4.	Oregon is an income tax dependent state, yet 10.5% unemployment remains the norm. Ninety-three percent of General Fund revenues come from Personal and Corporate Income Taxes. Yet, since 2008 Oregon's official unemployment rate has averaged more than 10.5%. More than 200,000 Oregon workers are officially unemployed and tens of thousands of others are jobless and without benefits. Since 2007 Oregon's private sector has lost 154,000 jobs. (Click Here.) It is illogical to believe income tax revenues will substantially increase when so many workers are out of work and so many businesses are out of business.
5. $2.7 Billion of "new revenue" required to maintain Current Service Level in 2011-13 Budget. Notwithstanding successive reductions in revenues in each of the four quarters since the close of session in June 2009 (Click Here.), the cost to maintain state government's Current Service Level (CSL) continues to rise at an unsustainable rate. The anticipated increase in spending necessary to maintain our state's CSL in the 2011-13 budget after various adjustments will require $2.7 billion more than the amount needed for 2009-11. In other words, $2.7 billion of additional revenue will be needed in 2011-13, assuming revenues increase to compensate for the $1.6 billion in one-time money used to balance the current 2009-11 budget. ( Click Here.) To keep in perspective the magnitude of this $2.7 billion of addition revenue needed for 2011-13, we should remember that as a result of decreasing income tax revenues, the forecast for our current budget has decreased $891 million since the 2009 session ended.
In short, Oregon's revenues are dropping like a rock, while Oregon's expenditures are skyrocketing — Oregon has an unsustainable level of spending.
1. Oregon's All Funds budget history. Note the accelerating upward curve.
2.	Oregon's General Fund budget history.
3.	Oregon's Growth Rate plummets as depicted in this "Even Year" biennial chart.
With the private sector continuing to lose jobs, how can we pay for thousands of new state workers? As Oregon's public sector hired additional 4300 government workers since November 2007, workers in the private sector have not fared so well.
The Capitol and its surrounding buildings have been described as "one square mile surrounded by reality." The reality for most Oregon families and private sector businesses is this– times are hard and cutting back on expenses is a fact of life.
Such has not been the case in our State government. At a time when the State should have been prioritizing its spending it has expanded "non-essential" agencies and programs–sometimes at alarming rates.
3. Ensure that Oregon's students receive a quality education.
Where does the money go when there are such huge increases in budgets? Most of the increases in the budget for the Department of Human Services have gone to pay the increased demand for benefits. Nevertheless, since 3 out of 4 dollars are related to payroll expenses, they certainly are a primary factor in escalating costs.
Recently I was joined on an Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) program by a public union representative and union employee. Both passionately (and erroneously) stated that government workers earn substantially less than their private sector counter-parts. If such a disparity were true in the past, it certainly is not true today. There is a concerted effort to misinform the people by repeatedly saying public workers are paid less than private sector workers. On average, Oregon State government workers earn more per year than their private sector counter-parts. (To read the facts on state vs. private sector pay disparities, Click Here.) The growing disparity between public and private compensation is most obvious in the areas of retirement and health benefits–100% of Oregon's state workers' benefits are paid for by Oregon taxpayers.
I have received estimates of the number of State employees ranging from 37,000 to 54,000. Irrespective of the actual number, if State employees who are covered by health benefits were required to begin paying 1/4 of their monthly group insurance costs ($1181 x 1/4 = $295.25), the savings to the State would be substantial. The total savings from having state workers pay a quarter of the cost for their group insurance benefits could free up between $262 million and $350 million for high priority State services in the next biennium.
It is time for State workers to pay their "fair share" of their retirement and health benefits — and this also pertains to members of the Legislature and the Judiciary.
In conclusion, the Governor's Reset Cabinet states in its report that $1.6 billion of one-time money was used to balance the 2009-11 State Budget and that it will cost an additional $2.2 billion to $2.7 billion to maintain current service levels in the 2011-13 State General Funds Budget. The Reset Cabinet bases their calculations on the assumption that an economic recovery is under way and there will be sufficient "new revenue" in 2011-13 to make up for the $1.6 billion of one-time money consumed to balance our current budget. From the evidence, information and links above, I am much less optimistic.
In an average economy Oregon creates approximately 25,000 new jobs per year. Since November 2007 Oregon has lost 154,000 jobs, which includes the loss of 15,000 jobs in the past three months. Oregon's economy today is not "average," and even if it were, it would take more than six years merely to regain the jobs lost since 2007. In addition to the jobs lost, Oregon's expected tax revenues have decreased $891 million since the June 2009 "Close Of Session" Forecast.
Based on all of the above, I believe there is little chance the Governor's Reset Cabinet's expectation will be realized for enough "new revenue" to off-set the loss of the $1.6 billion in one-time funds expended in the current biennium.
Added together the $1.6 billion hole and the $2.256 billion additional expenses total more than $3.8 billion needed to balance the 2011-13 budget. Since Oregon has a population of 3.8 million, per capita, in addition to all existing Oregon financial obligations, $1,000 for every man, woman and child in Oregon will be needed to balance the proposed 2011-13 budget.
When considering the dire situation in which Oregon finds itself, many have said, "At least we are not as bad-off as California." Oregon and the nation are laughing at California–the state with the basket-case economy.
But, wait a minute. How does Oregon's situation contrast with that of California? Both California and Oregon have greatly increased their number of state employees and related government expenditures. Both states have increased their social programs, their regulations and taxation of businesses and individuals; and, both states now have unemployment rates significantly higher than the national averages.
California has a top-end budget hole of $25 billion. California also has a population of 38 million. Thus, with a simple calculation, California's budget appears to have a per capita deficit of $658 per person. Oregon's budget appears to have a per capita deficit of $1,000 per person.
Who's laughing now? Not me.
P.S. Oregon is divided into 60 House Districts and 30 Senate Districts. Every Oregonian has both a State Representative and a State Senator. If you want your voice heard on Oregon's spending practices, contact your elected officials. If you would like to add your voice to my blog, please click here.


Looks like the new (and cheaper) iPhone SE has learned a few secret tricks; and just as we had found with the iPhone 6S, it's also water resistant.
When the iPhone 6S was launched, people soon found out that, while Apple didn't announce it as waterproof, the device could actually survive long term immersion in water without any issues at all, leading us to believe that the iPhone 6S is secretly waterproof.
As always, this doesn't mean you should go swimming with your iPhone... but, should it happen to take a dive, it's highly likely you won't have to think about replacing it.


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Elina Backman
Yesterday was the publication day of the German edition of Elina Backman's ALL THE KING'S MEN, book 1 in the bestselling Saana Havas crime series!
The German publisher Piper came up with simply stunning covers and they will follow-up with the second book in the series this summer!
Congratulations to Piper and Elina Backman!
Elina Backman is now Finland's no. 4 bestselling fiction author (all formats). Over 60 000 copies of Elina's books have been sold in Finland, rights have been sold for 16 territories, and an international TV-series based on Elina Backman's books is in development by Aurora Studios. The third instalment in the Saana Havas series, BEFORE THE POLAR NIGHT FALLS is nominated for the Finnish Crime Writers' Society's Clue of the Year Award for best crime novel published in 2022!
Download the material for Elina Backman's books here!
Elina Backman Saana Havas Series
FINLAND: Otava (orig.)
CZECH REPUBLIC: Grada
DENMARK: Gyldendal
ESTONIA: Varrak (2-book deal)
GERMANY: Piper Verlag (2-book deal)
HUNGARY: Maxim (2-book deal)
ITALY: Newton Compton
LITHUANIA: BALTO
NETHERLANDS: De Bezige Bij/Cargo (2-book deal)
NORWAY: Cappelen Damm (2-book-deal)
POLAND: Czarna Owca
ROMANIA: Lebada Neagra
RUSSIA: Mann, Ivanov, Ferber (2-book-deal)
SLOVAKIA: Arkus
SWEDEN: Bokfabriken (2-book-deal)
FILM & TV RIGHTS: Aurora Studios
Elina Backman is an author and a media & marketing professional living in Helsinki. Elina loves books (all sorts), traveling, cycling and is a host of a Book & Wine Club. She is a creative soul with a commercial mind, and her goal is to find readers globally.
Her debut novel All the King's Men was published in 2020 and immediately gained an enormous amount of attention from the Finnish media, including a praising review by the biggest daily newspaper Helsingin Sanomat. The Havas series is now a best-selling series in Finland, with All the King's Men sold in 15 territories to-date, and an international TV series is in development. Elina's books have sold over 70 000 copies in Finland.
Together with Heidi Holmavuo, Elina has also narrated the true crime podcast Ratkaisematon (Unsolved), which turned into a full-length audio book as the two crime writers started investigating the murder of a young girl in 1967. They were able to uncover new evidence and their research led the police to reopen the investigation. This story is narrated in the book Unsolved - The Case of Elli Immo.
2022, Crime & Suspense
Before the Polar Night Falls
Unsolved - The Case of Elli Immo
Still Waters Run Deep (a.k.a The Isle of Sheep)
All the King's Men (a.k.a. When the King Dies)
Finnish crime rules: Max Seeck, Elina Backman, and Vera Vala news!
German audio rights for ALL THE KING'S MEN and STILL WATERS RUN DEEP by Elina Backman sold!
Elina Backman's ALL THE KING'S MEN and two sequels now pre-empted in Denmark
Elina Backman's STILL WATERS RUN DEEP now sold to Slovakia! Now 11 territories sold!
Italian deal for STILL WATERS RUN DEEP!
New accolades for Elina Backman and her thriller series!
Elina Backman's debut crime novel ALL THE KING'S MEN nominated by the Swedish Crime Writer's Academy as the BEST TRANSLATED CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR
Elina Backman's ALL THE KING'S MEN and STILL WATERS RUN DEEP pre-empted in Hungary!
