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Race program 2019
There had been plenty to take care of during the winter in the middle of Jutland in 2013. A planned women's team for 2014 on the other side of the Great Belt folded before it had even started, but way beyond deadline it was still possible to put a DCU (club team) together around Mejrup Cykelklub, where the club's sponsor BMS stepped up, and thus the team Team BMS Ladies was ready for its first season.
Team BMS Ladies 2014 (From the left: Camilla Møllebro Pedersen, Karen Gjendal, Maria Julie Nielsen and Mia Lacota.)
The four riders Marie Julie Hansen, Camilla Møllebro Pedersen, Karen Gjendal and Mia Lacota rode mainly in the Danish A-races, and it was often with great success. During the spring, the four riders took several victories and podium finishes, and the success brought more success.
Towards one of the season's big goals the Danish national championships in Faaborg, the team took in three more riders. Experienced Iben Bohé, talented Marie Schousboe Vilmann and the Swede Kristina Morin joined the team, and they helped creating more good results.
Camilla Møllebro Pedersen made the biggest results for the team in 2014, when she did a great ride and finished 3rd at the Danish ITT championships and she could take a bronze medal. In the road race it was 6th and 7th for her and Marie Julie Hansen when they finished with the front group.
During summer the success of Team BMS Ladies continued as they first went on to the Swedish 6-day stage race in Tidaholm, where Camilla Møllebro Pedersen took the overall victory and where the team also won the team competition. A month later, the team took a big step up.
The team started its first UCI race, when they beside several of the world's best riders were part of the newly started Norwegian stage race Ladies Tour of Norway. Camilla Møllebro Pedersen impressed once again when she was placed 15th in the prologue, which was a position she kept in GC throughout the race.
It was therefore a nice debut season for the little team, and during the offseason work was done to make both the environment and the team even better.
For the 2015 season, the company Birn joined the team changing its name to Team BMS Birn. The focus remained on developing Danish Women's cycling, and with Birn's involvement it gave the opportunity for the team to attach more riders and participate in more and more international races.
Team BMS Birn 2015 (From the left: Rikke Lønne, Marie Schousboe Vilmann, Alexandra Nessmar, Pernille Mathiesen, Camilla Møllebro Pedersen, Kristina Morin, Iben Bohé and Linnea Sjöblom)
On the rider side it was an exciting team for 2015. Three Swedish Riders with Alexandra Nessmar in the lead joined the team and also Dane Rikke Lønne joined. The silver medalist at the junior ITT World Championship 17-year old Pernille Mathiesen also joined the team despite only being in her 2nd year as a junior, but she was ready to get her feet wet in the senior ranks.
During spring, Team BMS Birn continued to perform great on the Danish roads, where they often fought for the victory – and took it several times. In the international UCI race, however, competition was somewhat harder, as it was often some of the best riders in the sport that they were up against.
However, the team gained important experience in the many Belgian spring classics they attended, where Camilla Møllebro Pedersen and Alexander Nessmar was responsible for the best results with 15th place in Trofee Marten Wynants and 17th in Gent-Wevelgem.
Over the summer, the hopes became even higher. Team BMS Birn took their first TTT Danish title, and shortly after Rikke Lønne won the Danish ITT-championship in front of Camilla Møllebro Pedersen, Pernille Mathiesen took care of the junior title, and subsequently the team placed all five Danish riders in the top 10 in the road race.
In the Dutch stage race BeNe Ladies Tour Camilla Møllebro Pedersen took the team's first UCI-top 10 place as she was 7th on the ITT and finished 8th in GC and 22-year-old Marie Schousboe Vilmann also rose to the challenge as she was 13th in the stage race Lotto Belgium Tour.
With several international starts boosting the morale, the team was ready to take another step up, and during the fall of 2015 the team began preparing to ride its first season as a UCI team in 2016.
With nine riders on the team, team BMS Birn was ready for its first season as an UCI team. For 2016, the team also got some new quality riders as some of the best young Danish riders had joined. Among others was former Junior World Championship-bronze medalist Christina Siggaard along with former junior world championship silver medalist Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig.
Team BMS Birn 2016 (From the left: Margriet Kloppenborg, Tina Rasch, Christina Malling Siggaard, Marie Schousboe Vilmann, Camilla Møllebro Pedersen, Pernille Mathiesen, Simone Eg, Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig and Louise Norman Hansen)
Team BMS Birn started out in the Belgian spring classics, where Camilla Møllebro Pedersen already in the second race weekend made sure the team got its first UCI-points when she was 10th in Pajot Hills Classic. A few weeks later, the team also got its first UCI-Victory when Pernille Mathiesen in her first senior season rode solo to the top on stage 4 in Gracia Orlova ahead of Marie Schousboe Vilmann who was 3rd and also finished 6th in GC.
At the Danish National Championship, the team repeated the triumph from the year before by winning gold in the TTT, before the team's youngest rider Simone Eg took the ITT Danish National Championship gold for juniors and Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig did it for the elite. And the 20-year-old Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig continued to show her potential during summer.
In Tour de Feminin she won stage 1 and grabbed the leader's jersey firmly, before she cemented her overall victory when she also won stage 5 of the race. Later she also won the mountain jersey in the Tour of Norway and in Plumelec she put the took another step up when she won silver at the U23 European Championships road race. Christina Siggaard had also found her level in the fall when she finished on the podium on stage 3 of Ladies Tour of Norway and finished on 4th place in GC.
In all Team BMS Birn performed well in its first season as a UCI team, and with a place on the world ranking as number 24, they managed to pull off the best Danish result for many years.
Although the season was over, big things happened in the organization of the team. At the beginning of November, Riis Seier Project (now Virtu Cycling Group) announced that the group took over the team, so it became part of a series of cycling-related brands that also includes a men's continental team.
For the remainder of 2016, the team changed its name for Team Virtu Pro – VéloCONCEPT Women and more new international names were revealed with the goal of creating a World Tour team with Danish roots for 2017.
From the beginning of January, Team Virtu Pro – VéloCONCEPT Women was changed to Team VéloCONCEPT Women. The team had taken a very big step up as it for the first time ever was part of the World Tour. It also meant that there was a big change in the riders on the team. Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig and Marie Schousboe Vilmann had been given the opportunity to sign with Cervélo-Bigla, but there were several new strong riders instead to complement the Danish core.
Team VéloCONCEPT Women 2017 (From the top left: Carmen Small, Louise Norman Hansen, Camilla Møllebro Pedersen, Sara Penton, Jannie Sand, Shani Bloch-Davidov, Sara Mustonen, Claudia Koster, Christina Siggaard, Pernille Mathiesen, Doris Schweizer, Natalie Kerwin and Amber Neben)
The ITT world champion, American Amber Neben, was one of the new profiles together with her countrywoman Carmen Small, and in all the team had become quite international with 13 riders from seven different nations. For more of the riders it was their first season on a World Tour team, and therefore it was important to settle in to begin.
Christina Siggaard made some decent results among others a 5th place in Pajot Hills Classic, but Team VéloCONCEPT Womens spring season had a big setback as the supposed leader Carmen Small crashed in her second race and hurt her head so badly, that it put an end to her season before it really started.
Slowly the team began to settle in at the highest level of the sport, and Christina Siggaard took the team's first World Tour-points in Tour of Chongming Island through several top rankings and she finished in 5th place in the GC. Camilla Møllebro Pedersen was also riding well and she grabbed the mountains jersey in Tour of Zhoushan Island a few days later.
June was also a very good month for the team. In Ovo Energy Women's Tour Sara Penton and Christina Siggaard took several World Tour-points before the team took the third Danish TTT-title in a row. Then the national medals came in a steady stream. First Shani Bloch-Davidov won the Israeli ITT-championship, then Pernille Mathiesen and Louise Norman Hansen was 2nd and 3rd at the Danish ITT Championships and two days later the team took three jerseys.
Camilla Møllebro Pedersen became Danish road race-champion, Sara Penton became Swedish road race-champion and Amber Neben became American ITT-champion, and the day after she did it again as she won the road race as well.
Team VéloCONCEPT Women added to the team in the middle of the season when the former ITT world champion Linda Villumsen joined. Her first race was Giro Rosa, where she, despite a half year without professional cycling, finished in a fine 21st place.
The New Zealand-rider continued performing well by finishing 12th in Ladies Tour of Norway and later 5th in Boels Rental Ladies Tour, where the strong rider also too the teams first World Tour-podium when she was 3rd on stage 3.
Linda Villumsen at PostNORD Ladies Criterium (Photo Dan Eugen Photography)
In early September, Riis Seier Project became Virtu Cycling Group when Jan Bech Andersen entered the circle of owners in the group. The team therefore also changed its name to Team Virtu Cycling for the remainder of the season, which only included a few races.
However, in new uniforms the team made its debut at the TTT world championships and despite a mechanical for Amber Neben Team Virtu Cycling finished 5th, and in the world ranking the team improved its 2016 season by finishing in 21st place.

