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China's greenhouse gas emissions likely to peak by 2025 or even earlier
China's greenhouse gas emissions could peak more than five years earlier than expected, helping to avoid dangerous climate change, according to a new paper published by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and the ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy at London School of Economics and Political Science.
The authors of the paper, Fergus Green and Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, find that, although President Xi Jinping has agreed publicly to reduce emissions by 2030, China's emissions will likely begin to decline by 2025.
Whereas coal consumption in China grew at around 9–10% per year in the first decade of this century, it fell in 2014 by nearly 3% according to recently released preliminary Chinese statistics, and fell even further in the first quarter of 2015. In our analysis of structural and cyclical trends in the electricity and industrial sectors, we conclude that China's coal use has reached a structural maximum and is likely to plateau over the next five years. Though there are some structural risks of coal use increasing over this period, there are possibilities, in our view more likely, that it will continue to decline. Use of natural gas in these sectors will increase rapidly over the next 5–10 years, from a low base.
In the transport, sector, China's oil consumption and carbon dioxide emissions are likely to continue growing over at least the next decade, from a relatively low base today, but existing and planned policy measures are likely to result in more moderate growth than commonly projected in many studies conducted over the past decade, with strong potential for future mitigation.
In light of Chinese economic and policy trends affecting the structure of the economy and the consumption of fossil fuels — particularly coal — across power generation, industry and transport, we conclude that the peak in China's carbon dioxide emissions from energy, and in overall GHG emissions, is unlikely to occur as late as 2030, and more likely to occur by 2025. It could well occur even earlier than that.
This suggests that China's international commitment to peak carbon dioxide emissions "around 2030" should be seen as a conservative "upper limit" from a government that prefers to under-promise and over-deliver. It is important that governments, businesses and citizens everywhere understand this fundamental change in China, reflect on their own ambitions on climate change, and adjust upwards expectations about the global market potential for low-carbon and environmental goods and services.
Were China's emissions indeed to peak around 2020–2025, it would be reasonable to expect a peak emissions level for China of around 12.5–14 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent. This could hold open the possibility that global GHG emissions could be brought onto a pathway consistent with the international goal of limiting global warming to no more than 2°C. Whether the world can get onto that pathway in the decade or more after 2020 depends in significant part on China's ability to reduce its emissions at a rapid rate, post-peak (as opposed to emissions plateauing for a long time), on the actions of other countries in the next two decades, and on global actions over the subsequent decades.
This entry was posted in Analysis, China, climate change, News on June 9, 2015 by News Sources.
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Q: SQLCMDMODE from SSMS. Can I set -b mode when using :r to include files? As far as I read msdn there is no variable that corresponds to the -b flag of the command (on error batch abort).
I found no to enable this mode inside a script when running in sqlcmd mode.
Is there any to force
:r filename
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A: No, you can't.
Not in the supported subset of options: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174187.aspx

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Nederländska Antillerna deltog i de olympiska sommarspelen 1992 med en trupp, men ingen av landets deltagare erövrade någon medalj.

Friidrott

Herrarnas 110 meter häck
 James Sharpe
 Heat — 14,49 (→ gick inte vidare)

Segling

Herrarnas lechner
Constantino Saragoza
 Slutlig placering — 368,0 poäng (→ 38:e plats)

Damernas lechner
Bep de Waard
 Slutlig placering — 226,0 poäng (→ 22:e plats)

Referenser

1992 i Nederländska Antillerna
Nationer i olympiska sommarspelen 1992
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By Tim Rosaforte Photos by Getty Images
Both Troy Merritt (above) and Graham Delaet are products of the unheralded Boise State golf program.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fl. -- One hails from a suburb of Minneapolis, the other from Saskatchewan, but their connection besides growing up in short golf seasons is an intersection at that golf hotbed known as Boise State University. In football the Broncos just won their second-straight WAC title and are famous for the blue turf of their field, but on the green grass at Bear Lakes CC the Boise alumni association is 1-2 going into the final day of the PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament. What was supposed to be Rickie Fowler's Q School has become a show of force by Troy Merritt of D-II Winona State before transferring up to Division I competition at Boise; and Graham Delaet, a Canadian who spent some time growing up in a town called Moose Jaw, before moving on to play his college golf in the relatively balmy climate of Treasure Valley.
"You have to learn to play in inclement weather," said Kevin Burton, the Boise State golf coach who inherited Delaet and had Merritt for his final two years of eligibility. "It's not like you're playing golf in a dome. But overall, we have some pretty good weather up here. We play golf year round. We have to bust the myth that this is a winter wonderland."
It's all relative: On Sunday morning, as Merritt, 24, and Delaet, 27, finished up the fourth round of this six-round marathon in Palm Beach County, the temperature rose to 21 degrees in Boise, with a wind-chill of 9 degrees.
Burton, who played the 2007 PGA Championship in searing temperatures in Tulsa, was not surprised that two of his former players were handling the heat of Q School. He called Delaet a human specimen and referenced Burton's 10 victories in his two years at Boise State.
The raw athletic ability in both came through as they hit balls side-by-side before the fifth round. Merritt was an all-conference guard on the 2004 Spring Lake Park High basketball team that gave his school its first trip to the state 3A tournament. Delaet was a hockey player before turning in his stick for clubs. They both acknowledged watching Boise whip New Mexico State 42-7 the night before.
"It's Dil-ette, like the razor, which I obviously don't use," he said, stroking a blond beard and wearing J. Lindeberg. After winning earlier this year on the Sunshine Tour, Delaet was actually ranked 163rd in the world, impressing Retief Goosen in South Africa and Padraig Harrington in Scotland. "They get on the back nine at St. Andrews (in the Dunhill Links Championship) and Harrington asked him if he knew what his ball speed was," said Burton. "And he barely gets it to parallel."
After representing Canada in the World Cup, Delaet flew from China, arriving in Miami on Monday 48 hours before the opening round at Bear Lakes. Merritt, who won the Nationwide Tour's Mexico Open, was two strokes up on him when fifth-round play was suspended Sunday night.
Keeping track on PGATour.com and later on Golf Channel will be Burton, who had his No. 1 recruit in from Arizona over the weekend for an official visit. Boise may be 2,432 miles to the northwest of West Palm Beach, but watching Merritt and Delaet take the top two places in 80 degree temperatures, the kid from 'Zona gave Burton his verbal commitment.
As the great tradition of Boise State golf continued to unfold, several story lines continued to take shape:
Fowler, who was nine strokes back of Merritt and right on the number to qualify, will need to gain exempt status on the PGA Tour. As a non-member, his finish in the 126-150 slot on the PGA Tour money list does not give him unlimited exemptions, but there doesn't seem to be a cause of great concern. He will get seven exemptions and is already entertaining offers to play in Europe.
Good karma continued to shine on Brendan Pappas (T-4), who loaned Chris Couch $3,000 to keep his career alive in 2003 and J.P. Hayes (T-8), who turned himself in after realizing he used a ball that was not on the conforming list during second stage qualifying in 2008.
Past major champions continued to have a rough tournament, with David Duval (T-102) looking at a year where he'll be exempt into the first three majors thanks to his T-2 at the U.S. Open, but nothing much else; Todd Hamilton was at 10-over 226 and tied for 156th when he withdrew; and, Shaun Micheel (T-46), who had to roll up his pant legs and wade thigh deep into a water hazard on the 16th hole when his putter ended in a submerged position after a three-putt. Micheel came back to birdie the next hole and laughed in the locker room afterward. "It was not one of my finer moments," he said. "There's still water spilling out of the grip, I think."
Tom Pernice Jr., who turned 50 in September and celebrated by winning the SAS Championship on the Champions Tour, is staying forever young with a T-20 going into the final round. "I still want to play on the PGA Tour, the opportunity is there, I mean I'd probably be home playing golf anyway so I might as well come here -- rather than just go play," Pernice said. "It's still just playing golf. Try to shoot the low score. It's not any different than we do on the other weeks."