Elina Backman's ALL THE KING'S MEN sold to Romania!
Elina Backman's STILL WATERS RUN DEEP (book #2 in the series) now sold to Poland!
Elina Backman's STILL WATERS RUN DEEP sold to Russia!
Elina Backman's STILL WATERS RUN DEEP now TOP 9 in the Finnish official bestseller list! See the new video!
Today Elina Ahlback Literary Agency celebrates its 12th anniversary!
Elina Backman's ALL THE KING'S MEN has now sold over 20.000 copies!
Backman's awaited crime sequel STILL WATERS RUN DEEP published this week!
Elina Backman's ALL THE KING'S MEN wins the Storytel Award
EALA Spring 2021 Fiction Rights Guide
We are happy to announce that Swedish publisher Bokfabriken bought the Swedish rights to Elina Backman's BEFORE THE POLAR NIGHT FALLS (book 3 in the Saana Havas crime series). The deal was closed by Anna Kappauf at Elina Ahlback Literary Agency.
BEFORE THE POLAR NIGHT FALLS has been nominated for the Finnish Crime Writers' Society's Clue of the Year Award for best crime novel published in 2022! And the second book in the Saana Havas series, STILL WATERS RUN DEEP, has been listed as nr. 7 of the 30 best crime novels of 2022 by the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter. Elina Backman is now Finland's no. 4 bestselling fiction author (all formats). Over 60 000 copies of Elina's books have been sold in Finland, rights have been sold for 16 territories, and an international TV-series based on Elina Backman's books is in development by Aurora Studios
Congratulations to Elina Backman!
Download the materials for BEFORE THE POLAR NIGHT FALLS here!
Orig. publication: Ennen kuin tulee pimeää (Before the Polar Night Falls), Otava, September 2022, 416pp.
Rights sold Elina Backman Saana Havas series:
ESTONIA: Varrak
GERMANY: Piper Verlag
HUNGARY: Maxim
NETHERLANDS: De Bezige Bij/Cargo
NORWAY: Cappelen Damm
RUSSIA: Mann, Ivanov, Ferber
SWEDEN: Bokfabriken
Reading materials: Finnish edition, English sample, synopsis and series presentation
Award nomination news!
We are thrilled to announce that two of our agency's authors have been nominated for the Finnish Crime Writers' Society's Clue of the Year Award for best crime novel published in 2022!
Elina Backman is nominated for BEFORE THE POLAR NIGHT FALLS, the third instalment in the Saana Havas crime series which is currently no. 3 in Audio Books. Elina Backman is now Finland's no. 4 bestselling fiction author (all formats). Over 60 000 copies of Elina's books have been sold in Finland, rights have been sold for 16 territories, and an international TV-series based on Elina Backman's books is in development by Aurora Studios
New York Times bestselling author Max Seeck is nominated for ARCHIPELAGO, the 4th book in the Jessica Niemi series. Max Seeck is Finland's no.1 bestselling fiction author in e-books and no. 2 bestselling author in all formats. Over 20,000 copies of ARCHIPELAGO and over 300,000 copies of all his books have been sold in Finland. Max's books have been sold to 40 countries and Hollywood.
Here is the jury's motivation for the nominations:
About BEFORE THE POLAR NIGHT FALLS by Elina Backman:
"Saana Havas, who has gained a reputation with her podcast, travels to northern Lapland to seek new content and to investigate the case of a girl who disappeared and was then found murdered years ago. The book deserves special recognition for its descriptions of the milieu and the people living north of the Arctic Circle. Elina Backman succeeds in portraying Havas' role in the strange environment which the "amateur detective" observes with sympathy."
About ARCHIPELAGO by Max Seeck:
"In ARCHIPELAGO, Max Seeck offers the reader an original and very appealing plot. Seeck's detective, police officer Jessica Niemi, hopes to find a peaceful recovery on Åland's most remote island due to her work setbacks. In the idyllic boarding house, which follows the tradition of a good detective story, Jessica meets people who share a painful past from decades ago. Soon a body is found on the beach, and Jessica can't settle for the observer's part. The story is strongly edged by the big turning point in Jessica's own life."
The winner will be announced in January 2023.
Congratulations to our Authors!
Download the materials for WHEN THE POLAR NIGHT FALLS here!
Download the materials for THE ARCHIPELAGO here!
Max Seeck Jessica Niemi Series
ALBANIA: Muza
ARABIC: Arab Scientific Publishers
ARMENIA: Guitank
BELGIUM, A.W. Bruna
BULGARIA: EMAS
CANADA: Berkley/Penguin Random House
CROATIA: Fokus
DENMARK: Gutkind
ESTONIA: Pegasus
FRANCE: Michel Lafon
GERMANY: Bastei Lübbe
GREECE: Livani
HUNGARY: Animus
ICELAND: Forlagid
ISRAEL: Tchelet Books
ITALY: Piemme/Mondadori
KOREA: Cheongmirae
LATIN AMERICA: Editorial Maeva/Maeva Noir
LITHUANIA: Baltos lankos
MACEDONIA: Matica
NETHERLANDS: A.W. Bruna
NORWAY: Aschehoug
POLAND: Sonia Draga
PORTUGAL: Bertrand Editora
RUSSIA: AST
SERBIA: Vulkan
SLOVAKIA: Motýľ
SLOVENIA: Didakta
SPAIN: Editorial Maeva/Maeva Noir
SWEDEN: Albert Bonniers Förlag
TURKEY: Doğan Kitap
UKRAINE: Family Leisure Club
UNITED KINGDOM & COMMONWEALTH: Welbeck Publishing UK
UNITED STATES: Berkley/Penguin Random House
FILM & TV RIGHTS: Stampede Ventures (Greg Silverman)
Max Seeck, New York Times Best Selling Author
Max Seeck - New York Times Bestselling Author of THE WITCH HUNTER.
"Another star has been added to the firmament of thriller writers," announced Iltalehti newspaper, when Max's debut novel was published in 2016. Four years and four books later, Max Seeck's novels have been sold to more than 40 countries, including US, UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Nordic countries and as far as Korea!
His debut trilogy following protagonist Daniel Kuisma sold over 40,000 copies in Finland. His new Jessica Niemi series landed him on the New York Times Bestseller list! In Faithful Reader, AKA The Witch Hunter (US title), book 1 of the Jessica Niemi series, Helsinki Police Detective Jessica Niemi hunts an occultist serial killer. In Evil's Net, AKA Ice Coven, Jessica and her team follow clues hidden on Instagram to solve the disappearance of a young influencer and a manga artist.
Max Seeck has a background in sales and marketing, and has lately been able to dedicate his time to his lifelong love of writing. His interests include well-conducted research, reading Nordic Noir and listening to movie soundtracks as he writes.
Exciting news! Max Seeck, the New York Times bestselling author with his crime novels, has sold over 300 000 copies in Finland in all formats! Warmest congratulations, Max and Tammi!
His newest title THE ARCHIPELAGO (Loukko, September 2022) is Finland's #1 Fiction Bestseller, with over 20 000 copies sold, and received a starred review in Finland's biggest daily:
"The fourth instalment of the Jessica Niemi series of detective novels is the best to date and proves Seeck's mastery of the genre's traditions."
– Pertti Avola in Helsingin Sanomat newspaper
Download materials for the JESSICA NIEMI series here!
Furthermore, Elina Backman's second title STILL WATERS RUN DEEP has been nominated in Sweden for the Best Translated Crime Novel of the Year 2022 by the Swedish Crime Writer's Academy! We are so thrilled – this is the second time Elina receives this honour!
Elina Backman's bestselling Saana Havas series, pitched as Tana French meets Jo Nesbo, have sold over 60 000 copies in Finland and rights have been sold to 16 territories and counting. An international TV-series based on Elina Backman's books is in development by Aurora Studios. '
Rights are still available in e.g. Spain, France, UK, USA, and Latvia.
Download materials for the SAANA HAVAS series here!
ITALIAN GAME by Vera Vala – Elena Ferrante meets Jo Nesbo
And if you're looking for a new and exciting crime series with a strong female protagonist, complex characters, vivid descriptions and a gripping plot, why not take a look at Vera Vala's new Salla Kotka series!
Pitched as Elena Ferrante meets Jo Nesbo, this series created a lot of buzz in Frankfurt and is an official bestseller in Finland! Readers love the psychological aspects and the strong female character.
"The Italian Game begins a new crime series, and this opening title is impressing, the language and style are polished, and the narration keeps one in its grip until the end." – Satakunnan Kansa newspaper
Download materials for the SALLA KOTKA series here!
Loukko
ESTONIA: Kirjastus Pegasus
UK: Welbeck
USA: Berkley / Penguin Random House
FILM & TV: Stampede Ventures, Hollywood
THE LAST GRUDGE
Kauna
HUNGARY: Animus Kiadó Kft.
Ennen kuin tulee pimeää
STILL WATERS RUN DEEP
Kun jäljet katoavat
ESTONIA: Varrak Publishers
GERMANY: Piper
ITALY: Newton Compton Editori
NETHERLANDS: Cargo
NORWAY: Cappelen Damm AS
RUSSIA: Mann, Ivanov and Ferber
ITALIAN GAME
Italialainen peli
FINLAND: WSOY (orig.)
Vera Vala
Vera Vala's roots are in Finnish forests, but her soul belongs to Italy, where she has been living for over 25 years. She has an infinite thirst for knowledge that has taken her to study various academic subjects from Physics to Assyriology and Romance Languages, and the information acquired during those years has been useful as background research for her novels.
Vera's adventurous spirit has taken her from diving with sharks while living in Seychelles to rafting in Italian Alps and exploring the shadier parts of her former hometown, Rome: the diverse experiences have come in handy while creating intriguing plot twists.