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U2 ABOVE, ACROSS, AND BEYOND
From the 2013 U2 Conference, held in collaboration with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, comes this new collection of scholarly essays selected from the two days of presentations.
Edited by Scott Calhoun, U2 Above, Across, And Beyond: Interdisciplinary Assessments is the first book in a new series on rock and pop music from Lexington Books. The series, called For The Record, is co-edited by Scott Calhoun and Christopher Endrinal.
Scott Calhoun directs the U2 Conference, is a staff writer for @U2, is a curator for the U2: Made in Dublin exhibit, and is professor of literature and writing at Cedarville University.
The contributors to U2 Above, Across And Beyond are Matt Hamilton, Arlan Elizabeth Hess, Fred Johnson, Ed Montano, Steve Taylor, Theodore Louis Trost, Chris Wales, and Brian F. Wright
U2's success and significance are due, in large part, to finding inventive, creative solutions for overcoming obstacles and moving past conventional boundaries. As it has embraced change and transformation over and over again, its fans and critics have come to value and expect this element of U2. These new essays from the disciplines of organizational communication, music theory, literary studies, religion, and cultural studies offer perspectives on several ways U2's dynamic of change has been a constant theme throughout its career. The eight essays here come from the U2 Conference 2013, which explores the music, work, and influence of U2, furthering the scholarship on U2.
"What to make of U2? Is it possible to seek total global pop domination decades on end, to really believe your work is worthy of it, and to remain somehow soulful, sane, and socially righteous? Definitely maybe. U2 Above, Across, and Beyond: Interdisciplinary Assessments is inspiringly unafraid to bring the question down to the level of U2's often exemplary attentiveness to what William Blake calls the 'minute particulars.' There is so much to consider and mull over, especially if one is willing to imagine that U2's dilemmas are a lot like our own—only more so. If the goal, in all of our meaning-making, is soul, then we get to 'minutely particularize' our love one decision, one song, and one person at a time through this attentive study." — David Dark, Belmont University
"As a band of almost forty years, as activists for world change, and as global pop stars accused of forcing their music on the world for free, U2 avoids easy approaches in the twenty-first century. This excellent collection grapples with the various transformations of U2 from eight unique perspectives; from the recording studio and the sound of Adam Clayton's bass, to its Irishness, to the religious and communal aspects of their music. This is necessary reading for scholars and fans of U2 alike." — Jason Hanley, Director of Education, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
Available from Amazon and Rowman & Littlefield.
Introduction: U2 TRANS-
Scott Calhoun
1. Collaborative Transactions: Making Sense (Again) for U2's Achtung Baby
Christopher Wales
2. Transvaluing Adam Clayton: Why the Bass Matters in U2's Music
Brian F. Wright
3. Translating Genres: U2's Embrace of Electronic Dance Music in the 1990s
Ed Montano
4. A Transcendent Desire: In Defense of U2's Irishness
Arlan Elizabeth Hess
5. A Transmedia Storyworld: The Edge Is One, But Not The Same
Fred Johnson
6. Transgressive Theology: The Sacred and the Profane at U2's PopMart
Theodore Louis Trost
7. Transmitting Memories: U2's Rituals for Creating Communal History
8. The Transformative Fan: The Bricolage of U2 Live
Matthew J. Hamilton
Cover photo credit: Ayaz Asif//u2photography.com


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Promises to Keep: The United States Since World War II
Paul S. Boyer
Designed for the "U.S. Since 1945" course, this comprehensive survey presents the World War II experience as a backdrop for understanding recent developments and events in American history. The text features four principal, interwoven themes: the pervasive impact of the Cold War; the effects of social-protest movements among African Americans, women, and other groups; the sources and impact of economic, demographic, and cultural changes; and a thorough examination of politics.
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Concerns over how abortion services will be introduced in Ireland have prompted the Irish College of General Practitioners to convene an Extraordinary General Meeting of its membership this Sunday.
The college is responsible for the training and education of GPs.
It received a petition from over 370 of its members, calling for the EGM.
According to an ICGP online survey last month, two-thirds of its members said they will not provide abortion services for various reasons, including resourcing issues and conscientious objection.
In a statement, ICGP said the purpose of Sunday's EGM will be "to consult further and listen to members".
There will be no formal motions at the meeting.
Dr Andrew O'Regan, a GP based in Co Kerry. was among those who included their name on the petition.
He is a conscientious objector and believes that General Practice is not the right setting for termination services.
Speaking to RTÉ's Morning Ireland, he said: "We're asking for an open and fair discussion on this in the interest of respect for members and in the interest of a democratic process".
He also called on ICGP to ensure that members with a conscientious objection will be protected in terms of promotion opportunities and refusal to refer.
CEO of the College of General Practitioners Fintan Foy said: "From a college perspective, we have to represent the entire spectrum of membership views. Our role is to provide the clinical guidelines and training for those who wish to provide, but also those who don't wish to provide, who are conscientious objectors".
Dr Mary Favier, a general practitioner based in Cork city, is one of a number of GPs who intend to provide abortion services from the promised start-date of 1 January.
She is a board member of ICGP and also campaigned for a Yes vote in May's referendum.
Dr Favier's view is that implementing these services over the next four weeks will be challenging, but possible.
She has warned , however, that some women in Ireland who become pregnant this week could decide to wait until January to seek a termination in Ireland, as Government has promised that the service will be in place.
She said: "We have a potential where there will be quite an increase in demand for the service. The deadline which has been imposed by the Minister, not GPs, is a challenge and we will need to hear how these challenges are going to be met, and that's for the Minister to address."
Tipperary GP Dr Kirsten Fuller, who also signed the petition for this weekend's EGM, has accused the ICGP board and Government of failing to listen to the concerns of hundreds of GPs.
She warned that doctors with a conscientious objection to referral must be protected in law.
Dr Fuller said "the Government and ICGP have not looked at our side of this debate and until that happens I think there will be no progress made".
In a statement, a spokesperson for Minister for Health Simon Harris said: "It is important to state this legislation does not require medical practitioners, nurses or midwives to do anything new, or indeed anything more than they are already ethically required to do under their own professional guidance."
The spokesperson added that "the minister is committed to the introduction of services in January. An agreement was reached on 14 November with the Irish Medical Organisation on a contract for the provision of termination of pregnancy services in community settings."