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A Year in Reading: Omar El Akkad
Omar El Akkad December 4, 2019 | 6 books mentioned 4 min read
All that follows is the product of serendipity. Almost every book I read this year came to me through some unexpected channel—blurb requests, books picked up at random in literary festivals. Every year I set out with a plan, a list of upcoming releases to look out for, classics to catch up on. And every year, thankfully, I fail.
Here is the best of the accidental rabbit holes into which I climbed this year, the accidental lives I briefly lived.
The book I've thought about the most this year is a novel called A Luminous Republic by Andrés Barba. It takes place in a small city called San Cristóbal, where one day a group of 32 children, seemingly feral and speaking their own secret language, arrive. Slowly they begin to sow terror among the residents, and the municipal government goes to greater and greater lengths to hunt them down. If Lord of the Flies charted the ugliness that follows societal collapse, A Luminous Republic charts the chaos of societal tyranny, what happens when human beings abdicate their humanity.
A few months ago, a publisher sent me a copy of a novel called They Will Drown in Their Mothers' Tears, by Johannes Anyuru. Upon reading the synopsis—amidst a terror attack, one of the Islamic extremists has a change of heart—I was prepared to hate it. I've read a lot of "reluctant terrorist" novels and almost all of them descend into lazy, often racist cliché. But this is something else entirely—a mind-bending thing, wandering across alternate futures and playing with time and space in ways I didn't expect at all. It's much more a novel about belonging and nativism than terrorism, and is the most original piece of writing I read this year.
A few people recommended to me the tiny Japanese novel Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, describing it as a kind of comic gem. It's the story of a woman who works in a convenience store because, well, the routine is a welcome respite from the machinations of the rest of the social world, a world she doesn't understand or want any part of. But upon reading it, I was left with the same sensation I had after reading A Confederacy of Dunces—this novel billed as a laugh riot is in reality a story about a deep and crushing loneliness, about the ways in which the world is a supremely difficult place for many of us to navigate. It's a marvelous story, but what's comic about it masks something much darker.
Two of the best novels I read this year were debuts. Little Gods by Meng Jin opens with a woman giving birth in a Beijing hospital on the night of the Tiananmen Square massacre. What follows is a slow-burn unveiling of what happened to the woman, her husband, and her child in the years that followed. It is a masterfully crafted story about the gravity of the past, that unceasing pull toward a thing at once hidden and all encompassing. Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn opens with a 7-year-old boy falling off a cruise ship and into the shark-infested waters below, only for the sharks to carry him to safety. It is the first sign of the strange magic that lives within Nainoa Flores, the magic with which he and his family will have to contend. Washburn's novel is an exceptional meditation on otherness, belonging, the ravages of poverty, and the many meanings of family. Both of these books come out early next year and both deserve all the attention I suspect they'll soon be getting.
I read a lot of marvelous poetry this year, beginning with Ilya Kaminsky's Deaf Republic. It's a book about war, and I've read a lot of books about war, but few as capable of mining that gray space where resistance and cowardice intersect. In Kaminsky's work there is, amidst the violent oppression of wartime, room for love, lust, self-interest, self-sabotage—room for so much humanness, so much life. Quarrels by Eve Joseph is a stunning piece of literary beauty and whimsy—it begins with a train coming to a stop too suddenly, and all the babies lifting out of their carriages and into the arms of strangers. Every vignette moves in entirely unexpected directions, every page in this way reading like a strange and wonderful secret. I Become a Delight to My Enemies by Sara Peters—which cannot be described as either poetry or prose, but rather an experimental thing somewhere in between—is something like a dark mirror of Joseph's work. Told in vignettes, the story takes place in an unnamed town where the women residents are subjected to grotesque and surreal cruelty. Much like Quarrels, it's a book that has gotten almost no attention in the United States, and really should have. Finally, there is Invasive Species by Marwa Helal, a collection largely concerned with what it means to exist between cultures, between nations, a hyphenated American, and contains one of the most memorable lines I read this year: "they will say: show, don't tell / but that assumes most people can see."
A few weeks ago, a galley of Garth Greenwell's new short story collection, Cleanness, arrived at my door, and I inhaled it. Greenwell is, pound for pound, my favorite writer working in the English language right now, and his debut novel, What Belongs to You, is my pick for novel of the decade. The stories in Cleanness are each a masterpiece. There is no pretension here, no dishonesty—be the subject matter sex or joy or vulnerability or the many meanings and consequences of human proximity. It's difficult to explain just how much depth there is to Greenwell's writing; suffice it to say there are things he accomplishes, emotional destinations he reaches in the course of a sentence that many other writers can't get to over the course of a whole novel.
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Omar El Akkad is an author and journalist. His debut novel, American War, is an international bestseller and was listed by the BBC as one of 100 novels that changed our world. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
A Year in Reading: Sarah Waters
Sarah Waters December 5, 2013 | 6 books mentioned 1
Many of my most memorable reads in 2013 have, I realize now, been re-reads.
Sarah Waters | 6 books mentioned 1
A Year in Reading: Elliott Holt
Elliott Holt December 6, 2013 | 6 books mentioned 4 min read
A Year in Reading: Ayşegül Savaş
Ayşegül Savaş December 12, 2018 | 6 books mentioned 4 min read
Later still, when heat replaced thought, I spent days sitting at a table, shutters closed, not stepping out until the evening.
Ayşegül Savaş | 6 books mentioned 4 min read
A Year in Reading: Chris McCormick
Chris McCormick December 23, 2016 | 6 books mentioned
The subtitle for Hisham Matar's The Return — Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between — hints at its breadth. Turns out the "land in between" — intellectually, emotionally, and morally — is vast. A memoir, a work of investigative journalism, a political and cultural history, a meditation on family, art, freedom, loss, and home — Matar's story is almost mystically vaster than the 240 pages between its covers. More suspenseful than any novel I read this year, more haunting than any poetry I read this year, more illuminating than any academic take on the political landscape in Libya or anyplace else, The Return is a treasure. In the end, there is no end. Matar's search for his politically imprisoned father — and the Libyan people's search for new life after the trauma of Muammar al-Qaddafi — continues hazardously on. I heard once that the reason a song gets stuck in your head is because you didn't finish listening to it, that the only way to exorcise the song is to hear it out until the end. The Return is a book about unendingness, and for that reason and uncountable others, it'll remain singing in my head and my heart for a very long time.
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And from the Missus
C. Max Magee December 10, 2004 | 6 books mentioned
Believe it or not, Mrs. Millions reads circles around me, she just doesn't feel compelled to maintain a blog about it (I know, crazy). But I was able to convince her to send along a note about the best book she read this year.A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole — Ignatius J. Reilly's voluminous tweed trousers and accompanying ensemble are a spectacular introduction to an engaging, disgusting, provocative, hilarious, and amazing book about a ridiculous human. The density of prose and of Reilly's hulking mass left me incredulous.Speaking of which, I got a real kick out of the Confederacy of Dunces reference in the movie Sideways.
C. Max Magee | 6 books mentioned
A Year in Reading: Jean-Christophe Valtat
Jean-Christophe Valtat December 20, 2011 | 6 books mentioned 2 2 min read
The best things I read this year have not yet been translated into English. One was Il tempo materiale, by Giorgio Vasta. First published in 2010 in Italy, Il tempo materiale tells the story of Sicilian schoolkids in the late 70s, who, fascinated by the Red Brigades' rhetoric, take it as a guideline for their everyday lives. Taking their cues from pop culture icons and radical politics, they redefine their relationships – to the world, to themselves – through their own ridiculous sign language and absurd felonies, in a way that becomes increasingly catastrophic.
As such, it could sound a little moralistic, if it were not for the depth and the tense weirdness of the writing. Taking the point of view of a gifted but slightly oddball child with a taste for precise and strange sensations (he spends some of his time licking the tv screen) and a curious use of words (he nicknames his family members the Thread, the Stone, or the Cotton), the novel quickly becomes a quirky and often comical inquiry about the ways language authorizes or forbids access to reality, especially when you're a young adolescent in love with a mute girl.
It has one of the most uncanny first paragraphs ever and the last pages are just amazing for their cosmic ambition.
But let's face it – when it comes to Literature with a big gothic L, the Germans are the best. And if you do not mind that your reading comes along with a little mud-wrestling, then Perrudja is the book for you.
Written in the late 20s by cult-writer-without-a-cult Hans-Henny Jahnn (musician, architect, guru of an androgynous colony of artists, and a total maverick of the mind), this book is just how I like them – able to turn my brain inside out. Imagine Ibsen's Peer Gynt rewritten four-handedly by a bisexual Joyce and a mystical Musil, and you're about halfway there.
Telling the improbable experiences of an immensely rich man living in the wild Norwegian forest, it is a series of baffling paradoxes: a realistic description of Norwegian rural life but for pure expressionist purposes; characters chiseled out from the monolith of myth and yet affected with all the symptoms of the most fastidious modernist psychology; a sublime depiction of nature in his most crude, even gross aspects, but with a fascination for an extremely refined culture; a study of global techno-capitalism, but steeped in the memory of golden age utopias. It is wildly barbaric and incredibly sophisticated, incarnate and abstract, meticulous and yet exuberant – and all in a single sentence.
Reading it sometimes feels a bit like being sewn in sackcloth, clubbed and thrown down in a mountain torrent – but a very powerful and often beautiful one. Readers beware: other book may pale by comparison – and writers, be warned that this can be a humbling experience.
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Jean-Christophe Valtat | 6 books mentioned 2 2 min read
A Year in Reading: Bret Anthony Johnston
Bret Anthony Johnston December 13, 2007 | 6 books mentioned 2 min read
Bret Anthony Johnston is the author of Corpus Christi: Stories and the editor of Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer, both from Random House. Currently, he is the Director of Creative Writing at Harvard University and can be reached on the web at www.bretanthonyjohnston.com.I know this is heresy, but I'm going to recommend a book that was published this year. (If it helps, the story itself is centuries old.) Of all the books I've read this year, regardless of publication date, genre, or form, The Adventures of Amir Hamza is the best. What's more, I haven't even finished it yet.But it's so, so good. Kind of like a thinking man's, adults-only, Islamic Harry Potter. (The original Urdu text, born out of oral narratives that had been circulated for hundreds of years, appeared in the late 19th century, but English translations have always been censored.) Amir Hamza was the prophet Muhammad's uncle and he got into all kinds of cool trouble. Hamza's soulmate is the daughter of the Persian emperor, but there's a chasm of conflict keeping them apart – Frodo had it easy – and so the book follows, in utterly readable and downright addictive prose, Hamza's struggle to return to her. Did I mention that he rides a winged demon-steed? That his posse consists of a wickedly cool wizard (thinking man's Gandolf) and a funny trickster partner (thinking man's Sancho Panza)? That he has to fight an honest-to-God demon? That his sons turn against him? That, in service of getting back to his one true love, he seduces a good many women? It's a terrifically good and captivating story, bawdy and violent and occasionally poignant and often funny, and it reads just as well as a long odyssey as it does individual short stories. Speaking of, I need to get back to the book: We're just about to rout Muhlil Sagsar and Malik Ajrook!More from A Year in Reading 2007
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A Year in Reading: Todd Zuniga
Todd Zuniga December 17, 2008 | 6 books mentioned
Todd Zuniga is the founding editor of Opium Magazine and a co-founder of the Literary Death Match reading series. His fiction has appeared most recently in Canteen. He's now at work on the tentatively titled Passport, a non-fiction collection about memory and home that covers 20 countries.I feel ridiculous even listing it because of its popularity (and my tardiness to the party), but The Road by Cormac McCarthy is the book I read this year that most reminded me of two things: why I love to I write, and why I love books. It worked deep into me, so much that I ended a date prematurely with a beautiful, funny, charming woman just so I could take the longest possible subway ride home to burn through more of it. I love how it challenged my eternal optimism, how I kept wanting and wanting and wanting for things to be okay. Then there was a moment when I was as worn out as The Man and The Boy, and I threw my hands up, and said, "Fine! You win! It's not going to be okay! There is no redemption!" And then, after starving us of it for so many pages, there's humanity and there's hope.More from A Year in Reading 2008
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Trial Kennedy were an Australian rock band formed in 2002, in Melbourne, Victoria. The band released two albums, both peaked in the Australian top 50. In 2012, the band announced their break-up.

