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Harpreet Brar breaking through is the yield that Punjab needs
From unaffordable bats to unwarranted comments, Harpreet Brar made the most of his opportunity so far.
14 March, 2019 Features
From a family that played cricket and didn't quite succeed, it would have been a nervy situation for Harpreet Brar when he knew that he had to make an impact in the Under-23s last year. For him, it was the last chance to perform to take the step up, failing which he would have to start from beginning again, and that would have been tougher.
Photo credit: Harpreet Brar/Instagram
"All my cousins used to play the sport but had to stop due to financial difficulties," says Harpreet Brar. "When you're from a middle-class family and you reach your mid-20s, everyone expects you to have a stable, full-time job because you need to be running the household too.
"So, the decision in front of me was either join the Punjab police force like my father or move to Canada on a study visa," he reveals. But Brar decided to dedicate one more year to cricket, in the hope of bagging a VIVO Indian Premier League contract or a place in the Punjab senior team.
Despite getting selected for the Punjab U-15 team and playing admirably in several club competitions, Brar was initially finding it difficult to break into the higher echelons of state cricket. He also gave his trials for the Mumbai Indians for the past two seasons but was unable to make the grade.
But then former Kings XI Punjab and India cricketer Gurkeerat Singh Mann helped him get a place in the Mohali district team, from where Harpreet jumped into the Punjab senior team. Things were tough through the journey though.
"The bats were expensive, so we had to make them last longer by threading it. Or hope that a senior hands one down. One-time Gurkeerat paaji gifted me one," he points out.
It didn't help that his relatives didn't make much of his career choices either.
"Whenever my mummy used to tell me to get ready to go to a marriage, I used to protest," he explains. "Because there they ask what your son does, and then she say he plays cricket. 'Cricket? The whole world plays cricket, nothing will come of it' they taunted.
"That just encouraged me though, pumped me up just because they said these things and I wanted to prove them wrong!"
Harpreet had the fortune to be supported by his immediate family. His father was in the army for over two decades, but despite his absence his mother made sure he was well looked after.
"I remember going to the market where I saw this flyer about a cricket academy stuck on a wall," he recounts. "I got it home and told mummy that I wanted to learn cricket. We went there and she said 'See, you can join if you wish, but only if you put your heart into it.'
Another feather in the cap, Harpreet Brar the 23-year -old son of a driver with Punjab Police bags a place in Kings XI Punjab. Picked up for Rs 20 lac in the IPL auction, the young lad brings laurels to the law enforcing agency.#IPL2019 #PunjabPolice pic.twitter.com/2KYFusOaT1
— Punjab Police India (@PunjabPoliceInd) December 21, 2018
"Even my father was supportive. He came from village himself and rose through the ranks. He said he had nothing but now has a house and he told me that I should make a bigger house than his.
"So, when I got picked by Kings XI Punjab, my papa called, and he broke down in tears of joy saying now people on the streets will start recognizing him as Harpreet's dad."
Harpreet's journey may have been riddled with challenges, but he has made sure he has met them head on - be it enduring the lack of opportunity or facing relatives who didn't show enough faith. It's little wonder why Kings XI Punjab picked him for the 2019 VIVO Indian Premier League.


Albie Morkel plundered 28 in an over to help Chennai Super Kings pull off a stunning last-ball victory over Royal Challengers Bangalore, while Dmitri Mascarenhas grabbed 5-25 as Kings XI Punjab prevailed over Pune Warriors in the Indian Premier League on Thursday.
Morkel struck three sixes and two fours off the 19th over bowled by Virat Kohli when 43 were needed from two overs, an effort that enabled Chennai score 208-5 after Bangalore had made a mammoth 205-8 at Chennai.
At Mohali, Mascarenhas took the important wickets of Sourav Ganguly, Marlon Samuels and Robin Uthappa as Pune was bowled out for 115 in 19 overs on a pitch helping seam bowlers. Australian Shaun Marsh's unbeaten 64 guided Punjab to 116-3 in 17.4 overs.
Morkel did the star turn for defending champion Chennai even as all-rounders Dwayne Bravo and Ravindra Jadeja got the remaining runs. Morkel was dismissed by Vinay Kumar on the second ball of the last over but the seam bowler could not keep up the good work.
An above-the-waist no-ball that was clobbered for four by Bravo tilted the balance back in Chennai's favour.
Bravo also smashed a six in the over and it finally came down to getting two off the last delivery when Jadeja scored the winning four to third man.
Chennai had remained in the hunt through South African Faf du Plessis (71 off 46) and Mahendra Singh Dhoni (41 off 24).
Earlier, left-hander Gayle smashed 68 off 35 deliveries and his effort was supplemented well by opener Mayank Agarwal (45) and No. 3 batsman Virat Kohli (57).
Gayle, who was the highest scorer last season with 608 runs, was surprisingly overshadowed early on by the little-known Agarwal, who struck three fours and five sixes off 25 balls.
Gayle was on five off five deliveries when Agarwal was dismissed in a team score of 53 but had a fruitful 11-over partnership with Kohli that produced 109 runs.
Chennai now has two wins and two losses from four games while Bangalore has only one win and two losses from three outings.


