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using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Net;
using System.Security.Cryptography;

namespace Google.GData.Client {
    ///
    /// A request factory to generate an authorization header suitable for use
    /// with OAuth 2.0.
    ///
    public class GOAuth2RequestFactory : GDataGAuthRequestFactory {
        /// this factory's agent
        public const string GDataGAuthSubAgent = "GOAuth2RequestFactory-CS/1.0.0";

        ///
        /// Constructor.
        ///
        public GOAuth2RequestFactory(string service, string applicationName, OAuth2Parameters parameters)
            : base(service, applicationName) {
            this.Parameters = parameters;
        }

        ///
        /// default constructor.
        ///
        public override IGDataRequest CreateRequest(GDataRequestType type, Uri uriTarget) {
            return new GOAuth2Request(type, uriTarget, this);
        }

        public OAuth2Parameters Parameters { get; set; }
    }

    ///
    /// GOAuthSubRequest implementation.
    ///
    public class GOAuth2Request : GDataGAuthRequest {
        /// holds the factory instance
        private GOAuth2RequestFactory factory;

        ///
        /// default constructor.
        ///
        internal GOAuth2Request(GDataRequestType type, Uri uriTarget, GOAuth2RequestFactory factory)
            : base(type, uriTarget, factory) {
            this.factory = factory;
        }

        ///
        /// sets up the correct credentials for this call.
        ///
        protected override void EnsureCredentials() {
            HttpWebRequest http = this.Request as HttpWebRequest;

            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(this.factory.Parameters.AccessToken)) {
                throw new GDataRequestException("An access token must be provided to use GOAuthRequestFactory");
            }

            this.Request.Headers.Remove("Authorization"); // needed?
            this.Request.Headers.Add("Authorization", String.Format(
                "{0} {1}", this.factory.Parameters.TokenType, this.factory.Parameters.AccessToken));
        }

        public override void Execute() {
            try {
                base.Execute();
            } catch (GDataRequestException re) {
                HttpWebResponse webResponse = re.Response as HttpWebResponse;
                if (webResponse != null && webResponse.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.Unauthorized) {
                    Tracing.TraceMsg("Access token might have expired, refreshing.");
                    Reset();
                    try {
                        OAuthUtil.RefreshAccessToken(this.factory.Parameters);
                    } catch (WebException e) {
                        Tracing.TraceMsg("Failed to refresh access token: " + e.StackTrace);
                        throw re;
                    }
                    base.Execute();
                } else {
                    throw;
                }
            }
        }

    }
}

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These Are the Only 2 Diets Most People Are Able to Maintain Long-Term
Erin Kayata
Fad diets may be tempting, but unless you find a plan you can maintain for the rest of your life, you'll most likely regain the weight.
Do diets work?
When you're looking to lose weight, your first instinct might be to go on a diet. There's always a new fad plan that seems to be more and more restrictive. Because they're so difficult to maintain, says Natalie Allen, RD, a dietitian and instructor with the University of Missouri, people fail more often than they succeed. Most diets help with weight loss in the short term, but when the weight loss tapers off, people go back to their old ways and regain the weight.
"One of the biggest issues for people, besides getting tired of the limited options, is it's so much work," she says. "People need to plan, go to the store, cook healthy things—when a diet controls every decision in your life, it's difficult to sustain."
However, there are at least two diets that beat the odds: the DASH diet and the Mediterranean Diet. Allen says research has shown these diets are sustainable and help keep your heart healthy and lower your blood pressure in the long term. And rather than focusing on eating or avoiding any one type of macronutrient, the Mediterranean and the DASH—it stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension—diets are more about guidelines to help you make better overall food choices, according to Michelle Abbey, RDN.
"Many diets are built around a restriction of some food or food group," she says. "Psychologically, as soon as we are told we can't eat X, that's exactly what we want. Mediterranean and DASH diets put more of an emphasis on what to include, and simply limiting processed foods, sugars, and alcohol. The diets come with guidelines, giving them more of a doable feel then diets that are defined by an all or none mentality (eat X and you fail!)."
Benefits of the Mediterranean and DASH diets
The Mediterranean diet is inspired by eating habits from the Mediterranean region and encourages having lots of fruit, vegetables and whole grains, and limiting the consumption of dairy, red meat and processed foods, according to Heart and Stroke. It also allows for some red wine. If you're curious about giving it a try, here are some recipes that are a part of the Mediterranean diet plan. "The Mediterranean diet is a sustainable diet that focuses less on the quantity of food consumed, and more on the quality of food in one's diet," says dietitian and founder of To The Pointe Nutrition Rachel Fine, RD. "The Mediterranean diet is high in healthy fats and naturally occurring fibre from sources like minimally processed plant-based foods such as grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds. These foods offer significantly more nutrition per bite."
The DASH diet focuses on daily and weekly nutritional goals, according to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. Like the Mediterranean diet, it emphasizes eating fruits, vegetables, whole grains and including fat-free and low-fat dairy products, fish, poultry, beans, nuts, and vegetable oils. It also recommends limiting foods that are high in saturated fat, full-fat dairy products and tropical oils; you'll also give a wide berth to sugar-sweetened food and drinks. "Like the Mediterranean plan, the DASH diet focuses on lowering blood pressure through increased consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables," Fine says. "Unlike many fad diets, both the Mediterranean and DASH diets do not focus on eating or avoiding any one type of macronutrient (like carbs or fat). Rather, it's a matter of choosing higher quality food sources."
Give dieting a go
Despite the fact that diets don't have the best reputation, Allen still recommends trying these two. "If people want to do a diet plan, sometimes that helps them get started," she says. "It takes away their guesswork and gives them a place to start. Hopefully, they can change their habits and branch out a little bit and incorporate other foods."
Ideally, the plan you adopt becomes a way of life, she says, because that's the only way you can make a long-term change. She also stresses that any diet will require other lifestyle changes like regular exercise, avoiding high-calorie drinks, and a regular sleep schedule.
Next, read up on 15 things you don't realize are sabotaging your weight loss.
Originally Published on Reader's Digest
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Sandman was a free music magazine launched in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, in September 2002. Later versions were created, specifically covering Leeds, Kingston upon Hull, York, Nottingham and Manchester before all five editions were amalgamated into one compendium edition which also covered Manchester, Bradford, Derby and Leicester making Sandman the largest independent publication of its kind in the UK.

