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An employee may be represented by the union at an investigatory interview with his or her supervisor when the employee reasonably believes that the interview may lead to a disciplinary action.
U.S. Supreme Court ruling:
The rights of employees to the presence of union representatives during investigatory interviews was announced by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1975 in NLRB v. J. Weingarten, Inc. Since that case involved a clerk being investigated by the Weingarten Company, these rights have become known as Weingarten Rights.
What is an investigatory interview?
Employees have Weingarten rights only during investigatory interviews. An investigatory interview occurs when a supervisor questions an employee to obtain information which could be used as a basis for discipline or asks an employee to defend his or her conduct. If an employee has a reasonable belief that discipline or other adverse consequences may result from what he or she says, the employee has a right to request union representation. Investigatory interviews usually relate to subjects such as:
absenteeism
drinking
fighting
poor attitude
violation of safety rules
accidents
drugs
insubordination
sabotage
work performance
damage to state property
falsification of records
lateness
theft
violation of work procedures
Weingarten rules:
Under the Supreme Court's Weingarten decision, when an investigatory interview occurs, the following rules apply:
RULE 1
The employee must make a clear request for union representation before or during the interview. The employee cannot be punished for making this request.
RULE 2
After the employee makes the request, the employer must choose from among three options. The employer must:
Grant the request and delay questioning until the union representative arrives and has
a chance to consult privately with the employee; or Deny the request and end the
interview immediately; or Give the employee a choice of: (1) having the interview
without representation or (2) ending the interview.
RULE 3
If the supervisor denies the request for union representation and continues to ask questions, he or she commits an unfair labor practice and the employee has the right to refuse to answer. The supervisor cannot discipline the employee for such a refusal.
Rights of Labor Representatives
Supervisors often assert that the only role of a Labor Representatives at an investigatory interview is to observe the discussion, i.e., to be a silent witness. The Supreme Court, however, clearly acknowledged a Labor Representatives's right to assist and counsel workers during the interview. Decided cases establish the following procedures:
1. When the steward arrives, the supervisor must inform the steward of the subject matter of the interview; i.e., the type of conduct for which discipline is being considered (theft, lateness, drugs, etc.).
2. The steward must be allowed to take the worker aside for a private pre-interview conference before questioning begins.
3. The steward must be allowed to speak during the interview. The steward, however, does not have the right to bargain over the purpose of the interview.
4. The steward can request that the supervisor clarify a question so the worker can understand what is being asked.
5. After a question is asked, the steward can give advice on how to answer.
6. When the questioning ends, the steward can provide information to the supervisor.
It must be emphasized that if the Weingarten rights are complied with, Labor Representatives have no right to tell workers not to answer questions or to give false answers
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"Les Observateurs" is a distinct fact-checking section of France 24, a legally registered French media outlet.
"Les Observateurs" was set up in 2006, exclusively for the purpose of fact-checking : it works as a UGC and image verification unit for videos coming from all over the world : it is true that the work of "Les Observateurs" must be distinguished from that of other fact-checking sites, because of the particularity of its work on video debunking (Intox part of the website: https://observers.france24.com/fr/tag/intox).
France, where this medium is based, is a democratic country which allows "Les Obesrveteurs" to work independently, even when a media is part of a media group owned by the French state (France Media Monde).
Assessment Conclusion
According to my second assessment, I think "Les Observateurs" continues to be a reliable fact-checking partner. This media is compliant with most of the new principles enacted by the IFCN..
Changes have been made on criteria 1.6, 2.5, 6.1, 6.2, 6.4 and 6.5...
We still encourage "Observers" to take a good look at the evaluation of the other criteria, as they contain recommendations to bring the site more in line with the IFCN code of principles.
We must precise that it is not possible for us to verify what is in the Arabic and Persian versions.
on 22-Jul-2020 (1 year ago)
Laurent Bigot assesses application as Compliant
A short summary in native publishing language
Le site "Les Observateurs" de France 24 respecte depuis plusieurs années le code de principes de l'IFCN. Toutefois, il doit encore procéder à quelques ajustements afin de respecter l'intégralité des 31 critères issus de la nouvelle version de ce code. Ainsi, il doit notamment mettre en conformité toutes les versions de son site avec ces critères et pas seulement celles qui sont éditées en anglais et en français (arabe, persan). Il en va du respect du principe de transparence, central dans le code de principes. Il doit aussi corriger quelques points liés à la communication sur son travail auprès des lecteurs. Le site reste un partenaire fiable de l'IFCN en matière de vérification des faits (fact-checking et debunking), notamment à travers sa section Intox (https://observers.france24.com/fr/tag/intox).
Section 1: Eligibility to be a signatory
To be eligible to be a signatory, applicants must meet these six criteria
1.1 The applicant is a legally registered organization, or a distinct team or unit within a legally registered organization, and details of this are easily found on its website.
1.2 The team, unit or organization is set up exclusively for the purpose of fact-checking.
1.3 The applicant has published an average of at least one fact check a week over the course of the six months prior to the date of application. For applicants from countries with at least 5 or more verified signatories need to have at least a fact check a week over the twelve months of publishing track. Consult to [email protected] for confirmation.
1.4 On average, at least 75% of the applicant’s fact checks focus on claims related to issues that, in the view of the IFCN, relate to or could have an impact on the welfare or well-being of individuals, the general public or society.
1.5 The applicant’s editorial output is not, in the view of the IFCN, controlled by the state, a political party or politician.
1.6 If the organization receives funding from local or foreign state or political sources, it provides a statement on its site setting out to the satisfaction of the IFCN, how it ensures its funders do not influence the findings of its reports.
Criteria 1.1
Proof you meet criteria
Please explain where on your website you set out information about your organization’s legal status and how this complies with criteria. Attach a link to the relevant page of your website.
France 24 - Les Observateurs
16-Apr-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
The France 24 Observers (Les Observateurs de France 24) is a distinct verification/fact-checking section of France 24, a legally registered French media outlet. All the evidence of its legal registration are presented in the “Mentions légales” through its RCS number, here: https://www.francemediasmonde.com/fr/legal-notice
And here : https://www.francemediasmonde.com/en/legal-notice
Laurent Bigot Assessor
09-Jun-2020 (1 year ago)
"Les Observateurs" is a distinct fact-checking section of France 24, a legally registered French media outlet. All the evidence of its legal registration are presented in the “Mentions légales” through its RCS number, here: https://www.francemediasmonde.com/fr/legal-notice
And here : https://www.francemediasmonde.com/en/legal-notice
done_all 1.1 marked as Compliant by Laurent Bigot.
Criteria 1.2
Proof you meet criteria
Please answer the following questions – (see notes in Guidelines for Application on how to answer)
1. When and why was your fact-checking operation started?
2. How many people work or volunteer in the organization and what are their roles?
3. What different activities does your organization carry out?
4. What are the goals of your fact-checking operation over the coming year?
France 24 - Les Observateurs
16-Apr-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
1. The Observers was created in 2006 as a UGC and image verification unit. The idea was to create a global community of amateur contributors who would help our team of journalists find and verify amateur images online.
2. 6+
- 1 senior editor
- 1 line editor
- 4 staff journalists
- other free-lancers when resources permit
3. verification of amateur images + amateur accounts of news-related events and phenomena
4. to extend our media literacy activities - notably via anti-fake news programme in collaboration with France's education authorities
Laurent Bigot Assessor
09-Jun-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
"Les Observateurs" was set up in 2006, exclusively for the purpose of fact-checking : it works as a UGC and image verification unit for videos coming from all over the world :
https://observers.france24.com/fr/
https://observers.france24.com/en/
The answers provided by the leaders of "Les Observateurs" about the team, the roles and the goals are satisfactory.
France, where this medium is based, is a democratic country which allows "Les Obesrveteurs" to work independently.
done_all 1.2 marked as Compliant by Laurent Bigot.
Criteria 1.3
Proof you meet criteria
- The applicant has published an average of at least one fact check a week over the course of the six months prior to the date of application.
- For applicants from countries with at least 5 or more verified signatories need to have at least a fact check a week over the twelve months of publishing track.
- Consult to [email protected] for confirmation.
France 24 - Les Observateurs
16-Apr-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
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Laurent Bigot Assessor
09-Jun-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
The spreadsheet provided by the "Les Observateurs" team effectively lists fact checks published during the previous three months and identifies, for each, the main subject. The applicant has published an average of at least one fact check a week over the course of the three months prior to the date of application.
But as an applicant from a country (France) with at least 5 or more verified signatories, "Les Observateurs" need to have at least a fact check a week over the twelve months of publishing track. In view of what we have observed, it's ok.
done_all 1.3 marked as Compliant by Laurent Bigot.
Criteria 1.4
Proof you meet criteria
The assessor will assess compliance through a review of the fact checks published over the previous three months. No additional information required.
Laurent Bigot Assessor
09-Jun-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
According to our assessment, the fact-checking articles presented by "les Observateurs" are in line with IFCN's expectations.
We find that these fact checks deal in majority (more than 75%) with “public interest” issues that “relate to or could have an impact on the well-being of individuals, the general public or society”.
done_all 1.4 marked as Compliant by Laurent Bigot.
Criteria 1.5
Proof you meet criteria
Please explain any commercial, financial and/or institutional relationship your organization has to the state, politicians or political parties in the country or countries you cover. Also explain funding or support received from foreign as well as local state or political actors over the previous financial year.
France 24 - Les Observateurs
16-Apr-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
The France 24 Observers is a unit of public broadcaster France 24, which is part of France Medias Monde, a media group owned by the French state. FMM, France 24 and the France 24 Observers have no relationship or financial link to any political party in France or anywhere else.
Laurent Bigot Assessor
09-Jun-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
"Les Observateurs" is a unit of public broadcaster France 24, which is part of France Medias Monde, a media group owned by the French state.
The team explains : "FMM, France 24 and the France 24 Observers have no relationship or financial link to any political party in France or anywhere else".
To explain its policies to preserve its non-partisan way of fact-checking claims, we found a statement in the France Médias Monde code of ethics. This code specifies the independence of the journalists and their staff :
“France Médias Monde is a National Company of programs, of public service which respects the principle of editorial independence which guarantees freedom of information, freedom necessary and essential to the foundation and functioning of a democracy. »
done_all 1.5 marked as Compliant by Laurent Bigot.
Criteria 1.6
Proof you meet criteria
If you confirmed the organization receives funding from local or foreign state or political sources, provide a link to where on your website you set out how you ensure the editorial independence of your work.
France 24 - Les Observateurs
16-Apr-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
https://observers.france24.com/en/static/about
France 24 - Les Observateurs
19-Jul-2020 (1 year ago)
https://observers.france24.com/en/static/about
***UPDATE JULY 19 2020***
Following changes recommended by the assessor we have added the appropriate language to the French-language version of our About page.
https://observers.france24.com/fr/static/a-propos
La rédaction des Observateurs de France 24 ne soutient aucun parti politique, aucun candidat, ni aucun programme où que ce soit. Nos journalistes ne prennent part à aucune activité de militantisme politique.
...
La rédaction des Observateurs, en tant que service de France 24, est intégrée dans le groupe France Médias Monde, détenu à 100% par l’État français. Ce groupe demeure indépendant d’un point de vue éditorial. La rédaction des Observateurs adhère par ailleurs à la charte de déontologie de France Médias Monde .
...
Les financements extérieurs n’influencent en rien notre travail journalistique et la participation au programme de Facebook n’a pas d’influence sur la sélection des photos et vidéos que nous vérifions.
Laurent Bigot Assessor
09-Jun-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
"Les Observateurs receives funding from the French state which is its owner.
In the English version of its website, it provides statements how it ensures its funders do not influence the findings of its reports, here :
https://observers.france24.com/en/static/about
"The France 24 Observers, as a department of France 24, is part of the France Medias Monde group, which is funded by the French state but editorially independent."
And : "The France 24 Observers does not endorse political parties or candidates or programs, and our journalists do not actively engage in political or other forms of advocacy.
But But, although it is a French media, it does not provide a statement on its site how it ensures its funders do not influence the findings of its reports in its French version.
All the mentions relating to the independence of "Les Obesrvateurs do not exist in the French version of the site.
It is not possible for us today to verify what is in the Arabic and Persian versions...
cancel 1.6 marked as Request change by Laurent Bigot.
Laurent Bigot Assessor
22-Jul-2020 (1 year ago)
"Les Observateurs receives funding from the French state which is its owner.
Its website provides statements how it ensures its funders do not influence the findings of its reports, here :
https://observers.france24.com/en/static/about
https://observers.france24.com/fr/static/a-propos
"The France 24 Observers, as a department of France 24, is part of the France Medias Monde group, which is funded by the French state but editorially independent."
And : "The France 24 Observers does not endorse political parties or candidates or programs, and our journalists do not actively engage in political or other forms of advocacy."
"La rédaction des Observateurs, en tant que service de France 24, est intégrée dans le groupe France Médias Monde, détenu à 100% par l’État français. Ce groupe demeure indépendant d’un point de vue éditorial. La rédaction des Observateurs adhère par ailleurs à la charte de déontologie de France Médias Monde. La rédaction des Observateurs de France 24 ne soutient aucun parti politique, aucun candidat, ni aucun programme où que ce soit. Nos journalistes ne prennent part à aucune activité de militantisme politique."
It is not possible for us today to verify what is in the Arabic and Persian versions...
done_all 1.6 marked as Compliant by Laurent Bigot.
Section 2: A commitment to Non-partisanship and Fairness
To be compliant on nonpartisanship and fairness, applicants must meet these five criteria
2.1 The applicant fact-checks using the same high standards of evidence and judgement for equivalent claims regardless of who made the claim.
2.2 The applicant does not unduly concentrate its fact-checking on any one side, considers the reach and importance of claims it selects to check and publishes a short statement on its website to set out how it selects claims to check.
2.3 The applicant discloses in its fact checks relevant interests of the sources it quotes where the reader might reasonably conclude those interests could influence the accuracy of the evidence provided. It also discloses in its fact checks any commercial or other such relationships it has that a member of the public might reasonably conclude could influence the findings of the fact check.
2.4 The applicant is not as an organization affiliated with nor declares or shows support for any party, any politician or political candidate, nor does it advocate for or against any policy positions on any issues save for transparency and accuracy in public debate.
2.5 The applicant sets out its policy on non-partisanship for staff on its site. Save for the issues of accuracy and transparency, the applicant’s staff do not get involved in advocacy or publicise their views on policy issues the organization might fact check in such a way as might lead a reasonable member of the public to see the organization’s work as biased.
Criteria 2.1
Proof you meet criteria
Please share links to 10 fact checks published over the past year that you believe demonstrate your non-partisanship.
Please briefly explain how the fact checks selected show that (I) you use the same high standards of evidence for equivalent claims, (II) follow the same essential process for every fact check and (III) let the evidence dictate your conclusions.
France 24 - Les Observateurs
16-Apr-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
It is hard for us to show examples of traditional non-partisanship (equal scrutiny of political parties for instance) because our focus at the France 24 Observers is on social issues on an international level, rather than politics at a national level.
The best way to illustrate our non-partisanship is to compare our debunking articles (in bold below) with articles on the main Observers site. While we regularly publish articles critical of, for instance, Iran, Turkey and the extreme right in the US and Europe, we don’t hesitate to debunk false items targeting those countries or movements.
While we published an investigative piece documenting abuses by pro-Turkish militia in northern Syria, we also debunked a false about a video showing an extrajudicial killing during the Turkish offensive:
Non, cette vidéo ne montre pas une exécution extrajudiciaire conduite par la Turquie en Syrie
https://observers.france24.com/fr/20191119-intox-syrie-turquie-video-execution-armee-syrienne-libre
While we have done dozens of fact-checks debunking misinformation by the extreme right in France, we didn’t hesitate to correct the record when the target was the extreme right politician Marine Le Pen:
Les dirigeants africains interdits d'hôpitaux français ? Une fausse citation de Marine Le Pen
https://observers.france24.com/fr/20200326-intox-dirigeants-africains-interdits-hopitaux-francais-marine-pen
During the Covid-19 crisis, we covered the very real phenomenon of anti-African prejudice in China, but also debunked claims about videos falsely linked to the phenomenon:
Discriminations contre les Africains en Chine dues au Covid-19 : attention aux intox !
https://observers.france24.com/fr/20200417-discriminations-africains-chine-covid-19-intox
Covid-19 : florilège de nouvelles intox sur des représailles d’Africains contre des Chinois
https://observers.france24.com/fr/20200424-covid-19-florilege-nouvelles-intox-africains-co ntre-chinois
While we regularly publish articles critical of Donald Trump and his supporters, we also debunked these items:
Cette vidéo de Trump effrayé par un cri "Allahou Akbar" est à nouveau virale... et toujours fausse
https://observers.france24.com/fr/20200109-video-trump-cri-allahou-akbar-intox-faux-fake
Une photo montrant le "niveau intellectuel" des fans de Trump ? Pas si vite...
https://observers.france24.com/fr/20190930-trump-tmurp-photo-niveau-intellectuel-fans-intox
While our coverage of Iran is often critical of the government, we also debunk fake claims about Iran’s authorities:
Mort du général Soleimani : fausses explosions, fausses représailles, les intox se multiplient
https://observers.france24.com/fr/20200107-soleimani-iran-fausses-images-intox-video-drone-represailles
Vidéo : la police iranienne détruit des milliers de bouteilles d’alcool ? Pas cette fois
https://observers.france24.com/fr/20190524-intox-video-police-iranienne-detruit-milliers-bouteilles-alcool
As regards India, while we published articles about the anti-Muslim riots, we also published this debunk of a claim falsely saying a video showed Muslims being killed:
Attention, cette vidéo ne montre pas des assassinats de musulmans en Inde
https://observers.france24.com/fr/20200312-attention-cette-video-montre-pas-assassinat-musulmans-inde
And this about fake news targeting Muslims :
"CoronaJihad" : accusés de répandre volontairement le Covid-19, les musulmans indiens victimes des fausses informations
https://observers.france24.com/fr/20200512-coronajihad-inde-musulmans-cible-fausses-informations-covid-19-coronavirus
Laurent Bigot Assessor
09-Jun-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
Even if 'Les Obesrvateurs" works on social issues at an international level, its fact-checks use the same high standards of evidence and judgement for equivalent claims regardless of who made the claim. We didn't find any example of obvious unfair treatment...
It is true that the work of "Les Observateurs" must be distinguished from that of other fact-checking sites, because of the particularity of its work of video debunking.
done_all 2.1 marked as Compliant by Laurent Bigot.
Criteria 2.2
Proof you meet criteria
Please share a link to a place on your website where you explain how you select claims to check, explaining how you ensure you do not unduly concentrate your fact-checking on any one side, and how you consider the reach and importance of the claims you select to check.
France 24 - Les Observateurs
16-Apr-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
https://observers.france24.com/en/static/about
Laurent Bigot Assessor
09-Jun-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
"Les Obesrvateurs" does not seem to unduly concentrate its fact-checking on any one side; it seems to consider the reach and importance of claims it selects to check.
"Les Observateurs" fact-checking work is specific, cause they verify photos and videos of reports sent from all over the world. There's only a part of their work that consist to debunk false informations, in the "Intox" section. It's explained here :
"Les Obesrvateurs" publishes an explaination on its website to set out how it selects claims to check, here :
https://observers.france24.com/en/static/about
https://observers.france24.com/fr/static/a-propos
We can read :
"HOW WE WORK
The Observers site is a collaboration between our Observers and our team of journalists in Paris. We work in two different ways:
1. Our team of journalists finds amateur images on social networks and tries to contact the author or a person with firsthand knowledge of the events depicted. If we are able to verify their account and they agree to join our network, they become an Observer.
2. Our Observers send us information about events they have witnessed and documented via photo/video.
When we are sure of the authenticity of the information and any supporting documentation, we publish them in an online article. The article takes the form of an introduction written by one of our journalists, giving context and explaining who our Observers are and why their account is pertinent. That is followed by a first-person account from our Observer, taken from a telephone interview or an exchange via social media."
And also :
"DEBUNKED
Our work with amateur contributors has made us experts at verifying images from nontraditional sources. Since 2014 our team of journalists put that expertise to use in a special section called “Debunked.” Our journalists analyze and verify photographs and videos that have been widely shared online, but that may have been faked, manipulated or taken out of context. We focus on issues of importance to the public interest, including claims by and against all interested parties. By “widely shared” we mean claims that have been shared sufficiently in a given community to have influence on the perception of that issue in the community. We explain our fact-checking methodology in each Debunked article, and we further share our expertise with the public, for instance in our detailed online photo/video verification guide."
done_all 2.2 marked as Compliant by Laurent Bigot.
Criteria 2.3
Proof you meet criteria
The assessor will assess compliance through a review of the fact checks published over the previous year. No additional information required.
Laurent Bigot Assessor
09-Jun-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
In view of what we have observed, "Les Observateurs" discloses in its fact checks relevant interests of the sources it quotes and any commercial or other such relationships it has.
done_all 2.3 marked as Compliant by Laurent Bigot.
Criteria 2.4
Proof you meet criteria
The assessor will assess compliance through a review of the fact checks published over the previous year. No additional information required.
Laurent Bigot Assessor
09-Jun-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
In view of what we have observed, "Les Observateurs" doesn't show support for any party, any politician or political candidate.
done_all 2.4 marked as Compliant by Laurent Bigot.
Criteria 2.5
Proof you meet criteria
Please share a link to a place on your website where you publish a statement setting out your policy on non-partisanship for staff and how it ensures the organization meets this criteria.
France 24 - Les Observateurs
16-Apr-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
https://observers.france24.com/en/static/about
France 24 - Les Observateurs
19-Jul-2020 (1 year ago)
https://observers.france24.com/en/static/about
***UPDATE JULY 19 2020***
***Following changes recommended by the assessor we have added the appropriate language to the French-language version of our About page.
https://observers.france24.com/fr/static/a-propos
La rédaction des Observateurs de France 24 ne soutient aucun parti politique, aucun candidat, ni aucun programme où que ce soit. Nos journalistes ne prennent part à aucune activité de militantisme politique.
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Les financements extérieurs n’influencent en rien notre travail journalistique et la participation au programme de Facebook n’a pas d’influence sur la sélection des photos et vidéos que nous vérifions.
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La rédaction des Observateurs, en tant que service de France 24, est intégrée dans le groupe France Médias Monde, détenu à 100% par l’État français. Ce groupe demeure indépendant d’un point de vue éditorial. La rédaction des Observateurs adhère par ailleurs à la charte de déontologie de France Médias Monde. https://www.francemediasmonde.com/pdf/charte_deontologie_journalistes.pdf
Laurent Bigot Assessor
09-Jun-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
"Les Observateurs" explains its policies to preserve its non-partisan way of fact-checking claims in different statements, on the English part of its website, here:
https://observers.france24.com/en/static/about
It evokes :
"The France 24 Observers does not endorse political parties or candidates or programs, and our journalists do not actively engage in political or other forms of advocacy."
"Participation in the Facebook program does not influence our selection of items to verify."
"The France 24 Observers, as a department of France 24, is part of the France Medias Monde group, which is funded by the French state but editorially independent."
But "Les Observateurs" doesn't explain its policies to preserve its non-partisan way of fact-checking claims on the French part of its website.
It is not possible for us today to verify what is in the Arabic and Persian versions...
NB : Les Observateurs doesn't mention anymore the France Médias Monde code of ethics, like it used to do it in the past years.
cancel 2.5 marked as Request change by Laurent Bigot.
Laurent Bigot Assessor
22-Jul-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
"Les Observateurs" explains its policies to preserve its non-partisan way of fact-checking claims in different statements, both on the French and English part of its website, here:
https://observers.france24.com/en/static/about
https://observers.france24.com/fr/static/a-propos
It is not possible for us today to verify what is in the Arabic and Persian versions...
done_all 2.5 marked as Compliant by Laurent Bigot.
Section 3: A commitment to Standards and Transparency of Sources
To be compliant on sources, applicants must meet these four criteria
3.1 The applicant identifies the source of all significant evidence used in their fact checks, providing relevant links where the source is available online, in such a way that users can replicate their work if they wish. In cases where identifying the source would compromise the source’s personal security, the applicant provides as much detail as compatible with the source’s safety.
3.2 The applicant uses the best available primary, not secondary, sources of evidence wherever suitable primary sources are available. Where suitable primary sources are not available, the applicant explains the use of a secondary source.
3.3 The applicant checks all key elements of claims against more than one named source of evidence save where the one source is the only source relevant on the topic.
3.4 The applicant identifies in its fact checks the relevant interests of the sources it uses where the reader might reasonably conclude those interests could influence the accuracy of the evidence provided.
Criteria 3.1
Proof you meet criteria
The assessor will review the applicant’s use of sources in a randomised sample of its fact checks to assess compliance. No additional evidence is required.
Laurent Bigot Assessor
09-Jun-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
In view of what we have observed, "Les Observateurs" identifies the source of significant evidence used in its fact checks.
NB : "Les Observateurs" fact-checking work is specific, cause they verify photos and videos of reports sent from all over the world. There's only a part of their work that consist to debunk false informations, in the "Intox" section.
done_all 3.1 marked as Compliant by Laurent Bigot.
Criteria 3.2
Proof you meet criteria
The assessor will review the applicant’s use of sources in a randomised sample of its fact checks to assess compliance. No additional evidence is required.
Laurent Bigot Assessor
09-Jun-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
In view of what we have observed, "Les Observateurs" uses (most of the time) the best available primary sources of evidence. But the specificity of our work on photos or videos means that it is not always possible to use these primary sources.
done_all 3.2 marked as Compliant by Laurent Bigot.
Criteria 3.3
Proof you meet criteria
The assessor will review the applicant’s use of sources in a randomised sample of its fact checks to assess compliance. No additional evidence is required.
Laurent Bigot Assessor
09-Jun-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
In view of what we have observed, "Les Obesrvateurs" checks all key elements of claims with more than one source of evidence.
done_all 3.3 marked as Compliant by Laurent Bigot.
Criteria 3.4
Proof you meet criteria
The assessor will review the applicant’s use of sources in a randomised sample of its fact checks to assess compliance. No additional evidence is required.
Laurent Bigot Assessor
09-Jun-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
In view of what we have observed, "Les Observateurs" identifies in its fact checks the relevant interests of the sources it uses where the reader might reasonably conclude those interests could influence the accuracy of the evidence provided.
done_all 3.4 marked as Compliant by Laurent Bigot.
Section 4: A commitment to Transparency of Funding & Organization
To be compliant on funding and organization, applicants must meet these five criteria
4.1 Applicants that are independent organizations have a page on their website detailing each source of funding accounting for 5% or more of total revenue for its previous financial year. This page also sets out the legal form in which the organization is registered (e.g. as a non-profit, as a company etc).
4.2 Applicants that are the fact-checking section or unit of a media house or other parent organization make a statement on ownership.
4.3 A statement on the applicant’s website sets out the applicant’s organizational structure and makes clear how and by whom editorial control is exercised.
4.4 A page on the applicant’s website details the professional biography of all those who, according to the organizational structure and play a significant part in its editorial output.
4.5 The applicant provides easy means on its website and/or via social media for users to communicate with the editorial team.
Criteria 4.1
Proof you meet criteria
Please confirm whether you are an ‘independent organization’
or ‘the fact-checking section or unit of a media house or other parent organization’ and share proof of this organizational status.
France 24 - Les Observateurs
16-Apr-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
We are the fact-checking section or unit of public broadcaster France 24.
France 24 is part of the state-owned France Médias Monde media group.
https://www.francemediasmonde.com/en/legal-notice
Laurent Bigot Assessor
09-Jun-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
"Les Observateurs" is the fact-checking section of France 24, part of the state-owned France Médias Monde media group.
It's written on "Les Observateurs" website ("About" page).
All the evidence of its legal registration are presented in the “Mentions légales”, here:
https://www.francemediasmonde.com/fr/legal-notice
https://www.francemediasmonde.com/en/legal-notice
done_all 4.1 marked as Compliant by Laurent Bigot.
Criteria 4.2
Proof you meet criteria
If your organization is an “independent organization”, please share a link to the page on your website where you detail your funding and indicate the legal form in which the organization is registered (e.g. as a non-profit, as a company etc).
If your organization is “the fact-checking section or unit of a media house or other parent organization”, please share a link to the statement on your website about your ownership.
France 24 - Les Observateurs
16-Apr-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
https://observers.france24.com/en/static/about
Laurent Bigot Assessor
09-Jun-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
As a fact-checking section of France 24, "Les Observateurs" share a link to the statement on its website about its ownership :
https://observers.france24.com/en/static/about
This page in English explains : "The France 24 Observers, as a department of France 24, is part of the France Medias Monde group, which is funded by the French state but editorially independent. The France 24 Observers also receives occasional funding for editorial projects from private organisations."
https://observers.france24.com/fr/static/a-propos
done_all 4.2 marked as Compliant by Laurent Bigot.
Criteria 4.3
Proof you meet criteria
Please share a link to where on your website you set out your organizational structure, making clear how and by whom editorial control is exercised.
France 24 - Les Observateurs
16-Apr-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
https://observers.france24.com/en/static/about
Laurent Bigot Assessor
09-Jun-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
"Les Observateurs" presents its organizational structure and makes clear how and by whom editorial control is exercised (Chief editor, deputy-chief editor, etc.) here:
https://observers.france24.com/fr/static/a-propos
https://observers.france24.com/en/static/about
done_all 4.3 marked as Compliant by Laurent Bigot.
Criteria 4.4
Proof you meet criteria
Please share a link to where on your website you set out the professional biographies of those who play a significant part in your organization’s editorial output.
France 24 - Les Observateurs
16-Apr-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
https://observers.france24.com/en/static/about
Laurent Bigot Assessor
09-Jun-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
"Les Observateurs" presents a page detailing the professional biography of all those who play a significant part in its articles here:
https://observers.france24.com/fr/static/a-propos
https://observers.france24.com/en/static/about
done_all 4.4 marked as Compliant by Laurent Bigot.
Criteria 4.5
Proof you meet criteria
Please share a link to where on your website you encourage users to communicate with your editorial team.
France 24 - Les Observateurs
16-Apr-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
https://observers.france24.com/en/static/about
Laurent Bigot Assessor
09-Jun-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
It’s easy for readers to contact "Les Observateurs" team.
They can use social media or the page called “Contact us" or "Contactez-nous". The link is at the bottom of each page :
http://observers.france24.com/fr/static/contactez-nous
https://observers.france24.com/en/static/contact-us
It provides a generic e-mail to contact the journalists and a phone number to use Whatsapp.
NB : the link at the bottom of this French page doesn't work : https://observers.france24.com/fr/static/a-propos
done_all 4.5 marked as Compliant by Laurent Bigot.
Section 5: A commitment to Standards and Transparency of Methodology
To be compliant on methodology, applicants must meet these six criteria
5.1 The applicant publishes on its website a statement about the methodology it uses to select, research, write and publish its fact checks.
5.2 The applicant selects claims to check based primarily on the reach and importance of the claims, and where possible explains the reason for choosing the claim to check.
5.3 The applicant sets out in its fact checks relevant evidence that appears to support the claim as well as relevant evidence that appears to undermine it.
5.4 The applicant in its fact checks assesses the merits of the evidence found using the same high standards applied to evidence on equivalent claims, regardless of who made the claim.
5.5 The applicant seeks where possible to contact those who made the claim to seek supporting evidence, noting that (I) this is often not possible with online claims, (II) if the person who makes the claim fails to reply in a timely way this should not impede the fact check, (III) if a speaker adds caveats to the claim, the fact-checker should be free to continue with checking the original claim, (IV) fact-checkers may not wish to contact the person who made the claim for safety or other legitimate reasons.
5.6 The applicant encourages users to send in claims to check, while making it clear what readers can legitimately expect will be fact-checked and what isn’t fact-checkable.
Criteria 5.1
Proof you meet criteria
Please provide a link to the statement on your website that explains the methodology you use to select, research, write and publish your fact checks.
France 24 - Les Observateurs
16-Apr-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
https://observers.france24.com/en/static/about
Laurent Bigot Assessor
09-Jun-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
"Les Observateurs" gives precisions about its fact-checking methodology in English :
https://observers.france24.com/en/static/about
"We explain our fact-checking methodology in each Debunked article, and we further share our expertise with the public, for instance in our detailed online photo/video verification guide." (https://observers.france24.com/en/20151110-observers-guide-verifying-photos-videos-social-media-networks)
And in French :
https://observers.france24.com/fr/static/a-propos
"We share our knowledge with the public, for example in our detailed guide to image verification." (https://observers.france24.com/fr/tag/guide-verification)
These details seem clear in both websites.
done_all 5.1 marked as Compliant by Laurent Bigot.
Criteria 5.2
Proof you meet criteria
The assessor will review the methodology used in a randomised sample of your fact checks to assess compliance with these criteria. No additional evidence is required.
Laurent Bigot Assessor
09-Jun-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
In view of what we have observed (20 fact checks selection), "Les Observateurs" selects claims to check based primarily on the reach and importance of the claims, and sometimes explains the reason for choosing the claim to check.
done_all 5.2 marked as Compliant by Laurent Bigot.
Criteria 5.3
Proof you meet criteria
The assessor will review the methodology used in a randomised sample of your fact checks to assess compliance with these criteria. No additional evidence is required.
Laurent Bigot Assessor
09-Jun-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
In view of what we have observed (20 fact checks selection), "Les Observateurs" sets out in its fact checks relevant evidence that appears to support the claim as well as relevant evidence that appears to undermine it.
done_all 5.3 marked as Compliant by Laurent Bigot.
Criteria 5.4
Proof you meet criteria
The assessor will review the methodology used in a randomised sample of your fact checks to assess compliance with these criteria. No additional evidence is required.
Laurent Bigot Assessor
09-Jun-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
In view of what we have observed (20 fact checks selection), "Les Observateurs" assesses the merits of the evidence found using the same high standards applied to evidence on equivalent claims, regardless of who made the claim.
done_all 5.4 marked as Compliant by Laurent Bigot.
Criteria 5.5
Proof you meet criteria
The assessor will review the methodology used in a randomised sample of your fact checks to assess compliance with these criteria. No additional evidence is required.
Laurent Bigot Assessor
09-Jun-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
In view of what we have observed (20 fact checks selection), "Les Observateurs" seeks where possible to contact those who made the claim.
done_all 5.5 marked as Compliant by Laurent Bigot.
Criteria 5.6
Proof you meet criteria
Please describe how you encourage users to send in claims to check, while making it clear what readers can legitimately expect will be fact-checked and what isn’t fact-checkable. Include links where appropriate. If you do not allow this, explain why.
France 24 - Les Observateurs
16-Apr-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
We verbally solicit story tips at the end of each weekly Observers show. We encourage tips on our French-language Twitter account @infointoxF24 (visual attached for Covid tips).
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Laurent Bigot Assessor
09-Jun-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
There’s no dedicated page to invite readers to submit claims to fact-check on "Les Observateurs" website.
We can find only find a specific paragraph, here:
https://observers.france24.com/en/static/about
"We welcome ideas for topics we should look into - including fake news and fraudulent images. We are unable to fact-check every claim that is sent to us; we focus on claims that have been widely circulated in a community and could have an impact on public well-being, and that are connected to current events and social topics that we cover regularly. We are interested in topics relating to human rights, governance, civil society, innovative social experiments, and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals - especially those that involve amateur images. You can find our contact information here."
And here:
https://observers.france24.com/fr/static/a-propos
"We welcome subject ideas that we may address, including false information and manipulated images circulating on social networks.We are interested in subjects dealing with human rights, governance, civil society, whether they denounce a problematic situation or put forward a positive initiative. The subjects around innovative social experiments and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, especially those that include amateur images, also correspond to our editorial line.When people contact us and request it, we guarantee their anonymity and offer them the most secure means of communication available to us."
So we can say that, in a way, "Les Observateurs" encourages users to send claims to check, while making it clear what readers can legitimately expect will be fact-checked and what isn’t fact-checkable.
done_all 5.6 marked as Compliant by Laurent Bigot.
Section 6: A commitment to an Open & Honest Corrections Policy
To be compliant on corrections policy, applicants must meet these five criteria
6.1 The applicant has a corrections or complaints policy that is easily visible and accessible on the organization’s website or frequently referenced in broadcasts.
6.2 The policy sets out clear definitions of what it does and does not cover, how major mistakes, especially those requiring revised conclusions of a fact check, are handled, and the fact that some complaints may justify no response. This policy is adhered to scrupulously.
6.3 Where credible evidence is provided that the applicant has made a mistake worthy of correction, the applicant makes a correction openly and transparently, seeking as far as possible to ensure that users of the original see the correction and the corrected version.
6.4 The applicant, if an existing signatory, should either on its corrections/complaints page or on the page where it declares itself an IFCN signatory inform users that if they believe the signatory is violating the IFCN Code, they may inform the IFCN, with a link to the IFCN site.
6.5 If the applicant is the fact-checking unit of a media company, it is a requirement of signatory status that the parent media company has and adheres to an open and honest corrections policy.
Criteria 6.1
Proof you meet criteria
Please provide a link to where you publish on your website your corrections or complaints policy. If you are primarily a broadcaster, please provide evidence you frequently reference your corrections policy in broadcasts.
France 24 - Les Observateurs
16-Apr-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
https://observers.france24.com/en/static/about
France 24 - Les Observateurs
19-Jul-2020 (1 year ago)
https://observers.france24.com/en/static/about
***UPDATE JULY 19 2020***
***Following changes recommended by the assessor we have added the appropriate language to the French-language version of our About page.
https://observers.france24.com/fr/static/a-propos
“Si nous recevons des informations pertinentes après la publication initiale, nous les ajoutons à l’article original en tant que mise à jour ou, si cette information vient contredire une information de l’article original, en tant que correction. Nous sommes transparents sur nos sources et notre méthodologie et publions des informations seulement quand nous sommes convaincus qu’elles sont exactes sur la base des informations déjà récoltées. Si nous recevons de nouvelles informations qui modifient nos conclusions, c’est de notre responsabilité d’alerter nos utilisateurs en publiant rapidement une mise à jour et une correction, clairement et ouvertement.
Nos lecteurs et téléspectateurs qui ont des informations permettant de préciser nos contenus sont invités à nous les transmettre. Pour nous contacter, c'est ici . Nous corrigeons les informations essentielles qui pourraient s'avérer inexactes, en mesure de modifier le propos de l'article, au début de l'article, avec un paragraphe "CORRECTION" mentionnant la date à laquelle celle-ci est faite. Nous corrigeons les inexactitudes qui n'ont pas d'impact direct sur le contenu de l'article également avec un paragraphe "CORRECTION", cette fois en fin d'article. Nous veillons à répondre autant que possible à tout signalement d'une nouvelle information, même si toutes les remarques n'appellent pas réponse.”
Laurent Bigot Assessor
09-Jun-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
"Les Observateurs" website give precisions about its corrections policy in its "about" section, here:
https://observers.france24.com/en/static/contact-us
"If we receive pertinent information after the initial publication, we add it to the original article as an update or - if the new information invalidates our original information - as a correction. We are open about our sources and our methodology and publish information only when we are convinced that it is accurate on the basis of the information we have gathered. If we receive new information that changes our conclusions, it is our responsibility to alert our users by publishing any update or correction quickly, clearly and openly. Members of the public who have information relating to the accuracy of our reporting should send it to us! You can find our contact information here. We correct major inaccuracies – those that could change the principal findings of the report - in the opening section of the article concerned, in a paragraph marked “CORRECTION” with the date the correction was published. We correct inaccuracies that do not have a direct bearing on the principal findings of the report at the end of the article, also with a paragraph marked “CORRECTION.”"
And here, with much less details:
https://observers.france24.com/fr/static/a-propos
"If we receive relevant information after the initial publication, we add it to the original article as an update or, if this information contradicts information from the original article, as a correction. We are transparent about our sources and methodology and only publish information when we are confident that it is accurate based on the information already collected. If we receive new information that changes our conclusions, it is our responsibility to alert our users by quickly posting an update and fix, clearly and openly."
So "Les Observateurs" has a corrections policy that is quite easily visible and accessible. Especially on the site in English. But it should be the same on all the versions of its website... And It is not possible for us today to verify what it mentions in the Arabic and Persian versions...
cancel 6.1 marked as Request change by Laurent Bigot.
Laurent Bigot Assessor
22-Jul-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
"Les Observateurs" website give precisions about its corrections policy in its "about" section, here:
https://observers.france24.com/en/static/contact-us
https://observers.france24.com/fr/static/a-propos
It is not possible for us today to verify what it mentions in the Arabic and Persian versions...
done_all 6.1 marked as Compliant by Laurent Bigot.
Criteria 6.2
Proof you meet criteria
The assessor will review the corrections policy to verify it meets critera. No additional information needed.
France 24 - Les Observateurs
19-Jul-2020 (1 year ago)
***UPDATE JULY 19 2020***
***Following changes recommended by the assessor we have added the appropriate language to the French-language version of our About page.
https://observers.france24.com/fr/static/a-propos
“Nous veillons à répondre autant que possible à tout signalement d'une nouvelle information, même si toutes les remarques n'appellent pas réponse.”
https://observers.france24.com/en/static/about
"We make our best effort to respond to senders of new information, though not all complaints justify a response."
Laurent Bigot Assessor
09-Jun-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
"Les Observateurs" corrections policy is quite easily visible and accessible on its website.
The policy sets out clear definitions of what it does and does not cover, how major mistakes, especially those requiring revised conclusions of a fact-check, are handled. Especially on the site in English.
But it doesn't set clearly that some complaints may justify no response. And it should be the same on all the versions of its website...
Les Observateurs semms to follow its coorections policy quite scrupulously.
cancel 6.2 marked as Request change by Laurent Bigot.
Laurent Bigot Assessor
22-Jul-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
"Les Observateurs" corrections policy is now quite easily visible and accessible on its websites.
Les Observateurs seems to follow its corrections policy quite scrupulously.
It is not possible for us today to verify what is in the Arabic and Persian versions...
done_all 6.2 marked as Compliant by Laurent Bigot.
Criteria 6.3
Proof you meet criteria
Please provide a short statement about how the policy was adhered to over the previous year (or six months if this is the first application) including evidence of two examples of the responses provided by the applicant to a correction request over the previous year. Where no correction request has been made in the previous year, you must state this in your application, which will be publicly available in the assessment if your application is successful.
France 24 - Les Observateurs
16-Apr-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
When we published this fact-check about a video supposedly showing a “ball of fire” over train tracks we mistakenly listed the original poster as Russia. We later learned he was Belarussian and corrected the article.
https://observers.france24.com/fr/20200122-intox-video-boule-feu-elme-boule-foudre-globulaire-fake-cgi
We initially gave the wrong date for the arrest of a Chinsese citizen who had been posting videos of hospitals online.
https://observers.france24.com/fr/20200206-coronavirus-fangbin-wuhan-censure-chine-videos
Laurent Bigot Assessor
09-Jun-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
"Les Observateurs" provides credible evidence that it makes corrections openly and transparently.
The team gives 2 examples from 2 different articles :
https://observers.france24.com/fr/20200122-intox-video-boule-feu-elme-boule-foudre-globulaire-fake-cgi
https://observers.france24.com/fr/20200206-coronavirus-fangbin-wuhan-censure-chine-videos
But the team needs to work differently to ensure that users of the original see the correction and the corrected version.
done_all 6.3 marked as Compliant by Laurent Bigot.
Criteria 6.4
Proof you meet criteria
If you are an existing signatory, please provide a link to show where on your site you inform users that if they believe you are violating the IFCN Code, they may inform the IFCN of this, with a link to the complaints page on the IFCN site.
France 24 - Les Observateurs
16-Apr-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
https://observers.france24.com/en/static/about
France 24 - Les Observateurs
19-Jul-2020 (1 year ago)
https://observers.france24.com/en/static/about
***UPDATE JULY 19 2020***
***Following changes recommended by the assessor we have added the appropriate language to the French-language version of our About page.
https://observers.france24.com/fr/static/a-propos
“La rédaction des Observateurs de France 24 est membre de l'International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN). Si une entité ou une personne estime que nous ne respectons pas les standards établis par l'IFCN, ils peuvent le signaler à l'IFCN .”
Laurent Bigot Assessor
09-Jun-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
"Les Observateurs" website has a page, on its English website, where it declares itself an IFCN signatory and informs users that if they believe its journalists are violating the IFCN Code, people may inform the IFCN, with a link to the IFCN site , here :
https://observers.france24.com/en/static/about
But, on its French website, "Les Observateurs" doesn't declare itself an IFCN signatory and doesn't inform users that if they believe its journalists are violating the IFCN Code, people may inform the IFCN, with a link to the IFCN site.
We only found this statement in French :
"The International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) is an international network of fact-checkers based at the United States Poynter Institute. IFCN promotes best practices in fact-checking and organizes exchanges through scholarships and other programs. In 2017, IFCN funded an exchange between Observers and Teyit.org, a Turkish verification organization based in Ankara."
And It is not possible for us today to verify what it mentions in the Arabic and Persian versions...
cancel 6.4 marked as Request change by Laurent Bigot.
Laurent Bigot Assessor
22-Jul-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
"Les Observateurs" website has a page, on its English and French websites, where it declares itself an IFCN signatory and informs users that if they believe its journalists are violating the IFCN Code, people may inform the IFCN, with a link to the IFCN site , here :
https://observers.france24.com/en/static/about
https://observers.france24.com/fr/static/a-propos
But Les Observateurs should explicitly mention that they are members of IFCN and that this link obliges them.
And It is not possible for us today to verify what it mentions in the Arabic and Persian versions...
done_all 6.4 marked as Compliant by Laurent Bigot.
Criteria 6.5
Proof you meet criteria
If you are the fact-checking unit of a media company, please provide a link to the parent media company’s honest and open corrections policy and provide evidence that it adheres to this.
France 24 - Les Observateurs
16-Apr-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
France Médias Monde, parent company of France 24, has got is own code of standards, that outlines (their) correction policy: published errors shall be corrected and the right of response accorded to those who claim it.”
https://www.francemediasmonde.com/pdf/charte_deontologie_journalistes.pdf
France 24 - Les Observateurs
19-Jul-2020 (1 year ago)
***UPDATE JULY 19 2020***
***Following changes recommended by the assessor we have added the appropriate language to the French-language version of our About page.
https://observers.france24.com/fr/static/a-propos
Nous adhérons à la charte de déontologie de France Medias Monde .
https://observers.france24.com/en/static/about
La rédaction des Observateurs, en tant que service de France 24, est intégrée dans le groupe France Médias Monde, détenu à 100% par l’État français. Ce groupe demeure indépendant d’un point de vue éditorial. La rédaction des Observateurs adhère par ailleurs à la charte de déontologie de France Médias Monde .
https://www.francemediasmonde.com/pdf/charte_deontologie_journalistes.pdf
Laurent Bigot Assessor
09-Jun-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
France Médias Monde, parent company of France 24, has got is own code of standards, that outlines its correction policy, here:
https://www.francemediasmonde.com/pdf/charte_deontologie_journalistes.pdf
"It is advisable to rectify the errors published and to respect the right of reply of the people wishing to exercise it."
But "Les Observateurs" doesn't provide evidence that it adheres to this code of ethics. This code is not even mentioned on the website.
cancel 6.5 marked as Request change by Laurent Bigot.
Laurent Bigot Assessor
22-Jul-2020 (1 year ago) Updated: 1 year ago
France Médias Monde, parent company of France 24, has got is own code of standards, that outlines its correction policy.
"Les Observateurs" provides evidence that it adheres to this code of ethics. This code is now mentioned on the website.
It is not possible for us today to verify what it mentions in the Arabic and Persian versions...
done_all 6.5 marked as Compliant by Laurent Bigot.
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Have you ever had leftovers after a cookout and wondered what to make with hamburger buns? Luckily, hamburger buns are very versatile and can be used in a variety of different recipes.
The versatility of hamburger buns does not stop at burgers! There are many other delicious dishes that can be made with hamburger buns including:
Sliders
Pulled Pork Sandwiches
Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup Sandwiches
Ice Cream Sandwiches
Croutons
There are many other recipes that can be made using hamburger buns. While hamburger buns shelf life is shorter than some other breads, it is still important to store them so that they do not go bad. Hamburger buns are best stored in the refrigerator if they will be used within 3 days of purchasing them. Otherwise, hamburger buns can be frozen to extend their shelf life for up to 6 months if properly packaged.
Hamburger buns are a popular dish to make during the summer months when barbeques and cookouts are common. Leftovers such as hamburger buns should be stored properly so that they remain fresh and can continue to be used in a variety of different recipes.
Hamburger buns shelf life is about 2 weeks in the pantry or about a month in the freezer. Hamburger buns are used in many recipes including Sloppy Joe’s , homemade burgers , sliders , and hot ham and cheese sandwiches . They can also be used in making bread pudding , breakfast egg casserole , or topping a bowl of soup for a little extra crunch.
You’ll want to make sure you have hamburger buns in your kitchen when you make one of these recipes:
Hamburger Roll Bread Pudding
INGREDIENTS:
6 hamburger rolls, cubed
1 cup raisins
2 cups sugar
1 tsp Vanilla extract or Vanilla syrup
4 cups milk or 1 can Evaporated milk
2 eggs
1/2 cup butter, melted
DIRECTIONS:
Mix all ingredients together in a large bowl. Place in 9″ by 13″ pan and bake for 1 hour at 350 degrees fahrenheit. Yum!
Breakfast Egg Casserole
Ingredients
1 package of bacon crumbled
1 cup milk
8 hamburger buns (I like to use Hawaiian Sweet Rolls)
8 eggs
1/4 cup butter, softened
Directions:
Combine crumbled bacon, milk and eggs in a bowl. Add salt and pepper to taste. In an 8×8 greased baking dish, start with a layer of hamurger buns followed by a thin layer of egg mixture. Continue this until you have used all the hamurger buns. Top with cheese and place in oven at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.
Homemade Hamburger Roll Croutons
Ingredients:
– One package of hamburger rolls (at least 8 buns)
– Olive oil, salt, pepper, or other seasonings to taste
– Nonstick cooking spray
Instructions:
Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
Cut the hamburger rolls into 1/2 inch cubes. You can use a knife or kitchen shears if you have them, but it’s just fine without them too!
Spray a baking sheet with nonstick cooking spray and spread the cut rolls out evenly.
Lightly brush the tops of the rolls with olive oil and add salt, pepper, or other seasonings to taste. I like to sprinkle a little basil or oregano on them. Now they’re ready for baking!
Bake until browned and crispy, about 10 minutes. Make sure to turn them at least once during baking so that they brown on all sides.
Let them cool and store in a resealable bag or tupperware container for a fast, easy snack!
Another great idea to do with hamburger buns is to toast them. You can use them for garlic bread or just toast them before adding your burger or pulled pork to them. For garlic bread I like to put butter on each side, then sprinkle a touch of garlic salt on them, and a smidge of basil. Then broil them in the oven or throw them in a toaster oven until just browned. They are delightful!
Hamburger buns are a versatile food that can be used in many different recipes. Today, we have provided you with some of the most popular hamburger bun recipes so you can get cooking! Whether you want to make something sweet or savory, these recipes will give your family and friends an excuse to gather around the table for dinner. One last thing: if all this talk about burgers has got you hungry, don’t forget to check out our blog post on how to use leftover sloppy joes! They obviously go great with hamburger buns!
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Transonic (or transsonic) flow is air flowing around an object at a speed that generates regions of both subsonic and supersonic airflow around that object.[1] The exact range of speeds depends on the object's critical Mach number, but transonic flow is seen at flight speeds close to the speed of sound (343 m/s at sea level), typically between Mach 0.8 and 1.2.[1]
The issue of transonic speed (or transonic regime) first appeared during World War II.[2] Pilots found as they approached the sound barrier the airflow caused aircraft to become unsteady.[2] Experts found that shock waves can cause large-scale separation downstream, increasing drag and adding asymmetry and unsteadiness to the flow around the vehicle.[3] Research has been done into weakening shock waves in transonic flight through the use of anti-shock bodies and supercritical airfoils.[3]
Most modern jet powered aircraft are engineered to operate at transonic air speeds.[4] Transonic airspeeds see a rapid increase in drag from about Mach 0.8, and it is the fuel costs of the drag that typically limits the airspeed. Attempts to reduce wave drag can be seen on all high-speed aircraft. Most notable is the use of swept wings, but another common form is a wasp-waist fuselage as a side effect of the Whitcomb area rule.
Transonic speeds can also occur at the tips of rotor blades of helicopters and aircraft. This puts severe, unequal stresses on the rotor blade and may lead to accidents if it occurs. It is one of the limiting factors of the size of rotors and the forward speeds of helicopters (as this speed is added to the forward-sweeping [leading] side of the rotor, possibly causing localized transonics).
History
Discovering Transonic Airflow
Issues with aircraft flight relating to speed first appeared during the supersonic era in 1941.[5] Ralph Virden, a test pilot, crashed in a fatal plane accident.[6] He lost control of the plane when a shock wave caused by supersonic airflow developed over the wing, causing it to stall.[6] Virden flew well below the speed of sound at Mach 0.675, which brought forth the idea of different airflows forming around the plane.[5] In the 40's, Kelley Johnson became one of the first engineers to investigate the effect of compressibility on aircraft.[5] However, the current wind tunnels did not have the capability to create winds speed close to Mach 1 to test the effects of transonic speeds.[6] Not long after, the term "transonic" was defined to mean "across the speed of sound" and was invented by NACA director Hugh Dryden and Theodore von Kármán of the California Institute of Technology.[5]
Changes in Aircraft
Initially, NACA designed "dive flaps" to help stabilize the plane when reaching transonic flight.[5] This small flap on the underside of the plane slowed the plane to prevent shock waves, but this design only delayed finding a solution to aircraft flying at supersonic speed.[5] Newer wind tunnels were designed to so researchers could test newer wing designs without risking test pilots' lives.[7] The slotted-wall transonic tunnel was designed by NASA and allowed researchers to test wings and different airfoils in transonic airflow to find the best wingtip shape for sonic speeds.[7]
After World War II, major changes in aircraft design were seen to improve transonic flight.[6] The main way to stabilize an aircraft was to reduce the speed of the airflow around the wings by changing the chord of the plane wings, and one solution to prevent transonic waves was swept wings.[5] Since the airflow would hit the wings at an angle, this would decrease the wing thickness and chord ratio.[5] Airfoils wing shapes were designed flatter at the top to prevent shock waves and reduce the distance of airflow over the wing.[8] Later on, Richard Whitcomb designed the first supercritical airfoil using similar principles.[7]
Mathematical Analysis
Streamlines for three airflow regimes (black lines) around a nondescript blunt body (blue).[9]
Prior to the advent of powerful computers, even the simplest forms of the compressible flow equations were difficult to solve due to their nonlinearity.[6] A common assumption used to circumvent this nonlinearity is that disturbances within the flow are relatively small, which allows mathematicians and engineers to linearize the compressible flow equations into a relatively easily solvable set of differential equations for either wholly subsonic or supersonic flows.[6] This assumption is fundamentally untrue for transonic flows because the disturbance caused by an object is much larger than in subsonic or supersonic flows; a flow speed close to or at Mach 1 does not allow the streamtubes (3D flow paths) to contract enough around the object to minimize the disturbance, and thus the disturbance propagates.[9] Aerodynamicists struggled during the earlier studies of transonic flow because the then-current theory implied that these disturbances– and thus drag– approached infinity as local Mach number approached 1, an obviously unrealistic result which could not be remedied using known methods.[6]
One of the first methods used to circumvent the nonlinearity of transonic flow models was the hodograph transformation.[2] This concept was originally explored in 1923 by an Italian mathematician named Francesco Tricomi, who used the transformation to simplify the compressible flow equations and prove that they were solvable.[2] The hodograph transformation itself was also explored by both Ludwig Prandtl and O.G. Tietjen's textbooks in 1929 and by Adolf Busemann in 1937, though neither applied this method specifically to transonic flow.[2]
Gottfried Guderley, a German mathematician and engineer at Braunschweig, discovered Tricomi's work in the process of applying the hodograph method to transonic flow near the end of World War II.[2] He focused on the nonlinear thin-airfoil compressible flow equations, the same as what Tricomi derived, though his goal of using these equations to solve flow over an airfoil presented unique challenges.[2][6] Guderley and Hideo Yoshihara, along with some input from Busemann, later used a singular solution of Tricomi's equations to analytically solve the behavior of transonic flow over a double wedge airfoil, the first to do so with only the assumptions of thin-airfoil theory.[2][6]
Although successful, Guderley's work was still focused on the theoretical, and only resulted in a single solution for a double wedge airfoil at Mach 1.[2] Walter Vincenti, an American engineer at Ames Laboratory, aimed to supplement Guderley's Mach 1 work with numerical solutions that would cover the range of transonic speeds between Mach 1 and wholly supersonic flow.[2] Vincenti and his assistants drew upon the work of Howard Emmons as well as Tricomi's original equations to complete a set of four numerical solutions for the drag over a double wedge airfoil in transonic flow above Mach 1.[2] The gap between subsonic and Mach 1 flow was later covered by both Julian Cole and Leon Trilling, completing the transonic behavior of the airfoil by the early 1950's.[2]
Condensation clouds
At transonic speeds supersonic expansion fans form intense low-pressure, low-temperature areas at various points around an aircraft. If the temperature drops below the dew point a visible cloud will form. These clouds remain with the aircraft as it travels. It is not necessary for the aircraft as a whole to reach supersonic speeds for these clouds to form. Typically, the tail of the aircraft will reach supersonic flight while the bow of the aircraft is still in subsonic flight. A bubble of supersonic expansion fans terminating by a wake shockwave surround the tail. As the aircraft continues to accelerate, the supersonic expansion fans will intensify and the wake shockwave will grow in size until infinity is reached, at which point the bow shockwave forms. This is Mach 1 and the Prandtl–Glauert singularity.
Transonic flows in astronomy and astrophysics
In astrophysics, wherever there is evidence of shocks (standing, propagating or oscillating), the flow close by must be transonic, as only supersonic flows form shocks. All black hole accretions are transonic.[10] Many such flows also have shocks very close to the black holes.
The outflows or jets from young stellar objects or disks around black holes can also be transonic since they start subsonically and at a far distance they are invariably supersonic. Supernovae explosions are accompanied by supersonic flows and shock waves. Bow shocks formed in solar winds are a direct result of transonic winds from a star. It had been long thought that a bow shock was present around the heliosphere of our solar system, but this was found not to be the case according to IBEX data published in 2012.[11]
See also
Anti-shock body
Subsonic flows
Supersonic flows
Hypersonic flows
Supersonic expansion fans
Look up transonic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
References
^ a b Anderson, John D., Jr. (2017). Fundamentals of aerodynamics (Sixth ed.). New York, NY. pp. 756–758. ISBN 978-1-259-12991-9. OCLC 927104254.
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Vincenti, Walter G.; Bloor, David (August 2003). "Boundaries, Contingencies and Rigor". Social Studies of Science. 33 (4): 469–507. doi:10.1177/0306312703334001. ISSN 0306-3127. S2CID 13011496.
^ a b Takahashi, Timothy (15 December 2017). Aircraft performance and sizing. fundamentals of aircraft performance. p. 107. ISBN 978-1-60650-684-4. OCLC 1162468861.
^ Takahashi, Timothy (2016). Aircraft Performance and Sizing, Volume I. New York, New York: Momentum Press Engineering. pp. 10–11. ISBN 978-1-60650-683-7.
^ a b c d e f g h "Mach 1: Assaulting the Barrier". Air & Space Magazine. Retrieved 2021-03-14.
^ a b c d e f g h i 1917-2019., Vincenti, Walter G. (Walter Guido) (1997). Engineering theory in the making: Aerodynamic calculation "breaks the sound barrier.". OCLC 1027014606. CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ a b c "From Engineering Science to Big Science: The NACA and NASA Collier Trophy Research Project Winners. Pamela E. Mack". Isis. 91 (2): 417–418. 2000–2006. doi:10.1086/384834. ISSN 0021-1753. CS1 maint: date format (link)
^ Hicks, Raymond M.; Vanderplaats, Garret N.; Murman, Earll M.; King, Rosa R. (1976-02-01). "Airfoil Section Drag Reduction at Transonic Speeds by Numerical Optimization". SAE Technical Paper Series. 400 Commonwealth Drive, Warrendale, PA, United States: SAE International. 1. doi:10.4271/760477. hdl:2060/19760009938. CS1 maint: location (link)
^ a b Ramm, Heinrich J. (1990). Fluid dynamics for the study of transonic flow. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 1-60129-748-3. OCLC 228117297.
^ Chakrabarti, Sandip (1990). Theory of Transonic Astrophysical Flows. Singapore: World Scientific. ISBN 981-02-0204-0.
^ "NASA – IBEX Reveals a Missing Boundary At the Edge of the Solar System", Science daily, 2012-05-10 .
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It’s always advised against running administrative-level commands as the root user. In fact, as a rule of thumb, it’s recommended to configure or create a sudo user on any Linux server that you intend to manage. Executing commands as the root user is risky and can cause detrimental damage to your system. All it takes is a single command to accidentally crash your system. To avoid that, running elevated operations as the sudo user comes highly recommended.
A sudo user (short for super user do) is a regular user that has been granted root or elevated privileges and hence can perform elevated tasks similar to those which are a reserve for the root user. These include editing configuration files, installing and removing software packages, starting and stopping services, and so much more.
In this guide, we focus on how you can create and configure sudo user on Arch Linux.
Step 1) Install sudo package
Right off the bat, we need to install the sudo utility. Unlike other Linux distributions, this is not included by default in the base install. To install this, execute the following command as root:
# pacman -S sudo
Step 2) Create a regular user
Next, we need to create a regular user. We will later add this user to the sudoers group to enable them to carry out administrative tasks.
To create a sudo user, use the useradd command as shown:
# useradd -m -G wheel -s /bin/bash username
Let’s break down the command:
The -m option creates a home directory for the user /home/user.
The -G option adds the user to an additional group. In this case, the user is being added to the wheel group.
The -s option specifies the default login shell. In this case, we are assigning bash shell denoted by /bin/bash.
So, let’s assume you want to add a regular user called techuser. To accomplish this, run the command as follows:
# useradd -m -G wheel -s /bin/bash techuser
Step 3) Configure the regular user as sudo user
What we have so far done is to create a regular login user. The user does not yet have the capability of running elevated commands. We need to edit the sudoers file located at /etc/sudoers
The wheel group is a special type of group in Linux systems that controls who has access to sudo commands.
To confirm that the wheel group is enabled, execute the command:
# visudo
Or
# vi /etc/ sudoers
This ushers you to the sudoers file which is rendered on a vim editor. The sudoers file defines access rights and can be edited to grant or deny certain privileges to regular users.
Once you have opened the sudoers file, scroll and locate the following entry. In the basic arch linux installation it would be commented. Uncomment it and save the file to enable the wheel group.
%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL
As we have already a regular user, let’s assign password as shown using the passwd command.
# passwd techuser
When prompted, provide the new user’s password and confirm it.
Alternate way to configure regular user as sudo user, add following user’s entry in the sudoers file as shown below,
# vim /etc/sudoers
Under the User privilege specification section, add the following line.
techuser ALL=(ALL) ALL
Save and exit the sudoers file
Step 3) Testing the sudo user
Lastly, we are going to confirm if the user can perform root tasks. First, switch over to the new user.
$ su - techuser
Provide the user’s password and hit ENTER.
Now try invoking sudo along with a command that is usually reserved for the root user. In the example below, we are updating Arch Linux.
$ sudo pacman -Syu
You will be provided with a disclaimer informing you of the salient things to keep in mind when invoking sudo and later, you will be prompted for the password.
That’s conclude the article, we hope that this guide has provided enough insights in the creation of a sudo user in Arch Linux. Please do share your feedback and comments in below comments section.
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A bill was introduced this week in the NC General Assembly that would be entitled "An Act to Modernize the Business Court By Making Technical, Clarifying, And Administrative Changes To The Procedures For Complex Business Cases." Here’s the text of the bill.
This is a summary of the proposed changes:
Appeals From Business Court
There would be a direct appeal to the NC Supreme Court from any final judgment in a case designated as a mandatory complex business case per G.S. §7A-45.4. Since the NC Supreme Court has yet to rule in a case that originated in the Business Court (as far as I know) even though the NC Court of Appeals has ruled in many such cases, this will result in more Supreme Court decisions in business cases.
Changes to Cases That May Be Designated As Mandatory Complex Business Cases
One of the first posts that I wrote on this blog (way back in 2008!) was about the jurisdiction of the Business Court. You can find it here, but this proposed bill would change things.
The proposed bill does away completely with jurisdiction over cases involving intellectual property law (currently in G.S. §7A-45.4(5)) and cases involving "the Internet, electronic commerce, and biotechnology" (currently in G.S. §7A-45.4(6))
The bill adds two new explicit categories of cases that would qualify to be designated as complex business cases:
One is "disputes involving trade secrets under Article 24 of Chapter 66 of the General Statutes."
The other is contract disputes if a few conditions are met: at least one plaintiff or one defendant must be authorized to transact business in North Carolina per Chapter 55, 55A, 55B, 57D, or 59 of the General Statutes, the claim must be for breach of contract or seek a declaration of an obligation under a contract, and the amount in controversy must be at least one million dollars.
There Would Be Cases That Must Be Designated As Mandatory Complex Business Cases
In a new twist, the proposed bill specifies certain types of cases which must be designated as mandatory complex business cases. Call these "mandatory mandatory" complex business cases. Those are:
Some cases involving tax law, like "a contested tax case for which judicial review is requested under G.S. 105-241.16" or "a civil action under G.S.105-241.17."
Disputes arising under corporate law, partnership law, or LLC law where the amount in controversy is at least $5 million.
Cases involving regulation of pole attachments brought pursuant to G.S.§62-350.
If a party fails to designate a "mandatory mandatory" case, the Superior Court in which it was filed can either dismiss it without prejudice or stay it until it is properly designated per proposed new Section 7A-45.4(g).
Increase In Designation Fee
The proposed bill would increase the fee for designating a case to the Business Court by one hundred dollars, from one thousand dollars to eleven hundred dollars.
But the bill doesn’t fix the problem that the designation fee is not recoverable as an element of costs. I wrote about that issue last year.
Additional Reporting On The Activity In The Business Court
The proposed bill would require the Director of the Administrative Office of the Courts to report semiannually to the Chief Justice and each member of the General Assembly on the number of cases that have been pending at each location of the Business Court for more than three years, motions pending without a ruling for more than six months after being "fully ripe for decision" and the number of cases in which bench trials were held and completed for more than six months in which no judgment had been rendered. The report is to include an explanation from the Business Court.
Thanks to my partner, Charles Marshall, who sent me a copy of this proposed legislation.
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U.S. Celebrity deaths
Actress Tanya Roberts is not dead as previous reports have attested. However, the 65-year-old actress remains in critical condition in the intensive care unit of Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after suffering a fall in her home on Christmas Eve.
Newsweek independently confirmed that Roberts was still alive by speaking with her representative Mike Pingel. Pingel told Newsweek that he had initially spread news of Roberts' death after speaking with her distraught partner, Lance O'Brien, on Sunday afternoon.
O'Brien had visited his ailing wife in the hospital Sunday around 3 p.m. local time believing that she was close to death. O'Brien then mistakenly told Pingel that his wife had passed. However, Pingel told Newsweek that she is still alive.
Conflicting accounts have reported actress Tanya Roberts as both alive and deceased, according to the entertainment news and gossip website TMZ. In this February 26, 2017 photo, Roberts attends the 27th annual "Night Of 100 Stars" black tie dinner viewing gala at The Villa Aurora in Pacific Palisades, California. Paul Archuleta / FilmMagic/Getty
"Online, people are saying this was a hoax and just for promotional stuff, and it is not," Pingel told Newsweek. "She's a very sick lady."
On Monday, the investigative and entertainment news TV program Inside Edition said that O'Brien had received news from the hospital via telephone that Roberts was alive while O'Brien was recording an interview for the program.
Reports of Roberts' passing began circulating Sunday evening as the celebrity news website TMZ reported her death. O'Brien's representative gave the website the following quote, attributed to O'Brien: "As I held her in her last moments, she opened her eyes."
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Numerous media outlets—including Newsweek, People magazine and The Hollywood Reporter—all reported her death.
Roberts reportedly collapsed in her home on Christmas Eve after walking her two dogs. Upon entering the hospital, she was placed on a ventilator, though O'Brien said it was because she had difficulty breathing, not because she had COVID-19. O'Brien also said that she had been experiencing liver trouble before being admitted to the hospital.
Roberts appeared as a sultry geologist in the 1985 James Bond film A View to a Kill, acted in the final season of the female-led TV action series Charlie's Angels and appeared as Midge Pinciotti, a recurring ditzy mother character, in the late '90s and early 2000s sitcom That '70s Show.
Pingel said that he has felt personally touched by all the beautiful stories that have been reported about Roberts' life and career amid the premature reports of her death.
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The first thing we did upon landing at Terminal Station in Philadelphia was to go looking for a cheesesteak. Not many cities in the world have inspired the name of a famous sandwich and we were just unwilling to focus on anything but finding Philly Cheesesteaks. Before we even landed at our hotel, we were trudging our bags and double stroller through the busy Reading Terminal Market in search of a sandwich I have eaten in so many cities, except for the one that really counts. We succeeded quickly and was it ever worth the wait.
We were meeting up friends from other parts of the US on our recent trip to Philadelphia. As many as 11 of us (5 kids and 6 adults) would share several meals together, and so we did a little more planning than usual for this trip, calling ahead for reservations at our dinner choices and looking for lunch spots that could seat us relatively quickly. Amazingly, we never had a bad meal over our four days in the city. The food was so great, in fact, that whenever I hear someone mention Philadelphia, it will be the food that I think of first. Rocky is now a distant second.
Here is a summary of our four days of dining with kids in Philadelphia:
Thursday Lunch at By George
We found our first cheesesteak at By George in the Reading Terminal Market. A busy downtown market filled with scrumptious looking desserts, fresh produce, and grilled meats, we ordered a cheesesteak at the first sandwich stall we found. We were in luck, because the cheesesteak sandwiches at By George are delicious, and the French Fries are pretty great too. The sandwich is quite large and so we were wise to share one, despite how hungry we were. After picking up our order, we escaped the busy market to eat on the street. Once we polished it off, I felt good; I felt powerful!
Our first official Philly Cheesesteak!
Thursday Dinner at Moshulu
After some downtime at our hotel in the historic district, we made our way east to dine at Moshulu, which serves guests aboard a massive sailing vessel that rests on the Delaware River. The vessel itself has a fascinating history. It is the world’s oldest and largest square rigged sailing vessel still that is still afloat. Original built in 1904, the ship has survived two World Wars and has seen some of the farthest corners of the world. Movie lovers will have seen its exterior in both “Rocky” and “The Godfather, Part II”. The boat deserves its lofty resting spot on Philadelphia shores, where it is now associated with good times and great food.
The boat is so large that it features multiple dining areas. As we entered, a few others followed us in who looked like they were on the way to a nightclub, and sure enough, the boat’s deck is a great place for cocktail hour. Our party of 8 were seated at a large round table down below, and we settled in to find a number of very appealing food options. To my pleasant surprise, the menu listed a half dozen premium sushi rolls.
Our table started with Tuna Tartare, Calamari, and Spanish Octopus from the starter menu, plus a Spicy Salmon Roll and the aptly named Moshulu Monster Roll. Oh my were they good. I can’t really give you a favorite because it just wouldn’t be fair to the effort that went onto the other dishes. Let’s just say that these are all great choices and I now regret that we didn’t visit with an even bigger group in order to have room to sample all of the starters.
Sushi Rolls, Tuna Tartare (Upper Left), Calamari (Upper Right), and Spanish Octopus (Lower Right) set the tone for a great meal.
We each ordered an entree too. The couple with us decided on the Thai Steak and Noodle Salad and the Steak & Shrimp. I had been eyeing the former and was happy that we all shared the entrees. I had been training for a half marathon at the time and the salad was a welcome bit of healthy eating. Yashy and the kids went with the All Natural Fried Chicken and I the Jumbo Lump Crab Cake. Oh, and we added on the sides of Brussel Sprouts (that was just okay) and Hand Cut Truffle Fries. We had all flown into the city that morning and had full appetites by the time we arrived at Moshulu. It turned out to be a perfect place to eat heartily.
Thai Steak and Noodle Salad (Upper Left), Steak & Shrimp (Upper Right), Jumbo Lump Crab Cake (Lower Left), and the All Natural Fried Chicken (Lower Right)
Of course, since we had 4 kids with us and they dutifully ate their dinner, we ordered the Moshulu Signature Sundae for Two, the Chocolate Luxe Layer Cake, AND the Cafe Mocha Creme Brule for dessert. We may have met our match with the desserts, but there was impressively little left by the time we left. The Sundae was the clear winner, as the bowl was almost licked clean by the time the kids finished with it. I went with my usual beer dessert, a really nice IPA from the locally based Yards Brewing Company.
Desserts! Cafe Mocha Creme Brule (Upper Left), Signature Sundae for Two (Upper Right), Chocolate Luxe Layer Cake (Lower Left), and a Yards IPA for me!
Friday Lunch at Zorbas Tavern
En route to the Eastern State Penitentiary on Friday afternoon, we stopped in for lunch at Zorbas Tavern, located right across from the old prison. Zorbas has a small lunch menu, but it covers all the major meats – lamb, pork, chicken, and beef – with its platter and sandwich options. I was the boring one on the group in going with the traditional gyro but I definitely didn’t regret the choice. A fellow dad decided on the Roasted Leg of Lamb Sandwich and graciously allowed me a bite, while Yashy went with the Soutzoukaki sandwich, which consisted of meatball-style portions of ground beef and lamb on a pita. If I were to go back, I would order the Roasted Leg of Lamb sandwich. Great dish!
The kids all shared a Gyro plate, which came with fries, rice and a few veggies.While the restaurant looks small from the outside, especially when its small sidewalk eating area is full, the interior contains three additional dining areas and we were seated quickly. The prison was an amazing attraction and so Zorba’s is the ideal place to stop for lunch if the penitentiary is on your list.
The Soutzoukaki Sandwich at Zorba Tavern
Friday Dinner at Alma de Cuba
After some great seafood on Thursday evening and a helping of Greek food for Friday lunch, we ventured to
Alma De Cuba for a Friday evening smorgasbord of Cuban dishes. Admittedly, we ate a lot on Thursday night, we walked over 7.5 kilometers through the city on Friday and were once again ready to EAT. Alma de Cuba features a great starter menu as well, with a range of ceviche offerings and a sample platter consisting of Smoked Marlin Tacos, Royal Plum Dates, and Crab Empanadas. Yes, Yes, and Yes. The tacos were particularly tasty, but being a ceviche lover, the Agua Chile Cobia, which features cobia, octopus, avocado, jalepeno, and kafir lime fire water was the highlight for me. It was perhaps the best thing I tasted in the city.
Empanadas Cubitos (Upper Left), Empanadas Crab (Upper Right), Royal Palm Dates (Lower Left), Ceviche Tasting (Lower Right)
The entrees we ordered, the Sea Scallops and the Sugarcane tuna, were great choices as well. Both featured very generous portions and were perfectly garnished. Being from Cape Breton Island in Eastern Canada, I usually gravitate towards the fish dishes when dining out and those at Alma de Cuba are sure to satisfy anyone who grew up on an island. Once again feeling full, we decided to forgo dessert, but we had a good reason, an unusual selection of gelato awaited.
