I have been busy. Not writing posts (yes, it's been a while) but I've been working hard, catching up with family, travelling, doing my tax returns (wow I'm becoming really German), getting ready for Christmas ….the list is endless.
So, what about my language learning? When I am supposed to find time to do that? Tricky. According to a lot of books and websites out there, I have nothing to worry about. They are all happy to tell (sell) you a system. "Learn a language in 24 hours!", "Learn while you sleep!" Funny you never see many books out there titled "Learn a language in 3 years". That's approximately how long I've been learning Japanese and I still feel like a beginner. Not exactly a bestseller title, I guess. Let's face it, nobody wants to hear it's going to take them 3 years to learn a language. It's gotta be 3 months or 3 days or 3 hours for goodness sake.
First of all, why Polish? There's a guideline created by the US diplomatic service which rates how difficult foreign languages are for a native English speaker to learn. This ranges from category 1 (easiest) to category 3 (most difficult). I already speak a category 1 (Spanish) and a 1.5 (German) and some 3 (Japanese) so I decided it was time to turn my hand to a 2, which Polish is. More challenging than say French (a level 1) but not as mind-boggling as Chinese (a level 3). In addition, I wanted something totally different from all the languages I have ever learnt before. And, importantly, a language where I was a COMPLETE beginner. What I mean by that is I really couldn't say anything at all. No hello, no goodbye. No one white wine, please. Nothing. When I wracked my brain for anything I possibly knew in Polish, the only word I came up with was vodka. That was it. And I wasn't even pronouncing that right (as I now know).
Duration. I settled on 24 hours (to test the "learn it in a day" theory) but split the 24 hours of learning over approximately 6 weeks to make it manageable. In total, I spent 11 hours with my "teacher" and 13 hours learning on my own.
Tools When it comes to starting a new language there are so many methods and systems to choose from it can be pretty overwhelming. I've tried a lot of them in the past but this time I decided to go back to basics. No fancy memory tools, no bank breaking Rosetta Stone systems, no boring evening classes listening to Bernhard bang on about his trip to Warsaw and no, not even an app (gasp)! That's right, I completely ditched the digital and went old school. Just, one second-hand dictionary, a small phrasebook, blank cards to write my vocabulary on and an empty exercise book. AND of course, a (relatively) willing Polish native who also speaks English to give me "lessons".
Irek: I'm sorry. Polish is such a terribly difficult language.
And that's basically how we continued for 6 weeks. I asked questions, he gave me examples and I wrote them down in a way I could read them and understand them (rather than using the Polish spellings). In each lesson, we would review what we had done in the lesson before. We used the phrasebook to select useful phrases that I wanted to learn and worked our way through general vocabulary topics like numbers, days, weather, colours, food, drinks, household objects etc. After a few lessons like that, we went on to the scary world of conjugating Polish verbs (11 different conjugation groups plus irregular verbs!) and some basic adjectives. Not too much kill-joy grammar but a bit to help me start forming my own sentences. During the 13 hours on my own, I learnt the phrases/words from my cards or wrote up my lesson notes to repeat them/tidy them up and see if I still had questions.
Result After my 24 hours I went from a vocabulary total of 1 word (vodka) to 200 words (and only a few of those involve alcohol). I have a basic grasp of some grammar and in my opinion most importantly, I know 60 useful phrases. 60! That's quite a lot. It means I learnt around 18 new words each session and approximately 5 new phrases. And when I say learn, I don't mean "wrote down to learn at a later date", I mean words and phrases I now really know and can reproduce. Of course, you'll get the language bulimics reading this who "learn 500 words in one day" and pass their test tomorrow. But that wasn't my aim. Learning a language is not a contest to see who can learn the most, the quickest and then spew it out the next day in a test. It's about learning something that will stay in your long-term memory so it will be of some use to me in the future. And I feel confident that I've done that and the experiment was a success.
So, what have I learnt from this experiment?
This is one of the biggest challenges for everyone learning a language and one of the best things about learning with a real native speaker rather than simply using a book or an app. There is nowhere to hide. No matter how bad you sound, no matter how much of a muppet you feel, you are forced to speak out loud, right from the start. This is a huge help when it comes to pronunciation and getting used to your "new language" voice. And it's fun. You deal with the shame right at the start, get over it and start to make progress.
One of the biggest mistakes people make when learning a new language is, they start by focussing on grammar and vocabulary. While both are important, it can take a while before you can really put a useful sentence together. I play tennis (which I don't), she plays tennis, we are playing tennis etc is all very nice but of no real use to me. That's why when it comes to being a beginner, the phrasebook is your friend. After just one lesson I could already say, Hello, How are you? I'm fine, My name is Rebecca, What's your name, 2 large beers please, Cheers! More importantly, after just one lesson, I had an immediate feeling of "success" and felt completely motivated to continue. I can't emphasise enough how important that is when learning any new skill.
Of course, there are benefits of taking lessons with a qualified teacher (I have to say that being a teacher!) but there are also benefits of not. First of all, it's cheaper or maybe even free (a lot of native speakers are happy to help you in exchange for some practice in your native language). And, I basically built my own course. I focused on the words and phrases I wanted to learn e.g. "Another white wine please" rather than "When does the next ferry leave?" (I hate boats!)! Rather than getting bogged down by a language programme or a teacher's personal agenda, I made sure that what I was learning was relevant to me. A very important factor to keep motivation levels up. And of course, doing a one-to-one course rather than a group course meant I could steer things the way I wanted (sorry Bernhard!) and ask as many questions as I liked without feeling stupid or under pressure if I didn't immediately get something.
Moving away from an app and YouTube and having face-to-face lessons with a native also increased the fun factor. Not only did I learn about the language, but also we talked a lot about Poland, the culture, food etc. That was great.
Me and my (incredibly patient) Polish teacher!
Learning from apps can be very mechanical. Having a laugh together (not sure he has yet recovered from my Babka mistake) is much more fun than getting something right and a cartoon character waving at you with a thumbs up.
After just trashing digital learning, I now have to admit that I did miss my YouTube videos just a little bit. When I'm learning a language, I find podcasts and videos really helpful for learning pronunciation. Once I was at home, learning my cards on my own, there were a few times when normally I would have looked words up online to check the pronunciation. I missed not having that option. What's more, while writing my own cards was good for learning, it wasn't so great when the stack of cards got really big and I dropped them all over the floor of the number 12 tram during rush hour! Having all my vocabulary stored in one place on my phone suddenly became very appealing.