History

2002–2006: Early EPs
Trial Kennedy formed in 2002,

Trial Kennedy's first release was an independent extended play (EP), Present for a Day, recorded, engineered and produced by producer Kalju Tonuma. It was released in 2004.

In 2006's, Trial Kennedy released the EP Picture Frame, also produced by Tonuma.

2007–2012: New Manic Art and Living Undesigned
Trial Kennedy released their debut studio album, New Manic Art, on 31 May 2008. The album was produced by Nick DiDia and it debuted at number 24 on the ARIA Charts. Singles "Neighbours" and "Colour Day Tours" were instant Triple J anthems.

In September 2010 the band began work on recording their second album at Sing Sing Recording Studios in Melbourne with producer Eric J.

The first song from the second album, titled "Strange Behaviour" was released on 10 November 2010. Australian youth radio station Triple J played this song on high rotation over the summer of 2010/2011. "Best of Tomorrow" was released on 4 March 2011. Living Undesigned was released on 13 May 2011 and peaked at number 48 on the ARIA Charts. Beat Magazine said the album is "powerful [with] fun rock album: dynamic, varied and full of energetic and catchy tunes."

On 16 April 2012, the band announced via Facebook that "For a number of reasons all of us in the band have chosen to close down the project that is Trial Kennedy." The band announced their final tour dates for June 2012 with supports including Foreshadowed, My Echo and Sendfire. Their last gig was at The Corner Hotel, Melbourne, on 23 June 2012.

2013: Post-split activities
In April 2013, Tim auditioned for Season 2 of The Voice (Australia) and after successfully having two judges turn their chair he chose Delta Goodrem as his coach. He successfully defeated Oscar Chavesz in the Battle Rounds. He then progressed through the Showdown Rounds as one of the final four members of Goodrem's team left in the competition.

In November 2017, the band announced a live performance for 26 May 2018, to celebrate the ten-year anniversary of the release of New Manic Art.

Discography

Studio albums

Extended plays

Singles

Awards and nominations

AIR Awards
The Australian Independent Record Awards (commonly known informally as AIR Awards) is an annual awards night to recognise, promote and celebrate the success of Australia's Independent Music sector.

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Australian indie rock groups
Victoria (Australia) musical groups
Musical groups established in 2002
Musical groups disestablished in 2012