High-end parallel supercomputer maker Cray, which has been trying for the past year to round out its business by peddling entry-level HPC gear, is still not quite making it up in volume. But some big deals and system upgrades, as well as an expanding custom engineering business and the entry-level HPC product line are making Cray feel pretty pumped about 2010.
In the third quarter ended September 30, Cray reported product sales of $32.4m, down 15 per cent, and were it not for the growth in its services business, which shot up by 58.5 per cent to $26.2m in sales, it would have reported a pretty dismal quarter. But services - including custom supercomputer engineering contracts - saved the day, and Cray was able to boost sales by 7.3 per cent, to $58.6m.
There was no trick to save profits in the quarter, however. Product manufacturing costs and research and development costs both went up in the third quarter, and Cray also had to write down $4.5m in inventories, which cut product margins by 14 percent. These factors swung Cray to a $2.1m loss compared to a $3.6m profit this time last year. Product margins were 51 per cent in the third quarter of 2008, but were hammered down to 21 per cent in the quarter just ended by the inventory write down and other factors; services margins came in at 59 per cent.
Through the first nine months of 2009, Cray had $195.8m in overall sales, up 53.6 per cent compared to the similar period in 2008, with product sales up 64.1 per cent and services sales up 34.9 per cent. And losses have shrunk to $3.6m for the nine months, compared to $14.8m a year ago.
For Cray, then, 2009 is turning out to be a lot better than 2008, which is not something a lot of server makers can say. Brian Henry, Cray's chief financial officer, said in a conference call with Wall Street analysts that for all of 2009, Cray expects to have sales of about $285m, with about $195m coming from products and $90m coming from services. He added that Cray expected to have a modest operating profit as well, but did not elaborate about net income or losses (as public companies generally do not). That is off a bit from the guidance that Cray gave in August with its second quarter numbers, when it raised its expectations for the year by $30m to $290m.
Cray reported sales of $282.9m and a net loss of $31.3m for all of 2008.
Looking ahead to 2010, Henry said that Cray expects to have modest growth and profitability, with revenues heavily weighted towards the second half of the year. (Perhaps as much as two-thirds of sales could be booked in the second half, depending on when supers are accepted by their labs and when Uncle Sam gets various budgets passed.) Cray inked a deal to upgrade the Jaguar XT5 system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to the six-core "Istanbul" Opteron processors from Advanced Micro Devices (a $20m contract), plus it sold a $50m XT5 massively parallel system to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's DOE-funded National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC). Revenue is trickling in for the Jaguar upgrade now, and the NERSC deal as well as a $40m XT5 system that Cray just sold in early September to the Korea Meteorological Administration will generate revenues in 2010.
While this is not quite like money in the bank, the NERSC and KMA deals are the closest thing you can get in the supercomputer racket.
Peter Ungaro, president and chief executive officer at Cray, said in the call that Cray had just begun shipping XT5 and XT5m (the so-called "mini" super) with the Istanbul processors in Q3, and that three installed systems have been upgraded to the processors already and that Cray has also sold two new systems based on Istanbuls since they started shipping. Ungaro said that the response to the XT5m was "strong," but did not quantify what that could possibly mean, and he continued to champion the CX1 line of baby supers, saying that Cray now has 30 resellers certified to peddle the baby blade supers (which you can read about here and there), up from 25 last quarter and the goal of 15 that the company had set. But Cray declined to say how many machines had actually sold or whether the revenue was material yet. If it had been, you can bet that Ungaro would have said something.
In addition to the big deals mentioned above that Cray is pretty sure will generate substantial revenues in 2010, Ungaro said that the company was in the middle of developing two upgrades to its XT5 and XT5m lines. Cray is being a bit vague here because it wants to make announcements at the Supercomputing 09 event in Portland, Oregon, next month. But Ungaro said that in the first half of 2010, Cray would deliver a board upgrade and new software for the XT5 machinery, boards that are being beta tested right now and that "seem to be going very well."
Later in the second half of 2010, Cray will be putting out a kicker to the current generation of its SeaStar2 interconnect, which plugs into the HyperTransport links of the Opteron sockets and allows hundreds of thousands of cores to be lashed together in a massively parallel cluster. The new chip, presumably called the SeaStar3 interconnect, is still going through testing. The XT5's SeaStar2 interconnect links the server nodes through a 3D torus configuration, while the XT5m has a smaller number of nodes in a 2D torus.
"Both are going very well," said Ungaro, referring to the two XT5 upgrades for 2010. "But as you know, there is always a risk that you find something that can cause delays."