Pretty obvious when you think about it but when I started off, I was impatient to get going and decided to only write down the words as I heard them (rather than using the proper Polish spellings which take some getting used to). While this got me off to a good start from a speaking point of view, it became a problem later on. Every time I wanted to look up a new word in the dictionary, I suddenly had no idea how to pronounce the word written in front of me or even find the word I was looking for. So, around halfway through the project, I rewrote all my cards with the proper spellings. It took a lot of time but I realised it would be worth it in the long run. Nevertheless, I did still keep my own personal pronunciation notes written under the words to help me out.
Successful: I'm pretty happy with what I am now able to do in Polish.
Informative: I've learnt more about language learning methods.
Inspiring: Although I've been focused on my Japanese for an exam recently, I'm totally inspired to keep up my Polish and really improve. And I am definitely planning a trip to Poland next year to practice.
Fun: I can honestly say I enjoyed it. It was sometimes tough to fit it into my schedule but I genuinely enjoyed every step of the way.
So, what's the plan for 2019? After the success of this project, I'm keen to do a comparison. Enter the 24-hour Turkish Project! 24 hours of Turkish. It's also a level 2 language and I'm a complete beginner (the only word I know is Döner). BUT……. this time ONLY digital. The Duolingo app and nothing else. Already excited to compare the results!
Did you start any new languages this year? As always, feel free to comment below and share your experience.
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On a whale watch boating excursion, there is nothing more exciting than to actually get to see a whale up close. Well for a group of people on such an adventure, the sight of the whale may have been a bit too close!
Passengers on the inflatable boat "Zodiac," which is owned by Brier Island Whale and Seabird Cruises in Nova Scotia, got a real up close view of a whale when a humpback whale approached the vessel, lifted its tail into the air, and slapped the boat's bow as it went back under water!
Captain of the vessel, Guy Melville, said that "It was more of a tap then a hit." Wonder if the passengers felt that way! "The boat was stationary and the whale was in motion," Melville said. "then it did it's handstand and was vertical," he continued. Well at least the passengers got their money's worth, right?


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Endurance Gold Corporation (EDG -- TSX.V) is pleased to announce that Metals Creek Resources Corp. ("MEK"), the operator of the Flint Lake Joint Venture ("Flint Lake JV"), reports results from a recently completed trenching program. The trenching program targeted the Stephens Lake and Flint Lake occurrences which are separated by approximately five (5) kilometers. These occurrences host a number of discrete gold zones that are being advanced to a drill testing stage by MEK. The Flint Lake JV is operated through a joint venture agreement with MEK owning a 75% interest and EDG a 25% interest. Endurance has previously referred to the JV as the Dogpaw Property or Dogpaw Joint Venture.
The Flint Lake JV Property lies within the central portion of the east-west trending Wabigoon sub-province and is host to numerous underexplored greenstone hosted gold occurrences. This western portion of the Wabigoon greenstone belt is an emerging gold camp with a number of developing projects including Rainy River Resources' ("RR") Rainy River Deposit with a measured and indicated resource of 5,663,000 ounces of gold grading 1.17 grams per tonne ("g/t") (see RR website), and Coventry Resources' ("CYV") Cameron Lake Deposit with an indicated and inferred resource of 1,397,200 ounces of gold grading 2.24 g/t (see CYV website).
At the Stephens Lake occurrence, mineralization is hosted within an altered granodiorite intrusion of the Stephens Lake stock with associated carbonatization and pyrite mineralization. Seven trenches were excavated delineating two separate zones of gold mineralization. Highlights from the trenching program include trench STR2 in the D-Zone Target, which returned a surface channel cut of 1.43 g/t gold over 21 meters. The zone remains completely open in all directions as the trench terminates in overburden on both ends, with mineralization interpreted to continue through trench STR3 located 40 meters to the southwest, which returned a surface channel cut of 1.42 g/t gold over 10 meters. At Stephens Lake, a second parallel zone of gold mineralization (Busch Zone Target) was also trenched with trenches STR4 through STR7. Trench STR7 is 200 meters west of trench STR2 and returned a surface channel interval of 1.03 g/t gold over 20 meters. Many other gold occurrences have yet to be evaluated with trenching in the Stephens Lake Area.
"We are very encouraged by these channel sampling results from the Stephens Lake intrusive complex, and congratulate Metals Creek on the discovery and advancing this joint venture program in a systematic and professional manner" states Robert Boyd, President and CEO of Endurance "These initial trenching results confirm that the JV property is emerging as a significant new discovery in the Wabigoon."
Recent trenching from the Flint Lake portion of the JV property also discovered 7.80 g/t gold over 3.1 meters from trench FTR5. This trenching tested the strike extension of the Flint Central Zone, which was recognized in 2010 when surface grab samples up to 112 g/t gold were recovered from historic trenches (see EDG release dated August 24, 2010). Other recent results from the Flint Lake trenching include 1.64 g/t gold over 1.2m from trench FTR1.
The joint venture is currently considering a follow-up drilling program on this discovery.
All assays were sent to Accurassay Laboratories, an accredited laboratory in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The gold was analyzed utilizing a standard fire assay and an atomic absorption finish. In the preparation of this news release, Endurance has relied on data compiled and completed by MEK as the operator of exploration programs. Robert T. Boyd, P.Geo. is a qualified person as defined in National Instrument 43-101 and supervised the compilation of the technical information provided by MEK and forming the basis for this release.


Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc.'s third-quarter earnings fell more than 7 percent from year-ago results that included a one-time gain. Its latest results beat Wall Street expectations and it raised its full-year guidance.
Its shares rose more than 2 percent in premarket trading.
The company best known for hotel brands like Sheraton, Westin and St. Regis said Thursday it earned $157 million, or 81 cents per share, in the quarter that ended Sept. 30. That's down from $170 million, or 87 cents per share, last year, when it booked a $23 million gain.
The company's earnings from continuing operations grew nearly 7 percent in this year's quarter, not counting that gain.
Excluding special items like a favorable adjustment to legal reserves, adjusted earnings came to 71 cents per share in the 2013 quarter.
Analysts expected 63 cents per share, according to FactSet.
Revenue rose more than 3 percent to $1.51 billion. Analysts forecast revenue of $1.48 billion.
Worldwide, systemwide revenue per available room for hotels open at least a year increased 4.7 percent. For those in North America, the figure climbed 5.8 percent.
Revenue per available room, or REVPAR, is a key indicator of a lodging company's health.
"We remain bullish on the long-term trends of rising wealth and increasing demand for travel in fast growing economies, even in the face of slower growth in China, unrest in the Middle East, and economic challenges in Latin America," CEO Frits van Paasschen said in a statement.
The company said it now expects adjusted 2013 earnings of about $2.93 to $2.95 per share, which is up from a forecast it gave in July for earnings of $2.81 to $2.88 per share.
