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Minister Richard Benyon MP visits New Forest
Minister for the Natural Environment and Fisheries Richard Benyon MP was in the New Forest yesterday (Monday 9 May) at the invitation of the New Forest National Park Authority to meet local organisations and learn more about the Forest.
Mr Benyon met National Park members and officers at the New Forest Centre, Lyndhurst, and heard how successful education partnerships are making a real difference in helping people learn more about the unique landscape and wildlife in the New Forest.
Mr Benyon then visited a stream restoration project at Fletchers Thorns, off the Rhinefield Drive near Brockenhurst. The stream restoration is one of a number of projects funded by a Higher Level Stewardship (HLS) scheme, which works to improve these internationally-important habitats and supports the ancient practice of commoning – so vital to the unique landscape of the New Forest.
(Left to right): Rachel Bailey of Natural England,
Minister for the Natural Environment and Fisheries Richard Benyon MP,
NPA Chairman Julian Johnson, Forestry Commission's Acting Deputy
Surveyor Kevin Penfold (in hardhat), Verderer Richard Deakin and NPA
Chief Executive Alison Barnes view a stream restoration project near Brockenhurst.
During the site visit he met representatives from the Verderers, Forestry Commission, New Forest Association and Natural England, who worked in partnership to secure the largest HLS scheme in Europe – worth £16 million over 10 years.
Mr Benyon said: 'Today has been a valuable opportunity to observe the effort and enthusiasm local people are putting into this ancient landscape. The New Forest has been a source of prosperity and enjoyment for many centuries. The work of the National Park Authority and its partners will ensure that this remains the case for years to come.'
National Park Authority Chairman Julian Johnson, who hosted the visit, said: 'The Minister was particularly interested to learn how the National Park is supporting and promoting local produce through the New Forest Marque accreditation scheme, about the range of community projects under way, and how complex land management issues are in the Forest. We were keen to show the Minister that the New Forest can only thrive if the delicate balance achieved by working together is maintained and enhanced going forward.'
Kevin Penfold, the Forestry Commission's Acting Deputy Surveyor of the New Forest, said: 'The river restoration scheme is hugely important for the Forest and has only come about through strong partnership working between the FC, Natural England, the Verderers and the National Park Authority that has helped to secure the funding. Undertaking the work, such as seen at Fletchers Thorns, requires significant consultation with both the partners and local interest groups so we can agree what needs to be done and ensure the restoration is completed to the highest standard.'
Elected Verderer Richard Deakin told the Minister: 'We are grateful for the HLS scheme in enabling commoning to keep going in pretty difficult circumstances and also for the legacy which it will provide.'
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From Product Manager to Partner: An Interview with Ashley Carroll
Cara Harshman
Managing Editor, Amplitude
When Ashley Carroll joined Social Capital, a Palo Alto based venture capital firm, she didn't aspire to become an investor. Hailing from a tenured career in product management, she was just super passionate about working with startups. "I had become pretty active as a mentor and advisor to various startups and really enjoyed it! It was a nights and weekends hobby, but then I realized that helping entrepreneurs was a lot of what a good investor's day-to-day entails."
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I didn't have much interest in joining a VC firm, to be honest, but it soon became clear that Social Capital is pretty different and ultimately, I decided to take the leap because of the team. I've had some great job experiences and some not-so-great ones, and it's always more correlated with team than product or business, so I decided to optimize for team. Amplitude: Do you see yourself in the VC space for a long time? Ashley: I don't think about working in the VC space, but rather the broader startup ecosystem and I definitely see myself playing a role here for a long time. I actually think the ecosystem, and especially the VC component, is going to change a lot in the coming years. It's kind of ironic: for how much the VC industry talks about innovation, it hasn't really changed since it started. We talk a lot about startups disrupting archaic industries and there's no reason why VC can't be next. There will be a lot more software and technology involved, both for capital deployment as well as for nurturing and helping companies. Amplitude: What a perfect role for you because based on what I know about Social Capital, the firm is quite involved in advising on product and growth. You're managing many products at the same time. Ashley: We have a pretty data-driven approach both when considering new investments as well as helping companies post-investment. Everything from data infrastructure best practices to recommendations around what tools to use for what to analytics and reporting. We actually have a team of data scientists and user acquisition specialists internally. They deploy into portfolio companies for varied periods of time depending on the needs. In some cases they help bring best practices to existing growth initiatives; in others they'll spin up a specific program from scratch and even help with hiring full-time employees once the company is ready to take the program over. Everyone talks about value-add investing, which is of varying degrees of existence and helpfulness, but our platform team is definitely super-involved with our portfolio companies. Amplitude: What are some of the metrics you're considering when vetting a new company? Ashley: A common thing that we ask during due diligence is cohort data. Sometimes companies aren't looking at their data in that way because they don't have the right instrumentation or they haven't made the time or they don't have experience doing that. So that's when we'll say "Cool, you're tracking user and revenue growth, you're tracking CAC and LTV, that's great, but here's what you can learn by looking at things across cohorts."