Gelato at Capogiro
After a short walk to regain our mobility, we visited Capogiro, where we browsed a selection of Italian Ice Cream options that included Ruby Red Grapefruit with Campari, Mojito, and Fior de Latte. I was a little worried the kids would not settle on one of the non-traditional flavors available but who am I kidding, they happily ordered a “pink” one and thought it was delicious. Not only do they make fresh gelato daily they also use local ingredients for their flavours! This place was quite a treat and there was even a Shake Shack across the street where my friend couldn’t resist ordering his favorite milkshake.
Saturday Lunch in the Italian Market
Day 3, and the eating would contine. We signed up for a morning walking tour that took us through several of the city’s historic districts. So naturally, we needed something hearty at the halfway point of the four hour tour. Luckily, our guide brought us near the Italian Market, where we were able to sample our second cheesesteak sandwich, this time at George’s Sandwich Shop (no relation to By George, so to speak). This one was pretty good too. It had onions and tomatoes, which I appreciated, but we both liked the one at By George more. I was really loving these Philly Cheesesteaks though. Were I a resident, I’d make sure to track down and sample every notable place in the city serving them. For the kids, we picked up a few slices from Lorenzo’s Pizza next store, which I would describe as a greasy looking slice of pizza, a little messy, but quite good.
Cheesesteaks in the Italian Market. The lunch I was looking for!
Saturday Dinner at Sampan
Our final dinner in Philadelphia came at Sampan, which specializes in contemporary Asian cuisine. Like we did on the previous two nights, we ordered as many menu items as we felt we could eat, including the Shrimp Pad Thai, Curry Fried Rice, Edamame Dumpling, General Tao Soup Dumpling, Spicy Cucumber, Pork Bao Bun, Chicken Bao Bun, BBQ Beef Satay, Hamachi, Crispy Spicy Shrimp, Unami Fried Chicken, and Chilean Sea Bass. Phew! Pretty much the whole menu as you can see.
Cocktails, Hamachi (Upper Right), Crispy Spicy Shrimp (Lower Left) , Unami Fried Chicken (Lower Right)
The favorites were the Sea Bass, Chicken Bao Bun and the Edamame Dumplings. The experience was similar to a Dim Sum meal with additional Thai and Vietnamese options. The restaurant is located in the Midtown Village, which was the site of a street festival the day we ate here. Luckily, we had made reservations. It’s a great place for large groups. We had 11 in our party for this meal, giving us the chance to sample a large portion of the menu, as you may have surmised. Half of them went on to order dessert as well because we couldn’t leave without tasting the special ice cream and lemon tarts! Half of the group also went back to the hotel and ordered Halal Guys-clearly we’re a hungry bunch!
Chilean Sea Bass (Upper Left), Edamame Dumpling (Upper Right), BBQ Beef Satay (Lower Left), General Tao Soup Dumpling (Lower Right)
Sunday Lunch at Roy Pitz Barrel House
We had intended to visit the well reviewed Cafe la Maude on Sunday but the restaurant doesn’t take reservations and we were out of luck when we arrived for a late lunch. I considered it a stroke of good luck, however, as the Roy Pitz Barrel House was a fifteen minute walk away and had more than enough room for our large group. We arrived halfway through the Philadelphia Eagles game that was taking place in the city that day and enjoyed a very nice last meal in the city as we followed the game with the locals. Roy Pitz produces several craft beers in house and I was able to try the Sour Hound Ale as well as the Vermont-Style Heavens to Betsy IPA during the meal. Yashy and I both ordered the excellent short rib and brisket burger to go along with the beers while the kids enjoyed some excellent chicken fingers. The place was very welcoming for the kids, with ample space and picnic table style seating.
Mighty tall and mighty fine burger at Roy Pitz Barrel House
A couple years ago, Yashy and I visited Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania’s other famous city, and were struck by how much we enjoyed the food. We knew that we would be sampling the Philly Cheesesteak at multiple locations, and were confident that it would be delicious, but we didn’t expect to love pretty much everything we sampled in the city of Brotherly Love. As to that moniker, it’s true, service in Philadelphia restaurants always comes with a smile.
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Janine
November 12, 2017 at 1:21 pm
This post made me so hungry! Your meals look amazing! I’ve never tried a cheesesteak but I’m very curious about them. I’m also keen to explore Philadelphia. It looks like a really beautiful city.
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Introduction Looking around, I have found a need for a comprehensive guide on the most efficient use of speed sails, cargo racks, and long-distance resource hauling. Especially now that singleplayer mode allows for quick and easy testing, we need to get more factual information about ATLAS out to the public. For simplicity's sake, I will avoid discussing weight sails, handling sails, and item quality (maybe you can look forward to a guide on those subjects from me in the future). Outline: TL;DR results Answering individual questions Quick summary of results Explanation of singleplayer testing Summary As a TL;DR, here are the questions I will be answering today and a quick summary of the answer: How do ship speed, sails, and weight work behind-the-scenes? Every ship has a max speed, if it theoretically weighed 0 lbs. Each sail you add contributes to the max speed, linearly. The speed is related to the square root of the percentage of your ship weight that is not filled. The following table has a few notable percentages (the speed % is compared to the max speed). For each type of ship, what speed sail configuration (small/medium/large) gives the fastest ship? sloop: 1 medium and 1 small speed sail schooner: 1 large and one small speed sail brig: 3 large speed sails galleon: 6 large speed sails What ship is the fastest? Contrary to popular belief, with optimal sails, galleons are the fastest, followed closely by schooners, and then brigantines and finally sloops (rafts aren't real ships :P). How many cargo racks should I put on my ship to get the fastest ship? This is a very complex question that depends on your ship type, the total weight you want to carry, your max weight, and the "empty" weight of your ship. As a rule of thumb, add a cargo rack if you have another 4,000 lbs in resources to put in one, and make sure you fill existing cargo racks as much as possible before adding more. What is the optimal way to haul resources long distances in as little time as possible? Once again, this depends largely on the factors in the previous answer. As a rule of thumb, load up your ship to around 50% weight when you are hauling resources. Here are some related questions that I Won't be answering today, but I will include some links to people that have answered them in the past (to varying degrees of thoroughness and accuracy - be your own judge on the matter): How accurate is the in-game depiction of knots (speed)? Do higher-quality (fine/journeyman/etc.) sails actually give any benefit? For a more in-depth discussion on each of these questions, keep reading! I will lead you through the testing I have done in singleplayer mode, and we will discuss factors that I had to ignore while testing, etc. Onward to information! IMPORTANT NOTE BEFORE WE BEGIN: I am going to use the terms "maximum speed" and "speed" throughout this guide, and these each refer to a different concept. The maximum speed of a ship is the theoretical maximum speed it could go if it weighed 0 lbs. The speed of a ship is the actual speed of the ship, with whatever weight it currently has on it. Most of the math is done with the maximum speed, not the current speed. I will start by talking about how to use the speed and weight of a ship to compute the maximum speed. How do speed, sails, and weight calculations work behind-the-scenes? Ship speed depends on the type of ship you are sailing, the number and type of sails your ship is equipped with, the number of cargo racks on board, and the weight percentage. We will discuss all of these things here. I will lead you through the testing I did and try to explain some of the nuances that I had to think about First - The effect of weight on ships: My results: Ship speed is related to the weight of the ship according to the following equation: speed = speed_max * sqrt(1-weight/max_weight) NOTE: This does not take into account cargo racks - see the equation below for a more complete equation. This results in a graph like the following: The maximum speed depends on the ship you are in and the sails you use - we will discuss this more in a bit. Since the speed changes as the square root of the remaining weight, you can see that the weight drops off really quickly as you get closer to 100% full. Thus, any weight above around 80% starts to really slow the ship down, and for that reason, I suggest never sailing above 85% capacity, since you just travel too slow. My testing method: I spawned each ship in using ssf <sloop, schooner, brigantine, galleon> (pick one of the arguments in the <>). I set up the wind using the commands setwind 100 and setignorewind true (both are necessary for consistency). Then I opened the sails to full and marked down the current weight of the ship and the speed, once it stabilized. Using this method, the ship speed is very stable, unlike in the actual servers, where the speed bounces all over the place. Now, I used the admin command gfi gem_base 500 0 0 to get 500 gems, and I recorded the weight and speed - rinse and repeat until the ship stops moving. We now have a data for ship speed versus weight. Plotting the speed of the ship versus the square root part of the equation above, I got a straight line with the slope equal to the maximum velocity for that sail arrangement: NOTE: Keep in mind that this method will spawn a schooner with 2 medium speed sails and a galleon with 5 large speeds sails, both of which are not the optimal sail arrangement. The max speed I got from these tests just correspond to a sub-optimal layout of sails. The important part here is how straight these lines are, which proves that this equation is correct. This is a great fit, so I am pretty confident about the equation and the max speeds we get from this method. From now on, we can just manipulate the speed equation to solve for speed_max if we know the weight and speed of the ship. This will be useful in the next section. Second - The effect of sails on the speed of a ship: My results: Sails add linearly to the max speed of a ship. That means that half as many sails will push the ship half as fast. However, I found it surprising that each type of sail increases the max speed differently for each ship. The following table summarizes my results. If you can find any patterns in that data, please let me know - I couldn't find anything. The main thing to note with this table is the speed per sail point. Remember that small sails cost 1 sail point, mediums cost 1.7, and larges cost 2.66 (ATLAS rounds this to 2.7, but it actually is 2.66 when you add multiple). The sails get more speed per point the larger you get (looking at a single ship). This means that it is always beneficial to use as large of sails as possible, and fill in any remaining points with smaller sails. This leads to the following optimal configurations: Sloop: 1 medium speed sail (max speed is 16.03 knots) Schooner: 1 large and 1 small speed sail (max speed is 21.05 + 4.55 = 25.6 knots) Brigantine: 3 large speed sails (max speed is 23.79) Galleon: 6 large speed sails (max speed is 26.88) NOTE: I discuss the optimal sail configuration more in the next section. This means that galleons are the fastest ship, followed closely by schooners, and then by brigs and sloops are the slowest. This is important, since many people tend to believe that schooners are the fastest ship, but this data shows that they are actually over a full knot slower on average. My testing method: I spawned the ships as I did above. This time, I removed all sails and set up the configuration I wanted to look at (for example, 16 small speed sails on a galleon). I marked the weight and speed while slowly removing sails. Plotting the maximum speed (calculated as mentioned above) versus number of sails gave a line, and fitting a linear trendline in excel gave a slope that you see in the table above. If you want to compute the max speed of a ship, just add together the values for each sail from the table above. Third - How do cargo racks affect speed? My results: A full set of cargo racks (2 for a schooner, 4 for a brig, and 6 for a galleon) will reduce your maximum speed by 40%. This means that each cargo rack reduces your speed by the following amounts: Schooner: 20% per cargo rack Brigantine: 10% per cargo rack Galleon: 6.67% per cargo rack If you only have some of the cargo racks, it affects your speed linearly (for example, 2 racks on a galleon reduces your speed by 40% * 2/6 = 13.3%). However, the racks also reduce the weight of anything inside of them by 80%, up to 8,000 lbs pre-reduction. This means that a full cargo rack reduces your ship weight by a total of 6400 lbs (80% of 8,000). The weight reduction will make your ship go faster, but it must counteract the speed reduction just for having the rack on the ship to be beneficial. This is complicated enough that I gave it its own section toward the end of this post. In general, always drop empty racks, and fill up your existing racks before you add another. My testing method: In singleplayer, spawn in ships as mentioned above. Get the ship up to speed and start adding empty cargo racks. Make sure to take note of the weight each time you add a cargo rack (they weigh 50 lbs each). You can then compute the maximum speed as mentioned above, and the plot of maximum speed versus number of cargo racks gives a straight line. The slope of this line is the maximum speed decrease per cargo rack. This will vary based on your sail configuration, but the percentage speed decrease (speed decrease / maximum speed) will be the same for every ship. Assuming you read the section above about maximum speed, we can update our equation to include the number of cargo racks: speed = speed_max * (1 - 0.40 * num_racks/max_racks) * sqrt(1-weight/max_weight) In addition, I added weight to the cargo racks to verify that the rest of the equation still holds with cargo racks. Indeed, you see the same square root behavior. This means that the cargo rack has only the two effects listed above: max speed decrease, and weight decrease. What speed sail configuration makes the fastest ship/ what type of ship is the fastest? My results: The table in the previous section summarizes my results about the how each sail type affects the maximum speed of a ship. Using this data, you can see that larger sails are generally more efficient than smaller sails. For example, look at a brigantine: Large speed sail adds 7.93 knots to your max speed, whereas the medium sails add 4.24 to the max speed. This means that the large speed sails add 2.94 knots per sail point, and mediums speed sails only add 2.49 knots per sail point. This is the reason that you should always use larger sails first, then fill in any remaining points with smaller sails. Using the table on the left, you can see that galleons are the fastest ship in the game, when used with 6 large speed sails. This is followed by a schooner with 1 large and 1 small speed sail, and then by a brig with 3 large speed sails, and finally the sloop with 1 medium speed sail. My testing method: I mentioned it above, but once again, briefly - spawn in each type of ship and mark down the weight of the ship, the speed you travel, and the number of sails as you vary the number and type of sails on the ship. The plot of maximum speed versus number of sails is a line, and the slope is equal to the max speed increase per sail. As for the optimal sail configuration, I did not test every combination of sails possible for each ship. Although we previously discussed why larger sails are more efficient, this does not automatically mean that using only the largest sails is always going to be the most efficient, since there are some leftover points that could, in theory, be used more effectively. I set up an excel spreadsheet (on the left) with all possible combinations of sails for which you cannot add another sail. Some of these use all of the sail points, and some do not. I then computed the maximum speed with each configuration and looked for the maximum speed out of all combinations. This just so happened to be the result where the largest sails are used first, as mentioned above (and everywhere else). This just proves definitively that there is no odd combination of sails that uses sail points more effectively that beats the tactic above. How many cargo racks should I add to my ship to maximize speed? Another way to phrase this question would be - how much cargo would I have to put into a new cargo rack to justify the additional speed decrease? This depends on the ship max carry weight, your ship's "empty" weight, and the number of cargo racks already on your ship. First, let's categorize the weight into "free" and "fixed" weight, by whether or not you can put it into a cargo rack. Fixed weight includes plank weight, repair materials, and crafting stations, to name a few examples. Free weight can include whatever cargo you have on board, armor or tools, or even blueprints (although you shouldn't store blueprints in cargo racks - there are only 100 slots to fill up with 8,000 lbs to be the most efficient). The reason we want to categorize the weight is because the fixed weight is just dead weight, there is nothing we can do to reduce it. However, it will affect when we should add racks, since the speed is not linear with respect to weight. This means that we should add a rack when the amount of free weight we can store increases the speed of the ship (by reducing the weight) more than the extra cargo rack would decrease the speed. Mathematically, this gives us the equation (where x is the free weight and n is the number of cargo racks currently on the ship) Obviously, this gets complicated fast, since we want to solve for x... Well, I did that for you, and here is the equation for the amount of free weight you need to store when adding a cargo rack: where the empty weight is your fixed weight, and f(n) is listed below: ok, this is still quite complex (we haven't even touched what to do when the free weight is outside of the range between 0 and 8,000, for example), let's unpack this a little. Unpacking the results: If the math makes you queasy, that's fine. I assume most people don't want the math, just the rule they should follow. Unfortunately, there is no simple rule, because the math is so complicated. But, we can get a few interesting tidbits from it: The heavier your ship is without any cargo (the fixed weight), the earlier you should be adding cargo racks If your galleon is very light (no fixed weight), the you should add a rack if you have 15.6% of your weight capacity in free weight. For a stock ship with 30k lbs capacity, this would be about 4,700 lbs of cargo. Of course, this assumes you have all your other racks filled already. Here is a graph comparing the speed of a ship with optimal use of cargo racks versus no use of cargo racks. The flatter sections show where racks are added (for a default galleon with no fixed weight): This may feel a little underwhelming, but you can get much more accurate numbers if you actually compute the free weight from the equation above. As a note, the amount of free weight needed changes with the number of racks on your ship, so it will change as you add more and more cargo. I suggest you add a sign on your ship, noting the ship capacity and fixed weight right after you make it, and then keep track of when you should add each of the 6 boxes on another sign. What is the optimal way to haul resources long distances in as little time as possible? This is another very complicated question. In addition to the problem of the cargo racks (addressed thoroughly above), you now have the added complexity of changing your goal. There are (as far as I can see) 2 main goals when it comes to hauling resources: Haul as many resources as possible in a given amount of time. This usually occurs when you have a supply route and you will keep making return trips indefinitely. Haul a given number of resources in the shortest time possible. This usually happens when you are trading or want to go on a relatively small-scale resource expedition. For the first goal, you want to minimize the time spent on each pound of resource, so you can move as much as possible with the time you have. For the second goal, you are trying to minimize the total time spent, which is not always accomplished by moving the fastest at any given time. This is more complex. Let's look at each one individually: Hauling indefinite resources in a given amount of time: If you haul more at once, you move slower but get more across in one trip. If you haul less, you move faster but get fewer resources in one trip. We also have to consider that half of the time you are sailing, you are just bringing the empty ship back to the resource location. This means that the fixed weight of your ship makes a big difference in the optimal strategy. If your fixed weight is high, you should haul more cargo to avoid making many trips. If your fixed weight is low, you should haul less and move faster, since the wasted time on the return trip is quite small. Working through some of the math, I made some plots for the item transfer rate versus the loaded ship weight (with optimal cargo racks). Here they are, and we will discuss them after: It turns out that for 0 fixed weight, you should carry 12,530 lbs to be most efficient, and for 10,000 fixed weight, you should load up to 19,600 lbs. However, you can see from the 10k fixed weight graph that it may be possible to improve the efficiency further, since the cargo racks are optimized for speed, not item transfer rate. Specifically, adding the last cargo rack earlier would translate into extending the rightmost section of the graph further to the left, where it looks like it may reach a higher rate than this optimization allows. This is an area that can certainly be improved in the future. More unpacking: In general, you should load your ship up to about 50% of the way between the empty weight and the full weight to get the most efficient run. It can get better than that, but this will get you a majority of the way there, if you use your cargo racks optimally. Not much else to say here, that is the main rule-of-thumb of this section. Hauling a fixed amount of resources as quickly as possible: The goal here is just to minimize the time taken to get the resources back. Since speed drops off quickly as your ship fills up, the strategy will be to split the load up into equal-sized portions and take the same amount of weight each trip, so you avoid a few heavy/slow loads. Then, since every trip takes the same amount of time, we can just optimize each trip. However, the optimal weight HEAVILY depends on the amount of cargo you want to haul back. Look at the next graph (of optimal haul weights versus the target weight you wish to carry back), and let me know if you can make any sense of the chaos: One bit of information to be gleaned from this mess is what happens when you need to haul a LOT of cargo. The chaotic mess converges to the same number that we got for the case where we wanted to haul an indefinite amount of cargo at as fast a rate as possible. Here is a zoomed-out image of the same graph I just showed. Obviously this behavior is much more complex than the behavior when you just want to maximize the rate. Therefore, I suggest that you just follow the advice there and let this section be more of a curiosity than actual advice. I mean, if you want to calculate the optimal carry weight every time you want to haul cargo, be my guest Summary Here, I will just list a bunch of bullet points that summarize the findings throughout the rest of the guide: As weight increases, your ship speed will fall faster and faster. Therefore, you should aim to keep your ship at around 50% capacity as a rule of thumb. This balances the amount of cargo you are hauling with the speed decrease from the additional weight. Galleons are the fastest ship in the game, followed by schooners, and then brigantines, and sloops are the slowest. When you are putting sails on these ships, start with the largest possible sail and fill in smaller sails afterward, to get the fastest sail configuration. As a rule of thumb, add a cargo rack when you have 4,000 pounds of resources available to store in it, and always fill up any existing cargo racks as much as possible. The heavier your ship is without any cargo on board, the earlier you want to add cargo racks when filling up your ship. The perfectly optimal weight arrangement is very complicated, and depends on many factors. You can look through the rest of this post for more info, but just know that these rules-of-thumb may not always be suitable for your exact scenario, and you'll need to use a bit of common sense. Thank you for reading through this quite long guide. If you didn't understand a part of it (or any of it), I will be keeping up-to-date with the comments, so feel free to ask any questions there. If you have any ideas you want me to look into further, I am open to suggestions for another guide. If you liked this extremely thorough type of guide, please let me know, so I can be motivated to make more in the future.
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Ship weight/speed, the current pvp meta.
Shepard_Fury posted a topic in Feedback and Suggestions
Hello Everyone, I have been playing the current ship meta for a while now and i have to say it is not great. You have to shave all the weight of your ship to be able to take other ships down. I would like the devs to change the ships so that if it is under 50% weight, then it has no impact on the ship max speed. This would make it so you can actually build on your ship and make different types of ships. It would also be nice if you refined the detection of structures sticking over the side of your ship. It would prevent wood armor from covering the planks on the side and front of the ship, this would prevent the armored schooners and brigs. When a ship has cannons on the deck it makes it way stronger in ways of coverage or broadside damage. For instance people use a one side broadside brig where they have 12 cannons on one side to instant destroy galleon planks with the feat buff(You get hit by 24 mythical cannons at once). It would also be really good if there was a stat penalty for putting cannons on the top deck. It could be a reduction in resistance or damage of the ship. Like the current speed/weight meta is boring and is not really how a wooden ship fights should be in my opinion. The speed differences between the classes dose not make for great game play and fights. I would change the max speeds on the different classes, right now it just dose not make sense to me. Schooner should be the fastest, then brig and the galleon should be slowest. I will give you an example of how the max speed was in real life 16'th century time. Schooner 16 knots, Brig 12 knots and galleon 8 knots(Max speeds of those classes form the 16'th century). I am not saying that we need to go that slow but just balance the difference, so it fits more. You could go max speed schooner 30 knots, brig 24 knots and galleon 18 knots as an example. I believe that a galleon should always have support ships when in use, since they are large ships for company use! This would also create an objective for companies to protect there galleons and create fleets more often. What do people think about this? Please try to keep an open mind and don't flame the people for there opinions. Please like if you do agree Best reguards FightzGamer
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Infernus posted a topic in Feedback and Suggestions
back on the day During the peak of times of piracy, the most used ships used by pirates used to be schooners and sloops due to the speed they had compared to their larger counterparts. the balance was perfect .... having a heavier armor and guns would mean you would be a lot slower than a lighter boat. Thr game is completely wrong when it comes to terms of sailing, more sails dont mean more speed... Make sloops and schooners faster. For a more balance PVP experience and the slowest of them all should be the largest ships. How can a galleon outspeed a sloop? Thats just inacurate. make sloops unable to carry that many canons maybe but make them fast. More suitable for boarding.
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Simonsays095 posted a topic in Guides
Introduction For this forum post, I thought I would cover some of the wind mechanics. I think this will conclude my discussion of the wind mechanics (unless anyone can think of something else to test!) that started with ship weight and cargo racks (somewhat related to wind mechanics) and continued to my discussion of the sextant buff. Once you finish reading the guide, you should have a very good idea of how to efficiently travel around the ATLAS, armed with the knowledge of the invisible force in ATLAS that allows ye' scallywags to explore the open ocean - the wind! To organize the post a bit, I will try to progressively get into more of the details toward the end of the guide, and reserve the beginning as a summary for people who don't really care about the details. I will summarize the main points in the "Big Questions" section, and most of the discussion will be in "The Bulk" section. For those interested in the intricate details with how I did my testing, I will leave most of that to "The Details" section. Big Questions How do the different types of sails (speed, handling, and weight) differ? The sails differ in the effective angle and maximum speed that they can give the ship. Speed sails give more maximum speed than the other two sails, and handling sails give a larger effective angle than the other two sails. Weight sails have the same effective angle as a speed sail, but they contribute much less to the maximum speed than speed sails - in return, they will add maximum weight to your ship. When should I use one type of sail over another? Weight sails should only be used when the ship is very overweight. As a rough estimate, put on the first weight sail around 65%, and add more weight sails every 7% weight you add on from there. Handling sails are faster than speed sails only when you are sailing against the wind (up to 27 degrees either direction from directly against the wind). The benefit with handling sails is that you will never bottom out on speed, unlike speed and weight sails which bottom out quite easily. However, if you aren't making a ship specifically to sail against the wind, speed sails are more widely applicable, just use them. How does the wind rotation work? The wind rotates in a large circle at a constant speed. It takes about 5 real-life hours (+/- 5 minutes) for the rotation to complete, and it goes through 2 full-wind/low-wind cycles every time. That means that if you are currently in low wind, wait 75 minutes, and the wind will be strong. Furthermore, the strong winds only point North or South, and the weak winds only point East or West. If you have the luxury to plan multiple bases far apart, this means that it will be easier to get back and forth between them if you put them close to the same column (vertically). Does sail angle affect ship speed? How about wind angle within the effective angle? Unlike in real life, the angle that your sails make to your ship's body make NO difference to your speed. The only angle that changes your ship speed is the angle between your sails and the wind. As this angle increases, the ship speed steadily decreases, even at small angles within the effective angle. Similarly to how weight effects your ship speed (in-depth discussion here), the speed drops off very quickly as you approach the effective angle. Therefore, it is wise to minimize the angle between your sails and the wind whenever possible. Related questions that I will not be answering in this post: How does ship weight affect the speed of the ship? How accurate are the numbers that the sextant buff gives you? The Bulk 1. How do the different types of sails differ? All sails have 5 values that dictate their differences: Maximum weight addition, effective angle, acceleration, maximum speed, and turning effectiveness. I mainly tested what I believe to be the most important values, and I may update this post in the future to discuss the acceleration and turning effectiveness, which only affect the handling sails. The rest of this discussion talks about the maximum weight increase, maximum speed, and effective angle of each type of sail. Speed Sail: Speed sails have an effective angle of about 82 degrees, and by far have the fastest maximum speed of any sail type. In addition, they don't add any maximum weight to your ship - they are the simplest and most reliable type of sail in the game. Weight Sail: Like speed sails, weight sails have an effective angle of 82 degrees. However, they produce less maximum speed than speed sails (about 60% speed) in return for increasing the maximum weight of your ship. Small weight sails will increase the maximum weight by 1,000 kg, medium sails will increase it by 2,500 kg, and large sails will increase the maximum weight by 4,000 kg. Handling Sail: Handling sails have the largest effective angle of any sail in the game, at around 118 degrees. Their speed is between the speed of weight sails and speed sails (around 75% of a speed sail's max speed), but they have the fastest open/close times of any sail, and they also rotate faster than the other sails. Side note: Since the angle of the sails to the ship body doesn't matter, and the sails can be rotated to +/- 75 degrees, you can always reach a max speed for the first 75 degrees by rotating the sails. After that is when the effective angle starts kicking in, and you will bottom out on speed at 157 (82+75) degrees with a speed sail, and 193 (118+75) degrees with a handling sail. Since 180 degrees is straight behind you, this means that you will never bottom out on handling sail speed unless you purposefully point your sail in the wrong direction. Speed sails, however, have a 46 degree arc toward the rear of the ship where you can bottom out in speed no matter what you do. 2. When should I use one sail type over another? In typical sailing conditions, speed sails are almost always faster than weight or handling sails. Unless you like the feel of sails opening and closing quickly, I would argue (although this is speculation, I haven't done the math on this) that speed sails are always better than handling sails, when used optimally. As for why I haven't done the math on this, consider the following complication: Handling sails are faster than speed sails only past 153 degrees. That gives you a 54 degree window for which handling sails would be better. However, it might be faster to just adjust the angle you sail at to make the speed sail faster, and then tack back toward your destination when you get closer. It makes your trip longer, but you also go faster. Weight sails have a bit more utility for hauling large loads. However, they only add a fixed amount of ship weight (not a percentage), so they are relatively less beneficial as you put points into weight. Additionally, you can split up your haul into 2 trips if you really have to carry a lot, and that may even speed up your haul time. In general, it is beneficial to add your first weight sail at 63% weight, and then add another one every 8% weight you add after that. If you have not read my guide regarding cargo racks, I highly recommend you read that if you have a heavy ship. At any weight that you would consider using weight sails for, you should also be considering cargo racks, unless you have a lot of weight that you cannot put in cargo racks (such as cannons and cannonballs). This is a section that I can definitely do a bit more testing and mathematics (trigonometry, here I come), so I will be updating this in the future. Until then, much of the notes in this section are speculation based on dozens of hours of testing these mechanics. Trust them or don't, it's up to you. 3. How does the wind rotation work? The wind rotation is locked into the cardinal directions - strong winds always go North or South, whereas weak winds always go East or West. Furthermore, the rotation is locked into the clock as well - strong winds always happen at Noon and weak winds always happen at Midnight. There is a day in between strong and low wind, so if you have strong wind (at Noon on some day), the next low wind happens at midnight the following day, 1.5 days later. If you currently have low wind, just wait 1.5 in-game days for the next strong wind period. Since one in-game minute is 2.1 seconds (see my sextant buff post for more details), This means you should wait for 75 minutes to get the opposite strength of wind. The wind strength does not change consistently over the course of the rotation. From Noon on the day before the weakest wind until Noon on the day after the weakest wind (for a total of 1 in-game day), the wind strength drops to the minimum and then rises very quickly, starting and ending at about 50% wind strength. Therefore, most of the time the wind is above 50% strength, and if you find yourself caught in a low wind period, you only have to wait until the next Noon for the wind to become strong again. Pull over, feed your animals, pay your crew, and you can be on your way again in no time! The image on the left shows how the wind strength arrow changes over time, with the in-game time overlaid around the image to show you how fast it rotates. You can see in this image why you should wait for the next Noon after a low wind - that is when the wind starts picking up again! 4. Does sail angle affect ship speed? How about wind angle within the effective angle? As long as your sails are pointing with the wind, the angle your sails make with the body of your ship does not affect your speed. Therefore, only the angle between your sails and the wind makes an impact on your speed.This angle makes a big difference in your speed as you get close to the effective angle. For example, if you are 75% of the way to the effective angle, you still have about 61% of your max speed. Once you reach 90% of the way to the effective angle, though, your speed drops to 44% of your max speed. At 95% of the effective angle, you only have 35% of your speed left. Wind-sail angle effects your ship in a very similar way to weight. The biggest difference is that when you reach the effective angle, you go a minimum speed of 29% of the max speed. However, because of the very fast drop-off of speed as you approach the effective angle, it is generally wise to not get anywhere near it. In-game, this means that you should avoid sailing in a direction that makes your sails turn red in the HUD indicator, and think a bit about your heading if your sails are dark orange. It may be wiser to turn a little more with the wind, and then cut back in the other direction (tack) when you get closer to your destination. The Details Testing Details All numbers in this guide were obtained through testing in single player, and confirmed (somewhat) using the numbers in the devkit. It is hard to convert the numbers in the devkit into actual usable in-game numbers, but I did my best. If anyone is familiar with the devkit and would like to give me a tutorial, I would love to talk to an expert, just message me and I will give you my details. For the most part, the tests I ran involved getting the sextant buff, then equipping a ship with a specific sail configuration and sailing it across H8 (no islands, so I can stay within a single grid and get about 19k meters of testing space, along a diagonal). Once the knot display reached a stable speed, I recorded the time, latitude, longitude, and speed in knots, given by the sextant buff. I recorded this data again at the opposite end of H8, and computed the total distance traveled and the time in game-minutes it took to travel that distance (in longitude units). I then converted this speed in long/game-minutes into ATLAS knots (see my sextant buff post for details). For the effective angle calculations, I had to do something slightly different. I aimed my ship as close to true North as I could. This involved setting the wind direction (using setdir 90) to North and the wind speed (using setwind 12) to the maximum strength, and rotating my ship until the wind arrow had no pixels off of the directly vertical line. I verified my (very close to) true North heading by sailing some time and noticing no change in the longitude coordinate. In fact, for much of my testing, my ship could lean left and show one longitude and lean right to show another, 0.01 higher. Because this lasted a long time, I am fairly confident in my heading being essentially true North. With my ship and sails pointing due North, I set the wind to many different angles away from North (using setdir X), and recorded long/lat/time like before. However, there is the added complication of crossing server borders. I kept track of the time as I crossed borders (only going North, remember, not East or West), and there was no time gained or lost. The coordinates were a different matter - when you cross a border (at least in Single player), the game puts you at 0.14 longitude units further than you entered. I just had to keep track of how many borders I crossed and subtract 0.14 for each one. This added some error, but I couldn't think of a better way to do the tests without rotating the ship between tests. If I did rotate between tests, the slight variation in the way my ship was pointing would make the effective angle very difficult to compute, since small changes in angle near the effective angle make a large difference in the ship speed. Any derived numbers (like maximum speed contribution per sail) were obtained using the trendline function in Excel, or the Solver addon for Excel. Detailed Numbers I will put detailed information here about the specific numbers I obtained from testing. I will also update this section if I did some math that confuses anyone. - Since the full wind rotation takes 6 in-game days, the wind rotates around at 60 degrees per in-game day, or 1.19 degrees per real-life minute. Additionally, the strength of the wind changes twice as fast in the "low wind region" from Noon before the lowest wind until Noon after the lowest wind. The graph below shows this region where the wind power changes much more rapidly. - Weight and speed sails have an effective angle of 82.0305 degrees, and handling sails have an effective angle of 117.725 degrees - The table below shows my current data on maximum speed from each type of sail, for each type of ship. I will be adding to this in the future, as I collect more data. - Handling sails are faster than speed sails once you pass 152.59 degrees. At that point, you should switch all sails over to handling sails (if you can't just rotate a few degrees to make the speed sails worth it). Conclusion Generally, you will want to use speed sails, and only in rare cases will you want to use handling or weight sails, since their benefits don't outway the massive increase in speed that speed sails give. However, if the wind is just too weak and you are doing everything you can to milk speed out of your ship, you can always just wait for the next Noon, and the wind will be guaranteed to be at 50% and rising in strength. Finally, Avoid sailing in a direction that makes your sail HUD indicator dark orange, since your speed drops off very quickly as you get close to the effective angle, where the sails turn red. Please leave a comment if you think I missed anything, and let me know if I have not explained something clearly enough. I am happy to answer DMs or regular comments. Finally, I would like to thank @Kummba for encouraging me to look into the wind mechanics, and giving me a jumping off point with the wind rotation mechanics. See you on the high seas!
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guide Sextant Buff and Grid Navigation/Dimensions: A comprehensive Guide
Simonsays095 posted a topic in Guides
INTRODUCTION: The sextant buff is one of the most useful buffs in the game, so I figured a guide explaining how to get it, what it does, and what aspects of it you should not take for granted, would be quite worth it. I'll start by listing the questions I am going to answer, and then we'll get into the thick of the content. The Big Questions: What is the sextant buff, and how does it help? How do I get the sextant buff, and how long does it last? How large are the grids (and the whole ATLAS map), in terms of lat/long points or meters? When would crossing the edges of the map to get to another grid make my trip faster? How accurate are the speed, lat/long, and direction that the sextant tells you? What is an ATLAS knot? Related questions other posts have answered, that I will skip here: Which type of ship is the fastest? Read on for more detailed info on each of these topics! What is the sextant buff, and how does it help? The sextant buff is a buff that helps you navigate the seas. When you apply the buff, you will be given the following information as a HUD at the top of your screen: A compass showing the direction you are looking in A minimap of your surrounding area (able to be toggled on/off via the settings menu) What region you are currently in, including any special qualities of that grid (lawless, golden age ruins, etc) latitude and longitude coordinates of your current position When sailing a ship: The direction you are headed and your current speed in knots In-game map marker overlay and guidance. Left-click on an ATLAS map marker to activate an in-world guidance marker. minimap and ATLAS map player markers show the direction you are facing Although the buff is indispensable in helping you navigate the seas, it is also very useful on land. I have used the sextant buff to help navigate an island due to the minimap that comes with it, as well as to line up my camera to the cardinal directions for building. Feel free to share in the comments if you have any creative ways you have used the sextant buff! How do you get the sextant buff? To get the sextant buff, you first have to unlock and get the sextant. The sextant is unlocked by the "Navigator's Tools" skill, which is the first skill in the Seamanship skill tree. It takes 11 skill points after a respec to get to this skill. Once you have it unlocked, you have to craft it with the materials shown in the wiki page. The sextant is a tool that you can use to get the buff. To use it, you will first need to get to a high location, typically the crow's nest of your tallest sail if you are on a ship. Hold right-click to bring the sextant up to your eyes, and start looking around for stars in the sky. They will still be visible in the day, and they will have a green diamond show up around them if you get close. Once the diamond shows up, left-click while continuing to hold down right click. This will add a star to your total, and 4 stars are needed to get the buff. Once you add a star to your total, a trail will lead from it to the next star. However, you have to try to be fast, since you only have a few seconds to find all of your stars. Here are a few tips: During the day, the first star tends to be near the sun (not rigorously tested) The trails that lead from one star to the next will curve if they travel a long distance, since they move on a sphere, which distorts their motion. Try to follow the curve around, or you will end up quite far from where the star actually is. Once you click on the first star, you will have 50 seconds to find your stars (+5 seconds for each cosmology level, then x1.10 for each level in able navigator skills) If you find 4 stars, you will get 1500 seconds (25 minutes) of sextant buff. Each star above that will give you +1180.6 seconds (almost 20 minutes) of buff, up to the 9th star and above, which give you a total of 7200 seconds (2 hours) of buff. NOTE: The able navigator skill currently has no effect on sextant buff duration, although it says it does. Be aware. How large are the grids? How large is the whole ATLAS map? Using the sextant buff's guidance marker feature and GPS coordinates, you can get very accurate information about the size of each grid. For example, the center of the center maw (where the Kraken spawns) is at the coordinates of 0/0 long/lat. Moving to the East increases longitude, whereas moving to the North increases latitude. NOTE: Most real-world coordinates are given in lat/long notation, but the game chooses to give the coordinates to you in long/lat notation, so try not to confuse the two. By using singleplayer to fly to the corner of a grid, then marking a waypoint at an adjacent corner and activating the guidance marker, you can get the following size for a grid 14,000 meters along a side, and 13 1/3 lat/long along a side. This means that the whole ATLAS map is 14 * 15 = 210 km in width and length, and the maximum lat/long coordinates are +/- 100. When would crossing the edges of the map make my trip faster? The right edge of the ATLAS map is connected to the left, and the top is connected to the bottom, just like in Pac-man. Curiously, this means that the ATLAS map is not on a sphere, like our Earth, but rather on the surface of a torus (a doughnut shape). Since there are a total of 15 grids in each direction, you could go 8 tiles in one direction, or 7 tiles in the other direction to get to the same grid. Therefore, you should never go more than 7 tiles E/W or N/S to get to your destination. If your route takes you on a path with more than 7 tiles in one direction (for example, West), just go in the opposite direction (East) and it will be shorter. Never go more than 7 tiles in one direction (E/W or N/S) to get to your destination. Go the opposite way, and you can get there in under 7 tiles. The furthest grid from you on the map is 7 tiles E/W and 7 tiles N/S away from you, for a total of 9.9 tiles to get to the opposite side of the map. How accurate are the numbers that the sextant buff gives you? To start, I will assume that the long/lat numbers are exact, since they are simply related to the in-game coordinate system that the game invariably uses. From these numbers, we will discuss the accuracy of the sextant buff speed and direction numbers, and any relevant conversion factors. First up: speed. In real life, a knot is defined as about 1.15 mph, or around 0.514 m/s. Using this number, and the fact that grids are 14 km in width, a ship going around 20 knots would take over 23 minutes to cross a grid. This isn't the case (you can traverse a grid much quicker), so the game must think that knots are something different. To test this, I started a brig off in a random direction at full speed, in singleplayer. Using singleplayer commands, I made the wind a constant speed and not rotate, and I sailed for about 1/2 of an in-game day, and computed the total long/lat distance traveled, compared to the speed shown in the sextant buff. I determined that 1 knot is equivalent to about 0.077 lat/long per in-game minute, or 0.347 grids/in-game hour. To convert in-game minutes to real-life minutes, you just have to divide by 2.1 (I got this number by timing with a stopwatch for about 10 minutes and figuring out how many in-game minutes passed by). Therefore, 1 ATLAS knot is about 38.56 meters/real-life second. Thus, a ship going at 20 knots can cross a grid in just over 6 minutes. Here are a few useful conversion factors: 1 ATLAS knot = 38.56 meters/real-life second = 0.0367 lat/long per real-life second = 0.165 grids/real-life second 1 in-game minute = 2.1 real-life seconds 1 lat/long = 1050 meters NOTE: The speeds given by the sextant buff depend on your current CPU usage. If your CPU spikes, the speed will dip. I tested this by changing the slomo setting - as time is slowed down, the sextant buff indicator sped up. This is because the slower time allowed the CPU to rest more and keep up with the speed calculations. Additionally, I ran the user benchmark cpu test while playing the game at normal settings and similarly saw a drop in the sextant buff reported speed. I found that, for my game under typical settings and activity, the speed can increase by about 1% by slowing the game down absurdly, and it can slow down significantly when speeding the game up. Just a heads up - the speed is not universal, and the same ship may report different speeds on different PCs, even with all variables taken care of. The second task: Direction indicator/heading. I first noticed that the direction indicator is off somewhat when I set my ship to head North (0 degrees) and found my longitude changing still. When I set the ship sailing in a direction that had no longitudinal changes (even over a very long period of time), the directional HUD said 1 degree. More of my testing included recording start and stop lat/long for my ship, and the direction of travel. I then computed the angle from the lat/long data, to compare to the given direction. I found that the direction is accurate to +/- 1 degree always. This can contribute to error when testing and trying to determine actual numbers for these things, but I doubt it will affect gameplay in any noticeable way. The biggest effect I could see this having is if you skirt along a grid border, you should look at the lat/long directly instead of the direction, since you could end up veering off course for long journeys. Conclusion: The sextant buff is a very useful buff, which is why I try to keep it on most of the time I play ATLAS. It helps plot a course on the sea, navigate a new island, or just stay oriented in your home base. Although the speed and direction have a few small accuracy issues, this shouldn't affect your gameplay at all unless you are crazy like me and want to dig up the numbers behind the game that make it all work. That's it for this guide, let me know in the comments if there are any other sextant-related topics you want me to cover, or if you want me to make a guide on another subject that interests you. See you on the high seas!
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SAIL MAX VELOCITY DOESN'T WORK. PLEASE FIX ASAP.
dogmatic posted a topic in Bug Reports
PLEASE fix, this is nearly game breaking for people who pvp. Sail max velocity doesn't do a damn thing on speed sails. Sailed 2 brigs, one with 120% speeds and one normal, same speed, this has been mentioned many times now and still no response? Dev's please at least reply and let us know you are going to fix this? Thank you.
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EvgeniZ posted a topic in Feedback and Suggestions
At the moment there is only 1 viable sail configuration per ship with very very few exceptions: all Speed and the bigger the better. Sailing Speed is currently one if not the most important attribute for ships and not only for PvP ships. Roughly 95% of all the ships are currently like this: Sloop: 1 Medium Speed Sail Schooner: 1 Large Speed Sail & 1 Small Speed Sail Brigantine: 3 Large Speed Sails Galleon: 6 Large Speed Sails But this game offers 3 different sailtypes with different blueprint attributes in 3 different sizes. We have the Speed Sails, the Handling Sails and the Weight Sails, each in Large, Medium and Small size. Lets have a look at what these Sails have to offer: Common Speed Sails: By far the highest unmodified topspeed Fast ship turning at top speed Average sail opening, closing and turning speed Blueprinted Speed Sails: Max Velocity attribute is currently not working and has 0 effect on your speed Sail Turning Effectiveness allows for even faster ship turning at top speed, works as intended Common Handling Sails: Around 25% slower than Speed Sails, very noticeable Fast ship turning at almost closed sails or low speed By far the fastest sail opening, closing and turning speed, allows quick stops and rapid acceleration Offers the best wind angles, allows sailing against the wind with decent speed Blueprinted Handling Sails: Acceleration attribute currently gives the sail both Top Speed and Acceleration increases, outruns Speed Sails in top speed at above the 130% value Wind Angle attribute offers better speed against the wind by improving the wind catch angle of the Sails Common Weight Sails: Around 40% slower than Speed Sails, extremely noticeable Average to low ship turning speed By far the slowest sail opening, closing and turning speed, slow acceleration and requires a long time for a fullstop Same wind angles as Speed Sails, even though Weight Sails are visually more similar to Handling Sails Provides a flat Weight Bonus of 1000, 2500 or 4000 depending on size (reduces the speed slowdown for ships that usually have above 55% weight) Blueprinted Weight Sails: Offers only 1 special attribute: % increase to the Weight Bonus of the single Weight Sail (example: 120% = from 4000 to 4800, only 800 more carryweight) Now lets take a look at the different sizes: (The numbers below are from rough speed testing with the sextant on a testserver) Large Sails - Sail Unit points: 2.7: Maximum Speed / 100% Weight Sail Bonus: 4000 Extra Weight Medium Sails - Sail Unit points: 1.7: Below half the Speed / ~46% Weight Sail Bonus: 2500 Extra Weight Small Sails - Sail Unit points: 1.0: Very low Speed / ~ 22% Weight Sail Bonus: 1000 Extra Weight Now lets take a look at some possible Speed Sail configurations and size variety: Sloop: 1 Medium Speed Sail: 46 2 Small Speed Sails: 22+22 = 44 (additional mast = more crew required) (slowest) Schooner: 1 Large Speed Sail & 1 Small Speed Sail: 100+22 = 122 2 Medium Speed Sails: 46+46 = 92 (25% slower) 4 Small Speed Sails: 22+22+22+22 = 88 (2 additional masts = 2 additional crew required) (slowest) Brigantine: 3 Large Speed Sails: 100+100+100 = 300 5 Medium Speed Sails: 46+46+46+46+46 = 230 (~25% slower) (2 additional masts = 2 additional crew required) 8 Small Speed Sails: 22x8 = 176 (~42% slower) (5 additional masts = 5 additional crew required) (weird) 2 Large Speed Sails, 1 Medium Speed Sail & 1 Small Speed Sail: 100+100+46+22 = 268 (~11% slower) (additional crew required) Galleon: yes My personal Solution to the lack of Sail Variety would be: Speed buff to Small Sails by 50% Speed buff to Medium Sails by 40% Sail unit cost of Medium Sails from 1.7 to 1.8 Decrease the speed of Speed Sails by around 10% Allow all 3 Sailtypes to have an increase in speed by blueprints Slightly better Wind Angles for Weight Sails Additional Notes: The buff to the Small and Medium Sails would still not make them faster than larger sails but close the giant speed gap between them, allowing for different setups without losing too much. Weight Sails are clearly the least useful sailtype at the moment and need a rework. (3 Large Weight Sails are slower than 2 Large Speed Sails at average weight) (even after recent changes) Fixing the Max Velocity on blueprinted Speed Sails would make the other 2 sailtypes way more useless. Speed Sails should remain the most used sailtype in my opinion, the other appear to me as support sails.
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Take me Home (New ship speed buff Atlas 2.0 Mega update)
viperbali posted a topic in Feedback and Suggestions
Dear fellow Pathfinders, A new BUFF for ships! Please! "Take me Home": After moving/Sailing for X minutes (10-15minutes maybe), Out of combat (30min without taking damage from enemy/PVP boat), with no enemy players in render distance. You gain the "Take me home" BUFF. This BUFF give you 20% extra Sailing speed. This BUFF is lost if: Enemy player or pvp ship enters render distance / Collision with SOTD or ship takes damage. The wind mechanics are fun and a good dimension to Ship pvp encounters. But lets admit it, when you have to sails hours and hours (i mean its literaly 1h here, 3 hours there when its not 6 hours...) That slow wind or bad wind we are experiencing everyday adds no fun at all to the game (when traveling long disctances), but for PVP encounters its good. This buff could also be stackble: 1st stack after 15min (+20% speed), 2nd stack 30min later (+35%) , 3rd stack (+50%) 45min later if all conditions are maintained for that long (moving/out of combat/ no enemy players in render) for really long travels. +50% maximum at 3 stacks. The numbers are only suggestions and need to be tested, but you get the idea If you like this suggestion or have any idea to improve it please post/ Upvote. See you guys on the Atlas!
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Item to gauge speed
Dlight posted a topic in General Discussion
Please create an item to use when sailing so that you can gauge speed. For example, a knotted rope that you can throw into the water to see how fast you are going. ;
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LordKhan posted a topic in Bug Reports
it is impossible to dock on any island. crocodiles can be faster than the ships inside the water, and are with an absurd damage !. one of them managed to sink my newly built Ship, simply biting it as I tried to escape. with all the wind in my favor. It's absurd, you can not play like that.
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The Kawasaki ZX-9R was a sport bike manufactured by Japanese company Kawasaki from 1994 to 2003. There were five model incarnations across two basic designs.
Introduction
Kawasaki developed the model in response to Honda's introduction of the CBR900RR FireBlade for the 1992 model year. Prior to the advent of the FireBlade, large-capacity Japanese sports motorcycles had become polarised. On one side were the 750 cc sport bikes, influenced by Endurance racing and the World Superbike Championship. On the other, the "big-bore" 1,000 cc-plus sports-tourers had become the natural evolution of the performance bikes of the preceding 20 years. In simple terms, the 750s had the handling, the big-bores had the power. In both categories, Kawasaki ruled. The ZXR750 offered the technology and the performance of ultra-expensive racing-homologation models from Honda and Yamaha at half the price, and it outclassed the similarly priced GSX-R750 of the time, which still featured a perimeter frame and an oil-cooled engine, while the ZZ-R1100 held the title of the fastest production motorcycle on Earth.
The FireBlade packaged a 900 cc engine into a 750 cc sport bike chassis. It combined big-bore power with sport bike handling, but, crucially, it also pioneered meticulous attention to weight-saving design. The FireBlade not only outpowered the 750's, it was also significantly lighter. This was the detail overlooked or underappreciated by Kawasaki when they set out to build their FireBlade-beater. In building the first ZX-9R, Kawasaki combined their class-leading big-bore, the ZZR1100, with their class-leading 750, the ZXR750, rather than commit to an entirely new design.
The result was a big motorcycle; despite weight-saving measures like magnesium engine covers, its quoted dry weight was 215 kg (474 lb), almost 30 kg (66 lb) heavier than the FireBlade. It made around 125 hp (93 kW) at the rear wheel on the dyno, between 10 and 15 hp (11 kW) more than the FireBlade, but this advantage in power could not make up for its size, weight and reduced agility. Rather than be a direct competitor, the ZX-9R was retained as a more stable and more comfortable alternative to the Honda, with more straight-line speed. The road-going bias is evident through the raised clipons and more upright seating positions.
Model History
ZX900B (1994)
The first ZX-9R could be seen as a ZXR750 incorporating a number of ZZ-R1100 design features. The wheels (three-spoke cast aluminium alloy 3.5-inch x 17-inch front and 5.5-inch x 17-inch rear), front forks (fully adjustable 43 mm upside-down KYB) and unbraced fabricated aluminium box-section swingarm with fully adjustable remote-reservoir KYB monoshock were direct carry-overs from the ZXR. Importantly, the twin-piston rear Tokico caliper no longer mounted via a torque arm, and the clip-on handlebars mounted above the top triple clamp, not below. The four-piston Tokico front calipers and 320 mm front discs were common to the ZZ-R and the ZXR.
The frame was a welded aluminium-alloy dual-beam with cast steering head and swingarm endplates, but with steel-tube engine cradles and swingarm-mount endplates extending back to support the rider's seat and attach the bolt-on subframe, like the ZZ-R1100.
The engine was 899 cc. The crankcases, clutch and gearbox were carried over from the ZXR750, with a longer-throw crank and a bigger-bore, taller cylinder block for the larger capacity. The cylinder head was externally highly similar to the ZXR, as well, but incorporated rocker valve actuation like the ZZ-R1100 instead of the ZXR's direct actuation. Redline was 12,000 rpm against the FireBlades 10,500 rpm. Induction was by 40 mm Keihin CVKD carburettors, and the engine breathed through a 10-litre airbox fed by dual ram-air intakes on the nose of the bike, under the single headlight, via ducts passing back and over the frame beams near the steering head, like on the ZZ-R.
ZX900B3 (1996) and ZX900B4 (1997)
Detail changes. Power increased from 139 to 141 hp (105 kW). The rear suspension linkage and rear spring rate were replaced, improving handling. Pillion grab rails were added, the gearboxes were made stronger, and new six-piston Tokico front calipers replaced the previous model's four-piston units. The weight of the bike increased to 218 kg (481 lb).
ZX900C1 (1998) and ZX900C2 (1999)
Engine bore, stroke and redline remained unchanged; everything else was completely new. The clutch was changed from hydraulic to cable-operated. The generator was moved from behind the cylinder to the more conventional location at the left end of the crank. There was now no balance shaft. The valvetrain switched to direct valve actuation, and the cylinder head was plumbed for then-new plug-top ignition coils, replacing more conventional remote coils and high-tension leads. Notably, the new engine also featured a Hall-type cam position sensor on the exhaust camshaft. Cam position sensors are typically used in conjunction with electronic fuel injection. As the ZX900C featured induction by Keihin 40 mm CVKD carburettors, a cam position sensor wasn't necessary. Its inclusion could indicate that Kawasaki had designs to include fuel injection on the engine in the future, but this did not happen until the 2003 introduction of the Z1000, which uses a bored-out ex-ZX-9R engine with a side-draught cylinder head.
The frame lost the steel engine cradles, but also its bolt-on subframe and the rear ride height adjuster. The swingarm was a new unbraced, rectangular-section extruded design. The wheel sizes were the same, but the wheels were a new, lighter design. The brake calipers carried over, but the discs were smaller and lighter without stopping power being affected. New 46 mm right-way-up KYB forks replaced the heavier, though stiffer 43 mm upside down forks on the B model. The rear shock absorber changed from a remote-reservoir to a lighter, more compact piggyback design. The wheelbase dropped 30 mm to 1,410 mm (56 in).
Overall, with a factory-quoted dry weight of 183 kg (403 lb), the C-model weighed less fully fuelled than the first B-model weighed dry.
Visually, the new bike retained the rounded look of its predecessor, but became sleeker, with a slimmer tail unit and a smaller fairing. As a consequence of the smaller engine and shorter wheelbase, though, the fuel tank became wider and intruded more on the riding position than before.
The 1998 ZX9r was the first stock motorcycle to run a quarter-mile in the 9s (9.99 sec at 136.8 mph).
ZX900E1 (2000) and ZX900E2 (2001)
A dramatic new look was introduced for the 2000 model, with distinctive twin headlights and a separate ram-air intake replacing the single headlight and integrated intake of the C-model. The engine gained a few horsepower from slightly shorter length CVRD 40 mm carburettors, a compression ratio increase from a lower duration intake cam, which increased cranking compression. Further improvements were aimed primarily at handling.
The frame was made stiffer through the enlarging of the front engine mounting bolts, though this still left the ZX-9R with just a single front engine mount on either side of the frame. Further, the rubber bushings in the top rear engine mount were changed to alloy. This combined to make the engine's contribution to the stiffness of the frame/engine unit greater.
The swingarm pivot and wheel spindles were made larger in diameter, again for more stiffness. Increased offset on the triple clamps reduced the trail on the front wheel to make the steering more agile. The forks were shortened to save weight, and the rear shock top mount was redesigned to incorporate a ride-height adjuster.
ZX900F1 (2002) and ZX900F2 (2003)
Changes to the 2002–2003 ZX-9R included a new tail fairing, a single piece front mudguard, the loss of the passenger grab handles and the B/C/E model H-bar mirror bracket. Mechanical additions included a strengthened swingarm (by a claimed 20%) and rear shock with a side facing fluid reservoir, stiffened frame with relocated solid engine mounts, increased trail and reduced fork offset, and new Nissin four-piston caliper brakes and 320 mm discs at the front wheel. Slight engine modifications included a return to the B/C model style Keihin CVKD carburettor and a 10% heavier crankshaft offset by a reduced diameter flywheel reported to help the engine spin up quicker, boosting low and mid-range torque.
Though subtle, California (U.S.) specific models included catalytic converters and carburettors with electronic fuel cut off solenoids. In 2004 the ZX-9R was replaced with the ZX-10R.
Year 2002 ZX9R Specifications
Engine Liquid-cooled, four-stroke, transverse four-cylinder, DOHC, 4 valves per cylinder.
Capacity 899
Bore x Stroke 75 x 50.9 mm
Compression Ratio 12.2:1
Induction 4x 40 mm Keihin CVKD carbs
Ignition / Crank Start / Pedal Powered
Max Power 144 hp 105 kW @ 11000 rpm
Max Torque 101 Nm @ 11000 rpm Transmission / Drive 6 Speed / chain
Front Suspension 46 mm fully adjustable cartridge fork, preload compression and rebound adjustable.
Rear Suspension Bottom-Link Uni-Trak rising rate mono shock, preload compression, rebound and ride height adjustable.
Front Brakes 2x 320 mm discs 6 piston calipers
Rear Brakes Single 220 mm disc 1 piston caliper
Front Tyre 120/70 ZR17
Rear Tyre 190/50 ZR17
Seat Height 827 mm
Dry-Weight 186 kg
Fuel Capacity 19 Litres
Consumption average 18.7 km/lit, Max w/Calif. U.S. models 23.0 km/lit
Standing ¼ Mile [email protected] mph(1998 ZX9r C1 model) The 1999 C2 recorded a [email protected]
Top Speed 284.6 km/h / 174.98 mp/h
See also
Kawasaki Ninja series
References
External links
2000 E1 ZX-9R Review
2001 E2 TotalMotorcycle online review
2002 F1 Motorcycle Daily Online Review
2003 F2 Motorcyclist Online Review
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Sportrider Sportbike Performance Numbers.
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The NFL is the most popular sport in the United States, with dozens of thousands of fans attending each game. It faces incredibly high levels of scrutiny as its games are broadcast live on national television several times throughout the week. Even more media coverage is dedicated to it when the games aren’t even being played.
Due to all this attention, security is very important to the NFL. With that in mind, what are the various responsibilities of NFL security investigators as well as how much they can expect to get paid?
The NFL as an employer
There isn’t much data available on how many people the NFL employs because jobs are so spread out throughout the league. Each of the 32 teams has a front office, coaching staff, an athletic and training staff, groundskeepers, concessions attendants, ticket office workers, and many other positions.
The league office itself also has a staff meant to assist with administrative duties on behalf of the Commissioners office along with the many other responsibilities of running the league.
The NFL has a lot of employees dedicated to assisting with security, both at the individual team level and within the league office.
The different levels of NFL security
Due to the league’s visibility, security is of utmost importance to the NFL. It’s so important, the federal government provides them with special protection:
“The NFL has been awarded a Safety Act Designation & Certification from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the highest level of protection granted by the program. If an incident is deemed by DHS to be an “act of terrorism,” the league now can use what is called the “government contractor defense” for all claims that may arise.”
Security, on both game days and in between games, is a multi-faceted component of NFL operations overseen by many individuals.
The NFL has a variety of security jobs available. Many of these jobs are related to game day management in the 32 NFL stadiums. The responsibility for stadium security personnel includes monitoring locker rooms and the field itself. On-field security specialists are responsible for ensuring no fans run onto the field and attempt to interact with the players during the game.
Stadiums also have security personnel stationed throughout the crowd. It’s the job of these individuals to monitor activity in the stands to ensure there are no altercations between fans.
According to TheBalanceCareers.com, NFL security investigators have a number of responsibilities which include:
Ensuring the safety of NFL players and coaches
Traveling with NFL teams
Providing driving services for players and coaches
Advising players and coaches
Investigating potential threats
NFL security runs the gamut from protecting the fans at the stadiums to providing protection for the players and coaches before, during, and after the game. They can also be asked to investigate the players themselves if they’re accused of nefarious activity.
What NFL security jobs pay
Per the link referenced above, many NFL security jobs are typically filled by former law enforcement officials:
“NFL security contractors are very often current or retired criminal justice professionals who have significant experience in the area of security and investigations. They are usually employed as police officers or detectives who perform double duty as security professionals in their off time.”
These individuals are serving in a consultant-type of a role. As far as the pay goes:
“NFL security agents do not receive a salary or benefits. Instead, they are paid an hourly rate. These rates are set by the individual contractor and are agreed to by the team. Rates for NFL security contractors can be $50 per hour or more, depending on the services provided.”
NFL security staff often use these positions as part-time income to supplement their regular law enforcement jobs. One things for sure, it’s crazy to think about the level of security that goes into a simple football game.
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President Trump announced during his daily COVID-19 press briefing on 14 April that the U.S. will be halting all payments to the WHO’s budget amid fierce international criticism of the organisation for its failings to deal with coronavirus.
“With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have deep concerns whether America’s generosity has been put to the best use possible,” he said. This is in stark contrast to the EU’s decision to provide an additional €2.8 million to WHO Afghanistan to aid the country’s fight against COVID-19. The U.S. contributes far more than any other country, with the total amounting to $400 million per year as part of the WHO's $4.8 billion annual budget.
Trump's move was not very diplomatic, but we have to consider whether or not his criticism is justified
True, this move is not very diplomatic: as well as halting funding in the middle of a deadly global pandemic, he also accused the WHO of "severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus". The question we should ask, though, is this: are Trump’s criticisms of the WHO justified? For the most part, the answer is yes.
Accusations of the WHO having a pro-CCP (Chinese Communist Party) bias are not unwarranted. Far from it, in fact. While his political opponents fret over the apparent ‘racism’ displayed by calling it a ‘Chinese virus’ or the ‘Wuhan virus’, Trump maintains that the Chinese government exerts a strong influence over the WHO. He has also accused the organisation of being too trusting of and too benign in attitude towards the dictatorship.
WHO appears to place too much trust in the Chinese authorities
In nowhere is this claim better vindicated than the WHO’s Twitter account. The WHO claims that it alerted the world to the danger of the virus on 5 January, and yet a tweet from 14 January reads "Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China". It is hard to understand why they would feel comfortable tweeting this, especially considering that the virus emerged in December, or perhaps even as far back as mid-November. Moreover, the tweet appears to confirm that the WHO places too much trust in the Chinese authorities. The South China Morning Post has stated that the Chinese government knew that the disease was spreading before the tweet was sent.
A Chinese whistle-blower warning about the outbreak was told by the police to "stop making false comments"
It is worth remembering that the whistle-blower doctor, Li Wenliang (who has sadly died), sent out a warning to fellow medics on 30 December about the outbreak and was told by the police to "stop making false comments" four days later, according to the BBC. He was forced to sign a letter that said that he had "severely disturbed the social order". Seven others were investigated for "spreading rumours". There is a cruel irony in this, especially given that the Chinese government has been pushing the conspiracy theory that the US military created the virus. The theory goes that they brought it to China via a cyclist, who took place in the World Military Games in Wuhan in October 2019.
WHO's submissive stance towards Beijing is also seen in its refusal to recognise Taiwan as a sovereign state
The WHO has further demonstrated its submissive stance towards Beijing by refusing to recognise Taiwan as a sovereign nation state or praise its response to the virus. It has received international praise for its exceptional handling of the pandemic, and as of the time of writing it only has 425 confirmed cases (out of a population of almost 24 million), 217 recoveries, and 6 deaths, despite carrying out 51,603 tests as of 17 April. When reporter Yvonne Tong interviewed WHO assistant director-general Bruce Aylward and asked whether the WHO would admit it as a member state – having been rejected every year since 2016 – he appeared to ignore the question, then claimed that he didn’t hear it, then suggested that Tong move on, and then terminated the call after she repeated the question. When he came back, she asked him to "comment a bit on how Taiwan has done so far". His response? "We’ve already talked about China".
While Trump's approach isn't perfect, his criticism is justified
One can take issue with Trump’s decision to suspend WHO funding instead of simply criticising their response – especially when as late as 24 January he himself was praising China for their ‘transparency’ – but it is impossible to deny that his criticism is justified. The WHO has shown itself to be wholly untrustworthy and immensely biased.
The west’s relationship with China is not the only thing that can be expected to change after this crisis is over. The WHO can expect to find that its relationship with several countries will be severely damaged, perhaps irreparably.
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As funders at the national, state, and local levels require a deeper level of regular collaboration from nonprofits, it is important to consider the motivating factors behind collaboration and what makes some collaborations successful and competitive. A way to begin building strong partnerships is to assess collaborations from every angle to determine what is right for your organization. Collaborations have a long history in the United States, including state versus federal jurisdiction, the growth and expansion of social services, and nonprofit development as a solution to market failure.
Collaboration in the Modern Era
It was not until the late 1960s that the U.S. federal government began acknowledging the role that funders and programs outside of state and federal government could play in addressing community needs. Many of these groups had been active for decades, but had not been recognized nationally as contributors to government or social efforts. As they became better known and collaborated with governments at the state level, the federal government ramped up its partnerships with nonprofits to include increased grantmaking and contracts. Services, including job training, physical and mental health, disability, child and family welfare, and substance abuse, were now being provided through government partnerships and agreements with nonprofit organizations.
In the early years of the 21st century, relationships between federal government, state government, and foundations have become even more prominent. Our current era of collaboration is characterized by strong connections between organizations and accessible networks, including social media, information exchange, in-person interactions, and more, which allows funders and nonprofit organizations to “enhance one another’s capabilities, to smooth services interactions, and to solve policy/program problems.”[1] Significantly, this increased connection is characterized by an ever-growing emphasis on inter-agency collaboration.
Nonprofits as a Response to Market Failure
Nonprofit organizations make the decision to collaborate with each other and with government agencies for several reasons, including service overlap, community needs, and, of course, funding opportunities. Ultimately, nonprofits are flexible enough to step in and provide services in response to specific market failures, including providing goods or services that are not lucrative for for-profit channels. Further, nonprofits are frequently quicker than the government to respond to changing needs in the community.
An unintended consequence of this move toward collaboration is a belief on the part of funders that collaborations always yield a deeper impact for fewer dollars, which has led to many funders requiring collaboration as a precondition of grantmaking. However, this requirement can be limiting, as collaborations are complicated and involve a blending of missions, objectives, and services, and funders often require rigorous reporting. So, when is collaboration necessary, rewarding, and worth the risk for your organization? With the growing number of grantmakers expecting collaboration as a prerequisite to funding, is important to consider the costs of collaboration, whether those costs outweigh potential benefits, and whether collaboration will honor your agency’s mission and vision.
The Pros and Cons of Collaboration
Today, avoiding collaboration is not an option. Collaboration is a deeply intertwined piece of U.S. governance, nonprofit operations, and the delivery of many goods and services. So how do you make it work in a way that makes sense for your organization?
There are pros and cons to collaboration, some of which may not be obvious, so it is important to determine whether the potential for positive outcomes outweighs the potential for frustration. Cons include possible loss of territory, increased time commitment due to inclusion of additional actors, difficulties in trying to reach consensus, power imbalances between partners, potential for resource hoarding,[2] difficult personalities, hidden agendas, failure to commit, failure to share information,[3] and difficulty evaluating results.[4] Recognizing potential costs, especially those specific to your organization and partnerships, is vital before embarking into collaborative territory. Once you have addressed them, you can effectively map out a collaboration that avoids or tackles costs while working toward benefits.
The benefits of collaborating can be many, and include “economic efficiencies, a more effective response to shared problems, improvements in the quality of services delivered to clients, the spreading of risks, and increased access to resources.”[5] One important benefit that pertains specifically to Albuquerque and New Mexico comes with having a diverse population—addressing the many needs that come with diversity can be a challenge, but is also a tremendous opportunity for collaboration. A greater and more diverse need gives organizations more opportunities to collaborate, solve pressing problems in the community, and serve a larger population.
How to Make Collaborations Work for Your Organization
According to Russell M. Linden, a management consultant specializing in organizational change, there are seven key collaborative factors that will take your organization down the right path. Collaborating organizations must:
Have a shared vision that neither can achieve as well on their own;
Want to collaborate and be willing and ready to contribute to the collaboration;
Make sure the “right people” are involved in making the collaboration happen (i.e. those with the power and expertise to make the vision a reality);
Be transparent and reliable;
Maintain at least one “champion” for the cause who will see it through to the end;
Utilize “collaborative leadership” rather than drawing power lines between organizations; and
Maintain and nurture a trusting relationship.[6]
Remarkably, successful collaborations can often highlight the individual talents of your team. Humans have an inherent desire to connect with something bigger, “and, when that ‘something larger’ is a collaborative team, team members can meet both the ‘me’ and ‘we’ needs as they contribute their special talents and unique knowledge and experience to a successful group project.”[7]
Collaborations can be successful and rewarding, as long as they honor the missions and visions of all parties involved; you assess costs and benefits; build a strong, sustainable, and truly cooperative program; and seek funding that is well-aligned with your goals and objectives. By combining these strategies with an understanding of the potential pitfalls of collaboration, your organization will not be doomed to repeat past failures!
[1] Agranoff, Robert. Collaborating to Manage: A Primer for the Public Sector. Georgetown University Press, 2012, p. 29.
[2] Agranoff, Robert. Collaborating to Manage: A Primer for the Public Sector. Georgetown University Press, 2012, p. 156.
[3] Russell M. Linden. Leading Across Boundaries: Creating Collaborative Agencies in a Networked World. Jossey-Bass, 2010, p. 59.
[4] Feiock, Richard C. and Hee Soun Jang. “Public Versus Private Funding of Nonprofit Organizations: Implications for Collaboration.” Public Performance & Management Review, vol. 31, no. 2, 2007, p. 178.
[5] Id.
[6] Russell M. Linden. Leading Across Boundaries: Creating Collaborative Agencies in a Networked World. Jossey-Bass, 2010, p. 38.
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President Donald Trump’s quixotic bid to overturn the Nov. 3 election results was dealt another blow on Friday when a recount confirmed he had lost Georgia, while the winner, President-elect Joe Biden, filled more jobs in his incoming U.S. administration.
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Biden, a Democrat, is preparing to take office on Jan. 20, but Trump, a Republican, has refused to concede and is searching for a way to invalidate or overturn the results in a number of states, claiming widespread voter fraud.
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Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger poured more cold water on the Trump campaign’s effort when he confirmed that a manual recount and audit of all ballots cast in the southern state had determined that Biden was the winner.
“The numbers reflect the verdict of the people, not a decision by the secretary of state’s office or courts, or of either campaigns,” Raffensperger, a Republican and Trump supporter, told reporters.
The numbers reflect the verdict of the people
With the door seemingly slammed shut in Georgia and having been stung by a series of court defeats, the Trump team is resting its hopes on getting Republican-controlled legislatures in other battleground states won by Biden to set aside the results and declare Trump the winner, according to three people familiar with the plan.
It is focusing on Michigan and Pennsylvania for now, but even if both those states flipped to the president he would need to overturn the vote in another state to vault ahead of Biden in the Electoral College.
Such an extraordinary event would be unprecedented in modern U.S. history. Trump not only would need three state legislatures to intervene against vote counts as they stand now, but then also have those actions upheld by Congress and, almost certainly, the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Undeterred by the long odds, Trump was meeting with Michigan’s state legislative leaders, Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey and House of Representatives Speaker Lee Chatfield, both Republicans, at the White House on Friday, according to a source in Michigan.
The two lawmakers will listen to what the president, who requested the meeting, has to say, the source said. Shirkey told a Michigan news outlet earlier this week that the legislature would not appoint a second slate of electors.
Upon arriving at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport outside Washington, Shirkey and his colleagues were met by a swarm of protesters. Some held signs that read “SHAME” while others chanted “Certify the results” and “respect Michigan voters.” One protester asked, “What has Trump promised you?”
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U.S. Representative Debbie Dingell, a Democrat from Michigan, called the meeting “totally inappropriate” in a news conference with other lawmakers from the state and vowed that Democrats would resist any attempt to overturn Biden’s victory.
Biden, who turned 78 on Friday, continued to lay the foundation of his administration, naming Louisa Terrell as the incoming director of the White House’s office of legislative affairs, the main liaison with Congress, and announcing other appointments.
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Terrell worked as a deputy chief of staff for Biden in the Senate and was a special assistant to President Barack Obama. She also has held roles in the private sector with Yahoo! and Facebook.
Biden was due on Friday to meet Democratic leaders in Congress, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
‘HOPELESS LEGAL POSITION’
So far, Trump’s attempts to reverse the outcome of this month’s election via lawsuits and recounts have met with little success. Despite the setbacks, his campaign has not abandoned its legal efforts and has vowed to file more lawsuits.
The president’s lawyers argue the U.S. Constitution gives legislatures, rather than state governors and secretaries of state, the ultimate authority to appoint electors. Republicans control the Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin legislatures.
Those states were the pillars of Trump’s victory in the 2016 election, but Biden prevailed in all three by even larger margins than Trump did four years ago. Trump’s hopes of remaining president are doomed without them.
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Legal experts have sounded the alarm at the notion of a sitting president seeking to undermine the will of the voters, though they have expressed skepticism that a state legislature could lawfully substitute its own electors.
Biden campaign legal adviser Bob Bauer said the Trump campaign was in a “hopeless legal position.”
“No state legislature in our country’s history ever has done what Donald Trump is apparently agitating for the Michigan state legislature to do, which is to ignore the results of a popular vote,” Bauer told reporters. “It cannot be done.”
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Even though election officials have not reported any major irregularities, most prominent Republicans have remained on side with Trump or quietly acceded. But a few, including Senator Mitt Romney, have spoken out.
In a statement on Thursday, Romney, the party’s 2012 presidential nominee, said Trump had failed to make a plausible case of widespread electoral fraud or conspiracy and was now pressuring officials to subvert the will of the American people.
“It is difficult to imagine a worse, more undemocratic action by a sitting American president.”
Other Republican senators including Ben Sasse and Joni Ernst called on Trump to offer proof of electoral fraud.
Nationally, Biden won nearly 6 million more votes than Trump, a difference of 3.8 percentage points. But the outcome of the election is determined in the Electoral College, where each state’s electoral votes, based largely on population, are typically awarded to the winner of a state’s popular vote.
Biden leads by 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232 as states work to certify their results at least six days before the Electoral College convenes on Dec. 14.
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I am amazed at how mild our winter was this year. We had some downright frigid days that called for school cancellations, but not for the amount of snow we received, for once. I am not a fan of winter, so I'm definitely not complaining here, but with the lack of snow we didn't get to do any of the cold weather activities that we usually enjoy like sledding, tubing, snowball fights, or building a snowman.
My girls have a bit of an iced coffee addiction, and we usually end up with a lot of coffeehouse glass containers that need to be recycled. Instead of immediately tossing them in the bin this week, I thought since we didn't get to build a snowman this year, it would be fun to use them to craft a snowman to get our winter fun fix in.
I have to say, I really like making these indoor snowmen much better than freezing my fingers off building one outside. Here's what you'll need to make your own Frozen White Hot Chocolate Snowmen:
• Glass Bottles (we upcycled used iced coffee bottles)
• Buttons
• Fabric Scraps, felt, burlap, or ribbon to make a scarf
• White Candy Melts
• Sandwich Cookies
• Decorator's Icing in Black and Orange
• Hot Glue Gun
Start your snowman by peeling off the labels from the glass bottle. You may have to use some GooGone to remove all of the sticky residue. Wash bottles in warm soapy water.
Hot Glue 3 black buttons to the the front of the bottle.
Cut a strip of scrap fabric long enough to wrap around the neck of the bottle to make a scarf. Tie into place.