Currently, Vera lives with her family in Milan where she is studying to become a clinical psychologist with a special interest in Forensic Psychology. Vera creates novel scenes in her mind while cooking Italian meals, and she loves slow chess games and meditation.
We are so happy to share the news about the German audio rights sold for Elina Backman's Saana Havas Nordic Crime series books 1 & 2: ALL THE KING'S MEN (German title: Brandmal) and STILL WATERS RUN DEEP (Dunkelstrom)
The rights were sublicensed to Germany's no.1 audiobook publisher Hoerbuch Hamburg and the audiobooks and printed books will be published simultaneously in February 2023 and June 2023.
Backman's Saana Havas-series has sold over 50 000 copies in Finland and has publishers in 16 territories.
Rights are still available in the US, UK, Turkey, Greece, Latvia, France, Bulgaria, Spain etc.
In addition, the TV Series based on Elina Backman's ALL THE KING'S MEN is fast progressing, in development with Aurora Studios!
Download the materials to Elina Backman's titles here!
BOOK 4 THE BEAUTIFUL ISLAND (working title)
Planned publication 01/2024, Otava, Finland
It's the next summer (previous books are set in summer-fall 2019). Saana is on vacation for the whole summer while Jan is working. Saana's aunt Inkeri has promised to help with renovating her friend's summer villa and she asks Saana to join them. The two travel for the island of Kaunissaari, "Beautiful Island", located by the city of Kotka, on the Southeast Coast of Finland, for a month and stay with Inkeri's friend in her villa.
The house next door is a beautiful one, decorated by vines and in the shadow of trees, where a famous artist lives. She asks the neighbors to visit and tells them about her interesting life. Saana finds the woman interesting and watches her house in the evenings, seeing that visitors come every now and then.
A few days later the artist is found dead, to everyone's surprise.
The police come from Kotka to state that the death seems natural. The woman was 81 years old. Inkeri's friend, however, disagrees. She has keys to the house, and she's been helping her neighbor for years. She thinks the artist was in good shape and suspects that there's something completely different going on.
Saana begins asking around about the artist from Inkeri's friend and the inhabitants of the island. Soon she finds out that everyone on the island has their own theory on what happened to the artist. None of the theories line up with the police's explanation.
In Helsinki, Jan begins investigating a case where a famous gallerist has committed suicide, but her loved ones suspect a crime, for there is one piece of art missing from the walls. It's been made by the same artist who lives on Kaunissaari.
Book #3 in Saana Havas-seriesby Elina BackmanThe past and the present intertwine in this arresting novel with unforgettable characters!
A woman working for a law firm approaches Saana Havas to help with the mystery of her sister's death, who was found dead in a swamp near the Angeli village in Northern Lapland in 1998. Murderer was never caught, and the police have given up on the case. Saana promises to help her, and travels to the North and investigates as the winter and polar night keeps creeping closer. As she investigates the old case, she also finds time to ponder on her own roots. An old photograph shows her parents in love at the top of the Saana fell. By the time Saana was born, they all lived in Helsinki, and as the years passed her father returned to the North and her mother stayed in the South.
Things take a threatening turn when another girl is found dead in Inari. What happened in the North all those years ago? Has the murderer come back after all these year? Who is trustworthy? Who has been carrying secrets inside themselves all these years? Set in both Helsinki and Lapland, this book is both a fascinating thriller and a detective novel about love, secrets, the magic of Lapland and nature, which acts as a silent witness.
Book #2 in Saana Havas-series
by Elina Backman
Is evil lurking beneath the calm waters? Still Waters Run Deep is an awaited sequel to the bestselling All The Kings Men!
Three young men are making a documentary film about a mystical hermit, living in the Isle of Sheep in Helsinki. First one of them disappears, then another one. When one of them is found dead in the nearby nature reserve, the police becmes involved.
Saana Havas, recovering from burnout, hears that her colleague's younger brother has gone missing and decides to set up a true crime podcast to help with the search. Meanwhile, police commissioner Jan Leino and his team are investigating the disappearance and possible murder of the documentary makers.
When young men disappear and die, it's ofter regarded just an accident. But could it be that someone is actually hunting for them?
ALL THE KING'S MEN
Saana has been fired from her job as a click-bait journalist, so she decides to spend a summer with her aunt in a small-town Hartola. It sounds like a perfect opportunity to take it easy and recover. But when Saana begins to dig into a case of a teenage girl who died 30 years earlier, the peace of the small town is shaken.
Meanwhile in Helsinki a fire-marked body is found at Suomenlinna Sea Fortress, and crime investigator Jan Leino and his team have a new case in their hands. However, the investigation isn't going anywhere, and Jan fears that the murder at King's Gate a is just the beginning…
Saana and Jan continue working on their own cases until their paths cross – for more than one reason.
(aka When the King Dies)
Otava, 2020, 495 pp.
GERMANY (print & e-book): Piper
GERMANY (audio): Hoerbuch Hamburg.
SLOVAKIA: Arkus Vydavatelstvo
TV: Aurora Studios
(aka The Isle of Sheep)
GERMANY (audio): Hoerbuch Hamburg.HUNGARY: Maxim
Otava, September 2022
We are really happy to announce that all 3 titles in Elina Backman's Saana Havas Nordic Crime series have now been pre-empted in Denmark by Gyldendal!
The deal was closed by Toomas Aasmäe at Elina Ahlback Literary Agency
Saana Havas series has sold over 50 000 copies in Finland so far!
The series now has publishers in 16 territories and an international TV series is in development.
Rights are still available in the US, UK, Turkey, Latvia, France, Bulgaria, Spain, Portugal, Iceland etc.
Download the English samples and synopses for the series here!
DANISH PRAISE:
I am very excited to welcome Elina Backman to Gyldendal.The series kept me up all night and I can't wait to introduce it to the Danish readers. Jan and Saana are excellent company, and Backman is very skilled in adding small details that make the story connect with real life in a very truthful manner. A highly entertaining crime series written by an author with a great eye for both plot, characters and sense of place.
-Sofie Voller, Associate Publisher, Gyldendal, Denmark
The past and the present intertwine in this arresting novel with unforgettable characters!
A woman working for a law firm approaches Saana Havas to help with the mystery of her sister's death. Her sister was found dead in a swamp near the Angeli village in Northern Lapland in 1998, and the murderer has never been caught. The police have given up on the case, no witnesses were ever found in the area of Lapland that covers hundreds of kilometers. Saana promises to help her, and receives all the material the client has collected. Part of this is a manuscript the woman wrote when investigating the case herself years ago. Saana travels to the North and investigates as the winter and polar night keeps creeping closer. As Saana investigates the old case, she also finds time to ponder on her own roots. An old photograph shows her parents in love at the top of the Saana fell. By the time Saana was born, they all lived in Helsinki, and as the years passed her father returned to the North and her mother stayed in the South. Her mother, who has since passed away, never spoke about her father's family or roots. Saana interviews the locals and soon finds out unexpected secrets.
#1 All the King's Men
#2 Still Waters Run Deep
#3 Before the Polar Night Falls
We are really happy to announce that Elina Backman's second title in the Saana Havas series – STILL WATERS RUN DEEP has been sold to the Slovak publisher Arkus!
The deal was closed by Toomas Aasmäe at Elina Ahlback Literary AgencySequel to the best-selling ALL THE KING'S MEN, STILL WATERS RUN DEEP is the second part in the Saana Havas -series, which has sold over 50 000 copies in Finland so far! The series now has publishers in 15 territories and an international TV series is in development.Rights are still available in the US, UK, Denmark, Turkey, Latvia, France, Bulgaria, Spain etc.Download the English samples and synopses for both titles here!ITALIAN PRAISE:
"[A]n unputdownable great Nordic crime novel with an intriguing plot which captivates you till the end." – Gabriele Anniballi, Newton Compton.
Elina Backman is a media & marketing professional living in Helsinki, in an old wooden 1920 house with a family of two kids and a husband. Elina loves books (all sorts), travelling, cycling and is a host of a Book & Wine Club. She is a creative soul with a commercial mind, and her goal is to find readers globally – her dream is a Netflix series based on her novels.
We are so happy to let you know that STILL WATERS RUN DEEP has been sold to the Italian publisher Newton Compton Editori! The deal was closed by Elsa Lindström at Elina Ahlback Literary Agency.
Sequel to the best-selling ALL THE KING'S MEN, STILL WATERS RUN DEEP is the second part in the Saana Havas -series, which has sold over 50 000 copies in Finland so far! The series now has publishers in 15 territories and an international TV series is in development.
Rights are still available in the US, UK, Denmark, Turkey, Latvia, France, Bulgaria, Spain etc.
Download the English samples and synopses for both titles here!
ITALIAN PRAISE:
Book #2 in Saana Havas-seriesby Elina BackmanIs evil lurking beneath the calm waters? Still Waters Run Deep is an awaited sequel to the bestselling All The Kings Men!
We are super excited to see that thrillerist Elina Backman is a Finnish Literary Export Award 2021 (Tulenkantaja Prize aka the Torch-Bearer Prize) nominee with her chilling second cosy crime novel STILL WATERS RUN DEEP! The award will be presented at the Tampere Book Fair on December 4th. The winner will receive a prize of 5000 Euros and will be part of an export program provided by the Finnish literature export centre FILI.
Elina Backman has also visited Sweden in November to celebrate her nomination for Best translated novel of the year 2021 with her first novel ALL THE KING'S MEN. The competition is a yearly feat organized by Swedish Crime Writers' Academy (Svenska Deckarakademin).
The picture here shows the diploma from Sweden in which Svenska Deckarakademin confirms that "När kungen dör is one of the five BEST TRANSLATED CRIME NOVELS of 2021".
Kun kuningas kuolee, 2020
Otava, 495 pp.
Kun jäljet katoavat, 2021, Otava, 450 pp.