We help a lot of companies with metrics during the diligence process and then we'll obviously help portfolio companies manage post-investment. In fact, not infrequently, we'll decide to not invest in a company and they'll reach back out asking us to help them with the same analysis we did during diligence. This is why we've started to build and release content and even tools, such as our Magic 8-Ball tool, where entrepreneurs anywhere in the world can learn about growth metrics and get analytics help. And what's really valuable is that we have a lot of data points to use as comparison. For example, we can say, "Compared to similar companies at this stage, this metric is really good or not so good," and, "this is what we've seen in the very best companies and would be a great goal." Benchmark information is really valuable to entrepreneurs. Amplitude: Would you say that this is kind the product analytics data that you're sourcing and extracting, helping them come to see? Ashley: Sometimes we are helping with the actual data infrastructure. Questions like, where do we store all this data? How do we access it? Pretty technical data pipeline stuff to GUIs, etc. We provide a bit of advice on tools. For example, for a mobile first company, we would tell them, "here's the go-to marketing stack." A very common challenge is connecting UI analytics data with transactional, financial, etc. data. So we frequently help companies connect data silos and liberate hard-to-access data. Amplitude: Liberating the data silos and therefore access to data is such an important action. The Head of Product at Amplitude recently published an article about the need to redesign the analytics stack to increase accessibility and independence for more people in the organization to use data. Ashley: Yeah, that's definitely a problem we see a lot of. Our approach with companies right now is to encourage most of them to hire a data scientist because it is largely a query-based world especially once you're connected at multiple data sources. We do a bit of helping place data scientists. Amplitude: You've been in the product space for almost ten years. What do you think are some of the major challenges and accomplishments back when you were at SurveyMonkey compared to what you're seeing now? Ashley: Well my product experience across SurveyMonkey, Optimizely, Docusign, were at different phases of company lifecycle. Having seen every stage from MVP and single-digit millions of revenue through growth and hundreds of millions of revenue has been pretty helpful to my current job because I have a deep understanding of how the product and company more broadly, needs to evolve as a company matures. I can give fairly tailored guidance and have a great degree of empathy, which is really important.
Cara was formerly the Managing Editor at Amplitude. Before joining this crew of super-passionate, smart individuals, she wrote and spoke a lot about A/B testing and personalization at Optimizely. She has spoken at MozCon, CTA Conference, Opticon, and Learn Inbound.
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Home Press Releases Foreign Minister Qureshi receives Mr. Eamon Gilmore, European Union Special Representative for Human Rights
Foreign Minister Qureshi receives Mr. Eamon Gilmore, European Union Special Representative for Human Rights
February 22, 2022| Press Releases|
Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi received Mr. Eamon Gilmore, European Union Special Representative for Human Rights at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs today.
Foreign Minister Qureshi welcomed the Special Representative to Pakistan and expressed satisfaction on the upward trajectory of Pakistan-EU relations. He noted that this year marks the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two sides.
Foreign Minister Qureshi highlighted the positive synergy between Pakistan's socio-economic agenda and the GSP Plus scheme for, inter alia, creating employment opportunities and women empowerment. He reiterated Pakistan's commitment to full implementation of the 27 GSP Plus related conventions and hoped for the continuation of GSP Plus status post 2023.
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The non-neuronal cells of the nervous system. They not only provide physical support, but also respond to injury, regulate the ionic and chemical composition of the extracellular milieu, participate in the BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER and BLOOD-RETINAL BARRIER, form the myelin insulation of nervous pathways, guide neuronal migration during development, and exchange metabolites with neurons. Neuroglia have high-affinity transmitter uptake systems, voltage-dependent and transmitter-gated ion channels, and can release transmitters, but their role in signaling (as in many other functions) is unclear.
A class of large neuroglial (macroglial) cells in the central nervous system. Oligodendroglia may be called interfascicular, perivascular, or perineuronal (not the same as SATELLITE CELLS, PERINEURONAL of GANGLIA) according to their location. They form the insulating MYELIN SHEATH of axons in the central nervous system.
Neuroglial cells of the peripheral nervous system which form the insulating myelin sheaths of peripheral axons.


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Fund Hedging
A week ago, Ben Goertzel along with his company, Aidyia, switched on a hedge fund that makes all stock trades making use of artificial intelligence—no real human input required. "If we-all die, " claims Goertzel, a longtime AI expert therefore the company's chief scientist, "it would hold trading."
He means this virtually. Goertzel alongside humans built the device, definitely, and they'll still alter it as needed. But their creation identifies and executes positions entirely on its own, attracting on multiple kinds of AI, including one motivated by genetic advancement and another based on probabilistic logic. Each day, after analyzing anything from market prices and volumes to macroeconomic data and business bookkeeping papers, these AI engines make their marketplace forecasts and "vote" in the most readily useful plan of action.
If we all pass away, it would hold trading. Ben Goertzel, Aidyia
Though Aidyia is situated in Hong-Kong, this automatic system positions in US equities, as well as on its first day, according to Goertzel, it produced a 2 per cent return on an undisclosed share of income. That's not exactly impressive, or statistically relevant. Nonetheless it represents a notable move in the wonderful world of finance. Backed by $143 million in funding, bay area startup Sentient Technologies happens to be quietly exchanging with an identical system since a year ago. Data-centric hedge funds like Two Sigma and Renaissance Technologies have said they depend on AI. And relating to reports, two others—Bridgewater Associates and Point72 investment control, operate by big Wall Street brands Ray Dalio and Steven A. Cohen—are relocating the same path.