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2018 Volkswagen Passat Test Drive
By B. Schaffer	/ 15 September 2018 / Comments are Disabled
By Barbara & Bill Schaffer
Competing in a class of overachievers, like the latest Toyota Camry, Honda Accord, and Mazda6, the 2018 Volkswagen Passat is holding its own despite its age.
For 2018, Volkswagen is upping the ante by adding a new sportier V6 GT version to their existing fleet of six midsize Passat sedans. Along with the new GT model is a new version of their first-rate turbocharged four-cylinder engine and the addition of one of the best warranties in the business.
VW's New 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder
While some competitors have trimmed engine offerings and cut displacement, Volkswagen increased the size of their four-cylinder from 1.8- to 2.0-liters to power the front wheels through a six-speed automatic transmission. The new engine is rated at 174-hp which is four more horsepower than the previous engine, plus the torque has been increased by 23-lb.ft. to 184-lb.ft. The new four-cylinder has an EPA fuel economy rating of 25 mpg city, 36 mpg highway and 29 mpg combined – which is 2 mpg better, across the board, than the 1.8-liter engine. We averaged 27.8 mpg during our testing.
Two engine choices
Buff magazine testing showed the new engine was slightly quicker to 60 mph taking 7.8 seconds as compared to 8.0 seconds for the 1.8-liter engine. As a comparison, the 280-hp VR6 engine option uses VW's quick shifting six-speed DSG automatic transmission with Tiptronic and steering wheel mounted paddle shifters. It makes the 0 to 60 mph run in only 5.9 seconds making it one of the quickest of the midsize V6 competitors.
Seven trim levels including the new GT
Volkswagen is offering seven trim levels of the 2018 Passat: S, SE, SE with Technology, SEL Premium, R-Line, V6 GT and V6 SEL Premium. The base prices of these models range from $23,845 from the S to $35,500 for the V6 SEL Premium. Other than aftermarket-style accessories, the top price of the V6 SEL Premium is $35,545. A few option packages are available on some trim levels, but basically each model is predetermined with a set price and features. We like this type of pricing, so you don't have to add $10,000 in extras to get the car you want. Unfortunately, Volkswagen no longer offers a diesel engine or 4Motion (all-wheel drive) on the Passat.
The new 2018 Passat GT has a unique front appearance, combining the R-Line bumpers and black grille with a red surround like the trim on the VW GTI. It has new 19-inch "Tornado" aluminum-alloy wheels, sport-tuned suspension, red brake calipers, and blacked-out side window trim, spoiler and roof. It's powered by the 280-hp VR6 engine.
Safety technologies
The latest safety technologies and driver aids are an important consideration to most new car shoppers and Volkswagen has stayed up with the latest offerings. For example, the Driver's Assistance Package which includes Forward Collision Warning and Autonomous Emergency Braking, Blind Spot Monitor with Rear Traffic Alert. Plus, upper level models now have standard Adaptive Cruise Control.
Passat also offers Park Assist on SEL Premium models. This system automatically steers the car into parallel and perpendicular parking spaces (the latter both forward and in reverse). After pressing the Park Assist button— once for parallel and twice for perpendicular—the driver needs to actively control the accelerator and brake and gear selection, as Park Assist automatically steers the vehicle into the parking space.
Infotainment and communications systems
The other important features are infotainment and communications systems. Volkswagen includes their MIB II Infotainment system as standard equipment on all Passats. This system is the basis for Volkswagen's Car-Net system which connects the car in three key areas: "App-Connect," "Security & Service," and "Guide & Inform." Learn more about the Car-Net systems and many other Passat features at http://www.vw.com/models/passat/ .
Volkswagen Car-Net App-Connect smartphone integration for compatible devices is standard on all Passat models except the S trim. App-Connect offer users the ability to run select smartphone apps directly on the vehicle's display through services like Apple CarPlay , Android Auto and MirrorLink®.
The New People First Warranty
One of the most important new additions to the entire Volkswagen lineup is the new six-year/72,000-mile People First Warranty which includes powertrain coverage for engines, transmissions and 4Motion® on those cars that have the all-wheel drive system available. All the elements of the People First Warranty can be transferred to subsequent owners for up to six years or 72,000 miles, whichever occurs first, from the date it was first sold new.
Good handling and quality ride
Passat Handling characteristics are about average in the group of midsize sedans. It does produce a quality ride and a quiet interior. There's a bit of lean in the corners, but the Passat is well-balanced, and it has steering that goes where it's pointed. The four-wheel disc brakes feel strong and makes quick stops. Overall, it's an enjoyable car to drive maintaining the precision German feel we like. A buyer wanting more driving excitement should pay the extra $3,000 to get the extra performance of the VR6 engine.
Heritage and the future
The current Passat was first introduced in 2011, when Volkswagen redesigned the current model for the North American market. In 2012 it was named Motor Trend Car of the Year. Since the introduction, the Passat has received continuous upgrades and facelifts. As good as the design is, it's due for a major change, especially if they want to keep pace with the competitors who have made dramatic styling changes the last few years. A major redesign is scheduled for 2020, and the early photos show dramatic changes.
Built in Chattanooga, TN
Buying a car in the midsize category can be a daunting task especially when shopping in the midsize sedan category, which has one of the largest selections available. The Volkswagen Passat, which is built in Chattanooga, TN, offers shoppers a taste of German engineering but with the subtleties and features that American shoppers seem to appreciate.
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The phrase "alpha male" gets a lot of work in popular culture, referring to "a dominant, aggressive male who gets all the females". The phrase in its popular usage suggests that a propensity for testosterone-fueled one-upsmanship is the key quality in a leader.
The phrase apparently originated with David Mech's book The Wolf: Ecology and Behavior of an Endangered Species originally published in 1970. But in this video, Mech argues that subsequent science shows that it doesn't apply to wolves. Apparently, wolf packs are essentially families related to a mother and father, and the term "alpha" now refers to breeder.
I have no idea if the term still applies to primates or other mammals—Mech suggests it might apply to mixed packs that contain unrelated animals.
But it clearly is an abused phrase that neither describes human social organization nor is it universal among mammals.
Like earlier interpretations of evolution that assumed competition between individuals was biologically pervasive and inevitable, references to "alpha males" borrow their illicit legitimacy from an oversimplification of science.
Interesting–but I don't think confusion/revisions within a popular term need have much of an impact on sociobiology. Wolfpacks are (as we know now) highly egalitarian, and caring for their own family. An "Omega" (runt) wolf may end up being a breeder, it all depends on the dynamics of the pack. And the "Alpha wolf" terminology itself actually yielded some refreshing (from a human perspective) aspects, inasmuch as female wolves could be Alpha, too. So should we be wolves? Sorry, won't work. We're primates, and among primates there are indeed Alpha males. There are the highly sexually dimorphic gorillas, with the silverbacks and their females (and indeed, that doesn't equate to the silverback being the only breeder, as was once thought–the females sneak off to have affairs with Beta males!). So do the slightly less dimorphic chimpanzees. The one ape species that does not have dominant males is the endearing Bonono Chimp–as we all know, they "make love, not war." And they are the least sexually dimorphic of all the apes. So where are we humans in this picture? Genetically and dimorphically between the regular chimps and the bonobos, if my information is correct. At any rate, we are the closest living relatives the bonobos have–not the chimps. So are we closer to a biological society where males and females are equal, or closer to the society of natural Alpha males and subservient Beta males and females? If we believe that genes equal social destiny, then we have to face up to the fact that we will never be a completely egalitarian society, based on our hardwiring. However, if we think that human rationality enables us to rise above our nature–what philosophers have generally thought, in the old days–then all these stories about our mammalian cousins can only serve as a caveat, or (on the flipside) what Kant called a regulatory idea.
"If we believe that genes equal social destiny, then we have to face up to the fact that we will never be a completely egalitarian society, based on our hardwiring".
Given the various complex interactions between genes and the environment in which they are expressed, I'm not sure what "genes=social destiny" means. Since it is becoming increasingly obvious that, with regard to most traits, uni-directional, single-factor causal explanation is not the right account, that calls into question any simplistic extrapolation of "alpha male" behavior from primates to humans.
The point of my post was to flag the oversimplification.
"Alpha Males No Longer Dominant" is certainly a defensible assertion with some degree of validity. In humans larger males often get management jobs over smaller men. Men that are willing to fight physically for females often attract more females. Assertive males physically are often more popular than passive men (sports, etc.).
In this country we are less than 100 years away from a male dominated society, women's vote 1920. Many Generals in our history have become presidents, most recently D.D Eisenhower, 1952-1960.
Christianity, the Moslems and Jews all follow the old testament where males are supposed to report to god and the woman, in many scriptures, are supposed to answer to the husband. Many beta males, like myself, are in lifelong training for the day when they can defeat the alpha male and take over the pride. Like chimps, alpha males are part of our nature and it may be a long time before the last vestiges of this genetic propensity might fade away.


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Think 99.6% Survival Rate is OK?
Here's why it isn't.
On British television last night they showed a clip of a woman somewhere in the USA who was most indignant about the need to wear a face mask. "Do you realise this disease has a 99.6% survival rate?" she asked the reporter.
I want to ask her does she realise what a 99.6% survival rate means?
I want to ask her to think about the people she knows: her uncles, her aunts, her cousins, the people who live on her street, the shop-keepers in her neighborhood, the people who attend her church, her work colleagues.
I'm thinking she would have little difficulty in counting up to 250 people to whom she is related or who she encounters on a frequent basis.
What a 99.6% survival rate means is that, if all of them get the disease, one of them will die.
But for every one that dies up to 10 will have to spend several days or weeks in hospital suffering respiratory problems. A few of those will spend days or weeks on a ventilator. An extremely distressing state of affairs for them and for those who love them.
And, in a country lacking universal healthcare, having a serious impact on their financial health also.
Is she so selfish as to not care that, because of her failure to take simple precautions, ten of the people she knows will end up in hospital, maybe five of them on a ventilator, and one of them will die?
For someone who lives in a town of 10,000 people, a 99.6% survival rate means that, if they all get the disease, 40 will die. In a city of 250,000, 1,000 will die, 10,000 will be hospitalized.
Before I finish, I need to add that there is a terrible irony about this clip being carried on British television. You see, in the USA the proportion of the population who say they regularly wear a mask when in public spaces is over 70%. In England it is half that.
The smugness of the British media in the circumstances is beyond hypocrisy.
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Q: sql insert query with select Given this table where both reviewid and prankid are auto increment.
CREATE TABLE Review
(
reviewId INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
email VARCHAR(32) NOT NULL,
prankId INT NOT NULL,
rating INT,
comment VARCHAR(1056) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY(reviewId),
FOREIGN KEY (email) REFERENCES User(email),
FOREIGN KEY (prankId) REFERENCES Prank(prankId)
);

Would this insert statement correctly insert values into all of the attributes in review table.
INSERT INTO Review (email, prankId) SELECT email, prankId from User;
INSERT INTO Review (rating, comment) VALUES('5','amazing!');
INSERT INTO Review (rating, comment) VALUES('5','brilliant!');

A: I suspect that you want this:
INSERT INTO Review (email, prankId, rating, comment)
    SELECT email, prankId, 'S', 'amazing!'
    from User;

INSERT INTO Review (email, prankId, rating, comment)
    SELECT email, prankId, 'S', 'brilliant'
    from User;

In your version, the last two inserts will fail because email and prankid are NULL.  Remember, insert adds new rows into the table.  It doesn't modify existing rows.