Together with the excellent work of Backman's Swedish publisher we are proud to share this news that her 1st book in the Havas series 'All the King's Men', that was published in August in Sweden, has been nominated by the Swedish Crime Writer's Academy as the Best Translated Crime Novel 2021. 'Kun kuningas kuolee' bears the title 'När kungen dör' in Swedish and goes by the international name 'All the King's Men'.
Among the ca. 230 crime novels that were registered for the Svenska Deckarakademin – The Swedish Academy for Crime Writers – Award (also known as The Martin Beck Award) included many golden nuggets. The nominated titles are:
Elina Backman: (Bokfabriken) När kungen dör
Originaltitel: Kun kuningas kuolee. Översättning: Marjut Hökfelt.
Blunt, Giles: Arktiska nätter (Hoi förlag)
Originaltitel: Until the Night. Översättning: Sandra Gustafsson & Lars Rambe.
Hancock, Anne Mette: Äppelmannen (Louise Bäckelin förlag)
Originaltitel: Mercedes-snittet. Översättning: Helena Stedman.
Indriðason, Arnaldur: Flickan vid bron (Norstedts)
Originaltitel: Stúlkan hjá brúnni. Översättning: Ingela Jansson.
Musso, Guillaume: Återträffen (Nona)
Originaltitel: La jeune fille et la nuit. Översättning: Christina Norrman.
The authors come from five different countries. Finnish Elina Backman is nominated with her debut crime novel 'Kun kuningas kuolee', the international title being ALL THE KING'S MEN. The other authors have been published in Swedish previously.
All winners are announced at the Svenska Deckareakademins and Svensk Deckarbibliotekets (Swedish Crime Fiction Library) Festival during 19th to 20th of November.
Huge congratulations Elina Backman for this important nomination!
We also want to congratulate and thank translator Marjut Hökfelt for her fantastic work!
Rights sold to 15 countries and counting
Immediate bestseller in Finland! Amazing reviews!
International TV series in development!
Winner of the Storytel Audio book Award 2020 for the Best Crime Novel
Winner of Elisa Kirja book Award, Best Newcomer 2020
ALL THE KING'S MEN (book 1)
Saana has been fired from her job as a click-bait journalist, so she decides to spend a summer with her aunt in a small-town Hartola. It sounds like a perfect opportunity to take it easy and recover. But when Saana begins to dig into a case of a teenage girl who died 30 years earlier, the peace of the small town is shaken.Meanwhile in Helsinki a fire-marked body is found at Suomenlinna Sea Fortress, and crime investigator Jan Leino and his team have a new case in their hands. However, the investigation isn't going anywhere, and Jan fears that the murder at King's Gate a is just the beginning…Saana and Jan continue working on their own cases until their paths cross – for more than one reason.
STILL WATERS RUN DEEP (book 2)
Is evil lurking beneath the calm waters? The Isle of Sheep is an awaited sequel to the bestselling All the Kings Men!
When young men disappear and die, it's ofter regarded just an accident. But could it be that someone is actually hunting.
BEFORE THE POLAR NIGHT FALLS (book 3, to be published in August, 2022) by Elina Backman
In the spellbinding vistas of the Finnish Lapland, polar nights, nature, relationships, murder mystery, Saana and her past meet.
Publication date in August 2022.
Download the English synopses for both titles and the 200pp. English sample for the first book ALL THE KING'S MEN here.
PRAISE:
"Backman keeps the multiple storylines effortlessly together and builds an entertaining summery detective story. – –All The King's Men (A.K.A 'When the King Dies') is the beginning of a new series, and it is a flowy, exciting and skillfully written novel that leaves you wanting for more." – Helsingin Sanomat newspaper, Finland
"All the King's Men is skillfully told through many different characters, and it progresses on two time levels. Backman has created a a wonderfully atmospheric story taking place in summery Finland, and especially the town of Hartola is depicted well. An ambitious novel for a debut author, but Backman succeeds effortlessly. Many elements of a classic mystery novel build up to an entity that rewards its readers. The influenced of domestic and international authors is visible, but it only adds the great reading experience." -The Jury of the Storytel Audio Book Award for the Best Crime Novel of 2020
"ALL THE KING'S MEN will capture your imagination and won't let go until the end. The different storylines and characters are masterfully woven into one spine-chilling ending. We are very excited to introduce Elina Backman and her beautiful writing to the Hungarian audience, and believe that her popularity will equal our love of her book! "– Reka Kresak, Editor, Maxim Könyvkiado, Hungary
"A Star is Born." – Iltalehti, Finland
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Otava, May 2021, 450 pp

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Bernardo Zuccon
Zuccon International Project studio celebrates another success with yet another international recognition: the renown English magazine Design et Al included Bernardo Zuccon among the most important designers of our time.
The interest showed by Design et Al for Bernardo Zuccon work confirms how active his career is. 2017 has been particularly significant in terms of new synergies and collaborations. For years, the designer almost exclusively worked with Ferretti Group, among the most recent projects there are Navetta 33 and Navetta 37 designed for CRN, but lately the studio decided to open up to new collaborations.
PY Heritage 45M is the first result of the partnership between Picchiotti Yachts and Bernardo Zuccon. The innovative project was presented in April 2017 and paid tributes to Gerhard Gilgenast, one of the most important architect to have worked with Picchiotti. In the next months, this collaboration will include also the new section of Perini Motore.
Another relevant news is the collaboration with Sanlorenzo, one of the most vital Italian shipyard. We will soon be able to admire Sanlorenzo 44 Alloy and the new generation of fiberglass yachts that will be presented at Cannes Yachting Festival 2018.
Among the qualities of Bernardo's main activity, we find the ability to integrate new market trends with an up-to-date design, the willingness to invest new resources, time and energy in research and development and his desire to experiment with new materials, shapes and technologies. These are the qualities that granted Zuccon the inclusion in the list from the English magazine.
In particular, the versatility of his work, acquired from his passions from non-nautical fields, like photography and civil architecture, leads him to a multidisciplinary approach. Great relevance is granted to housing flexibility and research on the concept of boat living, starting with the assumption that yachts are really the primary way to experience the sea, regardless of size and model.
The opening of a big office/studio, conceived as a "creative workshop" where experts from different work fields will actively take part, reaffirms the original contribution to the nautical industry given by Bernardo Zuccon's design studio, which is run by him and his sister Martina. Wellness in the work environment will be granted a primary role in this new adventure, giving co-workers the possibility to spend time on recreational activities, leisure or sports, with the intent of improving the quality of the work.
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Ben Ray
This is a wonderfully eclectic collection that draws its inspiration from sources at once historical and contemporary. Dramatic monologues, kn ee plays and intertextual responses to other poets are juxtaposed with lyric poems that constantly surprise and delight like 'a surreal fruit.'
Mary Jean Chan, poet, editor and academic, on Ben Ray's winning collection in the 2019 New Poets Prize
Ben Ray's new poems have the gleam and muscle of the river fish he writes about with such feeling. They are story-telling, risk-taking and exact in all the right ways.
Professor Fiona Sampson MBE FRSL, poet, editor & biographer
A fresh and original poetic voice – full of wit, twists, surprises, echoes and challenges.
Alan Rusbridger, author, journalist & former editor-in-chief of The Guardian newspaper
These poems reveal a canny understanding of life and language – and the landscapes that give rise to them, from northern no-man's-lands to the ci rcuitous path of the Pacific island exile. In his engaging first collection, Ben Ray has built a fascinating 'future library of shades' which will haunt the reader long after the book has closed.
Nancy Campbell, 2018 Canal Poet Laureate
Ben Ray is a poet who is closely in touch with the landscape, and is particularly powerful in poems where he writes to a loved ones, enhancing the natural tenderness of his work. Here is a wide-ranging and distinctive poet who has already marked out his territory – a writer to watch.
Jonathan Edwards, winner of the 2014 Costa Book Award for Poetry
'What I heard on the Last Cassette Player in the World' is a raw and intimate collection that moves with tenderness and humour through politic s and war, land and love. Ben Ray has a unique ability to look at the complexities of the human experience with precision and distance, intimacy and removal, creating something that seems to both expand and enclose the human heart.
Rebecca Tantony, poet, author & performer
'Pure, bloody twenty-four carat gold' poetry of substance and huge variety ranging from words crafted like beautiful pieces of porcelain to laug h out loud punchlines. Wonderful stuff full of imagination and insight, tenderness and wit.
Elvis McGonagall, poet & stand-up comedian
Touching and heartfelt, disarming; Ben Ray's poetry rings like music, chimes of place, quavers in passing time – and lets one feel the world anew.
Rory MacLean, author & historian
With poems inspired by pottery and places, history and holy isles, language, conversation and current events, this is a collection with great bread th, width, depth and height! The sheer range of subject matter is reflected in the forms of the poems, which are sometimes solid, and other times less so, with pieces splitting, or seeming to spool across the page. Always clever and consistently insightful, this is a cool as well as brilliant book. Ben Ray is a writer with time on his side, yet already with talent to spare.
Mab Jones, poet & presenter
Ben Ray's poetry has a finger on the landscape's pulse. Here are poplars that keep your best secrets, meanings that leap like salmon, and 'watch-t ower words' that stand guard over familiar terrain. It's a gift to write about what's always there with such persuasive urgency: read this book, let it's words transport you.
Theophilus Kwek, poet & editor of Oxford Poetry
Playful but profound, poignant yet humorous, vibrantly experimental and singing with lyricism, Ben's new collection is intoxicating. A joy of a book throughout that made be gasp and lose a breath or two – with startlingly original ideas and luminous language.
Anna Saunders, poet, author & director of the Cheltenham Poetry Festival
These poems are elegant as if hewn from marble, delicate and refined, cut by a master of his craft.