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Hedge funds have traditionally relied on computer systems to make positions. Relating to general market trends company Preqin, some 1, 360 hedge funds make most their particular positions with assistance from computer models—roughly 9 percent of all funds—and they manage about $197 billion in total. But this typically requires data researchers—or "quants, " in Wall Street lingo—using machines to construct huge statistical designs. These designs tend to be complex, but they're additionally notably fixed. Because the marketplace changes, they could not act as really while they worked before. And according to Preqin's research, the typical organized investment doesn't constantly perform in addition to resources managed by personal managers (see chart below)
Lately, but funds have actually relocated toward real machine learning, where unnaturally smart systems can evaluate large amounts of data at speed and enhance themselves through these types of analysis. The latest York organization Rebellion Research, established by the grandson of baseball Hall of Famer Hank Greenberg, amongst others, relies upon a form of device discovering called Bayesian systems, using a number of devices to predict marketplace trends and pinpoint specific trades. Meanwhile, clothes like Aidyia and Sentient are leaning on AI that runs across hundreds and on occasion even huge number of machines. This consists of practices such as evolutionary computation, which can be prompted by genetics, and deep learning, a technology now used to recognize photos, identify spoken words, and perform other jobs inside online companies like Bing and Microsoft.
The hope is that such systems can automatically recognize changes in the market and adjust with techniques that quant designs can't. "They're wanting to see things before they develop, " states Ben Carlson, mcdougal of a great deal of Common Sense: the reason why Simplicity Trumps difficulty in Any Investment Plan, which spent ten years with an endowment investment that committed to many cash supervisors.
This sort of AI-driven fund management should not be mistaken for high-frequency trading. It really isn't looking to front-run investments or perhaps earn money from rate of activity. It's shopping for the most effective positions in longer term—hours, days, months, even months to the future. And much more to the level, machines—not humans—are choosing the strategy.
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Although organization has not yet freely sold its fund, Sentient CEO Antoine Blondeau states it is often making official investments since this past year making use of money from personal people (after a longer period of test investments). Relating to a report from Bloomberg, the company worked with the hedge fund company inside JP Morgan Chase in developing AI trading technology, but Blondeau declines to go over its partnerships. He does say, however, that its fund runs completely through synthetic intelligence.
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Why Have We Been Ignoring The Ferrari 348 Challenge?
When a buddy of yours picks up a new car, it's a big deal. The second you get the call, you head over to their house to inspect the goods. Kick the tires. Flex its muscles. The other day, my pal Matt Ivanhoe picked up a really special car from our friends at RM Auctions just around the corner from our offices in Culver City. Naturally, I made him wake up at the crack of dawn the next morning, drive to Malibu to photograph it, and hear a bit about the story behind the often overlooked 348 Challenge.


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Q: Sommerfeld Integral Evaluation - Hankel Integral I was studying theory of electromagnetic from the book Time-harmonic Electromagnetic Fields by Roger Harrington and what caught up my attention was following identity:
 $$
\frac{\mathrm{e}^{-\mathrm{i}k_{0}r}}{r} =
\frac{1}{2\mathrm{i}}\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}\mathrm{H}_{0}^{\left(2\right)} \left(\rho\,\sqrt{\,k_{0}^{2} - k_{z}^{2}\,}\,\right)\mathrm{e}^{\mathrm{i}k_{z}z}\,\mathrm{d}k_{z}
$$
where $k_{0}$ is wave number in vacuum, $\mathrm{H}_{0}^{\left(2\right)}\left(x\right)$ is Hankel function of second kind and
$$
r^{2} = \rho^{2} +z^{2}
$$
Proving mentioned identity is quite trivial given the fact that we can calculate electromagnetic fields of a point source using other methods. However in order to solve other problems I found myself in need to know following integral:
$$
\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}\mathrm{H}_{n}^{\left(2\right)} \left(\rho\,\sqrt{\,k_{0}^{2} - k_{z}^{2}\,}\,\right)\mathrm{e}^{\mathrm{i}k_{z}z}\,\mathrm{d}k_{z}
$$
Evaluating this integral maybe possible in a similar fashion but I was unable to reach it.
So I would be more than grateful if anyone could help.
Regards.

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Warren G Net Worth 2022, Age, Height, Weight, Biography, Wiki and Career Details
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Real Name/Full Name Warren Griffin III
Nick Name/Celebrated Name: Warren G
Birth Place: Long Beach, Los Angeles, California
Date Of Birth/Birthday: November 10, 1970
Hair Color: Black and often bald
Parents Name: Father – Warren Griffin Jr
Mother – Ole Mae
Siblings: Tyree Crayon, Dr. Dre, Jerome Crayon, Shameka Crayon, and three sisters
School: Jordan High School
Religion: N/A
Girlfriend: N/A
Wife/Spouse Name: Tenille Griffin
Kids/Children Name: Olaijah Griffin and three more
Profession: Rapper, songwriter, record producer, and DJ
Warren G is a record producer and a rapper who is an icon to reckon with the American rap industry. While his career was still young, he was in a tri called 213 comprising of him, Snoop Dogg, and Nate Dogg. All that, together with being a brother to Dr. Dre, his contribution towards G-funk, a rap subgenre, and its success was significant, no doubt.
He has also achieved quite a lot as a solo artist and a record producer. Equally important, he has made appearances in films and video games.
Well, how well do you know about Warren G? If not much, we have compiled all you need to know about Warren G's net worth in 2022, his age, height, weight, wife, kids, biography and complete details about his life. Well, if you're all set, here is what we know about Warren G to date.
Warren G was born to Warren Griffin, Jr. and Ole as Warren Griffin III in 1970 on 10th November. He was born in Long Beach, Los Angeles, California. His father is an airplane mechanic, whereas his mother is a dietician. He was their only son but also had three sisters. Warren G was only 4 when his parents' marriage hit the rock. They couldn't save it but instead chose to divorce. Up until he was of age to join the East Long Beach, he was living with the rest of his family, excluding his father, in East Long Beach.