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MP3: Kanye West Tells His Life Story In '30 Hours'
After premiering the 'T.L.O.P.: The Life Of Pablo' album at Madison Square Garden on Thursday (2.11.2016), Kanye West took to Twitter this morning to do what he does as usual...
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/698146073190252545
But afterwards, he got back to his "G.O.O.D. Fridays" track series & dropped "30 Hours" where he tells his life story referencing his past career for the most part. You can give "30 Hours" a listen below...
A "final tracklisting" for 'T.L.O.P.: The Life Of Pablo', which includes "Facts", "No More Parties In LA", & a "Silver Surfer Intermission", which could be an assumed reference to Max B & 'Waves' went public recently and you can give it a read below...
Kanye also announced that the album will go on sale later on today (2.12.2016)!!!
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Kirk Douglas, One of the Last Surviving Stars of Hollywood's Golden Age, Dies at 103
The iconic actor left perhaps his most indelible mark on cinema by standing up for those blacklisted in the McCarthy Era with "Spartacus" in 1960.
Oliver Jones
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Kirk Douglas liked a good fight. "He fights with his wife, he fights with the maid, he fights with the cook," Burt Lancaster, his late costar, friend and running partner once said. "God knows, he has fought with me."
It is hardly surprising then that Douglas, who died on Wednesday, nearly two decades after suffering a stroke in 1996 that left him speech impaired, fought all the way to the end. The actor, one of the few whose outsized personality loomed as large in real life as it did on the big screen and one of the very last threads connecting us to the Golden Age Hollywood dream factory, was 103 years old.
"It is with tremendous sadness that my brothers and I announce that Kirk Douglas left us today at the age of 103," Michael Douglas said in a statement. "To the world, he was a legend, an actor from the golden age of movies who lived well into his golden years, a humanitarian whose commitment to justice and the causes he believed in set a standard for all of us to aspire to."
"But to me and my brothers Joel and Peter he was simply Dad, to Catherine, a wonderful father-in-law, to his grandchildren and great grandchild their loving grandfather, and to his wife Anne, a wonderful husband," Michael Douglas wrote.
"Let me end with the words I told him on his last birthday and which will always remain true. Dad- I love you so much and I am so proud to be your son."
While suffering a stroke and courageously and publicly battling back from it may have softened Douglas' image considerably ("Truthfully, [he's] a much nicer person," is how his famous son Michael put it), Douglas maintained a reputation as one of the more controversial figures in Hollywood history. No matter the opponent, he was a near constant battler, fighting for whatever he thought was right, best or really just most representative of his genuine self.
"I'm attracted and fascinated by how difficult it is to be an individual," he told Roger Ebert in 1969. "The thing of being a so-called movie star works against you. Sure, you can always make exciting pictures, adventure pictures, but when you try something different they dump on you because you're a star. And yet that theme of the individual, fighting against society— it's always obsessed me."
"US actor Michael Douglas (L) kisses his father US actor Kirk Douglas (C) next to actor Burt Lancaster (R) during the 57th Annual Academy Awards, on March 25, 1985, in Hollywood, California. AFP PHOTO ROB BOREN (Photo credit should read ROB BOREN/AFP/Getty Images)"
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As Michael, the eldest of Douglas' four sons, told Vanity Fair in 2010, "He was a very intense, talented survivalist. He was consumed with clawing out and making something of himself…"
Many— most notably, Douglas himself— traced this intensity back to his childhood; the actor used his Horatio Alger-like life story as the basis of many of his 11 books, including his bestselling autobiography from 1988, The Ragman's Son.
Born Issur Danielovich in Amsterdam, New York, Douglas went by Izzy Dempsky before inventing his name when he moved to New York City. (Douglas was for Douglas Fairbanks and Kirk was just because "it sounded snazzy.") His parents were illiterate Russian Jews who had escaped the Communists to Ellis Island; Douglas and his six sisters grew up speaking Yiddish. It's safe to say, few actors grew up more impoverished.
"People often become actors because it's a form of escape from the real world," Douglas has said. "And I had plenty to escape, believe me. It was a helluva struggle and there were times when we didn't know when the next meal was coming from." He found his calling as a 5 year old when he read a poem in front of the parents of his first grade class and became enraptured by the applause. "An actor was born," he said.
After high school, Douglas managed to talk his way into St. Lawrence University, where he acted, was a star on the wrestling team, and worked as a janitor. After college, he sweet-talked a scholarship from American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. There he dated Betty Pepske and his future first wife Diana Dill. Betty would eventually change her name to Lauren Bacall and recommend her old flame to Paramount's Hal Wallis for a screen test.
Douglas hit Hollywood like a bat out of hell. When someone at the studio wanted him to fix his trademark chin dimple, he went ballistic: "If you don't like the hole in my chin, I am going back to Broadway!" In a fight for control that would mark his entire career, he broke his five picture deal contract with Paramount after his 1946 debut opposite Barbara Stanwyck in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers.
In 1947, he kicked off his longtime partnership with Burt Lancaster with I Walk Alone. It was the perfect pairing— the Matt and Ben of their day; gossip columnist Sheilah Graham dubbed them, "The Terrible-Tempered Twins." Said Lancaster years later, "We were both young, brash cocky, arrogant. We knew everything. Nobody liked us." (They didn't like Douglas more: Photoplay named him the most hated man in Hollywood several years running.)
"US actor Kirk Douglas (L) and Martin Sheen (R) are pictured during the 32th Cannes International Film Festival, on May 14, 1979. AFP PHOTO RALPH GATTI / AFP / RALPH GATTI (Photo credit should read RALPH GATTI/AFP/Getty Images)"
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By the time he earned his first Oscar nomination—fittingly, it was for playing a boxer in 1949's Champion—the father of two was divorced from Diana and developing an epic reputation as a ladies man. He dated, among others, Rhonda Fleming, Evelyn Keyes, Ava Gardner, Gene Tierney, Rita Heyworth, Joan Crawford, Marlena Dietrich and Pier Angeli, to whom he was briefly engaged.
It was an impressive enough tally that the reputation would dog him his entire life despite the fact that he married Anne Buydens in Vegas in 1957 and they stayed devoted to each other until his death. "Yeah, for a guy you call a womanizer I've been married for 57 years," he said in 2011. "And I still write her love poetry. I wrote her several poems. In one, I said, 'Romance begins at 80.'"
With Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus in 1960, Douglas would leave perhaps his most indelible mark on cinema both as an actor and as a producer who insisted that blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo be properly credited for his script.
"That was a terrible time in Hollywood history," he told Interview. "It should never have happened. We should have fought it. But it's over and I, in my old age, take solace in the fact that I remember." (Some contend that Douglas, who published I Am Spartacus!: Making A Film, Breaking The Blacklist in 2012 may have overstated his role in breaking the blacklist.)