Analysts expect, on average, $2.85 per share.
Starwood, based in Stamford, Conn., has 1,169 properties in almost 100 countries.
Starwood shares rose $1.75, or 2.5 percent, to $72.20 in premarket trading about an hour before the market opening. Its shares have risen nearly 23 percent so far this year in regular market trading.


After developing the Project Stream for the full version of the Assassin's Creed Odyssey, played from a Chrome browser during the trial period last year, Google is going big again. Now we have insights for Stadia, the streaming platform that will be taking by surprise the gaming world. But what do we know and what you can do with it?
First of all, Google promised to us that Stadia could be played on any device, from a tablet, smartphones, and PC to other devices. The best example for this is, again, the Assassin's Creed Odyssey, which is excellent news.
Second of all, what is good for the players is that using the cloud service, the transfers between devices can be made within the progress on a game. All the games came in 4K resolution and streamed at 60 FPS. Moreover, how does having three platforms in one sound? Google Stadia will come with YouTube and Google Assistant at your fingertips.
For example, when you will see a trailer on YouTube, you can access the game straight away from it. Another thing that you can do in Stadia is to share your results on social media with a Google link from the controller. What's more interesting is the fact that you can share your place and location in the game, and others can jump in. Don't forget about the Google assistant that will help you with advice for your game.
Another novelty is that we have a change with the controllers of Google Stadia. What does that mean? First of all, Stadia is coming with its own controller, connected directly to Google Cloud via Wi-Fi. Also, the controller will have one button for sharing your location and result on social media, and another button for the Google assistant. A plus about this controller is that you can connect other devices through USB and Bluetooth.
What Games Will We Find on Google Stadia?
Available now in Google Cloud is only the Doom Eternal game. Sadly, James Raymond, who's leading the Stadia Games and Entertainment company, did not announce any titles for now. On the other side, we know that the multiplayer mode is a promise from Google Stadia.
At the 2019 Game Developers Conference, Google Stadia announced that developers could apply new models and worlds on the games. This could be done with the help of Style Transfers that uses a machine learning, and it applies any visual style to it. Fascinating, isn't it?
Matt Spooner was a reporter for Spot Next, before becoming the lead editor. Matt has over fifty bylines and has reported on countless stories concerning all things related to technology. Matt studied at Caltech.


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by Newt Gingrich: Last month, I was honored to co-host an amazing and genuinely bipartisan summit on criminal justice reform, along with my friends Van Jones, Donna Brazile, and Pat Nolan. Nearly 600 citizens from both parties came together to discuss real solutions for our country's failing incarceration system. The day surfaced an extraordinary range of good ideas, but one in particular stuck out for me because it highlighted the very attitude that has caused us to spend so many billions of dollars on corrections each year without doing much to actually correct offenders.
It is that failure of the corrections system to correct that has led us to an injustice we can and should remedy--the practice of sentencing young people, not yet full-grown adults, to life in prison without a chance of parole.
There are good reasons, in everyday life, that we don't give teenagers all of the privileges of full-grown American adults: teenage minds are not yet fully developed, so young people are generally less mature, have a harder time understanding the consequences of their actions, and are particularly vulnerable to peer pressure. As a result, we recognize that teenagers have a tendency to do foolish things.
For these reasons and more--all of which add up to common sense--teenagers have to wait until they're 18 to vote, to own a gun, to be legally independent from their parents, and even to get an unrestricted drivers' license in many states. Some privileges come at an even older age--young adults need to be 21 to buy alcohol, for instance.
Despite recognizing the big differences between a teenager and an adult in our laws, however, many states have done a poor job of taking this gap into account in their sentencing codes. They might condemning teenagers to life in prison without the opportunity for parole, for instance, for crimes they committed when they were 14 or 15 years old.
Two years ago, California passed a simple reform based on a simple idea: if our laws recognize young people are still developing cognitively and psychologically, our penal code should too. SB 260, sponsored by California Senator Loni Hancock, allowed that once juveniles have served many years of a long sentence—between 15 and 25 depending on the offense—they should have the opportunity to demonstrate personal growth and rehabilitation to a parole board. Passing this reform in 2013 was a significant achievement.
This year Senator Hancock has introduced SB 261, building on the same principle to give similar consideration to people serving long sentences for crimes committed as young adults (ages 18 to 23). The latest scientific research shows that young adult brains, like those of juveniles, are not yet fully matured. In fact, young adults' capacities for judgement, decision-making, and appreciating the consequences of their actions are not fully developed until their early twenties. This makes juveniles and young adults uniquely capable of change, personal growth, and rehabilitation.
It's only fair to recognize the difference between young- and full-grown adults in sentencing, just as we draw a distinction between juveniles and adults. People who commit offenses before their capacities are fully formed deserve a second chance--an opportunity for a parole hearing if they mature, rehabilitate, and pay serious restitution to their victims and to the community.
SB 261 is compassionate, fair, and backed up by the latest scientific understanding of brain development. But it is also by no means lenient. To be eligible for a hearing, the bill would require that a young person must have served at least 15 years of his or her sentence, and even longer for more serious crimes. This is no small amount of time for young adult—it means spending a period of potentially more than half their lives at sentencing behind bars.
If young adults demonstrate real personal growth, rehabilitation, and remorse, they should have the opportunity to be eligible for a parole hearing after spending a very long period of time in prison. The California legislature should pass SB 261 to give them this opportunity--and other states across country should look to it as a model for making the criminal justice system more fair as well as more efficient.
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Over the last million years, ice ages have intensified and lengthened. According to a new study, this important climate transition coincides with a decrease of the mixing between deep and surface waters in the Southern Ocean. Reduced mixing prevented CO2 release into the atmosphere which lowered the greenhouse effect for thousands of years. The study confirms that the Antarctic region plays a crucial role during periods of climate change.
An analysis of marine sediments collected at a depth of more than 2 km has provided new insights to one of the mysteries of Earth's climate history: the mid-Pleistocene climatic transition, which began around one million years ago. During this transition ice ages lengthened and intensified, and their frequency changed from 40,000 years to 100,000 years. The study, which is published this week in the journal Science, shows one of the keys to this phenomenon lies in the deep waters of the ocean surrounding Antarctica, i.e. the Southern Ocean.