That's when he joined his father, who was residing in North Long Beach at the time. He had already remarried. His second wife is Verna, who is Dr. Dre's mother. However, Dr. Dre and his two siblings were from a previous marriage.
So, how old is Warren G in 2022 and what is his height and weight? Well, Warren G's age is 52 years old as of today's date 16th January 2022 having been born on 10 November 1970. Though, he is 6′ 2″ in feet and inches and 189 cm in Centimetres tall, he weighs about 188 lbs in Pound and 85 kg in Kilograms.
Warren G was a student at Jordan High School. By then, his interests were far from music, and all that excited him was running and playing football. Little did Warren G know what the future held?
Personal Life: Dating, Girlfriends, Wife, Kids
Warren G's wife is Tennille Griffin. The couple has, over the years, sired up to 4 children. One of them is Olaijah Griffin, who is a renowned football player who plays the cornerback position. His son must have made Warren G a proud dad for obvious reasons. He must really feel good to have fathered a son who, in 2018, the year he cleared high school, was among football college recruits. Out of all the recruits, he clinched the 3rd and 26th position in California and the entire United States of America, respectively. He decided to play for the USC Trojans hence joining the University of Southern California. As of 2019, he had earned all-conference recognition.
While away from music, Warren G has a family to think about. Another one of his interests since 2019 is the Sniffin Griffins BBQ. It is a line of barbecue sauces and rubs, which supplies to restaurants and does retail.
Is Warren G Gay?
Warren G is not gay. On the contrary, G's is a family man with a beautiful wife and four children. Not even rumors of him being either gay or bisexual have ever emerged. One of the things that Warren enjoys most is the fun that comes with him being a father and a husband.
Warren G's career goes way back to the 1990s. It is around that time when he, Snoop Dogg, and Nate Dogg formed a group and named it 213. He, in collaboration with Nate, released a single titled Regulate, and it was a hit. The trio has an album, The Hard Way, released in 2004.
His solo career is characterized by various studio albums, including Regulate…G Funk Era, I Want It All, and Take a Look over Your Shoulder. Others are The Return of the Regulator, In the Mid-Nite Hour, Regulate…G Funk Era, Pt. II and The G Files.
Warren G has also made appearances in films such as The Show, Little Richard, Speedway Junky, The Parkers, Old School, All of Us, BTS American Hustle Life, and The Eric Andre Show. He was also part of a pair of video games, namely Def Jam: Fight for NY in 2004, and Rap Jam: Volume One in 1995.
In 1995, his two songs, Regulate and This DJ, earned him two Grammy Awards nominations. The former was in the Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group category, whereas the latter fell under the Best Rap Solo Performance. He failed to win, but such a nomination is hard to come by hence worth appreciation.
Net Worth, Salary & Earnings of Warren G in 2022
Warren G Net Worth
As of 2022, Warren G's net worth is around $10 million, which is a figure that doesn't come as a surprise. For instance, the Regulate single released in 1994 has been platinum ever since in regards to digital downloads. His I want It All album sales hit 500,000 copies, whereas the Regulate…G Funk Era hit the three million copies mark. His other source of income is the Sniffin Griffins BBQ.
At the age of 17, G was already serving a jail term because of gun possession
He is the half-brother of Andre Young, popularly known as Dr. Dre
Dr. Dre introduced him to the drum machine
Life often gives people a second chance, and Warren G is a good example of such a person. He was only 17 years when he found himself on the wrong side of the law. Upon serving his jail term, he chose to change for the better. As of now, he is enjoying the fruits of his labor comprising of fame and huge net worth.


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FTSE 100 pension schemes 'highly exposed' to climate change
Open-access content Friday 15th February 2019
FTSE 100 companies are leaving their workers' pension savings highly exposed to the potential impacts of climate change, research from ShareAction has revealed.
After studying 15 defined contribution pension schemes covering around a million workers, the charity found that just two had adopted low-carbon investment strategies.
This is despite 13 of the companies studied backing initiatives to address climate risks, such as the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).
ShareAction said it had identified a disconnect between what the FTSE 100 has committed to do on climate change, and the protection it gives to its employees' savings.
"It's no secret that companies taking credible action on climate and sustainability issues are doing a better job of hiring and retaining talent," research officer, Paul Britton, said.
"That these employees' pensions are exposed to unmanaged climate risks is wrong and will send alarm bells ringing - these schemes will pay pensions deep into the 21st century."
The study highlights how a school leaver today could expect to retire in the 2060's, but that the impact of climate change on savings depends on the actions of pension schemes now.
The HSBC Bank Pension Scheme and RBS Retirement Savings Plan were the two schemes found to have changed their default investment strategies to reduce carbon exposure.
The UK Shell Pension Plan and BAE Systems DC Retirement Plan failed to respond to the researchers, which warned that they are "leaving their employees in the dark" on climate risks.
It was also found that eight of 10 employer-sponsored trusts had discussed climate-related risks with investment consultants, but only three had gone on to conduct climate stress testing of their investments.
Environmental Audit Committee chair, Mary Creagh, said: "Long-term sustainability must be factored into financial decision-making.
"Pension funds have a duty to take account of long and short-term climate risks, but this report shows too many are lagging behind and failing to take these risks seriously."
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This article appeared in our February 2019 issue of The Actuary.