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By Janet Somerville, Catholic Register Special
{mosimage}The vigorous letter of Dr. Andrew Caruk in the Catholic Register of Dec. 30—Jan. 6, about what constitutes courage in upholding Catholic teaching on sexual orientation, got me thinking hard about the difficult ecclesial times in which we live.
Dr. Caruk is confident that the Catholic Church is defending God's own intention, inscribed in creation and echoed in revelation, when the church refuses to describe same-sex unions as "marriage" and when it continues to teach that genital sexual activity between persons of the same sex is not part of God's plan for human holiness or wholeness, but is instead part of a problem, a "disorder" in one's emotional life.
As a Catholic, I too hold that the church's teachings on sexual orientation, and more generally on God's intentions for sex within the human vocation, are part of a revealed wisdom which we must receive reverently, ponder carefully, live integrally and protect from hostile or uncomprehending modern attacks.
I am far, however, from sharing Dr. Caruk's approval of some recent pastoral actions that were intended to protect those teachings. For example, Dr. Caruk praises Archbishop James Weisgerber's last-minute decision to prevent James Loney from speaking at a Catholic-organized conference in Winnipeg last fall, although Loney had in good faith accepted the conference's invitation to be a featured speaker on peace.
Loney has well earned his right to speak about peace. He is a member of the Christian Peacemaker Teams, an organization of Mennonite inspiration with significant Catholic participation. CPT members go to areas of lethal conflict and with prayer, patience and quiet heroism, do whatever they can to intervene. He is also a member of the Catholic Worker movement and thus a spiritual son of the American convert Dorothy Day, one of the most respected Catholic pacifist leaders in the 20th century.
Archbishop Weisgerber has well earned his right to speak about the church's teaching on marriage, celibacy and the spiritual importance of sacramental sexual behaviour. He became a priest in the days when celibacy was still strongly supported in everyday Catholic culture. He remained steadily a priest when tsunamis hit all our longheld securities, when celibacy and marriage began to be challenged and debated on every side. As a bishop, his task has included holding the ship steady while Catholics reeled with news of sexual behaviour by some priests which electrified the media, shocked the secular consensus and scandalized Christians. As a bishop and a leader among bishops, Archbishop Weisgerber knows well how serious our situation is and how beleaguered is our credibility.
It seems to me that far more scandal may have been caused by the public prohibition than might have been caused by the people at the conference listening to a speech on peace by Jim Loney.
There is more than one difficult Christian teaching to uphold in this world. Loney, in a way that has been evident to millions since his long ordeal as a hostage in Baghdad, was willing to lay down his life to witness to Jesus' teaching about peace. He showed the courage of a martyr in the setting of a miserable war which Pope John Paul II had tried hard to prevent and which, in the opinion of most Catholic bishops who spoke publicly about it (including the Canadian ones), was not a "just war" even by traditional non-pacifist church standards.
Is there nothing we need to learn from such a witness?
In the old days, the church's canon law sometimes labelled a certain kind of scandalous and/or dissident person excommunicatus vitandus — excommunicated, and to be shunned and avoided by the faithful. Should Catholic bishops today treat Loney like an excommunicatus vitandus — someone to be kept far away because of the moral danger of his thoughts? Emphatically, I don't think so. It is true that on one difficult, currently burning issue, Loney does indeed publicly oppose Catholic teaching. In every other way of which I am aware, he is an exemplary and eloquent Christian. Surely we need to learn from him as well as to teach him. Surely we need to acknowledge that there is a struggle of conscience inside the church on this issue, and treat everyone involved like "one of us" until God leads us safely back/forward to a multi-faceted shared light on these much-contested questions of gender and ethics.
The archbishop is a sympathetic and eloquent pastor. No doubt he was facing painful public consequences from his critics in Winnipeg (juicy grist for the media) if Loney had been allowed to give his talk. But he could have found many other ways to be responsibly present to everyone concerned. He could have introduced James Loney at that conference, with love and respect. That attractive archbishop could have spoken of the church's gratitude when someone witnesses with heroism to Christian truth about the evil of war, and of the church's pain when the same person opposes a serious Christian teaching that is currently unpopular, as is the teaching on sexual orientation. He could have diagnosed pastorally the confusion we all feel when a person so evidently Gospel-graceful disagrees with the church (and agrees with a powerful modern secular consensus!) on something important. He could thus have dealt healingly with this issue which so torments and divides Christians today.
Maybe he did that, more privately, after the conference. But if so, that didn't make the national news. What made the news was an action that said "Shut up and go away. We have nothing to learn from you."
With all due respect to Dr. Caruk, I don't think that's a good way to teach Catholic moral theology in difficult times.
(Janet Somerville is a past general secretary of the Canadian Council of Churches. She lives in Toronto.)
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Q: Erro ao finalizar Activity através de outra classe Alguém sabe explicar porque ocorre o erro LISTADO NO FINAL DA PERGUNTA, encerrando a aplicação, quando eu tento finalizar o aplicativo através de uma outra classe:
classe1.class:
    ...
    ...
    AlertDialogManager alert = new AlertDialogManager();
    NetworkAvailable internet = new NetworkAvailable();

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    if (!internet.isNetworkAvailable(this)){
    alert.showAlertDialog(MainActivity.this, "Sem internet!", false);

    if (alert.Saindo()){

       //O ERRO ACONTECE PELO FINISH(), EU QUERIA QUE ESSA FUNÇÃO EXECUTASSE
       //DEPOIS QUE EU CANCELASSE LÁ NA classe3.
       //O app NEM INICIA, se eu deixar esse finish aqui, mas se eu o retirar,
       //O LOG executa:

       Log("Finalizado","Fechando a aplicação!")
            finish();

        }

    }

}

  }

classe2.class:
public class NetworkAvailable{

        public boolean isNetworkAvailable (final Context context) {
            ConnectivityManager manager = (ConnectivityManager) context.getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE);
            NetworkInfo networkInfo = manager.getActiveNetworkInfo();

            boolean isAvailable = false;
            if(networkInfo != null && networkInfo.isConnected()){
                /* LARGURA E AUTURA GERALToast.makeText(this, "LARGURA > " + largura, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();*/
                Toast.makeText(context, "CONECTADO", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                isAvailable = true;
            } else {

                Toast.makeText(context, "NÃO CONECTADO", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                isAvailable = false;
            }
            return isAvailable;

        }
}

classe3.class:
public class AlertDialogManager {

    public boolean showAlertDialog(final Context context, final String title, final Boolean status) {

    if(status == false){
     AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(context);
     builder.setCancelable(false);
     builder.setTitle(title);

     builder.setNegativeButton("Cancelar", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
         @Override
         public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {

             Log.v("CANCELANDO", "cancelado");
             showAlertDialog(context, title, true);
             Saindo();

         }
     });

     builder.setPositiveButton("Tentar novamente", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener(){
         @Override
         public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which)
         {

            final ConnectivityManager conectivtyManager = (ConnectivityManager) context.getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE);
            if (conectivtyManager.getActiveNetworkInfo() != null
                    && conectivtyManager.getActiveNetworkInfo().isAvailable()
                    && conectivtyManager.getActiveNetworkInfo().isConnected()) {

            }
             dialog.dismiss();
             showAlertDialog(context, title, false);
         }
     });
     AlertDialog dialog = builder.create(); // calling builder.create after adding buttons
     dialog.show();
    return status;
    }
    return status;
    }

    public boolean Saindo(){

        Log.v("SAINDO", "saiu");
        return true;