An international research team traced the evolution of mixing between deep and surface waters in the Southern Ocean. This process plays a key role in the global climate system, because it brings CO2-rich deep ocean waters to the surface, where the CO2 escapes into the atmosphere. The study shows that mixing was significantly reduced during ice ages at the end of the Mid-Pleistocene Transition, about 600,000 years ago. "Our data explains how reduced mixing prevented CO2 release by the ocean, which in turn reduced the greenhouse effect for thousands of years leading to longer and more intense ice ages. The study provides new clues that help us to better understand one of the most important climatic transition of the past 2 million years of Earth's climate history", says Alfredo Martínez-García, scientific group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz who led/conducted the study together Adam Hasenfratz, a PhD student at ETH Zurich, Samuel Jaccard, Professor at the University of Bern, Daniel Sigman, Professor at Princeton University, and Gerald Haug, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and Professor at ETH Zurich.
The historical reconstruction of the ocean mixing was done using a sediment core 169 meters long, taken from beneath the ocean floor at a depth of 2800 meters, some 2500 kilometers south of the coast of South Africa. The core was retrieved during the late 1990s as part of the International Ocean Drilling Project (IODP).
During his PhD at ETH, Adam Hasenfratz isolated and analysed shells from foraminifera, protozoa with a calcite skeleton. The chemical composition of the shells depends on the marine conditions during the shells' formation, in particular salinity and water temperature. Hasenfratz focused on one species that lives on the ocean floor (Melonis pompilioides) and one that lives at the ocean surface (Neogloboquadrina pachyderma). That enabled him to obtain information on the temperature and salinity of both deep and surface waters over a period of more than a million years. The ratio of magnesium to calcium present in a foraminifera shell depends on the temperature of the water as the shell is being formed. The salinity of the water was estimated based on the ratio of two isotopes of oxygen (16Oand 18O) present in the calcite (CaCO3) shell, which reflects both the temperature and salinity of the water. The analysis shows that the surface waters cooled over the course of the last million years, especially during ice ages. This reduced the temperature difference between the surface and the cold, deep waters, which in principle should have intensified mixing. But this trend was reversed by the marked decrease in salinity of the surface waters, which became less dense and thus less susceptible to mixing with the deeper layers. The study shows that mixing of the waters diminished significantly at the end of the mid-Pleistocene climatic transition, which allowed the deep waters to sequester CO2 for a longer period of time, potentially explaining the change from 40,000 years to 100,000 years in the periodicity of ice ages.
The study was carried out in collaboration by researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz (Germany), ETH Zurich (Switzerland), University of Bern (Switzerland), Princeton University (United States), the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), the University of Bergen (Norway) and the British Antarctic Survey (United Kingdom).


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NEW CASE MAKES IT HARDER TO SUE A CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION
By Eric Glazer, Esq.
In Iezzi Family Limited Partnership, v. Edgewater Beach Owners Association, Inc., the owner of a condominium unit filed a 27-count complaint against the condominium's Association and seven current or former directors or officers of the Association, seeking both equitable and legal relief. The trial court dismissed Iezzi's action, finding that its claims were derivative and Iezzi did not comply with Florida's derivative pre-suit requirements. On appeal, the First DCA affirmed.
A derivative suit has been defined as an action in which a stockholder seeks to enforce a right of action existing in the corporation; the injury sustained by the stockholder bringing such suit is basically the same as the injury sustained by other stockholders in the corporation and any harm is primarily against the corporation.
Many courts have permitted condominium unit owners to seek equitable relief (not money) from their associations and directors, especially when the alleged injury is to common areas of the condominium. However, where monetary damages will be sought, and the claims of the plaintiff are no different than a claim that any other unit owner may bring, the pre-suit requirements of the derivative statute must be complied with. Pursuant to Florida Statute 617.07401, those requirements are:
A complaint in a proceeding brought in the right of a domestic or foreign corporation must be verified and allege with particularity the demand made to obtain action by the board of directors and that the demand was refused or ignored by the board of directors for at least 90 days after the date of the first demand unless, before the expiration of the 90 days, the person was notified in writing that the corporation rejected the demand, or unless irreparable injury to the corporation would result by waiting for the expiration of the 90-day period. If the corporation commences an investigation of the charges made in the demand or complaint, the court may stay any proceeding until the investigation is completed.
The court may dismiss a derivative proceeding if, on motion by the corporation, the court finds that one of the groups specified in paragraphs (a)-(c) has made a good faith determination after conducting a reasonable investigation upon which its conclusions are based that the maintenance of the derivative suit is not in the best interests of the corporation. The corporation has the burden of proving the independence and good faith of the group making the determination and the reasonableness of the investigation. The determination shall be made by:
(a) A majority vote of independent directors present at a meeting of the board of directors, if the independent directors constitute a quorum;
(b) A majority vote of a committee consisting of two or more independent directors appointed by a majority vote of independent directors present at a meeting of the board of directors, whether or not such independent directors constitute a quorum; or
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All-New 2023 Honda Civic Type R Under Development
2023 Honda Civic Type R | Photo: Honda
The hotly-anticipated 11th generation Honda Civic Type R should pick up where the 10th generation car left off
Much of it is happening at the Suzuka Circuit in Japan.
The new Type R arrives in 2022.
Honda says it will be the best performing Honda Civic Type R ever.
Honda and Acura have the annoying habit of either missing the mark or doing the exact opposite and creating some of the most memorable cars of their era. One car they've never messed up is the Civic Type R. And Honda promises that the next one will be the best-ever.
The all-new 11th generation Honda Civic has already proven to be an impressive compact car. More refined and competent than ever, it will serve as the base for the upcoming Si and Type R. The former, on paper, hasn't exactly impressed aficionados however those who've so far had wheel time with it say it's good.
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Right now, Honda engineers are beating on test mules at the world-famous Suzuka Circuit in Japan. The launch of the all-new 11th generation 2023 Honda Civic Type R is set for some time next year.
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Exploring Sub-Saharan African History
I am currently taking a brief course, "Sub-Saharan African History to Colonialism," to learn about such history "from many angles: anthropological, historical, geographic, cultural, and religious. From human origins through the populating of the continent, the great civilizations, the slave trades, to the beginning of European domination." Offered by the University of Minnesota's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI), the course's instructor is Tom O'Toole, Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Anthropology of Minnesota's St. Cloud State University.
Why does this Euro-American septuagenarian take this course? Foremost, I know virtually nothing about this history and want to know more. I also realize that I have various direct and indirect connections with Africa.
The most immediate precipitating cause is reading the discussion of the names of African and African-American intellectuals and historical figures that were discovered at Howard University by African-American author Ta-Nehisi Coates and recounted in his book "Between the World and Me" and my realizing that I did not know virtually any of these people. This book also has prompted me to research and investigate my own notions of race, including my recent posts about statements from the American Anthropological Association about race's non-scientific basis and historical and cultural background. Further posts about notions of race are forthcoming.