Heat white candy melts according to package directions. Dip sandwich cookies into the melted candy, then place on wax paper and allow to cool. Once the candy has hardened over the cookies, draw a snowman face on each cookie with the black and orange decorator's icing.
Fill each bottle with Frozen White Hot Chocolate Mix and top each with a snowman face cookie. Serve immediately.
yield: Serves 4Author: Theresa Mprint recipe
Frozen White Hot Chocolate
INGREDIENTS:
1/2 Premium White Chocolate Candy Bar (such as Lindt or Ghirardelli)
2 Tbsp Heavy Whipping Cream
2 Tbsp White Hot Chocolate Mix (such as Ghirardelli)
1 Tbsp sugar
1 1/2 cups milk
3 cups ice
INSTRUCTIONS:
Break the candy bar into bite size pieces and place in a bowl. Heat the heavy whipping cream to near boiling. Remove from heat, pour over candy. Allow to sit for 1 minute; stir the candy/cream until smooth.
Add the hot chocolate mix and sugar, stirring constantly until thoroughly blended; slowly add 1/2 cup of the milk and stir until combined.
In a blender place the remaining cup of milk, the room temperature chocolate mixture, and the ice. Blend on high speed until smooth. Pour into your snowman bottles and serve immediately.
http://www.theresasmixednuts.com/2017/03/do-you-want-to-build-frozen-white-hot.html
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I like to use Lindt Classic Recipe White Chocolate Bars and Ghirardelli White Chocolate Mix (<- affiliate links), but any premium bars or mixes will yield the tastiest results.
Did your area get hit with lots of snow or did you experience a mild winter too?
Posted by Theresa Mahoney at 12:45 AM
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DEZMOND March 15, 2017 at 4:38 AM
I do adore me white chocolate more than any other! Milka used to have white chocolate with green tea and lime filling, and white chocolate with raspberry and blueberry filling and even with elderberry filling! Gone are those days of bliss.
Our winter was extremely cold, the coldest I remember, but short, it has been spring here for a month or more now and we haven't seen snow this winter almost at all. I haven't worn a jacket in a month or so now, just my padded vests
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Theresa Mahoney March 16, 2017 at 12:53 PM
We have some really yummy fruit varieties in some of our white chocolate bars too. I am not sure I have seen green tea or lime, but now I'm going to have to look.
I really wish the warm would hit here soon. We'll have a week of really warm temps, then Mother Nature will dust us with a little snow the next week. Up, down, up, down. It's been a really odd winter for sure!
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Kristi Maloney March 15, 2017 at 8:56 AM
Frozen white hot chocolate sounds delicious and a cute craft idea as well. We just got 17" inches of snow bet. yesterday and last night. Oh, I am so over winter! I am starting to look ahead 15 days into the forecast - an it doesn't look good!
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Theresa Mahoney March 16, 2017 at 1:00 PM
Yikes! I am so glad we missed that storm coming through, but sorry to hear you got hit with it! 17 inches would probably sent me into a full blown meltdown this time of the year :(
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Pat Hatt March 15, 2017 at 12:34 PM
Sounds way more fun than actual snow. We had one week where it truly sucked and then 2 other snow storms and that was it. Then just stupid cold days here and there.
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Masshole Mommy March 15, 2017 at 2:03 PM
This is so stinkin CUTE!!! My kids will love this.
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Stacie @ Divine Lifestyle March 15, 2017 at 2:05 PM
That looks both delicious AND super cute! I must make these for the whole family. Thanks for sharing these.
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Unknown March 15, 2017 at 4:24 PM
These are awesome. Snowmen are my favorite and the kids will love these when we make them!
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An Apel a Day March 15, 2017 at 4:44 PM
It does look good. There was flurries coming down outside earlier at lunch time here. I know the weather goes back and forth, but this is crazy this year.
I love your craftiness!
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Adam March 15, 2017 at 5:36 PM
A mild winter probably means a brutal summer
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Theresa Mahoney March 17, 2017 at 9:52 PM
I hope not, but that just means more beach days for me.
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Unknown March 15, 2017 at 6:00 PM
This looks so cute and yummy. I live in Florida and we don't get much of a winter. I have never seen snow.
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Marcie W. March 15, 2017 at 6:24 PM
Now these are a wonderful way to say farewell to winter! We are dealing with gorgeous temperatures in the 80s here in Las Vegas, so a frozen drink sounds perfect.
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Liz Mays March 15, 2017 at 7:46 PM
Oh yum! These are super fun! I think this is a great way to offer some tasty hot chocolate drinks to guests.
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Unknown March 15, 2017 at 8:47 PM
That is such a cute idea. This would be fun for a party.
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Pam March 15, 2017 at 9:03 PM
This is such a cute recipe. I really enjoy frozen hot chocolate. It's a tasty treat.
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Terra Heck March 16, 2017 at 2:14 AM
Those are super cute! I'm glad that winter hasn't been harsh this year too.
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Annemarie LeBlanc March 16, 2017 at 4:16 AM
Super cute and refreshing. I think my grandchildren, nephews and nieces would enjoy this treat. Let me see if I can make this on the weekend for them. Thanks for the idea. It is awesome!
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Tracey March 16, 2017 at 9:53 AM
This is adorable! What a creative idea. I love white hot chocolate.
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Joyce Brewer March 16, 2017 at 9:54 AM
What a cute craft. Considering how cold it's been, we may be making this over Spring Break.
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Six Time Mommy TEST March 16, 2017 at 2:52 PM
Oh wow do I ever! This looks and sounds just amazing. White hot chocolate sounds incredible right now! and frozen? Yes please! - jeanine
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Melissa March 16, 2017 at 3:19 PM
Great way to spend some time in the house now that we got some real snow. Those snowmen and white hot chocolate look amazing.
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Seattle Travel Blogger March 16, 2017 at 3:48 PM
These do look like a lot of fun to make. I am not one for the cold either!
I also like the little, but significant variations that can be made to each.
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S. Graham March 16, 2017 at 4:29 PM
These are so stinking cute! I love this idea and hot chocolate is still viable for me since it's freezing here!
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Ascending Butterfly March 17, 2017 at 5:27 AM
These are a super cute way to enjoy being stuck home during superstorm stella, I can't believe March is closing out with a snowstorm just after daylight savings and right before Spring!
Tracy @ Ascending Butterfly
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mail4rosey March 17, 2017 at 10:55 AM
Those did turn out really cute. I agree, I'd rather make snowmen inside too. :)
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Theresa Mahoney March 17, 2017 at 9:53 PM
Lucky you that you don't have to deal with the snow anymore now ;) Send some of your FL sunshine my way please!
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One crazed mommy March 17, 2017 at 3:50 PM
Those are so cute - my daughter loves iced coffee, and my son loves hot chocolate. I'll have to upcycle her old bottles and make some of these cute little snowmen. As for our winter it was VERY mild - this is the coldest week we've had so far, and it's March! Last week we were walking around in flip-flops, then it got down to 26 degrees last night. Still no sight of snow - but I did have ice on my windshield this morning, which is a rarity. It's been a weird March - 70's one day, 50's the next, then back up to low 80's, then back to 55. LOL!
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Theresa Mahoney March 17, 2017 at 9:54 PM
Hasn't it been crazy? We were in the 70's in February and now we are back down to near freezing temps. Mother Nature needs to get it together.
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Indah Nuria Savitri March 17, 2017 at 5:22 PM
well, they look cute and perfect for freezing NYC! We have cold days and more winter storm this year
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Ai Sakura March 17, 2017 at 7:38 PM
Do you know I love to collect glass milk bottles?? These are so cute! Thanks for the idea :)
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Theresa Mahoney March 17, 2017 at 9:55 PM
I had no idea that you collected glass bottles Ai. I like to buy them cheap at yard sales and thrift stores for crafting purposes. You'll have to share your collection with us some day!
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Jaredamy March 17, 2017 at 7:40 PM
This is such a cute idea! I wish it was not appropriate too, but since Spring turned into winter in New England I'll take it!
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Myrah Duque March 18, 2017 at 1:17 AM
These are the most adorable glass milk bottles, I've seen!
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Audience figures for EastEnders dipped sharply on Tuesday as the soap failed to counter competition from an hour-long episode of Emmerdale.
Unofficial overnight ratings showed the BBC One total at only 6.2m compared to 8.1m for ITV1's Emmerdale.
It comes only a day after EastEnders' executive producer Louise Berridge quit over falling ratings.
A spokeswoman for the BBC said: "It's incredibly difficult when the soap opera audience is split."
Lost appeal
She said the dip in viewers was unusual as the soap had maintained a steady average over the summer.
On Tuesday, EastEnders attracted only a 30% share of viewers, whereas the ITV soap took 41.5%.
On the previous Tuesday, 9.6 million watched EastEnders, when it was screened against Champions League football on ITV1.
The figures do not take into account viewers who record programmes to watch later.
'New challenges'
Ms Berridge left to "move on to new challenges" after ratings fell from an average of 13 million at the start of 2004 to 11 million in June.
I think it has lost its appeal because of complacency
Maxine, London, UK
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In July she defended the soap after a Mirror newspaper survey found that 57% of viewers thought it had lost its appeal.
More than half of those questioned thought EastEnders needed stronger plotlines.
Emmerdale took home three prizes from the British Soap Awards in May, compared to seven for EastEnders.
Kathleen Hutchison, currently executive producer of BBC One hospital series Holby City, is to take over Ms Berridge's role at EastEnders.
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We’ve been working on a new product release for a year and want to hear your opinions on the product. Read on for product information and our vision for hardware wallets.
TL;DR Key features of Cobo Vault 2nd gen we are going to launch:
QR code air-gapped
Totally open source: Including firmware of the Secure Element
PSBT support and compatibility with other wallets
Fingerprint authorization to prevent password leak
Detachable battery to prevent battery corrosion and AAA support
Bitcoin-only firmware option
Hey bitcoin! I'm Lixin, a longtime Bitcoiner and creator of Cobo Vault.
I come from a background in the electronic hardware industry, and experienced one of my products being featured in Apple Stores around the world. Although my interest goes back to 2010, my career intersected Bitcoin when Discus Fish (CEO of Cobo) invited me to help build Cobo’s hardware product line. Discus Fish is also the co-founder and CEO of f2pool, one of the largest mining pools currently in the world, and one of the earliest advocates of bitcoin in China.
Back in 2018 we built our 1st generation Cobo Vault hardware wallet. As we had strong ties to miners in China, we naturally designed the 1st gen with them in mind. For those who are not familiar with the mining industry in China, mining farms are nearly always built in very isolated places where there is very cheap wind or water electricity. As the miners would take their storage into these isolated regions, we needed to maximize the durability of the device in addition to its security. We used aerospace aluminum rather than plastic and made it completely IP68 waterproof. We also gave it a hardshell metal case you can put it in, which is IK9 drop resistant and passes the American military durability test MIL-STD-810G.
As for the electronic components inside the device, in order to maximize security, we made it as air-gapped as possible with QR codes. We see this as an important choice because USB cables and Bluetooth are not transparent and have a bigger attack surface. With QR codes you can see exactly what is going on and do not have to connect to a laptop which could have malware on it. QR code interaction needs a camera and a more complicated system which needs to be supported by high-level chips.
All these come with a cost, and the 1st generation isn’t as accessible for average hodlers. For more details on the product, visit here.
Things changed last year when I went to Bitcoin 2019 and talked to lots of hodlers in the States. I found that 95% of them don’t care about durability. I asked them if they were afraid of their home being flooded or burned down in a fire. The answer is - yes, they are afraid of these things, but see them as very low possibilities. Even if something were to happen, they said they would just buy another HW wallet for 100 dollars. From these conversations, it became more and more clear that the position for miners and hodlers is totally different.
After coming back from that conference, our team began the almost one year journey of designing our 2nd gen product. It compromises on durability but doesn’t compromise on security.
We designed the 2nd gen product all around a normal hodler’s needs.
Obviously hodlers share some common needs with miners:
Hodlers want a more air-gapped solution so we took the legacy of QR code data transmission between your hardware wallet and the companion app from the 1st gen rather than using USB or Bluetooth.
A Secure Element is the strongest wall of protection from physical attacks. The 2nd gen will also have a Secure Element.
Some hodlers may touch their hardware wallet once every several months. With this time period, the battery could be a significant weak point. * The 2nd gen also continues the legacy of a detachable battery to prevent battery corrosion damage. In case the battery dies someday, 2nd gen will also support AAA batteries.
The 2nd gen also keeps the 4-inch touch screen. A touchscreen significantly increases ease of use - you don’t need to suffer from tiny buttons and little screens anymore. It also significantly lowers the possibility for human error, which is one of the biggest reasons that people lose their assets.
Continued other features like the self-destruct mechanism, which prevents side-channel attacks, and Web Authentication, which prevents supply chain attacks.
If you'd like to read more about these features, check out our blog posts here.
Aside from these legacies from the 1st gen, our 2nd gen product will have some other big improvements:
With our 2nd gen we will open source the whole codebase when we launch in late Apr - including the firmware of the Secure Element. We are the first hardware wallet - also maybe the first electronic product with SE - to have open sourced the firmware of the SE. With the open source firmware code, you can see: Random number generation/master private key generation/key derivation/signing process all happens within the SE and your private keys never get out of the SE (maximizing protection against physical attacks).
At the Bitcoin 2019 conference half the hodlers I met told me they own multiple hardware wallets which they use on the go. So we added a fingerprint sensor you can use to authorize your transactions without typing in your password. No need to worry about surveillance cameras when using your hardware wallet in airports.
We will also support PSBT (BIP174) so that the device will be compatible with 3rd party wallets like Electrum or Wasabi Wallet in case people have need for using Cobo Vault with their own node or coinjoin. Also multisig between Cobo Vault and other wallets will be realized to prevent single point failure with a single brand of hardware wallet.
By sacrificing the durability of the device and its aluminum body/protective case and waterproof rating and lowering production costs, we successfully controlled the price under 200 USD. We wanted it to be at a price point most people in the community would see value in.
Personally, I am a bitcoin maximalist and also a big fan of the KISS principle. We will also release a BTC-only firmware version for people who want to minimize the codebase for less of an attack surface.
Thank you for reading until here. More details like final price would be released later when we officially release the product in late Apr. Any suggestions or questions are welcome. Also you can find me @CryptoLixin or @CoboVault on Twitter! Ears are widely open!
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Meet Shixing "Discus Fish" Mao
Discus Fish, or "Bitfish," is an iconic figure in the Chinese crypto space. In 2013, he founded f2pool, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency mining pools. Today, f2pool still ranks in the top 5 mining pools for Bitcoin, and top 2 for Ethereum, Litecoin and ZCash. As one of the first miners in China, he is a pioneer and thought leader in the mining community, and is widely accoladed for his contributions to the industry.
https://preview.redd.it/p306rsblblh11.png?width=600&format=png&auto=webp&s=1e5e4b267af717056dcd3333001e56b94b8641c5
submitted by hackkite to Cobo [link] [comments]
I’m Discus Fish, founder of Cobo Vault & Cobo Wallet. Ask Me Anything about cryptocurrency security, hardware, and more!
Hi, I’m Discus Fish, Founder and CEO of Cobo Vault and Cobo Wallet. Cobo Vault is the world’s first all-around secure, military-grade hardware wallet and Cobo Wallet is a mobile wallet with proof-of-stake pooling services that has over 500,000 users.
I wrote the very first Chinese-language mining tutorial and led the development of the 24-hour settlement protocol. I also co-founded F2Pool, now the world’s largest mining pool of integrated digital currencies! Here's some additional background: https://www.coindesk.com/chinese-mining-pool-discus-fish-bitcoin
Event: https://imgur.com/a/JwHnCTE
Proof: https://imgur.com/a/qS2xojE
Ask me anything about our company, digital assets, mining, and crypto security!
To get in contact after the AMA, please reach out to our Twitter handles at @Cobo_wallet and @Cobovault!
UPDATE: I'm signing off for a bit, but keep posting questions and I'll respond within the next few hours, thanks for everyone who took part so far!
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Btcguild shutting down.
After many months of consideration, I have finally made the choice to announce the planned closure of BTC Guild. Below, I've outlined the closure process/timeline and reasons that this decision was made.
Closure Timeframe and Process As identified in the support section and in the 2nd post on this thread, BTC Guild has had an official policy for the amount of time that will be given in the event of closure. The official date that BTC Guild will cease all business is January 31, 2015. This post is the start of the identified 3 months of warning.
1) Effective immediately, registrations are closed to new users. 2) BTC Guild mining servers will remain online until November 30, 2014. 3) Users will have until 11:59 PM (PST) on January 31, 2015 to withdraw any remaining balances on their account.
The above timeline may change if BTC Guild is sold prior to the planned date of closure.
Main Reasons for Closure 1) Risk/cost of a successful attack against the pool. As pooled mining in general is shrinking due to large manufacturers creating private farms, the potential revenue for the pool has gone down as expected. While the pool is still very profitable, the amount of time it would take to recover from an attack has increased due to the overall share of the network shrinking.
BTC Guild has, to date, never been successfully hacked. However, I have seen a rise in attack attempts, and things like Heartbleed/Shellshock which show that efforts are being put into compromising common Linux services if possible. Neither of those attacks had any affect on BTC Guild, but they were both reminders that under BTC Guild's own code, there are many services which could be a doorway into the pool's servers if a vulnerability was discovered.
One successful attack could cost close to a year of pool revenue, maybe more depending on what happens in the mining landscape over that period of time. If something else happened in that time (subsequent attack or regulation forcing closure), it would mean continuing to operate the pool beyond this point has cost me more money than it might potentially make in the rest of its lifetime.
2) US government/regulators are already taking stances against specific business types in Bitcoin, applying requirements which would be impossible for BTC Guild to operate under if they attempt to extend regulation into pooled mining, either directly or indirectly due to unclear definitions. Nobody will mine on a pool which requires them to provide personally identifiable information when they can change a single line in their configuration to point elsewhere.
Additionally, state regulators are starting to make noise about Bitcoin. New York is the first to publicly put anything forward, but there are 49 other states which can put their own spin on things. Due to the ability for states to establish a nexus for businesses dealing with their state's residents, it is a scary landscape to continue operating in.
I have no intention of leaving the US myself, and given the recent history of the US when it comes to online businesses, I don't feel safe simply moving the business legal entity to another country while continuing to live in the US myself.
Aquisition and Users's Privacy/Funds In the event that BTC Guild is acquired prior to closure, users will not have their mining history and withdrawal history transferred to the new owner. All balances up to the date of aquisition will be retained by myself, and a separate service will be made available to claim any funds owed. I am unwilling to compromise on this, because I refuse to do anything where it puts the users of the pool at risk of not receiving what they've earned under my watch.
Pool Recommendations and Advice For users looking for a new home for their miners, I highly recommend BitMinter, Eligius, and p2pool. I do not recommend Slush over any of those 3 options, and I actively encourage users to not use Discus Fish or GHash.io. Other smaller pools exist which are run by honest people, but due to their size, it is difficult to recommend them to the average miner.
Closing Words When I got into Bitcoin back in March of 2011, I never expected anything that we've seen over the last 3 and a half years. I had never built a computer before, never run a server beyond a Gentoo PC in a spare bedroom, and never setup a website that experienced even 0.1% of the traffic BTC Guild gets on an average day.
Bitcoin and BTC Guild have both radically changed my life. While I am closing BTC Guild, I still plan to remain a part of the Bitcoin community. I do believe, even in the face of over-regulation, that Bitcoin will continue to grow and become more useful and usable. I just feel that it is time to move on from BTC Guild, and take pride in the fact that BTC Guild's closure can show that not all Bitcoin businesses end with somebody stealing funds from their users, either by "getting hacked" or outright theft.
submitted by TerreCiel to Bitcoin [link] [comments]
REAL LEGIT and PRO Ekrane - a platform for providing services in all mining process
Ekrane - a platform for providing services, for working with the use of cloud mining, PoS -forging mining and browser-based mining.
Fundamental crypto-business : Cloud mining, Masternode, Browser mining, Mining-mix
The legal side is the company EGALITY (LMD), technical development - E-GAME (AVG).
Ekrane - implemented as a multifunctional tool, a unique service for business, with a user-friendly interface and a simple management model.
The goal of the development was to simplify the provision of services in the field of cryptichesh extraction with available methods and to unite into a single mechanism, in the form of a business building strategy, accessible to each participant of the process.
Equipment:
Rental capacity.
Now Ekrane not only leases the computing power of a hasht for bitcoin, litecoin, ethereum and other complex algorithms, but also invests in the power of partners to increase the flow of profits.
At the moment, we are expanding the spectrum and increasing the capacity of cloud-based crypteshesh, using a hash lease in special cloud services, accumulating power in their data centers and farms. This is a new model of earnings, which creates groups (mining pools), with one goal: to get more revenue, in comparison with the usual distributed mining, due to the equipment management by the contractor, the technical and software components.
The capacity rent spectrum is directed to special crypto-currency farms, which are computer complexes with a large number of ASIC-devices united into a single computer network of algorithms.
Contracts for cloud mining with services: Lifetime Technology (Thailand) Co. Ltd (cryptominingfarm); (Flymining); (Eobot); (Bits2u); (Hashing24); (F2Pool Discus Fish); (BWPool) allow you to provide rental and power purchase services, under the algorithms SHA3, SHA256, Scrypt, Scrypt-N, X11, X13, X15, accumulated data centers and farms.
You can apply for a loan to purchase hashrate power (the maximum size is 0.01 BTC) or a loan for the Masternode investment (maximum is 0.03 BTC).
The loan period - until maturity, the interest rate is fixed and amounts to 12%.
Loans have a designated purpose and can be used to purchase or increase the power of a hashrate. After the loan is issued, the funds must be used as intended within a period of not more than 168 hours from the moment of registration, otherwise the loan amount and interest will be withdrawn from the wallet for purchase balance and the loan service will not be available in the future.
Repayment of the loan is as follows: for any accruals to your wallet for payouts, 50% of the accrued funds are automatically withdrawn in order to repay the loan. Withdrawal of funds will be stopped after the loan amount and the discounted interest rate has been fully repaid (12%).
Loans are available only to users who used the starting hashrate power of cloud mining. The user can not make more than one loan at a time. The next loan is possible only after the full repayment of the previous one. Be careful, activate the credit limit only for the use of funds for the intended purpose. Be careful, activate the credit limit only for the use of funds for the intended purpose.
The minimum deposit amout:
- For Rent: 0.0075 BTC.
- For Purchase: 0.05 BTC.
- For Masternode: 0.1 BTC.
- For Mining-mix: 0.002747 BTC.
The minimum payout amount: 0.0015 BTC.
Referral program depending the Level:
- Partner-Mining: 2.5%+1.5%+1%+0.75%+0.5%+0.25%+0.2%+0.15%+0.1%.
- Partner-Invest: 6%+4%+1.5%+1%+0.5%+0.4%+0.3%+0.2%+0.1%.
- Partner-Masternode: 5%+2.5%+1%.
The fee is fixed and amounts to 1000 satoshi per partner. Charging is carried out on the wallet for withdrawal.
Under the terms of the program, all invited partners must be active:
- activation of the account is obligatory by confirmation by email;
- activation of the bonus capacity of cloud mining in the "Base" tab is mandatory.
Payment methods: Bitcoin.
START HERE AND BE A REAL PROFESSIONAL of Mining:
https://ekrane.net?reg=bevzeogwepcfdhx
submitted by Ninobrown998 to u/Ninobrown998 [link] [comments]
Let's use Mike Hearn's Coinbase Reallocation to stop the censoring scammer KnCMiner!
Mike Hearn posted Coinbase Reallocation this morning to let the honest majority of hashing power regulate criminal miners like BitUndo. It's a really simple idea! Dishonest blocks and the miners who mine them are identified out-of-band by the community of reputable mining pools. For BitUndo that means submitting double-spends via the service and watching for them to be included in blocks. When they are the honest miners vote with their hashing power, just like they voted on whether or not Bitcoin needs new soft-forked features like P2SH.
When a coinbase output, the reward for mining, reaches the 100 block maturity the protocol simply counts up all the votes for the block. If a majority agrees the block is honest, great! But if not the coinbase reward is put into a pot of funds that subsequent honest blocks are allowed to claim for themselves. Unlike re-orging out dishonest blocks this isn't disruptive - confirmations are never undone - and at the same time it ensures that the bad miners can't profit from their malicious actions. It's compatible with nearly all major clients too because SPV clients, like Android Wallet and Multibit, just check that transactions are included in blocks and leave validation up to the mining community. (the idea being that majority of hashing power is honest and wouldn't include invalid transactions or give themselves un-earned Bitcoins)
KnC has been ripping off customers by self-mining rather than shipping hardware out the door. Their solo pool all pays to the address 1BGbGFBhsXYq6kTyjSC9AHRe1dhe76tD6i. We can stop this fraud right now with just the co-operation of just three people: the operators of GHash.io, BTC Guild, and Discus Fish, together a majority of the hashing power.
Of course, they might try to hide their illegal mining activities and make their blocks indistinguishable from others, like by paying out to a random address in each block. This is easily fixed too by voting to reallocate funds from any block without proper identification on hand. When that identification is provided to the honest and reputable hashing power the funds can be easily released from the pot and given back. Remember too that if we had proper identification for miners available the BitUndo criminals would be facing legal liability, a potent tool to stop fraud. (I guess P2Pool shares could be accompanied by identity proofs based on smartcard-enabled passports, although it'd be even better if that hashing power moved to a professionally run and secure pool that has the resources to comply with their reallocation regulation duties)
Finally, we can't forget our tax obligations. As much as we hate paying taxes - I know I'm putting off my April 31st deadline with Revenue Canada - they're an integral part of lawful society. With Coinbase Reallocation the honest majority can make sure that mining income not allocated properly to the relevant authorities is reallocated appropriately.
If Bitcoin is to succeed it has to be reputable, and reputable means recourse from fraud. Please tell the hashing power majority, GHash.io, BTC Guild, and Discus Fish, that we want a regulated and safe Bitcoin!
Serious edit: Of course, as nearly everyone realized, the above is satire. What far fewer realize is what I'm saying with that satire: Mike proposed a simple mechanism that essentially acts as a way for miners to vote with their hashing power to blacklist block rewards. Yes, you can do that already, but blacklists via reorgs are expensive, risky, and very difficult to co-ordinate; automated voting on what to blacklist is cheap and easy.
I'm sure he intended it to be used for exactly one thing - punishing miners who violate his notion of double-spending rules - but once such a mechanism is in place it can be used for a lot more than originally intended. If you were a big publicly known mining pool, could you really resist the pressure to just flip "one little switch" and vote to blacklist blocks produced by a "bad" pool at no cost to you? As I showed above, the definition of "bad" can extend to a lot more than just double-spends, and the pressures on pools to blacklist can and will be legal and regulatory.
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Btcguild shutting down.
After many months of consideration, I have finally made the choice to announce the planned closure of BTC Guild. Below, I've outlined the closure process/timeline and reasons that this decision was made.
Closure Timeframe and Process As identified in the support section and in the 2nd post on this thread, BTC Guild has had an official policy for the amount of time that will be given in the event of closure. The official date that BTC Guild will cease all business is January 31, 2015. This post is the start of the identified 3 months of warning.
1) Effective immediately, registrations are closed to new users. 2) BTC Guild mining servers will remain online until November 30, 2014. 3) Users will have until 11:59 PM (PST) on January 31, 2015 to withdraw any remaining balances on their account.
The above timeline may change if BTC Guild is sold prior to the planned date of closure.
Main Reasons for Closure 1) Risk/cost of a successful attack against the pool. As pooled mining in general is shrinking due to large manufacturers creating private farms, the potential revenue for the pool has gone down as expected. While the pool is still very profitable, the amount of time it would take to recover from an attack has increased due to the overall share of the network shrinking.
BTC Guild has, to date, never been successfully hacked. However, I have seen a rise in attack attempts, and things like Heartbleed/Shellshock which show that efforts are being put into compromising common Linux services if possible. Neither of those attacks had any affect on BTC Guild, but they were both reminders that under BTC Guild's own code, there are many services which could be a doorway into the pool's servers if a vulnerability was discovered.
One successful attack could cost close to a year of pool revenue, maybe more depending on what happens in the mining landscape over that period of time. If something else happened in that time (subsequent attack or regulation forcing closure), it would mean continuing to operate the pool beyond this point has cost me more money than it might potentially make in the rest of its lifetime.
2) US government/regulators are already taking stances against specific business types in Bitcoin, applying requirements which would be impossible for BTC Guild to operate under if they attempt to extend regulation into pooled mining, either directly or indirectly due to unclear definitions. Nobody will mine on a pool which requires them to provide personally identifiable information when they can change a single line in their configuration to point elsewhere.
Additionally, state regulators are starting to make noise about Bitcoin. New York is the first to publicly put anything forward, but there are 49 other states which can put their own spin on things. Due to the ability for states to establish a nexus for businesses dealing with their state's residents, it is a scary landscape to continue operating in.
I have no intention of leaving the US myself, and given the recent history of the US when it comes to online businesses, I don't feel safe simply moving the business legal entity to another country while continuing to live in the US myself.
Aquisition and Users's Privacy/Funds In the event that BTC Guild is acquired prior to closure, users will not have their mining history and withdrawal history transferred to the new owner. All balances up to the date of aquisition will be retained by myself, and a separate service will be made available to claim any funds owed. I am unwilling to compromise on this, because I refuse to do anything where it puts the users of the pool at risk of not receiving what they've earned under my watch.
Pool Recommendations and Advice For users looking for a new home for their miners, I highly recommend BitMinter, Eligius, and p2pool. I do not recommend Slush over any of those 3 options, and I actively encourage users to not use Discus Fish or GHash.io. Other smaller pools exist which are run by honest people, but due to their size, it is difficult to recommend them to the average miner.
Closing Words When I got into Bitcoin back in March of 2011, I never expected anything that we've seen over the last 3 and a half years. I had never built a computer before, never run a server beyond a Gentoo PC in a spare bedroom, and never setup a website that experienced even 0.1% of the traffic BTC Guild gets on an average day.
Bitcoin and BTC Guild have both radically changed my life. While I am closing BTC Guild, I still plan to remain a part of the Bitcoin community. I do believe, even in the face of over-regulation, that Bitcoin will continue to grow and become more useful and usable. I just feel that it is time to move on from BTC Guild, and take pride in the fact that BTC Guild's closure can show that not all Bitcoin businesses end with somebody stealing funds from their users, either by "getting hacked" or outright theft.
submitted by TerreCiel to BitcoinMining [link] [comments]
Scenario: Falling Butt Price leads to Selfish Mining
I've thought of ways bitcoiners could undermine bitcoin itself.
Suppose the price falls to where a butt is not worth much more than the electricity and hardware costs to mine it (if it's not already).
Suppose a pool with 25% of the hash rate (Discus Fish) for example starts selfish mining. That way they make more bitcoins and the other mining pools make less.
These smart guys figured out Selfish Mining exists. http://hackingdistributed.com/2014/01/15/detecting-selfish-mining/
Everybody I know on sealswithclubs who knows technical details about bitcoin just dismissed and hand-waved Selfish Mining when it first came out. That was the beginning of my understanding.
It's hard to detect, but people are working on that. I really think this is a possiblity. Of course butters don't like to talk about it. The people who found this attack aren't even anti-bitcoin. At least 2 solutions have been proposed but I don't think they'll be implemented.
submitted by SealsEvolutionary2 to Buttcoin [link] [comments]
Looks Like GHash.IO Finally Raised Their Block Size Cap To ~341 KB
https://blockchain.info/block-height/283100
https://blockchain.info/block-height/283093
https://blockchain.info/block-height/283091
https://blockchain.info/block-height/283085
This is good news. Like, actual good news, not some guy trying to make bad news into good news(aka half of this subreddit). With such a large mining pool raising the block size limit, it allows for the Bitcoin network to support more growth. While raising the limit by about 100 KB is not much, it shows that they're willing to raise their limit if it proves necessary for the network.
With many merchants hopping on board and accepting Bitcoin, it's inevitable that they will need to raise it in the future to support the volume it will see. Glad to see the mining pool Ghash.IO with a questionable history has chose to do this for the sake of Bitcoin, I imagine they may raise it again someday if it needs to be.
Meanwhile though the pool Discus Fish with 14% of hashing power seems to be capping their blocks at 48 KB-this is not good.
submitted by skilliard4 to Bitcoin [link] [comments]
BTCGuild closing!
Just an FYI for those diversified shibes, BTCGuild is closing effective January 2015!
"After many months of consideration, I have finally made the choice to announce the planned closure of BTC Guild. Below, I've outlined the closure process/timeline and reasons that this decision was made.
Closure Timeframe and Process As identified in the support section and in the 2nd post on this thread, BTC Guild has had an official policy for the amount of time that will be given in the event of closure. The official date that BTC Guild will cease all business is January 31, 2015. This post is the start of the identified 3 months of warning.
1) Effective immediately, registrations are closed to new users. 2) BTC Guild mining servers will remain online until November 30, 2014. 3) Users will have until 11:59 PM (PST) on January 31, 2015 to withdraw any remaining balances on their account.
The above timeline may change if BTC Guild is sold prior to the planned date of closure.
Main Reasons for Closure 1) Risk/cost of a successful attack against the pool. As pooled mining in general is shrinking due to large manufacturers creating private farms, the potential revenue for the pool has gone down as expected. While the pool is still very profitable, the amount of time it would take to recover from an attack has increased due to the overall share of the network shrinking.
BTC Guild has, to date, never been successfully hacked. However, I have seen a rise in attack attempts, and things like Heartbleed/Shellshock which show that efforts are being put into compromising common Linux services if possible. Neither of those attacks had any affect on BTC Guild, but they were both reminders that under BTC Guild's own code, there are many services which could be a doorway into the pool's servers if a vulnerability was discovered.
One successful attack could cost close to a year of pool revenue, maybe more depending on what happens in the mining landscape over that period of time. If something else happened in that time (subsequent attack or regulation forcing closure), it would mean continuing to operate the pool beyond this point has cost me more money than it might potentially make in the rest of its lifetime.
2) US government/regulators are already taking stances against specific business types in Bitcoin, applying requirements which would be impossible for BTC Guild to operate under if they attempt to extend regulation into pooled mining, either directly or indirectly due to unclear definitions. Nobody will mine on a pool which requires them to provide personally identifiable information when they can change a single line in their configuration to point elsewhere.
Additionally, state regulators are starting to make noise about Bitcoin. New York is the first to publicly put anything forward, but there are 49 other states which can put their own spin on things. Due to the ability for states to establish a nexus for businesses dealing with their state's residents, it is a scary landscape to continue operating in.
I have no intention of leaving the US myself, and given the recent history of the US when it comes to online businesses, I don't feel safe simply moving the business legal entity to another country while continuing to live in the US myself.
Aquisition and Users's Privacy/Funds In the event that BTC Guild is acquired prior to closure, users will not have their mining history and withdrawal history transferred to the new owner. All balances up to the date of aquisition will be retained by myself, and a separate service will be made available to claim any funds owed. I am unwilling to compromise on this, because I refuse to do anything where it puts the users of the pool at risk of not receiving what they've earned under my watch.
Pool Recommendations and Advice For users looking for a new home for their miners, I highly recommend BitMinter, Eligius, and p2pool. I do not recommend Slush over any of those 3 options, and I actively encourage users to not use Discus Fish or GHash.io. Other smaller pools exist which are run by honest people, but due to their size, it is difficult to recommend them to the average miner.
Closing Words When I got into Bitcoin back in March of 2011, I never expected anything that we've seen over the last 3 and a half years. I had never built a computer before, never run a server beyond a Gentoo PC in a spare bedroom, and never setup a website that experienced even 0.1% of the traffic BTC Guild gets on an average day.
Bitcoin and BTC Guild have both radically changed my life. While I am closing BTC Guild, I still plan to remain a part of the Bitcoin community. I do believe, even in the face of over-regulation, that Bitcoin will continue to grow and become more useful and usable. I just feel that it is time to move on from BTC Guild, and take pride in the fact that BTC Guild's closure can show that not all Bitcoin businesses end with somebody stealing funds from their users, either by "getting hacked" or outright theft.
October 31, 2014"
submitted by cbinrva to dogecoin [link] [comments]
Discus Fish mined 10000 blocks
Quote from: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=700411.msg9430064#msg9430064
Discus Fish thanks user jua005 for mining the 10000th main chain Bitcoin block of F2Pool. The block was found at 2014-11-04T02:03:14Z. Since the opening of the pool on May 5, 2013, we have received 6.155×1023 double sha256 hashes from our users. So far we are the largest Bitcoin and Litecoin mining pool in the world, at 75Phash/s and 350Ghash/s.
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How Can We Encourage Pools To Increase Their Maximum Block Size?
As of right now, the Maximum block size allowed by the network is 1 MB. However, many pools are still using significantly lower limits on blocks:
Discus Fish: ~50 KB
ASICMINER: ~250 KB
Bitminter: ~250 KB
Deepbit: ~250 KB
Bitlc: ~250KB
Slush: ~250 KB
GHash.IO: ~350 KB(recently upped from 250 KB)
BTCGuild: ~500 KB
Now for some math.
Ghash.IO has 27% network control, and is not utilizing 65% of the network's potential(350KB used/1MB max)
That's 17.5% not utilized from them alone(27*0.65). Let's add it up for all the major, known pools
Discus fish 14%, not utilizing 95%(50KB/1MB)
13% of network unused
BTCguild 24%, not utilizing 50%(500KB/1MB)
12% unused
Deepbit, Bitlc, Deepbit, Bitminter combined: 10%, all using 250 KB caps(not utilizing 75%) 7.5% unused
Just those known pools add up to 50% of the network's potential not being utilized. This isn't counting unknown miners that also cap their limits or ones I didn't bother listing. The point is, we need to convince mining pools to raise their limits as Bitcoins volume expands, or it wont support all of the new activity. Increasing the block size limit won't do much when few miners even utilize it, so this must happen first.
(please correct me if any of this data is incorrect)
This limits the amount of volume the Bitcoin network can handle. If all of the transactions cannot fit into a block, they get pushed into the next block. If blocks continually cannot fit all of the transactions, we can theoretically run into a sort of a "traffic jam" where the blockchain can not support all of the transactions. As of right now it isn't uncommon to go 2 hours or more without getting a confirmation even with the standard miner fee due to increased usage.
With major merchants regularly getting started with Bitcoin, this can become an even bigger problem in the near future. More people are paying with Bitcoin, and it's reaching the point where it can't be handled. I'm almost glad that no huge company like target has accepted Bitcoin, because them doing so would almost certainly bring Bitcoin to a standstill as it simply can't support the volume.
The issue is that miners have little incentive to raise their maximum blocksize, and actually have incentives not to. Larger blocks take slightly longer to send, which makes them slightly more likely of being orphaned. This slight risk is important, as an orphaned block means losing 25 BTC. To many pools, this slight risk of losing 25 BTC is more important than the negligible gains they get from transaction fees. The risk is extremely small, and a 900 KB block only takes microseconds longer to send than a 100 KB block, but pools like to maximize their profits.
As a community, in addition to moving to smaller pools, can we try to move to pools with higher block size limits?
P2pool is a decentralized mining pool, and the block finder can set the maximum block size. Remember to set:
blockmaxsize=1000000
You get more in transaction fees from this and help the network. By using p2pool with the maximum blocksize limit, you're helping the network not only by spreading the hashes, but by relaying more transactions than competing pools.
If p2pool is too hard for you or you lack the hashing poweability to store the blockchain, Eligius is also very easy to setup and uses the maximum limit, but they are somewhat large of a pool.
What is everyone's thoughts on this? I feel like Bitcoin has a ton of potential, but miners need to up their limits to support all of the usage it's seen lately. It's only inevitable that at some point the network won't be able to handle all the new adaptation if we don't change anything.
submitted by skilliard4 to Bitcoin [link] [comments]
The biggest pool, and the block validation attack.
It seems so long ago, the community came together against ghash.io, despite ghash claiming it would 'do no harm' and a new hashrate leader, Discus Fish/F2pool, stepped up to the plate.
Of course they don't intend the network harm. But that's not the point, is it? Is it possible that being able to increase the validation time for the other miners via massive transactions opens the door for an attack? If so, Ironically, given its initial use.
Let's try and spread the hashrate around better, for the health of our network. Leave F2pool to further the goal of decentralization. Thank you everyone.
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The late Dr. Billy Graham once said, "The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'" It comforts me to know someone as faithful as Dr. Graham has said something like this because I too have experienced discouragement on many occasions.
There were the times when as a pastor I was broken-hearted at the spiritual lethargy and backsliding of my parishioners. Nothing I did to stir them seemed to make any difference. It was hard when certain members of the church betrayed me or purposely made it difficult to lead effectively. It was especially difficult when the Board of Deacons at one church called for my resignation, when I had done nothing worthy of censure or dismissal. Instead, I had been proclaiming the unadulterated Gospel of Christ, which some found offensive. It was terribly discouraging as a young pastor to discover that doing right doesn't always lead to a right result or that I would be rightly treated by people who should know what was right.
As executive director and lobbyist for the Christian Action League, there have been a lot of discouraging experiences.
There was the time when my lobbying activity blocked the proposal for a state-operated lottery dead in its tracks, when suddenly and unexpectedly everything changed, and that damnable predatory racket gained passage by one vote. Then there was an egregious piece of alcohol legislation that I was sure my advocacy had killed, but it later revived and passed by an act of political treachery. Certainly painful was when a rogue federal judge overturned the Marriage Protection Amendment added to North Carolina's Constitution – a measure that I had labored on for ten years to see passed. Then there was the repeal of HB 2, commonly known as the bathroom bill, good sense legislation meant to protect women and children from having to share restrooms, showers, and locker rooms with men. HB 2 died from the media's mammoth smear campaign and formidable political pressures from Leftists groups. Nothing done was effectual to save it.
Not long ago when I was discouraged and in a dark place, I hid away in my bedroom. While lying on the bed, Kim, my wife, came in and urged me to share what was troubling me. I opened up and recalled some of the things I've mentioned in this article, and concluded: "So many losses! So many disappointments! It causes you to ask, is it worth it? Why labor so passionately, so sacrificially, in the face of such failure?"
Seeking my comfort, Kim tenderly kissed me on the cheek and said, "Yes, it was worth it. It was worth it because Jesus is worth it! And it is worth continuing because he is worthy. He is worth every arduous mile of the journey, every insult, every injury, every inconvenience, and every incapacitation."
Tears filled my eyes. How could I ever forget that Jesus was worth it?
O God, forgive me, help me.
Indeed. I cannot separate the causes for which I have given much of my life from Jesus Christ himself. I pursued them in obedience to his call. But the defeats can be somewhat disillusioning – somewhat confusing – that righteousness often doesn't succeed – that evil many times wins the day. It can be very discouraging. Nevertheless, what lifts my heart out of the muck and mire of lost confidence and enthusiasm is that Jesus is always worth the effort to defend or advance the purposes of God.
Our Lord doesn't call upon us to succeed, but to be faithful.
Think of it. Noah preached for decades while the people of his day only scoffed at the truth. The prophets proclaimed the Word of God to wayward Israel, but Israel did not turn from her sins, and God's own people murdered many of them. What about Jesus? When he came to the end of his ministry, it appeared as though his disciples hadn't actually believed him. Despite three years of concentrated and exhaustive ministry, his inner circle forsook him, and the religious authorities had him crucified. The Disciples of Christ suffered tremendously for their faith, and most of them died violent deaths.
Still, the apostle Paul admonished: "So, my dear brothers and sisters, be strong and immovable. Always work enthusiastically for the Lord, for you know that nothing you do for the Lord is ever useless" (I Cor. 15:58).
Knofel Staton has beautifully stated that followers of Christ need to be positive and optimistic and encourage each other as they approach the end of days.
"Christians should preach the kind of hope that will cancel depression, the kind of values that will cancel self-pity, the kind of victory that will cancel defeatism, the kind of power that will eliminate weakness," says Staton. "Christ has already won! So has everyone who is in Christ! We are already winners because of him."
One day we will see the Lord take all of our labors for his name's sake and weave them into an incorruptible kingdom tapestry, where the words of Christ's model prayer will finally be answered, "Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven." (Mt. 6:10).
Yes, it's worth it. It's always worth it because Jesus is worth it.
© Rev. Mark H. Creech
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Provide a 5 pages analysis while answering the following question: Improving the Quality of Life. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required. In improving the quality of life, one needs to move beyond identifying indicators of qualities of life and identify specific improvements that need to be made. The quality of life will be improved by finding treatments to effect needed improvements than continuing to expand the vast list of quality of life indicators. The guidelines for improving the quality of life in a society specify particular improvements that are frequently needed to make a society a better place to live. Indicators of improvement are normative to reflect general living conditions in a society. For example, in the category of education, increasing the literacy rate in a society might be an index of improved education. Increasing the number of teachers per capita, might be a proposed treatment to reduce the illiteracy rate. In improving the quality of life, an effort should be made to identify basic improvements that are needed in each of the eight categories and to infer reasonable treatments to achieve the improvements (Friedman 64).
 . . . . . . . . . . Government is an overriding factor in a society because the laws that are enacted or proclaimed and enforced determine to a great extent other factors such as education, protection, and health. There should be free choice, or civil liberty, and this is one of the indicators of quality of life in nations. People should be given freedom to choose their own leaders, and the freedom must be promoted realistically. An increase in freedom is an improvement in the quality of life but this freedom should be within limits. The goal and the challenge should be to achieve a delicate balance between laws that ensures personal autonomy and laws that promote the common good. Sometimes the two often conflict. When the scale tips too far in favor of the common good, people may have to sacrifice fulfillment of their personal aspirations and find whatever satisfaction they can by pursuing imposed societal objectives. This tends to pall in totalitarian, socialist, and communist societies. On the other hand, neglecting the common good to increase personal autonomy engenders over permissiveness, which undermines the foundation of society and the security of its people. Force and fraud must be minimized to maintain government, commerce, and personal freedom. Laws must be enforced to protect people from being coerced by physical force and the lives of others for government, commerce, personal freedom, and domestic tranquility to be tenable (Vitale 17).
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At f8 this year, Facebook let developers preview the Like Button on iOS mobile devices. And now the company has announced they are making the Like Button available to all Android and iOS mobile app developers.
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- Show the Like Button after a user reaches a certain level of engagement within the app. This can be effective if a developers knows that people are more likely to want to share or stay connected after a specific level of engagement within an app.
- Drive Likes as soon as people log into to an app or on the main screen of an app. Facebook suggests this may be successful if an app already has a strong brand association or if people decide to log in after having already experienced the app on a different platform. Showing the Like Button on the main screen of an app, or under the Settings of an app, can be effective for first-time users, as long as it is a clear and seamless experience.
2. Position the Like Button for high engagement
Facebook recommends testing different locations to determine which leads to the best engagement. It is also important to select locations on the screen that resonate with an existing app experience and user interface. Some apps may decide to show a pop-up dialog with the Like Button at the right moment in the app when people want to engage or share content.
3. Create an engaging Facebook Page
Developers can provide tips, start a conversation, or even reach a relevant audience through ads. Liking the Page allows active mobile app users to engage with content on both web and mobile. Additionally, developers can use App Links to create a continuity of experience between a Page and a native app. Fans will be able to click on a link posted on a Page, and go directly back to a native or web app without friction.
Facebook includes documentation on how to implement the Like button on iOS and Android on their developer website. Developers will have to submit the implementation for review via the Status and Review tab in the Dev Tool before the Like Button is live in a mobile app.
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Suppose you are given a DNA fragment of mass 1897.27 Dalton and no other information. What nucleotide combinations are there that lead to exactly this mass? Decomp helps you solve this and similar problems efficiently.
Problems like this (referred to as mass decomposition problems) often arise in mass spectrometry, where the only information left about DNA, protein, or other sample fragments is their molecular masss.
Given the weighted alphabet A, B, C with weights 3, 5, 8, what are the decompositions for weight 16? Shown are all three solutions: A2B2, A1B1C1, and C2.
The answer to the above question looks like this: There are two possible nucleotide decompositions:
either 6 Adenines
or 2 Cytosines, 1 Adenine, and 3 Guanines
In short notation, we write: A6 and C2A1G3. For a second example, see the figure on the right. More generally, the set A, C, G, T in conjunction with the corresponding molecular masses is called a weighted alphabet. Decomp can use predefined DNA and amino acid alphabets, and of course arbitrary alphabets provided by you. Decomp can also be used to solve the money-changing problem (also called coin change problem). Formally, the problem is stated as follows: Given an ordered set of weights {a1 , ��� , ak} and a nonnegative query mass M, find all solutions to M = a1c1 + a2c2 + ��� + akck where c1, ��� ,ck are nonnegative integers.
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This blog is mainly about the spectacular train wreck at The Sacramento Bee and its parent company, the McClatchy Company. But I also post about current events, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, politics, anything else that grabs my attention. Take a look around this blog, hope you enjoy it.
Friday, July 17, 2009
Sacramento Bee proposes mandatory vacation burndown for employees
The Sacramento Bee is considering mandatory vacation burndowns, in lieu of furloughs. Here is the email from Cheryl Dell.
DATE: July 17, 2009
TO: All Employees
FROM: Cheryl Dell
RE: Extra Vacation Proposal vs. Work Furlough
2009 continues to be an economic challenge for companies within our industry and in our local market. One of the potential cost saving initiatives for the second half of 2009 is a one-week unpaid furlough. We postponed triggering the furlough, hoping our revenue trends would improve.
We are now far along enough in the year to see that we do need to trigger a cost savings initiative of this magnitude, but have come up with an alternative program that may provide similar savings, without anyone taking unpaid time off. This alternative program involves taking additional vacation and is being introduced in an attempt to avoid unpaid furloughs.
As we contemplated the possible need for a furlough earlier this year, we had agreed that we would treat all employees the same, regardless of whether you are a union or a non-union employee. This means that we must get Guild agreement to implement the alternative mandatory vacation program in lieu of a furlough program. Company representatives met with Guild representatives today, to introduce the vacation program and stressed the importance of getting this approved.
We also made it clear that if the alternate vacation program was not approved, that the company would have to move forward with the original cost savings initiative and trigger an unpaid one-week furlough for all full time employees - union and non-union.
This is how the vacation program would work:
*If you earn 4 weeks of vacation per year, you would have to take two weeks of vacation between July 5, 2009 and December 27, 2009, plus one additional week.
*If you earn 3 weeks of vacation per year, you would have to take 1.5 weeks of vacation between July 5, 2009 and December 27, 2009, plus one additional week.
*Employees with less than 5 days of vacation accrual as of July 5, 2009 will not be required to take the additional week.
Guild representatives will be taking this proposal to their membership for a vote during the week of July 27. If the vote is yes, in favor of the vacation program, we will implement it immediately. In the event that the Guild vote is no, we will be implementing the furlough program.
Please note: Due to the uncertainty of the economy, we still have to hold on to the remote possibility of a one-week work furlough (just in case economic conditions get dramatically worse). However, we think that introducing this program at this time, in an attempt to avoid unpaid furloughs, is a much better alternative.
McClatchy likes this because they get to reduce financial liablities now on the books.
Update: from comments at the Guild site:
Can we assume management will also burn their vacation time for the good of the company?
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on Friday, July 17, 2009
27 comments:
Anonymous said...
...and you guild schmucks are going to buy it, even though a simple minute's worth of useful thought will tell you that a vacation burn is going to do absolutely nothing to save a dime or you from mandatory furloughs.
They're going to use you as a rubber stamp and then blame you when people catch on.
You are the dumbest collection of tools that ever infected a news room, but from what I have seen, you girly men love getting double teamed. Obama doing you on one end, Pruitt has the other.
6:21 PM
Anonymous said...
Man, the Bee guild is worthless. Why even vote? Company gets its way either way - furloughs or vacation burn. Just another screwing of the employee. How can these people still work under these conditions? If you're still drawing a McClatchy paycheck you're a complete loser at this stage of the game.
6:23 PM
Anonymous said...
The company loves this vacation burn because it won't have to payout untaken vacation accruals when it lays these fools off at the end of the year. Saves McClatchy a lot of cash. Pity the staff that has to put out a product with half the staff on vacation the next five months. What a living Hell!
6:24 PM
Anonymous said...
The guild site, www.beeguildnow.org has a list of Sac Bee reporters and how much vacation they'll have to take. Most will be forced to burn 3 weeks before Dec. 27. They won't turn this down and embrace furloughs. All the "senior writers" will have to take a full week of no pay with furloughs.
6:25 PM
Anonymous said...
The guilders will likely get boot-stomped three ways, shafted with vacation burndown and then furloughed, followed by laidoff. Ya'lls publisher did say furloughs weren't out of the question. Makes you wanna vote, don't it?
6:29 PM
Anonymous said...
Anon 6:21 et all, Go baby, GO!!
6:32 PM
Anonymous said...
What happens if you need those weeks for a long vacation you already planned early next year? Better read the trip cancellation clauses.
6:35 PM
Dave D. said...
..Unlikely the SacBee will put out any different product with half the folks gone. Same rip and print, same inattention to facts, All the same lame columnists stretching the truth past the breaking point to make their point. But since nobody actually reads the Bee, it won't matter.
6:50 PM
Anonymous said...
Don't let them get away with this. Protest the week furlough by going on strike for a week.
That will show them who is in charge.
6:55 PM
Anonymous said...
If everyone has to take a week off, can you please have Rex Babin mail in his daily 4th grade stick and circle drawing that he considers a political cartoon. Or better yet, just leave that space blank in the paper. Either way will be the same same.
8:29 PM
Anonymous said...
Pardon the intrusion, but could anyone point me to the Bee fan site? I dun think this is it.
10:13 PM
Anonymous said...
Sac Bee employees, take it from someone who knows. If management asks you to take time off then tell them your going to take your Comp days FIRST. With all the cuts and added work there are many that have weeks of Comp days. If you got them use them. Remember, they do not pay for those once your laid off so don't put more money into Pruitts pocket.
11:24 PM
Anonymous said...
Legally according to wage and hour laws comp time must be taken within the pay cycle when it is worked. If not, you're supposed to be paid overtime. Off the record deals with your boss for working and taking comp time later means nothing. If you're a supervisor there is no such thing as comp time.
5:39 AM
Anonymous said...
Maybe somebody should tip the government that McClatchy is violating comp time rules. The vacation hours chart the Bee union posted also shows lots of employees over the vacation limit. Wonder if they just lose that time or McC makes good on those suckups they like and screw the rest?
7:47 AM
Anonymous said...
Some employees, those that are more fortunate, have much more vacation time accrued than those that are less fortunate. This is basically unfair.
All vacation time should be put in a pool and shared equally. Then each employee should be required to withdraw a certain amount from that pool instead of furlough.
Those employees that are fortunate enough to be paid more than those less fortunate should also add to that pool the difference between their pay and the pay of those less fortunate. That way all employees could draw vacation days at the same pay rate.
If you voted for Obama or ever vote for a democrat, the above suggestion should make sense. It is the essence of what Obama and the democrats stand for.
8:10 AM
Anonymous said...
I am guessing that the Sac Bee has an accrual system. At the Star it is a use it or lose it system. You have to use it all, or Jan 1 you lose it.
8:19 AM
Anonymous said...
My how benefits have eroded the past two years. You wouldn't think it's the same company. How very sad and demoralizing.
8:25 AM
Anonymous said...
Employees at other MNI papers beware: This is going to happen at your papers, too, if it isn't already.
8:32 AM
Anonymous said...
At the Sac Bee vacation time is automatically recorded by payroll. It's basically X amount of hours per week worked. When you reach your max the accrual stops after that your giving the company free time.
Comp days for the most part are off the book days Management has asked you to work because they short staffed. Keep good records of those days and use them ASAP.
Use Comp days before you use vacation time. When your laid off the compant has to pay you vacation days.
8:37 AM
ex-worker Bee said...
While on forced vacation do the following.
1. Get your financial ducks in a row
2. Up date your resume
3. Start filling out applications NOW!
4. Network! Network! Network!
5. Make a list of how you can cut your spending in half and bank the other half.
6. Find out where the Employment Development Office is located! 1-(800) 300-5616...press 1 for English!
8:53 AM
Anonymous said...
Will this forced burn down affect the quality of the print edition of the Modesto Bee?
Silly me...there is NO quality with the printed edition of the Modesto Bee.
8:56 AM
Anonymous said...
Looks like they getting ready for bankruptcy.
9:20 AM
Anonymous said...
Use your forced vacation weeks to look for another job! You have nobody to blame but yourself for delaying the inevitable. If you're happy working for McClatchy, please see a doctor and start your meds.
9:53 AM
Anonymous said...
Employees should not be treated like this in America.
10:05 AM
Anonymous said...
Do you guys think that upper management is forced to take their vacation time or do they get to keep their hours to use when ever they want to ?
12:29 PM
Anonymous said...
With so few bodies, management's vacation benefit will have to be cancelled. Somebody will have to fill in for the vacationing hordes.
1:50 PM
Anonymous said...
The Sacramento region is being hit by high unemployment and worker's furloughs.
Very hard to calculate the full impact to the local economy of less money in everyone's pocket.
The retailers are in survival mode and the home builders have gone the way of CC Meyers.
Fitting that The Bee will be the faded monument to the failed Golden State.
3:44 PM
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Monitoring Compound Risk in the COVID-19 Era: Advances and Future Directions for Tracking Compound Risk
Nov 19, 2020
There is rapidly growing interest in efforts at identifying, monitoring, and anticipating multiple interacting risks, as epitomized by the COVID-19 pandemic. Institutional bodies are seeking to shift to a policy response that is more forward-looking and risk-based, rather than reactive and needs-based. This webinar, part of a joint series on compound global risk in the COVID-19 era, showcases frontier research and policy work on multi-dimensional risk tracking.
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UN General Assembly High-level Week: The Challenge of a Lifetime: Ensuring Universal Access to COVID-19 Health Technologies
Sep 25, 2020
The COVID-19 crisis has demonstrated that ensuring the right to health of all citizens in all countries is a matter of utmost urgency, and that no one will be safe until everyone is safe. The high-level event, co-hosted by the President of Costa Rica, will explore ways to enhance international cooperation through initiatives like C-TAP (the COVID-19 Technology Access Pool) and ensure universal access to health technologies, including a vaccine.
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Rescue crews are working around the clock to try to find survivors of extensive floods that have been causing devastation across Western Europe. The death toll so far exceeds 150 people, and rescuers believe that figure will climb as more bodies are discovered. Thousands of people have been left homeless after their homes were destroyed or deemed at risk, and officials are already concerned about the long-term economic effects that the lost homes and businesses will have so soon after COVID-19-related upheaval.
The flooding was caused by record rainfall on the continent. Germany and Belgium have been the hardest hit, but the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Switzerland have also been affected.
In Germany, more than 100 people have died so far, and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said that the devastation was shocking. At a news conference, he said: “Whole places are scarred by the disaster. Many people have lost what they have built all their lives.”
The worst-hit areas there are North Rhine-Westphalia, Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate. Floodwaters swept through one assisted living center, killing a dozen disabled people there, and there are still many people unaccounted for.
Rescue efforts have been complicated by difficult conditions as anxious relatives wait for news of their loved ones. A lot of abandoned cars have been found on flooded roads, but fire services report that many of the occupants of these cars must have reached dry land because they are not finding bodies inside.
One resident likened the damage to a war zone, saying that cars had been washed away and houses had been completely knocked down. Residents are now facing a tremendous cleanup effort, with huge piles of debris and mud-covered streets to contend with. Many businesses have been entirely swept away, ruining people’s livelihoods. One hotel owner said the floods came on quickly and rose as high as six feet.
Belgium, Switzerland and the Netherlands also dealing with flooding nightmare
In Belgium, meanwhile, armed forces have been sent out to four of the country’s ten provinces to assist in evacuation and rescue efforts, with Prime Minister Alexander de Croo declaring July 20 a national day of mourning. He called the floods “the most catastrophic our country has ever seen.” At least 20 lives have been lost there so far and Italy has sent officials in to help with the rescue efforts.
A river in the Swiss capital of Bern burst its banks last week, while Lake Lucerne is now flooding into the town. Flash flooding there has swept away cars, destroyed small bridges and flooded basements. In the Netherlands, rising waters that broke through a dike in the Limburg province sent thousands of people fleeing from their homes.
Across the internet, photos can be seen showing dramatic before and after photos of the damage across Western Europe. Many utility companies are reporting widespread disruptions of gas and electricity that they say may last for several weeks.
According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), some areas of Western Europe have been hit by two months worth of rainfall during just two days, a situation that was made worse by the fact that soil was already saturated by previous rainfall in the area.
Climate change alarmists like to link every natural disaster to global warming, and they’ve wasted no time taking advantage of people’s suffering to promote their agenda with this emergency. Although some in the German government have been quick to blame the floods on climate change, WMO spokesperson Clare Nullis said it was too soon to jump to that conclusion.
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As efforts continue to address the nation’s digital divide, hear from Claudia Ruiz, Policy Analyst with UnidosUS, who joins host Tetiana Anderson to discuss the connection between technology and civil rights.
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Anderson: The COVID-19 pandemic forced schools, offices, and healthcare providers to shift online. And at that time, millions of low-income Americans didn't have the technology or digital skills to make the adjustment, shining a spotlight on our nation's long-standing digital inequities. Hello and welcome to "Comcast Newsmakers." I'm Tetiana Anderson. While incremental progress has been made in narrowing the digital divide, there's still a fundamental obstacle to equity and opportunity. And joining me to talk about all of this is Claudia Ruiz. She is a policy analyst at UnidosUS. And Claudia, thanks for being here.
Ruiz: Hey, Tetiana, I'm so happy to be here. Thanks for having me.
Anderson: So I want to start out by talking about the late congressman and civil rights activist John Lewis, who said that unequal access to the Internet is, "The civil rights issue of the 21st century." And for those who aren't familiar with that line of thinking, what is the connection between tech and civil rights?
Ruiz: Well, I think taking -- centering broadband access as a civil rights issue is one of the easiest things that we can do is center that within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. When we look at the fact that prior to the pandemic, there were about 18 million Latinos without broadband. Fast forward to February, 2021, there are approximately 21 million Latinos now without broadband, you really start to better understand the fact that lacking broadband access really compounds other existing inequities that span healthcare access, educational gaps, economic mobility, homeownership rates, and even accessing government programs and benefits.
Anderson: So when you think about those types of things that people have been living through because of coronavirus, you just mentioned accessing services, doing homework online, accessing recovery funds, how much do you think we're actually living a modern-day example of why these digital inequities are, in fact, an emergency?
Ruiz: Yeah, I think that, again, I think the COVID-19 pandemic really underscored the fact that inequities fall along racial and ethnic lines when it comes to kind of standard aspects of daily life. Now, when we take into context or take into consideration the fact that Latino families have about $36,000 in net worth versus $180,000 for white families, the fact that somewhere around 15 million Latinos lack access to health leave, you really start to better understand the fact that having broadband access can not only close those gaps, but it can also open new on-ramps to opportunity, right, whether it's accessing online learning platforms, being able to access remote working tools and digital tools, or even navigating government portals in order to apply for various benefits like the recent -- like the CTC, the child tax credit that was recently incorporated in this year's American Families Plan. So, again, it's really just highlighting the fact that broadband Internet connection is really the undercurrent that threads through each and every dimension of daily life. And it's for that reason that it's absolutely essential that we provide some sort of support or benefit for low-income households to ensure that they are able to sort of not only recover from the multi-dimensional devastation of the pandemic, but also be able to build back better.
Anderson: So you talked about some of the barriers, you talked about some of the needs. I mean, what have you seen that is actually working to close the gap between these digital inequities? I mean, obviously, giving a benefit is part of that, but I would imagine that Unidos is working on so much more.
Ruiz: Right. So there's sort of a saying within the policy space around broadband advocacy, and that's that there are the three A's to it. So availability, affordability, and adoption. Now, we're pretty focused on the affordability and the adoption aspects, as those have been typically left out. And so you mentioned the affordability aspect, which is being addressed right now by the EBB or emergency benefit program -- Emergency Broadband Benefit program, which provides a monthly benefit to low -income households. However, affordability is really just the start. Getting people online really is only the beginning of a long journey and also having to empower them to be able to access devices. So rather than simply using a smartphone, households need to have better access to laptops, desktops, laptops, tablets, devices that can actually enable people to better navigate all of these different digital tools that we now live with. On top of that is also the fact that you need to also make sure that households are prepared with digital readiness and digital literacy skills so that they are able to better navigate. Again, all of these new digital tools that have transitioned are in real-life time on to online.
Anderson: So much to do. And Claudia, if people want to find out more about what your organization is doing, what's the website?
Ruiz: You can visit us at Unidosus.org. And there you can learn more about the various issue areas that we work on, including broadband access.
Anderson: Claudia Ruiz with UnidosUS, thank you so much for being here.
Ruiz: Thanks so much for having me, Tetiana.
Anderson: And thanks to our viewers as well for watching. As always, for more great conversations with leaders in your own community and across the country, log on to comcastnewsmakers.com. I'm Tetiana Anderson.
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I recently wrote about the early stages of the 2019-novel Wuhan Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak and what companies should be doing to safeguard employees and ensure business continuity. In the time since, the virus has spread further - both geographically, with more countries beyond China reporting cases, and in the numbers of people infected and who have died. This article provides an update on the outbreak, in order to help HR teams manage the impact of coronavirus on their operations.
What are governments doing?
In many countries, governments are taking steps to limit the potential for the virus to spread. China extended its lunar new year holiday period and has staggered the recommencement of work in order to reduce the risk of virus transmission associated with millions of people simultaneously returning from their hometowns to their places of work. Both in China and elsewhere in Asia, governments have recommended or promoted home working and have closed schools for prolonged periods (for example, at the time of writing, schools in Hong Kong will remain closed until 2nd March). Travel restrictions are also in place, with many countries requiring travellers arriving from mainland China to enter quarantine for 14 days. Several countries now prohibit entry from mainland China and some, such as the Philippines and Taiwan, extend this restriction to residents of Hong Kong and Macau. At the same time many countries have advised their citizens not to travel to China unless absolutely necessary and others have advised their citizens already there to leave if they can.
What are companies doing?
Many of our clients have advised against non-essential business travel to China and require employees returning from China to self-quarantine. Some companies have also facilitated repatriation of expatriates and dependants from locations near the epicentre of the outbreak, such as Wuhan, and repatriation of families where this has been requested by the employee (although as my previous post suggested, there may be consequences associated with doing this).
Other responses include enabling employees in the locations most seriously affected, such as China, Hong Kong and Singapore, to work remotely, and providing advice from medical experts about protecting oneself and others from the virus. For employees who still travel to their place of work daily, companies have adopted enhanced measures to ensure employee well-being, such as regular temperature checks, increasing the frequency with which workspaces and communal areas are cleaned or sanitized, and providing guidance on how to ensure employees remain healthy at home and at work.
What should you be doing?
Firstly, it is important to keep abreast of the daily updates announced by countries with respect to immigration requirements and restrictions. These can change at short notice, potentially leaving business travellers stranded or having to significantly alter schedules, as some ECA staff travelling to Taiwan recently can testify.
Now is also an important time for companies to ensure that any policy they have in place regarding dealing with pandemics remains fit for purpose. When we ran a survey of company responses to the Ebola epidemic in 2014, only 51% of companies had a formal policy for dealing with major disease episodes. While the proportion of companies with such a policy has risen since then, a sizeable minority still lack them. Given the greater frequency with which epidemics now occur (SARS in 2003, followed by H1N1 in 2009, MERS and Avian Influenza in 2013 and Ebola in both 2014 and 2018), having a formal response mechanism, which is reviewed regularly and stress-tested after a crisis, seems increasingly necessary.
Because the coronavirus is more easily transmissible than other recent viral outbreaks, such as SARS and MERS, there is a higher chance that companies will experience their employees becoming infected, especially if they operate in high-incidence locations (in China this includes the provinces of Hubei, Guangdong and Zhejiang). Therefore, it is also important for employers to review corporate insurance policies, in case of a threat to business operations, and medical insurance for employees to ensure they would be covered in case of infection. It is also recommended that companies review policy-dictated responses and actions regularly. Although opinions are divided as to when the virus may peak, it is generally accepted that incidences will likely occur throughout March and April at least, so a heightened state of alert is likely necessary for a while to come.
Many companies have repatriated expatriate staff from locations most affected by the coronavirus, such as Wuhan. In cases where companies have not repatriated such assignees, we are commonly asked whether location or ‘hardship’ allowances should be increased to compensate for the risks of remaining. It is notable that companies typically do not increase location allowances during similar crises, with only 4% doing so according to survey responses. Indeed, this is a stance we also endorse. The underlying issues associated with the origin and spread of 2019-nCoV in China, such as risks of disease outbreaks occurring and the capability of the medical infrastructure to deal with them, are reflected in our location allowance recommendations for cities in China. In spite of significant improvements in living conditions in China in the past two decades, we still recommend the payment of location allowances because of fundamental issues which continue to impact expatriate lives in the country. Therefore, rather than paying employees who remain in situ more money, the emphasis should be on ensuring their well-being. Indeed, over half of companies polled in our survey stated that they were likely to enhance medical protection for expatriates who remain in affected areas - a significantly more common response than simply raising assignment salaries by increasing location allowances.
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Rebecca Gale says she was 'shocked and then angry' the Student Loans Company took so long to repay her.
Image caption,Rebecca Gale, with her husband Chris, says she quickly went from delight about her refund to anger about why it took so long for her to get itFormer student Rebecca Gale says she was "surprised, shocked and then angry" after getting a student loan refund six years after she finished paying it off.
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The 35-year-old thought she'd heard the last from the Student Loans Company (SLC) when she made her last payment in 2015.But just a few days ago she got a message on her phone saying she was owed £1,109."So when I got the voice mail originally I thought 'this is a scam'.
"But we checked, rang them and I was initially surprised and delighted because who doesn't like a refund?"Rebecca's opinion on the matter started to change though when she began to realise the money had been with the SLC for six years when it should have been in her account. headtopics.com
My money not theirsThe Manchester University graduate said: "I was, to be honest, a little bit angry. I wanted to understand how it could take so long to repay something that should have been in my bank account for over half a decade."We're not talking about the difference between me putting food on the table or clothing my children but £1,100 is still a month's mortgage paid off, that's a month's nursery costs or £1,100 worth of credit debt I could have paid off.
"The point is that's my money and it should have been in my account and not theirs," said Rebecca, who lives in the Yorkshire Dales.Image source,Rebecca GaleImage caption,Rebecca met her future husband Chris whilst at Manchester University and borrowed £9000 to help pay for her studies
The SLC told Money Box it got some new information from HMRC in May 2021 about Rebecca's student loan repayments in the tax year 2010-11 which meant she had overpaid and was eligible for a refund.SLC said as soon as it got this new data it set about trying to contact Rebecca with the end result of the money hitting her account just a few days ago.
Why overpayments happengetting better.That's because it used to get annual updates from HMRC which kept a track of how much people had repaid of their student loans via PAYE.In April 2019 those updates turned from once a year to once a week making the system much more efficient. Nonetheless, in the first year of the new system more than 54,000 former students still overpaid £23m between them - an average of £424 each. headtopics.com
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People are now also encouraged to pay off the last couple of years of their loan payments by direct debit to limit the chance of overpayment even further, with some refunds also now taking place automatically (for amounts up to £750).Money Box contacted HMRC to ask why it took six years to send through new information to SLC about Rebecca's historic payments. In a statement it said: "Following a routine scan of our records earlier this year, we identified a small number of cases where repayment information had not been passed onto SLC.
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Fly with us: A view of Delaware beaches from the sky this weekendDelaware beach goers were encouraged to social distance as COVID-19 continues to spike in beach towns.Courtesy of Maj. Gary Emeigh, Civil Air PatrolThe tide is rising for home sales in Delaware, up nearly 50% in the second half of 2020, including a continuing wave in 2021 at the beaches where the most expensive home listed for sale is over $10 million.”It has been so, so busy. It’s amazing,” said Sandi Bisgood, a Realtor with Ocean Atlantic Sotheby’s International Realty in Rehoboth Beach. “I have never started a year this strong in 22 years.”Some people’s home buying decisions have been influenced by changes due to the coronavirus, said Bisgood, an at-large director for the Delaware Association of Realtors and past president of the Sussex County Association of Realtors.Home care: How to run your generator safely during a power outage caused by winter stormsTrends: #VanLife takes off during COVID-19 as Americans convert vans for a life on the road”A lot of people have realized, ‘Hey, I can work anywhere. I’d at least like to be closer to the coast part of that time. They’re ready for a change. They want to get out the city, get out of congested areas,” she said.If you’re ready to start shopping for your dream home – or you’re just dreaming – here are the 10 most expensive, most luxurious places for sale at the Delaware beaches as of Friday, Feb. 12. 10. Bethany Beach, 1 Dune Road, $3,900,000Details: Ocean view, one lot from the beach, new construction, 6,000 square feet, 6 bedrooms all en suite, 6 full baths, 2 half-baths, gym/media room, additional living room, elevator, rooftop deck, 2-car garage with electric car chargers, hospital quality air filtration, lot size 0.21 acre, Keller Williams Realty.9. Lewes, 35867 Tarpon Drive, $3,950,000Details: New construction in Wolfe Pointe community, 12,360 square feet, 7 bedrooms, 7.5 baths, lot size 1.09 acre, Long & Foster Real Estate.8. Frankford, 37428 Dirickson Creek Road, $3,990,000Details: On Dirickson Creek, dock with access to the inland , 10,000 square feet, 6 bedrooms, 7.5 baths, lot size 3.41 acres, Bethany Area Realty.7. Rehoboth Beach, 3 Henlopen Ave., $3,995,000Details: Ocean views one block away from the beach, 6,051 square feet, 6 full baths, 2 half-baths, pool, lot size 0.2 acre, Ocean Atlantic Sotheby’s International Realty.6. Fenwick Island, 38895 Bunting Ave., $4,300,000Details: Oceanfront, 5,714 square feet, 11 bedrooms, 9 baths, four large oceanfront decks, two westward looking decks, lot size 0.11 acre, Coldwell Banker Realty.5. Dewey Beach, 1 Beach Ave., $4,399,000Details: Oceanfront at private North Indian Beach on the southern side of Dewey Beach, 3,500 square feet, 6 bedrooms, 6 baths, lot size 0.17 acre, Jack Lingo Realtor, The Carrie Lingo Team, Southern Delaware Properties. 4. Rehoboth Beach, 319 S. Boardwalk #2, $4,400,000Details: Oceanfront condominium encompassing the entire second floor, 4,615 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 5 baths, RE/MAX Realty Group Rehoboth.3. Bethany Beach, 31661 N. Ocean Way, $5,475,000Details: Oceanfront, 5,000 square feet, 6 bedrooms, 7 baths, lot size 0.19 acre, Long & Foster Real Estate.2. Bethany Beach, 30073 Surfside Drive, $5,590,000Details: Oceanfront, 7,000 square feet, 8 bedrooms, 8 baths, lot size 0.39 acre, BHHS Fox & Roach, Newtown Square, Pennsylvania.1. Rehoboth Beach, 1 and 3 Cullen St., $10,999,900Details: Oceanfront, 9,957 square feet, 12 bedrooms, 11 baths, lot size 0.79 acre, Ocean Atlantic Sotheby’s International Realty. NOTE: On Thursday, Feb. 11, the status of this listing changed to “active under contract,” but it was still being advertised for sale.Supply and demandDemand for homes is particularly high at Delaware beaches, said Sharon Blair, director of marketing and communications at the Delaware Association of Realtors.Sales in Rehoboth Beach were up 45.95% in 2020 compared with 2019, and in Bethany Beach sales rose by 33.8% in 2020, Blair said.That’s higher than the overall increases in 2020 in Sussex County, 24.42%; Kent County, 14.33%; and New Castle County, 3.38%.Bisgood said, “While demand is super strong, inventory is really down.”Inventory of homes for sale in 2020 compared with 2019 dropped by 24% in the first quarter, by 36% in the second quarter, by 57% in the third and by 61% in the fourth quarter.Meanwhile, Blair said the median sales price in Sussex County was up 12.07% to $325,000 in 2020 compared to $290,000 in 2019, while in Kent the increase was 8.44% and in New Castle, 8.38%.Although prices are rising, Bisgood said the continued low interest rates are a plus for buyers.”People are finding they can afford more house because payments are lower with the lower interest rates,” Bisgood said.