Sandman's aims were simply to cover and support the local music scenes of the cities in which it was published.

History
The first issue was launched on 27 September 2002 by Jan Webster (Editor in Chief) and Mark Roberts (Publisher). Webster and Roberts had both been involved with the local music scene as performers and promoters. The Leeds edition launched on 30 September 2003, Hull on 15 March 2004, York on 15 October 2004 and Nottingham on 4 April 2005. From February 2006, these editions were merged into a single, large regional magazine. The last print edition of Sandman was published in September 2008 and the last on-line entry was posted in May 2009.

Features
Interviews,
live reviews (including those of unsigned, national and international level bands)
Album reviews
Demo reviews.
Nightlife
Culture.

Volunteers contributed Sandman's articles, the revenue being made from advertising charges and subscription fees. Sandman never accepted advertorials and aimed simply to be independent and honest. It was distributed in record and instrument shops as well as venues, clubs and pubs.

Readership
At its highest the readership was around 50,000 across Yorkshire, Lancashire and the East Midlands

Notable bands
A number of now nationally famous acts were covered early on in their careers by Sandman, most notably The Kaiser Chiefs in Leeds and Arctic Monkeys and Reverend & The Makers in Sheffield. Sandman gained recognition and praise from figures such as the radio DJ Steve Lamacq and Simon Williams of Fierce Panda Records. From 2005 Sandman Magazine worked with the Mean Fiddler organisation helping pick unsigned bands to play at the Leeds Festival.

See also
 List of music magazines

References

2002 establishments in the United Kingdom
2008 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
Music magazines published in the United Kingdom
Defunct magazines published in the United Kingdom
Free magazines
Local interest magazines published in the United Kingdom
Magazines established in 2002
Magazines disestablished in 2008

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Welcome to our third installment of SaaS Metrics Refresher. Today we're tackling a big one: Churn.
In SaaS, there are two form of churn, both of which are useful to analyze in certain scenarios. Measuring churn is all about measuring lost business, either through the loss of customers (logos) or the loss of revenue.
The rate at which your customers are cancelling their subscriptions.
The rate at which you are losing MRR through downgrades and cancellations, offset by account expansions.
So the two measurements above help us measure the loss of revenue in our business in two different ways. One important thing to remember: churn is always measured across a specific time period. If someone tells you their churn rate, think about what period they could be referencing — it could be the current calendar month, a 30-day rolling window, the previous quarter or even across the company's lifetime. Churn rate is always an average across a given period.
Is my churn rate too high?
Every subscription business has churn — it's unavoidable. There's also no common "acceptable" level of churn as it depends on the characteristics of your business.
The Pacific Crest annual SaaS survey showed that around 70% of SaaS companies had annual customer churn <10%, of which 75% were <5%.
When looking at annual churn in SaaS, keeping under 5% is a reasonable goal. Don't confuse this with monthly churn though! 5% annually equates to less than 1% monthly customer churn rate.
Churn rate will start to have an outsized effect on your revenue as you grow. It's always better to tackle it before it becomes a huge problem.
So in other words, avoid being reactive to churn before it's too late.
Proactive churn: The customer actively chose to cancel their subscription.
Passive churn: The customer didn't update their credit card details or their account lapsed in some way.
Happy churn: The customer cancelled, but with a positive experience, receiving full value from your product.
Churn that isn't really churn: In the case of money-back guarantees or refunds, it's useful to split out these customers who are not really representative of the above categories.
While churn is definitely a bad thing, negative churn is actually the opposite! Every SaaS company should have a goal of achieving negative churn in their lifetime — the impact can be the difference between steady decline and hypergrowth.
Simply put, a company has negative churn when the revenue added from up-sells and expansion exceeds that of the revenue lost from churn and downgrades. Or in other words, your net MRR churn rate is a negative value.
Why is this so powerful? Well, just as churn compounds and becomes a bigger issue as the company grows, negative churn exhibits the same characteristics. If you manage to engineer negative churn into your product (through strong expansion and retention), the impact of this will become more significant as the company scales.
Annual vs. monthly subscriptions is an important decisions you'll need to make when pricing your product. Annual can make sense for more enterprise-focused businesses, but the point to highlight here is that it's not a remedy for a high churn rate.
Monthly subscriptions can seem scary because the customer has the opportunity to cancel each month. But annual contracts can just mask this, leading to a bigger problem with a lot of negative sentiment.
The Ultimate SaaS Churn Cheat Sheet (ChartMogul) — Our comprehensive cheat sheet on measuring churn. Works great as a reference or jumping off point for deeper analysis.
Actionable SaaS Metrics: Customer Churn Rate (ChartMogul) — The Actionable SaaS Metrics series goes beyond measuring and calculating. It takes a deeper look at some characteristics of common subscription metrics, with the goal of identifying key actionable steps to optimize them for your business.
To predict churn is to prevent it — here's how (ChartMogul) — If you don't pay close attention to your customers' behavior, you could lose them. They could slip right through your fingers. Avoid the pain of churn by watching for these red flags and acting on them fast.
Net vs. Gross Revenue Churn: Best Practices (ChartMogul) — If you're trying to understand your churn and reduce it, then focusing too hard on net revenue churn could be a little dangerous. Net churn merges together two somewhat unrelated metrics: lost revenue from (probably unhappy) cancelling customers and gained revenue from (probably happy) customers upgrading.
SaaS Q&A: How do you deal with Happy Churn? (ChartMogul) — Happy Churn: The good kind of churn? The name would suggest so, but the reality is that Happy Churn can cause significant issues when it comes to growing your SaaS business. Consider it a red flag for some bigger underlying problems.
Unlocking the Path to Negative Churn (David Skok) — David clearly illustrates with churn is so critical for SaaS businesses to get a hold on, and the potentially huge positive impact of negative churn.
Why Negative Churn is Such a Powerful Growth Mechanism (Tomasz Tunguz) — What happens to a company's growth when they have 5% positive churn vs. 5% negative churn?