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Sable is the moving story of a boy who is arrested along with his family during the German occupation of the Netherlands and ends up in an internment camp. There, he has just one source of comfort: the red tomcat Sable. Through the boy's eyes, we see the world around him get smaller and smaller. He clings to little everyday things and anything familiar. Sable stays with him until the very end, until finally the inevitable happens.
The lead-up to the arrest, the tearing apart of the family, the threat of deportation, and at the same time the childlike perspective on everyday things and the hope for a good outcome: in a penetrating manner, Suzanne Wouda shows how interned children experienced the war.
Press on Sable
'A small, penetrating story (…) Wouda works towards a gripping denouement and closely follows her innocent protagonists until the very end.' – Trouw
'A chilling story about Kindertransports and destruction, but also about the innocence of a little boy, the power of the imagination, and the comfort of a cat when all other certainties crumble and disappear.' – Het Parool
'[a novel that,] given its tone and approach, could almost be for adults, and takes the (young) reader seriously. (…) You wish every child, every human being, every reader, could have their own Sable, their own army of Sables.' – tzum.nl
'Rarely have I read a children's book about the Second World War in which an author manages so successfully to draw the reader into the experience of a child facing great danger. (…) The story of Max and Sable is truly horrifying yet also comforting, because it is about the power of the adaptable mind of a child in which imagination is a lifeline.' – jaapleest.nl
Fiction | 136 pages | 13 x 21 cm
Original title: Sabel
Publisher: Hoogland & Van Klaveren
Rights available: World rights
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Crewing at Sea FAQ
Here you can find FAQs and what to expect as a potential crew member.
Crewing Opportunities with Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
What to consider before applying:
What is the minimum time commitment for volunteering at sea?
We ask that you commit a very minimum of three months for volunteering at sea. It takes some to train new crew members and then to acclimate onboard. As you can imagine, changing crew too frequently can be disruptive to the overall mission.
Do I have to pay for my own airfares and other travel expenses?
Yes. You will need enough funds for airfares, ground transportation and lodging to get yourself to and from any port. When you are onboard a place to sleep and three vegan meals each day is provided. Anything beyond that (extra food, entertainment, wiFi, phone calls) are your responsibility. Having $2000 in your bank account when joining to cover any unforeseen circumstances is recommended.
Do I need a US Visa?
You may need to acquire an appropriate visa. If you are joining a ship in a US port and are not a US or Canadian citizen, you will most likely be required to obtain an ESTA or B1B2 Visa. Sometimes crew members are asked to join a ship operating in another country where visas may not be needed or are easier to obtain.
Can I apply for specific dates?
You can specify on your application a date range or 'open availability'. When a position becomes available, we search for crew available during that period. The larger your window of availability, the more likely an opportunity will come up in that time frame. When we have a suitable space available, you may be contacted you for an interview.
Can I apply for a specific role?
Yes, if you are a qualified in one of the specific roles onboard such as Bridge, Engineering or Galley. If not, then this is ok too.
When we are looking to fill a volunteer position, we search for crew members with a specific skill set. We do our best to utilize your skills and place you in the most appropriate role on board. For example, if you are a chef, it's unlikely we will ask you to work in our engineering department. You will be offered a position on the ship where you will most benefit the campaign.
What if I have no previous seafaring experience?
Sea Shepherd accepts volunteers with all sorts of backgrounds. Many of our volunteers have never worked on a ship before joining us! They learn everything they need to from veteran crew, professional mariners and those with specialized skills.
How many ships are in the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Fleet?
We have six vessels in our conservation fleet, The M/V Farley Mowat, the M/V John Paul DeJoria, The M/V Sharpie, the R/V Martin Sheen, the M/V White Holly and the M/V Brigitte Bardot.
What are the ships like?
The Farley Mowat, John Paul DeJoria and Sharpie are ex US Coast Guard Cutter motor boats which are approximately 34m in length. The White Holly is the latest addition to the fleet at 44m in length. The R/V Martin Sheen is our only sailing vessel, and the Brigitte Bardot is our fast interceptor vessel.
Where are the ships located?
Our ships operate most often in ports and surrounding oceans of the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, but we don't necessarily have any geographical restrictions.
What about the other Sea Shepherd ships?
It is not clear from the outside, but Sea Shepherd is split into two entities as far as ships and crew are concerned. Sea Shepherd Global/Australia runs the Steve Irwin, Bob Barker, Sam Simon and Ocean Warrior. The application process is separate and also identical. Please make sure you are applying to the entity which operates the ships or geographical area that interests you the most. You can also apply to both. See Applying For Crew to find out how to submit your crewing application.
What campaigns are happening?
You will find information on all current and past campaigns from the Campaigns drop-down menu on the home-page of our website. We don't announce future campaign plans for various reasons. If you are selected to volunteer, you may spend a significant amount of time onboard helping to prepare the ship for a campaign. Most often, volunteers earn their place on campaign by working in port for months before. It is sometimes possible to directly enter a campaign while in progress.
How often are the ships on a campaign?
The aim to have our ships as active as possible, but a lot of work goes into campaign planning and ship preparation. Having ships actively on a campaign requires a lot of support, so sometimes our ability to start a campaign is restricted to raising the needed funds and required maintenance to the ship.
Can I apply for a specific campaign?
No, not necessarily. You can make a note on your application regarding your interests and skills. If you are selected to volunteer, we would expect you to join the ship where you are needed most and most often that will be in port or the shipyard first.
Can I do an internship, work experience or school training placement through Sea Shepherd?
Unfortunately, we are rarely able to accommodate such requests. Most schools or work placements have set start and end dates and also require reporting based on your experiences. We do not have a strict timeline for campaigns, and plans can change unexpectedly. Only apply as a volunteer when you are free and able to commit and focus only on being a crew member.
How many crew on are each ship?
The number of crew on board at any one time varies and is also dependent on the ship. You can expect to join anywhere from 5 to 18 other individuals.
Applying for crew:
How do I apply to become a crew member?
The first step in becoming a Sea Shepherd Conservation Society crew member at sea is to fill out the online crew application form.
How do I pay the application fee?
Once the application form is submitted, the next page directs you to a payment page where the fee can pay with PayPal.
Why is there an application fee to crew?
In the early days, crew application fees were what helped us put fuel in the ship tanks for campaigns! Due to the human resources and time required to process applications, this fee helps us effectively recruit new crew members into service. Furthermore, as all volunteers must arrange and pay for their own travel expenses to and from the ship if the application fee is too difficult to make, the travel expenses maybe even more so. This application also aids us in keeping the non-serious applicants away.
If not selected to crew, can I get a refund?
It is a non-refundable, one-time donation, and hopefully, one you feel is going toward a worthy cause.
Is there a maximum time I can stay on board?
For new volunteers, we usually don't commit to allowing any service for longer than 3 or 4 months. If things are progressing well, you are welcome to ask your department head, ship manager, or Captain if you may extend your stay. We do appreciate it when people can stay longer and continue to use the skills they have learned! We always reserve the right to ask people to leave at any time if things aren't working out.
How do I apply for the Sea Shepherd Global ships?
The first step in becoming a Sea Shepherd Global crew member at sea is to fill out a crew application form. There is a link to the form located near the bottom of our crewing page: https://www.seashepherdglobal.org/get-involved/volunteer-sea/
After I submit my application:
Has my request been received?
You should receive a confirmation email immediately after the application is submitted. If you do not receive an email, please follow up with the crewing department by sending an email to crew@seashepherd.org
What happens after my application is received?
Once you submit your application, a profile is created on our crewing database, and your name could come up in any number of searches depending on your location, skills and availability. Unless you specifically ask us to 'retire' it, your application will remain actively on file with us. If we select you as a candidate, we'll email you to schedule a video call interview and, if that goes well, invite you to join a ship.
What are the qualities you are looking for in crew?
We love to receive applications from passionate individuals willing to work hard and take on any responsibility onboard to contribute to the campaigns. The more flexible you are on time, the more likely we will have a position become available. Seafaring skills are an asset but not essential, your ability to be committed, follow hierarchy and get along with others means a lot to us as well! We are always looking for qualified, experienced Captains, Officers, Bosuns, Engineers and vegan Cooks to join our team.
Does everyone eventually get selected?
Unfortunately not. We would love to be able to select all applicants, but we receive more applications than there are positions onboard. The selection process is, therefore competitive.
I haven't heard anything and my specified availability has been and gone?
With the number of applications received and staff in the crew department, we can only contact those whose time and skillset match the role we are recruiting. You can email the crew department to advise new availability or check on the status of your application.
Being accepted as crew:
How will I know what to bring?
If you are selected to join the crew, we will send you a welcome package containing all the information you will need to know, including ship location and crewing policies.
Where will the ship be, and how do I get there?
If you are selected to join the crew, we will communicate individually with you to provide instructions and further information regarding your travel.
How much notice can I expect before joining the ship?
There's a possibility that you'll receive very little notification to join the boat. The crewing needs on our vessels change quickly, so be prepared to pack your bags and be ready to go in a week or less!
What to expect while onboard:
What are accommodations like?
The crew accommodations are tight; you will be allocated a bunk bed and share a cabin with anywhere from one to seven other people! The cabins are mixed gender. All crew share a unisex shower and toilet.
Will I need to bring my own food?
You can bring your own vegan snacks and treats. Keep in mind you will be fed three nutritious vegan meals per day!
What is the work schedule?
As you can imagine, while you are at sea, the crew work seven days per week with no time off. In port, crew work five and a half days a week.
What about the Internet, Email and Phone calls while onboard?
At sea, the use of the satellite phone is highly restricted. Many ports of call offer a selection of internet cafés and access to phone cards for long-distance calls. It is encouraged to purchase a local network Sim card for the personal use of the internet. Do not rely on an internet connection while onboard. Internet is occasionally available to the crew but cannot be guaranteed.
Will I get arrested?
It is unlikely. We operate a professional organization and work in cooperation with governments and maritime enforcement agencies around the world. However, you need to understand that participating in any Sea Shepherd campaign carries with it some risk of arrest, fines or other consequences.
Are there any other policies and procedures I should know about before applying?
Sea Shepherd maintains a zero-tolerance policy to drugs and that anybody in violation of this policy will be removed from the ships immediately.
No smoking is allowed on the ship.
The ship is not a democracy; you must follow the chain of command.
Any dangerous, disrespectful or insubordinate behaviour will result in a crew member departing.
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Your annual accounts tell your financial story, and they should be prepared in a meaningful way. Statutory accounts do not achieve this and are best left to being a statutory representation of your numbers.
Instead we can prepare a set of annual accounts that are meaningful to you, with insights as to what your numbers say. They are your story, and we will highlight the good and the bad. We will include relevant non-financial information, use visuals and colour, and focus on the information you want and need to run your business easier and better.
We prepare statutory and other regulatory accounts to meet your legal obligations.
We aim to prepare these with the minimum of fuss, so that we can concentrate our time on more valuable services, such as saving you tax, explaining your numbers and helping you maintain, improve and grow your business.
If you are a sole trade or partnership you need accounts that are acceptable to HMRC.
We will prepare these accounts from your annual accounts with the minimum of fuss and time, so that you have the peace of mind knowing that they have been properly submitted to HMRC.
Company secretarial services are probably the least understood aspect of running a company. In return for limited liability, a company is legally obliged to carry out several duties. Whilst filing annual accounts and tax returns are the obvious, companies also have to keep statutory records, minutes of certain decisions and event, notify Companies House within a time scale of certain changes or event, and prepare minutes and tax vouchers for dividends paid. If these are not done, if becomes hard to sell your company, or borrow monies, and a host of other things.
We therefore deal with these matters as standard, keeping you legal and up to date.