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We appreciate your eagerness to adhere to the commands of Allah and to attain the status of true servitude to the Lord of the Worlds and to follow the straight path which Allah, may He be glorified and exalted, wants every person to follow, and commanded them to seek guidance to it at all times: “Guide us to the Straight Way” [al-Faatihah 1:6].
We advise you to hasten to that which is good and to compete in doing righteous deeds, for Allah, may He be glorified and exalted, urges us to do that in the verse in which He says (interpretation of the meaning):
“And march forth in the way (which leads to) forgiveness from your Lord, and for Paradise as wide as are the heavens and the earth, prepared for Al-Muttaqoon (the pious)”
[Aal ‘Imraan 3:133].
And Allah, may He be glorified, says (interpretation of the meaning):
“So hasten towards all that is good”
[al-Baqarah 2:148].
The one who is truly a slave to Allah is the one who is content with Allah as his Lord, Islam as his religion, and Muhammad (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) as his Prophet, and he does not hesitate, or seek people’s advice, or consult them, with regard to anything that Allah commands him to do:
“It is not for a believer, man or woman, when Allah and His Messenger have decreed a matter that they should have any option in their decision. And whoever disobeys Allah and His Messenger, he has indeed strayed in a plain error”
[al-Ahzaab 33:36].
Abu’z-Zinaad (may Allah have mercy on him) said in al-Faqeeh wa’l-Mutafaqqih (1/222):
What is prescribed as Sunnah is not to be contested, and should not be subjected to personal opinions. If people did that, no day would pass without them moving from one religion to another. Rather it should be adhered to and followed, regardless of whether it is in accordance with one’s opinion or otherwise. Indeed what is prescribed as Sunnah, and many other aspects of the truth, may often differ with one’s opinion, but the Muslims have no alternative but to follow them and submit to them. End quote.
Muhammad ibn Nasr al-Mirwazi (may Allah have mercy on him) said:
Whoever follows the religion of Muhammad (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him), let him accept what he brought, whether it is in accordance with his opinion or otherwise, and let him not develop any doubts about anything he said, because doubt about the words of the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) constitutes disbelief.
End quote from Ta‘zeem Qadr as-Salaah
This is the greatness of Allah’s way of disciplining those who believe in Him, and is a warning from Him to them lest the following of His religion be based on whims and desires and personal interests. Allah, may He be exalted, says (interpretation of the meaning):
“They (hypocrites) say: ‘We have believed in Allah and in the Messenger (Muhammad (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him)), and we obey,’ then a party of them turn away thereafter, such are not believers.
And when they are called to Allah (i.e. His Words, the Qur’an) and His Messenger (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him), to judge between them, lo! a party of them refuse (to come) and turn away.
But if the right is with them, they come to him willingly with submission.
Is there a disease in their hearts? Or do they doubt or fear lest Allah and His Messenger (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) should wrong them in judgement. Nay, it is they themselves who are the Zalimoon (polytheists, hypocrites and wrong-doers, etc.).
The only saying of the faithful believers, when they are called to Allah (His Words, the Quran) and His Messenger (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him), to judge between them, is that they say: ‘We hear and we obey.’ And such are the prosperous ones (who will live forever in Paradise).
And whosoever obeys Allah and His Messenger (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him), fears Allah, and keeps his duty (to Him), such are the successful ones”
[an-Noor 24:47-52].
Shaykh as-Sa ‘di (may Allah have mercy on him) said in his commentary on the verses quoted above:
Here Allah, may He be exalted, tells us about the situation of the wrongdoers, those in whose hearts is a disease, weakness of faith, hypocrisy, doubt or lack of knowledge. They speak words and make a show of commitment to faith and obedience to Allah, but then they do not act in accordance with what they say. Some of them turn away significantly from obedience, based on the fact that Allah says here: “then a party of them turn away”. The one who turns away may have the intention of coming back to that from which he turned away, but in this case what is referred to is the one who turns away and does not turn back at all, and does not look at that from which he is turning away. You will find that this is applicable to many of those who claim to believe in Allah and be obedient to Him, but they are weak in faith; you will find that they do not do many acts of worship, especially those that are hard for many people, such as giving zakâh, spending in ways that are obligatory or recommended, jihad in Allah’s cause, and so on.
“And when they are called to Allah (i.e. His Words, the Qur’an) and His Messenger (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him), to judge between them” that is, if an issue arises between them and someone else where a judgement is required, and they are called to the judgement of Allah and His Messenger,
“lo! a party of them refuse (to come) and turn away”, seeking the rulings of the time of ignorance, and preferring the rulings of man-made laws over the rulings of sharia, because they know that they are in the wrong and that sharia only judges on the basis of what really is the case.
“But if the right is with them, they come to him” that is, they come to the ruling of sharia
“willingly with submission” but that is not because it is the ruling of sharia; rather that is because it coincides with their whims and desires. So they are not doing anything praiseworthy in this case, even if they come willingly, because the one who is a slave of Allah in a true sense is the one who follows the truth whether he likes it or not, whether it suits him or not. As for the one who follows sharia when it coincides with his whims and desires and rejects it when it does not, and gives precedence to his whims and desires over sharia, he is not a slave of Allah in a true sense.
Allah says, criticising them for turning away from the ruling of sharia:
“Is there a disease in their hearts?” that undermines the healthy state of the heart and removes common sense, so that he becomes like a sick person who turns away from that which will benefit him and turns towards that which will harm him?
“Or do they doubt” and that has made them anxious about the ruling of Allah and His Messenger, so that they accused him of not judging in accordance with the truth?
“or fear lest Allah and His Messenger (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) should wrong them in judgement?” That is, are they afraid that an unfair and unjust ruling will be passed against them? Rather that is how they are, “Nay, it is they themselves who are the Zalimoon (polytheists, hypocrites and wrong-doers, etc.)”. As for the ruling of Allah and His Messenger, it is based on the utmost justice and is in accordance with wisdom. “And who is better in judgement than Allah for a people who have firm Faith?” [al-Maa’idah 5:50].
These verses indicate that faith is not just words, unless those words are accompanied by action. Therefore the one who turns away from obedience has no faith. It is obligatory to submit to the ruling of Allah and His Messenger in all cases, and if a person does not submit to that ruling, this is indicative of a disease in his heart and weakness in his faith. It is forbidden to think negatively of the rulings of sharia or to think that they are contrary to justice and wisdom.
Having described the condition of those who turn away from the rulings of sharia, Allah now describes the condition of the praiseworthy believers:
“The only saying of the faithful believers” that is, the true believers whose deeds confirm their faith, when they are called to Allah and His Messenger so that he may judge between them, whether that is in accordance with their whims and desires or otherwise,
“is that they say: ‘We hear and we obey’” that is, we hear the ruling of Allah and His Messenger, we respond to that to which he called us, and we obey him completely, without any reservation.
“And such are the successful ones (who will live forever in Paradise)” it is only they who will be successful, because success means attaining what is sought and being saved from what one fears, and no one will succeed except the one who refers to Allah and His Messenger for judgement, and obeys Allah and His Messenger.
Having mentioned the virtue of obedience with regard to the rulings in particular, Allah now mentions the virtue of obedience in general terms, in all situations:
“And whosoever obeys Allah and His Messenger” by believing in what they say and complying with their commands,
“fears Allah” that is, fear accompanied by knowledge, so he refrains from what is forbidden to him and restrains himself from following whims and desires. Hence Allah says, “and keeps his duty (to Him)” by refraining from that which is prohibited, because keeping one’s duty to Allah (taqwa) – when it is mentioned in general terms – includes doing what is enjoined and refraining from what is forbidden. When this is mentioned alongside righteousness or obedience – as in this case – it is interpreted as referring to warding off the punishment of Allah by refraining from disobeying Him.
“such” namely those who combine obedience to Allah, obedience to His Messenger, fear of Allah and mindfulness of Him
“are the triumphant ones” as they will be saved from the punishment, because they avoided the causes that lead to that, and they will attain reward, because they did that which leads to it. So triumph is theirs alone. As for those who were not like that, they will miss out on triumph, according to what they failed to attain of these praiseworthy characteristics.
End quote from Tafseer as-Sa‘di
Remember that your time in this world is very short, and no one knows when his time will be up. So it is better to prepare to meet Allah with that which is pleasing to Him, not with that which incurs His wrath and anger.
Remember that the Shaytaan is constantly urging you to procrastinate and delay, until there comes to you that which will prevent you from obeying Allah, for he has devoted all his efforts to tempt people and he will never miss any opportunity to deprive the believer of virtue, and he is always watching out for such opportunities. Therefore one of the early generations said: Beware of saying “I will…” for it is one of the troops of Iblees!
Hijab is an honour and a source of pride for the Muslim woman, but over and above all that, it is a means of attaining mercy and divine pleasure. Allah, may He be exalted, says (interpretation of the meaning):
“O Prophet! Tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks (veils) all over their bodies (i.e., screen themselves completely except the eyes or one eye to see the way). That will be better, that they should be known (as free respectable women) so as not to be annoyed. And Allah is Ever Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful”
[al-Ahzaab 33:59].
Do not think little of that piece of cloth, for it hides behind it purity, chastity, good manners and etiquette. It is the practice of the Mothers of the believers and the righteous women; it is the practice of Khadeejah, Faatimah, ‘Aa’ishah, Hafsah, Umm Salamah, and all the righteous, devout women who guard that which Allah would have them guard.
It pains us greatly to see crowds of girls hastening to display themselves and take off their hijab, not one of them paying any attention to good manners of feeling shy before people, not hesitating to display their charms and show their adornments, going against the natural characteristic of modesty that Allah has instilled in women, but because the Shaytaan makes that fair-seeming to them, they are able to do that.
After that, is there any reason to feel too shy to wear hijab or niqab? Can we approve of the situation in which those who commit sin do so openly and audaciously, whereas those who seek to obey Allah feel shy about their acts of obedience, their chastity and their purity?
Have the commands of Allah becomes so insignificant in our minds that we subject them to the whims and desires of the people and their views?
The first and most important step in wearing hijab is to be convinced that it is obligatory, and to submit to the command of Allah as something unavoidable. The believing woman does not have any choice about it, for Allah, may He be glorified and exalted, says (interpretation of the meaning):
“It is not for a believer, man or woman, when Allah and His Messenger have decreed a matter that they should have any option in their decision. And whoever disobeys Allah and His Messenger, he has indeed strayed in a plain error”
[al-Ahzaab 33:36].
Then you should train yourself to ignore people’s stares and comments, because pleasing people is a goal that you can never attain, and the one who watches people’s reactions will die of worry. Rest assured that Allah, may He be glorified and exalted, will be pleased with you for your obedience, and He can see what you are faced with in your efforts to follow the straight path, and He will grant you ease after hardship.
The Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said: “Whoever seeks to please Allah by incurring the wrath of the people, Allah will suffice him and will protect him from the people, but whoever seeks to please people by incurring the wrath of Allah, Allah will leave him to the people.”
Narrated by at-Tirmidhi (2414); classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in as-Silsilah as-Saheehah (2311)
‘Aa’ishah (may Allah be pleased with her) wrote this hadith in a letter to Mu‘aawiyah, after he asked her for advice, and she wrote to him again and said: To proceed: fear Allah, for if you fear Allah, He will suffice you against the people, but if you fear the people, they will not avail you at all before Allah. Wa’s-salaam.
Remember that the individual’s destiny is connected to his deeds, and that when the people carry him to his grave, and throw the dust onto his body, he will never find anything to comfort him except his righteous deeds, for he will be cut off from all means at that time, except the means that connect him to the Creator, may He be glorified and exalted. So let each of us prepare for that momentous Day.
Allah, may He be glorified and exalted, says (interpretation of the meaning):
“That Day shall a man flee from his brother,
And from his mother and his father,
And from his wife and his children.
Everyman, that Day, will have enough to make him careless of others”
[‘Abasa 80:34-37].
And He, may He be glorified, says (interpretation of the meaning):
“Friends on that Day will be foes one to another except Al-Muttaqoon (the pious)”
[az-Zukhruf 43:67].
So beware of being among the heedless, and beware of procrastination and delay; hasten to do good before it is too late, for this world is only a few transient days and its joys are fleeting. We ask Allah to guide us and you, and to make us steadfast in this world and the Hereafter.
Please see also answers no. 11967, 13998 and 69804
And Allah knows best.
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What is a Like-Kind Exchange (Section 1031, Form 8824, Like-Kind Exchanges)? How do I enter it in Drake Tax?
A like-kind exchange, also known as a Section 1031 exchange, is a way of trading or exchanging assets and, in many cases, deferring gain on the trade (or exchange). “Like-kind” means that the property you trade must be of the same type as the property you receive.
Due to changes to Section 1031 exchanges listed in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (see page 70), any like-kind exchanges taking place after December 31, 2017 may generally only include real property.
Real Property for Real Property, such as:
City property for farm property
Improved property for unimproved property
Real estate for real estate lease that runs 30 years or longer
Remainder interest in real estate for a remainder interest in other real estate
Land for land
Building for building
Land improved with a store building for land improved with an apartment building
In Drake17 and prior Personal Property (or personalty) for Personal Property, such as:
Office furniture, fixtures, and equipment
Information systems, such as computers and peripheral equipment
Data handling equipment (except computers)
Airplanes (airframes & engines), except those used in commercial or contract carrying of passengers or freight, and all helicopters (airframes & engines)
Automobiles and taxis
Buses
Light general purpose trucks
Heavy general purpose trucks
Railroad cars and locomotives except those owned by railroad transportation companies
Tractor units for use over the road
Trailers and trailer-mounted containers
Vessels, barges, tugs, and similar water-transportation equipment, except those used in marine construction
Industrial steam and electric generation or distribution systems
Some property does not qualify for like-kind exchanges, such as:
Property you use for personal purposes
Stock in trade or other property held primarily for sales (such as inventories), raw materials, and real estate held by dealers
Stocks, bonds, notes, or other securities, or evidence of indebtedness (accounts receivables)
Partnership interests
Certificates of trust or beneficial interests
If it’s a straight-up exchange (asset-for-asset), more than likely no gain would be recognized from the exchange (or trade). You would have the same basis in the new asset as you had in the asset you traded. While you may not have to recognize any gain on the exchange, you still need to report it on Form 8824.
Frequently, not all properties are equal in value, so either cash or other property (non-like-kind) is included in the trade. This other property or cash is known as boot. If boot is involved, you will have to recognize some gain, but only up to the amount of boot you receive in the exchange. Your basis in the property you receive is equal to the basis in the property you gave up minus the amount of boot you received plus the amount of gain recognized.
Basis of Property Given Up
- Cash or Other Property Received
+ Gain Recognized
Total Basis of Property Received
Note that you will also never recognize more gain than your actual realized gain on the exchange.
If the asset you are trading is subject to a debt (or liability) and the other party involved in the exchange is assuming your debt (relieving you of it) it is as if you received cash in the amount of the liability. This debt is also treated as boot. If you assume the other party’s debt and he assumes yours, you are only treated as receiving boot by the amount of the debt you have exceeds the debt you pick up.
Form 4797 Not Generating
Form 4797 will only generate if there is realized gain on the exchange. Per the 8824 Instructions, "Generally, if you exchange business or investment real property solely for business or investment real property of a like kind, section 1031 provides that no gain or loss is recognized. If, as part of the exchange, you also receive other (not like-kind) property or money, gain is recognized to the extent of the other property and money received, but a loss isn't recognized." Per the 4797 Instructions, "...enter the gain or (loss) from Form 8824, if any, on Form 4797, line 5 or line 16."
See Publication 544, Sales and Other Dispositions of Assets, for more information.
Here are the steps for entering a like-kind exchange:
On the 4562 screen for the asset that you traded (or gave up), add an identifier so that you can easily recognize that the asset was involved in a like-kind exchange.
For example, if you traded a single family home and in exchange received a duplex, you might want to enter the description of the asset you gave up as "8824- single family home."
Go to the 8824 screen and enter the like-kind exchange:
Other property given up represents property that you gave up in addition to the single family home (in this example).
Other property received represents any cash paid to you by the owner of the other property, the fair market value (FMV) of any property you received in addition to the new asset, and any liabilities assumed by the owner of the new asset.The sum of these amounts would be reduced by any exchange expenses you incurred.
Like-kind property received tracks the FMV of the exchange property you received and the adjusted basis of the like-kind property you gave up.
Note: The adjusted basis would include the sum of the adjusted basis of the property you gave up, any exchange expenses (if not used in the Other property received figure), and any amount of cash you may have paid the other party in addition to the like-kind property.
Once you have entered all applicable information on the 8824 screen, calculate the return and view Form 8824. Look at the line marked Basis of like-kind property received. Generally, this becomes the adjusted basis of the new asset, unless there was an additional amount incurred in obtaining it.
There are two options for the next step, depending on whether you are using the like-kind exchange rule (A) or electing out of the like-kind exchange rule (B). Details on what the like-kind exchange rule is can be found in Publication 946, page 42.
A. Using the Like-Kind Exchange Rule
Generally, you would continue depreciating the old asset unless you elect out of the like-kind exchange rule. In this circumstance, do not enter anything in the If sold section of the 4562 on the original asset. Create a new 4562 screen for the new asset that shows only the cost of the new asset plus any additional amount paid to obtain it (the amount shown in step 3 above).
For example, if you traded the single family home plus $4,000 for a duplex, the extra $4,000 you paid would become the cost for the duplex entered on the 4562; the date placed in service would be the date of the trade.
B. Electing Out of the Like-Kind Exchange Rule
If you are electing out of the like-kind exchange rule,
Enter the date of the transaction in the If sold section of screen 4562 for the asset given up under Date Sold.
Enter the corresponding Multi-form code in the Like Kind Exchange MFC box to indicate that this asset is included on the 8824 screen (for the first LKE, enter a 1). (In Drake16 and prior, indicate this by choosing LK for the Property Type).
Enter a new 4562 screen for the asset received.
The cost would include the adjusted basis of the old asset, the cost of the new asset, and the extra amount paid to obtain it.
For example, if you traded the single family home plus $4,000 for the duplex, the cost of the new asset would be the sum of the single family home cost, plus the cost of the duplex, plus $4,000.
Attach a statement that indicates you are electing out of the like-kind exchange rule.
Note:
This statement must indicate that the Election was made under section 1.168-6(i) for each property involved in the exchange.
The election must be made on a timely filed return.
The election can only be revoked with the consent of the IRS.
In an individual return, you can make the election on the ELEC screen. Use the Other description field in the lower-right corner, which produces an ELECTION note that e-files with the return.
In business returns, there are two options:
Enter an SCH screen to attach an EF Note with this statement.
Open the ELEC screen, use the general election statement, and enter an explanation in the space provided.
For more information on how to depreciate assets involved in a like-kind exchange, see Publication 946, or the Instructions for Form 4562. For more information on figuring the basis of assets, refer to Publication 551.
For Drake17 and prior, special rules exist for vehicles acquired in a trade-in. See Publication 946, for more information. Starting in Drake18, generally only real property can qualify for a like-kind exchange.
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Try these amazing pumpkin spice latter cupcakes. This Fall dessert has all the flavors of a pumpkin spice latte in cupcake!
5 from 1 vote
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Prep Time 15 mins
Cook Time 22 mins
Total Time 27 mins
Course Desserts
Cuisine American
Servings 24
Calories 247 kcal
Ingredients
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2 sticks 1 cup butter, softened to room temperature
1 cup brown sugar packed
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 eggs
1 15- ounce can pumpkin puree
3 cups flour
2 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
½ teaspoon baking soda
¼ teaspoon salt
¾ cup milk
2 tablespoons instant espresso powder
For the Icing:
2 sticks 1 cup butter, softened to room temperature
5 cups powdered sugar
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
¼ cup pumpkin spice coffee creamer
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a cupcake pan with paper liners
In a large bowl, beat together the butters and sugars until light and fluffy. Add the vanilla.
Add the eggs, one at a time, beating between each addition.
Add the pumpkin and mix until well combined.
In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, pumpkin pie spice, cinnamon, baking soda, and salt.
Add 1/3 of the dry mixture to the pumpkin mixture and mix until combined. Pour in half the milk and mix again. Add another 1/3 of the flour mixture and beat until combined. Pour in the remaining milk and beat again. Add the remaining flour and mix until combined.
Pour the espresso powder into the batter and mix until combined.
Spoon an even amount of batter into each of the cupcake liners and bake in the preheated oven for 18 to 22 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the cupcakes comes out clean.
Allow the cupcakes to cool for a few minutes in the pan, then transfer them to a wire cooling rack to cool completely.
To make the icing, beat together the butter, powdered sugar, vanilla, and coffee creamer until well combined. Pipe the mixture on top of each cooled cupcake and sprinkle a small amount of pumpkin pie spice over the top of the cupcakes before serving.
Nutrition
Calories: 247kcalCarbohydrates: 57gProtein: 3gFat: 1gSaturated Fat: 1gCholesterol: 28mgSodium: 101mgPotassium: 103mgFiber: 1gSugar: 43gVitamin A: 2993IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 48mgIron: 1mg
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There’s good news and bad news. The good news is that the PUC did order that the Hiawatha Project transmission line be undergrounded.
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
The bad news is that NO ONE is addressing need, need has been presumed, despite lots of evidence in the record that the project is way way more than what is required for the claimed 55MW need, which in itself is questionable. Silence… Those who worked so hard to get a requirement for a Certificate of Need abdicated, zero follow through, after legislation passed to require a Certificate of Need, and it then wound its way through the PUC process, and there were NO intervenors.
Here’s the PUC’s deliberation:
AUDIO – Hiawatha begins at 16:50
It seems to end before they’re done, and there’s a note that complete audio will be posted later, so check back. Right now there’s about 45 minutes and it ends as they’re going through exceptions to the ALJ report, a prelude to the ultimate vote.
Here’s the report in theSTrib:
Xcel told to bury new power lines across south Minneapolis
Article by: STEVE BRANDT , Star Tribune
Updated: January 12, 2012 – 11:15 PM
PUC decision protects south Minneapolis greenway, but doesn’t say how to cover extra $13.6 million cost.
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A state board Thursday ordered that new high-voltage power lines across the heart of south Minneapolis be buried underground but deferred the question of who should pay the extra $13.6 million cost.
The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission ordered that the twin 115-kilovolt lines requested by Xcel Energy be deemed necessary but said they should be buried under E. 28th Street.
That’s a victory for the city and a number of neighborhood representatives. They argued that an alternative route that would run lines overhead or underground along the bike-pedestrian corridor was too disruptive. “It’s a huge victory, said Soren Jensen, staff chief for the Midtown Greenway Coalition.
But the precedent-setting question of who pays will require a separate proceeding that will last several months and determine whether all Xcel customers in Minnesota will help bear the cost of burying the lines or just those in Minneapolis.
The city argued that all Xcel customers should pay because the factors arguing for burying the route are so compelling that any other route, including the greenway, would be unreasonable. Burial of the lines, the city said, should thus be considered a standard cost, borne by all customers, rather than a special accommodation whose extra costs should accrue only to Minneapolis residents. Xcel agreed with that wider-cost impact.
But the PUC wasn’t ready to make that precedent-setting decision now, telling Xcel to file its views in 30 days in a proceeding that will give other potentially affected parties a chance to comment.
“There is no precedent case just like this,” said attorney James Strommen, who argued on behalf of suburban cities in support of the city position. “The standard is not always overhead in all cases, in our view.”
At the PUC’s request, Xcel generated estimates of the amounts needed to pay off the extra cost of the buried lines. To do so in the standard five years, the per customer cost would be $12 if spread statewide, and $83.40 if levied only within Minneapolis.
Xcel estimates that the lines and two new substations at either end, at Hiawatha and Oakland Avenues, will cost $42 million. The utility will refine those costs as it does final engineering for the project; it plans to break ground later this year and start operations in 2014.
Xcel argued that since 2006, electrical demand has exceeded its capacity to reliably provide service to customers in the south Minneapolis area. Opponents argued that Xcel has further plans to bisect south Minneapolis with transmission lines, has overestimated demand and should substitute conservation measures.
The utility originally proposed that the lines be built within the Midtown corridor paralleling Lake Street somewhere between E. 31st Street and E. 26th Street. It said that a greenway route would be cheapest but that option quickly drew opposition from the recreation lobby.
The PUC’s decision largely followed the recommendations 15 months ago of Administrative Law Judge Beverly Jones Heydinger. She cited a 1993 court decision protecting the downtown Minneapolis Armory to find that reasons of cost, convenience and efficiency aren’t sufficient to impair a protected historic district such as the greenway trench and its bridges when alternatives exist.
Posted by Carol A. Overland
Filed in Legislative & Policy, Transmission
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Making some bread
January 10th, 2012
Not bad for an amateur!
Tried some ciabatta, let the sponge go a little too long but it came out great — must be beginner’s luck. At this ripe age, I decided that it’s time to learn to bake bread, never have before, and I don’t know why. Must be nesting, trying to get the kitchen in the “new” house together. Or maybe it’s just time to make some dough…
Posted by Carol A. Overland
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Excelsior Energy Air Permit Incomplete
January 5th, 2012
It appears Tom Micheletti, Excelsior Energy, is having another bad day. The Air Permit for the Mesaba Energy Project was rejected by the MPCA as incomplete, modeling not approved, the list goes on and on… Yes, that’s “our” Mesaba, the coal gasification power plant that can’t get a Power Purchase Agreement if its life depended on it, and yes, its life does depend on it.
MPCA Letter – Mesaba App Incomplete – Dec 30 2011
Air Quality – Criteria Pollutant Modeling – Checklist
Air Quality Dispersion Modeling – Not approved
Thank you, Air Quality at the MPCA, for making my day!
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Ohio Earthquakes & Fracking
January 1st, 2012
Earthquake in Youngstown, Ohio, the epicenter just a hop, skip and a jump from the D&L Injection Well, pictured above.
Elisa Young in Youngstown sent me this link this morning, noting that “on this Diane Rehm segment the industry specifically states on the air that earthquakes of 2.0 or less (like they can control an earthquake in progress) are beneficial to the drilling company because it shows them the fracking is working. …but fracking and injection don’t induce seismic activity in Ohio… ” The section on earthquakes starts at 28:12.
DIANE REHM SHOW – Dec.19, 2011
NEW CONCERNS OVER HYDRAULIC FRACKING
If you don’t have a copy yet, if you haven’t read it, get with it, learn about gas migration and earthquakes, errrrr… seismic events (copies are getting harder to find, price is going up, but I’m glad because it means that people are paying attention and reading this MUST READ book):
Khilyuk’s Gas Migration: Events Preceding Earthquakes
Earthquakes have becoming more and more common in Ohio, as in Arkansas, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, and yes, there is a trend, a connection, and it’s GAS. In this Youngstown, OH case, it’s related to injecting fracking waste into the ground near a fault. How on earth did they get a permit to do this, anyone with half a brain would know that if you’re pumping in, there is bound to be a response!
Ohio’s “Are you ready for an earthquake?” page!
OHIO EARTHQUAKES FROM 2010 TO PRESENT
Here’s a sample, from the Columbus Dispatch:
State links quakes to work on wells
By Joe Vardon
The Columbus Dispatch Sunday January 1, 2012 11:34 AM
The Kasich administration has put a temporary stop to the disposal of waste from oil and natural-gas drilling in wells within a 5-mile radius of a particular Youngstown well — a well believed to be the cause of 11 earthquakes since March, including a 4.0 quake that struck around 3 p.m. yesterday.
Officials from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources think that waste pumped into the Youngstown-area well, referred to as Northstar No. 1, has been seeping into a previously unknown fault line in eastern Ohio, causing the seismic activity. The moratorium, issued yesterday by Jim Zehringer, the Natural Resources Department’s director, affects four other injection wells.
“The 5-mile radius, we were told by our geologists, is an adequate buffer zone” for the fault line, Zehringer said. “There are four other wells, none of them active, but we’re not going to allow any activity to take place in these wells.”
Michael Hansen, of the Ohio Seismic Network, said that even though Northstar No. 1 was shut down Friday, there is still potential for more quakes, although the magnitude of yesterday’s quake may have relieved some of the pressure near the fault line.
There are 177 injection wells throughout the state. Zehringer and other officials, speaking on a New Year’s Eve conference call, said the single Youngstown well is the only one of its kind that’s been related to seismic activity since the state started using them in the 1970s.
Kasich officials also stressed that the months-long shaking in Youngstown is not a result of hydraulic fracking — a procedure used to extract oil and gas out of rock formations such as the Marcellus and Utica shale. Discoveries of oil and gas in the shale rock in eastern Ohio has sparked hopes for an economic boon in the state’s Appalachian region.
State Rep. Robert F. Hagan, D-Youngstown, called for a statewide moratorium on injection wells. Hagan said he asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to intervene because of the possibility of another quake.
“We don’t want to overreact,” said Zehringer, who suggested that a wider moratorium in well activity “could devastate the economic livelihood of thousands of Ohioans.”
The magnitude 4.0 quake that struck yesterday afternoon in McDonald, outside Youngstown, is the largest of the 11 quakes that originated there, Hansen said.
Residents said a boom accompanied the shaking yesterday. Sheriff’s dispatchers from several counties in the area said there were no immediate reports of damage.
Rick Simmers, chief of oil and gas management for the ODNR, said a daily average of about 5,000 42-gallon barrels of brine water — a byproduct of oil and gas drilling — were pumped into the well, down to 9,200 feet. He said a majority of the water comes from Pennsylvania wells.
Gov. John Kasich, who is vacationing with his family in Florida for the holidays, was in constant contact with Zehringer and other senior staff members throughout the day yesterday, communications director Scott Milburn said. “The governor directed director Zehringer to put public health and safety first and to make a response that is reasonable and appropriate and based on science,” Milburn said.
The well’s owner, Northstar Disposal Services LLC, which agreed to stop injecting brine into the well on Friday, applied for and received licensing under the Strickland administration, Kasich spokesman Rob Nichols said. The No. 1 well has been active since December, 2010, according to Nichols.
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We've all seen the movies. Robots from the future travel back in time to kill the only people that can stop them. Computers develop a conciousness and decide the only way for humans to survive is to imprison them. And who or what do we have to thank for all of that? Artificial intelligence (and Hollywood of course).
Well, I'm sorry to inform you that "artificial intelligence" as portrayed in the movies does not exist. But that doesn't mean A.I. doesn't exist at all or that it can't empower humans to do more. In fact, A.I. is being leveraged around the world for everything from identifying terrorists before they attack, to predicting weather changes, to autonomously driving cars, to diagnosing health issues, and even cleaning our homes and keeping us company.
At Lucus Labs, we help customers work through all the hype and discover what artificial intelligence really is and what it can do for your business. Using cutting edge technologies, we design systems that solve real-world problems while also continuously researching new/emerging technologies that can one day provide us with A.I. like we see in the movies (minus the parts about it killing us).
We work side by side with our customers to document your problems and assist you with choosing the right algorithms required for solving those problems. From there, we continue working with you to design, develop, and implement solutions that can give you an exponential advantage over your competitors, help you save time, help you save money, and even help increase your profits.
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What is Invert ransomware Invert is the name of the ransomware category. Thiss virus encrypts important files and adds the extension .fun to their names
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In my previous article, “Spending to Help MSMEs”, I spoke on how small businesses were largely left to their own devices during this pandemic, and that a lack of government support was partially responsible for the Philippines’ deepest economic contraction since World War II.
Conveniently, a suggested article on the page titled “1 in 4 MSMEs Closed Due to COVID-19 Pandemic: Trade Chief” further brought into the light what MSMEs had to endure because of the pandemic and the ensuing lockdowns. It stated that about 26% of MSMEs were "partially or temporarily closed" by the pandemic, 52% were partially operating, and only 22% were fully running.
1 in 4 MSMEs Closed Due to COVID-19 Pandemic: Trade Chief
Despite – or perhaps because of – the dire situation, these difficult economic realities have forced remaining businesses to innovate, allowing many of them to become more resilient in the event of another crisis. Enterprises that were able to remain open had to rethink their brands’ value propositions and unique selling points, as market behaviors and purchasing patterns have drastically changed within a short period of time.
While it would be quicker to explain how businesses innovated during this pandemic through theories, I believe that using an example would better humanize the process. For this article, we are featuring Gouache, a brand that specializes in creating waxed canvas bags for active, artistic urbanites and adventure lovers.
The Gouache story
Gouache was initially a passion project crowdfunded by The Spark Project, aimed at introducing waxed canvas creations to the Philippine market. Their products include backpacks, dopp kits, aprons, and lunch bags, all handmade from their workshop in Marikina, Metro Manila. All of these items are manifestations of how Gouache always strives to create functional and quality products that both bestow value and spark joy for their users, and imbue dignity and pride to their makers.
The enterprise has grown significantly since its inception in 2013, from a team of 4 to now 16 full-time employees. In addition to their now-erstwhile showroom in Katipunan and kiosk in Ayala 30th, they expanded their retail presence to various malls in Metro Manila through consignment agreements in lifestyle stores, such as Rustan’s, Common Thread, Common Room, and R.O.X. As with many other Filipino businesses, things seemed to be looking up for Gouache then.
Hard-hit
Unfortunately, like most other lifestyle brands, the COVID-19 pandemic hit Gouache hard. The lockdown saw their traditionally-strong sales channels, such as physical and corporate sales, dry up, leading to an initial cash crunch. Given the new situation, the team decided to go as lean as possible in order to continue operations and keep their employees attached to their jobs and benefits. The team immediately negotiated to work in shifts, terminated unnecessary leases, and reduced managerial salaries, which helped cut expenses by about 60%.
Though cost-cutting is not an uncommon practice during the pandemic, Gouache was able to execute it well, as they were able to properly identify which of their rented spaces were necessary, and which weren’t. Their ability to keep their staff employed was also remarkable, as many MSMEs in the Philippines ended up retrenching workers.
While austerity is a good tactic to keep operations running and staff employed in the short-term, cost-cutting alone is often not enough to sustain the business during prolonged periods of hardship. A business usually also has to change its business model or product range to stay competitive and relevant during times of flux.
A new range
In the case of Gouache, there have been changes in both its business model and product range throughout the pandemic. Right at the onset of the pandemic in March 2020, they began creating disposable isolation gowns to help medical frontliners deal with the first wave of the pandemic, bridging the shortage of PPE during lockdown when hospitals could not access their imported stocks. They eventually were able to produce and distribute over 12,000 units, with the help of donations, to various hospitals in Metro Manila.
Gouache Kimono Coverup Courtesy: Gouache Facebook
Though they did not profit from this endeavor, creating these disposable gowns kept their staff attached to their jobs. It likewise led them to design and create more casual, consumer-oriented PPEs by June 2020. This includes their reusable kimono cover-ups, which continue to perform well amidst the pandemic.
Furthermore, upon observing that many consumers formerly relying on public transportation have now been forced to cycle or bike to work, Gouache also designed a new line of bicycle and motorcycle bags. This shows how, even amidst the pandemic, not only have they addressed a genuine need in the market, but they have also refocused their product offerings to cater to what customers now deem as essential.
Gouache Bicycle Bag
Gouache Motorcycle Bag
A new business model
While business models and production systems aren’t always the most visible, they are nevertheless as essential when adapting to market demand. Having appropriate systems helps keep an enterprise running smoothly and efficiently, especially during times of distress.
Gouache’s first change in their business model came early in the pandemic as a means of cutting down on expenses. The enterprise shifted from producing single items in large batches to producing multiple items in smaller quantities, allowing for more made-to-order transactions. This shift in production allowed for Gouache to be more efficient in inventory management of both raw materials and finished goods, and allowed them to offer more personalized service.
Another, more noticeable, change was the revamping of their website in October 2020. The new website refreshed Gouache’s digital presence, and was designed with its new made-to-order business model in mind. When pieces go out of stock, customers can opt to pre-order and wait for their goods, which allows the brand to more efficiently capture sales.
On a simpler note, Gouache has also started distributing its products on high-traffic e-commerce marketplaces such as Lazada (through LazMall) and Shopee (with the help of the Roots Collective). This was done in order to capitalize on these sites’ sheer number of users and browsers.
Teamwork and camaraderie
The story of Gouache’s weathering of the pandemic would not have been possible without the camaraderie and trust the team had with each other. In the long haul, investing in your workforce allows for so much more possibilities during hard times.
It was a deep sense of solidarity towards our medical frontliners which led the team to try and produce disposable isolation gowns in consultation with doctor friends, despite having no prior experience with creating these items. An empowered team also made it easier to co-create and experiment with new designs. Lastly, trust and mutual understanding allowed management to take a step back when needed, and better evaluate goals.
Though Gouache did not have it easy during the pandemic, they were nevertheless able to pivot by quickly reassessing the landscape and cutting inefficiencies. A strong sense of camaraderie and trust also helped brand go creative and out there during a time when enterprises often just look inwards, sometimes out of necessity.
Gouache Spark Project Video from GouacheWaxedCanvas on Vimeo.
Dexter Yu is the COO and co-founder of the Roots Collective, a marketplace and community bridging social enterprises and creative startups with conscious consumers and advocates. He is also the co-founder of Wholly Grain, a social enterprise producing sorghum grains and other sorghum products with farmers in Ilocos Norte. The Roots Collective is currently found online at https://www.rootscollective.ph.
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DID YOU KNOW?
LGBTQ Activists in Suffragette Organizations
The suffragette movement was an organization of women's groups that fought for the right of women to vote. It was present in many forms throughout democratic countries around the world during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The lesbian presence in the suffrage movement is quite remarkable. Both Finland's Selma Lagerlof and American Jane Addams were recipients of the Nobel Prize. Individuals such as Ireland's Frances Power Cobbe, Britain's Emmeline Pankhurst, and Americans Dr. S. Josephine Baker, Susan Brownell Anthony and Sophonisba Breckinridge, among others, are icons in the history of the movement.
Many of these individuals are notable for achieving firsts for women, such as the first woman to be awarded a PhD or the first woman to represent the United States in an international conference. These individuals were also leaders in the many organizations created through the suffrage movement, such as the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU, 1903) or the National Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA).
We have identified notable LGBTQ participants in Suffragette Organizations from Finland, Great Britain, Ireland, and The United States. To read more and see the complete list, click HERE
Directory of past 'Did You Know?' Articles See Here
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There are large number of sellers, who are registered as 'composite dealer' and are not able to launch on the Amazon.in marketplace since the GST law mandatorily requires a seller to be registered as a 'regular dealer' to sell through an e-commerce marketplace. A seller, who is registered as a composite dealer can convert his registration to a regular dealer by following the steps as elaborated in this document. There are certain benefits and additional compliances of getting registered as a regular dealer instead of a composite dealer which can be considered by such sellers which are also detailed in this document.
What are the pros of getting registered as a regular dealer?
You can avail the following benefits, if you are registered as a regular dealer:
Claiming of Input Tax Credit:
As a regular dealer can claim Input Tax Credit (ITC) of the GST paid on purchase and set-off against output liability, whereas as a composite dealer cannot avail ITC of the GST paid on purchase. However, the availment of credits are subject to specified restrictions as provided under the GST Law.
No geographic restrictions:
You can sell goods to customers, who are located in other states i.e. they can to make interstate sales whereas a seller registered as composite dealer cannot make interstate sales. This will significantly increase the market size and in turn, a chance to get more sales.
Supplies on e-commerce marketplaces:
You will be able to launch on the e-commerce marketplace and can supply to customers buying on the e-commerce marketplace, which in turn will increase the market reach and a chance to get more sales turnover.
Supplies to large business customers:
When a composite dealer sells to a buyer registered as regular dealer, since no taxes are collected, the tax portion built into the sale price becomes a cost for the buyer. However, when the regular dealer sells, the buyer who is registered under the regular scheme is eligible to claim credit of the GST paid on such purchases. This will open an avenue to supply to business customers increasing chances to get more sales.
Recovery of GST from the customer:
You can recover the GST and discharge the same, whereas the GST is a cost to the seller, if you are registered as a composite dealer. A composite dealer cannot charge or collect GST on the Bill of Supply.
What are the cons of getting registered as a regular dealer?
As a regular dealer, you need to face the following consequences:
Filing of returns:
As a regular dealer, you will have to file three returns every month and one annual return, whereas a composite dealer needs to file four quarterly returns and one annual return. There is a proposal to simplify this process wherein even regular dealers are required to file only one return per month or quarter (depending on the turnover).
Issuing of tax invoice:
A composite dealer issues a bill of supply whereas the regular dealer will have to issue tax invoice for each supply containing various details as required under the GST law.
Mapping of Harmonised System of Nomenclature (HSN) and tax rates:
Under the GST law, a regular dealer with notified annual taxable turnover need to mention HSN codes on the tax invoice. Further, unlike a composite dealer, who is required to pay a fixed rate of tax on the entire turnover, a regular dealer is required to pay tax at the rates applicable to the items sold.
Maintenance of records:
While both composite and regular dealers are required to maintain records, a regular dealer is also required to maintain the following records as well:
Accounts of stock in respect of goods received and supplied by them, and such accounts shall contain particulars of the opening balance, receipt, supply, goods lost, stolen, destroyed, written off or disposed of by way of gift or free sample and the balance of stock including raw materials, finished goods, scrap and wastage thereof.
An account, containing the details of tax payable tax collected and paid, input tax, input tax credit claimed, together with a register of tax invoice, credit notes, debit notes, delivery challan issued or received during any tax period.
Tax Collection at Source (TCS) related compliances for supplies on e-commerce marketplaces:
As per the GST laws, an e-commerce operator is liable to collect 1% of the consideration paid to suppliers for supplies made through the e-commerce marketplace. Therefore, consideration received for supplies through the e-commerce marketplace will be after deducting the requisite 1% of value of supply.
However, credit of TCS is available to the seller in his cash ledger on accepting the supplies declared by the e-commerce operator on the GST portal.
Thereafter, such amount will reflect as TCS credit in the electronic cash ledger and can be used for discharge of output GST liability.
In case of excess balance of TCS in cash ledger, the same can be claimed as refund from the Government.
Process of conversion from composite dealer to regular dealer
As per the GST laws, a person who intends to voluntarily withdraw from the Composition scheme will be required to file an application in Form GST CMP-04. Application can be filed at any point during the year, before the date of withdrawal from the scheme.
Follow the steps below to file electronic application in Form GST CMP-04 as on the portal:
Log in to the GST portal, select the registration option from the Services tab and click on Application for Withdrawal from Composition Levy. This will take you to the Form GST CMP-04.
You need to fill the form providing details like reason for withdrawal from scheme, category of registered person, date from which the withdrawal from scheme is sought.
You will need to submit the said form electronically using the digital signature or e-verification.
Further, a person opting out of the composition scheme will be required to furnish a statement in FORM GST ITC-01 electronically, on the GST portal, containing details of the stock of inputs along with those contained in semi-finished or finished goods and capital goods as on date of withdrawal.
You have to log in to the GST portal, select the returns option from the Services tab and click on ITC Forms. Thereafter, the vendor can select Form ITC 01 to be prepared online under Section 18(1) (c).
You need to submit invoice wise details of the inputs, inputs contained in semi-finished goods or finished goods and capital goods on which input credit is claimed.
The input details will require a description of inputs, invoice number, HSN, quantity, value, tax and cess. The requirements are detailed in the screenshot of the form below:
Further, such statement will have to be filed within a period of thirty days from date of withdrawal from the composition scheme.
Note: An intimation to opt out of the composition scheme for any place of business will be considered as deemed intimation for all the places of business registered under the same PAN.
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Convicted sex offender, 30, who raped and murdered charity worker, 67, after breaking into her home when he was kicked out of a pub is jailed for 19 years
Jason Graham, 30, raped and killed Esther Brown, 67, insider her Glasgow home
He beat her to death with broken chair before using her card to buy cigarettes
Killer previously raped another elderly woman in 2013 and was being monitored
Friends of Ms Brown say punishment is not enough to protect the community
A convicted sex offender who raped and killed a pensioner inside her home has been sentenced to life in prison.
Jason Graham, 30, was handed a minimum of 19 years at Livingston Sheriff Court after previously admitting to sexually assaulting charity worker Esther Brown, 67, before battering her to death at her home in West Princes Street in Glasgow.
But friends of ‘wonderful’ Ms Brown blasted the verdict as ‘disappointing’, warning that the killer ‘poses a threat to anybody’ and that too many people have fallen prey to ‘perpetrators being let back into society.’
It comes after it was revealed Graham was previously jailed for raping an older woman in 2013.
He was released on licence in 2018 and was being monitored by police as a registered sex offender when he attacked Ms Brown.
On the night of her killing on May 28, Graham had been thrown out of a pub after he became increasingly aggressive while out drinking with family.
Graham, who previously told the court he was also high on drugs, climbed over a wall into a shared garden and broke into Ms Brown’s attic flat before launching his assault.
According to the post-mortem examination, Ms Brown, described as ‘a much-loved and active member of the community’, ‘fought for her life’ during the attack.
Jason Graham (pictured), 30, was handed a minimum of 19 years at Livingston Sheriff Court after previously admitting to sexually assaulting charity worker Esther Brown, 67, before battering her to death at her home in West Princes Street in Glasgow
The devout Christian was punched, kicked and struck over the head with pieces of wood from a broken chair that was damaged during the incident.
She was also raped by Graham, who hid her mobile and landline phones in the u-bend of her toilet.
He then chillingly stole her bank card to buy cigarettes from a local shop.
Speaking in court on Wednesday, defence lawyer Brian McConnachie QC said Graham had ‘no recollection’ of the attack, having been under the influence of drugs and having consumed a substantial amount of alcohol.
He spoke about Graham’s PTSD diagnosis after witnessing his mother’s suicide at the age of six, and how this had a lasting impact on his life.
‘There is no doubt that this adverse childhood experience is certainly a contributory factor,’ Mr McConnachie said.
However Judge Lord Armstrong said Graham’s PTSD ‘does not stop the offender being aware of his actions’, adding: ‘Excessive alcohol consumption does not detract from the nature of his actions.’
He said Graham had committed the ‘gravest of crimes involving the most depraved actions’ characterised by ‘utter brutality’- adding that he poses ‘a very high risk of reoffending’.
But after taking into account Graham’s early plea to rape and murder at a hearing last month, Lord Armstrong reduced his sentencing for the rape charge from 10 years to six years and eight months.
He said this is to run concurrently with the sentence for murder, which totals a minimum of 19 years in prison.
Speaking outside the court following sentencing, Helen Moran, who worked with Ms Brown in the community, and Sharon McKay, who lives in the Woodlands area, said they were ‘disappointed’ with Graham’s punishment.
‘It’s a worry for the community, he (Graham) poses a danger to anybody,’ Ms Moran said.
‘Esther was honestly a wonderful person, we worked together preparing meals for people in need.’
Ms McKay added: ‘The impact of her death has been huge in the community.
Devout Christian Ms Brown (pictured) ‘fought for her life’ as she was punched, kicked and struck over the head with pieces of wood from a broken chair that was damaged during the attack
‘The sentencing is very disappointing as many of us in the surrounding community have been victims of perpetrators being let back into society.
‘We need to see change in the justice system.’
Procurator fiscal for homicide and major crime David Green said: ‘This was a shockingly brutal attack on a woman in her own home.
‘Jason Graham’s conviction follows diligent work by police and specialist prosecutors to identify the accused and bring this case to court.
‘Our thoughts and condolences are with Ms Brown’s loved ones as they attempt to come to terms with what has happened.’
Ms Brown died from blunt force trauma to the head and her body was discovered four days later after friends became concerned when they hadn’t heard from her and went to check on her.
Police were called after they received no answer and found signs of a disturbance.
Graham was arrested after his DNA was found at the scene.
At the High Court in Glasgow last month he pleaded guilty to rape and murder.
He was sentenced to 19 years before parole at the High Court in Livingston on Wednesday.
Detective Superintendent Suzanne Chow said: ‘I would like to take this opportunity to convey my thanks to Esther’s family, friends and the public for their support and assistance during this investigation.
‘This heinous crime shocked us all and Esther’s family and friends have to live each day without her.
‘Despite the horrendous ordeal they have suffered they have continued to show great courage and strength throughout.
‘The response from the local community in the aftermath of Esther’s murder demonstrated how much love and respect there was for her and I would like to thank them for their support, which was invaluable to the inquiry team.’
Graham will remain under the Sexual Offences Act for life.
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There has been a raging debate over the years on which is the best grill to use for tailgating: charcoal or propane?
Some people prefer propane grills over charcoal grills because they are easier to start. But propane can be expensive.
Charcoal is affordable and easy to find in stores making it the ideal choice for budget-conscious individuals. It is also easy to use. Furthermore, if you want great food flavor, charcoal should be your number one choice.
Obviously, you know where I stand on the charcoal versus propane debate.
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How to Use a Charcoal Grill at your Next Tailgate Party Games
Starting the Charcoal Grill
Traditional charcoal briquettes are steady, inexpensive, and easy to light.
If you want a smoky and more intense flavor on your meat, go for hardwood charcoal, also known as lump charcoal. Hardwood charcoal tends to be blazingly hot, and it burns out much faster.
Here’s how to start the grill:
Use a charcoal chimney to start out the grill. It is by far the fastest technique to get the charcoal burning. Lighter fluid is not needed with a charcoal chimney.
Loosely stuff old newspaper at the bottom part of your chimney and fill your chimney with charcoal.
Light the newspapers in several spots and ensure the flames light the edges of the charcoal above.
Allow the charcoal to burn until it is covered with grayish ash. Then spread the hot coals out.
There you go! You’ve started your first charcoal grill.
Grilling on High Heat
The coals should take between five and ten minutes to get to the highest heat. This is perfect for grilling dense vegetables, burgers, and steaks. High heat grilling ensures you get a perfect sear on the outside of your meat as you enjoy fun tailgating games.
In high-heat grilling, you should have two fire zones. One side should have more coals for higher temperature grilling, and the other side should have less charcoal for low-heat grilling.
Always start by searing your foods on the high-temperature side. Then, move them over to the low-temperature side to cook the food without burning it.
Allow your meat to cool for around five minutes on the cutting board.
Now you can feast my friends, feast!
Grilling on Medium Heat
It normally takes between 25-30 minutes to get a charcoal grill to a medium high temperature. Medium heat is ideal for cooking proteins and vegetables such as:
Chicken wings and breasts
Pork chops
Sausages
Hot dogs
Fish
Delicate vegetables such as eggplant, pineapple, and scallions
Many medium heat foods burn off when heated for a long time. That’s why they are often cooked using marinade. Marinate these foods overnight using a ziplock bag. The bag can easily fit in your fridge and fully envelops the food.
Heat control on a charcoal grill involves building a small fire when starting out. Determine the heat temperatures by placing a hand above – but not close enough to burn yourself – the charcoal grill cooking grate and start a second’s countdown.
One Second – Crazy Hot
Two Seconds—High
Three Seconds—Medium High
Four Seconds—Medium
Five Seconds—Low
Following this step saves you from food preparation hassles and you can have more time for other fun tailgating activities.
General Grilling Tips When Using a Charcoal Grill
One of the greatest things about barbequing is getting the most out of your meat. Try not to work against yourself by making sure that you don’t dry out the meat by accident. To avoid this, you can:
Place a water pan under the low heat zone. The humidity will assist in ensuring that your meat remains moist.
Do not – at any time – squish the hamburger patties using the spatula. Doing this will make the juices run out. Your food will, therefore, end up being very dry. It can also leave an untidy mess on your charcoal grill.
Ensure you have a bottle of water close by at all times. The water can be used to extinguish any flames that may flare-up.
Cleaning Your Charcoal Grill
Charcoal grills should always be cleaned immediately after your tailgating party games. It is recommended you clean off all the grease while the grill is still hot. A stiff wire grill brush will do the trick. It’ll easily remove all the food particles on the cooking surface.
If you like barbecues, then you need to go the extra mile to ensure that your charcoal grill is always in good condition. After cleaning your charcoal grill, store it in a cool and dry place for your next tailgate party.
Have fun tailgating!
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Milan kicks off radically slimmed-down edition of Fashion Week Men's on Friday
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Previously named: Classical Literature and History; Classics and History; English and Modern History; History and Anthropology.
Established: 1938
History: The study of history often becomes entangled with ancient and classical studies since, after all, there is a certain degree of 'history' involved in the scholarship of these subjects. The study of more generalized history may have begun at the University of New Brunswick in 1861 with a mandatory class studying Tytler's Universal History in each year of an arts degree. However this was an immense body of work that covered subjects ranging from Ancients times up until the 17th Century; the name of the class was simply 'Chronology and History', and it would be difficult to suppose what parts of Tytler were being studied. By the year 1886, general history became a stream of study available to honours students for the first time, but still fell under the heading of 'Classical Literature and History'. Although the study of history has existed at the university since its inception, the subject never grew beyond two or three vague general courses, depending on the year, the poorly attended honours program, and courses that were specifically of a classical nature. Furthermore, this discipline always fell into an amalgamated department shared with the likes of 'Classical Literature' and 'English'. This entanglement persisted until the creation of a separate chair in 1938, and with the evolution of an autonomous Department of History, changes were made offering non-honours students three modern and focused history courses in three separate years for the first time. The chair of the department, Dr. Alfred G. Bailey, expanded the history courses offered at the university and the following year, the curriculum was amended to allow students to take a history course in any of the four years in an arts degree and the number of courses offered was expanded to eleven subjects.
As the Department of History developed, Dr. Bailey created an introductory course in anthropology within the History Department in 1940 that was the first of its kind in the Atlantic Provinces. The focus on the field of anthropology grew over the subsequent fifteen years with more classes being added, and in the release of the academic calendar of 1954-55, although Dr. Bailey's chair was still titled 'History', the department in the calendar was named 'History and Anthropology'. In the years following, the department took on the name of 'History and Anthropology' and it remained this way until the academic year of 1968-69 when the History department chair was once again established as a singular entity. The course offerings grew to forty history classes in the 1970-71 year, and over the course of the decade that number would double with there being over eighty classes offered in 1978-79. In the 1970s came the creation of sub-headings within the Department of History that included European, Canadian, American, British, and Art Histories. By 2010 there were over one-hundred and fifty history courses offered at the university. The History Department was also responsible for the creation of a journal on the history of the Atlantic region entitled [Acadiensis] which was first published in 1971.
Physical location: Tilley Hall
Faculty: Arts
Notes: Dr. Bailey introduced the study of Anthropology at U.N.B. because he believed that history students who did not have an opportunity to study in that field were at a disadvantage.
The year that a certain department was established can be a subjective figure. For the purpose of this wiki, the year that a department is considered first established is the first year it was listed in the academic calendar as an independent chair with no other affiliation, unless there is documentation to demonstrate otherwise.
Source(s):
UNB Calendars (UA RG 86), 1862, 1886-1890, 1939, 1970-1980, 2010.
UA Case 106; Section 4; Alfred G. Bailey, Origins of the Study of History in the University of New Brunswick.
Frank, David. "((@http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/Acadiensis/bin/get.cgi?/&filename=Article1.htm%7CAcadiensis: 1901-1999))" (paper presented to the Organization of American Historians, Toronto, 1999).
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What big city exodus? Just 14% of Londoners are working from home full time - Wall Street Business News
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Half (50%) of Londoners are working full time from their usual workplace or office
A third (36%) of Londoners are working on a hybrid basis
Londoners are 50% more likely not to have had a single vaccination dose than the UK average
Fully 37% would choose to have a booster vaccination to avoid further lockdowns
LONDON, Nov. 24, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Research carried out by Momentive (formerly SurveyMonkey), a leader in agile experience management, exploring Londoners’ changing experience and expectations of work reveals that despite common beliefs, COVID-19 has not caused the end of ‘city life’ with just 14% working remotely full time. The report reveals that a third (36%) of Londoners are currently working on a hybrid basis. Whilst 37% say they would be keen to have a booster vaccination to avoid further lockdowns, it seems that vaccination hesitancy is higher in the capital than the rest of the UK where Londoners are 50% more likely to not have had a single vaccination dose than the average UK worker.
COVID-19 drastically changed the city working landscape with flexible and hybrid work becoming core benefits adopted by London offices, with 59% now offering hybrid working structures. Momentive research shows that London employees are also demanding more from their employers, with unlimited holiday (47%) and a four-day work week (43%) chosen as the top two benefits employed Londoners want that they don’t already have.
Return to hybrid working and proximity bias concerns
Whilst 50% of Londoners would go back to the office if asked to, employers should bear in mind that 46% would rather quit than go back into the office full time. A further 30% believe that working patterns have shifted permanently and hybrid will remain a mainstay of office culture in 2022.
Alongside new work environments, proximity bias is another consideration for companies mapping their future approach. This is the concept where employees with close physical proximity to their team and company leaders will be perceived as better workers, be sought out for their opinions more regularly, and ultimately find more success in the workplace than their remote counterparts. When asked about proximity bias, 26% of Londoners have worries about missing out on opportunities if they are working remotely. A further 22% expressed concern that their employers will not take their opinions and feedback into consideration when deciding on work policies in 2022.
The findings demonstrate that although the return to the office is in motion, employers should still be careful about returning to ‘old’ ways of working if they want to retain staff during what is now being dubbed ‘The Great Resignation.’ For instance, a larger portion of employers are taking employee feedback into account. Fully 60% of Londoners said that they were asked for feedback by their employer during the pandemic, whilst 40% believe that
the changing work environment brought about by the pandemic has meant that employers listen to their opinions regarding business policies.
Vaccination hesitancy and booster vaccinations
The research also highlights Londoners’ attitudes to vaccinations and booster jabs with 17% saying that returning to an office environment would encourage them to get a booster vaccination. Whilst three-quarters (77%) of Londoners have received at least one COVID-19 vaccination, 23% admit to not having had a single dose, over 50% higher than the UK average, suggesting that mandating vaccinations for all employees could be a contentious subject in the capital.
With the government pushing for the public to book and receive their booster vaccinations ahead of winter, Londoners said the top four reasons that would encourage them to get a booster vaccination if offered are:
Avoiding further lockdowns (37%)
Personal health anxiety (39%)
Travel during the holidays (35%)
Wanting to help the NHS (33%)
“While the pandemic initially gave rise to an exodus of city workers, the research shows that it didn’t last long,” says Graham Douglas, Managing Director of EMEA at Momentive. “In the UK, many businesses have called employees back to the office—with just 14% of Londoners working from home full time. As companies determine working policies in 2022 and beyond, they must be aware of employee sentiment around how and where they work best or risk losing key talent.”
Methodology: This Momentive study was conducted online from September 15-16, 2021, among a national sample of 2,005 adults aged 18 and over living in the United Kingdom. Respondents for these surveys were selected from a panel of respondents compensated to take surveys relevant to them. The modeled error estimate for the full sample is plus or minus 2.5 percentage points. Data have been weighted for age, sex, education, and geography using the Office for National Statistics’ 2010 Census to reflect the demographic composition of the United Kingdom age 18 and over.
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The literature review is not sufficient. It should focus more on LSTM, RNN, and the study in different types of road. Why the LSTM-RNN is used, and the background of method are not stated clearly. There is lack of concept so that it is difficult to distinguish between LSTM-RNN based motion predictor and motion planning.
The literature review is not sufficient. It should focus more on LSTM, RNN, and the study in different types of road. Why the LSTM-RNN is used, and the background of method are not stated clearly. There is lack of concept so that it is difficult to distinguish between LSTM-RNN based motion predictor and motion planning.
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This is an interesting topic to discuss. This is a major topic for some famous vehicle company such as Tesla, Tesla nows already have a good service called Autopilot to give self-driving and Motion Prediction. This summary can include more diagram in architecture in the model to give a readers a whole view of how the model looks like. Since it is using LSTM-RNN, include some pictures of the LSTM-RNN will be great. I think it will be interesting to discuss more applications by using this method, such as Airplane, boat.
== Reference ==
== Reference ==
Revision as of 16:07, 26 November 2020
DROCC: Surround Vehicle Motion Prediction Using LSTM-RNN for Motion Planning of Autonomous Vehicles at Multi-Lane Turn Intersections
Contents
1 Presented by
2 Introduction
3 Previous Work
4 Motivation
5 Framework
6 LSTM-RNN based motion predictor
6.1 Data
6.2 motion predictor
7 Motion planning based on surrounding vehicle motion prediction
8 Prediction performance analysis and application to motion planning
8.1 accuracy analysis
8.2 motion planning application
8.2.1 case study of a multi-lane left turn scenario
8.2.2 statistical analysis of motion planning application results
9 Conclusion
10 Future works
11 Critiques
12 Reference
Presented by
Mushi Wang, Siyuan Qiu, Yan Yu
Introduction
This paper presents a surrounding vehicle motion prediction algorithm for multi-lane turn intersections using a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)-based Recurrent Neural Network (RNN). More specifically, it focused on improvement of in-lane target recognition and achieving human-like acceleration decisions at multi-lane turn intersections by introducing the learning-based target motion predictor and prediction-based motion predictor. A data-driven approach for predicting trajectory and velocity of surrounding vehicles on urban roads at multi-lane turn intersections is described. LSTM architecture, a specific kind of RNN capable of learning long-term dependencies, is designed to manage complex vehicle motions in multi-lane turn intersections. The results show that the forecaster improves the recognition time of the leading vehicle and contributes to the improvement of prediction ability
Previous Work
There are 3 main challenges to achieving fully autonomous driving on urban roads, which are scene awareness, inferring other drivers’ intentions, and predicting their future motions. Researchers are developing prediction algorithms that can simulate a driver’s intuition to improve safety when autonomous vehicles and human drivers drive together. To predict driver behavior on urban road, there are 3 categories for motion prediction model: (1) physics-based (2) maneuver-based; and (3) interaction-aware. Physics-based models are simple and direct, which only consider the states of prediction vehicles kinematically. The advantage is that is has minimal computational burden among the three types. However, it is impossible to consider interactions between vehicles. Maneuver-based models consider the driver’s intention and classified them. By predicting the driver maneuver, the future trajectory can be predicted. Identifying similar behaviors in driving are able to infer different drivers' intentions which is stated to improve the prediction accuracy. However, it still an assistant to improve physics-based models. Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) is a type of approaches proposed to infer driver intention in this paper. Interaction-aware models can reflect interactions between surrounding vehicles, and predict future motions of detected vehicles simultaneously as a scene. While the prediction algorithm is more complex in computation which often used in offline simulations.
Motivation
Research results indicate that less research is focused on predicting the trajectory of intersections. Moreover, public data sets for analyzing driver behavior at intersections are not enough, and these data sets are not easy to collect. A model is needed to predict the various movements of the target around a multi-lane turning intersection. It is very necessary to design a motion predictor that can be used for real-time traffic.
Framework
The LSTM-RNN-based motion predictor comprises three parts: (1) a data encoder; (2) an LSTM-based RNN; and (3) a data decoder. depicts the architecture of the surrounding target trajectory predictor. The proposed architecture uses a perception algorithm to estimate the state of surrounding vehicles, which relies on six scanners. The output predicts the state of the surrounding vehicles and is used to determine the expected longitudinal acceleration in the actual traffic at the intersection.
\begin{figure*}
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.8]{Figure1.png}
\caption{Overall architecture of the proposed surrounding target trajectory predictor}
\label{fig:Fig1} \end{figure*}
LSTM-RNN based motion predictor
Data
The real dataset is captured on urban roads in Seoul. The training model is generated from 484 tracks collected when driving through intersections in real traffic. The previous and subsequent states of a vehicle at a particular time can be extracted. After post-processing the collected data, a total of 16,660 data samples were generated, including 11,662 training data samples and 4,998 evaluation data samples.
motion predictor
This article propose a data-driven method to predict the future movement of surrounding vehicles based on their previous movement. The motion predictor based on the LSTM-RNN architecture in this work only uses information collected from sensors on autonomous vehicles, as shown in the figure below. The contribution of the network architecture of this study is that the future state of the target vehicle is used as the input feature for predicting the field of view.
\begin{figure*}
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=1]{Figure7b.png}
\caption{Conceptual diagram of the single step of the LSTM-RNN predictor}
\label{fig:Fig2} \end{figure*}
\textbf{Network architecture:} RNN is an artificial neural network, suitable for use with sequential data. RNN can also be used for time series data, where the pattern of the data depends on the time flow. It can contain feedback loops that allow activations to flow alternately in the loop. LSTM can avoid the problem of vanishing gradients by making errors flow backward without a limit on the number of virtual layers. This property prevents errors from increasing or declining over time, which can make the network training improperly.The figure below shows the various layers of LSTM-RNN and the number of units in each layer. This structure is determined by comparing the accuracy of 72 RNNs, which consist of a combination of four input sets and 18 network configurations.
\begin{figure*}
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\includegraphics[scale=0.7]{Figure8.png}
\caption{Depiction of the individual layers of the LSTM-RNN based motion predictor}
\label{fig:Fig3} \end{figure*}
\textbf{Input and output features:} In order to apply the motion predictor to the AV in motion, the speed of the data collection vehicle is added to the input sequence. The input sequence consists of relative X/Y position, relative heading angle, speed of surrounding target vehicles and speed of data collection vehicles. The output sequence is the same as the input sequence, such as relative position, heading and speed. \textbf{Encoder and decoder:} In this study, authors introduced an encoder and decoder that process the input from the sensor and the output from the RNN, respectively. The encoder normalizes each component of the input data to rescale the data to mean 0 and standard deviation 1, while the decoder denormalizes the output data to use the same parameters as in the encoder to scale it back to the actual unit. \textbf{Squence length:} The sequence length of RNN input and output is another important factor to improve prediction performance. In this study, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, and 30 steps of 100 millisecond sampling times were compared, and 15 steps showed relatively accurate results, even among candidates The observation time is very short.
Motion planning based on surrounding vehicle motion prediction
In daily driving, experienced drivers will predict possible risks based on observations of surrounding vehicles, and ensure safety by changing behaviors before the risks occur. In order to achieve a human-like motion plan, based on the model predictive control (MPC) method, a prediction-based motion planner for autonomous vehicles is designed, which takes into account the driver’s future behavior. The cost function of the motion planner is determined as follows: \begin{equation*} \begin{split} J = & \sum_{k=1}^{N_p} (x(k|t) - x_{ref}(k|t)^T) Q(x(k|t) - x_{ref}(k|t)) +\\ & R \sum_{k=0}^{N_p-1} u(k|t)^2 + R_{\Delta \mu}\sum_{k=0}^{N_p-2} (u(k+1|t) - u(k|t))^2 \end{split} \end{equation*} where $k$ and $t$ are the prediction step index and time index, respectively; $x(k|t)$ and $x_{ref} (k|t)$ are the states and reference of the MPC problem, respectively; $x(k|t)$ is composed of travel distance px and longitudinal velocity vx; $x_{ref} (k|t)$ consists of reference travel distance $p_{x,ref}$ and reference longitudinal velocity $v_{x,ref}$ ; $u(k|t)$ is the control input, which is the longitudinal acceleration command; $N_p$ is the prediction horizon; and Q, R, and $R_{\Delta \mu}$ are the weight matrices for states, input, and input derivative, respectively, and these weight matrices were tuned to obtain control inputs from the proposed controller that were as similar as possible to those of human-driven vehicles. The constraints of the control input are defined as follows: \begin{equation*} \begin{split} &\mu_{min} \leq \mu(k|t) \leq \mu_{max} \\ &||\mu(k+1|t) - \mu(k|t)|| \leq S \end{split} \end{equation*} Determine the position and speed boundary based on the predicted state: \begin{equation*} \begin{split} & p_{x,max}(k|t) = p_{x,tar}(k|t) - c_{des}(k|t) \quad p_{x,min}(k|t) = 0 \\ & v_{x,max}(k|t) = min(v_{x,ret}(k|t), v_{x,limit}) \quad v_{x,min}(k|t) = 0 \end{split} \end{equation*} Where $v_{x, limit}$ are the speed limits of the target vehicle.
Prediction performance analysis and application to motion planning
accuracy analysis
The proposed algorithm was compared with the results from three base algorithms, a path-following model with constant velocity, a path-following model with traffic flow and a CTRV model.
We compare those algorithms according to four sorts of errors, The $x$ position error $e_{x,T_p}$, $y$ position error $e_{y,T_p}$, heading error $e_{\theta,T_p}$, and velocity error $e_{v,T_p}$ where $T_p$ denotes time $p$. These four errors are defined as follows:
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e_{x,Tp}=&p_{x,Tp} -\hat {p}_{x,Tp}\\
e_{y,Tp}=&p_{y,Tp} -\hat {p}_{y,Tp}\\
e_{\theta,Tp}=&\theta _{Tp} -\hat {\theta }_{Tp}\\
e_{v,Tp}=&v_{Tp} -\hat {v}_{Tp}
\end{align*}
The proposed model shows a significantly less prediction errors compare to the based algorithms in terms of mean, standard deviation(STD), and root mean square error(RMSE). Meanwhile, the proposed model exhibits a bell shaped cure with a close to zero mean, which indicates that the proposed algorithm's prediction of human divers' intensions are relatively precise. On the other hand, $e_{x,T_p}$, $e_{y,T_p}$, $e_{v,T_p}$ are bounded within reasonable levels. For instant, the three-sigma range of $e_{y,T_p}$ is within the width of a lane. Therefore, the proposed algorithm can be precise and maintain safety simultaneously.
motion planning application
case study of a multi-lane left turn scenario
The proposed method mimic a human drivers better by simulating a human driver's decision-making process. In a multi-lane left turn scenario, the proposed algorithm correctly predicted the trajectory of a target vehicle even the target vehicle was not following the intersection guide line.
statistical analysis of motion planning application results
The data is analysed from two perspectives, the time ot recognize the in-lane target and the similarity to human driver commands. In most of cases, the proposed algorithm detects the in-line target no late than based algorithm. In addition, the proposed algorithm only recognized cases later than the base algorithm did when the surrounding target vehicles first appeared beyond the sensors’ region of interest boundaries. This means that these cases took place sufficiently beyond the safety distance, and had little influence on determining the behavior of the subject vehicle.
In order to compare the similarities between the results form the proposed algorithm and human driving decisions, we introduced another type of error, acceleration error $a_{x, error} = a_{x, human} - a_{x, cmd}$. where $a_{x, human}$ and $a_{x, cmd}$ are the human driver’s acceleration history and the command from the proposed algorithm, respectively. The proposed algorithm showed more similar results to human drivers’ decisions than did the base algorithms. $91.97\%$ of the acceleration error lies in the region $\pm 1 m/s^2$. Moreover, base algorithm possesses limited ability to respond to different in-lane target behaviors in traffic flow. Hence, the proposed model is efficient and safety.
Conclusion
A surrounding vehicle motion predictor based on a LSTM-RNN at multi-lane turn intersections was developed, and its application in an autonomous vehicle was evaluated. The model was trained by using the data captured on urban road in Seoul in MPC. The evaluation results showed precise prediction accuracy and so the algorithm is safe to be applied on an autonomous vehicle. Also, the comparison with other three base algorithms (CV/Path, V_flow/Path and CTRV) revealed the superiority of the proposed algorithm.
Future works
1.Developing trajectory prediction algorithms using other machine learning algorithms, such as attention-aware neural networks.
2.Applying the machine learning-based approach to infer lane change intention at motorways and main roads of urban environments.
3.Extending the target road of the trajectory predictor, such as roundabouts or uncontrolled intersections, to infer yield intention.
4.Learning the behavior of surrounding vehicles in real time while automated vehicles drive with real traffic.
Critiques
The literature review is not sufficient. It should focus more on LSTM, RNN, and the study in different types of road. Why the LSTM-RNN is used, and the background of method are not stated clearly. There is lack of concept so that it is difficult to distinguish between LSTM-RNN based motion predictor and motion planning.
This is an interesting topic to discuss. This is a major topic for some famous vehicle company such as Tesla, Tesla nows already have a good service called Autopilot to give self-driving and Motion Prediction. This summary can include more diagram in architecture in the model to give a readers a whole view of how the model looks like. Since it is using LSTM-RNN, include some pictures of the LSTM-RNN will be great. I think it will be interesting to discuss more applications by using this method, such as Airplane, boat.
Reference
[1] E. Choi, Crash Factors in Intersection-Related Crashes: An On-Scene Perspective (No. Dot HS 811 366), U.S. DOT Nat. Highway Traffic Safety Admin., Washington, DC, USA, 2010.
[2] D. J. Phillips, T. A. Wheeler, and M. J. Kochenderfer, “Generalizable intention prediction of human drivers at intersections,” in Proc. IEEE Intell. Veh. Symp. (IV), Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2017, pp. 1665–1670.
[3] B. Kim, C. M. Kang, J. Kim, S. H. Lee, C. C. Chung, and J. W. Choi, “Probabilistic vehicle trajectory prediction over occupancy grid map via recurrent neural network,” in Proc. IEEE 20th Int. Conf. Intell. Transp. Syst. (ITSC), Yokohama, Japan, 2017, pp. 399–404.
[4] E. Strigel, D. Meissner, F. Seeliger, B. Wilking, and K. Dietmayer, “The Ko-PER intersection laserscanner and video dataset,” in Proc. 17th Int. IEEE Conf. Intell. Transp. Syst. (ITSC), Qingdao, China, 2014, pp. 1900–1901.
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The '''Three Body Problem''' is a four hundred year old problem of mathematics which has its roots in the unsuccessful attempts to simulate a heliocentric Sun-Earth-Moon system.
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The '''Three Body Problem''' is a four hundred year old problem of mathematics which has its roots in the unsuccessful attempts to simulate a heliocentric Sun-Earth-Moon system.
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Due to the nature of Newtonian Gravity, a three body system inherently prefers to be a two body orbit and will attempt to kick out the smallest body from the system—often causing the system to be destroyed altogether. There are a limited range of scenarios in which three body orbits may exist<sup>[https://wiki.tfes.org/Three_Body_Problem#A_Thousand_New_Solutions]</sup>. It is seen that those configurations require at least two of the three bodies to be of the same mass, can only exist with specific magnitudes in specific, sensitive, and highly symmetrical configurations, and exhibit odd loopy orbits that look quite different than the systems of astronomy proposed by Copernicus. The slightest imperfection, such as with bodies of different masses, or the effect of a gravitational influence external to the system, causes a chain reaction of random chaos which compels the entire system to fall apart<sup>[https://wiki.tfes.org/Three_Body_Problem#Chaos_Theory:_A_Demo]</sup>.