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As l have been working at the Astor Theatre for some years now, a number of people have contacted me in regard to the recent publicity about the future of the theatre. For your information, l am forwarding an email that l received from my boss yesterday... it does help to clarify the situation.
Anyway - must run - have a double shift to do there today!
You may have read or heard in the media recently of plans to change ownership of the Astor Theatre.
This has been somewhat misrepresented as us "closing down".
We are looking to find an entity to take over the running of the Astor, as well as purchase the freehold. This would enable the freedom to invest further capital into the venture, to re-generate what is a totally unique and original theatre, and re-launch it with a fresh new outlook.
My involvement has seen the culmination and fruition of a life-long dream, and a labour of love. It has been very gratifying that well over one and a half million patrons have passed through our doors in the years since we opened in our current format. That so many identified in this "real-cinema experience" is deeply appreciated, as it re-inforced my firm beleif that the Astor needed to be saved and preserved as a living museum to cinema-going at its grandest.
May I take this opportunity to thank all our patrons, staff, suppliers and friends for their support, and remind you that without your support The Astor would not exist.
We will keep our website (www.astor-theatre.com) updated with developments as they come to pass.
We proudly announce that our wonderful Astor Theatre has today, December 6, 2007, been purchased by our local St Michael's Grammar School.
This opens enormous opportunities for both the school and our cinema operation. We currently have a few years left on our existing lease, with a long option, so for the foreseeable future The Astor Theatre will continue to screen films of its usual eclectic nature along with special events ... just as always.
All around, the best outcome has been achieved, the theatre will be secure in caring hands, prepared to protect and help it develop into a useful, long-term asset for the school and the film community. The Astor could now well survive into the 22nd century!
This has been my brief from when I started running the business - to preserve this unique part of Australia's cinema heritage for future generations to appreciate.
My heartiest congratulations to St Michael's Grammar School for bringing this wish well into the future.
Looking forward to continuing to entertain you.
St Kilda's St Michael's Grammar School has been successful in its bid for the site of The Astor Cinema, which was sold at auction today.
The sale means that the St Kilda Art Deco icon will remain as a much loved landmark on the corner of Dandenong Road and Chapel Street, St Kilda.
"Our acquisition of The Astor Cinema site represents a major opportunity for St Michael's. It's also a lifeline to a fantastic building that has been a part of St Kilda's heritage for over 70 years," said Head of the School, Simon Gipson.
"St Michael's has been a part of the St Kilda community for 113 years and remains on its original site, just a block down the road from The Astor," added Gipson. "We are honoured to have become the custodians of a building that holds such architectural and emotional significance for St Kilda."
St Michael's, which is renowned for its performing arts program, sees enormous potential in the building. "The School currently stages major productions at external venues such as The Athenaeum, The Malthouse and National Theatres," said Simon Gipson. "The Astor has the potential to house an exciting mix of educational and entertainment options close to our main campus. At the same time, our purchase provides us with a wonderful opportunity to responsibly protect an important part of St Kilda's heritage by restoring key elements of The Astor to their former glory."


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When I was a kid I had some type of 90's computer that only had educational things on it and it was so much fun and helped me to learn so I think it's great to have for kids.
I first learned how to use computer in college, never owned any gadget at all when I was young hehehe.
Computers (even the hugh mainframes) did not appear until I was in my late 20's!! I was happy to have a record player that played 45's and 78's!! Education came from my parents and books!!
It was Amiga computers in my day, lol how things have moved on. Both my boys spend way too much time on their tablets but they are so handy to have around.
My daughter uses her tablet a lot in school. As for the apps, I trust her to make good judgment calls on what to upload.
My son uses the iPad all the time and he listens to music with it, watches videos of the titanic, his favorite of all... and reads a lot about it. when i was a student, i did not have any gadgets at all, just my pen and paper, books and the library.
My kids have their own ipads. they are great. i only download educational apps.


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Google Opinion Rewards debuts in France, offers payment through PayPal
- Sep. 3rd 2016 12:09 pm PT
Google Opinion Rewards has always been a great way to make a few bucks for apps, movies, and music, but there are two big issues. The first, regional limitations. Opinion Rewards isn't available everywhere, so unless you live in a supported country, you can't use it. Thankfully, Google is adding new countries all the time, most recently with France.
With the latest update to Google Opinion Rewards, users in France will be able to participate in surveys to make a bit of money over time, but that's not all they're getting. In France, Google Opinion Rewards doesn't just pay out with Google Play credits, rather, it pays out through PayPal (via Android Police).
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Stonehenge is finally ready to step into the world of 21st century tourism
Ian Vince, The Guardian
- Aug 19, 2012 12:00 pm
Stonehenge is on its way from looking like a glorified highway rest stop to a well cared for heritage site that finally puts the iconic structure into historical context.
View of Stonehenge. Photo by Kevin Rickis.
It is one of Britain's most popular tourist attractions, a Unesco World Heritage Site and a relic of utmost importance in unravelling our past. It serves as an icon of Britain, its trademark trilithons a visual shorthand for heritage, hippies and unknowable mystery. It has been immortalised by Constable, Wordsworth, Hardy and Vonnegut. Spinal Tap named a song after it and in the film Help!, the Beatles sang nearby. It's also a symbol of proprietorial greed, its £7.80 entrance fee allowing passage through a dank tunnel and a walk around, rather than among, the stones; according to a random sample of visitor reactions, Stonehenge is "just a pile of rocks", "smaller than I thought it would be" and a "rip-off".