I learned more about one of these figures of African history this spring when my 10th-grade grandson wrote a History Day paper on Mansa Musa, who was a 14th century Emperor or King of Mali. Moreover, one of my sons knows more about this history from his having studied African history and Swahili at the University of Minnesota and from spending a semester in Kenya with a program of the National Outdoor Leadership School and then a week on his own living with a Maasai tribesman in that country.
Coates also legitimately castigates the U.S. history of slavery and its lasting impacts on our country. This has underscored my interest in the importation of slaves from Africa to the Western Hemisphere. This was part of Lawrence Hill's fascinating novel "The Book of Negroes" ("Someone Knows My Name"), about which I have written. Moreover, I have visited Matanzas, Cuba and Salvador, Brazil, which were major ports of importation of African slaves to work on sugar plantations in those countries.
I have a number of friends from West Africa (Cameroon, Nigeria and Ghana) and visited Cameroon on a mission trip from Minneapolis' Westminster Presbyterian Church. There I learned about the country's having been a German colony (Kamerun) in the 19th century and then having French and British administration under League of Nations mandates after Germany was stripped of its African colonies by the 1919 Treaty of Versailles ending World War I. Forty-plus years later Cameroon became an independent country with the joinder of the Francophone and Anglophone territories. Yet life today in the country is still affected by the language and cultural differences from the French and British governance and less so by the previous 30-plus years of German rule.
I also have visited Namibia, Botswana and South Africa focused primarily on observing their magnificent wildlife and nature, but also the prison on Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela and other African National Congress leaders were imprisoned during the years of apartheid. In addition, I had the opportunity to see and hear Mandela speak at a 2003 celebration of the centennial of the Rhodes Scholarships held at Westminster Hall in London and to see him escorted through the Hall's audience, only 10 feet from me and my wife, by Bill Clinton and Tony Blair.
The visit to South Africa also included stopping at Cecil Rhodes' Cottage and Museum at Mulzenberg overlooking False Bay and the Indian Ocean at the southwest corner of the country. (My interest in Cecil Rhodes, the Founder of the Scholarships, and his 19th century involvement in South Africa and Rhodesia (now known as Zimbabwe) stems from being a Rhodes Scholar who was "up" at Oxford, 1961-1963, and from my gratitude for being a beneficiary of his largess.)
While co-teaching international human rights law at the University of Minnesota Law School, I learned about the International Criminal Court, whose initial cases all came from Africa, thereby prompting some resistance from African leaders who thought this was anti-African discrimination. (I have written many blog posts about the ICC.) Previously I had been a pro bono lawyer for two Somali men's successful applications for asylum in the U.S.
Other indirect connections are provided by three Grinnell College classmates. One became a professor of African history. Another served in Africa with the Peace Corps in Ethiopia, where he met his English wife serving in a similar British program and where they both frequently return to participate in a project of preparing and distributing audio textbooks for blind students. The third classmate, also in the Peace Corps, served in Mali, where he was involved in smallpox eradication. In addition, one of my Grinnell roommates from Chicago now lives in South Africa.
All of these direct and indirect connections with Africa provided additional motivation to learn more about its history. In a subsequent post I will attempt to summarize the key points of this brief exploration of African history.
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Science Center Hosts 'Better Ball' Tournament
Carolyn Broadhead, Kellie Stenzel, Rebecca Seelig and Catherine Broadhead
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Heath Randolph and Val Perez served as co-chairs of the South Florida Science Center and Aquarium's third- annual Golf Classic.
The "better ball" tournament, held at Mayacoo Lakes Country Club, was hosted by the science center's Young Professional Organization.
Val Perez and Ed Tancer
Golf Classic committee members included Carolyn Broadhead, Scott Butler, Lew Crampton, Russ Evans, Matthew Ferguson, Rob Ford, Jeremy Johnson, Max Macon, Mack Perry, Grier Pressly, Kevin Probel, Cater Randolph, Brian Ray, Judd Rowe, Rebecca Seelig, and Jeff Smith.
Major sponsors included Fifth Third Bank, Garden of Life, CBiz, and First Republic Bank.
"It is through fundraising efforts, such as the Golf Classic, that the Science Center can continue to host impactful exhibits, such as 'Afterlife,' which is currently on display," said Marcy Hoffman, director of institutional advancement for the Center.
About 70 golfers attended the Oct. 27, 2014, event.
Graham Davidson, Grier Pressly, Heath Randolph and Cater Randolph
The South Florida Science Center and Aquarium was recently named the Chamber of Commerce of the Palm Beaches' nonprofit of the year. It features more than 50 hands-on educational exhibits, an 8,000-gallon fresh- and salt-water aquarium, a digital planetarium, conservation research station, Florida exhibit hall and interactive Everglades exhibit.
"Afterlife: Tombs & Treasures of Ancient Egypt" is the center's newest traveling exhibit, featuring more than 200 ancient and authentic artifacts.
For more information, call (561) 832-1988 or visit www.sfsciencecenter.org.
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Modeling and docking antibody structures with Rosetta
Brian D. Weitzner, Jeliazko R. Jeliazkov, Sergey Lyskov, Nicholas Marze, Daisuke Kuroda, Rahel Frick, Naireeta Biswas, View ORCID ProfileJeffrey J. Gray
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Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
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Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.Department of Analytical and Physical Chemistry, Showa University School of Pharmacy, Tokyo 142-8555, Japan.
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Centre for Immune Regulation, Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway; Centre for Immune Regulation, Department of Immunology, Oslo University Hostpital Rikshospitalet, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
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Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.Program in Molecular Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.Institute for NanoBioTechnology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
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Irina Igorevna Poltoratskaya (, born 12 March 1979 in Antratsyt, Luhansk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR) is a Russian team handball player, playing on the Russian women's national handball team. She won gold medal with the Russian winning team in the 2005 World Women's Handball Championship in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and again in the 2007 World Women's Handball Championship in France.

Irina's career in Russia was stopped by a knee injury.  Anja Andersen, the coach of Slagelse Dream Team, Denmark brought Irina to Slagelse DT in 2004, and a few months later she underwent surgery and got a new meniscus.  The operation was successful, but only a year later did Irina return to the field.  Irina scored on penalties for Slagelse in the Champions League final, and she gave Anja Andersen her gold medal from the World Cup, as a thank you for helping her return to the world of handball.

Irina left Slagelse after some time and returned to the Russian national team (though a smaller role than before), where she ia.  played alongside Emiliya Turey, who she also played with when she played for Slagelse.

She is the wife of Russian handball player Timur Dibirov who plays for Macedonian club RK Vardar.