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Due to the nature of Newtonian Gravity, a three body system inherently prefers to be a two body orbit and will attempt to kick out the smallest body from the system—often causing the system to be destroyed altogether.<sup>[https://wiki.tfes.org/Symplectic_Integrators#Sun-Earth-Moon_System]</sup> There are a limited range of scenarios in which three body orbits may exist.<sup>[https://wiki.tfes.org/Three_Body_Problem#A_Thousand_New_Solutions]</sup> It is seen that those configurations require at least two of the three bodies to be of the same mass, can only exist with specific magnitudes in specific, sensitive, and highly symmetrical configurations, and exhibit odd loopy orbits that look quite different than the systems of astronomy proposed by Copernicus. The slightest imperfection, such as with bodies of different masses, non-symmetrical spacing, or the effect of a gravitational influence external to the system, causes a chain reaction of random chaos which compels the entire system to fall apart.<sup>[https://wiki.tfes.org/Three_Body_Problem#Chaos_Theory:_A_Demo]</sup>
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We are taught that it should be possible for a planet to have a sun which has a moon, yet the greatest mathematicians of human history have been unable to get it to work.
{{cite|Describing the motion of any planetary system (including purely imaginary ones that exist only on paper) is the subject of a branch of mathematics called celestial mechanics. Its problems are extremely difficult and have eluded the greatest mathematicians in history.}} —Paul Trow, [https://web.archive.org/web/20190405003722/http://ptrow.com/articles/ChaosandSolarSystem5.htm ''Chaos and the Solar System'']
{{cite|Describing the motion of any planetary system (including purely imaginary ones that exist only on paper) is the subject of a branch of mathematics called celestial mechanics. Its problems are extremely difficult and have eluded the greatest mathematicians in history.}} —Paul Trow, [https://web.archive.org/web/20190405003722/http://ptrow.com/articles/ChaosandSolarSystem5.htm ''Chaos and the Solar System'']
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'''''Now add a third body, and everything falls apart. The problem goes from one that a smart undergraduate can tackle to one that has defied solution for 400 years.'''''}}
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Astronomer and mathematician [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_William_Hill George William Hill] studied the Three Body Problem. The only way Hill was able to make any progress at all was by using the Restricted Three Body Problem, where one of the bodies was of zero or negligible mass. Even then, the body was still chaotic. The benefit of the Restricted Three Body Problem and the Mass-less moon meant that that the moon would be no longer ejected from the system, as it would usually be. It is confined to what is known as "Hill's Region".
Astronomer and mathematician [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_William_Hill George William Hill] studied the Three Body Problem. The only way Hill was able to make any progress at all was by using the Restricted Three Body Problem, where one of the bodies was of zero or negligible mass. Even then, the body was still chaotic. The benefit of the Restricted Three Body Problem and the Mass-less moon meant that that the moon would be no longer ejected from the system, as it would usually be. It is confined to what is known as "Hill's Region".
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From Scholarpedia's Three Body Problem page by mathematician Alain Chenciner ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Chenciner bio]):
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{{cite|As Poincaré experimented, he was relieved to discover that in most of the situations, the possible orbits varied only slightly from the initial 2-body orbit, and were still stable, but what occurred during further experimentation was a shock. '''Poincaré discovered that even in some of the smallest approximations some orbits behaved in an erratic unstable manner. His calculations showed that even a minute gravitational pull from a third body might cause a planet to wobble and fly out of orbit all together.'''}}
{{cite|As Poincaré experimented, he was relieved to discover that in most of the situations, the possible orbits varied only slightly from the initial 2-body orbit, and were still stable, but what occurred during further experimentation was a shock. '''Poincaré discovered that even in some of the smallest approximations some orbits behaved in an erratic unstable manner. His calculations showed that even a minute gravitational pull from a third body might cause a planet to wobble and fly out of orbit all together.'''}}
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[https://cloud.anylogic.com/model/f1999d97-8de2-4804-9940-5ae261d7ad86?mode=SETTINGS&tab=GENERAL Demo: Figure-Eight Three Body Problem]
[https://cloud.anylogic.com/model/f1999d97-8de2-4804-9940-5ae261d7ad86?mode=SETTINGS&tab=GENERAL Demo: Figure-Eight Three Body Problem]
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Adjust the mass slider values in the upper left of the simulation to something very slight to find what happens. What you will see is a demonstration of Chaos Theory. Any slight modification to a perfect system creates a chain reaction of random chaos.
This is precisely the issue of modeling the Heliocentric System, and why its fundamental system cannot exist. Only very specific, sensitive, and highly symmetrical configurations may exist. The slightest deviation, such as with a system with unequal masses, or the minute influence from a gravitating body external to the system, will cause the entire system to fly apart. The reader is invited to decide for his or her own self whether those scenarios would occur in nature as described by popular theory.
This is precisely the issue of modeling the Heliocentric System, and why its fundamental system cannot exist. Only very specific, sensitive, and highly symmetrical configurations may exist. The slightest deviation, such as with a system with unequal masses, or the minute influence from a gravitating body external to the system, will cause the entire system to fly apart. The reader is invited to decide for his or her own self whether those scenarios would occur in nature as described by popular theory.
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Despite any fanciful allusions that the choice is between either "destabilizing the orbits with massive errors" or "waiting for Sun to evolve," and reassurances that our solar system is stable despite the inability of simulating it—all common statements to excuse away the problems of simulating bodies in heliocentric orbits—its developers freely admit that the program is not using a full simulation of gravity. The article states "By default, the simulations in Universe Sandbox ² try to set an accuracy which prevents orbits from falling apart due to error".
Despite any fanciful allusions that the choice is between either "destabilizing the orbits with massive errors" or "waiting for Sun to evolve," and reassurances that our solar system is stable despite the inability of simulating it—all common statements to excuse away the problems of simulating bodies in heliocentric orbits—its developers freely admit that the program is not using a full simulation of gravity. The article states "By default, the simulations in Universe Sandbox ² try to set an accuracy which prevents orbits from falling apart due to error".
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In ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=D90tDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA91&ots=yPzfufQH4V&pg=PA91#v=onepage&q&f=false Three Body Dynamics and Its Applications to Exoplanets]'' by Professor of Physics Z. Musielak ([https://web.archive.org/web/20200515183819/https://mentis.uta.edu/explore/profile/zdzislaw-musielak bio]) and B. Quarles we see:
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In ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=D90tDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA91&ots=yPzfufQH4V&pg=PA91#v=onepage&q&f=false Three Body Dynamics and Its Applications to Exoplanets]'' by Professor of Physics Z. Musielak ([https://web.archive.org/web/20200515183819/https://mentis.uta.edu/explore/profile/zdzislaw-musielak bio]) and astrophysicist Billy Quarles, we see:
{{cite|The three-body problem is one of the best known scientific problems, and there are three main reasons. First, the problem has fundamental importance in science, mathematics and engineering. Second, the problem is truly difficult to solve, which has been manifested by thousands of papers written by numerous outstanding researchers, who have tried (very) hard but failed. Third, the problem can be stated simple enough, so non-experts can understand it and appreciate its importance. As described in this book, all attempts to solve this problem have enriched celestial and classical mechanics, and mathematics with many new methods, powerful theorems, and novel ideas that are already being used in applications in different fields of research.}}
{{cite|The three-body problem is one of the best known scientific problems, and there are three main reasons. First, the problem has fundamental importance in science, mathematics and engineering. Second, the problem is truly difficult to solve, which has been manifested by thousands of papers written by numerous outstanding researchers, who have tried (very) hard but failed. Third, the problem can be stated simple enough, so non-experts can understand it and appreciate its importance. As described in this book, all attempts to solve this problem have enriched celestial and classical mechanics, and mathematics with many new methods, powerful theorems, and novel ideas that are already being used in applications in different fields of research.}}
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Physcist David Gozzard ([https://equs.org/users/dr-david-gozzard bio]) says in his video ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqSPvyaxMI8 Weird Orbits - the three body problem]'' (Runtime - 4m):
Physcist David Gozzard ([https://equs.org/users/dr-david-gozzard bio]) says in his video ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqSPvyaxMI8 Weird Orbits - the three body problem]'' (Runtime - 4m):
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{{cite|Three hundred and fifty years ago Isaac Newton formulated his theory of gravity Newton's theory unified the heavens and the earth under the same physical laws and neatly explained the orbits of the planets, the motion of comets, and how the moon causes the tides. Although Einstein's general relativity has supplanted Newton's theory as a better model of gravity Newtonian mechanics got us to the moon and are still used to calculate the trajectories of spacecraft throughout the solar system. In spite of this success and more than three centuries of progress we still do not have a neat set of equations that allow us to calculate the orbital parameters of more than two objects at once. This is called the three-body problem, or more generally the n-body problem.}}
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{{cite|Three hundred and fifty years ago Isaac Newton formulated his theory of gravity Newton's theory unified the heavens and the earth under the same physical laws and neatly explained the orbits of the planets, the motion of comets, and how the moon causes the tides. Although Einstein's general relativity has supplanted Newton's theory as a better model of gravity, Newtonian mechanics got us to the moon and are still used to calculate the trajectories of spacecraft throughout the solar system. In spite of this success and more than three centuries of progress we still do not have a neat set of equations that allow us to calculate the orbital parameters of more than two objects at once. This is called the three-body problem, or more generally the n-body problem.}}
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From [https://books.google.com/books?id=pxz8G-KF3ZgC&lpg=PA132&ots=YuiY4cAEs_&pg=PA132#v=onepage&f=false p.132 of ''Number-Crunching''] by Dr. Paul J. Nahin ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_J._Nahin bio]):
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{{cite|The study of how three massive bodies gravitationally interact is called the three-body problem, and its general solution eluded even the genius of Newton. But, of course, that didn’t mean it was necessarily an impossible problem, just that it was a very, very difficult problem. Perhaps, it was hoped, with advancing technical knowledge and the appearance of an even greater intellect than Newton’s, the three-body problem could be solved. That lure, of being the one that finally did what the great Newton could not, attracted some of the most brilliant analysts over the next 250 years. Such luminaries as the Swiss Leonhard Euler (1707-1783), the French Joseph Lagrange (1736-1813), and the German Carl Jacobi (1804-1851), for example, all tried their hands at it, but except for limited partial successes made under special, restrictive assumptions, the general solution of the three-body problem defeated every one of them.}}
===Vinay Ambegaokar===
===Vinay Ambegaokar===
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In the [https://books.google.com/books?id=JXImTjfZ6NcC&lpg=PA184&pg=PA184#v=onepage&q&f=false Chaos chapter] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20191024231712/https://books.google.com/books?id=JXImTjfZ6NcC&lpg=PA184&pg=PA184#v=onepage&q&f=false Archive]) of ''Reasoning about Luck: Probability and Its Uses in Physics'', its author Physics professor Vinay Ambegaokar ([https://web.archive.org/web/20190723223908/https://physics.cornell.edu/vinay-ambegaokar bio]) tells us that the three-body problem is not studied in the physics curriculum:
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In the [https://books.google.com/books?id=JXImTjfZ6NcC&lpg=PA184&pg=PA184#v=onepage&q&f=false Chaos chapter] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20191024231712/https://books.google.com/books?id=JXImTjfZ6NcC&lpg=PA184&pg=PA184#v=onepage&q&f=false Archive]) of ''Reasoning about Luck: Probability and Its Uses in Physics'', its author physics professor Vinay Ambegaokar ([https://web.archive.org/web/20190723223908/https://physics.cornell.edu/vinay-ambegaokar bio]) tells us that the three-body problem is not studied in the physics curriculum:
{{cite|The next simplest case is the ‘three body problem’ - sun, earth, and moon, for example - taking into account the attraction between each body and the other two. No simple solution to this problem exists, and it is not studied in the physics curriculum.}}
{{cite|The next simplest case is the ‘three body problem’ - sun, earth, and moon, for example - taking into account the attraction between each body and the other two. No simple solution to this problem exists, and it is not studied in the physics curriculum.}}
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===Erwin B. Montgomery===
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===Isaac Newton===
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On [https://books.google.com/books?id=Z0VvDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA174&pg=PA174#v=onepage&q&f=false p.174 of ''Medical Reasoning: The Nature and Use of Medical Knowledge''] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20191024231709/https://books.google.com/books?id=Z0VvDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA174&pg=PA174#v=onepage&q&f=false Archive]) its author Dr. Erwin B. Montgomery shares this quote from Newton:
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{{cite|An example of a system that can be described explicitly by a mathematical metaphor proved unsolvable (at least explicitly in algebraic or integral functions) is the three-body problem, such as the orbits of the earth, moon, and sun when all three are considered simultaneously. While the two-body problem is solvable, such as the orbits of the earth and moon, even Newton recognized the difficulty and indeed potential intractability of the three-body problem, commenting in 1684 that “to define these motions by exact laws admitting of easy calculation exceeds, if I am not mistaken, the force of any human mind” (from a draft of De Mom, tentatively dated in December 1684; Wilson 1989).}}
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On [https://books.google.com/books?id=Z0VvDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA174&pg=PA174#v=onepage&q&f=false p.174 of ''Medical Reasoning: The Nature and Use of Medical Knowledge''] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20191024231709/https://books.google.com/books?id=Z0VvDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA174&pg=PA174#v=onepage&q&f=false Archive]) its author Erwin B. Montgomery shares this quote from Newton:
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===Robert Rosen===
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{{cite|An example of a system that can be described explicitly by a mathematical metaphor proved unsolvable (at least explicitly in algebraic or integral functions) is the three-body problem, such as the orbits of the earth, moon, and sun when all three are considered simultaneously. While the two-body problem is solvable, such as the orbits of the earth and moon, even Newton recognized the difficulty and indeed potential intractability of the three-body problem, commenting in 1684 that “to define these motions by exact laws admitting of easy calculation exceeds, if I am not mistaken, the force of any human mind” (from a draft of De Motu, tentatively dated in December 1684; Wilson 1989).}}
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===Martin Gutzwiller===
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The end section of a paper titled ''[http://sites.apam.columbia.edu/courses/ap1601y/Moon-Earth-Sin%20RMP.70.589.pdf Moon-Earth-Sun: The oldest three-body problem]'' ([https://web.archive.org/web/20160622205656/http://sites.apam.columbia.edu/courses/ap1601y/Moon-Earth-Sin%20RMP.70.589.pdf Archive]) by physicist Martin C. Gutzwiller ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Gutzwiller bio]) concludes that Newton's laws are not a sufficient explanation:
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The above states that the due to the issues of the three body problem we cannot answer questions such as whether the earth-sun-moon system is stable or not. This tells us that it cannot be simulated.
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{{cite|The three-body problem teaches us a sobering lesson about our ability to comprehend the outside world in terms of a few basic mathematical relations. Many physicists, maybe early in their careers, had hopes of coordinating their field of interest, if not all of physics, into some overall rational scheme. The more complicated situations could then be reduced to some simpler models in which all phenomena would find their explanation. This ideal goal of the scientific enterprise has been promoted by many distinguished scientists [see Weinberg’s (1992) Dream of a Final Theory, with a chapter ‘‘Two Cheers for Reductionism’’]....Many physicists may be tempted to see in Newton’s equations of motion and his universal gravitation a sufficient explanation for the three-body problem, with the details to be worked out by the technicians. But even a close look at the differential equations (29) and (30) does not prepare us for the idiosyncracies of the lunar motion, nor does it help us to understand the orbits of asteroids in the combined gravitational field of the Sun and Jupiter.}}
===Mark Cunningham===
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On p.189 of ''Neoclassical Physics'' by physicist Mark Cunningham Ph.D. ([https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319106465#aboutAuthors bio]) we [https://books.google.com/books?id=ayxgBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA189&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjT1Yjx56jjAhXukOAKHYs9C90Q6AEIWDAJ#v=onepage&q&f=false read the following] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20191024231636/https://books.google.com/books?id=ayxgBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA189&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjT1Yjx56jjAhXukOAKHYs9C90Q6AEIWDAJ#v=onepage&q&f=false Archive]):
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On p.189 of ''Neoclassical Physics'' by physicist Mark Cunningham ([https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319106465#aboutAuthors bio]) we [https://books.google.com/books?id=ayxgBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA189&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjT1Yjx56jjAhXukOAKHYs9C90Q6AEIWDAJ#v=onepage&q&f=false read the following] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20191024231636/https://books.google.com/books?id=ayxgBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA189&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjT1Yjx56jjAhXukOAKHYs9C90Q6AEIWDAJ#v=onepage&q&f=false Archive]):
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{{cite|In the early 19th century, building on earlier work of Lagrange, <sup>12</sup> Laplace ‘proved’ the stability of the solar system, and although this work was an important step and is mathematically correct as far as it goes, it was soon recognized that he had not shown stability for the ''n'' body problem, but rather for an attenuated version of it in which higher-order interactions between planets are ignored. Such claims and half-successes by the mathematical giants of the ages (and many other less-than-giants) of course only added celebrity to the ''n'' body problem, and to the stability problem in particular.}}
{{cite|In the early 19th century, building on earlier work of Lagrange, <sup>12</sup> Laplace ‘proved’ the stability of the solar system, and although this work was an important step and is mathematically correct as far as it goes, it was soon recognized that he had not shown stability for the ''n'' body problem, but rather for an attenuated version of it in which higher-order interactions between planets are ignored. Such claims and half-successes by the mathematical giants of the ages (and many other less-than-giants) of course only added celebrity to the ''n'' body problem, and to the stability problem in particular.}}
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Later researchers went on to 'simulate' the solar system with geometry preserving schemes. See '''[[Symplectic Integrators]]'''
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Later researchers went on to 'simulate' the solar system with two body approximation and geometry preserving schemes. See the pages '''[[Numerical Solutions]]''' and '''[[Symplectic Integrators]]'''.
==N-Body Symmetry==
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Revision as of 01:23, 3 August 2021
The Three Body Problem is a four hundred year old problem of mathematics which has its roots in the unsuccessful attempts to simulate a heliocentric Sun-Earth-Moon system.
Due to the nature of Newtonian Gravity, a three body system inherently prefers to be a two body orbit and will attempt to kick out the smallest body from the system—often causing the system to be destroyed altogether.[1] There are a limited range of scenarios in which three body orbits may exist.[2] It is seen that those configurations require at least two of the three bodies to be of the same mass, can only exist with specific magnitudes in specific, sensitive, and highly symmetrical configurations, and exhibit odd loopy orbits that look quite different than the systems of astronomy proposed by Copernicus. The slightest imperfection, such as with bodies of different masses, non-symmetrical spacing, or the effect of a gravitational influence external to the system, causes a chain reaction of random chaos which compels the entire system to fall apart.[3]
We are taught that it should be possible for a planet to have a sun which has a moon, yet the greatest mathematicians of human history have been unable to get it to work.
“ Describing the motion of any planetary system (including purely imaginary ones that exist only on paper) is the subject of a branch of mathematics called celestial mechanics. Its problems are extremely difficult and have eluded the greatest mathematicians in history. ” —Paul Trow, Chaos and the Solar System
Contents
1 400 Years of Defiance
2 NOVA Documentary
3 Newton's Solution
4 Henri Poincaré
5 Ask a Mathematician
6 No General Solutions
7 A Thousand New Solutions
8 Hill's Region
9 Poliastro
10 Chaos Theory: A Demo
11 N-Body Solution Galleries
12 Supercomputing Challenge
13 Universe Sandbox 2
14 Symmetrical Simulations
14.1 Over a Thousand New Solutions - New Scientist
14.2 Over 600 New Orbits
15 Quotes
15.1 Three Body Dynamics
15.2 David Gozzard
15.3 Paul Nahin
15.4 Vinay Ambegaokar
15.5 Isaac Newton
15.6 Martin Gutzwiller
15.7 Mark Cunningham
15.8 Richard D. Mattuck
16 Stability of the Solar System
17 N-Body Symmetry
18 See Also
400 Years of Defiance
In The Physics Problem that Isaac Newton Couldn't Solve (Archive) physics and astronomy professor Robert Scherrer (bio) tells us:
“ There's a physics problem so difficult, so intractable, that even Isaac Newton, undoubtedly the greatest physicist who ever lived, couldn't solve it. And it's defied everyone else's attempts ever since then.
This is the famous three-body problem. When Newton invented his theory of gravity, he immediately set to work applying it to the motions of the planets in the solar system. If you have a planet orbiting a much larger body, like the sun, and the orbit is circular, then the problem is easy to solve -- it's something that's done in a high school physics class.
But a circular orbit isn't the most general possibility, and sometimes one body isn't much smaller than the object it orbits (think of the Moon going around the Earth). This more complicated case can still be solved -- Newton showed that the two bodies orbit their common center of mass in elliptical orbits. In fact, this prediction of elliptical orbits really cemented the case for Newton's theory of gravity. The calculation is a lot trickier than for circular orbits, but we still throw it at undergraduate physics majors in their second or third year.
Now add a third body, and everything falls apart. The problem goes from one that a smart undergraduate can tackle to one that has defied solution for 400 years. ”
NOVA Documentary
A Nova documentary, The Strange New Science of Chaos, states that mathematicians were unable to extend Newton's model beyond two bodies. See from 9:40 to 13:20 (~4m):
Newton's Solution
Mathematician and astronomer Issac Newton is credited to have "brought the laws of physics to the solar system."1 To solve the multi-body problems of his system Newton famously invoked divine intervention (Archive):
“ At the beginning of the 18th century, Newton famously wrote that the solar system needed occasional divine intervention (presumably a nudge here and there from the hand of God) in order to remain stable.11 This was interpreted to mean that Newton believed his mathematical model of the solar system—the n body problem—did not have stable solutions. Thus was the gauntlet laid down, and a proof of the stability of the n body problem became one of the great mathematical challenges of the age.
11Newton's remarks about divine intervention appear in Query 23 of the 1706 (Latin) edition of Opticks, which became Query 31 of the 1717 (2nd Edition) edition see Quote Q[New] in Appendix E). Similar 'theological' remarks are found in scholia of the 2nd and 3rd editions of Principia, and in at least one of Newton's letters. In a 1715 letter to Caroline, Princess of Wales, Leibniz observed sarcastically that Newton had not only cast the Creator as a clock-maker, and a faulty one, but now as a clock-repairman (see [Klo73], Part XXXIV, pp. 54-55). ”
1The University of California San Diego credits Newton with providing the laws of physics for the Solar System (Archive):
“ Then came Isaac Newton (1642-1727) who brought the laws of physics to the solar system. Isaac Newton explained why the planets move the way they do, by applying his laws of motion, and the force of gravitation between any two bodies, letting the force decrease with the square of the distance between the two bodies. ”
Henri Poincaré
Caltech physicist Sean Carrol (bio) gives a history of the problem on his page N-Bodies:
“ The N-body problem is one of the most famous, and easily stated, problems in mathematical physics: find exact solutions to point masses moving under their mutual Newtonian gravitational forces (i.e. the inverse-square law). For N=2 the complete set of solutions is straightforward and has been known for a long time — each body moves in a conic section (circle, ellipse, parabola or hyperbola) around the center of mass. In fact, Kepler found the solution even before Newton came up with the problem!
But let N=3 and chaos breaks loose, quite literally. For a long time people recognized that the motion of three gravitating bodies would be a difficult problem, but there were hopes to at least characterize the kinds of solutions that might exist (even if we couldn’t write down the solutions explicitly). It became a celebrated goal for mathematical physicists, and the very amusing story behind how it was resolved is related in Peter Galison’s book Einstein’s Clocks and Poincare’s Maps. In 1885, a mathematical competition was announced in honor of the 60th birthday of King Oscar II of Sweden, and the three-body problem was one of the questions. (Feel free to muse about the likelihood of the birthday of any contemporary world leader being celebrated by mathematical competitions.) Henri Poincare was a favorite to win the prize, and he submitted an essay that demonstrated the stability of planetary motions in the three-body problem (actually the “restricted” problem, in which one test body moves in the gravitational field generated by two others). In other words, without knowing the exact solutions, we could at least be confident that the orbits wouldn’t go crazy; more technically, solutions starting with very similar initial conditions would give very similar orbits. Poincare’s work was hailed as brilliant, and he was awarded the prize.
But as his essay was being prepared for publication in Acta Mathematica, a couple of tiny problems were pointed out by Edvard Phragmen, a Swedish mathematician who was an assistant editor at the journal. Gosta Mittag-Leffler, chief editor, forwarded Phragmen’s questions to Poincare, asking him to fix up these nagging issues before the prize essay appeared in print. Poincare went to work, but discovered to his consternation that one of the tiny problems was in fact a profoundly devastating possibility that he hadn’t really taken seriously. What he ended up proving was the opposite of his original claim — three-body orbits were not stable at all. Not only were orbits not periodic, they didn’t even approach some sort of asymptotic fixed points.
Now that we have computers to run simulations, this kind of behavior is less surprising (example here from Steve McMillan — note how the final “binary” is not made of the same “stars” as the original one), but at the time it came as an utter shock. In his attempt to prove the stability of planetary orbits, Poincare ended up inventing chaos theory.
But the story doesn’t quite end there. Mittag-Leffler, convinced that Poincare would be able to tie up the loose threads in his prize essay, went ahead and printed it. By the time he heard from Poincare that no such tying-up would be forthcoming, the journal had already been mailed to mathematicians throughout Europe. Mittag-Leffler swung into action, telegraphing Berlin and Paris in an attempt to have all copies of the journal destroyed. He basically succeeded, but not without creating a minor scandal in elite mathematical circles across the Continent. (The Wikipedia entry on Poincare tells a much less interesting, and less accurate, version of the story.)
However, just because the general solution to the three-body (and more-body) problem is chaotic, doesn’t mean we can’t find special exact solutions in highly-symmetric conditions, and that’s just what Cris Moore and Michael Nauenberg have recently been doing. The image at the top really is an exact solution to twenty-one equal-mass objects moving in a figure-eight under their mutual gravitational attraction. They’re moving in a plane, of course, but that’s not strictly necessary; here’s a close relative of the figure-8, perturbed outside the plane. ”
“ From there you can just go nuts; here’s an example with twelve objects orbiting with cubic symmetry — four distinct periodic paths with three particles each. ”
Sean Carrol describes the three body problem orbits as chaotic and classifies the special orbits which were discovered as "highly-symmetric." Dr. Carrol proceeds to give animations of figure eight configurations and other special symmetrical orbits which have been discovered.
Readers should decide for themselves whether the Sun-Earth-Moon system or other systems proposed by contemporary Astronomy are "highly symmetric" systems.
Ask a Mathematician
https://www.askamathematician.com/2011/10/q-what-is-the-three-body-problem/ (Archive)
“ Q: What is the three body problem?
Physicist: The three body problem is to exactly solve for the motions of three (or more) bodies interacting through an inverse square force (which includes gravitational and electrical attraction).
The problem with the 3-body problem is that it can’t be done, except in a very small set of frankly goofy scenarios (like identical planets following identical orbits). ”
No General Solutions
Physics Professor Richard Fitzpatrick at the University of Texas says (Archive):
“ We saw earlier, in Section 2.9, that an isolated dynamical system consisting of two freely moving point masses exerting forces on one another--which is usually referred to as a two-body problem--can always be converted into an equivalent one-body problem. In particular, this implies that we can exactly solve a dynamical system containing two gravitationally interacting point masses, because the equivalent one-body problem is exactly soluble. (See Sections 2.9 and 4.16.) What about a system containing three gravitationally interacting point masses? Despite hundreds of years of research, no useful general solution of this famous problem--which is usually called the three-body problem--has ever been found. ”
Science China Press says (Archive):
“ In general, orbits described by the three-body problem are non-periodic, i.e. chaotic, and are rather sensitive to initial conditions. According to the theory of chaos, uncertainty in initial conditions enlarges exponentially for chaotic dynamic systems. Therefore, it is rather difficult to gain reliable convergent numerical simulations of chaotic orbits of three-body systems across a long interval of time. Due to this, it is also difficult to find periodic orbits of three-body systems by means of numerical methods. ”
From The Three-Body Problem (Archive) by Z.E. Musielak and B. Quarles we see:
“ In the three-body problem, three bodies move in space under their mutual gravitational interactions as described by Newton’s theory of gravity. Solutions of this problem require that future and past motions of the bodies be uniquely determined based solely on their present positions and velocities. In general, the motions of the bodies take place in three dimensions (3D), and there are no restrictions on their masses nor on the initial conditions. Thus, we refer to this as the general three-body problem . At first glance, the difficulty of the problem is not obvious, especially when considering that the two-body problem has well-known closed form solutions given in terms of elementary functions. Adding one extra body makes the problem too complicated to obtain similar types of solutions. In the past, many physicists, astronomers and mathematicians attempted unsuccessfully to find closed form solutions to the three-body problem. Such solutions do not exist because motions of the three bodies are in general unpredictable, which makes the three-body problem one of the most challenging problems in the history of science. ”
As we read above, there are no general solutions to the Three Body Problem and that the motions are unpredictable. As Sean Carroll and the authors of "Ask A Mathematician" related, the only solutions require very specific and odd scenarios.
A Thousand New Solutions
In 2017 researchers used a supercomputer to test various configurations and reported over one thousand new special solutions to the Three Body Problem. We read an account from a New Scientist article titled Infamous three-body problem has over a thousand new solutions (Archive) :
“ For more than 300 years, mathematicians have puzzled over the three-body problem – the question of how three objects orbit one another according to Newton’s laws. Now, there are 1223 new solutions to the conundrum, more than doubling the current number of possibilities.
No single equation can predict how three bodies will move in relation to one another and whether their orbits will repeat or devolve into chaos. Mathematicians must test each specific scenario to see if the objects will stay bound in orbit or be flung away.
The new solutions were found when researchers at Shanghai Jiaotong University in China tested 16 million different orbits using a supercomputer.
All the fresh orbits found are periodic. This means that each object, whether it’s a planet or a proton, ends up where it first began its orbit, with their paths forming three intertwined, closed loops.
“It is impressive that they’ve made the list a lot longer,” says Robert Vanderbei at Princeton University in New Jersey – though he adds that there is “basically an unlimited number of orbits”, so it may be overkill if anyone sought to find them all.
Perhaps the most important application of the three-body problem is in astronomy, for helping researchers figure out how three stars, a star with a planet that has a moon, or any other set of three celestial objects can maintain a stable orbit.
But these new orbits rely on conditions that are somewhere between unlikely and impossible for a real system to satisfy. In all of them, for example, two of the three bodies have exactly the same mass and they all remain in the same plane.
Knot-like paths
In addition, the researchers did not test the orbits’ stability. It’s possible that the tiniest disturbance in space or rounding error in the equations could rip the objects away from one another.
“These orbits have nothing to do with astronomy, but you’re solving these equations and you’re getting something beautiful,” says Vanderbei.
Aside from giving us a thousand pretty pictures of knot-like orbital paths, the new three-body solutions also mark a starting point for finding even more possible orbits, and eventually figuring out the whole range of winding paths that three objects can follow around one another.
“This is kind of the zeroth step. Then the question becomes, how is the space of all possible positions and velocities filled up by solutions?” says Richard Montgomery at the University of California, Santa Cruz. “These simple orbits are kind of like a skeleton to build the whole system up from.” ”
As suggested by the above article, the field of Celestial Mechanics is still on step zero—the stone age. The found orbits are nothing like heliocentric astronomy and there will be an attempt to use them as a skeleton to "build the whole system up from."
Hill's Region
Astronomer and mathematician George William Hill studied the Three Body Problem. The only way Hill was able to make any progress at all was by using the Restricted Three Body Problem, where one of the bodies was of zero or negligible mass. Even then, the body was still chaotic. The benefit of the Restricted Three Body Problem and the Mass-less moon meant that that the moon would be no longer ejected from the system, as it would usually be. It is confined to what is known as "Hill's Region".
From Scholarpedia's Three Body Problem page by mathematician Alain Chenciner (bio):
http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Three_body_problem (Archive)
The above depicts a crazy and chaotic moon which even makes a u-turn in mid orbit.
From the text that accompanies the image:
“ The simplest case:
It occurs when, the Jacobi constant being negative and big enough, the zero mass body (we shall still call it the Moon) moves in a component of the Hill region which is a disc around one of the massive bodies (the Earth). This fact already implies Hill's rigorous stability result: for all times such a Moon would not be able to escape from this disc. Nevertheless this does not prevent collisions with the Earth. ”
"Zero mass body" -- One of the bodies in the restricted three body problem is of zero mass.
"Nevertheless this does not prevent collisions with the earth" -- It's still chaotic, even in that simplified version.
One might observe that Newtonian Mechanics most certainly does not naturally default to the heliocentric system of Copernicus.
Poliastro
Poliastro, an astrodynamics software developer, shares several numerical methods for the restricted three body problem:
https://twitter.com/poliastro_py/status/993418078036873216?lang=en (Archive)
“ Look at this beautiful plot of several numerical methods for the restricted three body problem taken from Harier et al. "Solving Ordinary Differential Equations I". The use of high order Runge-Kutta methods is pervasive in Celestial Mechanics. Happy Monday! ”
Arenstorf orbits are the knotted closed trajectories which are the result of Restricted Three Body Problem solutions.
Chaos Theory: A Demo
The available solutions to the Two and Three Body Problems are so sensitive that the slightest change or imperfection will tear the entire system apart. From 'Mathematics Applied to Deterministic Problems in Natural Sciences' we read another account of Poincaré's discoveries:
“ As Poincaré experimented, he was relieved to discover that in most of the situations, the possible orbits varied only slightly from the initial 2-body orbit, and were still stable, but what occurred during further experimentation was a shock. Poincaré discovered that even in some of the smallest approximations some orbits behaved in an erratic unstable manner. His calculations showed that even a minute gravitational pull from a third body might cause a planet to wobble and fly out of orbit all together. ”
The orbits are incredibly sensitive. As a very illustrative demonstration, take a look at this online Three Body Problem simulator that uses the symmetrical figure eight pattern, which requires three identical bodies of equal mass which move at very specific momentum and distance in relation to each other.
Demo: Figure-Eight Three Body Problem
Adjust the mass slider values in the upper left of the simulation to something very slight to find what happens. What you will see is a demonstration of Chaos Theory. Any slight modification to a perfect system creates a chain reaction of random chaos.
This is precisely the issue of modeling the Heliocentric System, and why its fundamental system cannot exist. Only very specific, sensitive, and highly symmetrical configurations may exist. The slightest deviation, such as with a system with unequal masses, or the minute influence from a gravitating body external to the system, will cause the entire system to fly apart. The reader is invited to decide for his or her own self whether those scenarios would occur in nature as described by popular theory.
N-Body Solution Galleries
Below are links to galleries of various Three Body and n-Body solutions which have been found. One should note the lack of heliocentric orbits and the inherent semmetry inherent in all orbits.
Wolfram Science
https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/notes-7-4--three-body-problem/ (Archive)
“ In Henri Poincaré's study of the collection of possible trajectories for three-body systems he identified sensitive dependence on initial conditions (see above), noted the general complexity of what could happen (particularly in connection with so-called homoclinic tangles), and developed topology to provide a simpler overall description. With appropriate initial conditions one can get various forms of simple behavior. The pictures below show some of the possible repetitive orbits of an idealized planet moving in the plane of a pair of stars that are in a perfect elliptical orbit. ”
Institute of Physics Belgrade
http://three-body.ipb.ac.rs/ (Archive)
n-Body Choreographies
http://rectangleworld.com/demos/nBody/ (Archive) - Notice that the common theme is highly symmetrical shapes.
Scholarpedia.org
http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Three_body_problem (Archive)
Euler Math Toolbox
http://euler.rene-grothmann.de/Programs/Examples/Three-Body%20Problem.html (Archive)
Find N-Body Solutions in Your Browser
https://www.i-programmer.info/news/202-number-crunching/8163-find-n-body-solutions-in-your-browser.html - Javascript tool which finds possible N-Body orbits
Supercomputing Challenge
Programming students participated in the New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge to simulate the solar system and found issues with creating basic orbits:
Simulation of Planetary Bodies in the Universe (N-Body) (Archive) (Source Code)
“ Our solar system is an N-body system. N-body simulation is the simulation of astral bodies under gravity, using laws of classical mechanics to define how the astral bodies move. The goal of our project is to model the N-body problem in NetLogo. Code defining how astral bodies interact implements the inverse square law and a gravitational constant to calculate gravitational force between them.
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Verification and Validation
Even though our model is not entirely accurate, it recreates with graphical simplicity and mathematical correctness of the N-body simulation. Through many many trials, we realize that normal orbits are incredibly complex and hard to obtain through any normal means, and causes us to conclude that our own solar system is an incredible anomaly of the universe. ”
The PDF report explains with additional details that all attempts at observing orbit were unsuccessful.
Universe Sandbox 2
Universe Sandbox 2 (Universe Sandbox ²) is a physics based space simulation developed and published by Giant Army. It has often been claimed that this simulation provides evidence that the Sun-Earth-Moon System and the Solar System are able to be simulated with gravity.
Read the following from a developer blog post and decide whether the program is using a full simulation of gravity:
Working Through the N-Body Problem in Universe Sandbox ² (Archive)
“ By default, the simulations in Universe Sandbox ² try to set an accuracy which prevents orbits from falling apart due to error. This means setting a maximum error tolerance for each step and also making sure the total error doesn’t reach an upper limit.
If you crank up the time step, the simulation then has to take fewer, larger steps. This means the potential for greater error. And the greater the error, the more likely it is that an orbit, which otherwise would be stable, falls apart. Moons crash into planets, Mercury gets thrown out of the solar system — things like that.
This isn’t what most people want in their simulations. But at the same time, most people also don’t want a limit on how fast they can run their simulation. This is a problem.
An imperfect solution
So how can we get around this problem? How can we accurately simulate thousands of objects while still allowing for large steps forward in time? For example, what if you wanted to simulate our solar system on a time scale of millions of years per second so that you could see the evolution of our Sun?
One solution proposed by Thomas, our physics programmer, is to allow for a special mode within simulations running at high time steps. This mode (which of course could be toggled) would collapse the existing n-body simulation into a series of 2-body problems: Moon & Earth, Earth & Sun, Europa & Jupiter, Jupiter & Sun, etc.
Solving a 2-body problem is much easier than solving an n-body problem. Not only is it faster computationally, but there is also a relatively arbitrary difference between figuring out where the two objects will be in one year and where they’ll be in a million years — it still requires just one calculation. So if you collapse an n-body simulation into a series of two-body problems, the simulation could take one big step forward, instead of taking the small steps needed for calculating it as an n-body problem.
The results won’t be entirely accurate, as this method would effectively ignore all gravitational influences outside of the main attractor. As mentioned before, calculating Earth’s orbit by looking at how it interacts with just the Sun is not accurate, as Earth is also affected by every other body. The Sun, however, is the most significant factor by far, because it is much more massive than any other object in our solar system. The other, much smaller forces tend to have little effect overall in non-chaotic systems. So while it’s not correct, it’s close enough when simulating something relatively stable like our solar system.
This isn’t a perfect solution. But we think it could be an improvement over the current system and its limitations, which leave you with the choice of either destabilizing the orbits with massive errors, or waiting days for the simulation to advance the millions of years needed for the Sun to evolve. Neither is particularly interesting. ”
One might ponder that, surely, if all they had to do was to wait days for the simulation to advance millions of years for the 'sun to evolve' in order for heliocentric orbits to become possible, they could simply run that simulation and save its state to use as a baseline for further simulations.
Despite any fanciful allusions that the choice is between either "destabilizing the orbits with massive errors" or "waiting for Sun to evolve," and reassurances that our solar system is stable despite the inability of simulating it—all common statements to excuse away the problems of simulating bodies in heliocentric orbits—its developers freely admit that the program is not using a full simulation of gravity. The article states "By default, the simulations in Universe Sandbox ² try to set an accuracy which prevents orbits from falling apart due to error".
Symmetrical Simulations
The simulations are highly symmetrical with mass restrictions:
Over a Thousand New Solutions - New Scientist
From the New Scientist article Infamous three-body problem has over a thousand new solutions we read:
“ Perhaps the most important application of the three-body problem is in astronomy, for helping researchers figure out how three stars, a star with a planet that has a moon, or any other set of three celestial objects can maintain a stable orbit.
But these new orbits rely on conditions that are somewhere between unlikely and impossible for a real system to satisfy. In all of them, for example, two of the three bodies have exactly the same mass and they all remain in the same plane. ”
Clicking on the arxiv.org source at the bottom of the that article takes us to the paper The 1223 new periodic orbits of planar three-body problem with unequal mass and zero angular momentum, where we see at the bottom of p.1:
“ Therefore, without loss of generality, we consider m1 = m2 = 1 and m3 is varied. ”
We see that these are symmetrical systems:
FIG. 1. (color online.) Brief overview of the six newly-found families of periodic three-body orbits.
Over 600 New Orbits
Similarly, the phys.org article Scientists discover more than 600 new periodic orbits of the famous three-body problem (Archive) describes the discovery of other symmetrical orbits:
“ These 695 periodic orbits include the well-known figure-eight family found by Moore in 1993, the 11 families found by Suvakov and Dmitrasinovic in 2013, and more than 600 new families reported for the first time. ”
Quotes
Three Body Dynamics
In Three Body Dynamics and Its Applications to Exoplanets by Professor of Physics Z. Musielak (bio) and astrophysicist Billy Quarles, we see:
“ The three-body problem is one of the best known scientific problems, and there are three main reasons. First, the problem has fundamental importance in science, mathematics and engineering. Second, the problem is truly difficult to solve, which has been manifested by thousands of papers written by numerous outstanding researchers, who have tried (very) hard but failed. Third, the problem can be stated simple enough, so non-experts can understand it and appreciate its importance. As described in this book, all attempts to solve this problem have enriched celestial and classical mechanics, and mathematics with many new methods, powerful theorems, and novel ideas that are already being used in applications in different fields of research. ”
David Gozzard
Physcist David Gozzard (bio) says in his video Weird Orbits - the three body problem (Runtime - 4m):
“ Three hundred and fifty years ago Isaac Newton formulated his theory of gravity Newton's theory unified the heavens and the earth under the same physical laws and neatly explained the orbits of the planets, the motion of comets, and how the moon causes the tides. Although Einstein's general relativity has supplanted Newton's theory as a better model of gravity, Newtonian mechanics got us to the moon and are still used to calculate the trajectories of spacecraft throughout the solar system. In spite of this success and more than three centuries of progress we still do not have a neat set of equations that allow us to calculate the orbital parameters of more than two objects at once. This is called the three-body problem, or more generally the n-body problem. ”
Paul Nahin
From p.132 of Number-Crunching by Dr. Paul J. Nahin (bio):
“ The study of how three massive bodies gravitationally interact is called the three-body problem, and its general solution eluded even the genius of Newton. But, of course, that didn’t mean it was necessarily an impossible problem, just that it was a very, very difficult problem. Perhaps, it was hoped, with advancing technical knowledge and the appearance of an even greater intellect than Newton’s, the three-body problem could be solved. That lure, of being the one that finally did what the great Newton could not, attracted some of the most brilliant analysts over the next 250 years. Such luminaries as the Swiss Leonhard Euler (1707-1783), the French Joseph Lagrange (1736-1813), and the German Carl Jacobi (1804-1851), for example, all tried their hands at it, but except for limited partial successes made under special, restrictive assumptions, the general solution of the three-body problem defeated every one of them. ”
Vinay Ambegaokar
In the Chaos chapter (Archive) of Reasoning about Luck: Probability and Its Uses in Physics, its author physics professor Vinay Ambegaokar (bio) tells us that the three-body problem is not studied in the physics curriculum:
“ The next simplest case is the ‘three body problem’ - sun, earth, and moon, for example - taking into account the attraction between each body and the other two. No simple solution to this problem exists, and it is not studied in the physics curriculum. ”
Isaac Newton
On p.174 of Medical Reasoning: The Nature and Use of Medical Knowledge (Archive) its author Erwin B. Montgomery shares this quote from Newton:
“ An example of a system that can be described explicitly by a mathematical metaphor proved unsolvable (at least explicitly in algebraic or integral functions) is the three-body problem, such as the orbits of the earth, moon, and sun when all three are considered simultaneously. While the two-body problem is solvable, such as the orbits of the earth and moon, even Newton recognized the difficulty and indeed potential intractability of the three-body problem, commenting in 1684 that “to define these motions by exact laws admitting of easy calculation exceeds, if I am not mistaken, the force of any human mind” (from a draft of De Motu, tentatively dated in December 1684; Wilson 1989). ”
Martin Gutzwiller
The end section of a paper titled Moon-Earth-Sun: The oldest three-body problem (Archive) by physicist Martin C. Gutzwiller (bio) concludes that Newton's laws are not a sufficient explanation:
“ The three-body problem teaches us a sobering lesson about our ability to comprehend the outside world in terms of a few basic mathematical relations. Many physicists, maybe early in their careers, had hopes of coordinating their field of interest, if not all of physics, into some overall rational scheme. The more complicated situations could then be reduced to some simpler models in which all phenomena would find their explanation. This ideal goal of the scientific enterprise has been promoted by many distinguished scientists [see Weinberg’s (1992) Dream of a Final Theory, with a chapter ‘‘Two Cheers for Reductionism’’]....Many physicists may be tempted to see in Newton’s equations of motion and his universal gravitation a sufficient explanation for the three-body problem, with the details to be worked out by the technicians. But even a close look at the differential equations (29) and (30) does not prepare us for the idiosyncracies of the lunar motion, nor does it help us to understand the orbits of asteroids in the combined gravitational field of the Sun and Jupiter. ”
Mark Cunningham
On p.189 of Neoclassical Physics by physicist Mark Cunningham (bio) we read the following (Archive):
Classical Mechanics
“ Issac Newton's notable success in providing a theoretical explanation for the motion of planets around the sun was followed quickly by his realization that the gravitational problem involving three bodies was immensely more difficult than the two-body problem. Where the two-body problem, as we have seen in Chapter 2, can be solved exactly, Newton's attempts to provide a concise mathematical description of the earth-sun-moon system were not successful.1 This, of course, is not due to Newton's lack of mathematical skills. Indeed, a series of notable mathematicians all applied their skills to the problem but without success, although it depends somewhat on how one defines success. It is true that no general solutions of the three-body problem have been constructed but the assault on the problem led to powerful new mathematical methods for understanding dynamical systems.2 ”
Yet again, we find direct statements telling us that the venture of describing or simulating the earth-sun-moon system has been unsuccessful, from the time of Newton up to present. Numerous and notable mathematicians over the years have attempted to describe or simulate the earth-sun-moon system without success—telling us everything that we need to know about the systems of Newton and Copernicus.
Richard D. Mattuck
Contrary to common dogma, the ability of various fields to describe physical systems based on the underlying laws has been going down with time, not up. Richard D. Mattuck writes in his A Guide to Feynman Diagrams in the Many-Body Problem (Archive):
The Many-Body Problem for Everybody
“ How many bodies are required before we have a problem? G. E. Brown [bio] points out that this can be answered by a look at history. In eighteenth-century Newtonian mechanics, the three-body problem was insoluble. With the birth of relativity around 1910 and quantum electrodynamics in 1930, the two- and one-body problems became insoluble. And within modern quantum field theory, the problem of zero bodies (vacuum) is insoluble. So, if we are out after exact solutions, no bodies at all is already too many! ”
Stability of the Solar System
It has been asserted that Laplace and Lagrange demonstrated the stability of the Solar System. On this topic, Professor H. Scott Dumass tells us in The KAM Story (Archive):
“ In the early 19th century, building on earlier work of Lagrange, 12 Laplace ‘proved’ the stability of the solar system, and although this work was an important step and is mathematically correct as far as it goes, it was soon recognized that he had not shown stability for the n body problem, but rather for an attenuated version of it in which higher-order interactions between planets are ignored. Such claims and half-successes by the mathematical giants of the ages (and many other less-than-giants) of course only added celebrity to the n body problem, and to the stability problem in particular. ”
Later researchers went on to 'simulate' the solar system with two body approximation and geometry preserving schemes. See the pages Numerical Solutions and Symplectic Integrators.
N-Body Symmetry
Code documentation for N-Body simulation software at Rosetta Code states the following:
https://rosettacode.org/wiki/N-body_problem (Archive)
“ The slightest perturbation from symmetry causes the system to become unstable. ”
See Also
Three Body Problem - The heliocentric Sun-Earth-Moon system cannot be simulated
Numerical Solutions - The available solutions for celestial systems do not fully simulate gravity
Perturbation Methods - Epicycles are still used for astronomical prediction
Eclipse Prediction - The eclipses are predicted with cycles and patterns
Symplectic Integrators - A special method of orbital simulation which preserves geometry and forces stability
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Data from the New York Times shows that Guam, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and four states saw their average daily numbers of newly reported coronavirus cases rise over the past 14 days: Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, and South Dakota.
The Times' data also shows that the average daily numbers of newly reported coronavirus cases over the past two weeks remained mostly stable in Washington, D.C., and 23 states: Arkansas, Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, Texas, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
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On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that the country's Health Ministry has approved a vaccine against the novel coronavirus, making it the first coronavirus vaccine to gain regulatory approval.
According to the Washington Post, the vaccine, called Sputnik V and developed by the Gamaleya Institute in Moscow, "uses two doses to deliver different harmless cold viruses, or adenoviruses, that have been engineered to carry into cells the gene for the spiky protein that studs the outside of the coronavirus." The vaccine is similar to a coronavirus vaccine candidate currently under development by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, as well as a candidate under development by CanSino Biologics, the Associated Press reports.
Putin on Tuesday said the country's vaccine has undergone adequate testing and evidence has shown it is safe and effective, noting that one of his adult daughters has received the inoculation. He said the vaccine offers up to two years of immunity against the novel coronavirus.
"I know it has proven efficient and forms a stable immunity, and I would like to repeat that it has passed all the necessary tests," Putin said. "We must be grateful to those who made that first step very important for our country and the entire world."
However, public health experts worldwide have raised concerns about the vaccine's approval, noting that Russia has not yet published any data showing that the vaccine is safe and effective. Further, experts said the vaccine hasn't yet gone through a Phase 3 clinical trial, which would test the vaccine among thousands of patients over the course of a few months.
The World Health Organization said its records show Gamaleya is still Phase 1 clinical trials, which typically focus on safety, not efficacy, and involve just a few dozen participants. According to the AP, human clinical trials for the vaccine first began on June 17 among 76 volunteers, half of whom were injected with a liquid form of the vaccine and the other half of whom were treated with a soluble powder form of the vaccine.
Gamaleya has made few details on its research regarding the vaccine available to the public, and only some of its research has undergone peer review, the Post reports. To date, most of what is known about the vaccine comes from secondhand sources and has not been published as medical research, according to the Post.
Kirill Dmitriev—head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, which financed Russia's vaccine development effort—attributed the dearth of public information on the vaccine to Russia being more secretive about its scientific research than other countries.
Gamaleya did not respond directly to requests for comment from the Post, instead directing the Post to Russia's Health Ministry—which also did not respond to requests for comment, the Post reports.
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J. Stephen Morrison, SVP at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said, "This is changing the rules. This is cutting corners. … I think this could backfire."
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Dmitriev said researchers will soon start Phase 3 clinical trials on the vaccine, and the trials will involve "several thousand people" across several different countries. However, in the meantime, Russia will make the vaccine available to tens of thousands of people in Russia who volunteer to receive it, Dmitriev said.
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Jakarta [Indonesia], September 27 (ANI/Xinhua): The number of COVID-19 cases in Indonesia rose by 1,760 within one day to 4,208,013, with the death toll increasing by 86 to 141,467, the country's Health Ministry said on Sunday.
According to the ministry, 2,976 more people were discharged from hospitals, bringing the total number of patients recovering from COVID-19 to 4,023,777.
To date, at least 48.52 million people in Indonesia have received two shots of vaccines, while 86.46 million have taken the first dose, the ministry said. (ANI/Xinhua)
Indonesia reports 1,760 newly-confirmed COVID-19 cases
Indonesia reports 1,760 newly-confirmed COVID-19 cases
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Jakarta [Indonesia], September 27 (ANI/Xinhua): The number of COVID-19 cases in Indonesia rose by 1,760 within one day to 4,208,013, with the death toll increasing by 86 to 141,467, the country's Health Ministry said on Sunday.
According to the ministry, 2,976 more people were discharged from hospitals, bringing the total number of patients recovering from COVID-19 to 4,023,777.
To date, at least 48.52 million people in Indonesia have received two shots of vaccines, while 86.46 million have taken the first dose, the ministry said. (ANI/Xinhua)
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If you're looking to add more class to your home, taking on a DIY project can give your house that extra sense of style while saving you money. No need to cringe at those three little words: "do it yourself." There really are fast, easy and affordable projects you can do on your own. Here are five relatively easy ways to enhance your home.
1. Replace Your Light Fixtures
Switching out an old or basic light fixture for a more elegant one is an easy way to shift the ambiance of a room. By adding a sophisticated light fixture, you can control the intensity of the light and character of your room. And you don't need to pay a pretty penny for expensive new fixtures - you can buy used fixtures online.
2. Add Floating Shelves
Installing floating shelves in your home combines the functionality of extra storage space with a bit of style and personal flair. Floating shelves can be mounted on walls in many different patterns, and they come in various materials to give your rooms a unique touch. For a small room choose shallow shelves to display framed photos; for a larger room you can afford to use deeper shelves to hold vases, books and unique trinkets.
3. Paint an Accent Wall
Painting an accent wall can add a pop of color and showcase your personality. Usually a low-risk project, a homeowner of any skill level can tackle this project in a day. You just need some painter's tape, a brush and the color that suits you! Just make sure the color you choose is complementary with the other colors in the room. Stay consistent between warm and cool tones.
4. Install Decorative Molding
Adding decorative molding around your home can add an extra touch of elegance. Install molding to the ceiling by capping walls, columns and cabinets, or add chair molding lower to the ground. With detailed molding you can add character to your rooms while also making them feel taller and more finished.
5. Build a Stone Fire Pit
Take your sophisticated style outside by building a stone fire pit in your backyard. Completed in only a few hours, take uniquely shaped rocks or large stones and put them together to create a functional and stylish fire pit. Before starting the project, be sure to check your local fire codes or homeowners association to ensure you are safe and allowed to start building.
Adding a touch of class to your home doesn't have to break the bank! Just be sure to start with one project at a time, allowing yourself to complete one before starting the next. Otherwise, you'll fall victim to chronic project incompleteness syndrome - not a good look!
Now that you know about these five inexpensive DIY projects, which will you try?
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For almost 15 years we have been witnessing a fundamental shift in how we do business, how we live and how we envision the world. Some have referred to this as a Paradigm Shift (Senge, 1991) brought on by cheaper and more accessible technologies (Ashkenas et al. 1995). As business people, we are constantly faced with solving problems and driving results, but that task is becoming more difficult because the lay of the land has changed and is going to continue to change – for everybody and every industry.
The fact that change and the unknown will have a deep impact on decision makers is not new, in fact Sun Tzu noted this almost 2000 years ago in the Art of War
“We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country – its mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices, its marshes and swamps.”
Our challenge is to find new ways to understand and model our environment in ways that will provide useful and relevant insight. In this blog we are going to tackle how both Monte-Carlo Simulation/Optimization and Network Analysis can independently or jointly enhance our understanding as well as solve some of today’s toughest management challenges with relative ease.
Social and Organizational Network Analysis (S/ONA)
Over the last decade, we have seen how the internet has transformed our lives progressively and fundamentally. But the internet is not just a tool for collaborating in today’s dynamic environment; it is a model for it (Logan & Stoke, 2002). Marshal McLuhan summarized this idea almost 40 years ago in one simple caption “the Media is the Message”.
What does this mean for decision makers? It means that as the world becomes more inter-connected, understanding how networks form and operate becomes critical success factor in defining and executing relevant strategy and operations.
Examples of social and organizational networking are everywhere – from Facebook to Supply Chain Management, from Google to Cloud Computing, from Microsoft Messenger to Organization Wide Collaboration and Conferencing.
S/ONA has been used by some of the world leading firms to deal with HR (succession planning, compensation analysis, etc.), Knowledge Management as well as Strategic Analysis of suppliers and partners.
In this blog, we are going to explore these ideas and try to make them practical for everyday use.
Monte-Carlo Simulation and Optimization
Monte-Carlo simulation has been around since the 1940’s but has not been easy to apply until recently. Monte-Carlo simulation and optimization enables users to analyze problems in terms of ranges and distributions rather than single point i.e. sales are going to be between 10 and 12 million vs. an 11 million average. Most project managers, executives and analysts tend to model their ideas in terms of single of single point because they are much easier to model than ranges but when pushed to give an answer or a forecast – they will give you a range.
The more you incorporate variance-based variables (i.e. costs, time, effort, complexity, ect.) into your models (i.e. budgets, forecasts, production specs, etc. ), the more you realize that the potential outcome can vary greatly from initial targets.
“Initial cost and schedule estimates for major projects have invariably been over-optimistic. The risk that cost and schedule constraints will not be met and cannot be determined if cost and schedule estimates are given in terms of single points rather than distributions.”
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Risk Analysis Study Team, August 1971
Why is that important? Because through Monte-Carlo simulation and optimization it becomes possible and easier to:
Simulate Outcomes – By looking at 10,000 or even a 1,000,000 variations of the same situation is much more powerful than looking at 3 point estimates (i.e. Best Case, Worst Case, Most Likely)
Assess Risk: Using tools such as sensitivity analysis we can pinpoint what is driving the final answer
Improve Communication and Understanding: Using MC is very powerful to communicate the impact of certain decisions because it is very simple and visual.
Build and Maintain Credibility - Failures have a big impact on managers’ and executives careers. According to the Standish Group’s 2006 Chaos Report “46% of projects are either delivered late, overbudget or both!”
You Incorporate Accuracy - The ability to mathematically assign certainty to an answer will enable you to get the budgets they need from the outset – thus mitigating major gaps between projected and real costs. By providing better estimates for time and money, executives and managers demonstrate their ability to get things done right, on-time and on-budget.
In this column/blog we are going to cover these concepts and techniques as well as develop them further. We feel that both techniques are powerful on their own; however we would also like to explore applications where they overlap.
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Thank You For The Music! Swedish pop pioneers ABBA announce they are retiring and new album Voyage is their LAST... weeks after reuniting for first live shows in 40 years
The Swedish pop pioneers originally split up in 1982, but reformed earlier this year to record ninth studio album Voyage
Benny Andersson, 74, and Bjorn Ulvaeus, 76, insist the reunion is a one-off, saying: 'This is it... It’s got to be, you know'
The group became household names after winning the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with hit single Waterloo
They released tracks including Mama Mia!, Dancing Queen, Take a Chance On Me and Thank You For The Music before walking away from the music industry
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Published: 19:54 EST, 27 October 2021 | Updated: 02:23 EST, 28 October 2021
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ABBA have announced they will retire following the release of their first album in 40 years and the completion of their recently announced stage show.
The Swedish pop pioneers originally split up in 1982, but reformed earlier this year to record ninth studio album Voyage and unveil plans for an immersive digital stage show, to be held in London's Stratford next May.
However bandmembers Benny Andersson, 74, and Bjorn Ulvaeus, 76, insist the reunion is a one-off, with the band unlikely to record more music following the release of Voyage on November 5.
End of an era: ABBA have announced they will retire following the release of their first album in 40 years and the completion of their recently announced stage show
Speaking to The Guardian, Benny said: 'This is it... It’s got to be, you know.'
Touching on the band's original break-up, which followed almost a decade of chart domination, he added: 'I didn’t actually say that, "This is it" in 1982.
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'I never said myself that ABBA was never going to happen again. But I can tell you now: this is it.'
The group, which also includes Agnetha Fältskog, 71, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad, 75, became household names after winning the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with hit single Waterloo.
Legends: The Swedish pop pioneers originally split up in 1982, but reformed earlier this year to record ninth studio album Voyage and unveil plans for an immersive digital stage show
They went on to release tracks including Mama Mia!, Dancing Queen, Take a Chance On Me and Thank You For The Music before walking away from the music industry.
The band recently announced further tickets will be made available for their upcoming avatar tour.
The additional tickets for ABBA Voyage, which will take bookings to December 4 2022, will be on sale from 10am on November 3, two days before the album is released on November 5.
Tickets will be made from abbavoyage.com, with a pre-sale for Amazon UK customers that pre-order a physical format of the new ABBA album available from 10am Monday November 1 and a priority booking window for ABBA Voyage database subscribers from 10am November 2.
Bowing out: Bandmembers Benny Andersson, 74, and Bjorn Ulvaeus, 76, insist the reunion is a one-off, with the band unlikely to record more music following the release of Voyage on November 5
The masterpiece will take place in the purpose-built ABBA Arena at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London from 27th May 2022.
The digital versions of the four-piece have been created following weeks and months of motion-capture and performance techniques.
An 850-strong team from Industrial Light & Magic, the company founded by Star Wars creator George Lucas, led the company’s first foray into music.
The foursome previously said they would never reform despite their huge worldwide popularity, and reaching more than 400 million album sales over 50 years.
Interview: Speaking to The Guardian, Benny said: 'This is it... It’s got to be, you know'
In an interview with Australia's A Current Affair on Friday, Björn teased: 'That's the vision we have, an experience that nobody has ever had in music.'
'You know to sit in the audience on opening night and see this thing, see ourselves... it's going to be weird and wonderful,' he added.
The singer promises it will be as close to the real thing as possible.
'It will be us, in the way that we really have infused ourselves in these avatars with movement, with facials expressions, with the voices, all of that stuff makes it, it's us,' he told the programme.
Stars: The foursome previously said they would never reform despite their huge worldwide popularity, and reaching more than 400 million album sales over 50 years (pictured circa 1975)
The Sun reported: 'The state-of-the-art concert - set to run until 2025 - will feature Abba performing as holograms of themselves in their heyday.
'It will be situated in a purpose-built 3,000-capacity venue in the Olympic Park in Stratford, East London, where it will open next spring and an entire album of new music is being readied.'
It added: 'The 6,710-square-metre theatre will host eight shows a week and will allow for a 360-degree immersive experience, giving fans the chance to get up close and personal with the recreations of the superstars, which will be joined on stage by real performers.'
A bar, food stalls and a shop are also said to be included on site, with The Sun having seen planning documents that show the building's design allows for it to be broken down for transportation.
History: The group became household names after winning the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with hit single Waterloo (pictured as holograms)
'Preliminary plans' aim for a later move to Las Vegas or Stockholm.
The Waterloo group went their separate ways at the height of their career, and during their final years Bjorn divorced bandmate Agnetha whilst Benny and Frida split up, too.
They performed together for the first time in decades in 2016 at a private event, which marked the 50th anniversary of the first meeting between songwriters Bjorn and Benny.
Split: The Waterloo group went their separate ways at the height of their career, and during their final years Bjorn divorced bandmate Agnetha whilst Benny and Frida split up, too (pictured in 1973)
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Vivica A. Fox, 57, showcases her incredible figure alongside Jeremy Meeks, 37, as they step out for the premiere of True To The Game 3
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Kris Jenner looks chic as she leaves London hotel with Tommy Hilfiger and Dee Ocleppo after whirlwind UK trip
Former Wife Swap star, 36, accuses producers of doing 'horrible things' to her family and 'exploiting her pain' for profit - calling show the 'worst mistake' of her life
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What HAS happened to Meghan and Harry's $25m Spotify podcast deal? Royal couple have produced NO content in 2021 despite promising shows that would 'build community'
Michael B. Jordan gushes about relationship with Lori Harvey as he talks about scrutiny with going public: 'I finally found what love was'
Chrissy Teigen gets into pajama party mode with husband John Legend as they celebrate her 36th birthday bash in robes
Demi Rose sizzles in a black thong and diamante suspenders before changing into a skintight nude bodysuit
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Lily Allen cuts a stylish figure as she steps out in New York wearing a lime green cardigan and checkerboard jumper layered beneath chic coat
Emily Ratajkowski looks chic in Miu Miu jacket and skirt as she cuddles up with son Sylvester, eight months, in cute snaps
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Kendall Jenner looks hot to trot while posing for her latest fashion campaign at horse ranch
Josh Duggar's cousin Amy asks for prayers that he will get the 'ultimate sentence' in his child pornography trial - after slamming the father-of-seven as 'disgusting and evil'
Sex offender inmate jailed at same facility as Josh Duggar after his April arrest is ordered to testify in today's child porn trial
America's Next Top Model vet Sarah Hartshorne claims she was only paid $40 A DAY as a contestant on Tyra Banks' hit reality show
UNCANCELED: Dave Chappelle's former high school now U-Turns and decides to stand by star by going ahead and naming its theatre after him despite controversy over his Netflix special
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Juliette Lewis and Ed Begley Jr sign on to join cast of the upcoming adaptation of Queer as Folk
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Dax Shepard explains how enforcing a 'no TV for the weekend' ban for his daughters ended up being a 'barbaric punishment' for him and Kristen Bell
'If you go to a party, you f***ing rage': Dakota Johnson discusses returning to post-vaccine life as she poses in Gucci faux fur coat for quirky shoot
LeAnn Rimes flashes taut tummy and rocks a black sports bra while leaving a hair salon with a fresh blowout in LA
Serena Williams and her mini-me daughter Olympia, 4, wear matching leopard-print pajamas in adorable snaps
Selling Sunset's Mary Fitzgerald, 41, kisses husband Romain Bonnet, 28, during cozy walk in London after revealing plans to freeze embryos
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Carole Middleton reveals she has a 'very silly Christmas' in store for her grandchildren Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis
Prince Harry compares HIV and Covid pandemics as he blames 'corporate greed and political failure' for prolonging both in new UN-backed video
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Pete Davidson watches the Knicks with sister Casey as his new flame Kim Kardashian attends Louis Vuitton presentation with Kanye West... after musician predicted they'll reunite
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Anti-vaccine Christian broadcaster Marcus Lamb dies from Covid-19 aged 64 days after wife asked listeners to 'pray for his lungs to clear'
LeBron James 'tests positive for COVID-19' and enters NBA's health and safety protocol: Lakers star is scratched from game in Sacramento and rushed back to LA on private jet
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Nicky Hilton puts on a leggy display in a thigh-split sequinned gown as she joins husband James Rothschild for Footwear News Achievement Awards
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Kim Kardashian keeps a low profile while picking up estranged husband Kanye West en route to runway show honoring their late friend and designer Virgil Abloh in Miami
Selling Sunset's Mary Fitzgerald shares a kiss with husband Romain Bonnett during London outing
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Selling Sunset ladies have got competition! Netflix launches spin-off real estate show in Tampa featuring a VERY glamorous all-women team touting lavish properties
Doja Cat rocks a skimpy top while headlining the first stop of the iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Tour in Fort Worth, Texas
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Kate Nash announces new single and shares nostalgic snap of herself in a crop top leaving fans in a frenzy
Alec Baldwin's live bullet that killed Rust cinematographer may have been recycled ammo and supplied by armorer as part of stash used to train actors on firing range
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Sandra Bullock shimmers in a sequin jumpsuit and black blazer on the red carpet at NY premiere for her Netflix drama The Unforgivable
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Kim Kardashian and estranged husband Kanye West join daughter North on the front row at Louis Vuitton vigil for late designer Virgil Abloh
Donald Trump says Meghan Markle 'disrespected' The Queen and 'horribly' used Harry in new interview with British politician
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Sandra Bullock puts her high-rise condo in West Hollywood's Sierra Towers on the market for $4.5 million... but keeps a second condo in the same building
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Matthew McConaughey reveals how his Australian gap year shaped him as a person after his pampered upbringing in Texas
Smell like royalty! Stephanie of Monaco launches Princess of Hearts perfume inspired by her 'generous soul' with some proceeds going to her HIV charity - but it'll cost you $370
Fashion's Succession moment: Zara heiress Marta Ortega, 37, who began career as a sales assistant bypasses older half sister and brother to become Inditex chairman
Victoria Beckham, 47, proves she is more flexible than EVER as she pulls her signature pose in picture taken by Romeo's girlfriend... before poking fun at her unsociable son
Lucy Liu stuns in a metallic peplum evening gown at the UNICEF at 75 Celebration in New York City
Orlando Bloom puts on a dapper display in a pinstriped suit as Sofia Carson stuns in vintage Dior at UNICEF's 75th anniversary
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'I want my eight hours back!' The Beatles fans are divided over Peter Jackson's 'long and boring' docuseries Get Back... but director doggedly defends epic 468 minute running time
Ashleigh Banfield says Katie Couric admitting she felt too threatened to help rival inspired mentorship program that will kick off with Gayle King interview
Missouri-born entertainer Josephine Baker becomes the first black woman and only sixth woman ever to be granted a tomb in the Pantheon in Paris
Virginia Giuffre accuses Prince Andrew of 'shaming her' with 'defamatory' attacks in court filing opposing royal's attempts to throw out her sex abuse case against him
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Nicole Kidman mourns the loss of Indigenous Australian actor David Dalaithngu after Crocodile Dundee star dies aged 68 following a battle with lung cancer
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Celebrity hairstylist Jen Atkin raised more than $81K for Los Angeles-based dog rescue in memory of her beloved pet Chewy who was killed by a coyote
Miley Cyrus cuts an edgy figure in all-black and combat boots as she gives the rock 'n roll salute outside music studio in LA
'We talk all the time and we prioritize each other': Priyanka Chopra explains how she keeps her long-distance marriage to Nick Jonas happy
Emily Ratajkowski models a leather mini dress under a long coat as she plugs her 'empowering' book about 'the cult of beauty' while in London
Jessa Duggar, 29, celebrates anniversary with husband Ben Seewald by recreating an old romantic snap with their four kids - as her brother Josh's child porn trial gets underway
Khloe Kardashian flashes her toned legs in a bodysuit... after ex Tristan Thompson is heckled at a basketball game about his link to the pinup
It's her 'monthiversary'! Paris Hilton celebrates 30 days of marriage to Carter Reum as she shares new wedding photo: 'I'm so proud to be yours'
Dr Oz announces he is running for the US Senate as a Republican in Pennsylvania to 'help us heal' because we are 'angry at the government and each other'
The Matrix Resurrections stars Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss cuddle up as they discuss 20-year effortless connection: 'It is like a soul friendship'
Kristen Stewart pairs a bomber jacket with Justin Bieber's Drew slippers in NYC... after release of her Princess Diana biopic Spencer
Tamra Judge tells ex-best friend Shannon Beador to 'STFU you victim-liar' after RHOC star said she's 'not engaging' in feud
Jen Shah's assistant Stuart Smith is pictured for first time after flipping on the RHOSLC star by changing his plea to GUILTY in $5m telemarketing scam
Chicago cop testifies Jussie Smollett told him one of his attackers was WHITE - after actor's lawyers claimed black brothers who beat him were 'criminals' trying to frame him
Kris Jenner is every inch the proud momager as she snaps photos of daughter Kylie's window display at Harrods in London
Kim Kardashian to be honored with the Fashion Icon Award at upcoming 2021 People's Choice Awards star 'will be honored for single-handedly transforming industry'
Judas And The Black Messiah star LaKeith Stanfield showcases musical talent as he shares audition video for 2019 Cats film... and reveals he lost role to Jason Derulo
Emily Ratajkowski celebrates her book tour with pouty selfie and a night of 'intimate' conversations about 'empowerment'
What an honor! Cate Blanchett is 'absolutely chuffed' to be Adele's fashion muse
Chrishell Stause laughs it up with Selling Sunset co-star Emma Hernan... after revealing how she felt about Justin Hartley remarrying THREE months after divorce
Rachel Brosnahan's Midge desperately tries to salvage her standup career after the fallout from her firing in new trailer for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Beyoncé releases star-studded new advert for Halls Of Ivy drop featuring Natalia Bryant and Reese Witherspoon's daughter Ava Phillippe
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Demi Moore, 59, risks taking a tumble while assisting a bleeding male pal and being supported by aides during calamitous departure from British Fashion Awards
Little Mix singer Leigh-Anne Pinnock narrowly avoids a wardrobe malfunction as she forgoes underwear in a daring dress at Boxing Day premiere
Perrie Edwards and Jade Thirlwall look typically stylish as they support Little Mix bandmate Leigh-Anne Pinnock at Boxing Day premiere
Where's the rest of the Material, Girl? Madonna, 63, flashes her underwear as she spreads her legs in a mini dress while partying with Dua Lipa
Iggy Azalea reveals her Christmas plans with her 19-month-old son Onyx after admitting she is open to finding love again following ugly split with Playboi Carti
Olivia Rodrigo makes a pitstop for romance as she kisses boyfriend Adam Faze on the side of a road... after nabbing SEVEN Grammy nods
Michael J Fox, 60, reveals how he has been able to deal with the 'dark' phases while battling Parkinson's Disease for the past 30 years
Kanye 'Ye' West aims to help the homeless population in Los Angeles and meets with city leaders to establish plan
Megan Barton-Hanson blasts the Kardashians for being 'misleading' about cosmetic work... a year on from THAT Scott Disick spat
Braless Rihanna is a vision in orange Bottega Veneta dress as the first president of Barbados is sworn in - and singer becomes only second ever woman named as country's National Hero
The Weeknd, Olivia Rodrigo and H.E.R and win big at the 2021 Apple Music Awards
Kyle Richards stars as a merciless mom determined to win her town's Christmas decorating contest at any cost in the first trailer for The Housewives of the North Pole
Jacob Elordi refuses to discuss then-girlfriend Kaia Gerber in Esquire interview... following split from girlfriend of one year
Some stars never age! Mad About You vet Helen Hunt, 58, dazzles at the Gotham Awards in a tank top that shows off her sculpted arms
'My a** is hot in this photo!' Chrishell Stause shows off her sizzling frame in a black corset as she jokes about her bottom while posing beside a fire
Olivia Colman is the picture of elegance in chic black dress complete with cut-out detailing as she attends premiere of gritty drama Landscapers
Paul Walker's daughter Meadow pays touching tribute to her late father on eighth anniversary of his death: 'Today and everyday I celebrate your life'
Ethan Hawke looks dapper in a black suit as he makes a rare appearance with wife Ryan at 2021 Gotham Awards
The Voice's Wendy Moten returns with BOTH arms in casts after she broke right elbow and fractured left wrist in THAT fall on live TV
Jennifer Aniston to lead star-studded live re-enactment of The Facts Of Life for ABC alongside Gabrielle Union and Kathryn Hahn
'I'm lucky to be alive and also have a limb': Emotional Tiger Woods discusses severity of horrific car crash and spending three months in a hospital bed
Crown Prince of Japan reveals HE decided his daughter Princess Mako shouldn't have a traditional Shinto wedding due to husband's financial scandal
West Side Story star Rita Moreno, 89, wears a shimmering gown on red carpet for Steven Spielberg's musical remake... 60 years after winning Oscar for the original
Hailey Bieber wows in a skin-tight catsuit with a bust-boosting corset while Zoë Kravitz is a vision in a patterned mini as they lead the glamour at Art Basel
Mick Jagger's ballerina girlfriend Melanie Hamrick shows off her incredible physique in gruelling strength workout
Tristan Thompson has fan ejected from Memphis basketball game 'for heckling him about the Kardashians' days after LeBron James had fans booted for taunting him
Victoria Beckham shares a glimpse of her healthy lunch as she hangs out with son Romeo while he enjoys a pizza after the British Fashion Awards
Mel B's lookalike daughter Phoenix Brown, 22, keeps things casual in a hoodie as she attends games event
It's supposed to be the Fashion Awards! Actress Wallis Day dons a crotch-flashing caped bodysuit while Priyanka Chopra goes full-on floral as they lead worst dressed on red carpet
Fashion Awards 2021: Demi Moore, 59, displays VERY smooth complexion as she joins Kate Beckinsale, 48, and model Adriana Lima, 40, at event
Adele CONFIRMS Vegas residency! Hello singer FINALLY announces long-speculated concerts as she prepares to take the stage at Caesars Palace for four months in 2022
Celeste Barber responds to critics who say she's 'mean' - and reveals why she isn't worried about offending celebrities like Kylie Jenner with her parody videos
'It catapulted my career and changed my life': Selling Sunset's Heather Young reveals she posed naked for Playboy before becoming a star and has 'no regrets'
'I'm on the right meds thanks to no doctor or conservatorship!' Britney Spears gives a health update after legal battle and reveals she 'gets high' from fasting for up to FOUR DAYS
'For years I couldn't watch myself as a child in a music video:' Billie Piper reveals therapy helped her cope with looking back at early fame and says she relates to Britney
Lorenzo Lamas announces his mother and 1950s Hollywood star Arlene Dahl has passed away at 96 in New York City
Bradley Cooper and Irina Shayk look a picture of bliss with daughter Lea after sparking speculation romance is back on
Supermodel Paulina Porizkova reveals how late husband Ric Ocasek was 'obsessed' with her and controlled her life, saying he told her what to wear and what jobs to do
Reach for the cards! S Club 7's Paul Cattermole launches new career as a YouTube tarot card reader 23 years after becoming a popstar
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Prince Andrew grins as he rides through Windsor while Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking trial begins in New York
Maggie Gyllenhaal makes rare appearance with teenage daughter as film The Lost Daughter scores four wins at Gotham Film Awards in NYC
Alice Evans shares throwback snaps with estranged husband Ioan Gruffudd - after claiming he 'bought cocaine while filming new TV show but had to leave it' in now-deleted post
Hugh Jackman, 53, pays loving tribute to wife Deborra-Lee Furness on her 66th birthday
Cara Santana flaunts her toned abs in a plunging black sports bra and leggings as she leaves a workout session in West Hollywood
Selling Sunset's Mary Fitzgerald, 41, reveals she'll freeze her embryos while she and husband Romain Bonnet, 28, focus on their careers
Bethenny Frankel and Jason Hoppy heading back to court over custody of daughter Bryn, 11, as war between exes rages on
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Khloe Kardashian sports $332 Dannijo x Mambacita sweats to escort daughter True to dance class
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Ashley Roberts nails androgynous chic in pinstripe suit and Nike trainers as she makes stylish exit from Heart Radio The Pussycat Dolls star
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Jessica Alba poses with lookalike daughter Honor and sips a margarita in a cute 'photo dump' from Thanksgiving
Marilyn Manson's apartment is RAIDED by sheriff's investigators who seized hard drives while probing claims he sexually assaulted women including his ex Evan Rachel Wood
Dakota Johnson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kristen Stewart, and Tessa Thompson glam up for The Gotham Awards in NYC
Julianne Moore hits the red carpet in black suit before presenting the Performer Tribute Award to Kristen Stewart at the 2021 Gotham Awards
Olivia Culpo looks leggy in a bright strapless mini dress with ruffles as she makes a glamorous appearance at 2021 British Fashion Awards
Adriana Lima puts on a racy display in a bejewelled white coord as she lies on the FLOOR at 2021 Fashion Award's cocktail reception
A Law unto herself! Model Iris flashes her bottom while modelling a striking silver bra and semi-sheer skirt as she leaves the star-studded 2021 British Fashion Awards
Pregnant Skins and Maze Runner actress Kaya Scodelario cradles her baby bump in a frilled silver mini dress as she attends the Fashion Awards
Lila Moss, 19, showcases her model physique in a sporty Burberry mini dress as she heads to the Fashion Awards
Lady Amelia Windsor puts on a glamorous display in a shimmering off-the-shoulder gown and golden clutch as she departs the British Fashion Awards
Thandiwe Newton looks incredible in silver cut-out dress - as she swaps her heels for slippers while leaving Gotham Awards in New York City
Kylie Minogue, 53, busts her best moves at the Fashion Awards after party as she wows in a teal mini dress
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Winnie Harlow commands attention in a quirky padded quilted co-ord at the 2021 Fashion Awards
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Queen Maxima of the Netherlands dons a crimson dress and matching coat as she visits Schiedam for the launch of a network aiming to help residents become debt free
Australian soccer star Sam Kerr embraces her American girlfriend Kristie Mewis on the pitch as Matildas force a thrilling 1-1 draw against the US with a last-minute goal
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Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck organize a food drive at his Pacific Palisades home after spending Thanksgiving together with their families
Joanne Froggatt reveals Sir Mick Jagger 'loves' Downton Abbey and even 'cut short a Rolling Stones rehearsal' to watch the period drama
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Kodi Smit-McPhee reveals the one thing co-star Benedict Cumberbatch wouldn't talk about on the set of new film The Power of the Dog
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Even MEL BROOKS's friends told him a musical about Nazis was crazy. But as he reveals in his riotous memoir, it won him an Oscar... and launched eccentric movie career
Gabrielle Union commands attention in neon green cut-out gown with huge train at the 2021 Fashion Awards
Elsa Hosk goes barefoot as she kicks off her towering Jimmy Choo stilettos to celebrate at the 2021 British Fashion Awards afterparty
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Martyr turned melody maker? James Blunt offers a surprising response to the claim he 'helped prevent World War III' during his army days
Rooney Mara is the epitome of chic in stylish full-length black dress on the red carpet at 2021 Gotham Awards in New York City
Winnie Harlow makes a stylish departure from Fashion Awards afterparty as she wears an ab-flashing leather bustier and tiger-print skirt
Kylie Minogue leads the performers in a black floral jumpsuit as she entertains a packed Royal Albert Hall while topping the bill at the British Fashion Awards
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Sharon Osbourne, 69, goes make-up free as she shows off smooth complexion during low-key outing with her daughter Kelly in Beverly Hills
Cody Simpson's model girlfriend Marloes Stevens speaks out after the singer went on a bizarre rant about 'tyranny and fearmongering'
Chadwick Boseman remembered by family and friends on what would have been the late Black Panther star's 45th birthday
Stranger Things actor Dacre Montgomery's model girlfriend Liv Pollock almost has a wardrobe malfunction as she wears a blanket-style skirt to dinner
Blake Shelton ridicules That's My Jam in 'sneak episode' premiere of Jimmy Fallon game show as Kelly Clarkson and Ariana Grande face-off in medley
Mia Goth showcases her bump in a midriff-baring tank top as she heads to the gym...while rumors fly that she is 'pregnant' by Shia LaBeouf
Maggie Gyllenhaal wows in a daring cut out sequin gown as she scoops four awards for The Lost Daughter at The Gotham Awards in New York
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'I f***ed up': Will Ferrell's long-time collaborator Adam McKay reveals they fell out after he cast John C. Reilly as Lakers owner Jerry Buss instead of the Elf star
Ruth Negga stands out from the crowd in a monochrome patterned dress at the Gotham Independent Film Awards in NYC
Nicolas Cage, 57, and his wife Riko Shibata, 26, arrive in style at the Gotham Awards in NYC
'Don't lose any more weight!' Fans express their concern for Martine McCutcheon, 43, after Love Actually star looks 'too thin' in latest snap
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Pentium 4 CPUs introduced the SSE2 and, in the Prescott-based Pentium 4s, SSE3 instruction sets to accelerate calculations, transactions, media processing, 3D graphics, and games. Later versions featured Hyper-Threading Technology (HTT), a feature to make one physical CPU work as two logical CPUs. Intel also marketed a version of their low-end Celeron processors based on the NetBurst microarchitecture (often referred to as Celeron 4), and a high-end derivative, Xeon, intended for multiprocessor servers and workstations. In 2005, the Pentium 4 was complemented by the Pentium D and Pentium Extreme Edition dual-core CPUs The Athlon made its debut on June 23, 1999. Athlon is the ancient Greek word for Champion/trophy of the games. <br />Athlon is the brand name applied to a series of x86-compatible microprocessors designed and manufactured by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). The original Athlon (now called Athlon Classic) was the first seventh-generation x86 processor and retained the initial performance lead it had over Intel's competing processors for a significant period of time. The original Athlon also had the distinction of being the first desktop processor to reach speeds of one gigahertz (GHz). AMD has continued using the Athlon name with the Athlon 64, an eighth-generation processor featuring x86-64 (later renamed AMD64) architecture, and the Athlon II.