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Zarif stresses freedom of expression alongside freedom of opinion
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (L) and his French counterpart, Laurent Fabius, shake hands during a meeting in Paris on January 16, 2015. (AFP photo)
Tehran, Jan 16, IRNA – Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif stressed the importance of respecting freedom of expression alongside freedom of opinion.
He made the remarks in a meeting with his French counterpart Laurent Fabius in Paris on Friday.
He expressed sympathy with the French government and nation over the recent terrorist attack and said equal attention should be simultaneously paid to the basic principles of freedom of expression and freedom of opinion.
The two foreign ministers also reviewed regional and international developments and discussed issues of mutual interest including Iran's nuclear program.
The Iranian foreign minister expressed satisfaction over the improving trend of mutual relations and stressed the need for efforts to further bolster ties and remove existing obstacles specially the banking areas.
Zarif pointed to numerous areas of potential cooperation which was also highlighted by Fabius.
They also discussed regional development including situation in Syrian, Lebanon and Iran.
They focused on Iran's role in establishing and restoring stability and peace in the region.
Zarif, who is on a tour to Europe for talks with his counterparts over Tehran's nuclear program, held seven hours of talks with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Geneva on Wednesday. He then left Geneva for Berlin, where he met his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
Zarif and Steinmeier underlined that Iran and the six world powers have to clinch a comprehensive deal at the earliest to put an end to years of dispute over Tehran's nuclear program.
Zarif, then, met EU Foreign Policy chief Federica Mogherini on Thursday afternoon in Brussels.
They also discussed a wide range of topics, from human rights to the major regional crises in the Middle East, such as what's going on in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and the common threat posed by Daesh terrorist group.
Zarif and the US Secretary of State John Kerry started another meeting in Paris on Friday evening after they held three rounds of talks in Geneva on Wednesday.
By IRNA
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Virginia Creeper – Parthenocissus quinquefolia
Virginia creeper, five-leaved ivy, or five-finger (Parthenocissus quinquefolia) is a woody vine native to eastern and central North America, in southeastern Canada, the eastern and central United States, eastern Mexico, and Guatemala, west as far as Manitoba, South Dakota, Utah and Texas.
A woody, dedicuous vine, Virginia Creeper can be high-climbing or trailing, 3-40 ft.; the structure on which it climbs is the limiting factor. Virginia Creeper climbs by means of tendrils with disks that fasten onto bark or rock.
Its leaves, with 5 leaflets, occasionally 3 or 7, radiating from the tip of the petiole, coarsely toothed, with a pointed tip, and tapered to the base, up to 6 inches long.
Leaves provide early fall color, turning brilliant mauve, red and purple. Inconspicuous flowers small, greenish, in clusters, appearing in spring. Fruit bluish, about 1/4 inch in diameter.
Virginia Creeper can be used as a climbing vine or ground cover, its leaves carpeting any surface in luxuriant green before turning brilliant colors in the fall.
Its tendrils end in adhesive-like tips, giving this vine the ability to cement itself to walls and therefore need no support. The presence of adhesive tips instead of penetrating rootlets also means it doesnt damage buildings the way some vines do. It is one of the earliest vines to color in the fall. A vigorous grower, it tolerates most soils and climatic conditions.
In years past, children learned a rhyme to help distinguish Virginia Creeper from the somewhat similar-looking and highly toxic Poison Ivy (Toxicodendron radicans): Leaves of three, let it be; Leaves of five, let it thrive.
Poison Ivy leaflets are normally in groups of three, while those of Virginia Creeper are in groups of five.
The berries of Virginia Creeper can be harmful if ingested, however, and the rest of the plant contains raphides, which irritate the skin of some people.
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Our mares are the backbones of our breeding and since we had to retire some of the full evaluated mares in the last years we are happy to see some of their offspring growing up and taking their place.
To fill empty spots of mares lost we were able to purchase a very talented young mare in Iceland and she is traveling to Canada in foal to one of the amazing stallions over there !
Daughter of Garpur fra Audsholtshjaleigu, IS 19951256106 and the great Hervar daughter Hera fra Hofi, IS1991256106.
Garpur got 1.prize for Offspring as a just 8 year old and a full evaluation of 8.39 , Hera got a final score of 8.10 with rideability of 8.35.
Djasn is not only halfsister to Blaer but also the only direct offspring of Ugla, who was for many years our prime broodmare and my favourite riding horse.
Djasn is full evaluated with 8,5 for Leg quality, Joint Correctness, as well as Trot and Gallop and 8 for Spirit, Canter and proportions.
a promising Blaer Daughter out of the full evaluated Ugla daughter Osk fra Vindsdalur ,CA2002201688.
Osk got a nice 2.prize for conformation and rideability with 8,5 for croup and back and 8 for Neck, Proportions, Legs as well as Trot, Spirit, General Impressions, Walk and Canter.
Elzta is a gorgeous young mare who got started as a 4 year old and will get back into training and hopefully evaluation as a 5 year old.
in the meantime we could not resists and bred her to the charming Lukku Laki Son Bragi fra Solheimar, IS2012158855, who we co-owned with Hanna Dilts for several months.
Elzta's daughter Mist fra Vindsdalur exceeds our expectation and we plan to keep her in our breeding .
Elzta shows lots of Blaer's great attributes like great muscle tonus, excellent self carriage and those typical Blaer legs… and enough Expression to spare !
her natural Tolt – supple and in perfect form as a 2 year old !
it will be exciting to see what the future holds for her …with more training we have high hopes..
Krakur got 1.prize for progeny and with over 650 offspring – so its about time there is one in Canada !
Both of Eilif's parents got incredible evaluation scores and while she still needs to get more training and then her own evaluation – we are over the moon to add her and her lineage to our breeding.
on top of that she is in foal to SKYR fra Skalakot,IS 2007184162 ,who got evaluation scores of 8.70 overall ,was Landsmot qualified in Breeding and Sport several times and who as well does not have any offspring in Canada.


There are three stages in an actor's career: Who is John Amos? Get me John Amos. Get me a young John Amos.
I love my work and am grateful to God to have a profession that brings joy to so many.
They killed my character off and, as God would have it, just when they told me I would never work again I got cast in a little program called Roots (1977) and, as they would say, the rest is history.


A blooming brilliant follow-up to the delightful Human Hedges. Don't hire a florist, hire the Flower People to enchant your guests!
With his comic flair, Gary will show you how to conquer fears, benefit from failures, change attitudes; your own and others.
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In the dead of night, a lantern will guide you home.
You just don't see good customer service as you do with this company. Always a sense of urgency when getting the customer products and I am always satisfied with these shirts.


Cannot wait for next season. Hopefully the club get the season tickets announced and sales going! Get as much renewals in as possible so that the budgets are clearly shown. Hopefully the clubs sponsorships are already flowing in and the money available for this year becomes clearer. Hopefully means a couple of top players can join the ranks!
We really need to watch out that this season doesn't turn into an awful season. We have two games left (stenny away and Forfar at home) if we don't take a point from either we will likely finish 8th!!! Some of the players have seriously shat the bed. From being so far clear in the play offs to being clearly out of them and it being an average season again with a good cup run being the best we can manage [emoji85] I would just send higgins back now and save a few weeks wages and use them as an extra quid for a player next season. The season has given us some unbelievable times like Dublin and Dingwall, a couple wins against raith, a lot of wins of full time teams. But ultimately when looked back will be an average or less than average season on paper... disappointed that it's looking this way.
Is it too early for this.... I was down at bayview today as usual and happened to see a certain Kris Boyd outside the stadium, he said he was in to talk about a contract for next season!!!
I was having a laugh pal. The statement I made was just the most optimistic thing I could think of. I am probably the most optimistic person on this. Remember last season when panic stations came in I was saying how it was actually a decent season going by history of positioning. The start of this season was the same. This season has massively outdone what I could have expected though!!
I was about to post that when I read through the post there. Does anyone have an actual number of how many injuries yous have got per season and how many keepers have been bashed?