Stonehenge, encompassed by an aura of utilitarian tat – a shabby entrance, chain-link fences and the thunder of two busy roads – is as old and as important as the Egyptian necropolis at Giza, but you wouldn't guess that from its presentation, which has all the aesthetic allure of a bus station. Last month, after nearly 30 years of dead-end schemes, English Heritage finally began work on an attempt to bring Stonehenge back to its proper setting, starting with the construction of a new visitor centre – a graceful low-rise building hidden a mile and a half to the west at Airman's Corner – which promises to tell the story of the people who built the historic site.
The centre will feature artefacts on loan from local museums, as well as 21st-century multimedia and the ubiquitous gift shop. Its construction also promises to sweep away a busy road, the fence, the car park and the jumble of "temporary" buildings installed close to the stones in 1968. A low-key transit system will ferry visitors to and from Stonehenge and stop off at points between, allowing sightseers to explore the wider landscape. "People arrive here and focus on the stones but lose an opportunity to see what else is out there," says English Heritage's head of Stonehenge, Peter Carson, from the current car park, close to the monument. "The new entrance should allow them to appreciate the landscape before they see the jewel in the crown."
It is what visitors to Stonehenge have been missing all this time: the complex of ancient earthworks and burial mounds flecked across a chalk downland is as much a part of the monument as the stones themselves. The removal of the road and fence that runs to the north will unite Stonehenge with the Heelstone, the outlying monolith that marks the end of the Avenue, the ancient processional route to the stones. Stonehenge is perched at the head of a low ridge, an eminence of chalk that seems inconsequential from almost every viewpoint except this one. When approaching the circle via the Avenue, the monument appears to rise above the wild flowers of Stonehenge Down. It might be coincidence, but it feels more like an act of showbusiness designed to provoke a response.
Elsewhere on the down, earthworks even older than the henge are spattered across the landscape and access to them will be eased. A visit to the Stonehenge Cursus, a mysterious earthwork more than one-and-a-half miles long, will be aided by a stop off on the transit system, while the sites of 10,000-year-old mesolithic (Middle Stone Age) postholes 75cm in diameter and the oldest man-made feature anywhere on the down, will be exhumed from under the car park, where they are currently marked by white blobs of road paint, daubed mini-roundabout-style over the tarmac.
Nothing speaks louder about our current treatment of Stonehenge than these splodges; for somewhere that should be brimming with mystery and ancient magic, Stonehenge has had to wait a while to truly delight us.
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Photos of Osprey – there must be half a dozen at Urangan boat Harbour. They're a bit of a menace as they love to perch on top of a mast, wreaking havoc with wind vanes and antennae.
One of our favourite aspects of Lady Musgrave Island is that it is a breeding ground for bird species such as the Noddy and various species of Tern. As there are no predators (on land anyway!) birds have no fear of humans and some, like the Black Noddy, will quite happily sit on the ground meters away from one.


We are delighted to once again sponsor the Oldmeldrum Golf Club charity open which was held recently. This is the third year that we have sponsored the event. This year £500 was raised which was donated to our nominated charity which was Children 1st who support survivors of abuse, neglect, and other traumatic events in childhood. We have sponsored this event now for the last three years and it is great to see Children 1st benefit from this.In the past the event has raised money for Anthony Nolan, Diabetes Scotland and the Gathimba Edwards Foundation.


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A Special Concert for St Cecilia's Day
We are very pleased to announce that a Special Concert will be held in November in order to raise funds for the 2014 pilgrimage. The concert will be followed by the usual convivial reception which serves as our end-of-year party. We are delighted that His Grace, Archbishop Vincent Nichols, will be present for the evening.
We are very fortunate that the University College London Music Society will be performing for us once again and the concert will be conducted by Charles Peebles. The Symphony Chorus and Orchestra of UCLU Music Society are a magnificent group of young musicians.
The concert programme includes works by Britten and Mozart. We are lucky to be able to celebrate the centenary of Benjamin Britten's birth and St Cecilia's Day with his Hymn to St Cecilia. The concert will also feature one of Mozart's most loved works, the Coronation Mass in C Major.
For further information and to purchase tickets, please call 0207 798 9173. Tickets for the concert are priced at £5 and £10 and tickets for the reception are priced at £10.


At last week's Fiat Chrysler Automobiles press conference, one of the many announcements in Sergio Marchionne's five year plan for the company included it's new line-up of powertrains. This new series of engines is designed to help the automaker meet tightening global fuel economy and emissions standards.
This new family of engines will replace Chrysler's range of four-cylinder engines. There are currently 40 types of these within the company, many of which share no common parts or technology with one another. Some were acquired through business ventures. The new ones will share common parts, such as pistons, combustion chamber designs and fuel injectors, and will have the ability to be customized for individual markets inexpensively.
Also coming up are a series of gasoline-electric hybrids, including a plug-in version of their Chrysler Town & Country minivan, which will be the first of several new hybrid models. The company's industry-changing eight- and nine-speed transmissions will be available to more vehicles and FCA will bring more diesel engines to North America.
FCA made several announcements regarding their new powertrains. They are developing both gasoline and diesel engines that will share several of the same technologies. They are also working on a belt-alternator stop-start system.
Dual-clutch transmissions deliver great fuel economy and reduced carbon dioxide emissions, but as seen with the Dodge Dart, aren't popular in North America. Diesels are getting more popular over here, as seen by sales of the EcoDiesel options in the Jeep Grand Cherokee and RAM 1500.