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In terms of overall gaming performance, the Intel Pentium 4 HT 524 is marginally better than the AMD Athlon MP 1900+ when it comes to running the latest games. This also means it will be less likely to bottleneck more powerful GPUs, allowing them to achieve more of their gaming performance potential.
Both the Pentium 4 HT 524 and the Athlon MP 1900+ were released at the same time, so are likely to be quite similar.
Both CPUs exhibit very poor performance, so rather than upgrading from one to the other you should consider looking at more powerful CPUs. Neither of these will be able to run the latest games in any playable way.
{ The Pentium 4 HT and the Athlon MP 1900+ both have 1 cores, and so are quite likely to struggle with the latest games, or at least bottleneck high-end graphics cards when running them. With a decent accompanying GPU, thePentium 4 HT and the Athlon MP 1900+ may still be able to run slightly older games fairly effectively.
More important for gaming than the number of cores and threads is the clock rate. Problematically, unless the two CPUs are from the same family, this can only serve as a general guide and nothing like an exact comparison, because the clock cycles per instruction (CPI) will vary so much.
The Pentium 4 HT and Athlon MP 1900+ are not from the same family of CPUs, so their clock speeds are by no means directly comparable. Bear in mind, then, that while the Pentium 4 HT has a 1.46 GHz faster frequency, this is not always an indicator that it will be superior in performance, despite frequency being crucial when trying to avoid GPU bottlenecking. In this case, however, the difference is probably a good indicator that the is superior.
Aside from the clock rate, the next-most important CPU features for PC game performance are L2 and L3 cache size. Faster than RAM, the more cache available, the more data that can be stored for lightning-fast retrieval. L1 Cache is not usually an issue anymore for gaming, with most high-end CPUs eking out about the same L1 performance, and L2 is more important than L3 - but L3 is still important if you want to reach the highest levels of performance. Bear in mind that although it is better to have a larger cache, the larger it is, the higher the latency, so a balance has to be struck.
The <span class='gpu2Mention'>Athlon MP 1900+</span> has a 255 KB bigger L2 cache than the <span class='gpu1Mention'>Pentium 4 HT</span>, but neither of the CPUs have L3 caches, so the <span class='gpu2Mention'>Athlon MP 1900+</span> wins out in this area with its larger L2 cache.
The maximum Thermal Design Power is the power in Watts that the CPU will consume in the worst case scenario. The lithography is the semiconductor manufacturing technology being used to create the CPU - the smaller this is, the more transistors that can be fit into the CPU, and the closer the connections. For both the lithography and the TDP, it is the lower the better, because a lower number means a lower amount of power is necessary to run the CPU, and consequently a lower amount of heat is produced.
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She's a pet portraitist. Aside from being Murray's chief cheerleader, Sears is carving out a career for herself as an artist, painting portraits of man's best friend, dogs. She's even set up a website peddling her wares to would-be patrons, kimsears.com.
Andy Murray was her first boyfriend. When Andy Murray spotted blonde student Kim Sears accompanying her father to the US Open in 2005, it was love at first sight. Fast-forward a year and he went public with their relationship, seeking her out in the crowd to celebrate his first ever tournament win in San José.
Her father is a former tennis player and coach. One of the reasons Sears' relationship with Andy Murray is so strong is because she understands tennis. Her father, Nigel Sears, is a former player and coach, credited with nurturing the talents of Amanda Coetzer, Daniela Hantuchová and Ana Ivanovic.
She's got novel ambitions. The English Literature graduate hopes to put her degree to good use and write a novel one day, although she recently admitted, "blogging is as close as I've gotten and I'm not very good at that".
She's a country music fan. No, we didn't have her pegged as a cowboy-hat-wearing music aficionado either, but apparently she loves "the values it represents".
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Rakul Preet Singh has shared a stunning throwback picture from her recent Ibiza vacation. This bold bikini photo of the De De Pyaar De star has heated up the winter on social media.
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Actress Rakul Preet Singh has shared a stunning throwback picture from her recent Ibiza vacation. The bold bikini photo of the De De Pyaar De star has heated up the winter on social media.
The Shimla Mirchi actress was on a trip to Ibiza a few months ago and had shared some pictures from there on social media. Rakul Preet Singh took to Instagram on Saturday to post another photo from the trip. She captioned the pic with, "Just a free spirit with a wild heart and an open road ahead throwback #ibizadiaries #beachbum #dreamer #gypsy."
The picture shows Rakul Preet Singh flaunting her skinny body in a blue bikini on the beautiful seashore of Ibiza. The blue water and sky in the backdrop give this photo a very killer look. The irresistibly sexy still is setting temperatures soaring on Instagram, where she boasts of 12.7 million followers. One of her followers named Kumar S Naresh replied to her post saying, "Uffff winter become hot."
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Rakul Preet Singh was busy throughout 2019 as she had five releases in the year. But it was not a good year for the actress. Her Hindi film De De Pyaar De became a big hit at the box office. However, the remaining four films - Dev, NGK, Manmadhudu 2 and Marjaavaan - failed to strike a chord with the viewers.
The actress has four projects, including a long pending one - Shimla Mirchi, in her kitty. She will be next seen with Kamal Haasan in Indian 2, which is yet to go on floors. She will work with Sivakarthikeyan in R Ravikumar's upcoming Tamil movie, which is currently being shot. She is also teaming up with director Kaashvie Nair for her upcoming Bollywood movie.
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Rakul Preet Singh is a fitness freak and often shares her workout videos on social media. The actress shed some pounds for De De Pyaar De after the producer asked for it. But her fans down south were not happy with her skinny look and had gone on to troll her badly earlier last year.
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The latest chapter in the ongoing row between gig economy workers and their employers kicked off on Tuesday (23 May), as International Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) began a legal battle against Deliveroo to secure holiday pay and minimum wage for its members.
The union is asking the Central Arbitration Committee to recognise it as a union for Deliveroo riders in the London borough of Camden, in a bid to work towards achieving a collective pay deal.
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"For years employers in the so-called gig economy have been able to get away with unlawfully depriving their workers of employment rights to which they are legally entitled," IWGB General Secretary Jason Moyer-Lee said.
"The chickens are now coming home to roost."
The food courier has told its employees that it remains "committed to protecting" flexible working, that allows them to choose shifts and work with some of its rivals.
However, in a statement emailed to Deliveroo riders, the company's UK managing director Dan Warne warned that joining a union could jeopardise the flexibility of its business model.
"If you were a worker as the IWGB propose, Deliveroo would no longer be able to run its business like this," the latter said.
"You would be required to commit to fixed hours, giving up this flexibility of fee per delivery."
Deliveroo said its riders in Camden earn on average £12.50 per hour – higher than the minimum wage of £7.50 – and Warne added the company believed riders deserve more security.
"As we've said many times before, we want to see protections for our riders introduced through sensible policy," he said.
"But that should not come at the expense of the flexibility that you care about so much."
A panel chaired by a judge is expected to hear the case against Deliveroo until 25 May, although the final verdict is not expected to be delivered for several weeks.
The start-up also added that only 19% of its riders in Camden supports the union's motion, compared with the 50% needed and it expects several riders to argue against the union.
IWGB will be represented by Leigh Day, the same law firm which brought a landmark case against Uber over workers rights. The case is subject of an appeal from the transportation company after an employment tribunal ruled drivers are not self-employed and entitled to workers' benefits.
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England: Government to crack down on parents who abuse family courts for revenge
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Financial penalties would be imposed on parents who bring vexatious claims to the family courts under plans being drawn up by the UK government. Justice secretary Dominic Raab wants mediation to be the default process in divorce cases to stop couples from burdening the courts, The Times reports.
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Adult child of married parents refused permission to appeal against refusal of financial support in English courts
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The English Court of Appeal has refused permission to appeal by a 41-year-old man against a decision not to grant two orders in his favour to secure financial support from his still-married parents. Faiz Siddiqui, who was aged 41 at the time of the original hearing, argued that orders under the
3 Nov 2021
Crumbling legal system will cost England money and influence
3 Nov 2021
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England risks losing out on economic growth and international influence because its crumbling legal system is not prepared for innovations such as cryptocurrencies, artificial intelligence and green investing, new research warns. The Social Market Foundation said that delays in settling cases in ove
28 Oct 2021
UK announces extra £2.2bn to address mounting criminal backlog in England
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The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) has obtained an extra £2.2 billion to resolve the backlog of court cases. It had warned the Treasury that the backlog could rise to 72,000 cases – up from the pre-pandemic figure of 41,000 – unless is secured an extra £500 million to expand the N
28 Oct 2021
England: Abuse of position for sexual purposes now ‘largest form of police corruption’
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Officers abusing their position for sexual purposes is now the single largest form of police corruption in England and Wales, a watchdog has said. The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said the number of people facing disciplinary proceedings for APSP has "risen sharply" in the past three
26 Oct 2021
England: Plans for ‘automatic online convictions’ under fire
26 Oct 2021
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Plans to offer "automatic online convictions" to people charged with minor offences will lead to "trigger-happy justice", campaigners have said. The UK government's controversial Judicial Review and Courts Bill, which returns to the Commons floor today, will allow for people charged with minor offen
22 Oct 2021
England: Backlog of criminal cases to last many years
22 Oct 2021
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The backlog of cases in the criminal courts in England and Wales is likely to be a pervasive issue for several years, severely affecting all court users, according to a report by the National Audit Office (NAO). The pandemic significantly affected the work of the criminal justice system, requiring e
1 Oct 2021
England: Complainants waiting more than 600 days for justice
1 Oct 2021
2 minutes
Complainants in England and Wales are waiting more than 600 days for justice after reporting a crime – a rise of more than 50 per cent in the past year. Figures from the Ministry of Justice show that in the second quarter of this year, the time between a crime occurring and a case being resolv
30 Sep 2021
England: Murderer-rapist-police officer imprisoned for life without parole
30 Sep 2021
2 minutes
Wayne Couzens, the Metropolitan Police firearms officer who falsely arrested, kidnapped, raped and murdered Sarah Everard, has been sentenced to a whole life order.
23 Sep 2021
England: Baby died in prison after vulnerable teenager’s ‘inhumane’ childbirth in cell alone
23 Sep 2021
3 minutes
A harrowing incident in which a baby died in Europe's largest women's prison, with the 18-year-old mother giving birth in her cell alone despite repeated calls for help, "should never have happened", a watchdog has said. The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) for England and Wales yesterday publi
19 Aug 2021
England: Number of sole practitioners halved in a decade
19 Aug 2021
2 minutes
The number of sole practitioners in England and Wales has declined by nearly a half in the past decade, according to new analysis of Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) data. There were 3,640 sole practitioners in July 2011, making up a third of all solicitors, but the figure has fallen by 47 per
26 May 2020
England: Increasing use of informal community orders ‘disturbing’
26 May 2020
2 minutes
A growing number of offenders who avoid custodial sentences are instead being given informal community orders. Figures published by the Ministry of Justice show that nearly three quarters of out of court disposals consisted of community resolution orders last year, an increase of 56 per cent on 2015
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Hi. Yeah. I wanted to share my personal experience to demystify the vaccine process a little bit. I think that's helpful. I had melanoma several years ago, so I have a pre existing condition and underlying condition able to get my vaccine. Got my Pfizer vaccine first dose, a little soreness? Uh, no big deal for about 24 hours. Got my second dose on Sunday night. And I'll tell you, I was laid up all day Monday, all day Monday of this week. I was laid up in bed fever, chills, muscle aches, soreness, the whole thing, all the side effects, they tell you. And it's completely normal. I just want to let you know that the doctors say this is basically your body reacting to it and getting the antibodies ready for a fight in case it ever contact comes in contact with this virus. Uh, it's important to mention when you have those side effects, but a lot of people have asked me this. No, they're not putting covid 19 into your body with the vaccine. No, when you have the side effects, it's not covid 19. It's just side effects from your own body. The antibodies that you are building up immunity, getting ready for a fight. If, of course, your symptoms go beyond, um, what I just mentioned, there are some serious swelling that lasts. Redness. If you're if something else happens, that worries you call your doctor immediately. But in the realm of normal side effects, here I am. I have now had my second dose. I'll be vaccinated fully with full protection in a couple of weeks, so it's all good. The other question a lot of people are asking is about problems getting the second dose. I was lucky enough to get it, but in some places appointments are getting canceled because of supply issues. Still, where systems are crashing and messing up and people aren't able to get those second appointments on the day they're supposed to write for a fighter, they tell you 21 days after the first dose, get the second dose journey. They say 28 days later, get the second dose. What if you can't? What if you have to reschedule? What if you can't get an appointment? Are you still protected? The C. D. C. Is out with some new guidance, they say, do not take the shot second dose before the timeline. Right? So don't get it. The fighter before 21 days don't get the moderna before the 28 days, but you can get it a little after the CDC says from the time you get the first dose, make sure you get the second dose within six weeks. 42 days. As long as you do that, they say you're protected back to you.
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Every plant and herb carries with it a distinguished aroma and flavor, and it is all the work of organic chemicals called terpenes. To date, there are around 20,000 different types of strains discovered in nature that range in characteristics and applications.
For instance, the limonene profile brings antibacterial, mood elevation, and stress relief benefits under citrusy and sweet tones that make it a crowd favorite in the market. On the other hand, the linalool variant possesses a floral, rosy, and woody scent while giving the body an anti-anxiety and sedative effect.
Aside from these features and benefits, terpenes may vary in quality too. Many factors can alter product concentration, but one of the key variables is how the terpenes are extracted.
While several extraction methods are practiced in the market today, a technique that has started to reach public attention for terpene concentrates is carbon dioxide (CO2) extraction.
What is CO2 Extraction?
As its name suggests, this extraction approach uses CO2, known as a tunable solvent, allowing for a versatile creation of a multitude of products. Terpene extraction utilizes CO2 in its supercritical state, which is a result when it is stored at cool temperatures and pressurized for the supercritical conversion.
This process creates a CO2 form that carries the characteristics of both a gas and a liquid. Furthermore, supercritical CO2 is odorless, non-toxic, and colorless, making it safe to use to produce high-quality extracts.
With its dual-property solvent, the supercritical CO2 process is undoubtedly one of the most advanced extraction methods in practice. Typically, it is conducted using a three-chamber setup. The first chamber holds the pressurized CO2, the second contains the dried plant material, and the third fits the finished product.
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During production, supercritical CO2 is diffused from the first chamber into the second, absorbing the terpenes in the plant material. The CO2 is then separated from the extract in the third chamber, where the final product sits for collection.
The Benefits and Drawbacks of CO2 Extraction
As with the other terpene extraction methods in the market, the supercritical CO2 technique also has its list of positives and negatives. Now that you know how it works, here are some of the key factors to consider when considering CO2 extraction:
CO2 Extraction Pros
It is highly versatile.
Since supercritical CO2 is a very tunable solvent, expect a very flexible extraction process. In this regard, the operator has complete control over the procedure. They can manage the temperature and pressure according to the desired product in the batch, even isolating specific cannabinoids to achieve a certain level of quality in the result. This method allows for a wider selection of concentrations that can cater to more applications.
It is eco-friendly.
Apart from the fact that CO2 is an affordable solvent, it is recyclable. Because of this, supercritical CO2 extraction has a low impact on the environment, making it the more environmentally friendly pick among the other methods in the terpene industry.
It is safe.
The Federal Drug Administration (FDA) recognizes supercritical CO2 as safe for industrial use. This technique involves a non-flammable and non-combustible gas, unlike hydrocarbon extraction’s butane and propane solvents. CO2 also acts as a cleansing agent, killing microbial bacteria, molds, and mildews during the entire extraction process.
It leaves no residual contaminants.
CO2-extracted products are more appealing to the food and beverage and medical industries. This is because the supercritical CO2 method assures no residue on the extract at all. As CO2 is a gas at room temperature, any excess in the solution will evaporate immediately. With this, the end product will come out more concentrated in aroma and taste. Furthermore, this lowers the risk of consuming harmful toxins, which ultimately highlights its incredible safety feature.
CO2 Extraction Cons
It is pricey.
A huge initial investment is necessary to obtain a reliable supercritical CO2 system compared to the other extraction methods. Its higher upfront cost makes it one of the most, if not the most, expensive extracting equipment in the business.
It has a longer run time.
While the supercritical CO2 extraction technique is automated, the process can still take longer, unlike the other methods. This is due to the constant fluctuations in temperature and pressure per batch. For instance, an extraction for a 20-pound plant material can take up to four to six hours, depending on the concentration set for its final product.
It is vulnerable to operation errors.
The supercritical CO2 system can be complex. For it to perform smoothly, a skilled technician needs to run the machine. Since the CO2 extraction method requires continual shifts in temperature and pressure, it makes it more susceptible to inaccuracies in production. An aggressive process may alter the plant’s original profile or call for winterization, which can degrade the authenticity of the extract altogether.
Scoring Quality Terpenes the CO2 Way
Maintaining terpenes’ level of quality during extraction is a challenge in and of itself, which is why choosing the method to do it plays an important role in getting the job done and getting it right.
The supercritical CO2 method allows for a safe and versatile way of collecting terpenes, with its non-toxic and highly tunable solvent. This technique also makes a sound option, as it offers a range of quality products that can accommodate the varying preferences of the public.
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I recently watched a video by LiveOverflow in which he showed how different tools are used to patch binaries. By demonstrating some of the features that Radare2, Ghidra, and Binary Ninja offer for the task, the viewer can get some sense of the things they can get from using these tools.
While all these tools are great, and although Radare2 was showed there (and oh boy, things went wrong), there was one tool, which is dear to my heart, that wasn’t there – Cutter. Notwithstanding that it is the youngest member of the pack, Cutter is growing up very fast and when it has to do with binary patching – it does not stay behind.
“Binary Patching”, for those the term is unfamiliar, is the process of applying small changes and modifications to a binary file, usually in order to change its behavior. By modifying data or code, the user can change certain values in the program or specific instructions, and adjust the binary to their desired outcome.
Wanna skip the boring parts? Jump straight to the methods:
Method 1: Reverse the jump
Method 2: Straight from the decompiler
Method 3: NOP’ing your way
Method 4: Disassemble the instruction
Method 5: Assemble the bytes
Bonus: Using radare2 console from within Cutter
Cutter
Cutter is a free and open-source reverse engineering framework powered by radare2. It offers a wide range of features for reverse-engineers where the most important of them are disassmebler, a grpah, a decompiler (based on Ghidra’s decompiler), and a hex-editor and from recently – a debugger.
To download the latest release of Cutter, ahead to the official website. If you want to build Cutter from the source to enjoy the latest improvement and features, and you are up for a ride – check out the Building page on the documentation.
Please note that this article will be quite straight forward and will not cover different features of Cutter.
Getting to know our target
For this article, we will use the same binary that was used on LiveOverflow’s video – license_1.c.
Click here to download the binary for Linux.
The source code can be found here and is also pasted below to make it easy for us.
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
if(argc==2) {
printf("Checking License: %s\n", argv[1]);
if(strcmp(argv[1], "AAAA-Z10N-42-OK")==0) {
printf("Access Granted!\n");
} else {
printf("WRONG!\n");
}
} else {
printf("Usage: <key>\n");
}
return 0;
}
The program is rather simple. It receives a license-key from the user and then compares it to a hardcoded key “AAAA-Z10N-42-OK”. If the keys match, it will print “Access Granted!”. Otherwise, it will print “WRONG!”
$ license_1 test_key
Checking License: test_key
WRONG!
Out goal is to patch the program in a way that we will receive the Success message upon entering a wrong key.
Before we start – because we are going to modify the binary, I prefer to make a backup of the original file.
$ cp license_1 license_1.backup
Let’s open Cutter and select the license_1 binary from our computer. On the next dialog, make sure to select “Load in write mode (-w)”. You can leave the other settings as-is and press Ok.
Go to the main function by choosing it from the Functions list on the side or by typing “main” on the navigation-box at the top of the interface. The `main()` function is very small and contains all the logic of the program.
The function `main()` only has 6 blocks which makes it very easy for us to find the place we want to patch. And indeed, we see the block with strcmp comparison and we want to patch the conditional jump in a way that it will continue to the success message. By modifying `jne 0x400617` (jump not equal) to `je` (jump equal) we will get the success message as long as we do not give the right key. Muhahah.
Method 1: Reverse the jump
The easiest and probably the most intuitive way is to right-click the `jne` instruction and choose “Edit -> Reverse jump”.
Cutter is smart and can detect for us the inversed instruction for the condition. In this case, from `jne` to `je` and vice versa.
Now we can testthat our changes indeed work, with the same input we tried before. The changes we do are automatically apllied to the binary so we can simply test it.
$ license_1 test_key
Checking License: test_key
Access Granted!
Yes! Patching is easy. Let’s see other ways to do the same.
Method 2: Straight from the decompiler
If you downloaded the official release version, your Cutter should come with an integrated Ghidra decompiler via its native implementation called r2ghidra-dec. If you build Cutter by yourself, you will need to build r2ghidra-dec as well. Just follow the instructions in the link.
Open the decompiler window from “Windows -> Decompiler” and seek to the `main` function. Now click on the line where it says if (iVar1 == 0) { and again go to “Edit > Reverse jump.
This shows the great power of using the decompiler in Cutter.
Method 3: NOP’ing your way
This is yet another easy way to skip the check and go straight to the success message. Simply right-click on the condition in the disassembly view, and then select “Edit -> Nop Instruction”.
Before:
0x00400602 call sym.imp.strcmp ; int strcmp(const char *s1, const char *s2)
0x00400607 test eax, eax
0x00400609 jne 0x400617
0x0040060b mov edi, str.Access_Granted
After:
0x00400602 call sym.imp.strcmp ; int strcmp(const char *s1, const char *s2)
0x00400607 test eax, eax
0x00400609 nop
0x0040060a nop
0x0040060b mov edi, str.Access_Granted
Method 4: Disassemble the instruction
In this method, we will change the instructions itself from `jne` to je. Again, right-click on the condition and this time choose “Edit -> Instruction”. Then simply change the text from `jne 0x400617` to `je 0x400617`. Cutter will automatically fetch a preview of the bytes that are constructing the instruction. Press Ok.
Method 5: Assemble the bytes
If you are tired of assembly and want to go back to the old days of bytes-patching and modify the bytes themselves – you can! Simply go to “Edit -> Bytes” and change from `750c` to `740c` (from `jne` to je). Cutter will show you a preview of the instruction to make sure you are not making some mess.
Bonus: Using radare2 console from within Cutter
If you are familiar with radare2, you will likely be happy to know that Cutter is coming with an integrated radare2 console. Open it from “Windows -> Console” and start typing your favorite r2 commands. And that’s right, you can simply patch the bytes from the command-line using the `w` commands such as wx, wa and so on. To know more, check w?for help.
Epilogue
In this article, we learned a little bit more about this great tool called Cutter. We faced a problem that reverse-engineers are often faced, and solved it using 5 different methods. There are more methods to patch bytes (for example using the hex-editor in cutter) but these 5 should be enough of a start. Unlike most of my articles, this is a short post and a very straight forward one. Hopefully, you learned something new. Cheers!
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Eddie Hunn, 99, grew up in East Dereham and was a prisoner of war during WW2. Picture: Ruth Lawes - Credit: Archant
A heroic war veteran and former prisoner of war has died at the age of 100.
Edwin "Eddie" Walter Hunn, a resident of Chiswick House care home, Norwich, has been described by his family as “a survivor with a wicked sense of humour”.
His son Kevin Hunn, 69, of Norwich, said: “He’s our local Captain Tom, who also sadly lost his life on the same day.
“He was very determined and clever, as well as creative and ingenious – these traits are what helped him survive.
“He also had a wicked sense of humour and was very good at thinking through problems. An amazing man with a brilliant legacy.”
Born in East Dereham on June 7, 1920, he grew up on the north Norfolk coast in Wells, where he moved aged seven.
Eddie Hunn relaxing in Wells, where he spent his youth before going to war. Picture: Kevin Hunn - Credit: Archant
The oldest of four brothers, his father worked as an engineer while his mother was a nanny to the aristocracy. The couple believed in teaching their sons how to support themselves, which lead to Mr Hunn leading an inventive childhood.
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He spent a lot of time out on the marshes learning to fish, sail, and shoot. He also spent time with the head coastguard where he would sit by the stove and hear stories from his travels around the world as a merchant seaman. Befriended by Captain Phillips, a Boer War veteran, he taught Mr Hunn and his friends tracking, camouflage, and navigation.
Mr Hunn also earned his own pocket money by selling rats' tails alongside his friend Dick Daleston, as well as feathers to Pensthorpe, and rabbits, then later motorbikes they repaired themselves and boats, including the first hydroplane in Wells.
A bright student, he passed his eleven-plus examination but could not attend the local grammar school due to lack of places. He was an excellent pupil in maths, English, and art, and left education aged 14 to work at Wells lime works.
In 1938, aged 19, he joined the Territorial Army as a driver mechanic before he saw action in Singapore, and spent three-and-a-half years as a prisoner of war on the Thai-Burma Railway - dubbed the Death Railway because of the vast amounts of deaths during its construction.
When the Second World War broke out in 1939, Mr Hunn was enlisted in the army and served in the 5th Norfolk Battalion. He was sent thousands of miles across the North Atlantic Ocean to Cape Town. When Mr Hunn arrived in December 1941, after the strike on Pearl Harbor, their convoy was diverted to Singapore. On arrival, his platoon was sent north into the Malaysian jungle, despite none of them having any form of jungle training. Thankfully, Mr Hunn’s youth spent in Wells helped him with the challenges ahead. There was fierce hand to hand fighting and Mr Hunn drove the lead Bren gun carrier.
Eddie Hunn in his territorial uniform before he joined the 5th Norfolk Regiment. Picture: Kevin Hunn - Credit: Archant
On his return to Singapore, he was forced to surrender, was captured and taken to an encampment in north east Changi in Singapore with 100,000 other prisoners of war.
There was no food, as the resources were not in place, but armed with fishing nets he found he was able to catch food. Sometimes they had to resort to eating rats and snakes. However, he was soon sent to work in Thailand, where the Japanese soldiers had ambitions to connect the train line between Singapore and India. He worked in various camps including the construction of the bridge of the River Kwai.
Many of the soldiers contracted malaria, and Mr Hunn himself became inflicted with parasites and dengue fever. The living conditions were diabolical and Mr Hunn would spend each morning beating the bugs, sometimes scorpions and centipedes, out of his bed slats - once he was even woken by a tiger. He also endured regular beatings with bamboo sticks by the Japanese guards. Mr Hunn fell seriously ill and had to have a make-shift blood transfusion with blood donated by an Australian man, in which he had a one in four chance of dying as the blood was not tested beforehand.
At the end of the war, Mr Hunn was instructed to walk 30 miles from the base hospital to Bangkok airport to freedom - at this point he had dropped from more than 11 stone to six and a half. He boarded the plane and when they landed in Rangoon in Burma, he travelled by boat across the Mediterranean to reach home.
His future wife Doris, nee Jackson, who he had met nearly four years earlier at a dance in Northwich, Cheshire, had received just one message letting her know he was alive. By this point, she had given birth to their son, Brian, in 1942. He later died aged 14.
Eddie and Doris Hunn on their honeymoon in London in 1945. Picture: Kevin Dunn - Credit: Archant
The couple married five weeks after Mr Hunn returned from the war, and relocated to Wells together before moving to Norwich, and later Great Yarmouth. Mr Hunn took on an accountancy career after a high school correspondence course.
In 1960, they moved to Great Yarmouth, where they ran a guest house. He lost his wife of 69 years in 2014.
Speaking of his parents, Kevin said: “When dad retired in 1964, they travelled around the world and had so many adventures together. They often went off the beaten track.”
After losing his wife, Mr Hunn began giving talks about his experiences of the Second World War, even during his last year spent at Chiswick House.
Mr Hunn celebrated his 100th birthday in lockdown last year and was sent 107 cards following an appeal by the care home. He also received a telegram from the queen and an email from the High Commission of the Republic of Singapore.
Sam Bailey, of Black Swan Care, described him as “warm-hearted and a true Norfolk boy” who “made quite the impact” when he first arrived there.
He was popular with local schoolchildren, who visited the home prior to lockdown, and wrote a book on his experiences, A Guest of Nippon. He also enjoyed playing scrabble and pool, which he continued to win at the age of 99.
Eddie Hunn will turn 100 next year but still plays and wins at pool. Picture: Kevin Hunn - Credit: Archant
Mr Hunn died on February 2 with Covid-19, after developing a UTI.
He has two surviving children, Jeanette and Kevin, six grandchildren, nine great grandchildren, and three great great grandchildren.
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Oct. 29, 2021-Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve is open to the public effective Oct 29, 2021. Adjacent Austin Creek State Recreation Area remains closed until further notice. All amenities within Armstrong Redwoods SNR are open and available to the public with the exception of East Ridge Trail and Pool Ridge Trail which connect to Austin Creek SRA. Maps depicting closed trail sections are available at the kiosk upon entry.
Current Park Restrictions
This park unit is partially open. Please take the time to read the information contained on this webpage to find out what is open and closed, and what COVID-19 guidelines are in place. - (November 1, 2021)
What is closed now?
East Ridge Trail and Pool Ridge Trail which connect to Austin Creek SRA. Maps depicting closed trail sections are available at the kiosk upon entry.
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COVID-19 Guidelines - (June 21, 2021)
Recreate Responsibly
Protect yourself, family, friends and your community by following these prevention measures:
Know Before You Go – Prior to leaving home, check the status of the park unit you want to visit to find out what restrictions and guidelines are in place. Have a back-up plan in case your destination is crowded. Stay home if you are sick
Plan Ahead – Some restrooms will be temporarily closed to keep up with cleaning schedules. Bring soap/hand sanitizer.
Play It Safe – Find out what precautions you should take when exploring the outdoors, especially if this is your first time visiting the State Park System. Learn more at parks.ca.gov/SafetyTips.
Be COVID-19 Safe– State Parks continues to follow guidance provided by the California Department of Public Health:
Fully Vaccinated Persons: Face coverings are not required in public outdoor settings.For indoor public settings, such as museums and visitor centers, all vaccinated individuals are to self-attest that they are in compliance prior to entry.
Unvaccinated Persons: Face coverings are required in indoor public settings such as museums and visitor centers.
Leave No Trace – Leave areas better than how you found them by staying on designated trails and packing out all trash. Do not disturb wildlife or plants.
PARK INFO
GETTING HERE
RESERVATIONS
BROCHURES
PARK EVENTS
FEATURES
Phone Number
(707) 869-2015
Park Hours
8:00 AM to one hour after official sunset.
Dogs Allowed?
Yes
Accessible Features
Purchase Annual Passes
Safety Tips
Driving Directions to Armstrong Redwoods SNR
View on Map
Online reservations are not available for this park.
Park Brochure
Upcoming Park Events
No events scheduled at this moment.
TRAIL USE
Hiking Trails
Horseback Riding
DAY-USE ACTIVITIES & FACILITIES
Historical/Cultural Site
Picnic Areas
Env. Learning/Visitor Center
Exhibits and Programs
Interpretive Exhibits
OTHER FACILITIES & VISITOR INFORMATION
Parking
Restrooms
Parking for Armstrong Redwoods:
Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve charges $10.00 per vehicle to enter the park or to park in the main parking lot at the park entrance. If you have a passenger who is 62 years of age or older the vehicle fee is $9.00. The fees are due whether the kiosk is staffed or not. If the kiosk is not staffed, please self-register.
For passenger vehicles parking along Armstrong Woods Road, do not park in the roadway. Please note that there is no parking allowed on the east side of Armstrong Woods Road. Do not park in front of driveways of private residences on Armstrong Woods Road.
Armstrong Redwoods SNR:
The serene, majestic beauty of this Grove is a living reminder of the magnificent primeval redwood forest that covered much of this area before logging operations began during the 19th century. Armstrong Redwoods preserves stately and magnificent Sequoia sempervirens, commonly known as the coast redwood. These trees stand together as a testament to the wonders of the natural world. The grove offers solace from the hustle and bustle of daily life, offering the onlooker great inspiration and a place for quiet reflection.
The ancient coast redwood is the tallest living thing on our planet! These remarkable trees live to be 500-1,000 years old, grow to a diameter of 12-16 feet, and stand from 200-250 feet tall. Some trees survive to over 2,000 years and tower above 350 feet. Coast redwoods are classified as temperate rainforests and they need wet and mild climates to survive. The rainfall in Armstrong Redwoods averages 55 inches per year and the trees are often shrouded in a mystical fog that helps to maintain the moist conditions needed for the redwoods to survive. To find out more about these magnificent trees click the link About Coast Redwoods to the right.
The reserve includes a visitor center, self-guided nature trails, and a variety of picnic facilities. While you can drive into the park, the best way to experience the dramatic effect of the towering redwoods, is to park in the lot at the park entrance and walk in for free. Donations are accepted at the Visitor Center and at the kiosk entrance. All of the main park features can be found along the Pioneer Nature Trail. This trail is a mile and a half long round trip, is ADA accessible and is mostly flat and level.
Although no camping is available in Armstrong Redwood SNR, there is a campground operated by Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods located in Austin Creek State Recreation Area at Bullfrog Pond Campground (3 miles above Armstrong). Austin Creek SRA is accessed through the same entrance as Armstrong Redwoods. Austin Creek's rolling hills, open grasslands, conifers, and oaks are a beautiful and dramatic contrast to the dense canopy of the redwood grove. For more information go to Austin Creek State Recreation Area. by clicking the link on the right. For online reservations at Bullfrog Pond Campground or any of the backcountry campsites go to www.hipcamp.com
The redwood ecosystem is very fragile. Every effort is being made to preserve and protect this grove but it can only be done with your help. When you visit, please do not disturb or remove any natural features of the park, stay on designated trails and do not cross over the low- level fence line. We hope you enjoy a serene and rejuvenating visit among these inspiring giants.
NOTE: Dogs must be controlled on a leash at ALL times during your visit to your parks. Dogs on leash are only allowed on the main, paved road, in one of the developed picnic areas or within your registered campsite at Bullfrog Pond Campground. Dogs are NOT allowed on any dirt trail or dirt road. If camping, your pet will need to stay in your tent or in your vehicle overnight.
NOTE: Due to limited free parking, busses will be asked to drop their visitors off in the front lot. There is a park and ride located in Guerneville across from Safeway.
CLOSURE order for Austin Creek SRA
Austin Creek State Recreation Area is currently under a complete closure at this time and will remain so until further notice. There have been major impacts to the unit due to the 2020 Walbridge Fire. Due to significant hazards there is NO ACCESS ALLOWED by foot, bike, vehicle or any other means in Austin Creek SRA. If unauthorized vehicles and or people are found in Austin Creek SRA they will be subject to contact and citation. We need this time for clearing hazards and debris so that we can get Austin Creek SRA open at some point down the road. Thank you for your patience.
Tour Groups and Events in Armstrong Redwoods SNR: CLOSED.
Special Events are activities which are beyond the normal scope of activities and operations conducted in units under control of the Department of Parks and Recreation. Consistent with existing state policies and laws. District Superintendents may approve, by permit , a Special Event when it is found to be in the best interest of the Department of Parks and Recreation and is conducted by an appropriate sponsor at no net expense to the state. Special Event permits are required when fees are charged by the event sponsor beyond the regular State Park Facility Use Fees, when the Department has determined the event will create a greater potential hazard or liability to the State than incurred through typical operations, when the activity includes the exclusive use of an area within the park, when the activity interferes significantly with the public’s use of an area, when additional staffing or staff time is required or where items or services are sold. Special Event permits are required for any activity within the State Park System which meet any of these criteria, and which occur wholly or partially within or on any property owned, operated, or administered by the Department. Upon a finding by the District Superintendent that a special event is consistent with the unit’s use, he/she may issue a Special Event Permit for such use.
Examples of when a special event permit is needed:
Bay Area Tours bringing in a passenger van into front lot and dropping off their group
Alliance Redwoods dropping off two bus loads of kids with leaders to explore the park for the day
A group of old car enthusiasts bringing into the park their roadsters for show
A group of 50 wanting to set up for a birthday party which is in the picnic area
A local running group of 30 coming in to run the trails of the park
If you have any questions pertaining to special events or if you are curious if your get together would need a special event permit, please call (707) 865-2391; or email [email protected]
Designated Equestrian Trails Status: CLOSED
No trails are available for equestrian use. All of Austin Creek is closed to access.
Wedding Information: Not booking any special events or wedding at this time.
Wedding Ceremonies and/or receptions:
We offer the majestic group picnic area for your wedding ceremonies and receptions. This is the only location within Armstrong Redwoods SNR that we allow wedding ceremonies, receptions or events. The Forest Theatre is not available for wedding ceremonies, receptions or events. The Forest Theatre cannot be reserved.
The group picnic area is located within Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve. The group picnic area can accommodate up to 150 guests. Parking in the picnic area can accommodate approximately 40 vehicles. The wedding site offers 15 large picnic tables, several smaller picnic tables, a large raised BBQ grill, a water fountain and nearby restroom facilities. The tables may not be moved. If the tables are moved you will be charged accordingly. The site has disabled access and parking nearby. No amplified music, generators nor electrical hookups are available or allowed.
Due to the fragile and protected nature of the Reserve, there are some restrictions on decorations, plants and flowers you are allowed to bring for your event.
Reservations for this popular facility are accepted 18 months in advance. We recommend booking early! We also highly suggest visiting the location prior to your event. To reserve the group picnic area for your wedding ceremony, reception, or other event please call (707) 865-2391; or email [email protected]
Features of the Grove:
The Tallest Tree
The Parson Jones Tree is the tallest tree in the grove, measuring more than 310 feet in height. This is longer than the length of a football field. An easy 0.1 mile walk from the park entrance.
The Oldest Tree
The Colonel Armstrong Tree is the oldest tree in the grove, estimated to be over 1,400 years old. It is named after a lumberman who chose to preserve this portion of the park in the 1870s. This magnificent tree is located within an easy half-mile walk from the park entrance.
The Icicle Tree
This tree shows the unusual burl formations often found on redwood trees. Burls can weigh many tons and grow hundreds of feet above the forest floor. Why these growths occur remains a mystery.
The Discovery Trail
This trail offers several Braille interpretive panels and a tree hugging platform.
Pioneer Nature Trail
This self-guided nature trail is an easy stroll through the grove and is also wheelchair accessible. Our volunteer trail guides may be available for larger groups through Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods.
Suggested Walks and Hikes: No dogs on trails
Easy 1 Mile:
Take the Pioneer Nature Trail from the park entrance to the Armstrong Tree and Forest Theater, and then returning via the same route.
Easy 1.7 Miles:
Take the Pioneer Nature Trail from the park entrance to the Armstrong Tree, then to the picnic area, and return.
Park Restrictions:
Dogs must remain on the paved road and are not allowed on any trails in Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve. Additionally, dogs are not allowed on any trail or dirt road in Austin Creek State Recreation Area. Bicycles are allowed on both the main paved road and the fire road off the Colonel Armstrong parking lot. Horses are not allowed on the Pioneer or Discovery Trails. All other trails remain closed. Please respect all private property and no trespassing signs when using the parks, stay on designated trails in the grove and do not cross low-level fencing.
Seasons/Climate/Recommended Clothing
In summer, the weather can be variable. Morning fog can blanket the grove and cool the air while afternoon temperatures can warm up quite nicely. Many trails lead into the upper hills of Austin Creek where temperatures can soar above 100 degrees. Layered clothing, a fully charged cell phone and plenty of water is highly recommended. Cellphone coverage is not available in all locations.
In the springtime, wildflowers are prolific, temperatures are mild and the fog is less frequent.
In winter, temperatures drop but remain moderate. Rain nourishes the grove and brings life to the many plants and ferns, turning the understory into a green, lush carpet. A sweater and rain jacket will allow you to enjoy the special tranquility found in the grove as water drops work their magic.
Park History
During the 1870's, this area was set aside as a natural park and botanical garden by Colonel James Armstrong, a lumberman who recognized the beauty and natural value of the forests he harvested. After his death, Armstrong's daughter and the Le Baron family mounted an energetic campaign involving public meetings, rallies and car-caravans to direct public attention to the need to preserve this last remnant of the once mighty redwood forest. Their efforts were successful, and in 1917 the County of Sonoma passed an initiative to purchase the property for $80,000.
The grove was managed by Sonoma County until 1934 when the State took over. In 1936 the grove was opened to the public as Armstrong Redwoods State Park. The grove's status was changed to a reserve in 1964 when a greater understanding of its ecological significance prompted a more protective management of the resource.
Related Pages
About Coast Redwoods
Armstrong Redwoods Habitat Protection and Restoration Project
FAQ About Armstrong Redwoods
History of Armstrong Redwoods SNR
Park Maps
School Groups
The Legacy of Marguerite Wildenhain
Walks & Hikes
State Park Rules and Regulations
Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods
Visiting Parks with Your Dog
Telephone
707-869-2015
707-869-5629 fax
17000 Armstrong Woods Road
Guerneville, CA 95446
Operating Hours:
8:00 AM to one hour after official sunset.
Park Location:
Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve is located three miles north of Guerneville on Armstrong Woods Road. From Highway 101- coming North or South- take the River Road exit (in Santa Rosa). Go west on River Road until you reach Guerneville. At the second stop light make a right hand turn onto Armstrong Woods Road. This road will end in the park. There is free parking in the front parking lot. If you drive into the park, the fee is due at the kiosk prior to entry.
Day Use Fees:
$10.00 per vehicle
$9.00 per vehicle for seniors
Free to pedestrians and bicyclists
Bus fee for 10-24 passengers is $50.00
Visitor Center
11:00-3:00 Daily
707-869-2958
Proud Partner
Save the Redwoods League has helped permanently protect more than 150,000 acres in 37 of California State Parks redwood parks. Find out more at SaveTheRedwoods.org.
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Walking provides an excellent cardiovascular workout. Compared with running, walking is much easier on the joints and carries far less risk of injury. Even people who are recovering from a serious injury are encouraged to begin a regular walking regimen.
Most running shoes are acceptable for exercise walking, but there are also specialty walking shoes available for purchase. Ideally, walking shoes should be comfortable, lightweight, and well-cushioned.
What to look for in walking shoes
Walking shoes should always feel stable and comfortable. Here are a few things to consider when selecting walking shoes:
If you have weak ankles, try to find a shoe that provides ankle support.
Look for a shoe with breathable upper materials (this will help reduce the risk of fungal infection).
Make sure the shoe is wide enough to fit the ball of your foot and long enough that you can wiggle your toes in the shoe.
Walk around the store in the shoe; make sure the heel does not irritate your Achilles tendon or ankle.
Walking shoes should feel snug; your feet should not slip out of the shoe when you walk.
Issues created by improper fit
Some walking injuries are unavoidable, like tripping over an object or slipping on a wet surface, but most exercise-related walking injuries can be avoided.
Walking injuries can be caused by overexercising and doing too much too fast. Improper footwear can also contribute to chronic walking injuries. Choosing good walking shoes can help you avoid many of the following injuries:
Ankle sprains.
Athlete's foot.
Blisters, calluses, and corns.
Bone spurs.
Bruised toenails.
Bursitis.
Heel pain.
Runner's knee.
Shin splints.
Stress fractures.
Tendonitis.
If you have any existing foot injuries or abnormalities, make sure you talk to your doctor about proper footwear before you start a walking regimen.
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In the last few years, daily goals as high as 15,000 and as low as 7,000 have been proposed by experts.
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Jill Barker • Special to Montreal Gazette
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Oct 03, 2021 • October 3, 2021 • 4 minute read • Join the conversation
Research shows that even going from 2,000 steps a day to 4,000 can result in a 30 per cent decrease in mortality risk. Photo by John Mahoney /Montreal Gazette files
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Setting a daily step goal is one of the easiest ways to ensure you’re active enough to benefit your health. All you need is a step counter, such as an app on your smartphone or smartwatch, a pair of comfortable shoes and a commitment to put one foot in front of the other. But just how many steps does it take to improve health and fitness?
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Ten thousand is often the first number that comes to mind when setting a daily target for steps. This easy-to-remember metric has been touted as the ultimate goal for anyone taking steps toward improving their health. But in the last few years, daily goals as high as 15,000 and as low as 7,000 have been proposed by experts.
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A recent article in the JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) Network is the latest publication to jump into the debate, not only taking on the popular target of 10,000 steps but also considering whether speed is part of the equation. In other words, when it comes to health, which leads to better outcomes: step volume or step pace?
The study, led by Amanda Paluch from the Institute for Applied Life Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, evaluated data gathered over an 11-year period from 2,110 middle-aged Black and white men and women who checked in every two years for a series of tests and assessments related to their health and lifestyle. The objective was to determine a daily step target that would lead to a reduced risk of premature death among this diverse group of middle-aged Americans.
The research team divided the study subjects into three step count categories — low (under 7,000), moderate (7,000 to 10,000) and high (over 10,000) — and noted the walking intensity of each group by the number of minutes spent walking at a pace of 100-plus steps. The data was then analyzed against mortality rates and medical information of all 2,110 subjects over the course of the study to determine the impact of daily step counts on longevity and overall health.
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Not surprisingly, the lowest step group had the highest rates of cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes and premature death. What is surprising is that the data suggests 10,000 steps may be an overly ambitious goal for anyone looking to reduce their risk of chronic disease and premature death.
“Adults taking at least 7,000 steps per day, compared with those taking fewer than 7,000 steps a day, had approximately 50 per cent to 70 per cent lower risk of mortality,” said the researchers.
As for those who put in the extra effort and logged 10,000 or more steps a day, no further reduction in mortality risk was realized. And, like adding extra steps, adding extra speed offered no additional boost in longevity. In other words, if a lower risk of mortality is the goal, a daily target of 7,000 to 10,000 steps is ideal, with no pressure to pick up the pace or fit more steps into your day.
The results of the JAMA Network study are similar to those reported by a small handful of other research teams that also questioned the science behind the target of 10,000 steps a day. But the University of Massachusetts team points to the diversity and age of its study’s participants, which differ from the older and primarily Caucasian individuals included in previous studies.
That’s not the only information worth noting from this growing bank of data. Significant gains in longevity can be achieved when the least active walk more, even if they never reach the 7,000- to 10,000-step range. Going from a meagre 2,000 steps a day to a modest 4,000 can result in a 30 per cent decrease in mortality risk.
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Understanding the benefits of setting and achieving step goals has significant implications, especially for those struggling to lead a more active lifestyle. Add that knowledge to the proliferation of easy-to-use step counting devices and apps that translate daily activity into steps, and it’s easier than ever to make and track step goals.
It’s also good to know that if you’re sedentary, any significant increase in daily steps is likely to benefit your health. And it’s good news that walking pace doesn’t seem to move the needle in terms of further reductions in mortality, which means there’s no immediate need to increase pace while you’re increasing your daily step count.
When it comes to physical activity, the general rule is that more exercise garners more impressive results. But as the saying goes, one step at a time. Walking is simple, accessible, inexpensive and offers a wide range of health and wellness benefits, making it the perfect gateway to a more active lifestyle.
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'No matter where you work, where you live, do also keep in mind, the needs of your motherland, your Mother India.
'Think of how your work, research, innovation will help your motherland. It is also your social responsibility.'
Narendra Modi addressed the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras' graduating class of 2019.
IMAGE: India's prime minister Narendra Modi attends 56th convocation ceremony of Indian Institute of Technology Madras. Photograph: Kind courtesy Narendra Modi/Twitter
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi gave a rousing speech in English at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras on September 30.
In his convocation address to the graduating class of 2019, the prime minister congratulated the students and also acknowledged the efforts of the parents, faculty and supporting staff of the institute for contributing to their success journey.
'There's energy, vibrancy and positivity. I can see the dreams of the future in your eyes. I could see the destiny of India in your eyes,' Modi addressed the audience.
'Friends, I want to congratulate the parents of those graduating today.'
'Imagine their pride and joy. They have struggled, they have sacrificed to bring you to this juncture in your life.
'They have given you your wings so that you can take flight. This flight also reflects in the eyes of your teachers. They have created through their untiring efforts, not just engineers but also good citizens,' Modi said.
'The role of support staff, the silent behind the scenes people who prepared food, kept your classes, hostels clean. In your success, they too have a role to play.'
PM Modi also emphasised what he learned from his recent visit to the US.
'You are indeed fortunate, you are passing out from such an institute at a time when the world is looking at India as a land of unique opportunities.
'I have just returned from America. During this visit, I met many heads of state, business leaders, innovators, investors. In our discussion, there was one thread common -- it was he optimism about new India and confidence in the abilities of the young people of India.'
'The Indian community has made a mark for itself all over the world, especially in science, technology and innovation. Who is powering this? A lot of them are your IIT seniors. You are making brand India stronger globally.'
'I see the foundation of 21st century resting on three pillars -- innovation, team work and technology.'
'Today as India is inspiring to become 5 trillion dollar economy, your inspiration, innovation and application of technology will fuel this dream. It becomes the bedrock towards India's big dream into the most competitive economy.'
'Your hard work made the impossible possible. There are many opportunities awaiting you, not all of them are easy. Never stop dreaming, keep challenging yourself. That way you will become a better version of yourself.
'No matter where you work, where you live, do also keep in mind, the needs of your motherland, your Mother India. Think of how your work, research, innovation will help your motherland. It is also your social responsibility.'
Watch prime minister Narendra Modi's full speech at the IIT-Madras in the video below:
Video: Kind courtesy Narendra Modi/Twitter
During his visit to the institute, Narendra Modi also inspected the research park and start-ups at IIT-Madras. Watch the video below:
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Now, with more children being diagnosed with autism, many parents are curious as to the symptoms and characteristics of the disorder. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM-III outlines the diagnostic criteria for autism. Autism is a brain disorder characterized by impaired social communication and interaction as well as restricted or repetitive behaviors. Parents typically notice these symptoms within the first 2 years of a child’s life.
The main hallmark of autism is impaired social interaction. While in typical development, children seek out interaction with others, children with autism can either fail to be responsive to others or develop normally and then regress to becoming less responsive to those in his/her environment. It is common for children with autism to have poor eye contact as well as difficulty understanding others emotions.
Restricted or impaired communication is another characteristic of autism. Often children with autism have little or no verbal communication. They might have immediate echolalia or pronoun confusions. They can also have abnormal speech production, such as a high-pitch or monotone voice. Their nonverbal communication is also impaired, including their eye gaze, pointing, and gesturing.
Repetitive movements is another characteristic common in children with autism. This could include rocking, hand flapping, spinning, or head banging. They can also have a restricted range of interest, such as lining up objects or spinning the wheels of a car.
Like many disorders, children can exhibit a wide range of symptoms, and autism falls under a group of developmental disorders known as autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). Parents should have their child evaluated by a professional if they see any of the following signs:
•Difficulty making friends or interacting with peers
•Difficulty making conversation with others or taking turns in conversation
•Lack of social play and symbolic play or exhibits abnormal play
•Abnormal language form or content
•Preoccupation with parts or certain objects
•Marked lack of awareness of the feelings of others
•Difficulty with transitions or strict adherence to routines
Children with autism exhibit a wide range of behaviors including echolalia, idiosyncratic language, fascination with mechanical objects, or unusual motor behaviors. They have marked impairments in communication and should be seen by a speech-language pathologist trained in working with those with autism to improve their ability to interact with others in their daily lives.
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Armenia is an upper-middle income, landlocked, net food-importer country, which has gone through a profound transformation since its independence in 1991. However, gains from economic progress and structural reforms over the past two decades have not benefited the population equally, leaving smallholder farmers and women behind in particular.
One in four people still live below the poverty line, and levels of food insecurity can reach up to 24 percent in the rural northern regions. With the identification and deployment of new drivers of growth, Armenia holds high potential to lay the foundations for sustainable and equitable development.
In 2020, three Food Security Assessments carried out by the World Food Programme (WFP) during the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the interconnection between poverty and food insecurity, identifying access to nutritious food as the main cause for poor nutrition among the population. Women-led households are particularly food insecure.
However, thanks to the combined efforts of the Government, civil society and other partners, since mid-2020 the levels of food insecurity have dropped from 15.3 percent in June-July 2020 to 9.2 percent in November-December 2020.
In Armenia, WFP supports the Government and other partners in their efforts to eradicate food insecurity in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and to implement the Government of Armenia’s Development agenda. Together with government line ministries and partners, WFP is contributing to the development of human capital, the improvement of health and the promotion of sustainable economic growth that benefits the whole population.
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Emergency Assistance
To meet the growing food security needs of populations affected by shocks, WFP provides emergency food assistance and took part in the formulation of the Armenian Inter-Agency Response Plan. WFP provides services to the Government and other agencies for procurement of food and non-food items on request. In 2020, WFP also supported the procurement of urgent medical supplies and equipment as part of the COVID-19 response.
School feeding
Since 2010, WFP has been providing daily nutritious meals to 100,000 children through its school feeding programme, with the aim to improve the food security of children, contribute to their human capital development and invest in local markets through direct purchases of food. In 2020, WFP launched the transformative school feeding model to integrate school and community-based food productions, create job opportunities and provide training. Throughout the pandemic, WFP continued to provide food assistance to meet the needs of school children and their families.
Food value chains
WFP supports smallholder farmers and agribusinesses to enhance the quality and quantity of nutritionally diversified food via investments in machineries, know-how and green technologies. Through its engagement in the production, processing, marketing and supply of food products, WFP’s goal is to increase the availability and accessibility of nutritious food in markets at affordable prices and to create income-generating opportunities.
Nutrition
To support health and nutrition, WFP analyzed dietary habits to inform nutrition-based Social Behavior Change Communication Campaigns and to improve nutrition awareness within the population, including schoolchildren. WFP provides support for research and evaluations that can contribute to the formulation of government policies and activities relating to nutrition and food security.
Disaster risk reduction
Due to the country’s vulnerability to shocks, WFP strengthens resilience by establishing food response mechanisms, creating staging facilities and supporting emergency preparedness efforts by the Government, as well as national and international actors.
Capacity strengthening
All WFP activities involve elements of capacity strengthening and handover of WFP’s investments to the Government or communities. This will contribute to promoting food and nutrition security and achieving Zero Hunger in Armenia by supporting the establishment of government-owned safety nets addressing food security, nutrition and equitable development, as well as capacity assistance to the National Statistical Committee to include food security and nutrition tools into national surveys and assessments.
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How to Sideload Apps on Android TV: APK Install and ADB Sideload methods explained in easy-to-follow steps!
Android TV may not be perfect, but it’s one of the better smart TV platforms on the market. It gives you access to lots of apps and games, most of which you can download from the Google Play Store. But some Android TV apps aren’t available via Google Play. Fortunately, just like how you can sideload apps onto Android smartphones and tablets, you can sideload apps on Android TV devices. Sideloading on Android TV isn’t as straightforward as phones or tablets, but it isn’t very challenging either.
If you aren’t sure how to sideload an app on Android TV, this article will explain two of the best ways to do so.
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Sideloading apps using Send Files to TV
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Are Sideloaded apps not showing up in the Android TV app drawer?
Important: You should only install APKs or app bundles downloaded from trusted sources.
Sideloading Apps using Send Files to TV
While you can use a web browser, like JioPages, to download APK files directly onto your Android TV, it’s a hassle unless you have a keyboard and mouse connected to the television. So it’s better to download the APK files on your Android phone or computer and then transfer them to your Android TV.
One of the easiest ways to achieve this is by using the Send Files to TV (SFTTV) app. It’s available on the Google Play store for both Android phones and Android TVs.
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Once you have installed the Send Files to TV app, open it on your phone and TV.
Finish the initial setup, including giving the app permission to access the device’s storage.
Then you just have to tap Send on your Android device.
The app will ask you to pick a file to send to your TV. Select the file, and tap on your Android TV in the list. The app file will now seamlessly transfer to your Android TV.
The Send Files to TV app saves the transferred files in the Downloads folder of your TV. You can now open the APK within the Send Files to TV app to install it.
As it is your first time installing an APK using the Send Files to TV app, you’ll have to permit the app to install apps from unknown sources. Follow the on-screen instructions to give permission. Alternatively, you can navigate to Settings > Device Preferences > Security & Restrictions > Unknown sources and enable the Send Files to TV toggle. If you have an older Android TV version, there may be a single option to allow the installation of apps from unknown sources.
After the permission, tap on the APK file again to install it. Depending on the app size, it’ll take a few seconds, and the app will be installed.
If you’re trying to install an app bundle, you’ll need to use an app like the APKMirror Installer on your TV to install it. APKMirror Installer lets you install .apkm, .xapk, and .apks app bundle files.
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While Send Files to TV is a quick and easy way to send APK files to install on your Android TV, you can also use an app like X-plore File Manager that comes with a built-in Wi-Fi file-sharing function to share files from your Android phone to your Android TV. However, the rest of the process remains the same.
You can also use cloud storage services, like Google Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive, to upload APK files from your PC or smartphone and then download them using a file manager that supports cloud storage services.
Using ADB to sideload apps on Android TV
If you are comfortable with the command line, ADB is one of the easiest ways to sideload apps on your Android TV. As long as you have ADB set up on your PC or Mac, you don’t need extra software to sideload apps onto your Android TV.
If you haven’t set up ADB on your PC or Mac, follow our explainer on how to install ADB to do it now.
Head over to Settings on your Android TV to enable USB Debugging.
For this, you’ll first have to activate Developer Options. You can do that by tapping on Build Number seven times or more until you see the You are now a developer prompt.
Navigate to Settings > Device Preferences > Developer Options and enable USB Debugging.
You are now all set to sideload apps. We’ll use ADB Wireless, so you don’t need a USB cable to connect to your Android TV. As long as your Android TV and computer are on the same wireless network, you’re good to go.
Now you have to find the IP address of your Android TV. To do this, head over to Settings > Network & Internet and tap on the active Wi-Fi connection (or Ethernet if you are using that), and you’ll see an IP address. Note down this IP as we will use it to run ADB wirelessly on your TV.
Open the command line on your PC or Mac and run “ADB connect” (without quotes), followed by the IP address you noted from your TV. Example: adb connect 192.168.1.1:5555.
If it’s your first time connecting, your Android TV will ask you to allow USB Debugging from your computer. You can select Always allow from this computer to make things easy for the future.
After authorization, your Android TV will start showing up when you run the “ADB devices” command.
Now, use the “ADB install” command, followed by the APK file name. You may need to include the full path, depending on where the APK file is saved. Example: adb install com.github.android.apk
If you are trying to install an app bundle, extract the APKs from the bundle on your PC or Mac using an archiving utility. The bundle can include a base APK and various resource APKs for different Application Binary Interfaces (ABIs), languages, and screen DPIs. Then you’ll have to pick the right APKs for your TV from the extracted APKs, based on the ABI and DPI data. If you don’t pick the right APKs, you’ll get an error, as you can see in the screenshot below. Make sure you put the extracted APK files in the platform-tools or ADB folder for easy access. You can also rename them if you want. Alternatively, if you have the ADB path/ alias set up, you can also directly run ADB in the folder containing the extracted APKs.
Then use the “adb install-multiple” command followed by APK file names. Example: adb install-multiple base.apk split_config.armeabi_v7a.apk split_config.tvdpi.apk
Depending on the file size, the command will take a few seconds, and install the app on your Android TV.
Sideloaded apps not showing up in the Android TV app drawer?
Sometimes after sideloading an Android app on your television, you’ll notice its icon doesn’t appear in the app drawer. This is because Android TV requires apps to have a leanback icon to use with the TV’s leanback launcher, and if you have installed an app made for phones and tablets, it won’t have a leanback icon. So you’ll need to use an app like Sideload Launcher to see the sideloaded apps.
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These are two of the easiest ways to sideload apps on your Android TV. However, if you install apps made primarily for phones or tablets, you may not get the best experience using them on your TV. Also, some apps may not work at all, or you end up with orientation issues.
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The Imitation Game is directed by Morten Tyldum, and is based on the biography Alan Turing: The Enigma.
The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Mark Strong, Charles Dance, and Rory Kinnear. The film’s musical score is by Alexandre Desplat. The film was scheduled for wide American release on Christmas Day 2014 and has already played at a number of festivals and limited screenings.
During the Second World War, violent, bloody battles were being fought all across the European continent, by land, sea, and air alike. Often criminally overlooked by popular culture, however, is the contribution from code crackers during the war. Working day and night tirelessly, these individuals used their intellect in an effort to aid the war effort, intercepting transmissions from the enemy and putting this decoded information in the right hands, for the sake of turning the tide of the war. The contributions of these code crackers considerably shortened the war and saved numerous lives, cities, and landmarks across Europe.
The Imitation Game is the true story of the intelligent but eccentric Alan Turing (Cumberbatch), whose efforts in code cracking and encryption machinery played a substantial role in helping the Allied Powers to win the war, and in the development of modern computers and technology. Using a non-chronological narrative of sorts, the film follows Turing’s life from his troubled early years in a boarding school, to when he first came aboard to help the war effort, going against the better wishes of his superiors and fellow servicemen, attempting to build and utilize the ultimate decoding machine. The film also explores the latter years of Turing’s life, including his criminal conviction for maintaining a secret homosexual relationship, and the crippling aftermath.
It is worth noting that the film had a troubled production history over the past several years – at one point Warner Bros. had even paid a substantial sum for the rights to the story, with plans to cast Leonardo DiCaprio as Turing! Needless to say, though, these plans never came to fruition. It is interesting to think, though, of how different the final result would have turned out under said circumstances.
Biopics and docudramas are always the most difficult films to write a coherent review for, because there are so many points of view from which one must analyze the film. Does it depict events accurately, as they actually happened? Is it a well-made film that casual moviegoers are going to enjoy? Does it come across as believable? Are the actors the right choices for the persons the work depicts?
Despite having studied history for years, I was not familiar with the work of Alan Turing, nor was I even aware of the existence of this film before I came across a free screening entirely by chance. The film ended up coming off as something of a surprise, and I am pleased to say that overall, The Imitation Game is a solid, well-made film with minimal flaws. Upon its scheduled widespread American release, scheduled for Christmas Day 2014, this moviegoer has a feeling it could end up being the last truly great film release of the year.
Although the film crew has put together a solid cast of actors for The Imitation Game, this is Benedict Cumberbatch’s movie. Next to Cumberbatch’s depiction of Turing here, the rest of the cast feels one-dimensional by comparison. Cumberbatch makes this role, and by that extent this film, his own. From wit and attempts and friendliness to win over fellow servicemen, to nervousness and sheer terror as his Turing hides his inner demons from friends and superiors alike, Benedict Cumberbatch IS the movie. In recent years, having caught him in a few films, he is an actor that has truly begun to win me over. Last year’s Star Trek film, Into Darkness, was a scattershot mess of a movie, with his role being one of the few true redeeming qualities. Likewise, this moviegoer/comic fan is elated with the recent announcement that he will be playing a key figure in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in years to come – Doctor Strange.
Cumberbatch owns this role and this film, but by extent this also means that the supporting cast tends to suffer; as good as the performances are, not one of them can hold a candle to Cumberbatch’s performance at Turing. The beautiful and talented Keira Knightley (probably best remembered by casual moviegoers for her part in the Pirates of the Caribbean films) is an interesting addition to the cast as a female code breaker in mostly male environment, but sadly, she just is not given that much to do, and spends long stretches of time off camera. This is not to say the supporting cast and characters are weak by any means; they just feel underdeveloped by comparison.
Prior to writing this review, I had been looking online to see what other people had to say about the film. Some of the more ludicrous complaints are those that accuse the movie of toning down Turing’s homosexuality. As far as this viewer is concerned, the movie touches upon this issue just the right amount, getting the point across as the film requires. To focus too much on this issue would have almost certainly ensured an R rating (or even potentially NC-17). Why are there no homosexual love scenes in the film? To put it simply, because there do not need to be.
The film’s treatment of Turing and the subject matter gets the job done just right. It is a well-paced story that never outlasts its welcome or feels rushed. While the film clearly wants to make the story of Turing known, at no point does it feel like it is attempting to glamorize or glorify him; he is a man who struggled every day in his life and was genuinely awkward, and you can see that throughout this movie. It also manages to feel humorous at times (largely due to the way Cumberbatch plays Turing) but does not sink into camp or comedy. Even the non-chronological narrative does not feel forced or like a gimmick; not an easy thing to pull off.
One minor negative about a mostly otherwise excellent movie was the final scene between Turing and Knightley’s character. This scene is the only one that feels over the top in what I considered a movie that is well grounded throughout otherwise. Knightley’s dialogue, praising Turing for being different from everyone else and for the contributions he made to society, feels like it was culled from an after school special. I agree with the whole “it is okay to be different” message conveyed here, but it feels too contrived and forced in this scene.
The movie also, at times, tends to create more questions than answers. These include a subplot about the presence of a Soviet spy and the impact it might have on the group’s operations, and whether or not to use knowledge of the cracked code to prevent certain disasters from happening, not wanting the Germans to know that the code has been cracked. These points make for an interesting moral dilemma of sorts, but never get explored much deeper than this.
People are going to nitpick The Imitation Game tirelessly, but the fact of the matter is that this is a well-made film telling the life story of one of the world’s true unsung heroes. Having made contributions that helped win the war and develop technology that is still used today, it is high time that Turing’s story has finally made it to the big screen. This is not a perfect film, but the ultimately negligible flaws should not stop you from seeing The Imitation Game when it goes into wide theatrical release.
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Most of the night fell asleep, and the reporters rushed to integrate the information gathered today and prepare to release it. Chris couldn't stand it anymore, and took the initiative to grab his mobile phone and said to Rooney on the other side: "Mr. has finished training you? Don't say no, Mr. will not let you answer the phone when he is reprimanding." This fan can say that he should not analyze Mordred too thoroughly, even if it is Mordred himself, he can only admire him. When returning to the locker room, everyone was quiet, especially the defenders, even if they were one point ahead of the game in the first half.,largehdtube,Mordred reached out to touch the location of Kaka's groin strain. As his fingers moved, Mordred's brows tightened, and a slightly childish face was abruptly turned into an old man's face. In the end, Hao Junmin, who had a better relationship with him, took advantage of Mordred's sweating effort and leaned close to him quietly and asked: "It was fine yesterday. Who is causing this today?" techer xxx,It wasn't until Chris jumped on his back that he broke the calm look. Recovered, he resumed his usual gentle shook his head and said: "Nothing , just made a nightmare , I go take a bath , . Who slimy uncomfortable" and then escape like what, like , went to the bathroom .But now every Real Madrid fan can stand up and speak. Those people just can't eat grapes and say grape sour. What about him? Anyway, it will not have any impact on Real Madrid.,xxx cinema The author has something to say:
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largehdtube He all suspects that if he is pushed down by such a method, he himself will have a psychological shadow of this method.,Royce was really tempered by the defense, and even wanted to stand and talk to Mordred for a while, and the province ran back and forth with the team, but he didn't want to give up.,xxxhot videoEven if the ball is still at their feet , the feeling of being unable to attack for a long time is really bad.,brazzers 2 Why should he read the mistakes he made before?
"In the last game, Shinji Kagawa and Lin Hao had a contest. Could it be that what happened to the two on the court?" I think that when he played with the German team back then, they were all animals. Even at the last second, they maintained precise coordination. Now this wave of young people still needs to temper.,xnxx2015 Mourinho said very firmly: "No! He will become a great star, this kind of training is just right for him.",ddf big tits "That's true." I don't know anything else, but Mourinho's madman character is so famous that Lin Yue relaxed when he heard his explanation."Football King Ending + Fan Wai" TXT Complete Works Download_19Mordred turned his head to look at the indignant Bayern fans again, showing a gentle smile that was different from the past. If Anthony was here, he must know that someone would be unlucky.,www xxx 17 The eyes of Mini Luo Xiao who lifted it up and put it down lightly were bent. Seeing this scene, Merris Mordred, an old man in his thirties, couldn't help but also aroused his desire to raise a child.