Z.D. Dicks, poet, founder & director of Gloucester Poetry Society & Gloucester Poetry Festival
Ben always manages to please at Gin & Phonics. His performances have a passion and a style that speak to people on a very human level. As a crowd favourite, we have had to ask him back a few times!
Rich O'Grady, founder & director of Gin & Phonics events
Ben Ray's second collection is a medley of experimental poems alongside absurd, surreal propositions apparently thrown out ad lib, and sincerely felt and expressed meditations on political, eonvironmental and existential themes. He is the master of the sustained metaphor.
Extract from a review of 'What I heard' on the online literary journal Write out Loud
Ben Ray uses modern events, in this case decimalisation, to develop parallels in modern poetry, especially within the second stanza when he harks back to the old coinage/sounds. Yet the new 'decimalised' generation of poets, with their crisp and new words, often find older poems did have a symbolic naturalness. When re-read, they often produce a nagging nostalgia when looked at now in this Brexit era. – Torbay Poetry Festival, on Ben's award-winning poem 'The day they decimalised the words'
Ben has visited us twice, and both occasions will live long in the memory. All of us being poetry enthusiasts, our best hope is to be a good audience – and that, for those few hours, is what Ben made us. He did that wonderful thing for an audience – did it constantly – he surprised us, so we were always on the edge of our seats, not knowing where the language would take us but loving the journey. It felt as though the words had a life of their own and from the first line took off and we had no idea where they would land. As an audience of poetry lovers – plus some who thought that they were 'not too keen on poetry' but found grounds to think again – it was just a delight from start to finish. – John Livesey, founder and director of the Mitcheldean Poetry Festival
Ben is a natural teacher and was very engaging. He managed to create so many opportunities for the students to write, compose and create their own poetry, and considering they'd all just finished their GCSEs, it was wonderful to see their insights and creativity coming out. Ben was able to connect with the students on a very personal level, and it was wonderful to see Ben's passion for poetry inspiring the class. We can't wait to get him back again! – Isha Wheeler, Head of English at Wynstones, a Waldorf Steiner School
What the students most enjoyed, I think, was that this was a young man, not much older than them, who had an engaging, open manner. There was a lovely informal atmosphere, which meant they could ask questions and share their own thoughts. The most satisfying outcome for the college was that immediately after the reading, two students came up and said they wanted to start a poetry society! Fabulous! – Lesley Bagshaw, English teacher at Hereford Sixth Form
Really appreciated Ben's oversight on poems I'm preparing for magazine submission: some thoughtful ideas on punctuation and a keen understanding of what makes a poem work on different levels. Cheers Ben. – Vicky Hampton, poet
I heartily agree with the writer himself and cannot enthusiastically praise his work enough! Let me say that his ability to communicate through his poetry is so incredibly effective for readers of any age that I use his book to teach poetry to my students, ages 12 to 18. I read his work to inspire me in my writing, as well! – Bill Stevenson, teacher
Ben is always entertaining and thought provoking – and has a wonderful connection with local landscape which I think is rare in such a young poet. – Clare West, librarian
It was wonderful to see a young poet engaging with our teenagers. Poetry is just what they need! – Alexander Murrel, Physics teacher at Wynstones, a Waldorf Steiner School
students and audience members
Wonderful, very natural and enigmatic young poet who is destined for greater things.
Great evening Ben. Thank you for the thought provoking and entertaining content, and the warm and engaging delivery.
Accessible, interesting, beautiful.
Outstanding as a poet and communicator with the audience. It is marvellous to see and hear how has developed his style, depth and wit. Largest audience yet in our library – such is his drawer already. More to come – hooray.
Ben has a lively, fresh informal approach but the poems he presents are thoughtful, illuminating and beautifully crafted. An excellent event.
Warm and welcoming atmosphere, Q&A much appreciated.
A great talent the link between history and poetry is fascinating. A genuine and careful voice.
Great crowd for a wonderful poet.
Really excellent thanks Ben. Your poetry is at once simple, funny warm and insightful.
Fascinating, entertaining, uplifting, joyous.
His work was fresh, appealing and erudite.
Ben was excellent I look forward to buying his next book.
this guy is too talented not to be a sell out.
Ben's poems were mesmerising, covering a huge range of topics from the familiar to the completely unknown. Regardless of the subject matter, we were instantly transported to the world he had created, and became completely immersed in the vibrant imagery, the rhythm and the mood of the piece. These magical voyages of the imagination on which he took us will stay with us for a long time to come.
I saw Siegfried Sassoon read his work at Oxford in the 1960s – you perform poetry far better than him!
Ben really inspired me to think of poetry not just in an analytical way for GCSEs. – NC, Class 10 Wynstones student
Ben was great – really friendly and helpful! – CB, Class 10 Wynstones student
It was really inspiring… it freed me up to think about poetry in a new way. – BES, Class 10 Wynstones student
Ben inspired me to write the most awesome poem ever! – Anon, Class 10 Wynstones student
Cool dude! – Anon, Class 10 Wynstones student
Really inspiring! – JC, Class 10 Wynstones student
Loved it! Great workshop, and great poetry – thanks! – RG, Class 9 Wynstones student
Poetry's so cool! – LB, Class 9 Wynstones student


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RFF Response to US Department of Energy Notice of Intent and Request for Information Regarding Establishment of a Civil Nuclear Credit Program
Comments to the Department of Energy on the establishment of a Civil Nuclear Credit Program.
Molly Robertson, Dallas Burtraw, Karen Palmer, and Daniel Shawhan
The CNC proposal offers a preliminary implementation strategy for the program authorized in H.R. 3684. Below, we offer our thoughts on what the Nuclear Energy Office should consider when finalizing the details of implementation and designing the certification procedure and the auction structure. Overall, we believe it is important to consider the accuracy, predictability, and transparency of information in the nuclear power sector to determine the optimal policy design. In an ideal world, both the public and the nuclear generators would have accurate and predictable information about their future costs and revenues. In such a world, an auction system to determine the funds necessary to sustain nuclear power generation would be unnecessary: the Department of Energy would simply determine which generators needed the least subsidy per MWh to stay operational and offer them those subsidies.
The auction described in the CNC proposal is a tool best leveraged in situations where information is imperfect due to a lack of transparency. In other words, nuclear generators have accurate and predictable information about their costs, but the public and government do not. The auction, if properly designed, is an opportunity to force generators to 'reveal' something approximating their true expected subsidy need by allowing them to compete with other generators for resources.
The auction, even if well-designed, does not fully resolve inefficiencies due to inaccurate or unpredictable information. If generators don't have a good understanding of their likely costs and revenues in the future due to energy price uncertainty or other factors, their competitive bids may yield inefficient or inflated results reflecting a risk premium to address uncertainties. Perhaps a generator mistakenly bid $15/MWh when they really needed $25/MWh, and they received credits over a plant that bid $17/MWh. The former generator would be unprofitable, and the latter generator, if not subject to cost variability, would have been the more cost-efficient investment, but due to inaccurate information an ex post inefficient outcome would be reached. Concrete and transparent assumptions set out in the certification process, and an index adjustment mechanism for credit values, will be important tools for dealing with inaccurate or uncertain information.
We believe DOE is best positioned to determine the information gaps that exist in this sector, but you will see these ideas referenced repeatedly below because the quality of information affects the policy pathways we would recommend.
Read the full comment here.
Molly Robertson
Molly Robertson is a Research Associate at Resources for the Future where she contributes to the Fairness for Workers and Communities in Transition and VALUABLES projects.
Dallas Burtraw
Darius Gaskins Senior Fellow
Dallas Burtraw is a Darius Gaskins senior fellow at RFF. Burtraw's research includes analysis of the distributional and regional consequences of climate policy and the evolution of electricity markets including renewable integration.
Karen Palmer
Karen Palmer is a Senior Fellow at Resources for the Future and an expert on the economics of environmental, climate and public utility regulation of the electric power sector. She also serves as the director of the Future of Power Initiative.
Working Paper — Jan 3, 2023
What Are the Climate, Air Pollution, and Health Benefits of Electric Vehicles?
This working paper models the climate and health benefits of plug-in vehicles under five different policy and market scenarios.
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Sarah Mills discusses the reasons that rural communities in the Great Lakes region support or oppose local renewable energy projects.


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1Oth February 2021: Elaine Lennon & Michael Logen- Via Zoom
Elaine Lennon & Michael Logen
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Join Scottish singer songwriter Elaine Lennon and special guest Michael Logen for an evening of music to mark the one-year anniversary of her award-winning self-titled debut album, being celebrated by the release a remixed single of her track 'THIS'.
THIS – The '21 Remix, out Sunday 24 January 2021, is a captivating reworking of a track taken from the album which was launched by The Fallen Angels Club to a sold-out show at Celtic Connections in January 2020 and won Celtic Music Radio's Album of the Year 2020 Award.
The album, produced by Findlay Napier and supported by Creative Scotland, also made the Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) Awards Long List 2020. '
One of the best debut albums I have heard in years' – FATEA
Elaine and Americana/Folk artist Michael Logen first performed live together here in Scotland in 2019. Grammy-nominated Singer/Songwriter, based in Nashville,Tennessee, Michael's stunning, sophomore album, "New Medicine" is an articulate, measured examination of the inner-workings of the human mind and heart on a backdrop of gorgeous, sweeping, acoustic-based, rhythmic folk/pop. The album features 3 phenomenalguest artists: Kim Richey, Liz Longleyand Ruby Amanfu, and has garnered 6 TV placements so far and includes Michael's original, acoustic version of a song he wrote with Jennifer Hanson, called "Breaking Your Own Heart", which was covered by Kelly Clarksonon her Platinum-Selling, Grammy-Winning album, "Stronger".
Logen grew up in a small college town, Lewisburg, in North Central Pennsylvania. He was raised listening to Americana and Folk classics like Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and Gordon Lightfoot. He comes from a musical family and learned to play guitar from his Dad, even recorded a folk project with his brother, Dave.