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While there are many factors that go into choosing conference dates and locations, this year's election was apparently not considered when the EDUCAUSE 2012 Annual Conference convention center contract was signed over 7 years ago. We regret the inconvenience this may cause our members. In the last two years, EDUCAUSE staff have developed a more thorough site selection process to avoid future calendar conflicts, whether major or religious holidays, as well as U.S. Federal elections.
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Images released online today show ISIS hostage Moaz al-Kasasbeh being burned alive in a cage.
Lt Moaz al-Kasasbeh was captured when his plane came down near Raqqa, Syria, in December in a mission to support the US-led military coalition against IS. Jordanian state TV confirmed the death and said he was killed a month ago. The video posted online on Tuesday was distributed via a Twitter account known as a source for IS propaganda. A relative of Lt Kasasbeh told Reuters news agency that the Jordanian armed forces had informed the family that he had been killed.
The BBC's Frank Gardner says that the video is clearly intended to shock. The highly produced 22-minute film includes a sequence showing the Jordanian pilot walking at gunpoint amongst rubble apparently caused by coalition air strikes that targeted jihadists. Jordan had been attempting to secure Lt Kasasbeh's release as part of a prisoner swap. It had offered to free Sajida al-Rishawi, who is on death row in Jordan for her role in hotel bombings in Amman in 2005, in return for the release of Lt Kasasbeh.
The video emerged three days after another video appeared to show the dead body of Japanese hostage Kenji Goto. The US state department said it was working to confirm the authenticity of the video. US President Barack Obama said in a statement that if the video was real, it would be "one more indication of the viciousness and barbarity" of IS.
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George Clooney's latest Nespresso ad is here!
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In the new ad, Clooney walks to a recycling area, where he runs into fellow actor Andy Garcia, who's also recycling his Nespresso capsules. The ad reveals they're 100% recyclable, which Clooney described while exclusively chatting with ET about the project.
"I think generations are changing and generations today are more aware and understand the fact that we can't keep creating giant piles of trash and leaving it for the next generation to deal with," he explained. "The nice thing is that this generation of people who use the Nespresso machines and capsules, I believe, understand that we're going to have to recycle -- not only in the coffee industry, but everywhere around the world."
Back in October 2015, Clooney teamed up with Nespresso to film his first ever U.S. commercial in which he'd actually appear, as he had previously done plenty of voiceovers Stateside.
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Procrastination has actually paid off. I have been attempting to write this post for about 4 days, but luckily I put it off enough, that it happens to be going up on Cinco de Mayo. Couldn't have planned it better if I had tried.
You HAVE to try these enchiladas. If you make any of the recipes I post here, make this one. Please. Just do it, you wont regret it.
I was lucky enough to win a beautiful LeCrueset baking dish over at the Hungry Dog Blog (check her out, its a great read, with wonderful recipes) and as soon as it came in the mail, I was scheming on how quickly I could put it to use, and with what. It took about all of 6 hours before I was piling grilled chicken and veggie enchiladas into the gorgeous blue ceramic dish.
I remembered watching one of my favorite 'celebrity chefs', Tyler Florence, making his ultimate enchiladas on the food network long ago, and decided to dig out the recipe. He calls for buying a rotisserie chicken from the grocery store and shredding it, but we decided to take things a little farther. For once I can't take credit for making a recipe much more tedious and intensive than it was originally intended (see my day long lasagna-making marathon). When I asked my boyfriend what kind of enchiladas he wanted, he replied with grilled chicken and vegetables. My first thought was YUM! My second thought was crap, its a Monday night and we wont be eating until 10.
Luckily, we were fairly efficient, even with the pack of tecate chilling in the fridge, and ate by about 9:00. It was so worth it though, portabello mushroom caps, sliced zucchini, red and yellow bell peppers, and split whole chickens, all grilled and stirred into the roasted tomatillo green sauce with sauteed onions. These may be the best enchiladas I have ever had, and I have eaten a fair amount of Mexican food in my lifetime. I'm talking a lot of Mexican food. Its kind of a problem actually.
Prepare grill to cook over indirect heat. If using charcoal, fill a charcoal chimney with about 90 coals, and burn until covered with a light gray ash. Place a aluminum tray in the center of the bottom grate, and pile the hot coals on either side. If using gas, turn on the outer burners and leave the middle burner off. Cover, and let grill preheat for about 5 minutes.
While grill is heating, prepare chicken and vegetables for grill by drizzling them with olive oil and seasoning with salt and pepper. When grill is ready, brush your grill grates with an olive-oil soaked paper towel, and place the chicken skin side down in the middle of the grill over the aluminum tray or off burner. Place the veggies over the direct flame. Check on these every few minutes, as they will char fast over direct heat (but that's the good part right?) they should only take 5-7 minutes on each side. When they are cooked through, remove from grill and set aside.
Grill the chicken for 35-45 minutes until skin is well-browned and crispy. Turn chicken over and grill until breast meat reached 165 degrees, about another 15-20 minutes. Remove from grill, tent with tin foil and let rest for 10 minutes.
While the chicken is grilling feel free to start the roasted tomatillo salsa. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Place the tomatillos, onion, garlic, and jalapenos on a rimmed baking sheet and toss with olive oil to coat, then season liberally with salt and fresh ground pepper. Roast for 15-20 minutes, until everything is soft and starting to caramelize. Remove from oven, and place contents of baking sheet, including any juices into a food processor, along with the cilantro, cumin and lime juice, and pulse until chopped very finely and becomes a cohesive sauce.
Chop grilled veggies into bite sizes pieces, and remove and shred (or chop) meat from grilled chicken. Set aside.
Heat 1-2 tablespoons of olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the onion and cook until soft and caramelized. Add the cumin and garlic and saute for just a few minutes longer. Add the flour and stir constantly to make sure flour doesn't burn. Slowly add the chicken stock and cook over low heat, stirring until incorporated into flour/onion mixture and sauce thickens. Stir in half of the tomatillo salsa, the chicken, and chopped grilled vegetables. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
Preheat oven to 375. Start the rice. In a small sauce pan, combine chicken stock, turmeric, garlic cloves, olive oil, salt and pepper and bring to a boil. Place rice in a 13X9 glass baking dish and pour the boiling liquid over the rice. Stir briefly with a fork, cover tightly with tin foil, and bake for one hour.
Pour a bit of the into a 13X9 baking dish to coat the bottom. Pour the remainder onto a large plate and get ready to assemble the enchiladas. Flash one of the tortillas briefly over flame on stove to heat and soften a bit. Place into reserved tomatillo salsa on plate to coat both sides of tortilla. Spoon 1/12th of the chicken/veggie mixture (just eyeball it) and sprinkle with some cheese. Roll up gently and place in baking dish. Repeat with 11 more tortillas, or however many you can squeeze into your dish. If you have any sauce left pour over the top, and sprinkle generously with cheese.
When your rice has 30 minutes left, put the enchiladas in the oven and bake for the remainder of the hour (30 more minutes) until cheese in gooey and delicious. Serve with rice and additional salsa, and if you want to get real naughty, sour cream and guacamole.
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This file photo taken on April 29, 2011, shows Pippa Middleton after the wedding service for Britain's Prince William and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge.
She played a memorable supporting role at sister Kate's 2011 wedding, but Pippa Middleton will take centre stage Saturday at what looks to be the high society event of the year.
The 33-year-old is marrying a wealthy financier at the oh-so-English 12th-century church of St. Mark's in the village of Englefield, west of London – with a guest list of young A-list royals and reality TV stars looking on.
Prince William, a future king, will be there with his wife Kate, now formally known as the Duchess of Cambridge, and their two children, Prince George, 3, and 2-year-old Princess Charlotte.
If that isn't enough to merit a few photographs, there is widespread speculation that Prince Harry will bring his girlfriend, American actress Meghan Markle, to showcase their budding romance.
The groom is hedge fund manager James Matthews, who proposed last summer during a trip to England's scenic Lake District.
They had dated for less than a year – although had briefly been an item in 2012 as well – when he got down on one knee and asked her to marry him.
The wealthy Matthews has shunned the spotlight, but his brother Spencer Matthews has compensated for that with his role on the reality TV show "Made in Chelsea." He is expected to be the best man.
British bookmakers are taking bets on whether Spencer Matthews will be removed from the ceremony, perhaps for making an off-colour speech. Paddy Power is offering 33/1 odds against that happening.
WHAT ROLES FOR PRINCE GEORGE AND PRINCESS CHARLOTTE? WILL THEY BEHAVE?
Prince George will be a page boy and Charlotte – at the tender age of 2 – will be a bridesmaid.
It goes without saying that whatever outfits their parents come up with will be closely monitored, and copied by parents with young children for years to come.
Less clear is what will happen if George decides it's tantrum-time or Charlotte turns her back on the wedding party.
The Duchess of Cambridge told a palace guest this week that she is hoping for the best but admitted she is a bit concerned her children may act up. Her husband Prince William is still being ribbed for his poor behaviour – he stuck out his tongue at one point – at his uncle Andrew's wedding in 1986, when William was just 4.
DOES THE QUEEN HAVE A ROLE?
Palace officials say Queen Elizabeth II will not be at the wedding. Prince Charles and his wife Camilla also plan to miss the event, which is drawing only the younger royals.
Suspense is building over whether Prince Harry will use the occasion to spotlight his relationship with American actress Meghan Markle, who plays an ambitious paralegal in the U.S. television drama "Suits."
Though they have only rarely gone out in public together, Harry has made his feelings for Markle known. In November he released an unusual letter calling for the press to stop intruding into her private life and saying he would do everything possible to protect her from unwanted scrutiny.
Escorting Markle to such a high-profile event would be seen as confirmation that the relationship is increasingly serious. Some expect Harry to attend the church ceremony solo, then bring Markle to the reception that follows.
She looked terrific in a form-fitting Alexander McQueen dress at Kate's wedding, almost but not quite upstaging the bride, but is likely to wear something more modest at her own.
A number of British-based designers are thought to be likely contenders for one of the most highly anticipated commissions of the year, including Jenny Packham, Erdem, Giles Deacon and Philippa Lepley. Middleton is expected to wear a traditional, embroidered gown, most likely with the spectacular beadwork and detailing that mark high-end British fashion.
Pippa is expected to change into something jazzier for the reception planned at her parents' country estate in Bucklebury, 50 miles (80 kilometres) west of London.
Hatmaker to the stars Stephen Jones – also known for his veils – may also be involved.