    }

}

01-26 22:17:05.721: E/WindowManager(25592): Activity ffitteste.favoritos.mapa.rafael.MainActivity has leaked window com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$DecorView@418654f0 that was originally added here
01-26 22:17:05.721: E/WindowManager(25592): android.view.WindowLeaked: Activity ffitteste.favoritos.mapa.rafael.MainActivity has leaked window com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$DecorView@418654f0 that was originally added here
01-26 22:17:05.721: E/WindowManager(25592):     at android.view.ViewRootImpl.<init>(ViewRootImpl.java:351)
01-26 22:17:05.721: E/WindowManager(25592):     at android.view.WindowManagerImpl.addView(WindowManagerImpl.java:279)
01-26 22:17:05.721: E/WindowManager(25592):     at android.view.WindowManagerImpl.addView(WindowManagerImpl.java:215)
01-26 22:17:05.721: E/WindowManager(25592):     at android.view.WindowManagerImpl$CompatModeWrapper.addView(WindowManagerImpl.java:140)
01-26 22:17:05.721: E/WindowManager(25592):     at android.view.Window$LocalWindowManager.addView(Window.java:537)
01-26 22:17:05.721: E/WindowManager(25592):     at android.app.Dialog.show(Dialog.java:278)
01-26 22:17:05.721: E/WindowManager(25592):     at ffitteste.favoritos.mapa.rafael.AlertDialogManager.showAlertDialog(AlertDialogManager.java:48)
01-26 22:17:05.721: E/WindowManager(25592):     at ffitteste.favoritos.mapa.rafael.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java:103)
01-26 22:17:05.721: E/WindowManager(25592):     at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:4465)
01-26 22:17:05.721: E/WindowManager(25592):     at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1053)
01-26 22:17:05.721: E/WindowManager(25592):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1934)
01-26 22:17:05.721: E/WindowManager(25592):     at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1995)
01-26 22:17:05.721: E/WindowManager(25592):     at android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java:128)
01-26 22:17:05.721: E/WindowManager(25592):     at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1161)
01-26 22:17:05.721: E/WindowManager(25592):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
01-26 22:17:05.721: E/WindowManager(25592):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
01-26 22:17:05.721: E/WindowManager(25592):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4514)
01-26 22:17:05.721: E/WindowManager(25592):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
01-26 22:17:05.721: E/WindowManager(25592):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
01-26 22:17:05.721: E/WindowManager(25592):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:790)
01-26 22:17:05.721: E/WindowManager(25592):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:557)
01-26 22:17:05.721: E/WindowManager(25592):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
01-26 22:17:05.729: E/WindowManager(25592): Activity ffitteste.favoritos.mapa.rafael.MainActivity has leaked window com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$DecorView@41776208 that was originally added here
01-26 22:17:05.729: E/WindowManager(25592): android.view.WindowLeaked: Activity ffitteste.favoritos.mapa.rafael.MainActivity has leaked window com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$DecorView@41776208 that was originally added here
01-26 22:17:05.729: E/WindowManager(25592):     at android.view.ViewRootImpl.<init>(ViewRootImpl.java:351)
01-26 22:17:05.729: E/WindowManager(25592):     at android.view.WindowManagerImpl.addView(WindowManagerImpl.java:279)
01-26 22:17:05.729: E/WindowManager(25592):     at android.view.WindowManagerImpl.addView(WindowManagerImpl.java:215)
01-26 22:17:05.729: E/WindowManager(25592):     at android.view.WindowManagerImpl$CompatModeWrapper.addView(WindowManagerImpl.java:140)
01-26 22:17:05.729: E/WindowManager(25592):     at android.view.Window$LocalWindowManager.addView(Window.java:537)
01-26 22:17:05.729: E/WindowManager(25592):     at android.app.Dialog.show(Dialog.java:278)
01-26 22:17:05.729: E/WindowManager(25592):     at android.app.AlertDialog$Builder.show(AlertDialog.java:932)
01-26 22:17:05.729: E/WindowManager(25592):     at ffiteteste.favoritos.servicos.rafael.GPSTracker.showSettingsAlert(GPSTracker.java:194)
01-26 22:17:05.729: E/WindowManager(25592):     at ffitteste.favoritos.mapa.rafael.MainActivity.GPSzoom(MainActivity.java:819)
01-26 22:17:05.729: E/WindowManager(25592):     at ffitteste.favoritos.mapa.rafael.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java:164)
01-26 22:17:05.729: E/WindowManager(25592):     at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:4465)
01-26 22:17:05.729: E/WindowManager(25592):     at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1053)
01-26 22:17:05.729: E/WindowManager(25592):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1934)
01-26 22:17:05.729: E/WindowManager(25592):     at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1995)
01-26 22:17:05.729: E/WindowManager(25592):     at android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java:128)
01-26 22:17:05.729: E/WindowManager(25592):     at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1161)
01-26 22:17:05.729: E/WindowManager(25592):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
01-26 22:17:05.729: E/WindowManager(25592):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
01-26 22:17:05.729: E/WindowManager(25592):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4514)
01-26 22:17:05.729: E/WindowManager(25592):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
01-26 22:17:05.729: E/WindowManager(25592):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
01-26 22:17:05.729: E/WindowManager(25592):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:790)
01-26 22:17:05.729: E/WindowManager(25592):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:557)
01-26 22:17:05.729: E/WindowManager(25592):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

A: Amigo, o primeiro problema aqui é: o seu método Saindo sempre retorna true. Daí, a Activity vai chamar o finish imediatamente, e deixará para trás o Dialog (o stack trace está dizendo exatamente isso, que a Activity saiu e deixou uma janela).
Sugiro que você siga este exemplo. Ele mostra como criar um Dialog e uma Interface, e como fazer a Activity chamar o Dialog e implementar esta interface. Assim, fica estabelecida uma comunicação entre sua Activity e o Dialog.
Se você utilizar o wizard de criação de novo Fragment do Andoid Studio (exemplo aqui), ele vai criar este esquema de Interface Callbacks. É ótimo para usar de exemplo (até porque Dialogs estendem Fragments).

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"WIMO's latest offering Wimo Ship, launched in November 2018, brings this mission one step closer to reality." said Mohamed Bahaa, CTO of WIMO. Wimo Ship allows e-commerce players to take control of their margins, rates, and shipping policies at a customer or product level and automate their shipping management with ease.
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After enjoying a strong British Pound for a year or so, the strength of the Britiains currency has been hit hard in the last few months. This really hit home a few weeks ago when I was over in Dublin. The cheapest drink I bought was €5.50 however most drinks cost €7 or more, particularly in the city centre pubs.
Due to the poor strength of the pound, 7 Euros is around £6.80. To put that into perspective you need to look at prices from where I live. You can get a pint in the local weatherspoons pub for about £1.50 but most pubs charge about £2.20 for a pint. In glasgow (the closest city to me) the cost of a pint is between £2.50 and £3 on average. I love going over to Dublin but it is just so expensive just now, especially if you plan on drinking a lot!
The pound doesn't fare too well against other currencies either. When me and my friends went to New York in March earlier this year we were getting around $2 to £1. You now get a little over $1.4 to the pound.
It really does make things harder when you are travelling and if I needed any convincing, I had another reminder this morning. I need to take about 40,000 baht to Thailand for my arrival to pay for training and accomodation. The UK Post Office is offering 47.2 baht to £1 on their website but the local exchange place gave me around 47.9.
When I first went to Thailand you got about 75 baht to the pound, more than 50% than you are getting just now. It's still cheap to live in Thailand compared to the UK but certainly not as much as it used to be.