Jurgen Klopp was all too happy to heap praise upon his Liverpool side after they returned to the top of the Premier League table with a 2-0 win over Chelsea on Sunday. We go there and we will try everything to win there.
The Daily Mirror is reporting that the Red Devils are interested in a potential deal to sign the Denmark global at the end of the Premier League season. 97 (possible). Let's try. "If that's enough, perfect, and if not, we can not change it". We didn't lose it here or there. "Only weak people and idiots bring something like this up".
"Then we play Cardiff and everybody knows they fight for [staying in] the league, everybody knows it is a tough place to go".
Three days after video surfaced of a group of Chelsea supporters aiming a derogatory chant toward him on social media, Salah hurt his former club by smashing a left-footed shot into the top corner from 25 yards to double Liverpool's lead. We hit the post for the 35th time in our season.
The match was pretty evenly balanced for the first 45 minutes of the game but it all swung in Liverpool's favour after those two quick-fire goals and unfortunately the Blues could not recover. "Two or three months ago we would not have done".
"I saw in training the ability that he had but he seems to have become more ruthless".


What Is The Fineness Of Mineral Powder Grinding And Crushing?
HGM series powder processing plant is mainly composed of main unit, classification, dust collector, dust collector, induced draft fan, muffler, sound insulation room, crusher, bucket elevator, storage bin and vibrating feeder. After the hammer crusher is broken, the large material becomes smaller pieces and is then sent to the micro-grinding. The granulated material was pulverized and ground to a fineness of 40 mesh size.
Shanghai Clirik Machinery Company is dedicated to the research and production of powder processing plants. We believe that only the major can be focused. In the process of development, ShanghaiClirik Machinery continued to communicate, cooperate with domestic research institutions, design and production, and rapidly improve the ability of commissioning and maintenance engineering. The company's products not only have many customers in China, but also exported to Europe. Countries, the Middle East, South Asia, the United States and southern Africa have won unanimous praise from domestic and foreign customers.


Powered by M12 REDLITHIUM Battery Technology, the Milwaukee M12 12V Lithium-Ion 3-in-1 Heated Jacket combines technology and toughness to redefine layering on the jobsite. Pairing a heated hoodie with a heavy duty wind/water resistant outer shell provides ultimate warmth, versatility, and durability. The inner layer uses carbon fiber heating elements to create and distribute heat to the chest and back. Both pieces utilize GridIron 900 Denier Ripstop Polyester in high wear areas to Outlast 12 oz. cotton duck workwear by three times against abrasion and tearing. Also featuring tarnish resistant metal zippers, and riveted, reinforced storage pockets the 3-in-1 Heated Jacket is built to survive jobsite conditions in any weather.
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Does this come with a charger also?
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Phase 2 of the Asian Region #CassandraPrime Anomalies has come to an end. Over the course of an hour, Agents used XM Shards to transport critical data about a dangerous signal in the XM to specialized Research Node Portals for further analysis.
In Singapore, the Resistance continued to maintain a vice like grip on the Anomaly Zone, researching 31 Shards to the Enlightened's 12. At the end of Phase 2, this Anomaly site is led by the Resistance, 147.72 to 52.28.
In Incheon -- having already established a dominant presence in Phase 1, the Enlightened pushed steadily forward. They researched 16 Shards to the Resistance's 1, and at the end of Phase 2, lead this site 157.96 to 42.04.


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package com.catify.core.process.routers.impl;

import org.apache.camel.Header;
import org.apache.camel.Message;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import com.catify.core.constants.CacheConstants;
import com.catify.core.constants.MessageConstants;
import com.catify.core.constants.ProcessConstants;
import com.catify.core.event.impl.beans.StateEvent;
import com.hazelcast.core.Hazelcast;
import com.hazelcast.core.IMap;

public class ReceiveRouter {

	static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ReceiveRouter.class);

	private String goRoute;
	private String waitRoute;
	public static final String WAIT = "catify.state.wait";

	private IMap<String, StateEvent> map;

	public ReceiveRouter(String taskId){
		String.format("direct:wait-%s", taskId);
		this.goRoute	= String.format("direct:go-%s", taskId);
		this.waitRoute 	= String.format("direct:wait-%s", taskId);
		this.map		= Hazelcast.getMap(CacheConstants.NODE_CACHE);
	}

	public String route(Message message,
						@Header(MessageConstants.TASK_ID) String taskId,
						@Header(MessageConstants.INSTANCE_ID) String instanceId){

		if(LOG.isDebugEnabled()){
			LOG.debug(String.format("task id --> %s    instance id --> %s", taskId, instanceId));
		}

		String key = String.format("%s-%s", instanceId, taskId);

		if(message.getHeaders().containsKey(WAIT)){
			message.getHeaders().remove(WAIT);

			if(LOG.isDebugEnabled()){
				LOG.info("wait header removed...");
			}

			return null;
		}

		//if the map contains the key, the node has been initialized
		if(map.containsKey(key)){
			int state = map.get(key).getState();

			if(LOG.isDebugEnabled()){
				LOG.info(String.format("actual state --> %s", state));
			}

			LOG.info(String.format("actual state --> %s", state));

			//check if the node is waiting for a message
			if(state == ProcessConstants.STATE_WAITING){
				map.put(key, new StateEvent(message.getHeader(MessageConstants.INSTANCE_ID, String.class), ProcessConstants.STATE_DONE));

				if(LOG.isDebugEnabled()){
					LOG.info(String.format("returning go route for '%s' / '%s' --> %s", instanceId, taskId, goRoute));
				}

				return goRoute;
			}

			//check if we have to go to the waiting mode
			if(state == ProcessConstants.STATE_WORKING){

				if(LOG.isDebugEnabled()){
					LOG.info(String.format("returning wait route for '%s' / '%s' --> %s", instanceId, taskId, waitRoute));
				}

				return waitRoute;