2007 – THE YEAR OF THE HARLEQUIN IN WORCESTERSHIRE?
Readers are referred to the article in Worcestershire Record November 2006 No 21.
Since that publication several new records have been sent in during the winter of 2006-2007: from Worcester, Malvern, Edgbaston (Birmingham) and Fladbury indicating that Harlequin Ladybirds have successfully hibernated in the county following the great spread NW from the London area in 2006. The map that accompanied this article can be seen on the national recording web site at www.harlequin-survey.org where it is regularly up-dated. You can also submit your records to this national site but if you do please also send them to Worcestershire BRC. The national map shows records from 10x10 km squares, a rather coarse recording unit for county records and we very much wish to keep track of Harlequins in the county.
In view of the great expansion of range during 2006 pausing over-winter on the eastern borders of Worcestershire we could see an explosion of records here in 2007.
Harlequin ladybirds are relatively easy to identify once you have got your eye in. If you find an odd-looking ladybird about the size of the familiar 7-spot Coccinella 7-punctata or a little larger there is a good chance that it is a Harlequin even though the latter occurs in a wide range of patterns and colours. Two main varieties have appeared in Worcestershire so far. One has mainly orange elytra with around 18 black spots, and the pronotum black with large white spots at times forming a letter W. The other variety found is spectabilis which is mainly black with two large red spots, one on each elytra. Constant features are a marked ledge or lip on the outer margins of the elytra, and tiny horizontal ridges on the rear of the elytra. Ideally we should like to see any specimen found and/or a picture. The national web site requires records to be backed by a picture. When you send records to the Worcestershire BRC we should like to see a specimen of picture if possible.
Harlequin ladybird from Fladbury, Worcestershire Harlequin ladybird, form spectabilis.
Please see our previous articles in Worcestershire Record and the very useful article by Roy et al 2005.
GREEN, H. 2006 Harlequin Ladybird Harmonia axyridis. Worcestershire Record 21:10-11.
ROY H, ROWLAND F, BROWN P, WARE W, & MAJERUS M. 2005. Ecology of the Harlequin Ladybird, a new invasive species. British Wildlife vol 16, No. 6, August 2005, pages403-407.