Individual awards
 MVP of 2007 EHF Women's Champions Trophy

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The New Era of Conscious Consumerism
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The insatiable rise of the conscious consumer has taken extraordinary effect in the world of retail. The latest edition of Raconteur in which MOF featured stated two in three of us claim to be belief driven buyers. A social activist, often environmentally engaged and purpose-driven, this new player demands tangible action from the brands they invest in.
Remaining perceptive to the impact of one's purchase decision is not a new concept. But the current pervasiveness of the conscious consumer, to the extent that corporate giants are somewhat shunned should they remain quiet on environmental or social matters, is new.
This cultural supercharging of branding is forcing a rethink across the retail sector, namely how companies are to forge meaningful alliances with their constituents. A loyalty that no longer can be achieved with traditional, above-the-line advertising.
Matter Of Form traces the perfect storm that has facilitated the rise of conscious consumers and the unprecedented impact this has taken on branding with the advent of digital.
You don't have to be an expert to know that the world's resources are being stretched to their very limit. With World Earth Day just around the corner, the current climate change crisis is staring at each and everyone of us in the face.
"It takes 2,700 litres of water to make a single cotton T-shirt – enough for one person to drink for 900 days."
In 2015, greenhouse gas emissions from textiles production, including damaging practices along the supply and delivery chains, totalled 1.2 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent, according to a report by the Circular Fibres Initiative. That's more than the emissions of all international flights and maritime shipping combined.
Conscious consumerism is an attempt, amongst other reasons, to face down the environmental degradation of rampant consumerism.
Further frustrating matters is the perception of ineffectual governments. Against a backdrop of rising populism and deepening inequality, governments are considered by many parochial and partisan. Three months ago, 2 million people signed a petition to sue the French government for not doing enough for the environment. Titled, "The Business of the Century" (L'affaire du siècle), it became the single most signed petition in the history of France in less than 3 weeks.
Only last week, sixteen-year-old Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Greta Thunberg, inspired one of the biggest environmental marches of this century. Over a 24 hour period, one million students across the world skipped school to deplore the actions of ignorant governments.
There is a burning desire for change with a seemingly luke-warm civic response.
Meanwhile, the digital world in which we inhabit, governed by clicks, likes and opinions, has democratised means of communication and encouraged consumers to collectively learn the impact of our purchase decisions and the value of our voices.
Consumers now expect those they associate with to do the same. As growing calls for environmental reform fall on the deaf ears of national governments, conscious consumers are turning to and championing brands as effective force for change with unprecedented consequences for the retail sector.
Many of us have been guilty of categorizing conscious consumerism as a movement driven by millennials. Recent research revealed that a cross-generational cohort of changemakers – not solely millennials– is responsible for reshaping how we live, work and spend.
A study looking at global corporate social responsibility (CSR) found that 9 out of 10 consumers now expect companies to do more than simply turn a profit. 53% of people in a survey conducted by Edelman agree that brands can do more than government to solve social ills — and nearly half say that brands have better ideas.
"9 out of 10 consumers now expect companies to do more than simply turn a profit."
A New Type Of Brand
No longer can retailers solely rely on the weight of heritage or even traditional craftsmanship for brand equity. A brand's stance on issues prompts the same purchase intent as its promotion of product features: "a new balancing of the rational and emotional elements of the marketing equation".
This is a fundamentally new relationship between company and consumer — purchase is premised on a brand's willingness to live by its values, operate with purpose, and if necessary make the leap into activism.
Take the luxury hospitality market, for example, which is thinking green in more innovative ways than ever before. Hotels such as Six Senses and 1 Hotels now consider the toiletries on offer, in-room dining menu sources, energy consumption and impact right down to the materials used in the building. Fashion conglomerates LVMH and Kering have adopted newly formed sustainability strategies while L'Oreal has its ambitious "zero deforestation" policy in its supply chain.
Part of this new era of authenticity has been a reformation of business culture that starts from within. 1 Hotels, for example, offers staff paid time off to volunteer in environmental advocacy and public education activities. Meaningful internal brand culture has become an essential validation tool with regard to external brand messaging. Raconteur highlighted how 66% of customers said great culture attracts them to buy from certain brands over others, beyond price and quality.
Businesses are therefore looking internally to seek mutually reinforced visions of purpose and culture – something here at Matter Of Form we are particularly passionate about. Employees are unified and inspired by a common sense of purpose and identity. Less a standardised 9-5 working life, brands offer a lifestyle to both employees and customers – a reflection of the convergence of the way we live and work.
A Balancing Act
Though it should be remembered socially conscious branding is a fine line to tread: one that risks exploiting social issues for corporate benefit and blatant hypocrisy. In today's highly contentious political climate, brands must be authentic. Pepsi learnt the hard way following their disastrous attempt to piggyback the Black Lives Matter movement in 2017.
Though the heralding of sustainability or environmentalism is somewhat less political, brands are now subject to very public, intrusive analysis. In the digital, fast-globalising world we inhabit, consumers can very easily track the supply chain of particular goods and independently determine – and expose – the validity of an 'eco-conscious brand'.
"In the past, what we've seen is a lot of sustainable campaigns that were quite surface level," says Future Laboratory's Foresight Editor Ruth Marshall-Johnson. "There was a lot of lip service being paid to this idea of sustainability. Sometimes it didn't go far enough and it certainly hadn't been built into the life cycle of a product."
"What we're starting to see is more companies looking at ensuring the whole process of making a product and getting it to the consumer is sustainable," says Marshall-Johnson. "That's what's changing now."
In the digital world we inhabit, we are a cause-oriented community more so than ever before. As conscious consumers reclaim their purchasing power, brands are forced to adhere to audience demands.
It is within this context brands are presented with the opportunity to have more meaningful, constructive relationships with their audiences, who in turn demand a collective sense of purpose, beyond mere profit margins.
As climate change reaches crisis point and government action ever more disparate, consumers are taking matters into their own hands. In such a crowded marketplace, it's the brands that lead with integrity, consistently innovate, and best communicate their ethical and environmentally-conscious values to audiences that will shape conversation and cement customer loyalty.
If you'd like to know more about the role of brand strategy in today's world, particularly how brands can engender authenticity and accessibility, join us for A Conversation About Design: Brand Strategy in a Digital Age on the 21st of June at Rise London.
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Oil settles up as U.S. unemployment rate drops, but crude ends week down 5%
By Stephanie Kelly
An employee holds a sample of crude oil at the Irkutsk Oil Co-owned Yarakta field in the Irkutsk region
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices rose about 1% on Friday as an increase in U.S. jobs eased some financial market concerns that a slowing global economy could dent oil demand, but crude fell more than 5% on the week, its second consecutive weekly decline.