Logen's folk song, "Couldn't Ask For A Better Friend" played prominently throughout the 2016 Rio Olympics when it was chosen by Folgers as the theme for their award-winning ad.
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Memory wars: RRAM vs. 3D NAND flash, and the winner is...us
10 small devices. No, we mean really small.
Samsung mass produces industry's first 3D NAND flash chips
Apple and COVID-19 drive QR code innovation
Researchers create indelible record on mankind for aliens to someday find
The almost indestructible disks would contain a record of human existence -- perhaps for alien life forms
By Lucas Mearian
Senior Reporter, Computerworld |
Scientists in Germany and The Netherlands have determined that by using tungsten and silicon nitride as a storage medium, they can store data that will last from a million to a billion years. They propose using the medium to retain data on human physiology that could be seen long after the human race is extinct.
The nearly indestructible disks were created by the MESA Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente in The Netherlands and The Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies in Freiburg, Germany.
The disk consists of a 338-nanometer (nm) thick layer of silicon nitride on top of a silicon wafer. A 50 nm layer of tungsten is patterned into QR (Quick Response) codes using optical etching lithography on top of the silicon nitride wafer.
The QR codes, which had line-widths of about 100nm thick, were etched using an argon ion laser beam. A 224nm layer of nitride was then deposited on top of tungsten patterns to help protect them.
To give some idea of how thin the materials used for the storage medium are, an 8.5-by-11-in. sheet of paper is about 100,000 nanometers thick. So the silicon wafers could only be read with the use of a microscope.
The researchers chose QR codes, which are commonly used in consumer advertising today, because they can be easily read by machines using simple scanners. For example, QR codes can be read by today's camera-enabled smartphones.
The materials used are highly resistant to heat. Silicon nitride has a melting point of 3,452 degrees Fahrenheit, and tungsten has a melting point of 6,170 degrees Fahrenheit.
What the researchers created was a write-once, read many (WORM) disk platter that was nearly indestructible. WORM technology was used because the project's intent was to create an indelible record that would stand the test of time over millions of years, even after the human race may have become extinct.
The storage medium was made for the Human Document Project, an initiative started in 2002 by a consortium of European institutions. The project's purpose was to create a digital library that would stand the test of time after human beings either migrated away from Earth or became extinct.
To prove the disk could weather the test of time, the scientists etched the microscopic QR codes into the tungsten surface of the disk and then heat tested them to simulate age and what might happen to the material, for example, it were in a building fire.
Initial calculations showed it is possible to store data for more than a million years and up to a billion years, the researchers stated in a published paper.
The researchers first age-tested the disk by heating it to 445 Kelvin (341 Fahrenheit) for one hour.
"We observe no visible degradation of the sample, which indicates that this sample would still be error free after 1 million years," the researchers stated.
The disk was then tested at up to 763 Kelvin (913F) for two hours, which caused some degradation.
Optical microscope images of the same QR code left: after fabrication, center: after two hours at 613 K and right: 2 hours at 763 K (Image: MESA Institute and University of Twente)
As the temperature was increased, the top layer of silicon cracked and reduced the number of readable QR codes. While not readable by the QR code algorithm, the QR codes themselves were not "visibly" damaged and the tungsten was still present in the material. Overall, the QR codes lost about 7% of their readable data at higher temperature tests, the researchers said.
"The misreading of the information is caused by the readout using an optical microscope without a monochromatic light source. The images are taken using a top mounted camera and contain a multitude of colors, caused by the variation in [the silicon's] thickness due to the cracking," the researches wrote. "The very simple detection software was unable to correctly assign a black or white color to multitude of colors caused by the cracking of the top silicon-nitride layer."
This article, Researchers create indelible record on mankind for aliens to someday find, was originally published at Computerworld.com.
Lucas Mearian covers storage, disaster recovery and business continuity, financial services infrastructure and health care IT for Computerworld. Follow Lucas on Twitter at @lucasmearian or subscribe to Lucas's RSS feed . His e-mail address is lmearian@computerworld.com.
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Senior Reporter Lucas Mearian covers financial services IT (including blockchain), healthcare IT and enterprise mobile issues (including mobility management, security, hardware and apps).


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I lead worship in English, we have the invocation, confession/absolution, Bible readings, sermon, prayers and benediction that I speak in English. They have about 15 hymnals in Dinka that we use for singing.
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'The Age-Old Struggle': Irish republicanism from the Battle of the Bogside to the Belfast Agreement, 1969-1998
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Jack Hepworth provides an introduction for his new publication, 'The Age-Old Struggle'. Analysing the internal dynamics of Irish Republicanism between the outbreak of 'the Troubles' in 1969 and the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, 'The Age-Old Struggle' draws upon the words and writings of more than 250 Irish republicans.
For three decades from 1969, Irish republicans waged guerrilla warfare alongside a political campaign to end British rule on the island of Ireland. Constituted primarily in the Provisional IRA, republicans killed in excess of 2,000 people in a conflict which claimed more than 3,500 lives. By the time the Provisionals finally ended their campaign in July 2005, thousands of militants had participated in republican 'armed struggle', with the support of thousands more. As Jonathan Tonge noted on the eve of the final IRA ceasefire, republicans comprised a diverse political tradition, spanning 'militant nationalists, unreconstructed militarists, romantic Fenians, Gaelic Republicans, Catholic sectarians, Northern defenders, international Marxists, socialists, libertarians and liberal Protestants'.
The policy document from which 'The Age-Old Struggle' takes its title captures in microcosm the book's central theme: Irish republicanism's ideological and compositional heterogeneity. Irish republicanism's complex internal dynamics and evolving, multi-layered politics. When the republican political party Sinn Féin published Mining and energy in 1974, few of the Provisional IRA's militants had either the opportunity or inclination to study their political leadership's detailed analysis of the island's resources and pipelines. As the movement's propagandists at Dublin headquarters were expounding energy policy for an independent Ireland, IRA volunteers on the ground were preoccupied with conducting guerrilla attacks and evading capture. Republican activism took many forms. While some activists were raising funds for prisoners' families, others were organising demonstrations; while some were campaigning for improved council housing, others were planting bombs. Unifying this heterogeneous movement was an overarching, shared objective: according to the small print of Mining and energy, nothing less than 'victory in the age-old struggle for national liberation'.
Image from Sinn Fein, courtesy of the Irish Left Archive
Examining how Irish republicanism evolved throughout the Northern Ireland conflict, 'The Age-Old Struggle' scrutinises the ideas and motivations which propelled republicans' enduring campaign. To this end, the book draws upon more than 500 political periodicals and ephemera, and the words and writings of over 250 republican activists. Sources consulted here, including many hitherto unused by historians, generate snapshots and amplify voices throughout the strata of several republican organisations. The 20 oral history interviews conducted for 'The Age-Old Struggle' include activists with experience of several republican organisations, including some who have broken with erstwhile comrades.
Across five thematic chapters, 'The Age-Old Struggle' assesses how republicans engaged with the global politics of 1968, socialism, feminism, and Catholicism, and how the movement navigated its own tactical and strategic evolution. In sum, the book directs attention to how class, place, and networks within republicanism simultaneously sustained and complicated the movement's politics. For some activists, republicanism was concerned solely with terminating British rule. For one republican veteran, the movement's objective was singular and straightforward: 'to get them [the British government] out and sort the country out after that'. By contrast, for leftists, republicanism represented an essentially working-class politics which sought both to effect national liberation and transform class relations. When a group of Provisional IRA prisoners resigned from the movement in the late 1980s, they proposed a revolutionary alternative for a 'workers' and small farmers' republic'.
Similarly, republicans differed widely in how they spatialised their campaign. Local dynamics were particularly paramount for activists in embattled urban communities, for example. After Bloody Sunday in 1972, when British paratroopers killed thirteen civilians in Derry, a packed public meeting in the city's Bogside district summarily invited the Provisional IRA to be the guardians of 'Free Derry'. Conversely, some republicans positioned themselves more explicitly as internationalists and anti-imperialists. As a leading member of the Irish Republican Socialist Party put it during a tour of Europe in 1975, radical republicans identified with the 'essential unity of the world wide anti-imperialist struggle'.
Finally, at moments of crisis and transformation in their campaign, republicans mobilised in opposing networks which either advocated or repudiated what historian Kevin Bean called 'new departures'. When Sinn Féin leaders, including Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness, entered talks with British government representatives in the mid-1990s, IRA prisoners in Long Kesh endorsed negotiations as a worthwhile experiment: 'There is a general feeling that pragmatism has served us well', the prisoners' discussion forum concluded. For more orthodox republicans, principle and precedent were paramount, and tactical or strategic innovation connoted dangerous compromise. For instance, when Sinn Féin's annual conference of 1986 controversially dropped its traditional abstentionism in the '26 Counties', a County Antrim republican councillor who resigned from the party in protest reasserted his 'allegiance to the 32-County Irish Republic as proclaimed in 1916'. Tradition was immutable, the argument ran, and tactical change represented an unconscionable deviation from republican 'principles'. These competing milieux within republican ranks mediated power dynamics and individual pathways within the movement.
More than two decades have now passed since the momentous Good Friday Agreement of 1998 asserted that only constitutional methods could alter Northern Ireland's status. Sinn Féin's continual support for the Agreement, and for the wider peace process, remains a cornerstone of intra-republican disagreement to this day. The party's supporters endorse an exclusively constitutional campaign while asserting the legitimacy of the Provisional IRA's past. Simultaneously, a wide range of activists charge Sinn Féin with sacrificing republicans' historic struggle on the high altar of reformism and diplomacy. Amid this fragmentation, this book's attention to contemporary republican discourse and oral history testimonies illuminates present-day contestation over the movement's legacies. Continually renegotiating contemporary politics, retrospectives today reassess the meaning of historical militancy.