Can we get some coffee over here?
It's one thing to have a brand. It's another to put it on paper, and one of the challenges all non-profit organizations face is getting that part paid for. Printing, though necessary, can be pretty expensive! We always give significant discounts to legitimate non-profit agencies (especially small local ones doing work that aligns with our values). In a situation like this though, our usual discount is not enough. If 15 or more people are staying up all night and donating tens of thousands of dollars in billable time, we'll donate our time too. And if those people are gonna stay up all night to do it… well… COUNT US IN!
So we'll have a team here at Reno Type Friday night at 5pm until all the printing they need is done. That means free brochures. Letterhead. Envelopes. Business cards. Pop-up Banners. And anything else they can come up with.
The Committee to Aid Abused Women was selected from 20 applicants to be the recipient of Reno Wired's first go-around. Check back after the weekend to see what the team came up with. Looking at the talented people who have donated their time and services, it is going to be spectacular.
On April 5, some of Reno's most talented designers, writers, and developers will come together to rebrand Committee to Aid Abused Women (CAAW) in 24 hours. The event, called Reno Wired, was founded by Kevin Jones, co-founder at Cloudsnap; Jenna Hubert, designer at KPS3 Marketing; and Julia Kruper, account manager at KPS3 Marketing.
Reno Wired is currently looking for volunteers and donors to help the day of the event. Anyone interested in volunteering or donating can find more information at renowired.com. The event will be held at the Reno Collective on April 5.
Reno Wired reviewed more than 20 applications from a variety of nonprofit organizations. After interviewing the finalists, the Reno Wired team selected CAAW as the lucky recipient of the branding project.
The Reno Wired team is made up of 15 professionals representing a variety of local businesses, including The Abbi Agency, Arborglyph, Calvert Photography, Innerwest Advertising, KPS3, Noble Studios, Stan Can and Trinity AI. Reno Type, a local full-service printer, will also be working throughout the night to print and deliver printed materials by 8am on April 6.
Visit renowired.com to donate or learn how to get involved.
Reno Wired was inspired by ZURBWired, an annual 24-hour design marathon based in Campbell, Cal.
The Committee to Aid Abused Women, an Organization for Families, provides free, confidential, bilingual services to families in Washoe County as they seek to end the abuse in their lives. CAAW's mission – Changing Lives, Ending Family Violence – guides the organization. In addition to emergency shelter, transitional housing, and protection orders, CAAW also operates a 24-hour crisis hotline for victims of domestic abuse and their families. For more on CAAW, visit caaw.org.
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1 July 2011 INBREEDING DEPRESSION INCREASES SUSCEPTIBILITY TO BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS IN LIONS: AN EXPERIMENTAL TEST USING AN INBRED–OUTBRED CONTRAST THROUGH TRANSLOCATION
Martina Trinkel, Dave Cooper, Craig Packer, Rob Slotow
Martina Trinkel,1,* Dave Cooper,2 Craig Packer,3 Rob Slotow1
11School of Biological and Conservation Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville Campus, Pvt.
22Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife, Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park, South Africa
33Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, 1987 Upper Buford Circle, S
* Corresponding author (email: martina_trinkel@yahoo.com)
Disease can dramatically influence the dynamics of endangered wildlife populations, especially when they are small and isolated, with increased risk of inbreeding. In Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park (HiP), a small, enclosed reserve in South Africa, a large lion (Panthera leo) population arose from a small founder group in the 1960s and started showing conspicuous signs of inbreeding. To restore the health status of the HiP lion population, outbred lions were translocated into the existing population. In this study, we determined the susceptibility to bovine tuberculosis (bTB), and the prevalence of antibody to feline viruses of native lions, and compared the findings with those from translocated outbred lions and their offspring. Antibodies to feline herpesvirus, feline calicivirus, feline parvovirus, and feline coronavirus were present in the lion population, but there was no significant difference in antibody prevalence between native and translocated lions and their offspring, and these feline viruses did not appear to have an effect on the clinical health of HiP lions. However, feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV), which was previously absent from HiP, appears to have been introduced into the lion population through translocation. Within 7 yr, the prevalence of antibody to FIV increased up to 42%. Bovine tuberculosis posed a major threat to the inbred native lion population, but not to translocated lions and their offspring. More than 30% of the native lion population died from bTB or malnutrition compared with <2% of the translocated lions and their offspring. We have demonstrated that management of population genetics through supplementation can successfully combat a disease that threatens population persistence. However, great care must be taken not to introduce new diseases into populations through translocation.
Trinkel, Cooper, Packer, and Slotow: INBREEDING DEPRESSION INCREASES SUSCEPTIBILITY TO BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS IN LIONS: AN EXPERIMENTAL TEST USING AN INBRED–OUTBRED CONTRAST THROUGH TRANSLOCATION
Martina Trinkel, Dave Cooper, Craig Packer, and Rob Slotow "INBREEDING DEPRESSION INCREASES SUSCEPTIBILITY TO BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS IN LIONS: AN EXPERIMENTAL TEST USING AN INBRED–OUTBRED CONTRAST THROUGH TRANSLOCATION," Journal of Wildlife Diseases 47(3), 494-500, (1 July 2011). https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-47.3.494
Received: 22 September 2010; Accepted: 1 March 2011; Published: 1 July 2011
bovine tuberculosis
feline immunodeficiency virus
A Serosurvey of Viral Infections in Lions (Panthera leo), from...
Prevalence and Risk Factors for Mycobacterium bovis Infection in African...
Detection and Genetic Analysis of Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIVple) in...
Fence Line Contact Between Wild and Farmed White Tailed Deer...
Coyotes as Sentinels for Monitoring Bovine Tuberculosis Prevalence in White...
Livestock Protection Dogs for Deterring Deer From Cattle and Feed
Spatial Ecology of Raccoons Related to Cattle and Bovine Tuberculosis...
Martina Trinkel, Dave Cooper, Craig Packer, Rob Slotow "INBREEDING DEPRESSION INCREASES SUSCEPTIBILITY TO BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS IN LIONS: AN EXPERIMENTAL TEST USING AN INBRED–OUTBRED CONTRAST THROUGH TRANSLOCATION," Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 47(3), 494-500, (1 July 2011)


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It was a quick visit into Mongolia, leaving from Ulan Ude in Russia and heading direct to Ulaanbaatar rather than tackling the more difficult tracks from the west.
The two-day ride to the capital was through verdant green pastures, with contented animals grazing on the lush grass.
And there was some rather unusual food on the menu.
Ulaanbaatar is a mix of the modern and the historic. The main square has been renamed to honour Genghis Khan with statues of him and his loyal servants.
Even Shirl's favourite band of all time, The Beatles, are immortalised with their own square.
It's just off the main drag – Peace Avenue – opposite the State Government Department Store.
A monastery on the edge of the city has a large community of monks and has been rebuilt, including the statuary, since the fall of communism.
Ricardo, Elad and Bryn, the trio we last saw in Barnaul, were in town so we caught up at a terrific restaurant – Mexikhan. They arrived with Mihai, a biker from Romania we met in Dushanbe in Tajikistan.
We took a ride out of town to the Genghis Khan statue. Its stands 40 metres atop Signal Hill, a spot Genghis used to get messages to his troops.
Made of stainless steel it shines over the countryside.
You can climb into the horse's head for a different angle and a great view.
It was worth the effort to head down to Mongolia, but now we must hightail it through Siberia to get to Vladivostok before winter sets in.
We're on the last leg of our journey before heading home.