"What are you doing! I asked you to interact with Messi, but didn't let you fight with Messi on Twitter!" Mendes lost a few more hairs. Fortunately, this Portuguese is not as young as a British guy. Hair, otherwise... just look at how baldness is light. "Out of this door, you will be really the enemy in the future." Anthony looked at Mordred with a wry smile, but the wry smile was fleeting, and it was almost an illusion.,sexey video The audience had never participated in the offense, but it happened that because there was one less person, they could only shoulder the burden of their teammates, and even ran away with the share of teammates. The rest will be made up tomorrowCristiano's body froze for a moment, and then smiled: "When did I avoid you? Stop making trouble , Mini is still waiting for me at home." Kaka is the son of the wind. How can his speed be comparable to that of a player in the rank of Rui? Kaka and the surrounding water master were about to break the ball. As a result, Rui gave a back heel pass to the forward one. In midfield, Rui, who was light and without the ball, said to Kaka with a smile: "Although I am not as fast as you, I have teammates.",xxl sexy Miranda did not dare to delay, and passed directly to the midfielder, allowing them to attack quickly. But now that everyone else has used their chopsticks to eat, isn't it disappointing to speak now?Then the whole person rushed out like an arrow from the string. Real Madrid was a bit brittle as a whole, but this brittleness also brought them extraordinary speed.,alix lovell As for Mordred... he was already lying on the railing of the parade float, half body leaned out and touched his hands with the fans. He heard a loud shout in his ear, nothing more satisfying than this. .
hot liplocks You must know that Manchester City has risen since the first two seasons, and now it can be evenly matched with Manchester United. Mordred pushed a group of unscrupulous teammates away, and suddenly the phone rang when he was about to take a bath,Barcelona's defense is very good, even if Kaka breaks into the restricted area, he still didn't find a chance to start.Only a small piece of space for Ajax fans, it is simply ruthless. "Thank you brother!" Mordred leaned into his ear and whispered , and then he was about to abduct the ball from his foot. As soon as his foot touched the ball, Rooney changed course. God knows that he is in Real Madrid, the most intimidating is Chris and Mourinho plus Pepe, the three Portuguese.,mom fuck meThe author has something to say: telugu porn If you think about it, Ajax didn't provoke Mordred? How did you come up with this insulting way? What should I do? For a while, the entire Barcelona penalty area is full of people. Everyone blocks their opponents with their bodies, hoping that this can interfere with the opponents, even if it is just a line of sight interference. A team of Barcelona, ??who is not too tall, feels affected. Discrimination. saxey games The first 105 chapter a rippleBut Mordred couldn't do anything except listen, smile at the reporter.,pussy videos "Let's take a break first." The director can also see that everyone is a little tired, and it will only get worse if you continue to shoot.
flirt4freee Dolores is a little angry now, not going to see Chris, turning his head and asking Mordred: "Your mother also agrees?",Facing the wolf-like gaze, Shinji Kagawa didn't feel very good, but he still kicked off quickly. For the goalkeeper, the spoon penalty is a humiliation and a complete humiliation.,Although the daily life of the players is terrible, at least they are still a little dedicated in their careers. I don't know if Mordred is actively training every day, which drives them. In the end, Li Weifeng, as the captain, stopped Mordred, "Don't go too far. After all, this is their home court. Look at them... I always feel that you can't get out of this court." People with his talent may appear frequently, but with his willpower... Ramos has only seen him. This hug does not contain any love, it is pure friendship, "Chris, thank you.",retro xxx Everyone quickly lined up and stood in front of the coach. Before the assistant handed it out, a beautiful woman in low-cut hot pants handed Mordred a cup of hot water. As an experienced assistant, she did not choose to separate this lady in the first place.roblox porn sex and zen Both sides pushed hard , opening just ten minutes to carry out a number of offensive and defensive exchange , the scene looks full impact, but the heart of the fans was also a harsh test.,xxx big boos "Aren't you a fan of Chris?"
asin fuck Within a few minutes, a steady snoring sound came out.How could he forget that Mordred was a defensive and offensive grab before, and others just feinted him, the brightest star on the entire green field. Some open to the United States Lingge pub, not free , is half price , they would be presumptuous to celebrate today , Who is this exclusively their day of it , no one would blame them.,Spanish fans have already begun to sing "There is only one Ronaldo" in the stands, and Mordred's voice is mixed in the chorus of these fans.The same pressure is also great.,Suddenly ?zil understood why Mourinho liked Mordred so much, and the summer life he had dreamed of was completely cloudless. This is the gentleness that belongs to Mordred alone, and he can clearly feel the heart full of cracks being spliced ??by a few words of him. The reporter thought to himself, the other party is like this, how can I live up to the opposing side's wishes? "Hello my friend, meet again, my name is Lucian Burns, and I am an ineffective independent reporter." Hahaha, I didn't expect to be able to find it like this. Everyone really gave me a lot of knowledge. Seeing Atletico fans booing around, shouldn't the first reaction be anger? Just think of these weird things in his mind.,hot mother "I like your gift very much. Let's have dinner together. I'm all ready." Although Dolores still felt that Mordred was incompatible with their family, he was very good to him. Kaka, who was forced to exercise during the same period, has lost a lot of weight due to emotional troubles, and it is more suitable for him next season.,Perhaps Mordred's actions brought some comfort to him, "All this from my mouth is tragic, but these have also made me who I am now."The dim purple-pink light made the whole box mixed with an ambiguous atmosphere. Once inside, the mixed perfume smell made Mordred almost quit. It was not his hypocrisy, it was really the scent mixed with various flavors that could easily cause indole. Sense of indole.,milf. comAnd after this injury, even fans who didn't recognize him as a Chinese at first agreed with Mordred, is it a blessing in disguise?
ponkworld This is the reason why Grafi is so brave in this game. The chief who acquired them set the requirements for them to win Real Madrid. The coaches of both sides are top coaches, and the players are also top-notch players. Every attack has performed impeccably in their own styles.,Caption:'I ran into fans on the street today. We are now friends. I didn’t expect that when I was on the street, only Molly could see me. I must have a group of fake fans. ' Then everyone in the room found out, "Really, Merris, what did you do last night? Dark circles are so serious." Lin Yue still doesn't understand him? This statement is simply false and can no longer be false, "If you really feel sorry for me, now withdraw from Real Madrid to accompany me, and with my current strength, I can cut a way for you in the entertainment industry." Chris can't tell if he doesn't mention Mordred? At first he wanted to bargain with Mendes, at least not in women's clothing! But now someone accompanies him to wear women's clothing, okay, it's not as good as everyone enjoys it alone.,porn photes Mordred was relieved when he discovered that he did not recognize himself, and then said in a low voice: "It's normal for you not to know me. Although I am a Real Madrid fan, I am an Englishman. This trip came to Madrid exclusively. Watching the game." He finally understood that at the beginning, when his legs got better, he would give the little players a demonstration. In the eyes of the doctor, he wanted to blow his head.Don't say he was taught by me in the future! Can't afford to lose this person!,porn si At this moment, Mordred suddenly felt his back being pushed, and he staggered to the edge of the penalty area. In order to protect himself, Mordred rolled around subconsciously, buffering the force of high-speed running. largehdtube
انمي sex "He’s almost using me as a pawn, isn’t it? He’s... the company’s boss is so close to me, I’m being suspected by the media every day, and the group of guys barely point to my nose and say that I’m kicking a match-fix. During this period of time, I’m not busy looking for you to relax, he actually put a tracker on me! He also sent someone to investigate me, it’s terrifying." A good gentleman like Kaka, who doesn’t even play in nightclubs, is simply cherishing creatures, okay? The home game is in front and the away game is behind. One pink top ten black is really not a joke 23333 , when Wu Lei was blown to the sky by the Spaniard's results, many people were really annoyed by it.,Mordred showed an expression that was difficult to say. The room was densely packed with Cristiano, and even the sheets were printed with CR7 . If he hadn't had a sponsor for his underwear, this fanatic fan would definitely be able to print his head on that part. ... Chris held up Mini Mini in one hand, "It's right to say without you." Then, a soft kiss landed on Mini Mini's forehead. The author has something to say: Anyone who pulls it out knows how strong the son of the pinnacle is, and the average player can't even eat his exhaust.,hot fack If he knows that Mr. has such great ability, why should he burst out and find his body uncomfortable? This time he is injured, the husband will definitely ban him for two games, let him calm his mind. Real Madrid's tenth crown! They have their tenth Champions League title.He is here to replenish his energy , and the Chinese fans over there are not simply exploding., After speaking, I walked out of the smoke-filled room, and I could hear someone calling from a long distance, "Fuck, don't smoke, let me open the window." Thinking of Mordred in this way, he didn't take the initiative to understand, and the more we talked with the mini-mini, the happier. sari sex Mordred was not without arrogance, they were unwilling, and he didn't have to force them to believe. xxxhot video Although Mourinho is strict in his management for a reason, as humans, they are still dominated by emotions. Now the group of suffocated men are all excited when they hear the news.
xxx drawing Even he himself didn't expect that he could win the six crowns. He used to wake up in bed because of illness. Now he wears a white "jacket" and becomes the hero of those Meilinger. The first 108 chapters punishment,The ad shoot the effect is surprisingly rods , either Chris or Ozil regarded this as a game to play the ad , Coca-Cola repeatedly stating that they absolutely can not leak out , this is the sense of wonder to advertising, once leaked There is not much sense of surprise left. "Why did Mr. Mourinho put Kaka on the starting list in this game? I heard that Kaka was in treatment before, but didn't tell us where to treat. Why is he suddenly sent on the field? " Mordred was familiar with these and quickly got up from the ground. "Football King Ending + Fan Wai" TXT Complete Works Download_46,best sex web As for Mordred, he himself didn't know how to get acquainted with those reporters, and sometimes he could say hello when he saw him when he went out. But no matter how the fans protested, the referee is God on the field. The referee pushed away the stacks of Real Madrid players around him and blew the whistle at the end of the first half.Next, they have a Copa del Rey final to play, so after thinking about it, they just want to blend together and host a grander one. But the various statements in the locker room after that loss made Mordred understand that once Real Madrid got into a mistake, everyone would be the first to suspect Mr. Madman’s problem, because they listened to Mourinho from start to finish. Orders, even if you have your own ideas, will be cut across the board. Mendes understood the commercial value of Mordred’s face, and said to the person in charge with a faint expression: "I hope you can show some sincerity this time, otherwise this will definitely be the last time we have discussed Mordred. Adi did not offer a price once, and it was higher than every time. I didn't agree, but it was all based on the feelings of the past.",brazzers 2 It is this small gap that makes them clearly feel that it is very difficult to contain them fundamentally.
مصر سكس So Real Madrid fans didn't even need to type on the keyboard once, just watching the Barcelona fans get stunned and speechless, it was simply too beautiful in my heart. Benzema leaned into Little Mini’s ear and said in a low voice, for fear that others might hear it, but in fact he was just playing with Little Mini, only Little Mini believed that it was serious.,Victory , everyone suggested to celebrate. Unlike Xiao Miao who completely inherited his father's mantle, Thiago’s playing style of playing football hit this child. After all, who had no other children in childhood, Xiao Miao is no exception. "I was indeed chased by the company, but it was not chasing and killing." Whenever I talk about this, Doyle can't help but want to cover his face, because...the development of things is so weird! In the end Chris thought of a way. He ran to an excellent position to ask for the ball from Kaka who was holding the ball. The Mallorca player didn’t know if his brain was short-circuited or something. He actually ran to defend Chris. Kaka ended up. No one is defending there.,bangla porn Most of the fans next to them are dragging their homes. Some small fans are wearing Chris's No. 7 jersey, Kaka's No. 8 jersey and his No. 99 jersey. Chris watched Mordred stand there for a long time without moving, too late to celebrate with his teammates, and quickly walked to him."And how many times have I told you, call my name!" But when he is anxious, he will subconsciously call him the captain.,Since Caroline's departure, Kaka's emotional turmoil has temporarily come to an end. Caroline can be seen occasionally in the newspaper, but these have nothing to do with Kaka. Mordred didn't feel much comfortable as the second one. He patted the turf crazily and hoped that his unscrupulous teammates would get up quickly, and he would die if he didn't get up again! Mourinho put a big hat directly on the No. 11 striker, his expression sullen as if he wanted to eat people. dr sexvideos Everyone can now understand how much Merris owes him before. Merris, who has never suffered a setback, really makes people want to kill him. xxx cinema
capri porn Three people laugh finally landed on the game, Mordred sighed, "The next game against Manchester United , do you have any good ideas?" "Not happy to win today?" A gentle female voice rang from the phone. Mordred, who was annoyed by physical strength just now, sat up and said in surprise: "Mom, are you busy?",And the culprit of everything is looking at him innocently, "Didn't you let me pinch?" As soon as this comment came out, some fans who felt the same liked it. "Because Mr. Merris did not take a good rest before the game, he is now exhausted and he is overdrawn on the field. Fortunately, his bones have already formed. Otherwise, such a high-intensity overdrawn body will definitely cause some damage to the body." The voice was even louder than that of the white uncle next to him. Chris seemed to have heard it. He turned to look at the auditorium and looked directly at Mordred.,hot wife There were a lot of big touches for a while, and even this storm triggered a wife drawing fan pictures on Twitter, Mordred wearing a Barcelona jersey, Mordred wearing a Manchester United jersey, and Mord wearing a Dortmund jersey. Reid, Mordred wearing a Juventus jersey. Since this scene was outdoors, there were no stools for Mordred to sit on, and watching them play with itchy feet, I couldn't help but join them.As it was, the only guard left to guard the backcourt was the defender who was involved in Mordred, but it would take a lot of energy for him to involve Mordred alone, and the strength from there was to defend so many people.,cool sex com However, he can also understand Camacho. After all, the strength of the Chinese team will make this judgment that he is completely correct . On the contrary, his plan is in danger of taking risks.xxxhot video ———————— If the strength is higher, it is said that the middle and upper reaches, if the strength is lower, it is not even the middle reaches. It may be due to circumstances. Everyone raised their glasses and bumped them, drinking all the champagne in the glasses. "Chris, come and video me. Remember to be more handsome." He just picked up a football from Chris' house and walked to the backyard.
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Akshay Kumar, the Khiladi of India. The fittest actor in the Bollywood. Mostly known for his iconic roles in Rustom, Airlift e.t.c.
Recently he has been interviewed by the Hindustan Times. In the interview, he was asked if he will ever stand to join the politics.“Not at all, I want to be happy. I love movies and I donate to my country through my movies. This is my job.” he answered.
In the last few years, he has done many social-related movies which made people call him ‘Bharat Kumar’. On which he said, “I don’t know why they call me Bharat Kumar. Phir jab Housefull release hoti hai toh yai wala tag wapas leletein hain. Main toh harr tarha ki movies karta hoon.”
He also shared his story about when he won a National Award for the movie Rustom in 2017. He said, “At my first National Award, a girl sat next to me, and told me that she’s a huge fan, congratulated me for my win. She asked me how many films have I done, I said 137. I asked her the same question and came to know that it was her first film, and also was winning a National Award for it. Kaise mera insult ho gaya.”
He also shared his theory on the idea of nationalism by saying, “I don’t believe in thinking about what the country has given you, but what you can give to the country. For example, you pick a captain of a cricket team, and now it is the team’s responsibility to listen to him. Follow the leader. Koi bhi party ka ho, let him lead the country because chuna toh aap hi logon ne hai.”
Akshay also liked a tweet (accidentally) that was in the favor of students protesting against the CAB bill and later said that he did it by mistake, he received a huge backlash.
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design a modern app icon logo with source file The Paleo Diet is a Lactose Free eating regimen. Called the Caveman or Hunter-Gatherer weight loss plan. The food regimen consists of lean meat, fowl, fruits and greens. The diet is lactose and preservative free. A wholesome eating regimen that removes or reduces lactose intolerance signs and symptoms. You can still enjoy your favored food you just must put together them a bit differently. A diet so that it will benefit all of us’s health.
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The Paleolithic food plan (abbreviated paleo weight loss plan) is suggested for people who require a dairy unfastened food regimen. The Paleo Diet is called the Stone Age weight loss plan and hunter-gatherer food plan. The Paleolithic duration ended with the development of agriculture approximately 10,000 years ago. The modern-day Paleo food regimen includes lean meat fish, culmination, vegetables, roots and nuts. Excluded from the eating regimen are grains, legumes, dairy products, salt, refined sugar, processed ingredients and preservatives.
Lactose Intolerance
Lactose is a sugar determined in milk and milk produces. Lactose intolerance is the incapacity to digest lactose. In the small intestines the enzyme, lactase is deficient in breaking down lactose into two less difficult sorts of sugar paperwork glucose and galactose. When lactose is damaged down into glucose and galactose it's miles allowed to absorb into the blood steam. Lactose intolerance develops over the years and many do now not display signs and symptoms till early adolescence or early maturity.
Lactose intolerance is less common in northern and western European. It is extra common in African, African-American, Native American and Mediterranean populations.
Milk Allergy
Lactose intolerance and cow milk allergy aren't the same. Milk allergic reaction is a reaction of the immune device to one or more milk proteins. Milk hypersensitive reactions can appear in the first 12 months of life.
Products containing lactose:
Processed meals have been altered to increase their shelf lifestyles. Not simplest do they have preservative however include degrees of lactose:
-Bread and baked items
-Processed breakfast ingredients: doughnuts, frozen waffles, pancakes, toaster pastries and candy rolls
-Processed cereals
-Instant potatoes, soups and breakfast drinks
-Corn chips, potato chips and different processed snacks
-Processed meats
-Margarine
-Salad dressing
-Liquid and powdered milk based totally meal replacements
-Protein powders and bars
-Candies
-Non dairy liquid and powdered espresso creamers
-Non dairy whipped toppings
The Paleo Diet is dairy-unfastened, wheat-unfastened and preservative-free. When lactose is eliminated from the food plan you could do away with or lessen symptoms. You can nevertheless experience your favourite dishes but you simply ought to put together them a bit in another way.
Gluten-Free Diet: GF Recipes: Stay Crisp Slaw
Ingredients
eight c cabbage, sliced great
1 green pepper, reduce in small portions
2 carrots, grated
half of c onion, chopped
1 envelope unflavored gelatin, softened in 1/4 c water.
2 t celery seed
2/3 c apple cider vinegar
1 t salt
2/3 c sugar
1/four t black pepper
2/three c corn oil
Directions
Mix together cabbage, inexperienced pepper, carrots, and onion. Sprinkle with 1/2 cup water, installed refrigerator to crisp.
Combine vinegar, sugar, salt, celery seed and pepper in 1-quart glass degree. Heat within the microwave for two - three half minutes or until it begins to boil. Add the softened gelatin and stir properly. Set aside to cool. When it starts offevolved to jell, beat inside the oil. Drain water off the veggies and add the dressing. Keeps within the fridge for several days
Provided with the aid of Celiac Sprue Association
Gluten-Free Diet: GF Recipes: Spicy Beef and Macaroni
Ingredients
1 pound floor beef
2 cup water
1 medium onion, diced
2 cup GF elbow macaroni
1 inexperienced pepper, diced
1 cup GF barbeque sauce
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese (optionally available)
Directions
In a deep skillet, brown the beef. Add the diced onion and inexperienced pepper; prepare dinner till gentle. Stir in water, macaroni and barbecue sauce.
Cover and simmer until macaroni is smooth
Provided through Celiac Sprue Association
A dairy loose diet does no longer imply which you cannot revel in your favored meals. Just put together your food a little differently with elements useful to your health.
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This is one of the oddest novels that I've ever read. At 207 pages, it isn't taxing on the reader's time and, on the whole, is well-written.
'THE BIOLOGY OF LUCK' is set in New York City around the end of the 20th century and into the first few years of the 21st century. It's either a story within a story or rather, a story superimposed upon another, which is perhaps closer to the truth because they are both centered on 2 of the novel's central characters.
Larry Bloom is a guy in his 30s who works as a NYC tour guide. He's nondescript and would be seen by most people as unattractive and unremarkable because he is, and he knows that. But there is a woman he has known as a friend for 2 years with whom he has fallen in love. For her, he has written a novel -- part of which is played out across several chapters carrying within their titles the words 'The Biology of Luck - Chapter -- by Larry Bloom' --- which revolves upon her and one which Bloom sent to a major publishing company, who had sent him a letter by way of reply - a letter he has yet to open; Bloom hopes it will be 'the Ace up his sleeve' in his bid to win her heart. The woman of Bloom's dreams is Starshine Hart, a 29 year old woman noted for her beauty and for moving to the beat of a different drummer.
Bloom's hopes for lasting happiness or everlasting despair hinges on a date he has with Starshine at an Italian restaurant in Greenwich Village.
For any reader of this review with the slightest curiosity as to what 'THE BIOLOGY OF LUCK' is about, the following remarks from the book, I think, best sum up what it's about: "A day that began on the sleepy streets of Harlem will end in a dash to the finish. The soles of Larry's feet throb after hours of walking; his throat burns from wasted words; his clothes bear the scars of smoked eel and pickled herring. In less than twelve hours, he has saved the life of a pompous buffoon, failed to rescue a beautiful maiden, and abandoned a corpse to the mercies of the news media. An overbearing journalist has kidnapped his bouquet. ... It has been the most traumatic day Larry has ever experienced, a whirlwind of dreams extinguished and hopes renewed, but what makes this snippet of June so inconceivable is that the two greatest challenges are still to come. He may yet be an author. ... All depends on whether Starshine, glorious Starshine, will wait for him."
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Eg if you were a person looking to undertake a journey from Columbus, Ohio to San Francisco, California then you would enter Columbus, Ohio, United States in the start box, and in the destination box San Francisco, California, United States or some other destination to best plan your intended road route. All flight schedules from Allama Iqbal International, Pakistan to King Khaled International, Saudi Arabia. Lahore’s coordinates: 31°32′58″ N, 74°20′36″ E Population: 6,310,888 Find out what time it is in Lahore right now See the map of Lahore Wikipedia article: Lahore Find out the distance between Lahore and other cities Lahore is partially open to travellers from Khartoum. The latest flight departs from Lahore (LHE) at 20:45 and arrives in Dammam (DMM) at 22:40. The distance from King Fahd International Airport to downtown is about 19km, by taxi about 30 minutes. Distance: 9,913 km Adelaide Flights ..If you’ve been planning a romantic holiday with a partner, itching for an adventurous solo escape to one of the globe’s most fascinating destinations, or just looking to soak up some local history and culture, flights from Lahore to Adelaide provide the perfect getaway. The earliest flight of the day departs at 03:40. This may extend up to 8810. Calculations are made in kilometers and miles and information is available for all countries around the world. Flight distance from Lahore to Baghdad (Allama Iqbal International Airport – Baghdad International Airport) is 1762 miles / 2835 kilometers / 1531 nautical miles. Check our live COVID-19 map for Pakistan travel restrictions, and to find out if you'll need to quarantine on arrival.We try to be as accurate as possible, but things can change fast. Distance from Lahore to Jeddah (Allama Iqbal International Airport – King Abdulaziz International Airport) is 2273 miles / 3658 kilometers / 1975 nautical miles. Distance: 2,435 mi ... flag au Australia … Calculate a distance, enter a city, region and country. LAHORE, Punjab—To shrink the distance between Lahore and Gurdwara Sri Kartarpur Sahib, the Pakistan government has approved a project to construct a new motorway which will bring down the journey time from two and half hours to an hour only. The distance from Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport to downtown is about 27km, by taxi about 40 minutes. Abu Dhabi to Lahore flights will cost you a minimum of 530. The Distance Calculator can find distance between any two cities or locations available in The World Clock. Flying time from Lahore, Pakistan to Brisbane, Australia. The distance from Bandaranaike International Airport to downtown is about 28km, by taxi about 40 minutes. Distance from Canada to Pakistan is 10,410 kilometers. Our search engine is a consumer favourite and recommended in Australia as a comprehensive and fast way to find cheap flights.We are rated highest on Product Review amongst similar travel service providers. The last flight of the day departs at 12:20. Last Minute Return Lahore to Darwin, Australia Airfares. Our search engine is a consumer favourite and recommended in Australia as a comprehensive and fast way to find cheap flights.We are rated highest on Product Review amongst similar travel service providers. What time does the latest flight from Lahore to Guangzhou depart? The distance is calculated in kilometers, miles and nautical miles, and the initial compass bearing/heading from the origin to the destination. You will probably be jetlagged for a few days. Country-wise Distance Calculator to calculate the distance between any two cities, airports, towns or villages in the country. Worry not! In a week, around 293 flights travel from Abu Dhabi to Lahore. This route is operated by 3 airline(s), and the departure time is between 99999 - 0. The distance between Sydney and Lahore is 10,836 kilometres. Questions and Answers What are the most popular airlines that fly from Lahore (LHE) to Colombo (CMB)? Some useful information on flights between Sydney and Lahore are given on the panel above. Get cheap flights from Sydney to Lahore with Skyscanner Australia. Last Minute Return Lahore to Darwin, Australia Airfares. We check 100s of airlines. The fastest flight time for direct flights from Lahore to Riyadh is 4 hours 40 minutes. Compare & reserve one-way or return flights from Lahore to Guangzhou from $627 only to get the best flight deals and promotions for your LHE to CAN trip! Lahore Cantt. Haikou is partially open to travelers from Lahore. The distance calculator can help you prepare for the road by helping you figure out how far a city is from you. This assumes an average flight speed for a commercial airliner of 500 mph, which is equivalent to 805 km/h or 434 knots. What time does the latest flight from Lahore to Dammam depart? See also a map, estimated flight duration, carbon dioxide emissions and the time difference between Lahore and Jeddah. If you want to go by car, the driving distance between Multan and Rawalpindi is 558.98 km . The average flight time from Lahore to Australia is 10 hours 52 minutes; Distance from Lahore to Australia is 5,549 miles / 8,931 km; Lahore is served by 1 airports Lahore Allama Iqbal International Airport (LHE) Australia is served by 0 airports The currency in Australia, Australia is the Australian Dollars The total flight duration from Lahore, Pakistan to Brisbane, Australia is 13 hours, 40 minutes.. The distance between Lahore and Darwin is 7,746 kilometres. Sydney: Distance to the largest cities of Australia Melbourne Check our live COVID-19 map for travel restrictions, and to find out if you'll need to quarantine on arrival.We try to … We try to be as accurate as possible, but things can change fast. The average flight time is 4 hours 40 minutes. The travel duration between these cities in a non-stop flight is usually around 03h 30m. Between Abu Dhabi and Lahore, 10 airlines are operational. Along with Lahore - Melbourne distance, you can also find current time & time difference between Melbourne and Lahore, lattitude & longitude of both cities and flight duration. Skyscanner is a fast and simple travel search engine that compares hundreds of flights from all major airlines and travel agents, finding you the best deal on cheap plane tickets to Dushanbe from Lahore. Get to know the cheapest flight price, number of direct flights between Sydney and Lahore, how many flights between Sydney and Lahore per week, distance and flight duration from Sydney to Lahore and the number of airports in Lahore Given below is the distance between Melbourne, Australia and Lahore, Pakistan.A map showing location of Melbourne and Lahore with air travel direction is also provided. Maybe you need flights from Lahore to Brisbane to attend your cousin’s wedding, to pitch a business idea to your boss, or perhaps simply to treat yourself to a mini vacation. Welcome to the Lahore google satellite map! Table 1 summarizes the flight duration from Naracoorte to Lahore by airline at different speeds. We check 100s of airlines. Sydney is 5 hours in front of Lahore. The calculated flying distance from Multan to Rawalpindi is equal to 253 miles which is equal to 407 km. The fastest flight time for flights with stopovers is 7 hours 30 minutes. The calculated distance (air line) between Sydney and Lahore is approximately 6,738 Miles respectively 10,843 Kilometer. New York John F. Kennedy is partially open to travellers from Lahore. If you ride your car with an average speed of 112 kilometers/hour (70 miles/h), travel time will be … Compare & reserve one-way or return flights from Lahore to Doha from $236 only to get the best flight deals and promotions for your LHE to DOH trip! This air travel distance is equal to 6,468 miles. Railway Station train station is nearby Lahore … Approximate travel distance is also calculated. Lahore: Distance to the largest cities of Pakistan Karachi This place is situated in Sheikhupura, Punjab, Pakistan, its geographical coordinates are 31° 32' 59" North, 74° 20' 37" East and its original name (with diacritics) is Lahore. Send a parcel from Lahore to Oyama it has never been so easy! The straight line distance (airline route) from Naracoorte , South Australia, Australia to Lahore, Pakistan is 10273 km, (6383 miles or 5547 nautical miles). Also contains Distance Chart of distances between some of the major cities/towns/villages in the country. Compare flights from Lahore to Dushanbe and find cheap tickets with Skyscanner. If you travel with an airplane (which has average speed of 560 miles) from Canada to … Driving distance from Lahore (LHE) to Baghdad (BGW) is 2360 miles / 3798 kilometers and travel time by car is about 44 hours 37 minutes. Regardless of the reasons behind packing your bags and needing to find the cheapest flights from … Prices and availability are subject to change. Get cheap flights from Brisbane to Lahore with Skyscanner Australia. Check our live COVID-19 map for United States travel restrictions, and to find out if you'll need to quarantine on arrival. Airlines with flights from Lahore (LHE) to Urumqi (URC): China Southern Airlines . The distance from Diwopu International Airport to downtown is about 14km, by taxi about 30 minutes. Lahore’s coordinates: 31°32′58″ N, 74°20′36″ E Population: 6,310,888 Find out what time it is in Lahore right now See the map of Lahore Wikipedia article: Lahore Find out the distance between Lahore and other cities What are the most popular airlines that fly from Lahore (LHE) to Urumqi (URC)? Airlines with flights from Lahore (LHE) to Colombo (CMB): Srilankan Airlines . The air travel (bird fly) shortest distance between Canada and Pakistan is 10,410 km= 6,468 miles. Cheap Flights to Kuala Lumpur from Lahore Prices were available within the past 7 days and starts at AU$279 for one-way flights and AU$532 for round trip, for the period specified. The calculated distance (air line) between Lahore and Sydney is approximately 6,738 Miles respectively 10,843 Kilometer. Lahore to Riyadh flight timings. Distance Calculator – How far is it? 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It’s never too early to start planning for next produce season. And this includes weed control. I think most PCAs and growers recognize that effective weed management is important in leafy vegetable and melon production for all the obvious reasons. However, weed management is also essential for another important, but often overlooked, reason. Weeds can serve as host plants for many important insect pests, and when not controlled in the field they can be an impediment to insect control. Weeds can serve a beneficial role by harboring insect natural enemies and pollinators, but the consequences resulting from weeds harboring insect pests often outweigh benefits they potentially provide. Although flowering weeds can provide a reservoir for natural enemies, and a source of nectar and pollen for pollinators, these same weedy refuges can serve as host sources for many key insect pests that cause economic damage to vegetable crops. Weeds found on field margins and ditch banks can provide insect pests with suitable resources needed for rapid population growth which subsequently can lead to insect infestations occurring in adjacent vegetable crops. In addition, many weed species can provide insects with host plants that serve as a bridge between cropping seasons when vegetables crops are not in production (May-August). Volunteer melons and cotton are also considered weeds (“a plant out of place”). If not removed in a timely manner, these weedy volunteer plants can sustain large numbers of insect pests (and host insect-transmitted viruses) that can disperse onto newly planted fields. Finally, weeds can serve as impediments to insecticide applications. Dense weed foliage in vegetable and melon fields can negatively influence foliar spray applications by intercepting spray droplets before reaching the target crop, which can result in less insecticide deposition and unacceptable crop damage. Soil applied insecticides (e.g., imidacloprid, Coragen, Verimark) can also be impacted by unmanaged weed growth. Weeds growing unchecked during stand establishment can compete with the seedling plants for water and fertilizer, but they can also compete with crop plants for soil insecticides. Excessive weed densities can significantly intercept insecticides in the soil profile and reduce the amount available for uptake by the target crop. For more information on this topic, please visit Weed Interference with Insect Management in Desert Crops.
May 27, 2020
Name the insect pest
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Weeds
May 5, 2021
Clover
Clovers can be very difficult to control weeds here, but it is also a major crop and common ornamental. Clovers can survive under poor growing conditions and are not controlled with glyphosate and seem to get worse every year. There are more than 50 types and 300 species of clover and they can be easily misidentified. They are all in the legume (Fabracea) family and can use a bacterium (rhizobium) in the soil to convert nitrogen in the atmosphere to a form that they and other plants can use for fertilizer. There are only 4 or 5 clover species that are agricultural pests here. The ones we get the most questions on are white and yellow sweet clover. These are in the Melilotus family. White sweet clover (Melilotus albus) is tall for a clover and can get 3 to 5 foot in height. The leaves are thinner than most clovers and this difficult to control weed lives at least 2 years and sometimes longer. Glyphosate and most of the contact herbicides do not control it. The plant growth regulator herbicides work best. Yellow sweet clover (Melilotus officinalis) is less common here. The flowers are yellow, and it is not as tall and vegetative as white sweet clover. Yellow is more common at higher elevations. California burclover (Medicago polymorpha) and Black medic (Medicago lupina) are in the same genus as alfalfa and are more of a problem in landscapes, parks and golf courses than in agricultural fields here. They do not grow upright and spread below the crop or turf. The true clovers are in the Trifolium genus and include white and strawberry clover. These creep along the ground and root at the nodes of the stem. These are more of a urban landscape weed and not considered an agricultural problem. Creeping woodsorrel or Oxyalis looks like a clover but it is not related. It is a turf weed that spreads rapidly along the ground and can live for several years. Preemergent herbicides are effective against all these clovers before they become established. The postemergence herbicides that are most effective in controlling these clovers are the plant growth regulators. Contact herbicides and glyphosate are generally ineffective.
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Plant Diagnostics
May 5, 2021
Fusarium wilt of Watermelon 2021
Last year we had a lot of watermelon fields infected with Fusarium from Winterhaven to Yuma, Wellton, and Mohawk Valley. Rain, and overwatering of fields when plants set fruits might have contributed to the disease development.
Fusarium wilt of watermelon, caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. niveum, is one of the oldest described Fusarium wilt diseases and the most economically important disease of watermelon worldwide. It occurs on every continent except Antarctica and new races of the pathogen continue to impact production in many areas around the world. Long-term survival of the pathogen in the soil and the evolution of new races make management of Fusarium wilt difficult.
Symptoms of Fusarium can sometimes be confused with water deficiency, even though there is plenty of water in the field. In Yuma valley we have seen fusarium problem in some overwatered fields.
Initial symptoms often include a dull, gray green appearance of leaves that precedes a loss of turgor pressure and wilting. Wilting is followed by a yellowing of the leaves and finally necrosis. The wilting generally starts with the older leaves and progresses to the younger foliage. Under conditions of high inoculum density or a very susceptible host, the entire plant may wilt and die within a short time. Affected plants that do not die are often stunted and have considerably reduced yields. Under high inoculum pressure, seedlings may damp off as they emerge from the soil.
Initial infection of seedlings usually occurs from chlamydospores (resting structure) that have overwintered in the soil. Chlamydospores germinate and produce infection hyphae that penetrate the root cortex, often where the lateral roots emerge. Infection may be enhanced by wounds or damage to the roots. The fungus colonizes the root cortex and soon invades the xylem tissue, where it produces more mycelia and microconidia. Consequently, the fungus becomes systemic and often can be isolated from tissue well away from the roots. The vascular damage we see in the roots is the defense mechanism of the plant to impede the movement of pathogen.
Disease management include planting clean seeds/transplants, use of resistant cultivars, crop rotation, soil fumigation, soil solarization, grafting, biological control. An integrated approach utilizing two or more methods is required for successful disease management.
To contact Bindu Poudel go to: [email protected]
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Mechanization
May 5, 2021
Spot Sprayers – An Option for Reducing Pesticide Application Costs?
Mark C. Siemens
Vol. 12, Issue 9, Published 5/5/2021
Automated thinning machines have been commercially available since 2012. These machines identify crop plants and intermittently deliver an herbicidal spray or dose of liquid fertilizer to thin the stand to the desired plant spacing. Some growers have converted older machines to spot apply pesticides to crop plants rather than thin lettuce. Spot spraying just the crop plant makes sense – it reduces applied chemical amount by about 1/3rd as compared to band spraying and by roughly 90% as compared to broadcast. I have heard reports of improved efficacy with this technique, perhaps due to better coverage, however this potential benefit has not been validated in formal trials.
A drawback with automated thinning machines is their high cost. Retail prices for machines are approximately $25,000 per seed line, or about $200,000 for a 4-row, 2-line machine. Another option might be to use automated systems designed for spot spraying weeds. These devices have been commercially available since the mid 90’s and function similarly to automated thinning machines in that they use optical sensors to detect plants and solenoid activated spray assemblies to intermittingly spray unwanted plants (Fig. 1). The cost of these devices is quite reasonable – about $3,000 per unit, or about $24,000 for a 4-row, 2-line machine.
Automated spot sprayers are typically used in agriculture to control weeds in fallow fields (Fig. 2), but could easily be adapted to apply pesticides or even fertilizer to vegetable crops. Spot applying foliar fertilizers to vegetable crops is an interesting concept and is being investigated in California with lettuce.
Another potential use of spot sprayers is to control herbicide resistant weeds. The device can be positioned between crop rows to spot spray a non-selective herbicide to target weeds. Placing the sprayer in a hooded enclosure prevents unwanted drift onto crop plants. We are conducting trials using this technique in cotton this season (Fig. 3). We are also looking for collaborators interested in trying the device as a pesticide and/or fertilizer spot applicator in vegetable crops for this upcoming season. If you are interested collaborating or would like to see a demo of the device, please feel free to reach out to me.
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Biometeorology
Oct 2, 2019
Leaf Wetness Network - Oct 2, 2019
The Yuma County Leaf Wetness Network remains in place for the 2018/19 vegetable season. Growers and PCAs may access information generated by the network by entering the following internet address: http://150.135.27.140:460
Upon entering the address above, you will be transferred to internet page that provides a series of tabs at the top of the page. Simply click on the tabs to access the information of interest.
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Areawide Insect Trapping Network
Feb 10, 2021
Areawide Insect Trapping Network (February 10, 2021)
Corn earworm: Moths remain inactive in most areas; average for this point in the season.
Beet armyworm: Moth counts remain very low consistent with seasonal temperatures, but below average for this point in the season.
Cabbage looper: Slight increase in activity, but moth counts remain unusually low for late January.
Whitefly: Dult movement is at seasonal low consistent with temperatures and lack of melons or cotton.
Thrips: Activity remains lower than normal for this point late January. Increased movement noted in Roll/Tacna.
Aphids: Seasonal aphid counts peaked during the past 2 weeks, suggesting movement with recent winter storms and lack of desert vegetation. Counts were particularly high in North Yuma and Gila Valleys, and Bard. Above average for this time of year.
Leafminers: Adult activity remains light in most trap locations. Trap counts increasing slightly in the South Gila Valley.
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As the United States searches for answers to its enormous propensity to consume fuel, oil and gas producing companies are constantly looking for new sources of energy. Currently, one of the most promising technologies for producing natural gas concerns the process of hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking." This technique releases natural gas that has been trapped inside shale rock for millions of years and allows the company to then easily extract the gas from the ground. However, the by-product of such a process is considered dangerous and even toxic to those who live and work near the site of the fracking. Furthermore, environmental concerns are long-lasting in regards to its impact on the drinking water and wildlife in the region. Because of these concerns, fracking has come under increased scrutiny even as companies look to ramp up production of natural gas to satiate the seemingly never-ending demand for energy. If these problems can be alleviated, there may be a place for fracking in the world's energy policies and independence from Middle East countries that currently control the world's oil supply may be a very attainable goal.
Hydraulic Fracturing / Gas from Fracking
The Process of Hydraulic Fracturing
Most of the natural gas that is used throughout the world comes from underground deposits that can be easily accessed through traditional drilling methods. As this vast amount of available gas has become more depleted, companies have looked for alternate ways to release the more inaccessible gas that is trapped in the huge horizontal layer of loose rock known as shale usually more than a mile beneath the ground. The gas trapped within these large rock formations has been known about for at least one hundred years, but the technology did not exist to retrieve it until recently. The processes of hydraulic fracturing and vertical drilling were first implemented commercially in 1949 by the oil field services provider Halliburton. Though it has long been used in conventional drilling when a well begins to run dry, but it has only recently been available due to the improvements in the technology.
In traditional drilling methods, a pipe is sunk straight down into gas deposits and the gas extracted through that pipe. But Halliburton's technology allows the drill to change direction so that it can run along the horizontal shale formations. The horizontal well pipes blast holes through the rock and the shale is further fractured by a mixture of water, sand, and chemicals injected at very high pressure. The combination of the blasts and the fluids forced through the rock create fissures that release the natural gas. The fracking fluids flow back up the well through steel pipes encased in concrete to the surface and the natural gas follows it out of the shale while the sand remains in the fissures to hold them open and allow the gas to continue to flow.
Problems with Fracking
There are a variety of problems related to fracking, many of which involve the chemicals that are present in the fracking fluid. Many of these chemicals can have negative effects on humans who come in contact with them. Similarly, methane gas has a tendency to accumulate in and around wells where fracking had been used. In areas of northeastern Pennsylvania and upstate New York where fracking was prominent, methane concentrations in the drinking water near oil and gas fields was 19.2 and 64 mg/L, compared to an average level of 1.1 mg/L in water wells where fracking had not occurred. These levels were sufficiently high to raise the potential for explosions and fires in the wells.
The water and other fluids used in fracking must also be properly disposed of and there are no simple solutions for this. A typical fracking can use 800,000 gallons of surface water to produce 4 million gallons of fracking fluid. Most of this water is disposed of in land farm facilities and injection wells. Municipal and industrial water treatment facilities are also being researched for their potential in treating the water. Whatever the process used the large amount of water used and the chemicals that are included make the treatment of water a major concern. The water reclaimed from the fracking process also contains low level radiation that is present in soils, water, and food. Such naturally occurring radioactive material may be found in the drill cutting, natural gas, and water associated with the production of natural gas from shale formations. Higher concentrations of radiation can occur where sediment is found on the fracking equipment and exposure can occur when repair work is performed.
While fracking is generally offered as a way to produce more energy efficiently, it may actually lead to more greenhouse gases being emitted than other methods would. One estimate of the emission of greenhouse gases suggests that when natural gas is obtained from fracking it produces 2.4 times the greenhouse gases than just the combustion of natural gas. Furthermore greenhouse gas emissions from the production of natural gas by fracking methods may be up to 60% more than for diesel fuel and gasoline and fracking may be worse than mountain-top removal coal mining in terms of the consequences of global warming.
Further compounding the problem is a complete lack of federal oversight to monitor the inherent risks associated with fracking. The EPA commenced a study to determine whether the Safe Drinking Water Act's Underground Injection Control regulations should apply to fracking. Ultimately after several industry groups lobbied Congress against such oversight, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 exempted all fracking with the exception of diesel fuel from the definition of underground injection. This effectively removed federal oversight of fracking and left individual states to attempt to regulate the process how each sees fit, creating a labyrinth of different rules and regulations.
Solutions to Problems
The natural gas industry maintains that it has taken great pains to ensure that it is performing hydraulic fracturing in accordance with all regulations and that, when done safely, fracking poses no health risk to the general public, either through drinking water or otherwise. However, the companies are not merely ignoring the problem of methane being leaked into the water supply and even the surrounding air. A study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration sampled air over natural gas wells and estimated leakage at around 4%. Companies are currently experimenting with cost effective methods to capture the methane and plug the leaks. This may eventually require the federal government to step in and provide guidance in the form of regulations governing the leakage, since the costs may deemed prohibitive by the companies.
The problem of water being used in large volumes can be addressed through effective recycling techniques. A fracking operation in Texas uses on-location distilling units that heat and separate the brine from the water that can then be used in future fracturing projects. A process such as this can allow an 80% recovery of fractured fluid. Limiting exposure to radiation is a trickier proposition. The dense steel that is used in the fracking process naturally inhibits exposure to alpha and beta radiation while limiting the amount of gamma radiation that is transmitted. Perhaps the best thing that can be done in response to radiation is to limit access to the fracking site. The farther removed one is from the source of radiation, the lower the risk of exposure.
The contention over the fracking process will not subside as long as there is the threat of water contamination, however. This issue has led many areas, including Australia, France, certain provinces of Canada and states within the U.S., to issue moratoriums on new fracking wells. Many residents in areas where wells are still operating loudly object to their continued existence. Though the industry continues to maintain that there is no real threat to the general public from the practice of fracking, there is ample evidence to contradict this. As long as it is to their advantage economically, the industry will continue to exploit shale through fracking techniques, unless the potential health effects become impossible to ignore.
Economic Impact of Fracking
The economic potential for fracking is enormous in the United States and other parts of the world. In the U.S., as recently as 2003, Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, had predicted that the country would soon need to import significant amounts of natural gas from overseas. However, the presence of gas in these shale formations has drastically altered that calculation. It is believed that there may be enough natural gas underneath parts of the East Coast to satisfy the nation's gas needs for the next fifty or one hundred years. When one considers the fact that natural gas is cleaner burning fuel than other fossil fuels and adds fewer greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, the economic benefits only increase.
The economic benefits to the oil and gas drilling companies are obvious. Every bit of gas that can be extracted from the shale is more money in the pockets of these companies and their shareholders. Gas that was considered unreachable only a few decades ago is now potential income for them. It is well worth the cost to undertake the fight against environmentalists and even government entities who may want to restrict their drilling capacity. For them it is even worth the occasional fine and negative publicity from the shoddy work that may ensue. Rather than contracting in the face of concerns over environmental and safety issues, fracking continues to expand into new regions that had been untouched previously.
Not everyone in these regions is part of the economic boom associated with fracking, however. One of the largest regions being exploited for its natural gas deposits is the Marcellus Shale, a shale formation that expands from West Virginia and Ohio through Pennsylvania and New York. In the northeastern Pennsylvania town of Dimock over sixty wells were drilled in a nine square mile area. Most of the residents of this poor rural community – where one in seven people are unemployed – were eager to accept the offers of $25 per acre for the drilling rights for five full years plus a share of royalties when gas was pumped from the representatives of the Cabot Oil and Gas Corporation.
These wells in Dimock ultimately performed well beyond even Cabot executives' expectations, producing almost $60 million of gas per year. However, problems soon began to arise. A truck overturned and spilled 800 gallons of diesel fuel in 2009 and then up to 8,000 gallons of Halliburton-produced fracking fuel leaked from faulty supply lines, seeping into wetlands and stream later in the same year. But the worst problems stemmed from contaminated well water, which eventually led to at least one and maybe more wells actually exploding and many residents complaining that their water was flammable. Finally the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection stepped in and forced Cabot to suspend its drilling in the region and fined them $360,000 for contaminating groundwater and failing to fix leaks. Though Cabot contends that the methane in the water was not caused by fracking and existed before they got there, they are facing several lawsuits.
Fracking and Safety
The incidents in Dimock, PA were not the only of their kind. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources blamed a nearby fracking site for an explosion in a suburban Cleveland house where methane gas had built up under the basement. Such incidents have led authorities to be wary of fracking in the fragile state of California. The concern there is that injecting fluids at high pressure into underground fissures could cause a problem at a fault line, which could potentially trigger an earthquake. A bill has been introduced into the state House that would require the industry to map where it was fracking and indicate any seismic fault within five miles of a drilling site, but that requirement was removed at the industry's insistence.
While earthquakes might be a bit far-fetched, the experience of the residents of Dimock shows the potential hazards of fracking. When the chemicals leak into the water supply, the potential for damage is extremely high, both to the environment and residents. A report known as the Endocrine Disruption Exchange found that 353 of the 632 chemicals used in natural gas fracking had one or more negative effects on human health. Roughly 75% of the chemicals were found to be harmful to the eyes, skin, and other sensory organs and the respiratory and gastrointestinal systems; 40-50% could affect the brain and nervous system, immune and cardiovascular system and the kidneys; 37% could affect the endocrine system; and 25% could cause cancer and other mutations.
As has happened in Dimock and other areas around the world, methane leakage into the water supply is of great concern. A study conducted in 2011 found that 51 of 60 drinking water wells tested across the shale regions of Pennsylvania and New York had concentrations of methane, but these concentrations were higher when the wells were substantially closer to natural gas wells. In these drilling areas the average methane concentration fell within the defined action level for hazard mitigation recommended by the U.S. Office of the Interior. These values point to a serious problem with water contamination near fracking sites.
Oil and gas companies have attempted to mitigate these results by employing various safety measures. Most fracking is a closed-system process that is completely computerized with field workers kept away from the site. The drilling units are solid steel pipes encased in thick concrete to eliminate or keep the leakage to a minimum. The industry itself also disputes the contention that fracking is inherently dangerous. They point to a 2004 EPA study that concluded "the injection of hydraulic fracturing fluids into coalbed methane wells poses little or no threat to underground drinking water sources." A 1998 study by the Ground Water Protection Council also found that "there was no evidence to support claims that public health is at risk as a result of hydraulic fracturing."
However, anecdotal evidence seems to confirm that there is something amiss with groundwater in fracking regions. Many other studies, like the ones mentioned previously, also confirm the suspicions about higher methane levels. Also many states have taken action and concluded that fracking is to blame for many problems with local drinking water and have levied appropriate fines on the fracking industry. These problems will continue to be litigated and regulated in the coming years.
The Future of Fracking
The appetite for energy shows no signs of receding any time soon and as people continue to require sources of energy for everything from powering vehicles to heating homes, new resources will need to be consumed. Furthermore, with the growing concern around global warming concentrating the search on cleaner sources, natural gas will continue to take a more prominent role in energy policies. It burns more cleanly than both coal and oil and there is an abundance buried beneath the surface of the earth. However, most of that natural gas is locked in shale formations and can only be reached via processes such as hydraulic fracturing. Today more than 90% of natural gas wells use fracking. In 1996, only 2% of U.S. domestic natural gas production was shale gas, but by 2006 that percentage had increased to 6%.
Natural gas will surely continue to be a major part of energy policy in the United States and throughout the world. Increasingly, that means that fracking will also play a major role in all energy policies, because it is becoming more difficult to find easily accessible natural gas wells. But the increased reliance upon fracking may not yield the hoped-for greenhouse gas benefits. The presence of more methane gas as a result of fracking will place a greater strain on the environment, since methane is 25 times more powerful a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Of course, the potential environmental hazards are just part of the problem with methane. The natural gas and oil industry will have to find new methods for releasing the gas reservoirs within the shale formations without disrupting drinking water supplies in the region. The potential health risks involved are currently too great to allow fracking to resume uninhibited and many countries and states are taking steps to implement stronger regulations. While fracking appears to have a reliable future in natural gas production, it may take a far different form then the one it currently exhibits.
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In this interview with 3CLogic’s Chairman and CEO, Denis Seynhaeve, and Observe.AI’s Co-founder and CRO, Sharath Keshava Narayna, we explore the top challenges and opportunities contact center leaders will face in 2021.
What lessons can contact center leaders learn from the remote workforce and digital transformation shift that took place during the pandemic?
Sharath: In 2020 we learned how resilient contact centers are and how critically they impact today’s businesses. While it was certainly an interesting year, contact center leaders secured a much bigger seat at the table. They fielded more interactions, grew headcount and budget as we shifted away from brick and mortar experiences, and became more data and insight-driven.
Recent research highlighted that the remote workforce setup of contact centers is working, with the vast majority of contact centers (84%) planning to leverage a hybrid work from home / from the office model post-COVID-19.
Denis: It was surprising to see how well - and how quickly - some companies adjusted to the sudden necessity of shifting to a full Work From Home model. While many organizations already had some experience using remote agents, very few had dealt with the challenge of having their call center administrators and supervisors also working remotely. This highlighted the need for better tools to assess agent performance and gauge customer experience.
What were some interesting customer experience trends you saw in 2020?
Sharath: We saw data accuracy, integrations, and partner ecosystems become more critical to the contact center’s success as leaders looked to get 100% visibility into every interaction. We saw companies move away from measuring CSAT to focusing more on how to reduce DSAT (dissatisfaction) by leveraging sentiment analytics.
Omni-channel experiences continue to take center stage, with almost three-fourths of consumers wanting consistent experience across all channels, but they still aren’t the holy grail. Most leaders see that they are not hitting their KPIs on channels like social, email, and chat because they are still learning how to scale them, so interaction analytics and customer journey analytics have become increasingly important.
Denis: I agree with Sharath. Although customers are getting comfortable with using self-service channels for simple queries, COVID-19 only reinforced that voice remains a truly unique communication channel. When dealing with something really important, people need to speak with a real person on the phone to get their customer service issue resolved. Digital channels lack empathy and limit your ability to deal with complex issues.
What are some of the most interesting ways new technologies will shape CX in 2021?
Denis: AI is going to continue to disrupt and shape customer experience. Where it will be especially impactful is in agent performance. AI gives the ability to better identify and train agents on the most timely and relevant coaching opportunities. That’s critically important given that right now, agents are acting as the face of the company while everyone stays home. Soon, real-time transcription will make it possible to support agents live during their calls, feeding them relevant information from a system of record such as ServiceNow, Salesforce, or Microsoft Dynamics. Cornerstone.
Even more importantly, transcribing 100% of the calls and applying sentiment analysis produces valuable customer insights that the agent can use to personalize the experience. AI contextualizes the richness of those voice interactions, providing real, accurate, and actionable insights.
Sharath: We see that AI and speech technologies have played a big role in driving the contact center’s success. We also see that AI use cases around bots and automation are certainly improving, but they are not some of the most practical, ROI-driving use cases in the market today. They also come with many authenticity, accuracy, and scalability challenges. In fact, we see that more leaders are focused on automating workflows and improving the agent experience through AI-powered coaching rather than automating full-on interactions while we wait to see technology improve a bit.
What are some of the biggest mistakes enterprises make when implementing Contact Center AI and other new CX technologies?
Sharath: This year we got a lot of calls from businesses who felt they made a mistake by selecting AI and Natural Language Processing technology partners based on a laundry list of features. The reality is that factors like how your team is trained on new technologies, the level of onboarding, training, and ongoing customer service you receive, how easy tools are for your team to use, adopt, and integrate, and data accuracy are much more important.
Denis: A lot of companies continue to use siloed solutions. We believe traditional Contact Center functions, and voice, in particular, must be deeply integrated with a CRM or system of record such as ServiceNow to deliver a superior customer experience.
Can you share some examples of how customers accurately measure the quality and value of their CX? What role does AI play?
Denis: Getting an accurate pulse of Customer Experience is only possible if the interaction between the enterprise and its customers is measured and tracked in ways that weren’t available before using AI. Getting the true “voice of the customer” instead of relying on agents’ notes or limited interaction sampling makes the most relevant issues and areas of possible improvements bubble to the top. Then, a proper next step or action can be triggered, such as training agents specifically where their performance needs improvement.
Sharath: Accuracy is the keyword here! As contact centers become more data-driven and look to augment and automate processes in real-time, very high speech-to-text transcription accuracy becomes an absolute necessity. You simply cannot make decisions about performance management or get an accurate picture of customer sentiment with poor data. Accuracy must be 80%-90% or higher.
Can you give an example of the benefits that specific vertical industries, such as airlines, can get by implementing real-time speech recognition and text analysis?
Sharath: Airlines will undoubtedly be some of the biggest benefactors of real-time speech recognition and text analysis. With COVID, airline agents are handling increasingly sensitive conversations about health and safety, government regulations, and so much more. We believe that real-time coaching, KPI monitoring, and quality assurance automation are three key opportunities.
Denis: With real-time speech analytics, airlines, as well as a number of other industries, will be able to suggest to their agents the most adapted response to customers’ inquiries during the interaction. They will also coach agents on how to better understand customer sentiment, display empathy, and build soft skills such as professionalism and active listening.
Why is analytics-driven coaching so important in a remote or fully hybrid world? What are the top trends enterprises are embracing?
Denis: In a work-from-home contact center supervisors do not have the ability to walk the floor, and quickly assess agent performance and attitude. This makes collecting and analyzing 100% of the calls incredibly valuable. Agents want to know how they compare to other agents based on metrics.
Sharath: With a distributed workforce, you must get more data-driven and transparent to build a trustworthy culture and a great place to work. You have to imagine that over the years quality assurance is one area where agents did not have a lot of trust that they were being evaluated fairly when businesses were randomly listening in on just 1% of calls.
Why are so many contact centers prioritizing partnerships and integrated solutions? What are they really trying to solve for?
Sharath: It’s simple. Every contact center leader just wants to make it as easy as possible for their team to bring data in and out of their tools, including their CRMs, LMS, CMS, and BI tools. That’s exactly what we’re doing with ServiceNow and 3CLogic. As an example, with the integration between our three Platforms, contact centers can see all of their customer sentiment agent performance and quality assurance data right in ServiceNow. From there, quality analysts and supervisors can dive deeper into the interaction transcripts and execute their quality assurance and coaching workflows in a single click.
Denis: Remote agents and supervisors need to work efficiently from a reduced number of screens and systems. Ideally, your CRM information, call center solution, and AI tools must all be tightly integrated together. All your data in one place, voice included. It makes everyone much more efficient.
Final Thoughts?
Sharath: 2021 is going to be the year we move from talking about customer and agent experiences to driving real engagement. We will see conversation intelligence tools that analyze speech and text really merge with workforce engagement tools. We will see that teams who can leverage data and insights in real-time to better enable their workforce will thrive.
Denis: In order to deliver an extraordinary customer experience, enterprises need to break traditional silos between communications and data management, while leveraging new capabilities such as AI-driven tools. Better trained and empowered agents drive better customer interactions, produce superior customer satisfaction, and result in stronger retention. That’s a win-win-win combo between agents, businesses, and customers.
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Correspondence to Mr Ray Moynihan; raymoynihan{at}bond.edu.au
Abstract
Objectives To determine the extent and nature of changes in utilisation of healthcare services during COVID-19 pandemic.
Design Systematic review.
Eligibility Eligible studies compared utilisation of services during COVID-19 pandemic to at least one comparable period in prior years. Services included visits, admissions, diagnostics and therapeutics. Studies were excluded if from single centres or studied only patients with COVID-19.
Data sources PubMed, Embase, Cochrane COVID-19 Study Register and preprints were searched, without language restrictions, until 10 August, using detailed searches with key concepts including COVID-19, health services and impact.
Data analysis Risk of bias was assessed by adapting the Risk of Bias in Non-randomised Studies of Interventions tool, and a Cochrane Effective Practice and Organization of Care tool. Results were analysed using descriptive statistics, graphical figures and narrative synthesis.
Outcome measures Primary outcome was change in service utilisation between prepandemic and pandemic periods. Secondary outcome was the change in proportions of users of healthcare services with milder or more severe illness (eg, triage scores).
Results 3097 unique references were identified, and 81 studies across 20 countries included, reporting on >11 million services prepandemic and 6.9 million during pandemic. For the primary outcome, there were 143 estimates of changes, with a median 37% reduction in services overall (IQR −51% to −20%), comprising median reductions for visits of 42% (−53% to −32%), admissions 28% (−40% to −17%), diagnostics 31% (−53% to −24%) and for therapeutics 30% (−57% to −19%). Among 35 studies reporting secondary outcomes, there were 60 estimates, with 27 (45%) reporting larger reductions in utilisation among people with a milder spectrum of illness, and 33 (55%) reporting no difference.
Conclusions Healthcare utilisation decreased by about a third during the pandemic, with considerable variation, and with greater reductions among people with less severe illness. While addressing unmet need remains a priority, studies of health impacts of reductions may help health systems reduce unnecessary care in the postpandemic recovery.
PROSPERO registration number CRD42020203729.
quality in health care
organisation of health services
epidemiology
public health
health policy
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-045343
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quality in health care
organisation of health services
epidemiology
public health
health policy
Strengths and limitations of this study
The review is the first broad synthesis of global studies of pandemic-related changes in utilisation across all categories of healthcare services.
The review provides novel findings informing design of future studies of pandemic-related changes in utilisation and its impacts.
Limitations include the possibility of publication bias and the potential of our eligibility criteria to exclude important data sources such as studies in single centres and unpublished data sets from health systems.
Heterogeneous designs and settings precluding meta-analysis.
Introduction
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, many studies have reported major changes in utilisation of healthcare services because of such measures as lockdowns and stay-at-home orders.1–3 These changes include large reductions in services, particularly in places hit hard by the pandemic, but also some selective increases, such as for telemedicine.4 Many people have missed out on much needed care, such as vaccination or life-extending interventions for cancer.2 5 6 A WHO survey found disruption to healthcare services greatest among lower income countries,7 and there are estimates that reduction of essential maternal and child health interventions may cause more than a million additional child deaths.8 Concurrently, the pandemic may also have resulted in some people being spared unnecessary or inappropriate care which has the potential to cause harm.9 10 The problem of too much medicine is well documented,11–17 and multiple global campaigns are addressing this challenge, such as Choosing Wisely, which is active in more than 20 countries.18 As some nations are forced to do more with less in the postpandemic period, learning from this ‘natural experiment’ in reduced care may help health systems identify and address unnecessary care, and move towards greater sustainability.9 10
Investigating the impact of changes in healthcare utilisation on health outcomes and costs presents major methodological challenges. First, there are many reasons why people have missed care, including fear of becoming infected while visiting a care facility, inability to access care due to lockdown policies and suspension and cancellation of services such as elective surgery. Second, disentangling populations who have missed necessary care from those who have avoided unnecessary care requires sensitive and nuanced analysis, with adjustment for multiple potentially confounding variables. For instance, simply showing no adverse outcomes in the short term from missing an episode of care does not prove it was unnecessary. Notwithstanding these challenges, quantifying and characterising the unprecedented recent changes in utilisation, and their impact on health outcomes and costs, may help health systems optimise postpandemic use of resources.
To this end, we conducted what is, to our knowledge, the first systematic review of studies reporting on pandemic-related changes in overall healthcare utilisation. In undertaking this review, we also sought to inform and optimise the design of future investigations of both the ongoing changes in utilisation, and the impacts of this natural experiment with less care on health outcomes and costs.
Methods
As per a detailed protocol registered on PROSPERO19 and uploaded to the Open Science Framework20 (online supplemental file 1) we found, appraised and synthesised studies that compared healthcare utilisation during the COVID-19 pandemic with a corresponding prepandemic period. Our abstract and full review follow the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) statements21 22 (online supplemental file 2).
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Eligibility criteria and search strategy
Inclusion and exclusion criteria
We included studies which compared utilisation of healthcare services over a period of time during the pandemic, as defined by their authors (the intervention) with a corresponding period in the year/s before the pandemic (the comparator). Healthcare service utilisation included but was not limited to visits or presentations, admissions or hospitalisations, diagnostic services and therapeutic or preventive interventions. Letters or preprints were included if providing enough data for extraction. We excluded surveys of practitioners, studies reporting only on utilisation by patients diagnosed with COVID-19, studies reporting utilisation data for less than 1 week, from a single centre only, or for non-medical allied health services, and modelling studies that predicted impacts on utilisation.
Outcome measures
The primary outcome was the change in utilisation of a healthcare service—such as a visit to a hospital or receipt of diagnostic imaging—between the prepandemic and pandemic periods, expressed as a change in absolute numbers and/or percentage change. The secondary outcome was change in the proportions of people using the service, across different levels of disease severity, as reported by authors of the primary study, using, for example, a triage score.
Data sources, searches and screening
We searched PubMed, Embase, the Cochrane COVID-19 Study Register and preprint servers via Europe PMC from inception until 10 August 2020, with search strings that included the following broad concepts: COVID-19, health services, admissions and impact (online supplemental file 3). No restrictions by language were imposed. Following screening of articles for inclusion, we conducted a backward (cited) and forward (citing) citation analysis in Scopus/Web of Science on all included studies, and additional articles were screened for inclusion. We also consulted experts for other public reports.
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Pairs of review authors (RM, SS, ZAM, AMS, JC, EK, EJT, LA) independently screened the titles and abstracts against the inclusion criteria, and repeated the process following full-text retrieval. Any screening disagreements were resolved by discussion, or reference to a third author (RM or LA). A list of studies in single centres, excluded at screening stage, was recorded and is available on request from authors.
Data collection and analysis
Data extraction
Pairs of authors (RM, SS, ZAM, AMS, EJT, LA) independently extracted data from included studies and resolved discrepancies, with referral, as necessary, to a third author (LA, RM). We developed, piloted and used a data extraction form in Microsoft Excel for study characteristics and outcome data. We extracted data on study location, design, setting (eg, hospital), pandemic period and comparator, and primary and secondary outcomes.
Pairs of review authors (RM, SS, ZAM, AMS, LA, EJT) independently assessed the risk of bias for each included study using a risk of bias tool adapted from the Risk of Bias in Non-randomized Studies of Interventions tool23 24 as per guidance provided by Cochrane for assessing risk of bias in uncontrolled before-after studies including interrupted time series,23 and a tool developed by the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organization of Care group.25 All disagreements were resolved by discussion or referral to a third author (RM, LA, SS). The domains assessed included bias related to: confounding ((A) the possibility that extraneous events occurring around the time of the pandemic may have influenced the outcome, (B) how well the study accounted for preintervention trends in utilisation); selection of participants; outcome measurement; and selective reporting of results (online supplemental file 4). Each potential source of bias was graded as low, high or unclear, with the exception of grading for the preintervention trends, which was graded as low, moderate or high.
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Data synthesis and analysis
As anticipated in the protocol, the considerable clinical and statistical heterogeneity in settings, outcome measures and methods precluded a formal quantitative meta-analysis. Hence, we summarised the results using descriptive statistics (percentage change expressed as median and IQR), graphical figures and a narrative synthesis. In line with the ‘Synthesis without meta-analysis (SWiM) in systematic reviews: reporting guideline’,26 we summarised findings for the primary outcome grouped by four service types: visits or presentations; admissions or hospitalisations; diagnostic or imaging investigations; and therapeutic or preventive interventions.
For the secondary outcome, given the wide variation in how severity was reported in the primary studies, we developed and report three categories which relied on the indicators of disease severity employed by primary study authors: a larger or smaller reduction among those with milder forms of illness, compared with people with more severe forms of illness; and no difference. An example of a secondary outcome for a study of emergency department (ED) visits would be the triage scores, used to assess severity of those attending. Two authors (RM, LA) independently assigned a category for each secondary outcome, informed where possible by statistics provided in primary studies, with oversight and resolution of any discrepancies from within the clinical authorship team (IS, EL, MiJ).
As per details in the protocol, we planned to conduct a limited meta-analysis and sensitivity analysis in situations where there was a sufficient number of clinically and statistically homogeneous studies. Also, as per protocol, we restricted our analysis to data in the primary studies, rather than correlating findings with external information, such as stages of lockdown.
Patient and public involvement
The most senior officer from a state peak consumer health organisation is a coauthor on this review and was involved in the study before the protocol was finalised. The consumer representative provided feedback on the protocol and draft manuscripts, was consulted during the process of the review, was involved with interpretation of results and will advise on methods for dissemination of study results to the public.
Changes from protocol
Several minor changes comprised: during data extraction we could not confidently assess whether each used service was not provided or just deferred; finalisation of the adapted tool for risk of bias resulted in five domains, not six (two domains related to outcome measurement were combined), with one domain assessed as low, moderate, high, rather than unclear, low and high, with each grade supported by a comment; and given the very large number of included studies, we included data from studies reporting only a percentage change in service utilisation, without contacting authors requesting the absolute numbers.
Results
Study selection
We identified 4817 records through electronic database searching, 323 more through forward-backward citation analysis and 1 from other sources, for a total of 3097 unique records. After screening titles and abstracts, we excluded 2929 records, and selected 179 records for full-text screening, of which 98 were excluded with reasons recorded. This left 81 studies which were included in the review (figure 1).
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Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) flow diagram.
Characteristics of included studies
The 81 included studies collectively report on more than 6.9 million services in the pandemic and over 11 million in the comparator prepandemic period. Studies reported across multiple locations: 3 were multinational; 20 originated from the USA; 15 from Italy; 8 from France; 6 from Germany; 5 from the UK; 3 from Spain; 2 from each of Taiwan, Hong Kong, Greece, Denmark, Qatar, Australia; and 1 from each of Argentina, China, Canada, Brazil, Belgium, Chile, Monaco, Turkey and Portugal. Four studies were from low-income or middle-income countries. The healthcare setting was: hospitals only (41; 51%); both ED and hospitals (12; 15%); ED only (15; 19%); and primary care and/or community (9; 11%). More than one-third of studies reported on healthcare services related to cardiovascular diseases (n=33; 41%); 14 (17%) to emergency services; 12 (15%) to general services such as immunisation and primary care; and 22 (27%) on services related to different conditions including orthopaedic and trauma services, gastroenterology and mental health. Of the included studies, 14 (17%) were national studies and 9 (11%) used time-trend data (table 1; online supplemental file 5).
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Summary characteristics of included studies (n=81)
Risk of bias assessment
For the majority of studies there was insufficient information on which to judge the possibility that extraneous events occurring between prepandemic and pandemic periods may have influenced healthcare utilisation, or to assess the risk of bias arising from differences between those eligible to use healthcare services in the prepandemic and pandemic periods (76/81; 94%). Sixty-nine per cent (56/81) of studies were considered to be at high risk of bias due to insufficient data for characterising prepandemic utilisation. In contrast, 3 (4%) studies were judged to be at low risk of bias on this domain due to adequate data and analysis to permit characterisation of prepandemic trends in utilisation. Sixty-three per cent (51/81) of studies were judged to be at high or unclear risk of bias from using different methods used to assess utilisation in the prepandemic and pandemic periods, or lacking information on which to judge this domain. Most studies (n=74; 91%) were judged to be at low risk of bias in selective reporting of results (figure 2).
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Summary of risk of bias assessments.
Main findings
The 81 studies reported 143 estimates of changes in healthcare utilisation between pandemic and prepandemic periods, of which 136 (95.1%) were a reduction. The percentage change ranged from a 49% increase to an 87% decrease with a median 37.2% reduction (IQR −50.5% to −19.8%). For the 64 estimates about changes in cardiovascular service utilisation, from 33 studies, the median reduction was 29.3% (−41.3% to −17%). For the 13 estimates from the nine studies using time-trend data, the median reduction was 37.3% (−45% to −25.2%). For all studies, the weekly median percentage changes starting from mid-February until late May 2020 are plotted graphically in figure 3, showing greatest reductions through March and April (full data in online supplemental file 5).
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Pandemic-related changes in healthcare utilisation.
We categorised the 143 estimates of change into four groups according to the type of healthcare service: 41 estimates for healthcare visits; 43 estimates for admissions; 12 estimates for diagnostics (eg, imaging, pathology, screening investigations); and 47 estimates for therapeutics (eg, surgery, vaccinations). All medians are reported in table 2, with results of individual studies reported in online supplemental file 5.
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Median changes in utilisation across categories of healthcare services
Changes in visits
The percentage change for healthcare visits or presentations ranged from a 49% increase to an 86% decrease, with a median 42.3% reduction (−52.8% to −31.5%). Major reductions in visits to EDs were seen in multiple studies, such as a large national US study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reporting a 42% reduction during April, rising to a 26% reduction at the end of May, compared with 2019.1 That study found the largest absolute reduction involved people presenting with abdominal pain, with over 66 000 fewer ED visits per week for this complaint during April. In terms of age group, the largest reduction (−72%) was seen for children 10 years and under.1 A meta-analysis of a subgroup of six studies of ED visits that reported adequate data for meta-analysis (effect estimates and 95% CIs) was attempted, but demonstrated considerable heterogeneity (I2>95%).
Changes in admissions
The percentage change in the number of admissions ranged from a 20% increase to an 87% decrease, with a median 28.4% reduction (−40.4% to −17.4%). For example, a large study of the weekly admission rates for acute coronary syndrome in England showed a substantial reduction by the end of March (−40%) which partly rebounded by the last week of May 2020 (−16%).27
Changes in diagnostics
The percentage reduction ranged from 10% to 85%, with a median 31.4% reduction (−52.5% to −23.8%); no study reported any increase in the use of diagnostic and imaging procedures. The magnitude of reductions in diagnostic tests and imaging followed a trend over time similar to those observed in the previous categories, but with a far smaller number of estimates (see online supplemental files 4 and 5). For example, a study of imaging case volumes within the largest healthcare system in New York State found a 28% reduction in imaging volumes for March to mid-April 2020 across all locations and imaging modalities,28 while a separate US study found volumes recovering through late April, but still 36% lower in the third week of May, compared with 2019.29
Changes in therapeutics
The percentage change in therapeutic and preventive care ranged from a 27% increase to an 80% decrease, with a median 29.6% reduction (−56.8% to −19.2%). For example, a large study of routine childhood vaccination in England found fewer children receiving the first measles-mumps-rubella dose, with a reduction of 24% in the final week of March, which rose to a 27% increase in the third week of April, compared with the same period in 2019.5
Secondary outcome
Thirty-eight of the included studies reported a total of 60 secondary outcomes relating to potential changes in healthcare utilisation according to the disease severity of the service user. Despite the considerable heterogeneity in settings and services, for almost half of these outcomes (27 of 60; 45%), we observed a pattern of larger reductions in utilisation among those with milder or less severe illness compared with those with more severe disease. For 33 of 60 outcomes (55%) there was no difference (figure 4). No studies reported a smaller reduction among those with milder forms of illness.
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Differential reductions in utilisation relating to severity.
A national Italian study of urgent endoscopy reported a 40% reduction in utilisation overall, with bigger reductions in the proportion of patients with a negative finding on upper endoscopy between prepandemic and pandemic periods.3 A study of three psychiatric emergency services in Paris found a 55% overall reduction in presentations in the first 4 weeks of lockdown, with greater reductions for consultations for anxiety and stress, and smaller reductions for consultations for psychotic disorders.30 Authors speculated that ‘some people may find new strengths and coping strategies during disasters’ and ‘the current results may arise from an elevation in resilience’. Most strikingly, multiple studies reporting reduced acute coronary syndrome presentations found these reductions were much greater for the less severe non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) events compared with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarctions (STEMIs).27 31 An example is a large English study reporting reductions in admissions of 42% for NSTEMI events versus 23% for STEMI.27 In contrast, other studies found no change in presentations according to severity, including a national Portuguese study reporting a 48% reduction in ED episodes—from an expected 570 000 to an observed 295 000 in March 2020—but no significant change in proportions of different triage categories.32
Discussion
This review of 81 studies involving over 17.9 million services provided across 20 countries found consistent evidence of major reductions in the utilisation of healthcare services during the pandemic period up to May 2020, compared with previous years, despite some studies reporting increases. Although a meta-analysis was not possible, we found a median reduction of 37% of services overall, which was highest for visits (42%) and slightly lower for admissions (28%), diagnostics (31%) and therapeutics (30%). Many studies also found larger reductions in utilisation among populations with milder or less severe illness. Few studies were assessed as having a low risk of bias, with lowest risk of bias for studies using time-trend data to establish trends in the years leading up to 2020. For the nine studies using time trends, the median reduction in utilisation was 37%.