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Ex Cathedra's 2021/22 season
14/09/2021 28/07/2021 by AUTHOR
All you need is (Unending) Love
Ex Cathedra to recreate Beethoven's Funeral procession, co-create with refugee communities, explore fusion of Indian Classical and choral music, and more
Ex Cathedra has announced a bold, innovative 2021-22 season, encompassing rarely-heard music from Beethoven's Funeral procession to Unending Love Weekenders – exploring fusions of Indian Classical and choral music by Alec Roth and Roxanna Panufnik, in collaboration with Milapfest, the Britten Sinfonia, Mark Padmore, Vayu Naidu, Debipriya Sircar and Ensemble Tempus Fugit.
Audiences can experience glorious programmes of Early Music, with gems from the English Renaissance, Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers, two Bach cantatas, Bach St Matthew Passion and a period-instrument performance of Mozart's Requiem.
A very different, emotional Requiem will take place in February at Coventry Cathedral as part of the City of Culture year. Liz Dilnot Johnson's heart-rending When a Child is a Witness features co-created contributions from those who have sought and supported refuge in the city, one of two major works in the season by the Malverns-based composer.
Ex Cathedra's season contains its traditional ingredients too. The choir's Christmas Music by Candlelight concerts are an annual, popular treat for audiences seeking an atmospheric, contemplative sequence of music and readings, whilst Summer Music by Candlelight celebrates nature, sun, sea and holidays. Both will be presented in venues across the Midlands. The Good Friday Bach St Matthew Passion promises to be particularly poignant after two years without a live audience.
Announcing the season, Jeffrey Skidmore said: 'It feels like a rebirth, a renewal, a refreshment, a regeneration. It is a very sweet and joyful moment to be able to announce a new season which is stronger and more passionate than ever and which eagerly reaches out to a wide audience. We have learnt so much from our time in isolation, the tragic dark ages of the pandemic, but now we have a wonderful, innovative programme to share with you.
'Of course Ex Cathedra never went away. From the beginning and throughout the pandemic the whole Ex Cathedra family rallied in a creative explosion which embraced new technology to produce high quality and imaginative virtual videos, live films with and without audience.
'But now Ex Cathedra is back! I'm tempted to say Ex Cathedra is Bach… Mozart, Beethoven, Monteverdi, Alec Roth, Liz Dilnot Johnson, Roxanna Panufnik, Penelope Thwaites … and much more! We continue to celebrate the great human achievements of the past alongside new and special projects which reach out to the world, in particular the Middle East, India, Australia and the Americas.'
Full details of Ex Cathedra's season can be if you click here found at www.excathedra.co.uk.
Tickets go on general sale on 30 July at 10am. With tickets for concerts starting at £13, best-available tickets for full-time students and under 18s available for just £8, and £13 for anyone aged 18-30 not in full-time education, Ex Cathedra's inspiring and uplifting concerts are accessible to everyone. There are generous multibuy discounts, and an Early Bird savings of 20% on all tickets purchased by 17 September.
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The May 2005 Mussel of the Month is Hamiota perovalis. Members of the North American genus Hamiota go fishing for their host fish using super-conglutinate lures.
ANSP 56416. Alabama River, J.S. Phillips!
(type of U. perovalis Conrad, 1834).
Freshwater mussels of the bivalve order Unionoida have an interesting life cycle: their larvae are parasitic upon freshwater vertebrates. As the well-known Red Queen Hypothesis would predict, this interaction between host and parasite has produced some interesting evolutionary results. In most freshwater mussels, the larvae reach their host passively, but H. perovalis uses as super-conglutinate lure to "fish" for its host. Amazing!
Hamiota is the first genus introduced to classify North American mussels in over 20 years. We are sure that there are even more to come! Keep up the good work, Kevin and Paul!
Phylum Mollusca
Order Unionoida
Superfamily Unionoidea Rafinesque, 1820
Family Unionidae s.s.
Subfamily Ambleminae Rafinesque, 1820
Tribe Lampsilini von Ihering, 1901
Genus Hamiota Roe & Hartfield, 2005
Species Hamiota perovalis (Conrad, 1834)
For more information about Hamiota and super-conglutinate lures, check out the following:
Chris Barnhart's Unio Gallery has great video of a super-conglutinate lure.
Roe, K.J. & P.D. Hartfield. 2005. Hamiota, a new genus of freshwater mussel (Bivalvia: Unionidae) from the Gulf of Mexico drainages of the southeastern United States. Nautilus 119: 1-10.
The MUSSEL Project — Home Page http://www.mussel-project.net/.
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This Van Gogh Mug Removes His Ear When Hot Liquid Is Added
Date Published: 02/09/2016 6:18 AM
This coffee mug has an image of the artist Vincent Van Gogh on it that changes whenever you put hot liquid inside of it. By default Van Gogh's ear is on and attached as it normally would be, but once you pour in the hot water or coffee, his ear slowly starts to get covered up by a white bandage as it is seen in some of his self portraits. As the story is normally told, Van Gogh sliced his left ear off with a razor blade in a fit of lunacy, wrapped it up and handed it to a prostitute, like one would normally do when you cut your ear off. But in reality that's not the actual real story. What really happened is he made that whole story up to protect his friend who was a fencer who sliced his ear off with a sword during a heated argument.
Now granted, it's just a coffee mug we're talking about here, but I thought you might want to know a bit of the history involving Van Gogh's ear.
The Vincent van Gogh disappearing ear coffee mug is made from ceramic, is yellow in color, has an ear-shaped handle on it, is not dishwasher safe, holds 10 oz of liquid, and measures 3 inches in diameter. The mug would make a perfect gift idea for any art lover, or someone who's really into Vincent Van Gogh.
Check out the Van Gogh disapearing ear coffee mug in action via the video below.
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Brexit and the Future of U.S.–U.K. Military Cooperation
Stephen C. Meyer
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If the British vote down the Brexit referendum later next week and choose to remain in the European Union, the results will be unfortunate for the United States in many ways. Britain's continuing membership in the EU threatens not only America's economic interests, but also its strategic and military interests. If the architects of the European Union realize their ambitions, it will be impossible for the United States and the United Kingdom to maintain a significant bilateral military and strategic partnership for a simple reason: The United Kingdom will increasingly cease to function as a sovereign state capable of determining its own foreign and defense policy. Instead, it will have to subordinate its own interests to the dictates of a common European foreign and defense policy issuing from Brussels.