As fuel economy standards in the U.S. and in Europe get stricter, the company needs to embrace more fuel efficient powertrains. Customers too, are demanding better fuel economy as gas prices aren't getting any lower.
It's not all about fuel economy though. FCA also announced that their line of Dodge performance cars will get their new 6.2-litre supercharged V8. It's anticipated that it will get approximately 640 hp. The current 6.4-litre Hemi V8 found in the company's SRT performance cars delivers only 470 hp by comparison.
Chrysler is no stranger to consolidating engines. The company phased out several V6 engines in 2010, and replaced them all with the Pentastar V6 engine.


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Whilst the era of COVID continues to be marked by a tragic and unconscionable loss of life, by poor mental health and by the loss of income and work opportunities, for the more fortunate amongst us it is characterised mainly by a boring and monotonous daily routine, in which we see only the people we live with and only go out for a swift route march around a nearby public park. Whilst it is not physically threatening, this boring routine needs to be watched carefully. It can only too easily develop into the darker form of philosophical boredom known as ennui, which is an existential challenge …
It has long been commonplace to say that there is something wrong with theatre. Theatre breaks down with the forgotten line, or the wilful child performer taking matters into their own hands. Theatre's 'wrongness', or tendency to break down as a consequence of its precarious liveness, might also be said to condition its ontology.1 However, for an elite group of fin-de-siècle writers, theatre's 'wrongness' – its taking place in the drab materiality of the here-and-now – meant more than the mesmeric pull of live performance's vulnerabilities. For French and Belgian champions of fin-de-siècle sym…
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This beautiful Silver coin is part of the "Illusion" series and depicts a famous opera "The Dream Taken by Wind and Time" created by Sandro Del Prete, the Master of Illusions. The coin has a beautiful design, has a Rose Gold Plating, has a Proof quality and comes encapsulated, along with the Certificate of Authenticity. Limited mintage to 2.500 pcs worldwide.
Sandro del Prete was born in Bern Switzerland in 1937. Drawing and painting had been his favorite hobbies since childhood, and so he traveled to Florence to attend the Art Academy of that City. In developing his style, Sandro del Prete coined the term "Illusorism", this means the process of representing optical delusions when drawing pictures. These optical delusions are actually illusions in the broadest sense of the word.


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RFE/RL: The Curious Case Of Bishkek's $1 Million Deal With Ex-Israeli Intelligence Worker
Confusion and intrigue have reigned in Kyrgyzstan since compromised parliamentary elections on October 4, 2020, sparked street protests that brought down the government and forced the president of the Central Asian country to resign.
Now people are scratching their heads over a $1 million international lobbying contract signed on behalf of Kyrgyzstan's acting president — just days after he got out of jail — by an obscure Bishkek businessman with a self-professed former Israeli intelligence agent living in Canada.
Ari Ben-Menashe, who claims to have worked for Israeli intelligence in the 1970s and 1980s, registered as a foreign agent in Washington in early November 2020 to help Sapyr Japarov — who came to power in Kyrgyzstan after the failed elections and is now a leading presidential candidate — secure meetings with foreign officials and attract international investment to his impoverished country, U.S. lobbying documents show.
Ben-Menashe told RFE/RL he was tapped to help Kyrgyzstan by an acquaintance he met in Russia named Abdymanap Karchygaev, who says he is a successful businessman who heads Renaissance, a newly registered Kyrgyz agro-industrial firm.
The $1 million fee for Ben-Menashe's services — which was fully paid by December 21, 2020, according to U.S. filings — was partially financed by Karchygaev's friends in Russia, the Kyrgyz businessman said.
Karchygaev, who began negotiating the contract in September 2020 when Japarov was still serving a prison term for kidnapping, said he hoped the international lobbying effort would help attract $8 billion in aid and investment to Kyrgyzstan. If accomplished, the amount would exceed the country's total foreign direct investment in the past 25 years, according to World Bank data.
"I had [aimed] to set up around 100 companies under the umbrella of the agro-industrial corporation, to bring back hundreds of Kyrgyz wandering around in Russia and create jobs," Karchygaev told reporters in Bishkek on November 6, 2020. "Bearing in mind this idea, I contacted this consultancy company. I've lived in Russia for 10 years, therefore, these are my old acquaintances."
Ben-Menashe told RFE/RL in an interview that he met with Japarov in his government office in Bishkek three times in October 2020 to discuss details of the lobbying deal before it was signed by Karchygaev in Japarov's name.
The contract does not mention any preferential treatment for Karchygaev or his companies though it does seek to attract investment into Kyrgyzstan's agricultural industry, which could potentially benefit the businessman.
When the $1 million contract became public following Ben-Menashe's mandatory registration in the United States, reporters in Kyrgyzstan started to ask questions.
Japarov first denied having met with Ben-Menashe and dismissed the deal as a bureaucratic mistake by a novice employee. He added that he could barely remember Karchygaev.
Sapyr Japarov
Japarov said Karchygaev was one of more than 100 investors that have come to his office since October 2020 to discuss investment possibilities.
He claimed that when Karchygaev then appealed to the nation's investment promotion agency for help with his endeavor, a new employee "unknowingly" signed a letter and sent it to the Foreign Ministry.
"This is just a small shortcoming," Japarov said. "People who wanted to promote black PR blew up this little thing saying that an agreement was signed. No agreement was signed between them and the government."
Japarov's office did not respond to an RFE/RL inquiry — after Ben-Menashe said he met with the then-prime minister — asking to confirm they had met and if he had given his approval for the deal.