Scientists around the world are still struggling to understand Alzheimer's better in order to be able to treat and potentially prevent the development of the debilitating disease in the future. No new medications have been approved during recent years.
'When the cleaning system does not work properly, there will be an accumulation of defective mitochondria in the brain cells. And this may be really dangerous. At any rate, the poor cleaning system is markedly present in cells from both humans and animals with Alzheimer's. And when we improve the cleaning in live animals, their Alzheimer's symptoms almost disappear,' says Vilhelm Bohr, author of the study and affiliate professor at the Center for Healthy Aging and National Institutes of Health.
The researchers have looked more closely at the cleaning process in brain cells from deceased Alzheimer's patients, in Alzheimer's-induced stem cells and in live mice and roundworms with Alzheimer's. In addition, they have also tested active substances targeted at the cleaning process in the animal models.
'It significantly strengthens our results that the cleaning process seems to be important in both human cells and across different animal species. And then it is encouraging that in living animals we are able to improve the central Alzheimer's symptoms, memory and learning,' says Vilhelm Bohr.
The mitochondria lie inside the cell and can be seen as the cell's energy factories. Mitophagy breaks down defective mitochondria and reuses the proteins that they consist of. It is known from previous research that dysfunctional mitophagy is associated with poor function and survival of nerve cells, but so far, no connection with Alzheimer's has been shown.
In both Alzheimer's and other states of dementia, there is an accumulation of the proteins tau and beta amyloid in the brain, leading to cell death. In the new animal models, the researchers show that when boosting the mitophagy, such accumulation will slow down.
The researchers believe that altogether their findings indicate that the cleaning process is a potential target for the treatment of Alzheimer's, which should be further investigated. They therefore plan to start clinical trials in humans in the near future.