'The Age-Old Struggle' assesses the major contradictory forces in republicanism over the past five decades: on the one hand, the imperative of building a unified movement, and on the other, the residual dissonances and dilemmas which pervade the ranks of republican organisations, especially during strategic review. Only by considering both the galvanising and fissiparous tendencies within Irish republicanism, it is argued, can we understand the movement's historical trajectory, and its complex characteristics to this day.
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Irish History, Irish Republicanism, Irish Studies, Jack Hepworth, Sinn Fein, The age-old struggle, the Troubles


Our decorations are up, costumes are picked and we finally carved our pumpkins this past weekend.
We are ready for Halloween...are you?
Every year the kids love to roast the pumpkin seeds...it's such an easy and healthy snack to make.
Make sure you clean the seeds really well...it's a little tedious but a must.
I spread them out on a cookie sheet and let them dry over night.
bake at 300 degrees for 20 minutes.
Ohhh I love pumpkin seeds.
I like them but never had any luck with making them myself. They always turn out chewy. Hope you had more luck!
Karen what do you make for your spooky dinner?
Charisa they were good this year!


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Massive balconies allow you access to everything you might expect from a place called "Grandview." The ocean sounds rise before you even as the sun sets before your eyes. But the outdoor views are only the beginning!
Here you can choose from two, three or four bedroom homes that are perfect for the family or entertaining friends over dinner. The spacious kitchen is perfect for preparing your favorite french dish or just popping some popcorn to enjoy the big game.
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Has anyone compared WI566 and WI568(with changing pups on EMG) on higain?
I think 568 because of the maple top is to be more cleaner sounds.
But I'm afraid that would miss lows and bass-punch.
I had EMGs in my X50, PI80 and now in my WM526, all sound pretty much the same.
I don't think so, all guitars with EMG, that I had, sounded differently.
Whilst I agree that they would not sound exactly the same, I also agree that the difference would be miniscule, and therefore would most likely just go for the cheapest option.
No, difference not would be miniscule.
I listened a lot guitars with EMG and collected their DI-tracks.
EMG quite accurately conveys the sound of wood.
And two relatively thin guitars, with and without thick maple top, will sound completely different.


Chronic Care Plus is designed for 'Joe,' a prototypical vulnerable client and frequent hospital user who for some reason has not connected to either his community or healthcare system.
Illumination Foundation's joint venture pilot, which began as an ER diversion project, now offers community-based stabilization following a hospital stay for medically vulnerable chronically homeless patients. Here, Illumination Foundation CEO Paul Leon describes the origins of Chronic Care Plus (CCP), which has been associated with a $7 million annual medical cost avoidance at all hospitals visited by the 38 CCP clients.
Back in 2008 when we first started, we began to realize that housing was healthcare. With many of the patients we were seeing, although we experienced great success, we ended up discharging them many times back into a shelter or into an assisted living or sober living situation. And although these options were better than being in the hospital or being discharged to the street, we knew we could improve on this.
So, in 2013, we implemented the Chronic Care Plus (CCP) program. Basically, CCP was recuperative care on steroids. It was recuperative care with more tightly wrapped social services and a longer length of stay. At that time, we began a pilot program in conjunction with UniHealth and St. Joseph's Hospital in which we took the 28 most frequent users and kept them in housing for two years. We also brought these individuals through recuperative care, and wrapped them tightly with social services.
These efforts would eventually lead us to create our 'Street2Home' program, which we're working on now. It implements more bridge housing and permanent supportive housing that is supplied not only by us but by collaboratives in the community. We are able to link to these collaboratives to take our individual, our 'Joe,' from a street to eventual permanent housing.


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Elfquest Synopsis
Quest's End
Elves and trolls engage in an epic battle for the Palace of the High Ones
(EQ 16-20)
Part 4 of The Grand Quest (read Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3)
Under attack from the newly arrived elves, the trolls retreat, and the wounded Wolfriders are taken to the lodge of the snow elves. Leetah manages to heal Cutter, who is on the verge of death. She has help from an elf who, after the healing, reveals himself to be Rayek, formerly Leetah's lovemate and Cutter's rival for Leetah's hand. Leetah is shocked, since she had found elf bones while traveling through the desert and had thought they were his.
Rayek later tells his story to Leetah: after he left Sorrow's End, he crossed the desert and journeyed through the troll caverns underneath the Wolfrider's burned-down holt. During his time in the caverns, he came across an ancient rockshaper elf named Ekuar who was missing a leg, an arm and a finger; apparently the trolls had used the rockshaper to open new tunnels and find gems for them, and they had badly mistreated him. Rayek and Ekuar became friends, and Ekuar helped Rayek grow in his magic powers to the point of being able to levitate himself and others. During the battle between Greymung's and Guttlekraw's trolls, Rayek and Ekuar escaped up the troll tunnel passage leading to the Frozen Mountains. Ekuar had told Rayek that the High One's Palace was in the Frozen Mountains, and Rayek wanted to search for it. But on the way, they were misled by a 'strange voice' (that of Two-Edge) which caused them to get lost and come out of the troll tunnel prior to reaching the Palace. They instead came to the lodging of the snow elves, who took them in.
The snow elves, a tribe of about forty elves under the leadership of their chief Kahvi, have hardly any magical powers and no longer breed using Recognition. As a result they are not as genetically 'refined' and tend to be a bit more crude and ungainly than other elves. They had been nomads, following herds of great deer, until eight years ago when they got close enough to the Palace to feel its magic "calling" them to it. They now call themselves "Go-Backs," a name which refers to their goal to "go back" to the Palace of the High Ones. To try to reach this goal they have been in a continual war with trolls, who apparently live to keep elves from accessing the palace. The Go-Backs are even more fierce and war-like than the Wolfriders. They are tough and hardened due to their long battle with the trolls.
The Go-Backs have been trying to reach the palace by crossing over or going around the mountains but are always stopped by the trolls. But Two-Edge has left Blue Mountain and is now in the frozen mountains. He appears to Cutter outside the Go-Back's lodge and opens up a hole in the ground which leads to a troll tunnel, telling Cutter that it can lead the elves straight into the heart of the trolls' kingdom, where the elves can fight and defeat the trolls once and for all and reclaim the palace. Cutter is now determined that, after all they have been through, they must persevere in reaching the High Ones' Palace. Cutter presents Two-Edge's idea to the Go-Backs and Wolfriders, and they all agree to it.
After a night of wild revelry, those who will enter the troll caverns to do battle prepare to leave. After a tearful farewell to the children, the wolves, and some of the adult elves who are staying behind in the lodge, the Go-Backs and Wolfriders go into the tunnel Two-Edge revealed. On the way in they free three wild wolves whom the trolls had trapped in a pit to kill any elf who came through. The three wolves accept Cutter as kin, and accompany the group into the troll caverns. Guided by Petalwing, the elves begin to make their way into the troll caverns and come to a mining pit, where they discover Greymung's trolls, including Picknose, working in the pit as slaves. Petalwing tells the elves they must go across the pit in order to continue on toward the palace. The elves attack only the troll guards and convince Greymung's enslaved trolls to aid the elves in the attack against the guards. Cutter tells Picknose that he can have all the treasure to which Cutter's sword New Moon apparently holds the key, if he and Greymung's freed trolls aid the elves in their battle against Guttlekraw's trolls. Picknose agrees, and Greymung's trolls accompany the elves through the mining pit and deeper on into the caverns.
They come to a crossroads and hear Two-Edge's voice through the walls, telling them that one of the walls is hollow. To escape the warriors coming toward them from one of the hallways, Ekuar the rockshaper opens a hole in the hollow wall and the elves and Greymung's trolls go through and find themselves in front of a huge set of double doors. The key in Cutter's sword New Moon opens the doors, which lead to a room filled with elf-shaped metal armor and weapons. This is the 'treasure' Two-Edge had spoken of to Picknose long ago, with the intent that the information would get passed on to the elfin owner of the sword New Moon.
Two-Edge reveals himself to all of them, and tells them how to use the armor and weapons. He claims that by using the armor, the odds will now be even in the troll vs. elf battle to come. Picknose, however—greatly disappointed that there is no treasure here as Two-Edge had promised him—plans to aid the elves in the battle in order to topple Guttlekraw and take over the kingship himself. Two-Edge is very upset to hear of Picknose's plan, because he wants elves and trolls only fighting each other, not helping each other. Torn between his elf and troll sides and not altogether sane due to childhood trauma inflicted on him by Winnowill, he had long ago begun to orchestrate this battle so that he can align himself with whichever race wins it.
As the newly armored elves and Greymung's trolls make their way through the caverns toward Guttlekraw's throne room and the Palace beyond, Two-Edge tries to separate the trolls from the elves, but does not succeed. They all make their way to Guttlekraw's throne room, where the decisive battle begins as Two-Edge looks on. With Greymung's trolls aiding the elves in the battle, it quickly turns in the elves' favor. Guttlekraw and his trolls are afraid that if the elves regain the palace, that they will rule over the trolls as they did in the High One's time, and Guttlekraw's army fights fiercely to prevent this fear from becoming reality. But in the end Guttlekraw is killed and his army defeated, Picknose declares himself the new king, and the elves' passage to the palace of the High Ones is now open.
Two-Edge, greatly dismayed that his plan to determine which race to align with has failed, disappears while the elves and Picknose's trolls celebrate their victory. When the elves return to the Go Backs' lodge, they learn that it had been attacked by some of Guttlekraw's trolls, but the trolls were defeated. Redlance, who had stayed behind in the lodge and is very peaceful by nature, was greatly shaken by the attack, and he and his warrior lifemate Nightfall voluntarily exchange soulnames.
