eruh District of Siirt Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Botikan tribe and had a population of 346 in 2021.

The hamlets of Çayır () and Demirciler are attached to Bayramlı.

References

Villages in Eruh District
Kurdish settlements in Siirt Province

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About Red Rose Rock Shop
Dick's Rock Museum
In 1964, Dick Siebenaler, a geologist and lapidary enthusiast, purchased Cy's Rock Museum. The new Dick's Rock Museum and rock shop operated for 42 years under Dick, his wife, Marilyn, and their daughters who ran the shop for years after their parents passed. In 2003, The Siebenaler daughters sold Dick's Rock Museum and rock shop to Carl Scott, a close friend and supplier of rose quartz. The Siebenaler family knew that the shop would be in good hands to preserve the legacy of Dick's Rock Museum.
Dick's Rock Museum, now an official historical landmark of Estes Park, Colorado, is an eclectic blend of gems and minerals collected by Dick and his family over many years. The collection includes agates, petrified woods and a multitude of exotic minerals from around the world, butterfly geodes, coprolites (fossilized dino dung), jewelry and even a display of how rocks look through the stages of being cut and polished.
Visit Dick's Rock Museum, a historical landmark, free of charge!
Scott Red Rose Quartz Mine
Carl Scott and his family had supplied rose quartz to Dick for many years, from the Scott Red Rose Quartz mine in Custer, South Dakota, which has been in Carl's family since the late 1800's.
The Scott Red Rose Quartz mine, one of the few rose quartz mines in operation, is located southeast of Custer and is best known for the largest deposits of high quality rose quartz in the United States. The mine has yielded the most desirable colored rose quartz in the US and is recognized worldwide as a source of deep rose colored quartz. For many years the best material from the mine was sent to Germany and China for carving into ornamental objects and cutting into beads for necklaces and other jewelry. A beautifully carved bowl from rose quartz out of the Scott mine was donated to the Field Museum in Chicago by Edna Scott, wife of Samuel Scott, Carl's great-grandfather.
Carl and his crew are continuing a long tradition of sharing their love of rocks with everyone who visits this historical shop.


The Japanese government says it will take a decade to rebuild the country's earthquake disaster areas.
Officials in the worst affected area of Miyagi Prefecture, in north east Japan, say many cities and towns are beyond repair.
Miyagi Prefecture, which includes the city of Sendai, was worst hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The government says new housing and industrial zones will not be completed until 2020.
New anti-tsunami measures will be drawn-up to encourage better building practices, disaster planning and support for victims.


I snapped some photos this last Saturday during a hike along the upper Missouri River bottoms. Here is a brief collection of some of the shots.
The Missouri River bottoms just below Mandan-Hidatsa Chief Looking Village in Bismarck, North Dakota.
The second photo is the historic steel truss railroad bridge that spans Bismarck-Mandan, and it reminded me of the aesthetics that today are appropriated by steam-punk artists. If you want to know what steam punk might be, click here on this link.
A close up of the historic railroad bridge spanning Bismarck-Mandan.
This next photo is an overview of the railroad bridge, with the winter sun setting in the late-afternoon.
Historic railroad bridge, looking west toward the winter sun getting ready to set.
And this final photo is of the icefishing that takes place on the Missouri River at the Grant Marsh boat landing. The I-94 Grant Marsh Bridge is also in the photo, but it does not look 1/64th as nice as the historic steel truss railroad bridge from three and four generations ago.
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Trump administration removes National Climate Assessment scientist
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If you don't like what an expert is saying, fire them and hire somebody else. This has been a theme throughout the Trump presidency, and now, in the administration's last months, President Trump is taking some last wild swings at climate change policy. The latest is firing Michael Kuperberg from heading the National Climate Assessment. Instead, this position is likely to go to climate change skeptic David Legates.
"Even in their final days, they are continuing to attempt to bury the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change," said Rachel Licker, a senior climate scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Related: Trump administration appoints climate change deniers to NOAA
According to The New York Times' sources, David Legates, currently a deputy assistant secretary at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, will likely be named the new head of the National Climate Assessment. Legates has worked closely with climate change denial groups in the past. Kuperberg is leaving his job as executive director of the U.S. Global Change Research Program, which produces the National Climate Assessment, and plans to return to his previous job at the Department of Energy.
The National Climate Assessment is the government's official position on climate change in the U.S., as vetted by 13 federal agencies and outside scientists. Published every four years, it's used to provide input on federal science priorities. While Biden could easily appoint a new head of the National Climate Assessment, many people feel the urgency of climate change and don't want to wait for two more months. The last report, published in 2018, concluded that the climate change threat to the U.S. is imminent and dire. The next edition of the National Climate Assessment was supposed to be published in 2022. Instead, it's already been delayed until 2023.
If the next report wrongly diminishes the dangers of climate change, the findings could loosen regulations on emissions and help fossil fuel companies escape being held accountable for contributing to global warming.
Legates is not overly concerned with climate change. He once said carbon dioxide "is plant food and not a pollutant," according to The New York Times.
Via The New York Times
Image via Jplenio
National Climate Assessment
If you don't like what an expert is saying, fire them and hire somebody else. This has been a theme throughout the Trump presidency, and now, in the administration's last months, President Trump is taking some last wild swings at climate change policy. The latest is firing Michael Kuperberg from heading the National Climate Assessment. Instead, this position is likely to go to climate change skeptic David Legates.