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BBC's Hall broadcasts plans for U.S. OTT service
BBC director general Tony Hall (pictured) said the new service will showcase British actors and culture, and focus on programs that Americans can't get elsewhere.
By Bree Rody-Mantha
BBC Worldwide is going over-the-top in the U.S.
News of the British broadcaster's digital plans across the Atlantic were all-but buried in a speech delivered by BBC director general Tony Hall (pictured) at the RTS convention in Cambridge yesterday (September 17).
Hall had few specifics to offer, but said the American OTT service will begin to roll out in 2016.
Details such as price, platforms and a specific launch date were not made public. On content, Hall said the service will focus on "programs (Americans) wouldn't otherwise get, showcasing British actors, our program-makers and celebrating our culture."
There has been a recent decline in production of original British programs — 13% fewer outside of news and sports, according to Hall. While digital streaming services such as Netflix have been pumping out their own originals, that content is not enough to make up for the loss in Brit programming.
"Netflix and Amazon have produced only a few hundred hours of original content between them — across the world. Almost all of it made in the U.S., not the U.K," he said. "It's really good stuff. House of Cards, for example, an amazing show. But my point is that these new businesses are unlikely to address the Britishness problem… the decline in original content from the U.K."
Elsewhere in the speech, Hall discussed the strategy and intent behind the formation of BBC Studios.
"It will be vital," he said of the move towards creating a production unit that will be able to produce independently of the BBC for other broadcasters. "It will stimulate the sector. But it will not be dominant. There must be a level playing field.
"We estimate it will have a share of under 15 per cent of the UK production market," he added. "And it will operate at arms-length. There will be no cross-subsidy from the licence fee. And it will be stringently and independently regulated."
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Opportunities in the Gulf: The UAE has an appetite for advanced technologies, says IAI deputy CEO
Eyal Younian, deputy CEO of state-owned defense contractor Israel Aerospace Industries spoke Wednesday at Calcalist's online conference on the business potential the UAE presents for Israel
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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) values advanced technologies highly and place great importance on battling the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, according to Eyal Younian, deputy CEO of state-owned defense contractor Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. (IAI). Younian spoke Wednesday with Calcalist reporter Hagar Ravet as part of Calcalist's online conference on the business potential the UAE presents for Israel.
In July, a month before plans of a normalization agreement between Israel and the UAE was announced by U.S. President Donald Trump, IAI announced a collaboration agreement between its subsidiary ELTA Systems Ltd. and Abu Dhabi-based artificial intelligence and cloud computing company Group 42 Inc. As part of the agreement, the two companies will join forces to aid in the global fight against the Covid-19.
According to Younian IAI sees a lot of collaboration potential with the UAE, especially in the field of aviation. "The UAE sees itself as a central aviation hub and we are very active in this area," he said. "In terms of defense," he added, "we are familiar with the unique needs of Persian Gulf countries and we are also one of the most versatile defense contractors. The UAE has a lot of money to invest, around $2 trillion, and a great appetite for advanced technologies so it's a win-win situation."
The world changed dramatically in the past few years in light of the Arab Spring and the subprime mortgage crisis, Younian said. The Israeli Ministry of Defense's export regulations have adapted accordingly, he added.
"In addition to the need to maintain classified security technologies, the ministry understands the importance of nurturing intimate ties with such countries as the UAE," he said.
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"The defense ministry realizes it is not just about politics and national security and that there is an economical aspect as well," Younian said.
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Political scientist about Armenian defeat in Karabakh: "PM Pashinyan deliberately led army to surrender"
17.02.2021 WORLD & GEOPOLITICSArmenia, Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh, Nikol Pashinyan, Russiaadmin
The defeat of Armenia in the war for Nagorno-Karabakh could have been deliberate. This is the opinion of political scientist Garik Keryan, who cited a number of arguments proving that Nikol Pashinyan "led Armenia to a humiliating defeat."
The opinion that the defeat of Armenia in the war for Nagorno-Karabakh could have been deliberate exists now in certain expert and political circles of the country. However, there is no way to say that it is 100% right. This is the opinion of political scientist Garik Keryan. At the same time, he cited a number of arguments proving that Nikol Pashinyan, not realizing the danger, "led Armenia to a humiliating defeat." For example, Pashinyan's contradictory statements on the Nagorno-Karabakh issue, sounded from 2018 to 2020.
"First he advocated the inclusion of Nagorno-Karabakh in the negotiation process as a separate entity, then he said that Karabakh is a part of Armenia, and we have no reason to go to other negotiations. He said that we must find a solution that would satisfy Armenia, Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh.
Such conflicting statements have given rise to our suspicion that something might happen. And in the end, during 2019 and early 2020, the negotiation process has already stopped. And in July 2020, there was a strong aggravation on the border of Armenia and Azerbaijan. This was already the threshold of the war. And Pashinyan could not or unintentionally did not draw any conclusions," Keryan said.
By the way, Pashinyan had a chance to sign a peace treaty in advance and on more favourable terms. Garik Keryan reminds of this.
"Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, announced that Armenia has been offered several times to conclude a peace agreement. The point was that Armenia had to return to Azerbaijan first five regions, then two more. That is, it was not about Nagorno-Karabakh itself, but about the regions adjoining it, which were a security zone for Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia. Lavrov said that Russia offered several times, but Armenia refused. This was the most profitable option in the summer of 2020. It would be possible to sign this agreement and avoid a war," the political scientist said.
The fact that Pashinyan knew about a possible war is also said by the former Armenian ambassador to the Vatican, Mikael Minasyan. He claims that almost a month before the start of the armed conflict, the Armenian authorities received a document from the CSTO. It contained data on a future war. There was also a proposal to request the help of the allies in advance. However, this document was ignored.
"26 days before the start of the war, CSTO Secretary-General, Stanislav Zas, sent a letter to Armenian Security Council Secretary, Armen Grigoryan, to which he attached a package of documents with a proposal to conduct military-staff exercises within the CSTO. The scenario of the exercises described the war for which Armenia should prepare and urged to apply to the CSTO before the start of the war. The letter and the documents attached to it were a diplomatic warning, which came true almost 99%," Minasyan said.
Political scientist Garik Keryan did not deny the existence of such a letter, but stressed that none of the officials of the current government announced it.
Meanwhile, the main question that diplomat Minasyan is asking is why Armenia did not appeal to the CSTO members. Instead of calling for help from allies, including Russia, the country's authorities ignored the data. This leads to the conclusion that Pashinyan deliberately gave up Nagorno-Karabakh. As arguments, political analysts call the strange surrender of Shushi, as well as the fact that Pashinyan did not use the fully armed forces of Armenia itself, but only announced a gathering of militias.
As a result, Armenia was not ready for war, but stubbornly ignored the CSTO. For 44 days of the war, Nikol Pashinyan was called upon to appeal to the allies, but he did this only at the very end of the conflict, when it was actually too late. As EADaily notes, official Yerevan actually asked Moscow not to immediately provide military and military-technical assistance, but only to begin consultations on possible help. And this despite the fact that the defeat of Armenia at that moment was only a matter of time. The Chief of the General Staff, Onik Gasparyan, also warned about this at the beginning of the war. There is an opinion that the authority of the defence block was deliberately undermined in Armenia, and some publications blame Pashinyan's American advisers for this.
As the political scientist Keryan notes, the experts had an idea that Pashinyan did not really control the situation and was only a protégé, called upon to make an unpopular decision. Here Keryan recalls that even before the war, the US Embassy warned its citizens not to appear in certain places, because at the end of September they may already be unsafe. This has worried many experts.
"All these events suggest that Pashinyan did not have the determination or courage to appeal to the people of Armenia, to say that he was required to surrender the disputed areas in order to avoid war. After the war, he indirectly admitted this in several of his speeches, saying that if he surrendered these areas, the people would call him a traitor. It turns out that he wanted all this to be resolved through war, so as not to become a traitor in the eyes of his own region.
He had two paths. To address the people and say that they are returning these lands around Nagorno-Karabakh so that there is no war. Or stay on the sidelines, wait until the war starts, and after the war, as a result, surrender these lands. Now he makes more contradictory statements and does not fully explain what exactly happened. It is evident that he either did not understand something, or is afraid to say," Keryan stressed.
According to the political scientist, for many experts in the country, Pashinyan's coming to power is still strange. In particular, the current prime minister took the executive power into his hands without having a clear plan for resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh issue. In addition, Pashinyan came to power unexpectedly quickly, and "it was impossible to understand who was behind his back."