The legal (and illegal) precedent for such a shift has been accreting by degrees for some time. After the Single European Act in 1986 and the Maastricht Treaty on European Union in 1992, the nature of the "European project," originally just an economic partnership, began to change. Subsequent treaties — Amsterdam (1999), Nice (2001), and Lisbon (2009) — moved the project more obviously and explicitly toward full political integration. Integral to this objective has been the establishment of a Common Foreign and Security Policy, operating separately from NATO and beyond the control of Europe's individual nation-states.
The Amsterdam treaty, signed by all European Union member states, included articles envisioning a continent-wide foreign policy. It also established for the first time an EU foreign minister. The failed European Constitution of 2004 included provisions under which the individual members' defense and foreign policies — the last remaining areas of national sovereignty allowed by previous EU treaties — would have been completely eliminated. The constitution expanded the role of the European foreign minister, giving the occupant of that office the power to set a continent-wide foreign policy. It would have legitimated and expanded the European Defence Agency, which had already begun to operate under a centralized command structure apart from NATO. Thus it jettisoned the last vestiges of intergovernmental cooperation and "shared sovereignty" in favor of a fully sovereign European super-state.
Though French and Dutch voters rejected the constitution in the summer of 2005, the unelected architects of "ever closer union" have used other means to implement its key provisions. In particular, almost the whole of the defeated European Constitution was enacted in the Lisbon treaty in 2009 after the EU Council of Ministers agreed to the treaty without consulting their voters. Indeed, over 90 percent of the wording in the treaty is the same as that in the failed constitution. The only changes made were cosmetic, notably omitting the references to the EU flag and anthem because these were already part of established EU law. Even before the Lisbon treaty, the European Commission and the Council of Ministers had begun using the "spirit" of those earlier treaties to establish covertly and piecemeal much of what they could not get Dutch and French voters to approve.
For example, lacking any effective political opposition to their plans, the European Commission and Council established the Charter of Fundamental Rights — a massive, 54-article manifesto of progressive social policy to be administered by the European Court of Justice. The charter had no legal basis in any existing treaty. Yet once it was approved as part of the Lisbon treaty, only the United Kingdom and Poland were able to negotiate exemptions that have prevented — for the time being — the European Court of Justice from using the charter to supersede British and Polish law.
In a similar way, after the signing of the Amsterdam treaty in 1997, European leaders began working to create a common European defense policy separate from NATO. At a meeting in 1998 at St.-Malo, France, U.K. prime minister Tony Blair agreed with French prime minister Jacques Chirac to contribute to an emerging "European Defence Identity." At a meeting in Helsinki in 1999, the European Council agreed to set up a European Rapid Reaction Force, a 60,000-strong European army with its own central command structure. In 2005, the European Council set up a European Defence Agency, again operating independently from NATO, to oversee the procurement of military hardware and the harmonization of military technology, including battlefield management and intelligence systems.
The Lisbon treaty of 2009 then established a permanent president of the European Council and diplomatic embassies representing the EU in countries around the world. It also expanded the role of the European foreign minister to advance precisely the kind of integrated EU foreign and defense policy that the rejected constitution had proposed. As part of that Common Foreign and Security Policy, Britain and France are now bound to follow a common position agreed upon with their EU partners in all votes on the UN Security Council. The Lisbon treaty also gave the new EU foreign minister, Federina Mogherini, the rather grand title of High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and explicitly authorized the High Representative to coordinate a "common foreign and security policy." Thus, what actual voters rejected as part of the proposed constitution has been gradually adopted as official EU foreign and defense policy, either de facto or de jure, in the latter case as the result of intergovernmental treaty.
Such a common EU foreign and defense policy clearly complicates the functioning of NATO and any future U.S.–U.K. joint military operations. For this reason, it also clearly damages U.S. national interests.
Since 1917, even before the special relationship was formalized, the United States and Britain have collaborated to prevail in two world wars, two Gulf wars, and the Cold War. During the 1980s, the mutual support provided by this alliance proved essential to the success of unilateral British and American military actions against Argentina and Libya, both of which actions were opposed by other European allies. During the 1980s, the decisive decade of the Cold War, the removal of Soviet SS-20 missiles from Europe and the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan occurred as a result of Anglo-American initiatives that were either resisted or ignored on the continent. And since 9/11, Britain has stood beside the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan as its most trusted and reliable ally in the war on terror.
Clearly, these joint military efforts have been based upon an alignment of strategic interests and a similar political and legal culture, worldview, and values. But they have also required effective intelligence sharing and close practical battlefield cooperation, made possible by the harmonization of military hardware and technology — a harmonization that the architects of the EU's common defense policy now want to require of all European member states — to the exclusion of the United States and other NATO allies.
The need for harmonized battlefield intelligence and weapons systems is now progressing on two mutually exclusive tracks that are already forcing the British to choose. Within two years of Blair's agreement with Chirac at St.-Malo, the British had to withdraw from two key U.S.–U.K. joint defense projects, the Future Scout and Cavalry System (FSCS) and the Tactical Reconnaissance Armoured Combat Requirement (TRACER). Instead, the British Ministry of Defence began planning its Future Rapid Effects System (FRES), then considered a new generation of European-made, satellite-coordinated vehicles and battlefield weapons, as part of its contribution to what was then called the European Rapid Reaction Force (ERRF). These weapons systems were specifically designed to function independently of U.S. satellite systems, such as GPS, and to rely instead on EU Galileo satellites for global positioning. The Future Rapid Effects System was later quietly abandoned as grossly expensive and technically unworkable. Nevertheless, as other, similar EU technological conversions proceed, they will likely restrict future U.S.–U.K. battlefield coordination, because the incompatibility of electronic systems could well threaten such cooperation. Indeed, competing satellite systems alone could cause problems, since unless the two systems are effectively coordinated they could identify each other's units as potential enemies.