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Q: Using error_chain with JoinHandle I use error_chain for my error handling.
[dependencies]
error-chain = "0.12.2"

I have no problem when I'm only using a single-thread.
#[macro_use] extern crate error_chain;
error_chain! {}

fn main() -> Result<()> {
    crash_burn()
        .chain_err(|| "crash_burn() crashed and burned!")?;
    Ok(())
}

fn crash_burn() -> Result<()> {
    bail!("I'm an error.")
}

However, when trying to return an error from a thread I get a compilation error.
#[macro_use] extern crate error_chain;
error_chain! {}
use std::thread::*;

fn main() -> Result<()> {
    let child: JoinHandle<Result<()>> = spawn(move || {
        crash_burn()
            .chain_err(|| "crash_burn() crashed and burned!")?;
        Ok(())
    });

    let res = child.join()
        .chain_err(|| "Child thread panicked! This error did not come from crash_burn().")?;
    res // res contains the error from crash_burn()
}

Here is the compilation error.
error[E0599]: no method named `chain_err` found for enum `std::result::Result<std::result::Result<(), Error>, std::boxed::Box<(dyn std::any::Any + std::marker::Send + 'static)>>` in the current scope
   --> src/main.rs:13:10
    |
13  |         .chain_err(|| "Child thread panicked! This error did not come from crash_burn().")?;
    |          ^^^^^^^^^ method not found in `std::result::Result<std::result::Result<(), Error>, std::boxed::Box<(dyn std::any::Any + std::marker::Send + 'static)>>`

Why is this error not handled automatically?

A:
Why is this error not handled automatically?

According to error_chain documentation

chain_err can be called on any Result type where the contained error type implements std::error::Error+Send + 'static

The error type in the Result of child.join() is Box<dyn Any> because a thread can panic with any value.
For example the thread can do
panic!(78);

But std::boxed::Box<dyn Any> does not implement the Error trait (only error types implement that trait).
However in order for err_chain to be called it needs to implement the Error trait. So that is why err_chain cannot be used.

A: @FlyingFish1414 was correct with why error_chain cannot be used directly with JoinHandle::join(), but I wanted to give a solution that allows chaining errors returned by threads.
fn chain_any(x: std::result::Result<std::result::Result<(), Error>, std::boxed::Box<dyn std::any::Any + std::marker::Send>>) -> Result<()> {
    match x {
        // Child did not panic, but might have thrown an error.
        Ok(x) => x.chain_err(|| "Child threw an error.")?,

        // Child panicked, let's try to print out the reason why.
        Err(e) => {
            println! {"{:?}", e.type_id()};
            if let Some(s) = e.downcast_ref::<&str>() {
                bail!(format!("Child panicked with this message:\n{}", s));
            } else if let Some(s) = e.downcast_ref::<String>() {
                bail!(format!("Child panicked with this message:\n{}", s));
            }
            bail!(format!("Child panicked! Not sure why, here's the panic:\n{:?}", e));
        }
    }
    Ok(())
}

Now just join the thread like such:
chain_any(child.join())

Try it out:
fn crash_burn() -> Result<()> {
    // panic!(4);
    // panic!("OH no a &str!");
    // panic!("OH no a {}", "String");
    // bail!("I'm an error.");
    Ok(())
}

Unfortunately we must check for every panic type individually if we want to print it out. There is no way (that I know of) to check if the Any returned by the child thread implements Display or Debug. According to the docs a &dyn Any is limited to testing whether a value is of a specified concrete type, and cannot be used to test whether a type implements a trait.

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Who or what do you think you were in a past life and why?
I have this misplaced memory that I think might be from a past life. I was a little girl with long hair in an old fashioned dress playing with this kid on rail road tracks. And I know for a fact that it didn't happen. But I remember it vividly. My mom would never let me wonder too far when I was little. There my be train tracks around here but I've never dared to walk on them.
I also think I could have been someone from the 70's because I feel like that's the generation I should have been born. Lived from the 70's to the 90's. I feel like I've learned a lot more in this life time for being so young. As if I were older than I really am. I feel like I've already lived a life time.


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David A. Lake (* 18. August 1956) ist ein US-amerikanischer Politikwissenschaftler und Professor an der University of California, San Diego Er wurde durch seine Beiträge zur politikwissenschaftlichen Teildisziplin Internationale Beziehungen bekannt. 2010/2011 amtierte er als Präsident der International Studies Association (ISA) und 2016/17 als Präsident der American Political Science Association (APSA).

Lake wurde 1984 an der Cornell University zum Ph.D. promoviert. Von 2005 bis 2012 war er Gründungsvorsitzender der International Political Economy Society. 2006 wurde er in die American Academy of Arts and Sciences gewählt.

Schriften (Auswahl)
 Statebuilder's dilemma. On the limits of foreign intervention. Cornell University Press, Ithaca/London 2016, ISBN 978-1-50170-030-9.
 Hierarchy in international relations. Cornell University Press, Ithaca 2009, ISBN 978-0-80144-756-3.
 Entangling relations : American foreign policy in its century. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1999, ISBN 069105990X.
 Power, protection, and free trade. International sources of U.S. commercial strategy, 1887-1939. Cornell University Press, Ithaca 1988, ISBN

Weblinks
 University of California, San Diego, Department of Political Science: David A. Lake
 University of California, San Diego, Biography: David A. Lake
 Princeton University, The Empirical Studies of Conflict Project (ESOC): David A. Lake

Einzelnachweise

Politikwissenschaftler
Hochschullehrer (University of California, San Diego)
Präsident der American Political Science Association
Mitglied der American Academy of Arts and Sciences
US-Amerikaner
Mann
Geboren 1956