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Jazzmeia Horn is Making Her Mark
Thursday June 06, 2019
San Francisco Classical Voice
Jazzmeia Horn is Making Her Mark on Vocal Jazz
By: Lily O'Brien
"It's not easy to get noticed in today's seemingly limitless sea of singers. Talent, of course, is essential, but originality, personality, and style matter tremendously. With her colorful, African-inspired headscarves and attire, graceful beauty, and prodigious vocal agility, jazz vocalist Jazzmeia Horn immediately grabs your attention. At only 28, her career has been on a brisk upward rise. In 2017, her debut recording, A Social Call, was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Jazz Vocal Album category, and her highly anticipated second album is due out in August. You can catch her on Wednesday, June 12, in the Miner Auditorium at SFJAZZ, one of the many talented artists featured in the 37th Annual San Francisco Jazz Festival, which runs from June 11 through June 23.
Blessed with a wide vocal range, a lovely, lilting timbre, an ability to scat like she was born doing it, and a strong commitment to her African roots as well as social and political issues, Horn's personal brand of charisma is refreshing and unique. Born in Dallas, Texas, she was surrounded by a family of singers, and at just age 3, she joined the choir in her grandfather's church. And though she didn't plan on a professional singing career, it turned out to be her destiny.
After attending the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Horn moved to New York and earned a degree at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. She began playing clubs around town and eventually started appearing at major jazz festivals. In 2012, she won the Rising Star Award at the Sarah Vaughan International Vocal Jazz Competition and followed it up as the winner of the 2015 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocals competition, and since that time she has been capturing a lot of attention and wowing the jazz world."


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"""
Find regions of first bed file that do not overlap regions in a second
bed file

usage: %prog bed_file_1 bed_file_2 out_file
    -1, --cols1=N,N,N,N: Columns for start, end, strand in first file
    -2, --cols2=N,N,N,N: Columns for start, end, strand in second file
    -m, --mincols=N: Require this much overlap (default 1bp)
    -p, --pieces: just print pieces of second set (after padding)
"""
from galaxy import eggs
import pkg_resources
pkg_resources.require( "bx-python" )
import sys, traceback, fileinput
from warnings import warn
from bx.intervals import *
from bx.intervals.io import *
from bx.intervals.operations.subtract import *
from bx.cookbook import doc_optparse
from galaxy.tools.util.galaxyops import *

assert sys.version_info[:2] >= ( 2, 4 )

def main():
    mincols = 1
    upstream_pad = 0
    downstream_pad = 0

    options, args = doc_optparse.parse( __doc__ )
    try:
        chr_col_1, start_col_1, end_col_1, strand_col_1 = parse_cols_arg( options.cols1 )
        chr_col_2, start_col_2, end_col_2, strand_col_2 = parse_cols_arg( options.cols2 )
        if options.mincols: mincols = int( options.mincols )
        pieces = bool( options.pieces )
        in_fname, in2_fname, out_fname = args
    except:
        doc_optparse.exception()

    g1 = NiceReaderWrapper( fileinput.FileInput( in_fname ),
                            chrom_col=chr_col_1,
                            start_col=start_col_1,
                            end_col=end_col_1,
                            strand_col=strand_col_1,
                            fix_strand=True )
    g2 = NiceReaderWrapper( fileinput.FileInput( in2_fname ),
                            chrom_col=chr_col_2,
                            start_col=start_col_2,
                            end_col=end_col_2,
                            strand_col=strand_col_2,
                            fix_strand=True )

    out_file = open( out_fname, "w" )

    try:
        for line in subtract( [g1,g2], pieces=pieces, mincols=mincols ):
            if type( line ) is GenomicInterval:
                out_file.write( "%s\n" % "\t".join( line.fields ) )
            else:
                out_file.write( "%s\n" % line )
    except ParseError, exc:
        out_file.close()
        fail( "Invalid file format: %s" % str( exc ) )

    out_file.close()

    if g1.skipped > 0:
        print skipped( g1, filedesc=" of 2nd dataset" )
    if g2.skipped > 0:
        print skipped( g2, filedesc=" of 1st dataset" )

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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About Caistor Grammar School
Caistor Grammar School is a selective school taking some of the most able students from its immediate community and the wider area. It is smaller than average for a school of this nature. The school has been a specialist sports college since 2004. Having been named as a High Performing Specialist School, Caistor Grammar School has undertaken a second specialism in humanities from April 2008.
County Lincolnshire
Address Caistor Grammar School, Church Street, Caistor, Market Rasen LN7 6QJ
Type Mixed Grammar
Pupils 639
Places in Year 7 95
Open Days May/June
Competition 4+ applicants for every place
Exam Format GL 11 Plus – Verbal Reasoning
School Website http://www.caistorgrammar.com
Caistor Grammar School 11+ Preparation Advice
How you revise for the Caistor Grammar School 11+ exam is just as important how much you revise. You can get information on how to prepare for the exam on our Top Ten 11 Plus Preparation Tips page. While it is recommended to start revision and preparation early, if you have left it late to begin, the we suggest visiting our Last Minute Preparation page to see our last minute process and plan. If the eleven plus exam is approaching soon and you are looking for advice for the day, then check out our 11 Plus Exam Day Tips page.
11 Plus Exam Preparation for Caistor Grammar School
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On our Free 11 Plus Papers page, you will find a wide range of resources to download and use for your child's preparation. We have papers for Verbal and Non-Verbal Reasoning, Maths, English and many more.


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