"I am not making excuses for Pashinyan, he is actually a man from the street, he does not have any serious education. And to this day it is not clear to us who he is, what special services are behind him. To make a revolution, to take power into our own hands in such a short time is very amazing. Former President, Serzh Sargsyan, had a rather strong position, all power structures were subordinate to him."
"And then they somehow fabulously presented Pashinyan. Then, many behind the scenes said that probably someone from the world forces are forcing Armenia to sign a treaty and give Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh and the regions that we call "security zones". We assumed that Serzh Sargsyan did not have the courage to do this and remain a traitor in Armenian history. And he probably gave power to Pashinyan, having coordinated this with other world special services or states.
Then we began to suspect that this was an organized change of power to resolve the Karabakh issue. We did not see any other reason for giving back the power," Keryan said.
Let us recall that at the end of September 2020, a long-term conflict flared up in Nagorno-Karabakh, which resulted in casualties among the civilian population. Armenia and Azerbaijan made several attempts to conclude an armistice, but the trilateral agreement reached on the night of November 10 turned out to be successful. With the mediation of Moscow, the parties agreed to completely ceasefire and exchange prisoners and bodies of the dead. Yerevan also handed over the Kelbajar, Lachin, and Aghdam regions to Baku. After the introduction of Russian peacekeepers, the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh stabilized. Tens of thousands of residents of the region who left their homes during the fighting have returned with the help of a peacekeeping contingent.
We add that now there are mass protests in Yerevan, people are demanding the arrest of Pashinyan. The citizens of Armenia are unhappy with the peace treaty signed by the current prime minister and the country's defeat in the war. In addition, people believe that it is Pashinyan who is responsible for the country's economic and social problems.
On January 28, Pashinyan himself called for the development of allied relations with Russia, as well as within the framework of the CSTO. He stressed that Armenia should develop "allied relations with the main partner in the field of security – Russia".
Russian recognized as official language in Nagorno-Karabakh
As a clear sign of this, the President of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (Artsakh), Araik Harutyunyan, signed a law on the recognition of the Russian language as the official one. This was reported on February 17 on the website of the National Assembly of the Republic, Yandex News reports.
It is noted that according to the draft amendments, literary Armenian and Russian are recognized as the official languages of the NKR in the law "On Language".
The document introduces the obligation, if necessary, to conduct office work in Russian. The authors of the project propose to encourage printed publications in two languages.
"The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic encourages the Armenian-Russian publications, press, as well as the creation of Armenian-Russian textbooks, reference books, scientific, methodological and popular science literature," the bill says.
The deputies of the National Assembly note that they consider raising the status of the Russian language as a priority task, which will create the necessary conditions for deepening cooperation in all areas and in the foreseeable future will contribute to the development of relations within the framework of the legal field.
"Taking into account the historical memory of cultural, military and economic relations of Artsakh with Russia, the fact that Russian is the second language of communication for many Artsakh people, we consider it possible to revive a new quality of relations, formulate a new agenda," the Artsakh National Assembly said.
At the end of September 2020, hostilities began in Nagorno-Karabakh, which ended on November 10, 2020. The result was the signing of a trilateral agreement on the cessation of hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh.
The document also provides for the introduction of Russian peacekeepers into the region, the exchange of prisoners between the parties to the conflict, the transfer of a number of districts of the region by Armenia to Azerbaijan, and the return of refugees to Karabakh.
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"Access to financial services is continuing to evolve, and consumers are constantly opening up to new ways of moving, storing, spending and saving money," Alviere co-founder and CEO Yuval Brisker said. "For brands in Europe, and around the world, providing financial services means uncovering vast untapped opportunities. Embedding financial products under their existing business, products, and to their existing customer base, has quickly emerged as an important strategy for growth and customer retention."
Marqeta's platform supports issuance of both physical and virtual payment cards, as well as tokenization, card management, and fulfillment. Processing and settlement are also included, along with authentication and 3DS (3-D secure authentication), just-in-time (JIT) funding, and dynamic spend controls. Marqeta's reliance on open APIs and webhooks enables institutions to create customizable card experiences, and seamless interaction with other applications, while providing visibility and transparency via notifications and card monitoring.
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The elections for Pilani were held on December 7, 2018. The Congress candidate JP Chandelia wins in the constituency by a margin of 13,539 votes.
Jaipur: The constituency of Pilani is a part of Rajasthan's Jhunjhunu district and is reserved for Scheduled Castes (SC) candidates. The elections were held on December 7, 2018. Congress' JP Chandelia defeats BJP's Kailash Chand by a margin of 13,539 votes. According to the latest trends, the party won in the state, securing 99 out of 199 seats.
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Victoria Coren – TV Presenter, Journalist and First Ever Female EPT Champion
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Victoria Coren, born Victoria Elizabeth Coren is an English writer, presenter and professional poker player.
Born on the 18th of August in 1972 in the London borough of Hammersmith, Victoria still currently resides in London, UK.
Known as Vicky to her friends, she has achieved a full and successful career both on the poker tables and as a journalist and TV presenter.
The host of many popular TV shows on UK television, both related and unrelated to Poker.
She is also married to famous British comedian David Mitchell after a lavish wedding ceremony in 2012 with an audience packed full of celebrities from the British showbiz industry.
Born to be on TV
She was brought up in Cricklewood, a small village next to the internationally reputed Cricklewood Studios. Her mother is a Doctor and her father is a well known journalist.
Victoria, known in the poker world as Teacup, attended several independent same-sex schools from the age of 5 to 18 before going on to study for her higher education at Saint John's College in Oxford, where she graduated with a first-class degree in English.
At the tender age of 14, Victoria had a short story professionally published under a pen name, for the Just Seventeen magazine and won a competition held by The Daily Telegraph for her teenage writing topics. She went on to write a play adapted from the newspaper entries of John Diamond, which was performed during the 2000 Edinburgh Festival at the Assembly Rooms, the Grace Theatre and the New End Theatre in London before re-adapting the project for a television show in 2001 broadcast on BBC Two.
Coren has gone on to have a successful TV career, seen here presenting TV quiz show Only Connect
In 2007, as an undercover journalist, Victoria revealed how she had instigated a hoax to trap apparent mourners attending funeral services to mourn for people that they had never actually known. She revealed the truth about the groups, who were only attending the services for the free food and drinks. With a humorous take on a relatively morbid subject, Coren was proud to have foiled these free loaders.
The First Female EPT Champion
Coren first began playing poker professionally in 2006, where she entered the European Poker Tour and became the first female player to win a televised tournament as well as a celebrity tournament; the Celebrity Poker Club.
A frequent visitor of the Victoria Casino (no relation), Coren can be seen clearing tables of opponents in standard Texas Hold 'Em games. In fact is was at this very casino which shares a name with Victoria that she made her biggest mark on the game.
Her 2006 entry in to the European Poker Tour London leg saw her beating 400 opponents to become the first women ever to win a prestigious EPT title and along with it a huge prize of GBP £500,000. This remains her only major title win, however her winnings don't stop there with total career earnings to date of $1.7 million.
Coren became the first female ever to win a European Poker Tour event at the 2006 London leg
In November of 2011, Coren finished second at the International Federation of Poker (IFP) "The Table" World Championship, being defeated by Raul Mestre in the final heads up battle. For second place she was awarded $100,000; 10% of which she donated to the well-known Age UK charity, supporting work with the elderly and senior members of society.
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Her Career away from Poker
Vicky has established herself as a TV presenter for numerous shows both in the sport of poker, but also in more mainstream subjects.
As a radio presenter, Coren has been involved with such projects as the Fourth Column and Off The Page for Radio 4, as well as two series of Balderdash and Piffle relating to the use of words within the Oxford Dictionary. She has also hosted documentaries on Language and Art for BBC 4.
As a poker and gambling specialist, she has further presented The Poker Nations Cup and Late Night Poker for Channel 4 as well as an entire series in which she covered the World Poker Tour for ITV2 and provided commentary for the European Poker Tour.