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State of Capture: Corruption in Jacob Zuma's South Africa
This is from Quartz Africa:
The 355-page report detailing corruption in South Africa's ruling party offers one rare uplifting moment. In the report, deputy finance minister Mcebisi Jonas reveals more details of how he turned down an offer by the powerful Gupta family of 600 million rand (about $44 million) to be the country's finance minister.
Jonas, in an interview with Thuli Mandonsela, the country's former anti-corruption chief who spearheaded the report released today, said he had agreed to meet with president Jacob Zuma's son Duduzane Zuma on Oct. 23 last year, a few months before then finance minister Nhlanhla Nene was dismissed, kicking off a hailstorm of corruption allegations against the president.
Jonas met the younger Zuma at the Hyatt Regency hotel in the Johannesburg suburb of Rosebank where Zuma asked if they could move to a more private location for discussions "with a third party."
Jonas was then taken to the Gupta compound in the suburb of Saxonwold where they were joined by Ajay Gupta, the eldest of the Gupta brothers, who briskly informed the deputy minister that "they had been gathering intelligence on him and those close to him." Gupta informed Jonas that they were going to make him minister of finance, to which Jonas said that only the president could make that decision.
You can download the full State of Capture report here (pdf).
For more on the history of corruption in South Africa see here.
Posted By: Ken Opalo	Category: africa	Tags: african national congress, ANC, Democratic Alliance, economic freedom fighters, EFF, gupta, Julius Malema, south africa, state of capture, zupta
Who's responsible for South Africa's woes? Zuma or the ANC?
I raised this question in a post last year.
Friend of the blog and Harvard-trained historian Matthew Kustenbauder has this thoughtful response (posted with his permission. Emphases mine).
Interesting post on South Africa's recent rollercoaster and explanations for the economic downturn under Zuma's presidency. A few quick comments:
I agree South Africa's current woes may be attributed to ANC policies, not President Jacob Zuma alone. Take the issue of land, for example, about which Mr. Mngxitama is as passionate as he is wrong. As I pointed out previously on this blog, the politics of land redistribution in South Africa are tied to the ANC's historic decision to support and strengthen traditional authority in the former bantustans. In short, the ANC forged an alliance with traditional leaders to bolster its negotiating power with the apartheid government in the 1990s and, afterwards, to win elections. Mozambique served as a cautionary tale: civil war broke out after the socialist liberation government FRELIMO abolished chiefs and traditional forms of authority outright. The ANC's entrenchment of traditional chiefs and kings has had a ripple effect across South Africa, creating a drag on the rural economy, locking up productive agricultural land and capital assets, not to mention denying rural people equal justice under the law.
I also appreciate the argument, and agree to a degree, that both Mr. Zuma and Mr. Mbeki are ANC cadres. When the opposition Democratic Alliance argue that somehow the country was in good hands until Mr. Zuma came along, it is more a political manouver to appeal to the black middle classes, many of whom are embarrased by Mr. Zuma and favoured Mr. Mbeki, than it is a faithful rendering of the historical record. Thabo Mbeki was, despite his polished veneer, a disaster on many fronts, including but not limited to: unrepentant AIDS denialism, cadre deployment as an ANC policy, racial politics, silencing of internal opposition within the ANC, and a narrative that counterrevolutionary forces lurked within the media. These ideas and practices either began or were ramped up to become de facto party policy under Mr. Mbeki's presidency.
I disagree, however, that Zuma and Mbeki represent nothing more than two cadres of the same party. For one thing, the challenges facing South Africa today are different than those during the Mbeki years. At that time, South Africa still luxuriated in the glow of 1994's transition to democracy and the Madiba magic of Nelson Mandela had not yet worn off. Mbeki was a skilled orator with global leadership aspirations, the likes of which have not been seen in South Africa since Jan Smuts was Prime Minister during WWII. But it is not simply Zuma's halting English, or his multiple wives, countless offspring, traditionalism, patriarchy, and coziness with Russia, China, and Sudan that make South Africans uneasy.
What is so disturbing – and what Mbeki assiduously avoided – is Zuma's overt corruption. The most public evidence includes: Nkandla, the Gupta family's illegal landings at Waterkloof Airforce Base, a prolonged legal battle over spy tapes that implicate him in fraud dating all the way back to his time as Deputy President (for which Mbeki sacked him and Schabir Shaik was found guilty and went to jail), and the most recent dismissal of Nhlanhla Nene for standing in the way of sweetheart SAA and nuclear deals that would have yielded tenders for Zuma's friends and family. If Mbeki was a loyal cadre who represented the ANC's failed policies, Zuma is a loyal cadre who represents the ANC's descent into patronage, corruption, and jobs for pals hidden behind a façade of election-time slogans, "our glorious struggle history" and "A Better South Africa for All."
Andile Mngxitama, booted out of the EFF, and firebrands like him who drone on about the ANC's errant support of neoliberal policies and the tragedy of Mandela's compromise during the political settlement period have little appreciation for just how far South Africa has come since 1994. Nor do they grasp the direction in which South Africa must go – and must go soon – to avoid a[n] even more tragic tailspin.
To give just one example, a major problem in South Africa has not been, contra Mr. Mngxitama, that capitalism has been prioritised. Rather, grassroots capitalism has been far too constrained – not just by government overregulation but by monopoly capitalism sheltered by the state. This is a historical dynamic inherited from the apartheid-era National Party, one that the ANC never addressed, mainly because such arrangements benefitted the ANC so long as they controlled the levers of the state.
The number of state owned enterprises in South Africa – over 700 by the last count – is staggering for a country so small. Just one, South African Airways, has drained well over $2 billion in bail-outs from state coffers in two decades. The energy sector is even more dire: Eskom, another state owned enterprise, has a near complete monopoly over energy generation and a complete monopoly over its transmission. Due to a lack of capitalist competition, the country's electricity supply is not just overly expensive, it is also tightly constrained. Last year South Africans plunged into darkness, and for some time now manufacturers and other industrial electricity consumers have actually been paid by the state to reduce their operations.
The result is that South Africa's manufacturing sector is less competitive globally and unable to expand to create the jobs so desperately needed at home, where there is a 30% unemployment rate. There are countless similar examples, where state owned enterprises should have been privatised, or at the very least private companies should have been permitted to enter the market and compete. What must be remembered, however, is that the country's economic system, designed by the old National Party, is now controlled by and benefits the African National Congress.
Similarly, in the private sector, too many large companies have a monopoly, making the cost of entry for small companies far too expensive. Government labor regulations and aggressive trade union action ensures that only the largest companies with the deepest pockets can comply and survive. Large private companies – like the mining groups, agro-processing operations, banks, telecommunications companies, and industrial manufacturers – operate with few competitors. Relatively small players in sectors like the textile industry have closed their doors and relocated to countries where labour is more productive, regulations more lax, and costs are cheaper. Too few South African companies can compete globally.
There may be a kernel of truth in Mngxitama's claims, but his diagnosis is overly simplistic, ideological, and ahistorical.
Posted By: Ken Opalo	Category: africa	Tags: ANC, apartheid, Black Economic Empowerment, cape town, cyril rhamaposa, durban, gupta, jacon zuma, Johannesburg, Nelson Mandela, nkandla, Pretoria, south africa, thabo mbeki, tokyo sexwale, zupta
The long-run firm level effects of apartheid cronyism in South Africa
The FT has this fascinating piece on the troubles facing South African mining giant Anglo-American:
Anglo was not apartheid's victim but its beneficiary, not only allowed to exploit black workers but shielded from competition. That encouraged it to behave like the old nickname for the Oppenheimer family empire, "the octopus". It spread tentacles throughout the South African economy, extending into Botswana through De Beers, the Oppenheimer diamond group.
Anglo was not a state-owned enterprise but an enterprise that became a state — a skilled bureaucracy expert at controlling resources and wielding hegemony. Its elite cadre of Anglophile managers were not as astute as they thought they were, or were clever in a way that lost relevance. Some expected, as one former rival executive puts it, "to be rewarded for showing up".
…. A structure and culture that was highly experienced at navigating the closed, politicised world of apartheid South Africa was outmatched by global capital markets. "It felt like we were being compelled to do things it was not in our nature to do," says one Anglo executive.
On a related note, read this on corruption in apartheid South Africa.
All things for older people to remember before reminiscing over the good old days under apartheid as South Africa continues to struggle under the singularly inept leadership of Jacob Zuma.
Posted By: Ken Opalo	Category: africa	Tags: #zuptamustfall, anglo america, apartheid south africa, corruption in South, corruption in South Africa, de beer, nkandla, SAB Miller, zupta
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BASF closes divestiture of its construction chemicals business
BASF has closed the divestiture of its construction chemicals business to an affiliate of Lone Star, a global private equity firm.
The former BASF construction chemicals business is now operating as the newly formed MBCC Group.
Image source: BASF.
The purchase price on a cash and debt-free basis is EUR 3.17 billion. The construction chemicals business now forms the newly founded MBCC Group, headquartered in Mannheim, Germany.
"Lone Star has been a professional partner in this transaction and is committed to the future success of the business," said Saori Dubourg, member of the Board of Executive Directors of BASF SE. "We highly appreciate the tremendous efforts to realize the carve-out and close the deal in such a fast and decisive manner. We wish the Construction Chemicals team much success for the future."
The divestment of the assets and liabilities of the Construction Chemicals business and the related disposal gain will be reflected in BASF's financial reporting in the fourth quarter of 2020. Payments received in the context of the transaction until September 30 will be included in cash flows from investing activities in the Q3 2020 Statement of Cash Flows.
On December 21, 2019, BASF and an affiliate of Lone Star had signed a purchase agreement for the acquisition of BASF's construction chemicals business. With around 7,500 employees, the construction chemicals business operates production sites and sales offices in more than 60 countries and generated sales of about EUR 2.6 billion in 2019.
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In this article we will take a look at steps which one needs to follow to start SQL Server with Minimal Configuration to troubleshoot SQL Server configuration issues.
What happens when SQL Server is started in Minimal Configuration?
If you have configured any Startup Stored Procedures then it will not run during startup.
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Once the server is started in Minimal Configuration a database administrator can change the appropriate server option using SP_CONFIFURE system stored procedure using SQLCMD or SSMS Query Window. Once you have made the necessary changes go ahead and stop and restart SQL Server.
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Анатолий Иванович Акишин (род. 1926) — российский учёный, лауреат Государственной премии СССР.