Since 2005 the EU has repeatedly failed to meet the military goals it set for itself. But there is another aspect of this. The Helsinki agreement that established a European Rapid Reaction Force clearly complicated the functioning of the NATO alliance. Indeed, how this force was to have interacted with NATO forces was not elucidated in any detail. Nor was it determined when, where, and under what circumstances this force would have been deployed. Presumably it would have responded only to the directives of the EU foreign minister, since it was envisioned as a significant fighting force operating independently of the command structure of NATO and any individual European national government. In theory, at least, it could have been deployed to fight against any of the European nation states, and, therefore, against the entire NATO alliance.
Mercifully, perhaps, since 2005 the EU has repeatedly failed to meet the goals it set for itself in the development of this force, largely because member states have failed to meet their required contributions of men, money, and materiel. Consequently, a more modest concept has been advanced in which the EU would oversee a number of smaller "battlegroups" of 2,000 men. For now, EU defense officials envision deploying these groups only for short-term humanitarian missions — ones that would not conflict with potential NATO missions. Even so, these battlegroups, with their lesser military capability, still detract from the function and effectiveness of NATO because they drain resources from NATO at a time when only Britain among our European allies is spending 2 percent of GDP on defense, as required by membership in NATO. Moreover, as a consequence of the Helsinki agreement, the UK committed to building two large technologically inferior diesel-powered (rather than nuclear-powered) aircraft carriers as part of their agreed contribution to this European force. Unfortunately, the Spanish and the Italians have failed to meet their obligations to supply the other escort ships and anti-submarine weaponry necessary to protect these carriers and to make them operational, thus rendering militarily worthless an enormous British investment in an EU rapid reaction naval force.
In any case, EU leaders now assume that the Lisbon treaty (and its provision for a Common Foreign and Security Policy) has established a legal basis for the creation of a European Union army. The push for "ever greater union" will thus inevitably entail a push for greater, and more tightly integrated, European Union military capability and foreign policy. Consequently, Britain's full participation in the EU will inevitably restrict its ability to participate in bilateral military actions of which the EU disapproves. Yet the most important and beneficial military actions of the last century have involved precisely Anglo–American cooperation, either against continental foes or over the objections of European allies. For this reason, all who care about the special relationship and its role in maintaining freedom should hope for a yes vote on Brexit.
Director, Center for Science and Culture
Dr. Stephen C. Meyer received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in the philosophy of science. A former geophysicist and college professor, he now directs the Center for Science and Culture at the Discovery Institute in Seattle. He is author of the New York Times-bestseller Darwin's Doubt (2013) as well as the book Signature in the Cell (2009) and Return of the God Hypothesis (2021). In 2004, Meyer ignited a firestorm of media and scientific controversy when a biology journal at the Smithsonian Institution published his peer-reviewed scientific article advancing intelligent design. Meyer has been featured on national television and radio programs, including The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, CBS's Sunday Morning, NBC's Nightly News, ABC's World News, Good Morning America, Nightline, FOX News Live, and the Tavis Smiley show on PBS. He has also been featured in two New York Times front-page stories and has garnered attention in other top-national media.
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By Barbara Carss
The official repeal of carbon tax as of May 30 eliminates the original funding source for Alberta energy efficiency programs. However, by the new provincial government's own election campaign calculations, there should still be about $630 million in the pot for the fiscal year 2019-20 and $570 million thereafter to support greenhouse gas (GHG) reducing initiatives.
Conservation advocates are making the case for an ongoing share of it, citing economic projections for a resulting $5.1 billion average annual contribution to the provincial GDP. They argue that Energy Efficiency Alberta — the provincial agency established just two years ago to spearhead energy conservation — is still in the very early stage of building public awareness and energy-saving momentum.
"Energy efficiency makes fiscal sense," a coalition of 20 non-governmental environmental organizations wrote in a recent open letter to Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and the Ministers of Energy and Environment. "We urge you to implement meaningful energy efficiency policies and programs to ensure continuity for businesses, non-profits and Albertans."
What's certain for commercial and residential landlords is that the $1.517 per gigajoule (GJ) surcharge on natural gas no longer applies, at least until the federal government might impose a replacement levy. Lifting of this tax, and those attached to more than 20 other types of fuel, will leave only designated large emitters, producing more than 100,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) annually, to pay a per-tonne fee for output in excess of an incrementally declining threshold. That's currently $30 per tonne, but the new United Conservative Party (UCP) government pledged to lower it to $20 during this spring's election campaign.
Two incentive programs from the existing slate of offerings — subsidies for solar installations and free replacements of unduly energy-intensive household items — appear targeted for shutdown, while the status of product rebates and custom retrofit programs for the manufacturing, health care and post-secondary education sectors is still unknown. Taking questions in an online forum last month, Environment Minister Jason Nixon passed sentence on the former, but left the door open for the latter.
"If you're asking if we'll still be subsidizing solar projects or showerheads and light bulbs, the answer is no," he said. "But we're working with the department right now to understand the other parts of Energy Efficiency Alberta before we make a final decision."
Carbon tax applied in period of low natural gas prices