Using her skills in academics and the use of the English language, she has had guest appearances on several UK television shows, such as You Have Been Watching, Midweek, Woman's Hour, Have I Got News For you, QI, Opinionated and Eight Out Of Ten Cats. Her appearances are always appreciated as beyond her serious poker-face, she is considered quite the comedian herself, always poking jokes at her friends and family and making fun of herself.
Her joyful nature and friendly demeanour has won her fans both on and off the field and she looks set to enjoy many more years in front of our screens drawing in huge audiences.
Married to a Celebrity
In her spare time, Victoria is a huge fan of cookery and gardening. She enjoys creating her own recipes and can often be found in the kitchen adding random ingredients to well-known dishes to test the results on her family and friends.
In 2012, she announced her engagement to her now husband, comedian David Mitchell. The couple were rumoured to have met during the filming of The Bubble but they state that they met at a film premier in the middle of 2007 and after 3 years they began to date. Their wedding took place on the 17th November 2012.
Victoria married famous British comedian David Mitchell in November 2012.
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Coren states that she often stays up until the early hours of the morning, smoking, drinking and gambling both with friends and online.
In 2008, Victoria was recruited to the Team Pokerstars and is now a sponsored player representing them at tournament around the globe.
As part of Team Pokerstars she plays exclusively online at Pokerstars where you can watch and chat to her while she plays or even sit down at her table if there is space. To do so, just click the box below to download Pokerstars and open a free account.
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3. If any merchant or person whatsoever shall voluntarily yield, or pay the said subsidies of Tonnage and Poundage, not granted by Parliament, he shall likewise be reputed a betrayer of the liberties of England, and an enemy to the same.
WE the knights, citizens and burgesses of the Commons House in Parliament, finding to the grief of our hearts that the designs of the Priests and Jesuits, and other adherents to the See of Rome, have of late been more boldly and frequently put in practice than formerly, to the undermining and danger of the true refomed Protestant religion in His Majesty's dominions established; and finding also that there hath been, and having just cause to suspect there still are, even during the sittings in Parliament, endeavours to subvert the fundamental laws of England and Ireland, and ta introduce the exercise of an arbitrary and tyrannical government by most pernicious and wicked counsels, practices, plots and conspiracies; and that the long intermission and unhappier breach of Parliaments hath occasioned many illegal taxations, whereby the subjects have en prosecuted and ieved; and that divers innovations and superstitions have been brought into the Church, multitudes driven out of His Majesty's dominions, jealousies raised and fomented between the King and his people, a Popish army levied in Ireland, and two armies brought into the bowels of this kingdom, to the hazard of His Majesty's royal person, the consumption of the revenue of the crown and the treasure of this realm; and lastly, finding the great cause of jealousy, that endeavours have been, and are used, to bring the English army into a misundertanding of this Parliament, thereby to incline that army by force to bring to pass those wicked counsels; have therefore thought good to join ourselves in a Declaration of our united affections and resolutions and to make this ensuing Protestation :
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WHEREAS Charles Stuart, King of England, is, and standeth convicted, attainted, and condemned of high treason, and other high crimes; and sentence upon Saturday last was pronounced against him by this Court, to be put to death by the severing of his head from his body; of which sentence, execution yet remaineth to be done: these are therefore to will and require you to see the said sentence executed in the open street before Whitehall, upon the morrow, being the thirtieth day of this instant month of January, between the hours of ten in the morning and five in the afternoon of the same day, with full effect. And for doing this shall be your sufficient warrant. And these are to require all officers, soldiers, and others, the good people of this nation of England, to be assisting unto you in this service.
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JOHN BRADSHAW.
THOMAS GREY.
OLIVER CROMWELL, et al
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Stephen Colbert Calls Out Bernie Sanders' Sexist Supporters
Bernie Sanders may claim to be fine with the idea of a female president, but "The Late Show" host isn't so sure about his bro-y supporters.
Updated Jan. 15, 2020 3:10AM ET / Published Jan. 15, 2020 12:15AM ET
"The Late Show" host Stephen Colbert calls out Bernie Sanders' sexist supporters.
Stephen Colbert went live after the first Democratic debate of 2020 Tuesday night. And he spent the bulk of his opening monologue digging into the drama that unfolded between Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders on stage in Des Moines, Iowa.
"Last night, news leaked that Bernie Sanders evidently told Elizabeth Warren in a private 2018 meeting that a woman can't win the presidency," the Late Show host explained. "Now, Bernie's denied it. But Warren said that 'among the topics that came up was what would happen if Democrats nominated a female candidate. I thought a woman could win; he disagreed.' Well, that's a real he said, she said he said what he just said he didn't say."
Asked about the alleged comments by CNN moderator Abby Phillip, Sanders not only denied making that claim but also defended his reputation by saying, "Anybody who knows me knows that it's incomprehensible that I would think that a woman cannot be president of the United States." He urged viewers to "go to YouTube today" to find a video of him endorsing the idea of a female president 30 years ago.
"Yes, if you want to see Bernie say nice things about female presidential candidates, go to YouTube," Colbert said. "If you want to see his supporters saying terrible things about them, go to the comments section."
When it was time for Warren to respond, Phillip first confirmed with Sanders that he "never told Senator Warren that a woman could not win the election" before asking Warren, "what did you think when Senator Sanders told you a woman could not win the election?"
"Who wrote these questions, Andy Cohen?" Colbert joked.
While Warren declined the opportunity to directly attack Sanders, the host noted that she "brought down the hammer" by pointing out that only the two women on stage had won all of the elections they've run in whereas the men had collectively lost 10 elections over their respective careers.
"Wow!" Colbert responded. "Not only have they lost 10 elections, now they've lost their balls to Elizabeth Warren."
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In Climax, Goat Lady Dairy has become a model of long-term success
by Jill Warren Lucas
Open Farm Day
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Goat Lady Dairy's Steve Tate,surrounded by his upgraded facilities
Steve Tate explains that there are three kinds of farms.
There are hobby farms, where owners dabble in growing produce or raising animals with the goal of feeding themselves and sharing the abundance with friends. There are lifestyle farms, where the dabbling expands to active selling—first to break even and then, perhaps, establishing a successful, even sustainable business model.
"And then there are livelihood farms, which are the only kind you can pass on," says Tate, co-owner of Goat Lady Dairy, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this month in the Randolph County town of Climax. "We're not quite there, but that's what we've been building toward for the past three years. We want to retire, and we don't want to just turn off the lights here, which is what happens to so many small farms."
It doesn't appear that it will happen at Goat Lady. During the last half-decade, the Tates have taken considerable steps to ensure that the farm will outlive their tenure on it. In turn, one of North Carolina's pioneering goat cheese outlets has upped its output considerably, becoming a leader in small-scale cheese production. The journey, though, has rarely been certain.
The award-winning operation started as a hobby farm in 1984, when Tate's sister, Ginnie, bought 42 acres of land in northeastern Randolph County. Located about an hour west of Chapel Hill, the abandoned tobacco farm became her refuge from the demands of her job as a nurse administrator.
She'd grown up on a corn farm in Illinois, so the parcel—complete with a 200-year-old log cabin and barns in ruin—felt like a perfect fit. She originally called it Nubie Acres, a nod to the two pet Nubian goats she acquired while living in Conetoe, a tiny community near the state's eastern end. While living there, she had acquired a nickname for herself as the herd grew.
"It was unincorporated and didn't have any rules," Tate recalls with a chuckle, one of several that bubbles up when talking about his older sister. "When she got home from work, she would take the goats from their pen and walk them through town, like you'd walk your dogs. That's where she first got her reputation as 'the goat lady.'"
Eventually, in Climax, locals first got to know Ginnie when she opened her farm to the public for basil and garlic festivals intended to help visitors appreciate the importance of small-scale farming. She later held events to demonstrate the appeal of raising affectionate goats and using their milk for cheese. She'd drive around with gleefully shrieking goats loaded into her Toyota Tacoma pickup truck, too.
"She was a very curious, energetic person," Tate says of his sister, who died from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig's Disease) in 2009, the same year she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Conservation Trust for North Carolina. "You never quite knew where her passion would take her."
Agricultural leaders in Raleigh soon began to understand as much after she mastered volume milking and making artisan cheese. By the late '80s, Ginnie was consulting with experts at N.C. State University and the state Department of Agriculture about turning her hobby farm into a bona fide cheese business.
"They laughed at her," Steve recalls. "They said, 'No one in Central North Carolina wants goat cheese—or even knows what it is.'"
Confident they were as wrong as the naysayers who believed the U.S. could never produce wine that would compete with European labels, Ginnie forged ahead. Steve says there was just one artisan cheese maker in North Carolina at the time, Celebrity Dairy in nearby Siler City. That provided inspiration, as did a trio of women achieving critical acclaim making goat cheese: Mary Keehn of Cypress Grove in California, Allison Hopper of Vermont Creamery and Judy Schad at Capriole in southern Indiana.