Биография
Родился 9 июня 1926 года в Москве.

Окончил Московский энергетический институт (1950).

Учёные степени:
 1958 — кандидат наук, диссертация: «Конструирование и исследование электронных умножителей, применяемых для регистрации ионов».
 1972 — доктор наук, диссертация: «Имитация воздействия космической среды на солнечные батареи космических аппаратов».

Учёные звания:
 1968 — старший научный сотрудник.
 1977 — профессор.

Трудовая и научная деятельность в НИИЯФ МГУ:
 1950—1960 инженер, старший инженер, младший научный сотрудник;
 1960—1968 старший научный сотрудник;
 1968—1993 заведующий лабораторией космического материаловедения;
 1993-2010 главный научный сотрудник НИИЯФ МГУ.

С 1971 г. по настоящее время профессор МГИЭМ (по совместительству), читает курс лекций «Радиационная техника и имитация воздействия космической среды на материалы и элементы космических аппаратов».

1969—1991 гг. руководитель Всесоюзного научного семинара «Имитиация воздействия космической среды на материалы и элементы космических аппаратов».

Область научных интересов: физическая электроника, радиационная физика, имитация воздействия космической среды на материалы и элементы космических аппаратов, испытание материалов термоядерного реактора, радиационная технология.

Некоторые публикации
 Акишин А. И. Ионная бомбардировка в вакууме. - М. : Госэнергоиздат, 1963, 144 с.
 Козлов Л. В., Нусинов М. Д., Акишин А. И. и др. Моделирование тепловых режимов космического аппарата и окружающей его среды. -М.: Машиностроение, 1971, 380 с.
 Акишин А. И., Новиков Л. С. Воздействие окружающей среды на материалы космических аппаратов. -М.: Знание,═ 1983/4, 62 с.
 Акишин А. И., Новиков Л. С. Электризация космических аппаратов. -М.: Знание, 1985/3, 63 с.
 Акишин А. И. Радиационные аномалии в космическом оборудовании, вызванные электроразрядными явлениями в облученных диэлектриках. Новые наукоемкие технологии в технике. Энциклопедия. Т.17.Воздействие космической среды на материалы и оборудование космических аппаратов. Ред. Л. С. Новиков, М. И. Панасюк. М.: ЭНЦИТЕХ, 2001. С. 5-60.
 Effects of Space Condition on Materials. A.I. Akishin (Editor). Nova Sience═ Publishers, Inc. N.Y., 2001, p. 199.
 Акишин А. И. Методы радиационных испытаний космических материалов. Учебное пособие. Из-во МГУ, 2005,с.143.

Награды и премии
В 1979 г. присуждена Государственная премия СССР за работы в области космических исследований (совместно с И. Б. Тепловым).

Лауреат премии Правительства РФ в области образования (2008).

Награждён медалями «За доблестный труд в Великой Отечественной войне 1941–1945 гг.» (1945), «Ветеран труда» (1986).

Заслуженный научный сотрудник Московского университета (1998). Ветеран космонавтики России.

Источники
 Московский университет: краткий отчёт о состоянии и действиях Московского государственного университета им. М.В. Ломоносова за ... год. Экспертно-аналитическая служба Московского университета, 1998

Примечания

Ссылки
 Акишин А.И. // ИСТИНА МГУ
 Книги в каталоге РГБ.
 Статьи в Math-Net.Ru.

 Акишин, Анатолий Иванович // Летописи МГУ

Выпускники МЭИ
Сотрудники НИИ ядерной физики имени Д. В. Скобельцына МГУ


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According to Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk, her office is still investigating the May 7 accident at the intersection of Highway 89 and Prescott Lakes Parkway.
A Prescott couple, Earl Stanley Christensen, 72, and Antonina Christensen, 77, died as a result of injuries suffered in the accident.
Mr. Christensen died upon arrival at Yavapai Regional Medical Center, while Mrs. Christensen died a few days later in a Phoenix hospital. A pickup driver, Allen Wilsterman, 72, of Prescott suffered minor injuries and doctors released him after he received treatment.
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Bullhead City residents Ivan Thomas Emley, 86, died at the scene while his wife, Olinda Lillian Emley, 81, suffered critical injuries and emergency personnel flew her to John C. Lincoln North hospital in Phoenix.
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DPS Sgt. Tim Bolger said previously that Matthews, who was southbound on Highway 89, apparently tried to pass a tractor-trailer on a double yellow line.
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He said Matthews' vehicle then hit the Emleys' sedan, which was northbound. The tractor-trailer avoided the accident.
Doctors released Matthews from the hospital after a brief examination, according to the report.