The 29 months of carbon tax collection — pegged at $1.011/GJ for 2017 before increasing to $1.517 in 2018 — coincided with a period of low natural gas prices. Natural Resources Canada reports an average Alberta wholesale price of $4.18 per million British thermal units (MMBTU), equating to $4.43/GJ in the years from 2007 to 2016, while Alberta Utilities Commission data shows regulated rates rarely surpassed $3/GJ in the coldest months of 2017, 2018 and 2019 and more often remained below $2/GJ.
Although the carbon tax supplanted operational savings that owners/managers might otherwise have enjoyed from a falling commodity price, it didn't push costs above levels of preceding years. Still, that's little solace for rental housing landlords dealing with other aspects of Alberta's prolonged economic downturn.
"The carbon levy has cost our members an average of 30 to 50 per cent more on natural gas billings since implementation," advises Donna Monkhouse, executive director of the Alberta Residential Landlord Association (ARLA). "With high vacancies and large incentives (to attract renters) in the market, owner/operators were unable to pass any of this cost increase through to tenants. The carbon tax directly reduced their bottom line."
Commercial real estate players are less definitive.
"NAIOP Calgary does not have a formal position on the provincial carbon tax or its repeal," says Robert Homersham, president elect of the association geared to development, asset management and other disciplines related to office, industrial and mixed-use properties. "Amongst our landlord and tenant members there is likely not a consensus position that would guide our organization's views."
Looking at Ontario's somewhat comparative experience — albeit with a lower carbon levy of about 3.3 cents per cubic metre, equating to $0.886/GJ — energy management specialists hypothesize that low natural gas prices effectively muted real estate industry discontent with the province's short-lived cap-and-trade system, which a new provincial government dismantled in the summer of 2018.
"In Ontario, the impact that the price on carbon had on natural gas prices was almost irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. I don't think anyone really noticed when it got added (in 2017) or really noticed when it was removed," suggests Eric Chisholm, an engineer and principal/co-founder of Purpose Building Inc., specializing in the green building services.
Savings momentum builds over time
Industry experience with energy efficiency incentives differs more markedly in the two provinces. The Ontario government has recently cut funding and realigned administrative oversight of conservation and demand management (CDM) initiatives, but the legacy of more than a dozen years of programming remains. That's reflected in a deep pool of resources like service providers and in-house energy managers, and in measurable achieved savings that have won industry confidence and buy-in.
In contrast, Alberta energy efficiency programs have had little time to capture public or capital planners' attention. "Not all of our members were even aware of any rebates," Monkhouse says.
"Generally, it can take six months to adequately engage customers and 12 to 18 months to transact due to most organizations' budget and procurement cycles," observes Andrew Pride, speaking from his experience as the former vice president, conservation, with the Ontario Power Authority and a key contributor to the design of Ontario's CDM programs.
"It takes probably a year just for the market to start to understand what's available, let alone react to it," Chisholm concurs. "In the real estate realm, it's not at all shocking to have a two- to four-year budget timeline for what seems like fairly simple projects."
Energy Efficiency Alberta's commercial program rollout was arguably a good match for that reality, beginning with product rebates and an emphasis on lighting to align with simpler upgrades and quicker paybacks. Geoff Bouckley, president of the Calgary section of the Illuminating Engineering Society and a lighting designer with SMP Engineering, cites examples of both commercial and municipal building operators factoring the rebates for lamps and sensors into their business cases for lighting retrofits and/or installing higher-performance products.
"I can tell you, for sure, when the program was introduced there was a tremendous amount of interest in it," Bouckley reports. "I was involved in a number of projects in which our clients were able to secure some pretty nice rebates."
Energy management specialists caution that, in scrutinizing Energy Efficiency Alberta's achievements thus far, the Alberta government won't yet see the best proof of energy-saving outcomes. Drawing from Ontario's annual progress reports, first released in 2009, Chisholm tracks a steady upward trajectory.
"In 2017, we conserved 300 per cent of what we conserved in 2009," he notes. "But in every single year, the cost to conserve energy was lower than the cost to produce it. Ontario's conservation programs have saved money for end-users and saved money for provincial power grids. Without them, our high cost of electricity would be even higher."
Staking a claim on TIER funds
Energy efficiency advocates urge the new Alberta government to consider the Ontario evidence as it contemplates allocation of revenue from its proposed Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction (TIER) fund. As outlined during the recent election campaign, the TIER fund is envisioned as a replacement for the $30/tonne levy that the Carbon Competitiveness Incentive Regulation (CCIR) exacts from large emitters.
For now, the CCIR, instigated by the previous government, is still in place and is projected to collect more than $487 million this year. The TIER Fund is projected to garner an additional $142 million once it's invoked, and about $570 million in 2020-21.
"The first $100 million in revenues and 50 per cent of remaining revenues paid into the TIER Fund will be used for new and cleaner Alberta-based technologies that reduce carbon emissions even further, including new and improved oil sands extraction technology and supporting research and investment in carbon capture and storage," the UCP election platform states.
Groups like Efficiency Canada — a non-governmental organization promoting the dual economic and environmental benefits of energy and water conservation — argue Alberta could reap even more spinoff benefits investing in energy efficiency. That's in line with findings in the recently released study, Energy Efficiency Employment in Canada, that the sector employs 436,000 workers in 51,000 businesses nationwide.
"We know energy efficiency workers help families save money, enable small businesses to create jobs and even improve learning environments at schools," adds Corey Diamond, Efficiency Canada's executive director.
Alberta landlords and tenants could likewise see benefits.
"Our members are always in favour of well-thought-out and balanced programs that make it economically feasible to improve energy efficiency and reduce consumption of resources in our buildings," Monkhouse says. "Incentive or rebate programs should be easy to access, fairly distributed and financially viable."
Barbara Carss is editor-in-chief of Canadian Property Management.
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