Anna Massoglia, a researcher and foreign-lobbying expert at the Center for Responsive Politics in Washington, told RFE/RL that U.S. law does not prohibit an individual from hiring a lobbyist on behalf of another person as long as it is disclosed.
"It is not uncommon for individuals who are fugitives, subject to sanctions, or imprisoned to have another person acting as a proxy of sorts and listed as the foreign principal in [Foreign Agents Registration Act] filings," she said.
U.S., Israel, And Saudi Arabia
Ben-Menashe is, according to the contract, supposed to arrange meetings for the Kyrgyz president with senior U.S. officials "in short order" to discuss improving relations and to obtain grants for technological development, fighting the coronavirus, agricultural investments, and debt-repayment assistance.
Furthermore, Ben-Menashe is to set up meetings for Japarov with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; attract investment from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for highways, mines, and oil fields; and schedule meetings with officials in Riyadh and Abu Dhabi.
Ben-Menashe will have his work cut out for him on the investment goals.
Unlike its authoritarian neighbors in Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan routinely changes governments and has thrown out three presidents in 15 years. It is also beset with deep-rooted corruption.
Furthermore, the country's largest foreign-investment project, the Canadian-owned Kumtor gold mine, has faced threats of nationalization, riots, and hefty lawsuits for ecological damage, setting a poor precedent for potential international investors.
But there are other hurdles to overcome in Ben-Menashe's goal of attracting Middle East money for Kyrgyzstan's natural resources industry, said Ellen Wald, a senior fellow with the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center and a Saudi expert.
Aramco and Adnoc, the national oil companies of Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E, respectively, have never done any exploration or production of upstream assets outside of their own countries, she told RFE/RL.
"Aramco has talked about investing in gas assets outside of the kingdom but Kyrgyzstan, a country that has no known oil or gas assets, would be a very questionable choice to initiate that process," said Wald.
'Terrible' Timing
As for the effort to lobby the United States, it has already promised aid to Central Asia to fight COVID-19 and senior officials hold regular meetings with regional leaders through the C5+1 format.
Eric Stewart, a former Commerce Department deputy assistant secretary who has worked with Central Asian governments, told RFE/RL there are very few instances where it makes sense for a country to hire a lobbyist to get meetings in Washington.
"Only if there is something very specific [in which] they need help with securing something Pentagon related, for example. But to secure meetings — no," he said.
Stewart, who is president of the American Central European Business Association, called the timing of the contract "terrible."
The incoming Biden administration will need time to assemble its team and likely won't focus on Central Asia until late in 2021, he said.
"It's nothing against Kyrgyzstan, it's an amazing country, they just aren't a strategic or economic priority for the [United States]. They are too far away, too small, and too reliant on China and Russia. An Israeli-Canadian lobbyist won't change their relevance and, in fact, some in the administration will be turned off by it or even less reluctant to schedule a meeting if there are middlemen involved," he said.
Big January Election
The Kyrgyz parliament eventually named Japarov, 51, prime minister in the chaos that existed shortly after the government collapsed in the wake of street protests over the results of the October 4, 2020 parliamentary elections, in which many votes were alleged to have been bought.
When President Sooronbai Jeenbekov resigned later that month, parliament also named Japarov acting president.
He later stepped down as prime minister and as acting president in order to be able to stand for president in the January 10 election.
Japarov, who was released amid the protests from a Bishkek prison where he was serving a nearly 12-year term for kidnapping, is one of 18 candidates vying for the top post.
Zimbabwe, Congo, And Libya?
Kyrgyzstan is just the latest troubled country that Ben-Menashe has represented since setting up his Montreal-based firm Dickens & Madson Canada in 2001.
His clients over the years have included Zimbabwe's former authoritarian leader Robert Mugabe; the Republic of Congo's long-serving president, Denis Sassou Nguesso; Sudan's military junta; Libya's Cyrenaica Transitional Council and General National Council; and Venezuela's left-center Progressive Advance political party.
Ben-Menashe has stated in some of his FARA filings that he would lobby Russia as well as the United States on behalf of his clients, including Nguesso, Libya's General National Council, and the tiny Venezuelan party. Russia has influence with all three countries.
Ben-Menashe was arrested by U.S. officials in 1989 on charges of trying to sell U.S.-made, military cargo planes to Iran, but was acquitted one year later.
His lawyer told the court that Ben-Menashe was a former intelligence operative who represented Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir in an attempted arms-for-hostages deal, according to a 1990 report by The Washington Post.
But U.S. prosecutors said he was only a translator for Israeli military intelligence.
A congressional hearing that looked into arms transfers to Iran described Ben-Menashe as a talented liar, according to a 2004 report in The New York Times.
Todd Prince


The former communist bloc hasn't yet hit Michelin's radar but it has many star worthy restaurants and stellar chefs. The Iron Curtain has been pulled back, and creativity is all the rage. Chefs just want to have fun. The food is playful and imaginative while delicious. Restaurants rely on as many locally sourced ingredients as possible. The prices will make you rethink where you travel. Goodbye Paris and hello Eastern Europe!
The restaurant's name reflects the simple but hearty regional black bread served. It is so delicious that it is easy to fill up and skip the rest of the meal. The menu changes based on seasonal and local ingredients. The food is simple and unfussy like the Estonian diet which tends to rely heavily on meat and cream. Lighter options are available including local farm raised quail. The quail with chimichurri sauce was an unusual combination for about $17 US.