			}

		}

		return null;
	}

}

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Ideas Fuel Industries
Latest Federal Court Cases, 7/15/19
PATENT CASE OF THE WEEK
General Electric Co. v. United Techs. Corp., Appeal No. 2017-2497 (Fed. Cir. July 10, 2019)
The Case of the Week focuses on standing to bring an appeal of an adverse decision by the PTAB in an IPR. The Federal Circuit held that GE did not have standing to appeal a decision by the PTAB that certain challenged claims were not invalid. But the opinion exposed a split within the Federal Circuit on the issue.
The patent in the case was directed to a gas turbine engine such as a kind used in aircraft. The patent is owned by UTC. GE filed an IPR challenging seven claims of the patent. The PTAB found that five of the asserted claims were not invalid. GE appealed.
UTC moved to dismiss the appeal for lack of standing, asserting that GE failed to demonstrate a sufficient injury in fact from losing the IPRs. GE responded with a declaration that stated, in part, "that designing around the '605 patent restricts GE's design choices and forced GE to incur additional research and development expenses." GE further argued that it suffered injury because of the statutory estoppel provision concerning IPRs, because of "economic loss, future threat of litigation, and competitive harm." UTC responded that it had not sued or threatened to sue GE for infringement and that GE had not developed an engine that practices the claims of the '605 patent. Following oral argument, GE was allowed to submit a supplemental declaration. In that declaration, GE further stated that Boeing had requested information from GE for aircraft, and GE had researched a design that "would potentially implicate" the '605 patent. Ultimately, GE did not submit that design to Boeing, but did not explain why. GE also declared that, in order to stay competitive, it needs to be able to meet customer needs with a design that may implicate the patent.
The Federal Circuit dismissed the appeal, finding that GE did not have constitutional standing as required by Article III. Specifically, it had had failed to meet its burden of showing "injury in fact." The Court held that the competitive injuries are "too speculative to support constitutional standing." The declarations, for example, failed to show that GE lost bids to competitors because it could not produce an engine that infringed the patented design, or that it submitted only a non-infringing design to Boeing because of the patent. Rather, "GE asserts only speculative harm untethered to the '605 patent."
In support, the Court relied on its recent decision in AVX Corp. v. Presidio Components, Inc., 923 F.3d 1357 (Fed. Cir. 2019), which we covered here. That case set a bar for "competitor standing" requiring that government action "alter the status quo." Because "the Board's upholding of claims 7-11 of the '605 patent did not change the competitive landscape for commercial airplane engines," there was no "competitor standing." The Court also relied on JTEKT Corporation v. GKN Automotive Ltd., Appeal No. 2017-1828 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 3, 2018) (our write-up here) for the principle that a party that has no "concrete plans for future activity that creates a substantial risk of future infringement" does not have standing. Finally, the Court reiterated that the statutory estoppel provision does not provide standing.
The opinion was short, at only eight pages.
But Judge Hughes issued a strong opinion objecting to the precedent the Court had set to date on the issue of standing. He concurred in the result only because of the Court's prior precedent, but stated that he believed the prior decisions were in error. His opinion, longer than the majority opinion, asserts that AVX was incorrectly decided. He opined that in the highly competitive market, in which the parties are direct competitors, and particularly with long lead times for projects, GE will face injury due to the IPRs. He also opined that the estoppel provisions provide a basis for standing, at least on this fact pattern.
Judge Hughes's opinion suggests that future en banc or Supreme Court petitions may be forthcoming on the issue of standing in IPR appeals.
The opinion can be found here.
ALSO THIS WEEK
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. v. Infobridge Pte. Ltd., Appeal Nos. 2018-2007, -2012 (Fed. Cir. July 12, 2019)
In an appeal from an inter partes review, the Court addressed whether the Board erred in its conclusion that a cited reference did not qualify as prior art based on the "printed publication" provisions of pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 based on having been emailed to a listserv of over 250 individuals. The Court held that the Board erred by confusing the question of actual access with the question of possible accessibility—the petitioner need not establish that specific persons actually accessed or received a work to show that the work was publicly accessible.
The court also addressed an issue concerning standing. The court held that Appellant, being a contributor of a patent pool with a fixed royalty, had standing to challenge another patent in the pool since it could receive a higher proportion of the fixed royalty on invalidation of that patent.
SRI International, Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc., Appeal No. 2017-2233 (Fed. Cir. Op. Modified July 12, 2019)
Following a petition for rehearing en banc, the Federal Circuit panel that issued this March 20, 2019 opinion issued a modified opinion. In the original opinion, the Court vacated the district court's decision on willful infringement, allowing retrial on that issue. It then awarded attorneys' fees as an exceptional case. Cisco apparently petitioned for rehearing because willfulness was one factor the court used to find the case exceptional. With willfulness being remanded, Cisco complained that the exceptional case finding could not stand. Accordingly, following the petition for rehearing en banc, the panel issued a modified opinion, remanding the exceptional case determination for further consideration, but agreeing with the district court's rationale on its exceptional case finding in all other respects. Upon issuing the modified opinion, the petition for rehearing en banc was denied.
Indivior Inc. v. Dr. Reddy's Laboratories., S.A., Appeal Nos. 2017-2587, 2018-1010, -1058, -1062, -1114, -1115, -1176, -1177 (Fed. Cir. 2019); and Indivior Inc. v. Alvogen Pine Brook, LLC, Appeal Nos. 2018-1949, -2045 (Fed. Cir. July 12, 2019)
The Federal Circuit affirmed multiple decisions concerning the construction, validity, and infringement of patents pertaining to pharmaceutical films, such as films administered by placing them under the tongue, and methods of making them. On infringement, the Court's findings included that film drying techniques repeatedly disparaged in the specification were thereby disclaimed, and that films prepared with methods employing only the disparaged drying techniques did not infringe. The Court also found that the district court did not abuse its discretion in denying the Rule 59 motion of one defendant found to infringe, where that defendant did not request a narrow construction of the drying limitation.
On invalidity, among other things, the Court affirmed the district court's finding of a "compromise" level of ordinary skill in the art, which included some experience in coating films despite that the specific field of pharmaceutical films was nascent at the time of the invention. However, the Court also affirmed a finding indicating that the emergent nature of the field at the time of the invention weighed against a skilled artisan's reasonable expectation of success in combining asserted prior art. The Court also vacated as moot the district court's judgment of invalidity as to certain claims, in light of an affirmed inter partes review decision invalidating the same claims.
TQ Delta, LLC v. Dish Network, LLC, Appeal No. 2018-1799 (Fed. Cir. July 10, 2019)
In this appeal from the PTAB of an inter partes review ("IPR") brought by Dish Network, the Federal Circuit addressed whether TQ Delta's procedural rights under the Administrative Procedure Act ("APA") were violated by the Board's reliance on a new claim construction in its Final Written Decision. The Court found TQ Delta's APA rights were not violated because the PTAB never construed the term at issue in its Decision to Institute, and therefore, did not change course by construing the term later, especially since TQ Delta was on notice of how the PTAB was interpreting the construction of the term based on arguments made and questions asked at oral hearing. The Court also held that the PTAB properly construed the new term, and affirmed the Final Written Decision that the challenged claims were obvious over the prior art.
Cisco Systems, Inc. v. TQ Delta, LLC, Appeal Nos. 2018-1806, 2018-1917 (Fed. Cir. July 10, 2019)
In this related appeal from the PTAB of two IPRs on the same patent as the IPR above brought by Dish Network ("the Dish Network IPR"), the Federal Circuit again addresses issues relating to claim construction obviousness. In the IPRs being appealed here, certain claims that were found obvious by the Board in the Dish Network IPR were found not obvious by the Board in the IPRs here. Thus, due to the conflicting findings and the Court's affirmation of the decision in the Dish Network IPR, the Court here first held that the appeal is moot as relates to claims found obvious by the Court in the companion appeal. As to the remaining claims, the Court vacated and remanded the Board's decision because the Board did not apply the broadest reasonable interpretation of the term at issue in light of the specification. Specifically, the Court found that while the claim term at issue only appeared in the claims, the specification and the claims themselves provided sufficient description and context such that the construction provided by the Board was too restrictive.
Stephen Quake v. Yuk-Ming Dennis Lo, Appeal Nos. 2018-1779, -1780, -1782 (Fed. Cir. July 10, 2019)
In an appeal from the PTAB ruling of unpatentability for lack of written description as part of three interference proceedings, the Federal Circuit agreed with the PTAB that the inventors' patent and patent application did not satisfy the written description of 35 U.S.C. 112. In general, the written description requirement prevents an applicant from later claiming something that they did not invent. The Federal Circuit affirmed the PTAB's finding that a citation to a reference and a single sentence in Quake's specification coupled with no description of the final claimed comparison step as related to the newly claimed feature were insufficient to describe the claimed method and failed to satisfy the written description requirement. It held this is especially true when, as here, claim amendments were made in response to developments by others.
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