"She was a pioneer here just as they were in their states," Steve explains. "They all were eccentric, ambitious women who started making great cheese with little goat herds. She was convinced people would buy good goat cheese, and she was right."
Goat Lady Dairy became a licensed cheese-making business in 1995. Steve and his wife, Lee, moved their family from Minnesota to join the operation. They now live in a cabin across the street on an additional 15-acre parcel acquired to give the growing herd more room to roam.
A decade later, some of those same agricultural consultants and professors invited Ginnie to lead a workshop for farmers who wanted to add value to their farms by producing cheese or other signature products. This amused her.
"She said she would," Steve remembers, "but she'd also tell the story how they laughed at her."
Indeed, Goat Lady was on the leading edge of the artisanal cheese movement, particularly for North Carolina, which now has at least 30 licensed cheese-producing dairies. Tate believes that moderate weather and exceptional grazing land help North Carolina dairies produce such outstanding cheese.
"And most of those have goats," Tate notes of the farms. "I like to say North Carolina has become the Vermont of the South, because we have more cheese makers than any other Southern state."
In July, Goat Lady's savory RoastedRed Pepper Chevre nabbed an award at the American Cheese Society's annual conference and competition. Another entrant, Providence, took third place honors, too, bringing Goat Lady's tally of highly competitive ACS awards to nine. Not bad for a cheese that stemmed from a blunder, says Tate.
"Our Providence cheese was a mistake. I was trying to make a washed rind cheese, like a taleggio," Tate explains, laughing as he describes the resulting aged goat milk cheese that, unlike a semi-soft taleggio, is firm enough to grate like Parmesan. "Thankfully, it became something even better."
In general, however, Goat Lady has grown more deliberate. While Ginnie Tate lived to see her dream become a successful business, her passing led Steve and Lee to focus on the company's long-term viability. They intend to sell the farm and retire in 2016. Alexander Kast, Goat Lady's head cheese maker, and Carrie Bradds, the cheese room manager, are among several parties interested in the purchase.
"Whatever happens," Tate says, "the current managers will take a leading role in carrying the business on. It will be part of the deal."
This process has been in the works for years. In 2012, Goat Lady launched a major transformation, including a significant building expansion that remade a clayfloor goat barn and milking parlor as a high-tech production center. Customized pasteurization machinery and other precision devices allow Goat Lady to better monitor processes and ensure more consistent outcomes.
A year later, they hired Kast, an internationally trained cheese maker and a former cheese monger and buyer for Southern Season. And later in 2013, a $300,000 USDA Value-Added Producer Grant pushed the business' consistency and quality even higher.
"If we hadn't gotten that grant, I don't know if we could have made it," Tate says. "People want to see the romance of local food and farming, but it's a very risky thing."
The risks are yielding rewards, at least. Goat Lady is poised to produce 90,000 pounds of cheese by the end of 2015, a massive jump from 40,000 pounds in 2012. It recently picked up a major new account, Chop't, a fast-casual salad chain opening soon in Charlotte, with Raleigh and other North Carolina locations to follow in 2016. Tate also anticipates expanding from Whole Foods' Southern market to the chain's mid-Atlantic and Rocky Mountain regions.
Such achievements give Goat Lady plenty of reasons to celebrate its 20th-anniversary milestone. The party started Monday with a dinner for industry partners prepared by an all-star group of North Carolina chefs. And on Sunday afternoon, a public party will welcome fans back to an annual Open Farm Day event. Visitors will be able to meet the farmers and cheese makers, as well as some of the goats that produce the milk for the Goat Lady's award-winning cheeses. Ginnie Tate, Climax's Goat Lady, would have liked that.
"It's important for people to visit farms and understand where their food comes from," Tate says, recalling a befuddled tour participant who asked sincerely if they have to kill goats to remove their cheese. "When we change a person's relationship with food, we change them and the world for the better."
A day at the farm
The day started early at Goat Lady Dairy, with head cheese maker Alexander Kast leaving his Pittsboro home around 4:40 a.m. for a 40-minute drive to the bucolic farm in rural Randolph County. Steve Tate's commute took only about two minutes, from when he filled a coffee cup in his kitchen to when he arrived at his office across the street.
The pair was working on a batch of its top-selling Lindale cheese, a Dutch-style gouda. They began with 240 gallons of buttery yellow cow milk from Williams Dairy, their neighbor two miles down the road.
"It doesn't get much fresher than that," Tate offered with a grin.
Pumped into stainless steel vats, it frothed like a child's bubble bath. After warming and swirling it with a propriety blend of culture and rennet, they expelled much of the milk's content as watery whey, retained for use as pig feed and pasture fertilizer. After four months of controlled cave aging, the process will produce 20 10-pound wheels of smooth, creamy cheese.
The chevre on which Goat Lady first built its reputation is still produced at the facility. Hundreds of tempting rounds, like the ash-lined Sandy Creek and lightly smoked Smokey Mountain, age in temperature- and humidity-controlled rooms. They will be hand wrapped for sale in perfect folds of breathable paper, though the countless logs of fresh chevre are no longer individually rolled by hand. Thanks to the 2013 USDA grant that helped fund Goat Lady's expansion, the cheese is efficiently piped into shrink-wrapped logs that rest on rolling shelf carts while awaiting packaging.
The aging room held a few mystery cheeses, too, experiments for established or prospective clients.
"It's going to be a fetaI think," Tate said, tapping a square of cheese firming up on a top shelf. "Or, who knows? It might be something even better."
This article appeared in print with the headline "Getting their goat"
Photo by Jill Warren Lucas
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MREA Begins Development on Solar PV Financial Simulator
The Midwest Renewable Energy Association's Solar Endowment project, supported by the U.S. Department of Energy SunShot Initiative, has started 2017 with a (solar) bang!
In January, the Solar Endowment began creating a web-based Solar Project Financial Simulator for tax-exempt entities to model and compare financial performance of solar photovoltaic (PV) investments. Using institution-specific values, users can view simulations for four different PV investment types including direct purchase, power purchase agreement, operating lease, and debt financing. Each of the four investment options will be accompanied by an introductory page outlining the financial structure, key terms, and links to external resources for additional assistance. Simulation results will be represented in tables and graphs outlining key financial values and timelines including return on investment, internal rate of return, net present value, cash flow nature, and levelized cost of energy where applicable.
The goal of the Solar Project Financial Simulator is to facilitate greater understanding of the financial structuring, transaction costs, and return profile of PV investments for tax-exempt entities. Developing the capacity of university and foundation leaders to analyze, compare, and define investment strategies that meet their needs will help advance PV investments on and off campus. The MREA has selected Sustainable Capital Advisors to develop the financial tool and Future Web Studio to develop the web-based platform with anticipated completion late March 2017.
The Solar Endowment team has also been energized by the recent hire of new MREA Solar Finance Manager Eric Rehm. Working out of the St. Paul office, Eric has administered numerous clean energy financing programs for residential, commercial businesses, nonprofits, and municipal sectors for the MN Dept. of Commerce and in the private sector while at Eutectics. Eric's background will help further develop and apply financial modeling tools to project returns from PV investments and provide resources and recommendations for entities to procure outside services to advance solar projects.
"The process of installing a solar PV system is often complicated, particularly for a non-tax paying entity with a complex energy footprint. With his breadth and depth of experience, Eric will lead our team to help organizations procure highest value, lowest cost solar and make good on the unprecedented investment opportunity in local, clean energy" says Nick Hylla, MREA Executive Director.
This month, Solar Project Financial Simulator partners Sustainable Capital Advisors will be presenting the tool at the 2017 Presidential Climate Leadership Summit during the Monday, February 13, Networking Lunch and on Wednesday, February 15, during the "Expanding the Pie: Leveraging Innovating Capital Sources to Increase On-Campus Sustainability Investments" session with Agnes Scott College and Sustainable Endowments Institute. The Solar Endowment is also supporting campuses to attend the Smart and Sustainable Campuses Conference in College Park, MD, March 26-28, 2017, where they will be highlighting the Solar Project Financial Simulator and Applied Campus PV Course during their "Engaging Students and Campus Leadership to Advance Solar Energy Investments" session. The work of this project will also be presented at both MREA Energy Fairs this year in Custer, WI, and St. Paul, MN, in June and September 2017 as well as at the October 15-18 Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education Conference in San Antonio, TX.
To date, products developed as a result of primary and secondary research into university investment in renewable energy include an interactive map showing 200 higher education solar projects, a blog post describing the Clean Power Plan impacts on the higher education community, and the four Solar University Network: Innovation in Solar Energy Finance & Development case studies focused on higher education investment in renewable energy projects. More information on the Solar Endowment at www.solarendowment.org.
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