Brent crude <LCOc1> futures gained 66 cents, or 1.14%, to settle at $58.37 a barrel. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude <CLc1> futures rose 36 cents, or 0.7%, to settle at $52.81 a barrel.
Brent futures fell 5.7% for the week, its biggest weekly drop since July. WTI lost 5.5% for the week, also its steepest fall since July.
"The oil market is fixated on macro-economic issues and not necessarily current supply or demand," said Phil Flynn, an analyst with Price Futures Group.
U.S. job growth increased moderately in September, with the unemployment rate dropping to near a 50-year low of 3.5%, according to a U.S. Labor Department report.
The report, however, came on the heels of a string of weak economic reports, including a plunge in manufacturing activity to more than a 10-year low in September and a sharp slowdown in services industry growth to levels last seen in 2016.
"The crisis in the manufacturing sector now appears to be spilling over to the previously robust services sector. This is not good news for oil demand. After all, this also reduces the demand for transport," said Carsten Fritsch, senior commodity analyst at Commerzbank.
On the supply side, Saudi Arabia's energy minister, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, said Thursday the world's top crude oil exporter had fully restored oil output after attacks on its facilities last month knocked out more than 5% of global oil supply.
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"That Saudi restored its production back to original capacity sooner than expected means investors had to price out raised supply risks at a faster clip than would have otherwise been the case," said Fawad Razaqzada, market analyst at futures brokerage Forex.com.
Razaqzada said weak economic data, particularly from the U.S. manufacturing sector, also raised fears for oil demand, "but now that some of these factors have been priced in, oil prices may fall less sharply going forward or at best start to form a base."
Investors are also watching for further developments on tensions between the United States and Iran.
France said Iran and the United States have one month to get to the negotiating table, suggesting that Tehran's plan to increase its nuclear activities in November would spark renewed tension in the region.
In an indication of future production, U.S. energy companies this week reduced the number of oil rigs operating for a seventh week in a row. Drillers cut 3 oil rigs in the week to Oct. 4, bringing the total count down to 710, the lowest since May 2017, General Electric Co's <GE.N> Baker Hughes energy services firm said Friday. <RIG-OL-USA-BHI>
Money managers cut their net long U.S. crude futures and options positions in the week to Oct. 1, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said on Friday. The speculator group cut its combined futures and options position in New York and London by 64,471 contracts to 148,090 during the period.
(Additional reporting by Bozorgmehr Sharafedin in London and Roslan Khasawneh in Singapore; Editing by David Gregorio and Chris Reese)
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Blankfein Called It, Now the Whole World Is Watching Commodities
(Bloomberg) -- It was mid-September when Lloyd Blankfein, the former chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., suggested investing in commodities was "not a bad thing." Prices for most materials were just off pandemic lows and the asset class was still very much the ugly duckling.Fast forward four months and commodities are surging. Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Corp. and Ospraie Management LLC have all called for a bull market as stimulus kicks in and vaccines help the world emerge from the coronavirus crisis. JPMorgan Chase & Co. has also joined the chorus, advising clients to boost their exposure to materials while reducing investments in bonds.Commodities haven't been this sexy since the mid-2000s, when China was stockpiling everything from copper to cotton while crop failures and export bans around the world boosted food prices, eventually toppling governments during the Arab Spring. The backdrop is now starting to look similar, with a broad gauge of commodity prices hitting its highest in six years."You have the whole world all of a sudden looking at commodity markets," said Heber Cardoso, chief commercial officer at HedgePoint Global Markets, the structured commodities unit of ED&F Man Capital Markets that just got bought up by two investment firms. "You have low or negative interest rates fueling inflation, and there are zillions of dollars available looking for returns. There's a structural change to the way we look at commodities."Speculators are now piling in. Hedge fund bets on rising prices are near the highest since at least 2011 and are worth almost $120 billion, according to calculations that include 20 out of 23 materials in the Bloomberg Commodity Index.It took a while for Wall Street to notice that a commodities bull market was starting to take shape. Calls for a rally came mostly at the end of the year and beginning of 2021, but Blankfein had quietly called it at a Sept. 16 virtual event focused on metals and organized by CME Group Inc."From an inflation point of view, as an investor, I think investing in material sectors while they're under-appreciated is not a bad thing now," he said at the event. "Everyone has decided that we'll never have inflationary pressure again, oil prices will never go up again. I don't think so."Since then, the notional value of bullish bets on commodities has jumped by more than $30 billion. Until recently, it had been a corner of the financial markets left for the experts keen on analyzing supply and demand fundamentals.Agricultural markets have surged more than 30% over the same span, with corn recently hitting a seven-year high, while soybeans and wheat reached the highest since 2014. China is loading up on American crops and Russia, the world's top wheat exporter, has introduced an export tax that's double what it had previously planned. Even the beleaguered sugar market has seen prices surge to the highest since 2017.Copper has faced supply disruptions and the metal could still rally more than 20% and exceed $10,000 a metric tons, said Francisco Blanch, head of global commodities research at Bank of America."Copper and some of the industrial metals are facing a different story," Blanch said on Bloomberg TV Friday. "There's a structural deficit that is going to be multi-year as we move on to de-carbonize the electricity sector, but also driving."The oil market, which was battered by the pandemic that kept cars off the road and grounded planes across the globe, is also witnessing a recovery after vaccines were rolled out and Saudi Arabia decided to cut production for the next two months. Speculators are currently holding the biggest bullish bets on Brent crude in 11 months."Oil markets are certainly seeing the most constructive backdrop, both fundamentally and sentiment-wise, in several years," said Michael Tran, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets. "The vaccine rollout, the potential demand pickup, the Saudi floor in this market, those are all giving investors a degree of comfort."A weakening dollar is bringing commodities back just as investors start to wonder how much more could equities surge. Even in emerging markets like Brazil, interest rates are very low and there's more money available as investors get out of government bonds, said Cardoso of HedgePoint."There's a view that the dollar is going to be, on a long-term basis, quite weak and, with another round of stimulus coming, that we're going to be in another circumstance in which the Fed is going to have to really work at controlling inflation," said Tom Finlon of Brownsville GTR LLC, a trading and logistics firm based in Houston. "When the dollar gets cheap, you gotta buy something. That normally begets higher commodity prices."For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2021 Bloomberg L.P.