All the Wolfriders and Go Backs finally make their way to the Palace of the High Ones, along with Picknose and some of the trolls. Once inside the Palace, one of the three wild wolves that had been freed from the troll pit starts acting strangely, and then suddenly transforms into Timmain, the High One, to the amazement of all.
Timmain talks with the elves briefly and realizes how much time has passed (almost 10,000 years) since she first shape-changed into a wolf. She also explains to them that the Palace is the resting place for the spirits of all dead elves. Cutter asks her if she can explain to them the story of the High Ones and where they originally came from, which none of the elves know.
Timmain takes them to a room which holds what she calls the Scroll of Colors, a magical spinning scroll which acts as a sort of movie screen, displaying a huge visual history of the High Ones. Timmain has Petalwing wrap her body in a cocoon of 'wrapstuff,' which allows an elf to live indefinitely in a hibernation state without food or water, so that she can control the Scroll of Colors from within the cocoon (to the disappointment of the elves who had hoped Timmain would stay among them). She then explains to them, speaking through Suntop and using the Scroll of Colors, the entire history of the High Ones. Timmain concludes by saying that the Wolfriders have a special significance because they alone "share blood with beasts born of this world. It was my gift to my son. He was the first of us to have the right to call the land his own. If you choose, Wolfriders, you too have that right—and none can take it from you."
After hearing the story, the elves and trolls have mixed reactions. The Wolfriders decide to leave the Palace and settle in a new forest holt in the Forbidden Grove. The Go-Backs decide to stay right where they are, as do the trolls, who can now live in peace with the Go-Backs since it is clear that the elves have no intention of trying to rule the trolls. Rayek decides to live with Timmain and Ekuar in the Palace to try to find a way to make it fly again. Skywise at first wants to also stay in the Palace because it has the possibility of flying to the stars, much to Cutter's dismay. But Skywise changes his mind and rejoins the Wolfriders as they travel away from the Palace toward their new forest home.
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01a. Introduction
01b. Characters
02. Mini-Synopsis
03. Arrival Of The High Ones On Abode
04. The Wolfriders
05. Other Elves And The Trolls
06. The Wolfriders Divide
07. Two-Spear's New Tribe
08. The Wolfriders After Skyfire
09. The Wolfriders Under Bearclaw
10. Fire And Flight
11. The Forbidden Grove
12. Captives Of Blue Mountain
13. Quest's End
14. Siege At Blue Mountain
15. Kings Of The Broken Wheel
16. The 10000 Year Wait
17. Awakening
18. Shards
19. Ember's Quest
20. Forevergreen
21. The Palace Restored
23. The Searcher And The Sword
24. The Wavedancers
25. The Discovery
26. Wild Hunt
27. Fire-Eye
28. The Final Quest
29. Stargazer's Hunt
30. Rogue's Curse
31. Jink
32. The Rebels
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After eight years of owning the Port Stanley Harbour, this year should be the year in which Transport Canada's remediation and risk management measures come to a conclusion on the Port Stanley Harbour lands acquired in the 2010 divestiture agreement leaving the Harbour property ready for Central Elgin to assume full control of what happens next.
With 2018 having both a Municipal Election in the Fall, and the final draft of the Port Stanley Harbour Secondary Plan ready for a public meeting sometime this Spring, the combination should result in a clear plan of development for all of the Port Stanley Harbour.
The preferred concept for the Port Stanley Harbour is that it should be self-sustaining, able to cover all costs associated with maintenance and dredging, so not to place any additional burden on the taxpayer. As to what direction and how much development on the Port Stanley Harbour acquired lands is needed to pay for future harbour maintenance such as dredging, or concrete repairs, is the question that will have the most significant impact on the direction the Municipality of Central Elgin will have to take. Any report available seems to estimate dredging costs between $750,000 to $1,500,000 every 7 to 10 years to keep the Harbour functioning, but no reports take into account any future concrete repairs or maintenance that will surely be needed for the existing harbour structures in the years to come. So if we use only the higher dredging costs over ten years as an example, the yearly revenue that the harbour has to generate to cover only future dredging would be $150,000.
Currently, any options that create income, tax dollars or wealth for the Municipality seem to rely totally on the future vision that will be created in the Port Stanley Harbour Secondary Plan, which in reality is just a plan that the Municipality of Central Elgin directed, commissioned and paid for. The Municipality also has to consider a return on investment for the West Harbour 4.26 acres of the former James Richardson International Ltd. property that was purchased in 2011 for $500,000, and the 3.15 acre former Lakes Terminals Warehousing property that was purchased in 2012 for $340,000. The combination of these two properties along with land acquired in the divestiture make for an extremely valuable property that extends from the bridge to the boat launch. The only issue here is that any divestiture land can't be sold for another twelve years and until then can only be leased.
In the last round of the Harbour Secondary Plan a ten-story hotel convention centre was proposed along the northwest harbour, and a possible six story mixed use building further south. All that sounds great on paper, and would generate plenty of taxes, but as just a hotel it would be in direct competition with any existing establishments trying to generate enough income in Port Stanley's short summer tourist season to stay open all year long. A better proposal for this kind of development would be a convention theme park combination or casino that would have the potential to draw in more tourists throughout the year making this a more viable option that would easily generate enough tax revenue to pay for any future harbour maintenance.
Any harbour development that actually goes ahead first will be divided into an East West Harbour themes with only focus on the proposals most likely to succeed. Getting some sort of hotel convention centre, theme park, or casino built along the west harbour could take along time to be realized and would put additional expectations on any Berm development to come up with more tax revenue.
All harbour development will sooner or later generate tax dollars for the Municipality, but depending on the type of business could either have a positive effect by offering diversity, or a negative effect by providing more competition for the existing local tourist economy. The path to prosperity for everyone seems to be linked to new development strategy that draws in more tourists throughout the year.
Regardless of what gets proposed in the next Harbour Secondary Plan there is still enough time to have your say in what happens next to our harbour. Also, because this is an election year, strong public support in favour of an alternate plan could still be the next game changer that could influence an even better Harbour Secondary Plan. But finding the best approach to take won't happen unless everyone gets involved.


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Italy is a country in southern Europe, known for its ancient past and mountainous area, the churches of Italy are spectacular, its museums contain some of the world's best art, consisting of renaissance and roman as well as modern pieces. Italy occupies a boot-shaped peninsula and reaches to the Mediterranean Sea, which includes two islands, Sicily and Sardinia, Italy also is the seat of the 'Holy Sea', as well As San Marino, the landscape is covered by two mountainous divisions, the Alps and Apennines, which it shares with Austria and Germany, the Alps cover the Northern Region, the Apennines runs almost the entire area of the country (Keates, J.2018).
Italy got its name from the ancient Romans, who named the Southern part 'Italia', meaning grazing land and land of the oxen. Rome is the major capital of Italy, Florence was the home of many artists in the renaissance period, Venice known for its famous 'Gondoliers; Life in Northern Italy greatly differs than that of Southern Italy, like America, the northern part is richer than its southern counterpart, more industrialized, manufacturing, service and construction are normal in both parts, whereas the south is more agrarian, agriculture, in the urban areas the citizens occupy mostly concrete dwellings(Worldbook,2016).
City growth and the increased use of privately owned automobiles, has led to a huge pollution problem, in the past, most rural communities in Italy consisted of a compact settlement surrounded by a large area of agricultural fields, farmers usually worked in town but come harvest time they returned to the village and harvested the crops, but mostly, most were just simple farmers (Duggan, C.2015).
The population of Italy has declined in recent years, since most Italians are only willing to have up to two children only, particularly in the mountainous regions, as the younger generation have abandoned the farmers way and have sought better opportunities in the cities, or have left Italy altogether for other countries, namely, Germany. About 94 percent of Italy's people are ethnic, the next foreigners are ethnic Germans, Turks, Yugoslavians, Africans, Albane, and a small number of French speaking people.
Since 1945 Italy has become one of the richest nations of the EU, but the old problems still endure, the South agriculturally strong, but industrialized backward, the North, industrialized, modern, educated, wealthy, but it has left its southern citizens neglected, as a sort of old time'fifedom', can it bring it up to snuff, or leave it as is.
Italy is a member of the European Union, which means that the laws for doing business in Italy is the same as doing business in any other European country, but basic laws for conducting business there it has its own Internal Rules(Holmes,G.2016).Women are becoming more relevant in the workplace, but before joining the European Union, women were not welcomed in the workforce, the influx of illegal immigrants from other countries, mainly North, Sub Sharan, and Lower Africa, pose a business threat for Italy.
Education, is another flaw of doing business in Italy, education is compulsory, and the older generation is absolutely vague when it comes to information technology, so the use of electronics would have to be a front issue, since most record keeping is done by hand, but this trend is changing, the newer generation is more futuristic that the older, so there is more willingness to travel abroad and continue their education (Furlong, P.2016).The other problem lies not with Italy, but the entire European Union, is the problem of trading across borders, where paperwork and customs can take as long as one to thirty days to process a shipment. Government red tape, culture, taxes, laws are more of a problem when wanting to open a business in Italy, xenophobia, and history in general can make opening a business in Italy a hard decision.
Since World War II, the country moved from an agrarian society to one of modern industry, in 1953 most citizens were employed in agriculture, in Northern Italy it is considered one of the better industrialized areas of the EU, but the trend remains the same of the Southern region where Industrialization remains a mystery, after World War II, a number of organization began to get started:1. The European Economic Community, forerunner of the EU.2. The European Steel community.3. The atomic energy community, which were a formidable group of European communities committed to enhancing their ways of life. So, in 1993, Italy joined the European Union.
From the early 100.a.d., Italian cities became to become more significant in importance and independence, also becoming major trade centers of foreign trade, banking, social and political influence, many became poor but many became wealthy, this episode became known as the rise of the "City-States", the places absolutely denied monarchial rule over them (Denys, H. 2015).
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