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Boonville, NY
January, the same as December, in Boonville, New York, is a freezing cold winter month, with an average temperature fluctuating between 13.5°F (-10.3°C) and 24.6°F (-4.1°C). The coldest month is January, with an average high-temperature of 24.6°F (-4.1°C) and an average low-temperature of 13.5°F (-10.3°C). Weather in January »
The last month of the winter, February, is also a subzero cold month in Boonville, New York, with temperature in the range of an average low of 15.4°F (-9.2°C) and an average high of 27.3°F (-2.6°C). In February, the average high-temperature is practically the same as in January - a still subzero cold 27.3°F (-2.6°C). Weather in February »
The first month of the spring, March, is a cold month in Boonville, New York, with an average temperature ranging between min 22.6°F (-5.2°C) and max 35.6°F (2°C). In March, the average high-temperature slightly increases from a freezing cold 27.3°F (-2.6°C) in February to a wintry 35.6°F (2°C). Weather in March »
April in Boonville, New York, is a frosty spring month, with an average temperature fluctuating between 33.3°F (0.7°C) and 49.3°F (9.6°C). In April, the average high-temperature increases from a cold 35.6°F (2°C) in March to a frosty 49.3°F (9.6°C). Weather in April »
May, the last month of the spring in Boonville, is a comfortable month, with an average temperature fluctuating between 64°F (17.8°C) and 44.4°F (6.9°C). In May, the average high-temperature increases considerably from a frosty 49.3°F (9.6°C) in April to an enjoyable 64°F (17.8°C). Weather in May »
June, the first month of the summer in Boonville, is an agreeable month, with an average temperature varying between 70.3°F (21.3°C) and 51.1°F (10.6°C). In Boonville, the average high-temperature in June marginally rises from a comfortable 64°F (17.8°C) in May to an agreeable 70.3°F (21.3°C). Weather in June »
July is a warm summer month in Boonville, New York, with an average temperature varying between 76.5°F (24.7°C) and 56.8°F (13.8°C). With an average high-temperature of 76.5°F (24.7°C) and an average low-temperature of 56.8°F (13.8°C), July is the warmest month. Weather in July »
August, the last month of the summer in Boonville, is another warm month, with an average temperature ranging between max 74.1°F (23.4°C) and min 55.6°F (13.1°C). In Boonville, New York, the average high-temperature in August is almost the same as in July - a still warm 74.1°F (23.4°C). Weather in August »
September, the first month of the autumn in Boonville, is also an agreeable month, with an average temperature fluctuating between 49.8°F (9.9°C) and 68.2°F (20.1°C). In September, the average high-temperature marginally drops from a warm 74.1°F (23.4°C) in August to a pleasant 68.2°F (20.1°C). Weather in September »
October, like September, in Boonville, New York, is another fresh autumn month, with temperature in the range of an average low of 41.2°F (5.1°C) and an average high of 54.1°F (12.3°C). In October, the average high-temperature drops from a pleasant 68.2°F (20.1°C) in September to a cool 54.1°F (12.3°C). Weather in October »
The last month of the autumn, November, is also a wintry month in Boonville, New York, with an average temperature ranging between max 40.8°F (4.9°C) and min 30°F (-1.1°C). In Boonville, New York, the average high-temperature in November decreases from a cool 54.1°F (12.3°C) in October to a cold 40.8°F (4.9°C). Weather in November »
December, the first month of the winter in Boonville, is still a freezing cold month, with an average temperature varying between 21.7°F (-5.7°C) and 30.9°F (-0.6°C). In Boonville, the average high-temperature in December drops from a cold 40.8°F (4.9°C) in November to a subzero cold 30.9°F (-0.6°C). Weather in December »
What is the coldest month in Boonville?
January is the coldest month, with an average high-temperature of 24.6°F (-4.1°C) and an average low-temperature of 13.5°F (-10.3°C).
What are the most humid months in Boonville?
The months with the highest humidity in Boonville are January and February, with an average relative humidity of 90%.
How many days does it rain in Boonville?
Throughout the year, in Boonville, there are 168.4 rainfall days, and 45.28" (1150mm) of precipitation is accumulated.
When does it snow in Boonville?
January through May, October through December are months with snowfall in Boonville, New York.
How many days does it snow in Boonville?
Throughout the year, there are 101 snowfall days, and 75.43" (1916mm) of snow is accumulated.
What is the month with the lowest UV index in Boonville?
The months with the lowest UV index are January, February, November and December, with an average maximum UV index of 1.
What is the snowiest month in Boonville?
The month with the most snowfall in Boonville is February, when snow falls for 21.7 days and typically aggregates up to 16.85" (428mm) of snow.
What is the month with the least sunshine in Boonville?
February has the least sunshine of the year in Boonville, with an average of 2.1h of sunshine.
When is Daylight Saving Time (DST) in Boonville?
On Sunday, March 12. 2023, at 2:00 am, Daylight Saving Time starts in Boonville, and the time zone changes from EST to EDT. Daylight Saving Time ends Sunday, November 5. 2023, at 2:00 am, and the time zone reverts from EDT to EST.
What is the least humid month in Boonville?
With an average relative humidity of 78%, May is the least humid month in Boonville.
When it does not snow in Boonville?
In Boonville, New York, snow does not fall in June through September.
When are the longest days in Boonville?
June has the longest days of the year in Boonville, with an average of 15h and 22min of daylight.
When is the highest UV index in Boonville?
What is the warmest month in Boonville?
July is the warmest month in Boonville, New York, with an average high-temperature of 76.5°F (24.7°C) and an average low-temperature of 56.8°F (13.8°C).
What month has the most sunshine in Boonville?
July has the most sunshine of the year, with an average of 9.5h of sunshine.
What is the driest month in Boonville?
September is the month with the least rainfall in Boonville. Rain falls for 14.8 days and accumulates 2.72" (69mm) of precipitation.
What is the wettest month in Boonville?
The month with the most rainfall in Boonville is October, when the rain falls for 17.9 days and typically aggregates up to 4.65" (118mm) of precipitation.
What is the month with the shortest days in Boonville?
December has the shortest days of the year in Boonville, with an average of 9h and 1min of daylight.
The windiest month (with the highest average wind speed) is January (9.5mph).
The calmest month (with the lowest average wind speed) is August (5.9mph).
The months with the highest relative humidity are January and February (90%).
The month with the lowest relative humidity is May (78%).
The wettest month (with the highest rainfall) is October (4.65").
The driest month (with the least rainfall) is September (2.72").
The month with the least rainy days is February (6.4 days).
The month with the highest number of snowfall days is January (22.8 days).
The month with the most sunshine is July (Average sunshine: 9h and 30min).
The month with the least sunshine is February (Average sunshine: 2h and 6min).
The month with the most sunshine days is September (13.4 days).
The month with the least sunshine days is February (4.8 days).
The months with the lowest UV index are January, February, November and December (UV index 1).
The month with the most cloud cover is January (Cloud cover 80).
The months with the highest visibility are April, May, June, July, August, September, October and November (5mi).
The months with the lowest visibility are January, February, March and December (4mi).
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