Our review has several strengths. First, we synthesised the most recent data reported in primary studies up to the end of May 2020, which corresponds to the peak of the pandemic in many countries, and provides a baseline for longer term data on ongoing changes in utilisation and the cumulative deficit of care. Second, the review constitutes the first broad synthesis of global studies of pandemic-related changes in utilisation across all categories of healthcare services. Third, the review adhered to rigorous Cochrane,24 PRISMA21 22 and SWiM26 standards. Study limitations include the inability to undertake a meta-analysis because of considerable heterogeneity, the possibility of publication bias, the potential of our eligibility criteria to exclude important data sources such as studies in single centres and unpublished data sets from health systems, subjectivity in our assessments of the secondary outcomes and the use of an adapted but unvalidated risk of bias tool.
The massive global reduction in healthcare utilisation summarised in this review makes a compelling case for prioritising efforts that address the unmet needs of those with non-COVID-19 illness. Consistent messages from the primary studies include calls for monitoring the long-term impacts of this missed care, public campaigns to urge people to seek medical care when they need it and better preparedness for reducing the extent of missed care in future waves of the pandemic. Evidence of excess population mortality, in addition to deaths from COVID-19, and related phenomena such as increases in out-of-hospital cardiac arrests and contacts with emergency phone lines33 34 make these calls to action even more urgent. Conversely, the review’s finding that reductions often tended to be greater for milder or less severe forms of illness, combined with existing evidence about too much medicine,11–17 suggests that for some people, missing care may not have caused harm.
This unprecedented pandemic-induced natural experiment in reduced healthcare utilisation provides a genuine opportunity to learn more about what services populations and healthcare systems came to regard as lesser priorities, when redistribution of resources towards more essential services was needed to minimise mortality in a crisis. As others have suggested,35 36 greatly reduced ED attendances around the world for non-urgent complaints indicate an opportunity to inform and implement new strategies and models of care that maximise the appropriateness of visits in the future. Even at the heart and height of the epidemic in Northern Italy, in paediatric EDs doctors found reductions in the mildest presentations accounted for more of the decrease in overall presentations, suggesting that ‘most of the non-relevant pathologies usually seen at our EDs have been avoided’, thus freeing resources to ‘provide critical services to patients suffering from medical emergencies in a timely manner’.36 Our review adds weight to the view that the postpandemic recovery provides a rare window of opportunity for systematic changes in healthcare systems aimed at reducing low-value care, including overtreatment and overdiagnosis.9 10 37
Many questions about the causes and impacts of the changes in healthcare utilisation documented in our review call for careful analysis and further research (see box 1). High-quality time-trend analyses are needed to better understand the extent and nature of ongoing changes in utilisation, as are long-term cohort studies for collecting patient-centred outcomes to assess impacts on health, costs and equity. Consultations with consumers during the pandemic highlight the need to understand how the pandemic may differentially impact the most vulnerable, and the need to prioritise those at most need.38 39 Rigorous qualitative research investigating people’s experience of avoiding or missing care, and professional responses to changes in process and practice, will also be important. We found no study which explicitly examined changes in utilisation of low-value healthcare services, which warrants further research. The extent and effects of substitution, such as with telehealth or self-care, also require investigation. Experience with severe acute respiratory syndrome almost 20 years ago revealed significant drops in healthcare service utilisation in the most affected regions40 and long periods before some rates returned to baseline.41 Given the growing evidence about unnecessary care since then, it may be more beneficial for populations and their health systems if utilisation rates of some services do not return to prepandemic levels. Addressing genuine unmet need and winding back the harm and waste of unnecessary care are not conflicting interests, but rather two sides of a coherent strategy to efficiently improve human health.
Box 1
Future research
For future studies of changes in healthcare utilisation during the pandemic
Aim for time-series analyses; multiple years prepandemic as comparator.
Aim to detect impacts on equity, such as different groups differentially affected.
Need to cautiously interpret drivers and impacts of changes.
Aim to analyse local, provincial and national data sets.
Consider potential for multinational research collaborations with health systems.
For future studies of impacts of the ‘natural experiment’ in reduced care
Aim for long-term cohort studies, with focus on specific conditions, or interventions.
Seek strong clinical, patient and public input, independence of commercial interests.
Qualitative analyses with patients and public on reasons for and impacts of missing care.
For those interested in opportunity to address problem of too much medicine
Studies of pandemic-related changes in rates of overtreatment and overdiagnosis.
Urgent need to learn from ‘natural experiment’ before rates return to prior levels.
Correlate condition-specific granular analyses, with existing data on medical overuse.
Consider using pandemic learnings to guide trials of deimplementation strategies.
Consider potential researcher–clinician–consumer–health system collaborations.
Acknowledgments
Thanks to Paul Glasziou, Kim Sutherland and Karsten Jorgensen for comments on a draft of this manuscript.
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Contributors Conception/design: RM, LA, SS, ZAM, AMS, JC, MaJ, MiJ. Acquisition, analysis or interpretation of data: RM, SS, ZAM, AMS, JC, EJT, MaJ, EK, MF, MiJ, EL, AD, IS, LA. First draft of the manuscript: RM, LA. Manuscript drafting, revision, approval: RM, SS, ZAM, AMS, JC, EJT, MaJ, EK, MF, MiJ, EL, AD, IS, LA. Overall guarantors: RM, LA. The guarantor accepts full responsibility for the work and/or the conduct of the study, had access to the data and controlled the decision to publish.
Funding RM is funded by an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC fellowship grant number 1124207), and is a chief investigator of NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence (grant number 1104136).
Disclaimer All authors write as individuals and do not necessarily represent the views of their employers or affiliated organisations.
Competing interests RM has helped organise the Preventing Overdiagnosis international scientific conferences.
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Do you prefer a tomato base or is pizza Bianca your jam? Either way, these are the top pizza joints in Central West End. We analyzed food blogs, restaurant rankings, and millions of reviews for the best parlors in Central West End. Now all you need to do is decide between a stuffed calzone or classic Margarita pizza from the options below!
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Edera Italian Eatery
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The perfect match for your white pizza and mushroom
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This lab consists of one exercise guiding us through the installation and configuration of a hypervisor, called Hyper-V, to enable a virtual switch.
Why would we want to do this?
Hypervisors help us create virtual machines (VMs). Without them, it would be rather difficult to create a VM and utilize its OS on one of our hardware devices. Think of the hypervisor as an emulator for our virtual machines, where it’s able to utilize our hardware’s resources in order to use the VMs.
My favorite analogy for hypervisors is to see them like the universe. The hypervisor is the universe, the virtual machines are the galaxies, and our docker containers and apps act as the planets. Without our universe, galaxies couldn’t be created, and our planets would struggle to form a proper ecosystem.
There are two types of hypervisors: Type 1 (bare-metal) and Type 2 (hosted)
Source: Scsami
The most commonly deployed type of hypervisor is the bare-metal (type 1) hypervisor, where virtualization software is installed directly on the hardware, as if it were the operating system. This means that our hardware running as a bare metal hypervisor can only be used for virtualization purposes and nothing more. Bare metal hypervisors are extremely secure because they run directly on the physical hardware without any underlying OS, which means they’re protected from the vulnerabilities that are often native to operating systems. So, even if our hardware gets infected, our VMs should still be safe from the infection. In addition, they generally perform better and more efficiently than hosted hypervisors. For these reasons, most enterprise companies choose bare-metal hypervisors for data center computing needs.¹
Most common Type 1 Hypervisors include:
Citrix Hypervisor, VMware vSphere, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, KVM, and Microsoft Hyper-V
While bare-metal hypervisors run directly on the hardware, hosted (type 2) hypervisors run within the operating system of our hardware device (the host machine). Although hosted hypervisors run within the OS, additional (and different) operating systems can be installed on top of the hypervisor. The downside of hosted hypervisors is that latency is higher than bare-metal hypervisors. This is because communication between the hardware and the hypervisor must pass through the extra layer of the OS. Hosted hypervisors are sometimes known as client hypervisors because they are most often used with end users and software testing, where higher latency is less of a concern.¹
Most common Type 2 Hypervisors include:
Oracle’s VirtualBox, VMware Workstation Pro, and VMware Fusion
Who would use this?
IT managers and those managing their small businesses would use hypervisors as a way to utilize several advantages, such as:
Speed: Hypervisors allow virtual machines to be created instantly, unlike having to purchase and install bare-metal servers. This makes it easier to provision resources.
Efficiency: It is more cost- and energy-efficient to run several virtual machines on one physical machine than to run multiple underutilized physical machines for the same task.
Flexibility: Bare-metal hypervisors allow operating systems and their associated applications to run on a variety of hardware types because the hypervisor separates the OS from the underlying hardware, so the software no longer relies on specific hardware devices or drivers.
Portability: Hypervisors allow multiple operating systems to reside on the same physical server (host machine). Because the virtual machines that the hypervisor runs are independent from the physical machine, they are portable. IT teams can shift workloads and allocate networking, memory, storage and processing resources across multiple servers as needed, moving from machine to machine or platform to platform. When an application needs more processing power, the virtualization software allows it to seamlessly access additional machines.¹
Thoughts?
With Type 1 hypervisors being as secure as they are, I’m fascinated with Microsoft’s Hyper-V Bounty Program, as the payouts are rather impressive (which can only confirm the difficulty in finding a vulnerability). Here’s the latest vulnerability reported so far:
Hyper-V Remote Code Execution Vulnerability -CVE-2020–17095
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Exercise 1
Enabling Hyper-V Feature
Hyper-V is a machine virtualization platform from Microsoft that enables us to install and run multiple 32-bit or 64-bit OS in parallel on the same machine. We can use Hyper-V to install and test virtual machines of various configurations without affecting the functionality of the physical machine and without interfering with the other virtual machines. This enables us to work on various OS’s without having to invest in computer hardware.²
After completing this exercise, we’ll be able to:
Install Hyper-V
Configure a virtual switch
Step 1: Connect to PLABSA01, and open the Windows PowerShell and input:
Install-WindowsFeature -Name Hyper-V -IncludeManagementTools
>> -Restart
Step 2: Please wait while installation of Hyper-V feature is in progress. Once the Installation is completed, we should lose our connection to PLABSA01 since it should restart.
Note: Please wait for about 2 minutes before we reconnect to PLABSA01. This is to give the computer sufficient time to complete its restart after the installation of Hyper-V.
Step 4: Reconnect to our PLABSA01 device.
When signed in, minimize the Server Manager, click Start and find the Windows Administrative Tools folder. Click to expand the folder. Locate the Hyper-V Manager app.
Listing of the Hyper-V Manager app in the menu verifies successful installation.
Task 1 Complete!
Now we know how to install Hyper-V on a Windows device!
Task 2 — Create Hyper-V Virtual Network Switch
A virtual network switch is just as it sounds, a virtual switch. It’s a piece of software operating within the Hyper-V host that performs Ethernet frame switching functionality. Hyper-V provides virtual network adapters to its virtual machines, and those communicate directly with the virtual switch.³
Hyper-V supports three types of virtual networks:
External virtual networks — used to provide virtual machines with access to a physical network so they can communicate with externally located servers and clients.
Internal virtual networks — used to allow network communication between virtual machines on the same virtualization server, and between virtual machines and the management operating system.
Private virtual network — used to allow network communication between virtual machines on the same virtualization server. A private virtual network is not bound to a physical network adapter. This type of network is useful if we want to create an isolated network environment.
In this task, we’ll create a private virtual network switch.
Step 1: Click Hyper-V Manager in the Windows Administrative Tools window.
On the Hyper-V Manager window, locate PLABSA01 on the navigation pane at the left.
Right-click PLABSA01 and select Virtual Switch Manager…
Step 2: The Virtual Switch Manager for PLABSA01 dialog box is displayed.
On the What type of virtual switch do we want to create section, select Private.
Click Create Virtual Switch.
Step 3: In the Virtual Switch Properties section, click within the Name field and replace its contents with the following:
Private Network 1
Verify Connection type is set to Private network.
Click Apply then OK.
Step 4: Once the switch is created, we are returned to the main Hyper-V Manager page. To view our virtual switch, click on the PLABSA01 device and then under the actions panel at the right, choose Virtual Switch Manager. The Virtual Switch Manager for PLABSA01 window appears. We can see the switch we created under the Virtual Switches heading.
We now officially have a virtual network switch on our Hyper-V host!
To get a more in-depth overview of Hyper-V and its utility, check out Eric Siron’s really useful article:
What is the Hyper-V Virtual Switch and How Does it Work?
Exercise 1 Complete!
[1]: Hypervisor
Hypervisor
A hypervisor, also known as a virtual machine monitor or VMM, is software that creates and runs virtual machines (VMs)…
www.vmware.com
[2]: Lab 1.10 Install Hyper-V
Practice Labs | Hands-on Learning for Digital & IT Skills
Organizational benefits by upskilling your organizations digital and IT skills. The pandemic continues across many…
skills.practice-labs.com
[3]: What is the Hyper-V Virtual Switch and How Does it Work?
What is the Hyper-V Virtual Switch and how does it work?
Note: This article was originally published in June 2018. It has been fully updated to be current as of September 2019…
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@RobertHarvey see my edits. TL;DR, I'd like to see some numbers to more accurately gauge the impact of the policy, and I think some sort of transparency will be required if this were to be implemented because otherwise it will only lead to more drama. — l4mpi 1 min ago
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Can you provide a link to the context? — Magisch 33 secs ago
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[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Shadow Wizard
@BSMP well, that person is not SE employee. We can't possibly expect SE to demand from all mods to keep silent on Twitter. It's just ridiculous. — Shadow Wizard 27 secs ago
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Related: Tim's answer to "SE needs a better social media policy (and could us experienced users get a little love too?)" on MSE — Andrew T. 36 secs ago
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@Magisch They are complaining about this new answer from a mod saying edits to make language gender neutral are OK. Apparently they also said something about it on Twitter. — BSMP 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Magisch
sounds a bit like a nothing burger. People make miniscule edits to change punctuation or take it or leave it capitalisation all the time, so whatever. — Magisch 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Andrew T.
@BSMP did you mean to link to Tim Post's (SE staff) answer instead, which contains the link to the tweet on the comment? — Andrew T. 32 secs ago
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@AndrewT. Ah, thank you. Sorry for the confusion. — BSMP 44 secs ago
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@rene triple backtick with language works for me on the main site. That's Firefox 68.0.1, if it matters. I do have to wait for a bit for the highlight to kick in, though, — VLAZ 34 secs ago
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Popular questions attracting poor quality answers should be protected. — Raedwald 1 min ago
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@Cypher Could you explain exactly what we could have done better? To me it reads like a lot of people explaining things (in a civil manner) while the OP just responds with "no" without justification. — DavidG 14 secs ago
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Hi chat room, I'm famous! :D — Andrew T. 45 secs ago
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@MeganRisdal I just talked about SOBotics for just reference, since there are times in other chat rooms when there's a need to look at when a person responds to the other and we need to have a look at what specific time the message was posted. — Gourav 24 secs ago
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@Mari-LouA the real tragedy is that it deepens my feeling of being excluded from SO... — VLAZ 31 secs ago
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@Mari-LouA I don't think that the user made a choice to use social media instead of MSO. Social media may just be their normal mode of interacting. That user has no publicly visible interaction with MSO at all (no non-deleted questions, no non-deleted answers, no non-deleted comments, no votes indicated, no helpful flags, no edits). They may have visited MSO, but they haven't interacted much, if at all. They also have no helpful flags on SO. It looks like they are just completely unaware of how the SE platform is intended to resolve issues, or just choose not to use those methods, at all. — Makyen 39 secs ago
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Possible duplicate of New home page makes it seem like SO doesn't allow free use any more — Cerbrus 1 min ago
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While I agree with the edit being a very small improvement, I downvoted as I heavily disagree with "We do not have so many editors that we can afford to be picky about what we allow to be improved on a post". In my experience, we have a lot of editors, but most of them only create a lot of useless noise - at least when I still reviewed the suggested edits queue it was rare to see something worthwhile, but instead I saw tons of drivel, well-meant edits to off-topic posts, small spelling fixes which ignore other glaring issues with posts, etc. Encouraging more trivial edits isn't useful IMO. — l4mpi 39 secs ago
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@RobertHarvey I see you un-featured this post, could you please explain the reasoning for doing so? — l4mpi 1 min ago
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But Megan, you say nothing about Meta. Sure, you say that "we have a huge history of feedback shared by folks on Meta", that "informed by [...] pre-existing Meta feedback", also "Our CM team [...] as a liaison between the Community product team and Meta" and "[...] myself fortunate to have access to [...] resources [...], including Meta". You're basically not addressing @Shog9's comment, nor adding anything (new) to the way we already saw meta. Besides, you mainly focus on "past Meta posts and glory" (paraphrased), but say nothing about moving forward. Oh, and welcome :D — tfrascaroli 53 secs ago
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This is Meta Stack Overflow, for discussions about how Stack Overflow works. Your question is off-topic here and belongs on the main site. — greg-449 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Tensibai
Mods can already see deleted comments, 10k users can see deleted question, new privilege (at 15 or 20k) to be able to see deleted comments ? — Tensibai 13 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Magisch
@Tensibai Seems like a good idea. But for now i've just made an archive room, so technically everyone can see all comments now. — Magisch 38 secs ago
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Not a duplicate but an interesting discussion on meta stack exchange about this: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/328160/… — Magisch 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by deceze
@Trilarion "[..] huge grey area [..]" – There hardly is a textbook rule for that. It needs to be judged on a case by case basis. The guideline is pretty much whether the comment serves any lasting purpose in relation to the subject matter of the post. Will a future visitor in a month or a year gain any benefit from that comment, e.g. because it points out flaws or links to helpful resources? Or is it just ephemeral noise which nobody wants to have to wade through? — deceze ♦ 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Tensibai
This would have the advantage of being still attached to the original post. — Tensibai 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Magisch
@Tensibai fair point, but I think we both know getting dev time for that is unlikely rn. — Magisch 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by peterh
Welcome on the site! Simply re-post your question on the stackoverflow.com . It is meta.stackoverflow.com , here you can make questions/answers about the site, but not about programming itself. — peterh 34 secs ago
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[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Edoardo
This question has been debated for more than 10 years, only a poll could bring something new to it, twitter is a good idea but the poster should have some 10.000 followers (all programmers) to be of any use. — Edoardo 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Cerbrus
What else would you use? — Cerbrus 10 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Edoardo
@TylerH Stack Overflow’s annual Developer Survey is not about demographics only: there is a technology section that last year even bothered asking "Developer Opinions on Blockchain Technology" and a lot of questions about "Correlated Technologies" — Edoardo 26 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by yivi
"suits more"? That's a pretty solid justification. — yivi 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Black Thunder
@NickA Because this is not Stackoverflow.Stackexchange.com . Though its a SE site — Black Thunder 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Nick A
Blue/White is used for pretty much everything clickable on the site, why would the Ask Question button be orange? — Nick A 2 mins ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Nick A
@BlackThunder I don't understand that reasoning whatsoever — Nick A 55 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by David Cullen
@Cerbrus Is there some really good reason that we are reusing a question-and-answer interface for these things? — David Cullen 55 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Cerbrus
(Development) costs. Maintainance. Hosting. — Cerbrus 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by David Cullen
@Cerbrus Are you saying Stack Exchange Inc. does not have money to add features to the site? — David Cullen 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by yivi
I can understand support, since it makes sense to crowd-source most of these requests. Support can be given by the regular community users or elected moderators. For support beyond that, users should be directed to the contact-form, as they are. For bugs and feature-requests, it's a completely different matter. SE should have a proper bug tracker for their developers to deal directly. The community doesn't need to be involved in this, beyond "voting" to indicate "we'd like this to be prioritized". — yivi 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Andrew T.
Some history of it: Should meta.stackoverflow.com replace uservoice.com? and to the extent of How is question voting intended on meta? Can Meta really replace UserVoice? — Andrew T. 9 secs ago
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[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Steven Spyrka
@Cypher Exactly. I don't visit the site every day and I don't know if my adblocker shows the banner to me. I want to participate. How should one know about the survey? — Steven Spyrka 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by gnat
@Makoto do you mean, Twitter-driven development strikes back? — gnat just now
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[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Raedwald
"There is lots of useful information on topics in the comments of posts": I think we should regard that as a problem. Comments should not hold important information. Isn't that what questions and answers are for? — Raedwald 15 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by nyedidikeke
@DollarAkshay: I get your point. Thanks for the analogy: it helps set the right context. 🤩 — nyedidikeke 50 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by VLAZ
@ShadowWizard I don't think it's ridiculous to have standards for somebody representing your company when they represent your company. I don't think anybody really expects SE to police every single action mods take outside here . — VLAZ 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by George Stocker
@davidcullen the blog post introducing meta from 2009 calls it an experiment. Practically speaking I don’t believe there have ever been resources tied to iterating on that experiment or determining whether it’s a failed experiment or not. There have been minor features around the edges but never a holistic “is a Q&A platform really the best software for community to discuss issues.” — George Stocker ♦ 40 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by VLAZ
@DavidCullen probably doesn't want to add features that aren't part of the core focus - Q&A format. Jeff left because he was making a discussion platform. I agree that the Q&A is not really appropriate - CodeReview is stuck with this as well when it's not very natural or useful format but...it is what it is, I guess. Besides, a [bug] being downvoted might mean the community doesn't think it's important. — VLAZ 50 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Mithrandir
@VLAZ - a.) Mods explicitly do not represent the company - it says so explicitly in the moderator agreement. b.) SO has laid out some guidelines for responding to stuff on social media for mods, but the details aren't public. — Mithrandir 30 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Magisch
@Mithrandir this question is about a tweet and subsequent response by a staff member / multiple staff members, from the context I could gather. — Magisch 14 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by David Cullen
@Cerbrus For support, I might use a help desk. For defect reports, I might use a defect tracking system. For feature requests, I might silently divert them to the bitbucket. For discussion, I might use a discussion system. I find it astonishing that on a web site for software professionals, the best idea for handling these different items was to overload a system that was designed for something else. Maybe in the early years, that made sense. The idea that it was never questioned since then is quite startling to me. — David Cullen 8 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Luis Rico
The question is perfectly valid (I've answered this question many times in the past). So duplicates are valid? — Luis Rico 55 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Shadow Wizard
Well as long as it's all so vague and without details I can't really see any problem. — Shadow Wizard 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Magisch
@ShadowWizard According to what I've read and found the context was deliberately omitted to avoid diverting undue attention to the incident itself. It's not that Makoto doesn't want to provide context, it's a courtesy to the employee that is involved. — Magisch 26 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Cerbrus
What makes you think it was never questioned? We all know Meta isn’t that good for these things. — Cerbrus just now
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by David Cullen
@Cerbrus The fact that this isn't a duplicate might have led me to believe it wasn't recently questioned. And who's "we"? I didn't know. I didn't even realize until recently that meta was used for all of these things. I always thought meta was used to discuss Stack Overflow and to get rid of tags. — David Cullen 22 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by deceze
bugs should certainly go into a bug tracker, but feature-requests often involve more or less substantial changes to the platform, in which the community should have and wants to have a say. Of course nowadays this often ends in a draw and nothing being done since nobody can come to a consensus. Typical design by committee situation. — deceze ♦ 56 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Cerbrus
It's come up quite often that we need a proper bug tracker, and a proper support system... — Cerbrus 58 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by yivi
@deceze Most of the products I use, have the same system to track FRs and bugs, and it makes sense to me. Meta could be left to discuss potential FRs, not to actually submit/track them. It would make more sense that way, IMO. — yivi 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by deceze
Yes, once an FR actually makes it into the "accepted" stage, it should go into a company internal tracking tool. And I'm sure it is. I doubt the mothership is working on anything without it going through some proper tracker. The thing is that hardly anything makes it to the "accepted" stage if it goes through a discussion first, so that's all somewhat moot. And random users being able to submit FRs directly into the company internal tracker is maybe not a good idea if it involves substantial platform changes. — deceze ♦ 28 secs ago
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[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Martijn Pieters
Stack Overflow has supported live refresh for 7 years now, so something is wrong on your side if it doesn't work for you. See Which browsers are officially supported, and what else do I need? on the main Meta site for what requirements you need to meet for the live refresh feature to work. — Martijn Pieters ♦ 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Dan Bron
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by rene
@DanBron keep in mind the whistle blower isn't in a witness protection program either. I trust you to not go on a hunt but do you trust everuone else that reads that? — rene 22 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Dan Bron
@rene Alright, fair enough. I’m deleting my comments. — Dan Bron 17 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by takendarkk
Possible duplicate of Can high-rep users see deleted comments? — takendarkk 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by mason
@Raedwald Sure - on the main site. The main site isn't about policies. Meta is about policies, so there's necessarily going to be some debate about it. And the conversation that ensues is important. Important enough to keep around, so you can see what led to various positions and so you can gauge how popular certain viewpoints are. — mason 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by daxim
@BradLarson, can you retrieve the comment for me? — daxim 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ
I'm not sure I'm rehashing what BradLarson said but only moderator status grants you the ability to see deleted comments, and the ability to undelete them. — M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by yivi
Again, I do not quite agree. I believe a public tracker, both for bugs and FRs works fine. Many companies do have them. E.g. this. Only the employees can change status, mark as other tickets as related, etc. The community can vote and/or comment, but in the end the having the whole Q&A process/format for every single FR seems inadequate to me. — yivi 29 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by BPDESILVA
My reputation points are not being updated on stackoverflow — BPDESILVA 39 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by usr
It's funny that staff or mods often say "we care about your opinion" but then do not act on it. It's not enough to give us a warm hug and try to make us feel good. Many users want specific changes. — usr 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by usr
"Snarky comments about how the company won't fix the issue no matter what we say" Well, comments like that are not mere feelings. They are true to an extent. Instead of fixing the reason for discontent, the expression of discontent is now prevented. — usr 52 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by rene
That is a bit too broad to be answered I think and I'm not sure if that will fly on main. It certainly won't fly here as you are on Meta. — rene 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by deceze
Then probably a lot of discussion would be happening on that tracker, which defeats the purpose and clogs up actual tools used for development, which will make developers very unhappy. Let the discussion happen here, and if something makes it through, it should be handled invisibly from the public henceforth. — deceze ♦ 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by usr
Having come back to Stack Overflow after years of pause I am appalled to find the site in such a state. I now understand why you disabled "hot meta posts". You want fewer eyeballs on this mess. A civil war is in full force. — usr 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Turamarth
Regarding the shortcomings of bugs and feature-requests we have several tags that give information about the status i.e. status-bydesign or status-completed — Turamarth 1 min ago
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[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by jdehesa
@Turamarth Yes, that is true, although again it is abusing a Q/A feature to compensate for the lack of another feature. It is not obvious how it works, specially for less experienced meta users, and I cannot "watch" these updates. But anyway, as I said it may be good enough as it is, I just mean meta feels like a very special kind of Q/A with its own idiosyncrasies that may appear unnatural or difficult to grasp for outsiders. — jdehesa 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by u84six
This has never worked for me. I don't get a popup, and TAB just goes to the next fields. — u84six 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Lightness Races in Orbit
@Servy FWIW I've definitely witnessed it. Only once or twice over the years, and obviously I'm not going to name names, but the notion that it never happens and could not ever possibly happen is distinctly laughable. — Lightness Races in Orbit 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Lightness Races in Orbit
And for me a key point is that, though this sort of thing would be the company's undisputed prerogative if we were customers, we're not customers.. At the end of the day it's still their prerogative, but I don't think they understand why it rubs everybody so badly and the why is that we are the product, not customers. We're the ones creating the value. We're the ones generating the revenue (ultimately). For free! I worry that the company takes us for granted almost as much as the "help vampires" (sorry) do... perhaps more. — Lightness Races in Orbit 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by EJoshuaS
You have 5 Meta posts yourself; how are you not one of the people who thinks that your opinion is important? I assume that you post here hoping that people will agree with whatever opinion you're expressing. (If not, I'm not even sure why you're posting this in the first place). — EJoshuaS 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by GrumpyCrouton
Is there any way to hide any links to Meta that may come up on Main? I don't think I want to involve myself in meta at all anymore, I feel like it's a complete waste of time because it doesn't matter how the community feels about anything it seems. I feel as though our opinions are suppressed, and even when they aren't, they are simply ignored. — GrumpyCrouton 12 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Mike M.
It's on their network profile, too. — Mike M. 17 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Rob
@MikeM. Oh, I didn't catch that. Unfortunately I can't clear that myself. I'll ask a CM to look into it. Thanks! — Rob ♦ 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Heretic Monkey
"No ability to "watch" or "subscribe" to issue updates." You can favorite a question to be updated about changes. "Answer comes at the end of the resolution process." That's completely up to employees; they recently went through feature-requests and tagged some as status-review, which is an interim status. The same could be done for bugs. — Heretic Monkey 31 secs ago
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[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Tensibai
On the other hand, if you're less productive but your questions are better formed, then that's a net gain as a whole for the site. I agree there's still room for improvement, the choose tag first part is, I hope, to get templates by tag in the future and makes sense, you should be at least aware of what language you'll ask about. Does it make sense ? — Tensibai 23 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by George Stocker
Comments are not for extended discussion; this conversation has been moved to chat. — George Stocker ♦ 44 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by George Stocker
I edited your post to expound on the clarifications you add in your comments. — George Stocker ♦ 5 secs ago
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[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Christian Wolf
Partially. I do not always ask related to a certain language. Many of my questions are either related to frameworks (which make it hard to create useful templates) or concepts (which are even broader). Also I tend to say that the personal benefit for me is comparably small. I know what a MWE is and try to give them when applicable. However there are many cases in my personal experience where I want to avoid a strict form of the question.... — Christian Wolf 24 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Christian Wolf
... This can be for example the case if I have a question that is quite detailed about a certain point but I want to give the reader a chance to focus on the topic in the forst time he reads it. SO I oftenly write a short "abstrct" (1 paragraph plus detailed question) and then the (not so) glory details of my question and what I thought/did/found yet. Doing it the other way around causes often quick shoots as answers because the question was not 100% analyzed. — Christian Wolf 47 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by scohe001
Don't stars on a message already hold the same purpose as upvotes on a comment? — scohe001 39 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Tensibai
Well, for frameworks, they usually have tags as well, so I fail to see how giving a tag first can be impending in writing a question, at worst it force you to consider what the question is really about. Now for the code and question order, if you're comfortable enough you can dismiss the wizard entirely (as you found) and I don't remember something preventing you to re order things before submitting. To write an answer, I prefer to have relative datas first and the question at the end, that's less scroll to refer to the question when answering. So there's no ideal format here :) — Tensibai 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by George Stocker
This is pretty accurate. The Company has always owned the values (even when it was just Jeff and Joel setting it up); they attracted a group of people who shared those values. Now those values are changing, and likely those that can't change with those values will stop participating as much and be supplanted by those that do share those values. — George Stocker ♦ 2 mins ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Tensibai
So the mod policy is acted and not debatable ? Mind to link to something as reference for the "Now that chat will be used more in meta" ? — Tensibai 8 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by l4mpi
@GeorgeStocker yet another perfect example why all of this is a bad idea: Your link now leads nowhere because the comment was either removed or moved to chat. And while you as a mod can theoretically edit that link later, normal users can't (at least not if 5 minutes have passed). So just to use your own logic right here, if what you said in that comment was truly relevant, it should have been posted as its own separate answer instead. As you apparently don't even follow this logic yourself, I don't see how you can justify forcing it on other people. — l4mpi 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by George Stocker
@l4mpi on desktop it leads directly to the comment. it's still there. The mobile UX is a bit wonky and doesn't appropriately direct to where the comment is. Are you on mobile? There are quite a few bugs in mobile navigation that I myself am experiencing. — George Stocker ♦ 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Suragch
@u84six, Do you start it with the @ sign? — Suragch 29 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Tensibai
@GeorgeStocker I think on your desktop it leads to your browser cache, doesn't work for me neither and bring me to the question title on chrome under windows. fully agree with l4mpi that's showing another case where it's harmful and not solving anything — Tensibai 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by l4mpi
@GeorgeStocker when I open that link in a new tab, it opens answers page 2 but stays on top of the page, as described by Tensibai. This is a bit older FF version on linux. Might be a bug due to it being on page 2. But none of this diminishes my main point - if anything you said in that comment was of relevance, why did you not write a separate answer instead? — l4mpi 8 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by George Stocker
That's interesting, @Tensibai; I've passed that along. It also deserves to be a bug report. Realistically, however, we're not going to rescind an entire site policy on a bug. — George Stocker ♦ 45 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by rene
That is status-bydesign: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/252222/… — rene 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by mason
We can either agree with that vision and work towards it, or disagree and stop participating. That are not the only two options, let's not fall into a false dilemma fallacy. We can also argue that the reason the site is successful in the first place is because of how we've been running things and the value that our experienced users have put into it. Take those things away, let the quality slip, and no one will want to visit anymore. The VC's understandably want money, but they don't understand what made us valuable in the first place, and it's up to us to make them understand by being vocal — mason 33 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Izkata
@MartijnPieters If anything, Houseman's original comment was bringing it back on track after Makoto veered into politics. — Izkata 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Tensibai
@GeorgeStocker Which policy ? I'm just saying the same as l4mpi, eat your own dog food as you propose here and set that in an answer instead of commenting with a link to another comment. (BTW I don't think this has even been something ok as 'comments can disappear, keep things where they are related to') — Tensibai 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by George Stocker
@mason You've been heard; and the place to continue to make yourself heard about that is on meta.stackexchange.com. As a programmer community there comes a point where complaining about something you can't change is just downright unproductive. I think we're getting to that point. — George Stocker ♦ 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by mason
No, I have not been heard, because the company is still continuing down this bad path. I get that you don't agree with me, but stop trying to silence me by sending me elsewhere. I participate in Stack Overflow, I have reputation and a voice here. I don't have one on Meta.SE or any other site, and I'm going to express my disagreement here. Moderators should not be trying to hide our disappointment, don't try to silence us. That's not what you were elected to do. — mason 34 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by George Stocker
“I’m going to keep saying it until they do what I want them to do.” I wish you the best of luck with that, but until you can show how the site you want makes them the money they need to stay in business, pay back VCs, and not sell the company, it’s going to be difficult for you to change a business. — George Stocker ♦ 40 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Izkata
@MadaraUchiha Well, at +88/-247, it's shifted quite close to that arbitrary example since this answer was posted... — Izkata 19 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Andrew Morton
@Tensibai I suspect we have been presented with a fait accompli and so it would be prudent to make the best of it that we can. Not that that is the only reason to seek improvements to chat. — Andrew Morton 36 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Makoto
I get the impression that you've been too far out of the loop on Meta, George. What you say is accurate and true from a business perspective - I even touch on that in this answer - but that doesn't make anyone feel better about the situation. If the reality is that we as a community can no longer agree with the company's vision for what the community should be going towards, then not participating is the only logical choice. You cannot ignore the fact that we are the product, and we're not thrilled about it. — Makoto 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by mason
To be honest, I don't know if the VC's will be able to get enough money to be satisfied, no matter what we or they do. But I do know that if they continue down this path of allowing/encouraging low quality questions, preventing us from moderating effectively, then they will end up with even less money than if they let us continue to uphold the high standards we've always had. This site without quality standards will turn into Yahoo Answers and make it difficult to find a proper solution, eliminating any value it may have had. — mason 46 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Izkata
@TylerH If that were the case, tags like feature-request and status-completed wouldn't exist. — Izkata 21 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by mason
...It's up to us to help them see that. Whether it's complaining when they come look at Meta, or organizing a strike, or taking to social media, or telling them in the face to face interviews that the company seems a little more interested in lately. I've seen a few steps in the right directions lately, so I continue to be hopeful. — mason 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Temani Afif
as a side note searchOnStackOverflow() will always through an exception. You can optimize your code by keeping searchOnGoogle() which also include results from StackOverflow — Temani Afif 32 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Tiny Giant
Questions aren't made off-topic by being simple or because the answer can be found elsewhere on the internet. We used to have a close reason for too localized but that has been gone for a very long time now. Could you please clarify: "have come to realize that keeping people out because their question is "too simple" or "they could have googled it" is not how you would mentor a junior programmer"? — Tiny Giant 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by George Stocker
@makato Not ignoring that at all; in fact as someone who has spent the last 11 years of my life doing the same thing, I understand the feeling deeply. The difference is that I know that haranguing the company won't change their ways; and that if they do sell, there's a 1 in 5 chance it's going to be to someone who is good for us. What will change things is to show that we're on board with growing stack overflow and that we care about this community enough to focus on how to keep it going, instead of on a "my way or scorch the earth" way. — George Stocker ♦ 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Tensibai
Fair point, I hope there'll be any improvement from this then. — Tensibai 16 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Makoto
Maybe the poison in the well is implicit in that Stack Overflow is seen simultaneously as both product and community. I know bothering the company to change their position isn't going to change much. Maybe I'm just waiting around for a formal reason to file for divorce. — Makoto 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Andras Deak
@GeorgeStocker side note, because I've seen this typo from you multiple times today: it's "Makoto" with one "a" and two "o"s (not only is mistyping names one of my many pet peeves, but this typo breaks pings which is why I'm leaving a comment). — Andras Deak 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Izkata
@GeorgeStocker I've expanded all comments on the second page and checked the URLs of yours; there are none with the ID 717700 as on your link. — Izkata 38 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Izkata
@GeorgeStocker Found it, that comment is now on the first page; you probably were seeing a cached second page: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/387883/… — Izkata 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by George Stocker
@Izkata that sounds like a bug, since depending on how you order things that post is on page two or page . — George Stocker ♦ 49 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Izkata
@GeorgeStocker Yep, someone renamed something, I see it now: The comment URL says "&tab=oldest", but the tabs use "&answertab=oldest"; your original link works by changing that — Izkata 36 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by JRE
As an aside, I really wanted to flag the question as duplicate because it really is a common and simple mistake. I couldn't find a clear answer to refer to about the "Cannot implicitly convert" error. I found 576.1 gazzilion similar questions about "Cannot implicitly convert type Transmogrifier to type Fuzzwarper," but nothing that looked like it hit the real core of the matter. — JRE 51 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by u84six
It's funny you mention, because I came across this page just to figure out why it wasn't working, and realized that it doesn't work with the user who owns the answer! Doh! I suppose it makes no sense since the user who owns the answer will always get the notification. So all this time I thought it was broken because I didn't know the user would always get the notification on a comment haha! I dont' use SO all that much ;) — u84six 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by rene
If anything, I would have left the original tags are not wrong. — rene just now
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Arkadiy
A hypothetical: I wonder if the editor would be as quick to edit if the variable name was girl. — Arkadiy 14 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Izkata
@GeorgeStocker meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/388035 — Izkata 29 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by JRE
@rene: Well, that's the question as far as I'm concerned. The original tags don't give any information that will help the next searcher find it. The problem isn't in xamarin, and it isn't in skiasharp. It's a general thing that applies to many things. In this case, the wording of the error is specific to C#, and the cause is a casting error. — JRE 56 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Suragch
@u84six. Ok, that's good you understand now. I didn't know that it didn't work for the owner. — Suragch 2 mins ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Makoto
@mason: Just a minor nit - being heard is not the same as getting your desired outcome. The company can hear us all day but choose to do something else, not unlike parents with young children walking through the toy aisle. There's no doubt in my mind that those kids and their whining is heard. Is it honored? Doesn't have to be to accomplish being heard. — Makoto 39 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by George Stocker
Good find on this. — George Stocker ♦ 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by rene
I can't judge if the context is ONLY C# casting. Maybe Xamarin has a nice BetterPoint type that no one in C# and casting has ever heard of. You want to brimg that question under the eyes of all experts that might know the answer. That doesn't seem to be limited to only C# and casting experts. — rene 45 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by George Stocker
@Makoto that Comment may be a bit on the nose. The kids are whining that they can't get their favorite toy and the parents are currently wondering if they'll make next month's rent. — George Stocker ♦ 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Braiam
Just close against this stackoverflow.com/q/3757858/792066 — Braiam 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Tensibai
@GeorgeStocker At the difference the kids are begging those toy so they can participate properly to build the family product so their parent can present something different than others and thus help pay the rent. (any analogy is just flawed anyway) — Tensibai 21 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by rene
And then it is indeed a common problem that might not need an edit but just a close as duplicate. Then you don't need the edit and future visitors would still find their answer. — rene 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by mason
@Makoto Fair enough, but if they don't want to listen, I am going to continue making it uncomfortable for them. MLK Jr style. I'm open to trying other ways in addition to being vocal here. But I'm not going to give up being vocal. Sometimes parents do finally give in if their kid whines enough, and find a way to make it happen. — mason 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by JRE
@Braiam: That looks good. I'll flag the one I answered as a duplicate. — JRE 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by JRE
@reme: That's just the point. The error straight up tells you that you are trying to assign TypeA to TypeB, and that you need an explicit cast if you want to do it. This happens all the time. You see the error, you think "oh, wrong types" then you check the types and if they are compatible and either cast it or copy values as needed. This is all day, every day normal thing to do - for a C# programmer. — JRE 40 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Heretic Monkey
You can use searchOnGoogle("site:stackoverflow.com " + term) to get results from just Stack Overflow too :). — Heretic Monkey 1 min ago
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4:13 PM
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by rene
@JRE never happens to me. Anyway. I can't find that type TouchTrackingPoint with my Google skills so it is unlikely that a direct cast will solve their issue, nor will any of the answers in the duplicate. Maybe a Xamarin expert does know where this went wrong but it is probably not caused by anything we look at. Luckily the question is still tagged correctly. — rene 59 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by JRE
I've already flagged it as duplicate, and referred to the question that Braiam found. — JRE 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by JRE
@rene: I know diddly squat about xamarin, but the cause and solution are still clear. If you can't cast, you just need to copy the values from one variable to the other - or use them directly, as could be done in this case. VisualStudio will even tell you if the cast is allowed. — JRE 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Robert Harvey
@mason: That does you no good if the people to whom you're whining just give up and leave. Then you're simply left with your own echo chamber. — Robert Harvey ♦ 22 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by yivi
You have only two non-closed questions, you may as well be specific and point to the question and the answer you want to improve upon. — yivi 11 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by mason
@RobertHarvey If they stop coming to Meta and paying attention - we'll find wherever they are looking. The past shows they listen to whining on Twitter and blog posts and Medium, so we can play that game too if we need to. For now, I know Tim and Shog and a few others are still lurking around here. — mason 37 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by rene
We can keep arguing forever. Visual Studio won't tell them why they got that strange type there in the first place and you won't know for sure if that type even has properties that would reasonably map to that X and Y. Based on naming it is a good guess but I consider a good guess not an answer. The root cause of their error is still a mystery. Let's move on. — rene 46 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by yivi
It depends, IMO. How significant is your addition? Are you adding one keyword to ten lines of code? A complete implementation to a one line snippet? How divergent will be your answer from the existing one in the end? — yivi 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Dan Bron
I’d accept the other answer, upvote it, then post your own answer, which should start out immediately and explicitly saying “Building on @OtherUser’s very helpful answer (link to his answer), I created a more complete solution this: ...”. That way credit where credit is due, and the community benefits also from a more comprehensive answer, while giving the original answer the head start it earned. — Dan Bron 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by George Stocker
@mason I literally told you where they hang out. meta.stackexchange.com. You accused me of 'sending you elsewhere', where I was sending you to where they hang out. — George Stocker ♦ 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by mason
@GeorgeStocker You missed the point. I am here because I have a voice here, and I know they're here. I do not have a voice on Meta.SE. If they leave here and solely reside at Meta.SE, then I guess I'll be going there and trying to establish myself too. And if they leave there, then I'll go wherever that is until I give up on Stack Overflow or they give in and start righting the ship. — mason 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Robert Harvey
@mason: skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/44525/… — Robert Harvey ♦ 48 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Robert Harvey
whoosh ...... — Robert Harvey ♦ 15 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by dWinder
Why not suggested an edit the existing answer? — dWinder 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by mason
@RobertHarvey What does that have to do with our discussion here? — mason 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Scott Hannen
I'm cursed with optimism. I see change with what look like good intentions. Those changes might have some unintended consequences. What I don't see is a bunch of idiots ready to kill the world's most popular website for developers out of ignorance. I don't buy it. Changes might be odd or uncomfortable or might even include mistakes, but the sky isn't falling. Those changes could also be awesome. Sara's 'bad day' blog post sounds like something to be excited about, not a reason to worry. — Scott Hannen 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by mason
@RobertHarvey I was not accusing you or George of bias (here, in this conversation). I simply said George missed my point. So the comment you linked to does not apply here. In fact, I'd interpret that as trolling. You two seem sink lower and lower every time I engage with you. You may not be actively trying to hurt the community, but you are hurting those that are trying to help the community. Removing their comments, telling them to go elsewhere, trolling responses, (intentionally?) missing points being made. Seriously - it's starting to seem like you don't care about doing the right thing. — mason 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Robert Harvey
And with that, I'm out. Enjoy your mosh pit. — Robert Harvey ♦ 26 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by mason
@RobertHarvey Where did I ask you to stay on topic? — mason 43 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Robert Harvey
@mason: Guy who dislikes the idea of mods keeping people on topic wants me to stay on topic? Please. — Robert Harvey ♦ 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by mason
@RobertHarvey Seriously? I'm asking you a fair question: where did I ask you to stay on topic? If you think I'm being hypocritical, feel free to point it out. — mason just now
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[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by j08691
The old Hot Posts used to change pretty regularly. How long will these new manually selected Featured Posts stay up? I see one has already been up for a week and it feels stale. — j08691 7 secs ago
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[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Mysticial
@GeorgeStocker Has this been made clear to all the moderators? This answer basically summarizes a number of very controversial comments that I've posted on meta over the past couple months. Controversial enough that I had to defend my position against a moderator who didn't want to believe that SO was changing their fundamentals. — Mysticial 59 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by code11
I think I had a similar question: meta.stackoverflow.com/q/339947/1456253 — code11 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Braiam
@smci I recall several posts by SE employees where they refer Google unregistered as either unregistered or anonymous users. Also, the term "active" comes from the "last seen" and badges descriptions. It's historical meaning usually is that it has account and has been "active"/done something on the site. — Braiam 29 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by George Stocker
@mystical I amended my comment. The poster mischaracterizes the desire and effects. The focus on growth is a requirement to stay in business; and presumably SE is using their resources and realizing the current set of values is not allowing them to grow. They need to grow to stay in business. Unless, of course, each of us wants to pay $10 a month. — George Stocker ♦ 36 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by George Stocker
To wit: Stack Overflow has to monetize, either by going public, selling, or buying back stock from investors. They are noticing the current vision does not bring the growth they expect (if it did, there'd be no reason to change it), and therefore are trying something different (this is all my observations) — George Stocker ♦ 35 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by JRE
@rene: The decision whether two types are compatible doesn't depend on property names, or property types. Is is based on the inheritance of the classes. In the question we are talking about, if "TouchTracking.TouchTrackingPoint" and "Xamarin.Forms.Point" both inherit from, for example, "System.Drawing.Point" then you could validly cast among those types. — JRE 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Travis J
Meta was never "in charge". There was just more connection between the actual team working on the site and the community before, but they still did all the work and made all the decisions. — Travis J 56 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Kevin
@GeorgeStocker: While I find that a plausible explanation, I do not agree that Stack Exchange has been sufficiently transparent for us to conclude that it is the explanation. — Kevin 21 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by JGreenwell
For point two: 2015 SO request & 2015 Meta.SE requrest & 2018 request related only to "upvotes" — JGreenwell 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by JGreenwell
For point one: 2012 w/dup link to 2011 request for upvote/thumbs up & star (as favorite) feature. — JGreenwell 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Kevin
@GeorgeStocker: "Monetization" is a far more specific goal than "be good for the business in the long run." — Kevin 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Travis J
If you sit around only looking for stuff to call crap, it is all you will ever find. It is more beneficial to look for good content that will actually help future visitors than to spend your entire day getting angry at posts that will not eclipse 100 views in 10 years. — Travis J 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by George Stocker
@kevin they’ve said several times what their goal is and why. The implicit “we are doing it to stay in business” undergirds every business. No business makes a strategic decision without answering a fundamental question: will business go up or down as a result of this. — George Stocker ♦ 2 mins ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by George Stocker
@Kevin In short; as a business, Stack Overflow either has to grow, or die. That's the type of business funding model they've chosen. I daresay this site wouldn't have been possible without it. — George Stocker ♦ 19 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by George Stocker
@Kevin Let's look at the facts: They've taken 5 rounds of funding; and need an exit for their investors. That exit comes one of three ways: 1. IPO, 2. Selling to a bigger business 3., buying back from their investors with returns. (If we assume investors want 10x returns then they need to make a cool 680 million dollars). IPO and selling to bigger companies require good metrics. If growth is slowing or is going down, that's bad for IPO and for Selling to a bigger company. Investors may say "no more money for you" if the metrics don't look good. — George Stocker ♦ 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by George Stocker
@Kevin I'm not sure I would if I were in their position: And I don't think you want them to either. Once a company starts to hear of those sorts of things you don't know what you get. Oracle may decide they want to buy them. Could you imagine? That'd be terrible for us. — George Stocker ♦ 38 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by JGreenwell
For 3: the 2012, see comments for 2014 updates - there are none but kept asking - no feature request currently for it specifically though (probably because its a mod tool and the mods just asked directly) — JGreenwell 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Kevin
@GeorgeStocker: You may be right. But they have to tell us these things before I'm prepared to sympathize with them. — Kevin 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Kevin
@GeorgeStocker: Kindly do not tell me what I do and do not want. — Kevin 1 min ago
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6:25 PM
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Tiny Giant
Thank you for this. I've been parroting that the ask question wizard doesn't support how-to style questions (which are very much on-topic and tend to be the most useful questions asked). It's important to get feedback from someone actually trying to use the wizard to ask a how-to style question. Thank you, thank you, thank you. — Tiny Giant 13 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Icepickle
This is not really a Q & A no, is it not rather a blog post? What kind of answer are you expecting to get? :) — Icepickle 2 mins ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by remy_rm
At least it is good to know that meta isn't a big enough part of the community to be listened/replied to. But that a single twitter user is. — remy_rm 1 min ago
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6:45 PM
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by JGreenwell
I've personally used a public (but internal) tracker which handled both feature requests & bugs (most of them actually) - it shouldn't be hard to assign different priority & tracking tags to each to separate them. I do except that they have so much legacy code & policy tangled up in this that they cannot easily untangle it and here we are — JGreenwell 1 min ago
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6:57 PM
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by rene
@JRE I know how the type system in .Net works. Thanks. — rene 47 secs ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Davy M
My flag for featuring was responded to: "At this point we're not expecting any new arguments to be made for or against on the post; or to learn anything new that we haven't already heard." With all due respect, you're expecting to implement this plan. You haven't been persuaded that this is a bad idea. If you could imagine the new arguments that could be made that haven't yet, you wouldn't be starting off the discussion with the presuppositions that you will be following through with this proposal. You are the least able people to judge if new arguments may still be posted from others. — Davy M 2 mins ago
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[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by Makoto
That's right @Magisch. I'm deliberately excluding references to the tweet or anything like that because it doesn't matter what the tweet was or what happened. All that I care about is that the policy which is in effect - either explicit or implicit - is documented for us to see. The company can choose to engage with people over social media if they want to. What I want to see is some bloody consistency with how it's applied. — Makoto 1 min ago
[ Boson | Higgs ] New comment posted by remy_rm
I find it very unwelcoming to see my comments, in which i express how I feel about a certain topic removed. The worst part is you don't get notified about it, or even get to know the reason for why it was deleted. Just because a single mod decided it felt "snarky" or off-topic it gets silently removed, without the ability to defend your claim. — remy_rm 1 min ago
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A resident in Dalian, China, has come up with a smart solution to take out the trash as the country endures another wave of COVID-19 lockdowns. The resident has chosen to use a drone to drop the package off on the ground through their apartment window.
The video of the flying trash worker hit Weibo earlier this week via the Sina Weibo account. In the video, we can see what looks to be a DJI Inspire 1 flying out of a high-rise apartment’s window with a bag of trash hanging below.
The drone can then be seen dropping the bag off in a designated area for rubbish before making its way back to the apartment.
Commenters on the video were excited by the resident’s creative thinking and took note of how drone technology has changed our lives. Other commenters did mention problems that could grow from using drones. One shared that it might start giving people the chance to dump their garbage illegally.
This would be easy to do with a drone. Fly the drone up and away from your apartment building, drop off the trash, and fly back, hoping no one sees the drone coming in and out of your unit. However, I think this could be a great way to help those stuck in apartment lockdowns.
Since no one can leave their buildings, trash is likely put outside of the front door for someone else to come in and collect. While collecting the trash, the person could either bring in or contract COVID-19, making the situation worse. Using drones, you would eliminate the need for an external person to come in, reducing the chance of transmission.
Drones and COVID-19
Drones have been present throughout the global pandemic, with some saying that this demonstrates how truly useful they are. Recently, the University of California San Diego (UCSD) developed a disinfecting drone with UV-C lights. Many countries are using drones to disinfect public areas, along with monitoring busy areas to ensure people are following social distancing rules.
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EU to UK on Brexit talks: 'You can't have cake, eat it too'
AP , Wednesday 21 Oct 2020
European Council President Charles Michel refused to bow to British insistence for the EU to fundamentally change its negotiating stance and cede more to UK demands
European Council President Charles Michel gestures as he reports on last week's European summit during plenary session at European Parliament in Brussels on October 21, 2020. (Photo: AFP)
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The European Union took a defiant tone on Wednesday as the standoff over resuming post-Brexit trade negotiations with the United Kingdom intensified, telling London that ``you cannot have your cake and eat it too.''
European Council President Charles Michel refused to bow to British insistence for the EU to fundamentally change its negotiating stance and cede more to UK demands. Michel said instead that if Britain wants vast access to the 27-member bloc's markets, it will equally have to keep its waters open to EU fishermen, something the UK government has said it doesn't want to do.
In a combative display at the European Parliament, Michel said: ``Yes, we want to keep access to UK waters for our fishermen. Exactly like the UK, too, want to keep access to our huge and diversified markets for its companies.``
Britain and the EU have been attempting to strike a new trade deal since the UK left the bloc on Jan. 31.
Those talks ground to a halt last week, with each side calling for the other to compromise in order to secure a deal. The EU said it was happy to keep talking, but Johnson said Friday that negotiations were over unless there was a ``fundamental'' shift from the bloc.
Since then, the EU has agreed to ``intensify'' talks _ a key UK demand _ and to discuss the legal text of an agreement. But Johnson's Downing Street office said Tuesday that it wasn't a big enough change to resume negotiations.
EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier played down the chance of ground-shaking change after all these months when talks on key issues moved at a glacial pace.
``May I remind you that the European Union's attitude in this negotiation has in no way shifted and it will not shift,`` Barnier told EU legislators. ``We will also remain firm and determined when it comes to defending the principles and the interests of each of the EU member states.``
But he also said there would need to be ``compromises on both sides'' _ an olive branch to Britain, which complains it's being asked to make all the concessions.
Barnier has said he is willing to return to London as soon as the British want to host him again, especially since the deadline is drawing ever closer. Any trade deal needs to go through legal vetting and legislative approval before Jan. 1, so it makes the real deadline for a deal closer to the first week of November instead of New Year's Eve.
EU officials have said such time pressure made the UK decision to delay further talks even more baffling.
The bloc accuses Britain of seeking the kind of unfettered access to its markets usually reserved for EU members.
``The UK wants access to a single market while at the same time being able to diverge from our standards and regulations when it suits them,`` Michel said. ``You can't have your cake and eat it too.``
EU leaders also remain angry over the UK's plans to disregard some parts of the legally binding withdrawal agreement it signed with the bloc.
If passed, the Internal Market Bill will allow the British government to override parts of the legally binding Brexit withdrawal agreement relating to trade with Northern Ireland, the only part of the UK. to share a border with the EU.
Johnson's government says it needs the legislation as an insurance policy in case the EU behaves unreasonably after a post-Brexit transition period ends on Dec. 31 and tries to impede the flow of goods between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.
The bloc sees it as a flagrant breach of an international treaty that could undermine the delicate foundations of Northern Ireland's peace settlement, created by the 1998 Good Friday accord.
It further feeds a general sense of mistrust of Britain, and complicates any trade deal since the EU will look at every single, tiniest paragraph to make sure the UK will be respecting it.
Michel used it to highlight the need to respect high environmental and social commitments in any trade deal.
``Our UK friends say they want to maintain the highest standards. If that's the case, why don't they commit to them? We don't need words. We need guarantees,`` he said.
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3 pounds rump roast, trimmed, cut into 2″ chunks 3 cloves garlic, minced 1 small onion, chopped 3 large tomatoes, chopped 1 bay leaf 3 tablespoons soy sauce 6 medium potato, peeled and quartered oil, for frying
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As well as this great rundown of holidaying with an Electric Vehicle (EV) below, we’ve got some great info for prospective EV Owners here on the OVO online community.
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Background
This year was my first year of owning a full electric vehicle, absolutely no backup of a polluting combustion engine.
I took delivery just before COVID-19 hit, so had not really had the experience of any long range trips. I had done some homework though. I knew the stated range: 239 miles, and I too knew this was not going to be achieved as it was hot, the boot was absolutely rammed full following the traditional game of car boot jenga, and we had 5 passengers. As if this wasn't enough of a challenge, we were going from a part of the UK where chargers are many to a village in deep dark surrey, down roads which are lucky to call a shack a "services" and then onto the vast expanse of last century technology called North Devon.
Atop of all this, I had an additional challenge, and one that I honestly didn't realise that would become the hardest to overcome. The impact taking an EV on a family holiday has to planning and the emotional impact it can have on passengers. In order to explain this I need to give some context, I am an early adopter part of the vehicle to grid trial OVO run, my house is full of new tech, I bought a mini-disc player back when they came out, this is who I am. I accept new technology comes with challenges. My wife, however, is the believer in "if it isn't broke why fix it" and "Let other people try stuff instead" in addition her attitude was very much "Your choice of car shouldn't be affecting our holiday so you better make sure it doesn't." Yes, squaring this in Devon was indeed tricky. As a note, I love my wife very much but possibly love technology a bit more, I had to find a way to succeed.
The Journey
The loaded car
The full charge - let’s roll
The route
The journey from my home in a surrey village to Woolacombe, North Devon is a long one, 202 miles and on a road likely with lots of slow traffic passing Stonehenge. The only Ecotricity stations on route were on the short M5 stretch, and on the A303, Amesbury and Weyhill were options, but probably too close to my start of journey to be really useful. I figured with a totally full charge (which I had), making the 1st M5 station would be a breeze.
Sadly, I had totally miscalculated the energy consumption impact a full car with air-con and delays past the stones could have. This rapidly became my first genuine experience of range anxiety. As the estimated miles slipped lower and lower i glided into the 1st M5 services only to see a Mitsubishi PHEV pulling out of the space. Thinking my timing was perfect, I gleefully pulled in, popped the filling lid and strode with confidence to the charger, app in hand. This is where my face changed to dread, realising the Mitsubishi was in fact leaving as the station was out of use. I had to think quick, and find a solution before I could sheepishly walk back to the car to tell my wife. My hope was that the Tiverton M5 services, which I could just perhaps reach without aircon may save me.
As we rolled into the services I learned a few more things. One is how hard finding the EV points actually are and secondly, how busy they get! It was already in use by a ZOE, and was to be in use for a worrying 15 minutes before I could join my family in a well known fast food chain as I couldn't risk someone jumping in front of me. Thankfully, I could see it working so knew I was saved, for now. Little did I expect this was the 1st occurrence of the argument that if I had petrol this would never have been an issue.
The Ecotricity charger that works!
The charger in all its glory!
Continuing onward to our destination was a relatively simple affair, stopping for lunch at a nearby town before pottering down to the check in at the holiday park accommodation. Arriving here, it was clear there was going to be no opportunity for 13 Amp charging, so I would indeed need to find a working rapid charger, and not be gone too long and missed by wife. The alternative is I could make it part of a journey and figure how to make charging stations interesting…
At the evening meal we went out to eat then I tried my luck, suggesting we explored the town where the charger was (there really are not many in North Devon, certainly round Woolacombe!) We arrived and parked up at the charger, seconds before an EV Audi rocked up and looked really upset someone was using the charger (he got out and helped me get it working as if he uses this at the same time every day) it was a Chargepoint Instavolt charger and using it with my contactless bank card was quite a challenge.
Onwards to Woolacombe!
Sadly, my gamble was only partially successful, the local town highlight was a co-op where we bought supplies and I managed about 30 mins charge before I was urged to return to accommodation and sort it out later, on my own, without affecting the holiday. I realised after a quick check on the app it opened at 05:30 and was 20 mins from accommodation, meaning if i wanted to fill up and be back before they wake, that means a 5am wake-up.
The Actual Holidaying
So.. a 5am wake-up heading 30 mins down the road for a 05:30 charger opening as per the stated opening times was my 1st solo trip as the rest of the family were fast asleep. Instavolt (Chargepoint) Braunton was again my destination. With great 4G signal I plugged in, put my headphones on and watched an hour of Netflix. Charging is somehow peaceful, relaxing and enjoyable while the world sleeps. No fighting for chargers, but the scenery was nothing to write home about, it is like sitting in a garage, but thankfully with a nice roof in case of rain.
The Instavolt charger
Sunday morning charge
Driving around the local area for the day I had no issues with charge sitting nearly on a full tank in no time at all. The rest of the holiday was relaxing and fun, and comfortable, every other day I would have a 5AM wake up, but it kept the peace with the family, we would have a charged car, and I found the amazing Polar charger (pictured below) which is massively cheaper (thanks to my EV Everywhere Tariff!) and has a MUCH prettier view when charging.
Also good 4G for Netflix. I strangely found the solitude and watching the morning arrive the most enjoyable part of the holiday, total relaxation, peace, quiet, just what I needed. It must be noted at times the Instavolt had a 4 hour queue of people waiting at around midday, yet the Polar station, merely 4 mins down the road, and slightly off track was totally free and saved me a number of times for top-ups.
The most beautiful charge point!
Technical images of the various charges are below to show rates and mileage covered between charges etc.
10th August
11th August pre charge
11th August post charge
Ready for another charge
13th August pre charge
13th August post charge
15th August pre charge
We also happened on our trip to visit an energy related museum about hydroelectric power (it also was beautiful so met the rest of the family's requirements) so I have a few pictures for that here too.
The Trip Home
This was going to have to be a well planned trip, traffic and weather was awful, I had a 5am start (for my totally full charge) and had booked the Harvester at Amesbury as they have a Polar charger (apparently) which I had been monitoring for the week and sadly usage was typically peaking around lunchtime (our anticipated arrival), and I knew this would cause stress and frustration, I had also been monitoring the other Polar point, merely 300 yards away in the hotel car park and nobody used it for days yet was working.
As it happened, after a long and stressful drive due to accidents and diversions and pouring rain, the Harvester charger was free, and, as like all Polar chargers I have ever used, just worked a dream. A simple tap of the card, plug in and off we shoot to a relaxing lunch, followed by a peaceful drive home.
15th August post charge - ready to return home
15th Aug - Arrival at Amesbury Polar at Harvester
15th Aug - The Charger - Amesbury Polar at Harvester
In summary.. Would I do it again, absolutely, would I make sure I realise there are early mornings involved, yes. Would I top up at Amesbury on the way to avoid stress on the M5 and Ecotricity issues, yes, I would to that too.
A massive amount of hours were spent in the car getting to, around and From Devon, but it is simply beautiful, and in the early mornings in a pure EV, nothing is more peaceful and relaxing.
I hope this can inspire you to take the following lessons:
1) Plan plan plan, get all the apps, monitor usage and outages
2) Expect early mornings, but, appreciate them
3) Save the planet from pollution
4) Sit back and enjoy the savings
I thank you for reading this massive post. I hope you found it informative.
The images from my trip to the HEP museum at Lynton and Lynmouth:
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What a fantastic post, @Jequinlan - thank you so much for sharing.
I’ve been involved in editing this, adding reduced-size pictures etc, so I’ve had a chance to read it through a few times. One thing that stands out to me (as someone who doesn’t have an EV) is that this technology is still in the ‘early adopter’ phase!
I was a bit surprised to hear of what seems like a lack of charger availability, and inconveniently long charging time. It doesn't surprise me therefore that range anxiety is prevalent.
As with internal combustion engine early adopters, it was awkward, and now it’s not. We need that same process to happen here with EVs, the technology (charge capacity and time to charge) and infrastructure (number of charges). Except we need this change to happen quick, to assist in the world’s effort to reduce carbon emissions.
I’d like to hear from @ITGeek123 and I’d like to hear from @PeterR1947 who have both done long distance EV journeys. Any 5am starts for you when on your holidays? How does this compare, and are there things that can be done to minimise (like a car with longer range)?
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5am is for sleeping! I must admit I’ve never been to anywhere so rural on my trips, mostly via motorways so no charging problems as such. Doing the Plymouth run, we stopped at Exeter to charge and that lasted us for the long weekend. Unexpectedly in the car park we were directed to near the Hoe there was a charger; it was supposed to use an RFID card but mine wouldn’t work so I got a free charge ready for the journey home.
Other times in Skegness we found chargers in a council car park with free parking while charging and in a holiday in rural Norfolk we used local Co-ops and McDonalds.
It shows the necessity of planning, leaving home with 100% charge then working between 20% to 80%; the car takes about 30 to 40 mins on a fast charger from 20% to 80%. I now generate a spreadsheet before each journey showing chargers on and close to the route.
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@PeterR1947 , The fact that you sit down with spreadsheets and I have apps and maps certainly helps to support @Tim_OVO in that we really are still Early Adopter Territory. ..
I find Zap-map app and a spreadsheet both worthwhile and sadly required.
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Doing the Plymouth run, we stopped at Exeter to charge and that lasted us for the long weekend.
This seems like a more acceptable range/duration. @Jequinlan is your battery capacity less? I warn you that I am an EV novice, so that might be a stupid question.
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Agreed, I use Zap Map, also PlugShare and a few others I’m trying
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As you can see from my post @Tim_OVO my theoretical range is around 200 miles. During our Devon holiday we covered well over 500 miles (I think nearly 800) So multiple charges were vital!
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@Tim_OVO we we’re also only two up with relatively little luggage.
@Jequinlan mine Leaf’s a 62, what’s yours?
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Also a 62kwh leaf, 5 up fully loaded!
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So it’s the same make and model: literally just the mileage and the load, thanks for confirming!
I’m sticking this at the top of the (new) EV category to make it easier to find
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Interesting trip @Jequinlan
I don’t remember Devon being that gloomy. Is it @Tim_OVO’s photo-editing?
Here’s my retake on the banner photo at the top of this article:
Just looking further into the Lynton Hydroelectric Plant: I’ve checked Western Power’s map and this doesn’t seem to be grid connected. Instead it supplies power to homes and businesses through cables owned by the Parish Council.
I must assume that it supplies 440/230v AC so that customers can buy normal electrical equipment. But the map suggests the generator output is higher (possibly 11kV?).
Did you happen to get any more technical detail than this, John?
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Hi @Transparent apologies, I didn't manage to get more info, but thought as it was power related and beautiful it was worthy of a few pictures from the museum.
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Just saw a video which echoes a lot of what you outlined here, @Jequinlan:
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Excellent post. I agree that we have charger anxiety, not range anxiety. And managing passengers can be more difficult than managing the battery. It does help to set clear expectations, such as “we are going to have to take our time”. EVs can get you anywhere in the UK, but sometimes you need to be patient.
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@MrPuds initially indeed I was not prepared for the non technical challenges, now I am!!!!
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Indeed. I actually remember reading about a pretty cool company a few years ago called Better Place that had some really cool rapid battery swapping technology. It was literally a case of you being able to drive in, power down, wait for a couple of minutes while the automatic system swapped out your battery for a freshly charged one and then you were back on the road. Really cool stuff. After you drive out, your swapped out battery would be put in storage and hooked up to a charger, ready for someone else to use later.
It was a really cool concept that actually became real… But the company collapsed a few years later because it was too expensive to run and wasn’t attractive enough.
But maybe something similar will return someday?
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@Blastoise186 electrified highways using QI induction i think is the way forward
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Ah yes… I can see that working really well…
Hey Tim, I’ll be back in 20 minutes. Just gonna grab some milk from the shops before they close. Steps out onto the road to cross the street.
ZAAAPPPP!!!
Ouch… Erm… Tim… I think I just got a bit fried… Do us a favour and call an ambulance would ya?
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If you had some eggs with you at the time, they’d be deliciously scrambled. Swings and roundabouts @Blastoise186
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I love the way my BEV drives but the charging network is not fit. To many grants to companies the don’t maintain charger in good working order. Motorways charging is hell apart from Tesla. We need at least 12 rapid charger at each service station. To sum up the Politicians to much talk and take no action. The only thing the so called green Politicians have done is cut the BEV grant & home charger grant. How about zero Vat on BEV cars and charging. Nice to see Tesco and Grisev putting in rapid charger’s at good prices unlike Ionity at £0.69 kwh. Photo of 12 Gridsev charger’s at Ruby service station.
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Interesting points to make about the current EV charging network, @k1ms.
Our EV members have exchanged their top-tips for a long EV road trip over here as well:
Sounds like preparation is the key in terms of anticipating for faulty or occupied chargers. Have you made use of any of the EV apps recommended here?
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I’m kind of looking forward to a week in the Isle of Wight with our Peugeot e208, however I’ve recently found out that they have just three rapid chargers on the island and two of them don’t work !!! There seem to be plenty of fast chargers (7kW) but most are either for campsite or hotel users only, or don’t work either. That’s info from ZapMap and the GeniePoint and BP Pulse apps. Thankfully there are 4 private chargers that the owners have listed on ZapMap - they might just save my bacon !!!
Does anyone know why so many chargers are out of action there, please ??
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Howdy!
It’s hard for me to say for sure since I don’t drive or have a car myself, but my guess would be that there seems to be a distinct lack of maintenance with these public chargers - and some operators seem to be worse than others. I don’t have the data to hand to say whether the free ones are more prone to faults than paid ones but it’s definitely an issue that seriously needs to be resolved if we’re going to be reliant on this stuff.
The best solution I can realistically think of is to make your voice heard and insist on better maintenance of the charger networks. After all, if they’re all out of action constantly then no-one is going to want to go electric!
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@Blastoise186 Too true… I’ve send a message to the Isle of Wight tourist board. Not sure what they can do about it but it would be a great selling point for the island if they really boosted their EV credentials.
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Sadly this is all true.
I DID do my devon trip 1 year on (still need to write it up fully) but key points are:
1. There ARE new chargers out there.
2. The old ones mostly fall into disrepair if not owned by : BP Pulse, Shell or Chargepoint.
3. The competition for chargers in 1 year has lead to many times a 2+hr queue for chargers on motorway services and 90mins plus elsewhere. Charging infrastructure just isn't keeping up at all. Actually to the point my next car may HAVE to ve a tesla simply to access wider chargung infra. (I would love if the lucid air however comes over as that 500 mile range solves all my issues and supports ccs2 therefore v2g)
My advice is to plan plan and plan backups. Find pubs with destination chargers and phone up checking a) if they work and b) if you book a table can you book the charger, its often happening now this is possible!
In fact, I am tempted to create a charger booking app and site to support this.
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Oh dear. I was just going to look up the GeniePoint website to get a message to them. Our neighbour said she spent 3 hours at Solstice Park queuing, then using, the charger there. It’s all a bit fragile isn’t it? and just one bolshy petrol/diesel car driver can burglar it up too. If you can create an app to stop that please…!
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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F:
☒ Form 20-F ☐ Form 40-F
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(1): ☐
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(7): ☐
INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
Exhibits 99.1 and 99.2 to this Report on Form 6-K (the “Report”) shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference into the registration statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-226457) of Immunocore Holdings plc (the “Company”) and to be a part thereof from the date on which this Report is furnished, to the extent not superseded by documents or reports subsequently filed or furnished.
Exhibit 99.3 to this Report is being furnished and shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”) or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933 or the Exchange Act.
CAUTIONARY NOTE ON FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This Report contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as “may,” “will,” “expect,” “plan,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “intend” and similar expressions (as well as other words or expressions referencing future events, conditions or circumstances) are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on the Company’s expectations and assumptions as of the date of this Report. Each of these forward-looking statements involves risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. For a discussion of risk factors that may cause the Company’s actual results to differ from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements in this Report, you should refer to the Company’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including the “Risk Factors” sections contained therein. Except as required by law, the Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law. You should, therefore, not rely on these forward-looking statements as representing the Company’s views as of any date subsequent to the date of this Report.
EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit
No.
Description
99.1
Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Interim Financial Statements for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2021.
99.2
Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2021.
99.3
Press Release dated May 12, 2021.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
IMMUNOCORE HOLDINGS PLC
Date:
May 12, 2021
By:
/s/ Bahija Jallal, Ph.D.
Name
Bahija Jallal, Ph.D.
Title:
Chief Executive Officer
Exhibit 99.1
INDEX TO UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED INTERIM FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Page
Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Loss and Other Comprehensive Income for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2021 and 2020
2
Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Financial Position as at March 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020
3
Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Changes in Equity for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2021 and 2020
4
Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2021 and 2020
5
Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Notes to the Financial Statements
6
1
Immunocore Holdings plc
Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Interim Financial Statements
March 31, 2021
Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Loss and Other Comprehensive Income
for the Three Months Ended March 31,
Notes
2021
£’000
2020
£’000
Revenue
3
8,270
8,255
Total revenue
8,270
8,255
Net other operating (expense) / income
(82
)
10
Research and development costs
(19,885
)
(20,779
)
Administrative expenses
(20,184
)
(9,605
)
Operating loss
(31,881
)
(22,119
)
Finance income
4
22
1,383
Finance costs
5
(1,860
)
(1,067
)
Non-operating (expense) / income
(1,838
)
316
Loss before taxation
(33,719
)
(21,803
)
Income tax credit
6
4,681
3,164
Loss for the period
(29,038
)
(18,639
)
Other comprehensive income
Other comprehensive income that are or may be reclassified to profit or loss in subsequent periods (net of tax):
Exchange differences on translation of foreign operations
(92
)
367
Total other comprehensive (loss) / income for the period, net of tax
(92
)
367
Total comprehensive loss for the period, net of tax
(29,130
)
(18,272
)
Basic and diluted loss per share - £
7
(0.76
)
(0.74
)
The accompanying notes form part of these unaudited condensed consolidated interim financial statements.
2
Immunocore Holdings plc
Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Interim Financial Statements
March 31, 2021
Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Financial Position as at
Notes
March 31,
2021
£’000
December 31,
2020
£’000
Non-current assets
Property, plant and equipment
8
12,321
13,754
Right of use assets
9
22,742
23,093
Investment in sub-lease
540
776
Other non-current financial assets
3,812
4,410
Deferred tax asset
2,213
2,230
Total non-current assets
41,628
44,263
Current assets
Trade and other receivables
10
8,821
10,280
Tax receivable
17,615
12,935
Cash and cash equivalents
313,083
129,716
Total current assets
339,519
152,931
Total assets
381,147
197,194
Equity
Share capital
12
88
64
Share premium
12
211,286
-
Foreign currency translation reserve
12
71
163
Other reserves
12
386,167
386,167
Share-based payment reserve
12, 13
27,092
18,821
Accumulated deficit
(378,907
)
(349,869
)
Total equity
245,797
55,346
Non-current liabilities
Interest-bearing loans and borrowings
11
36,437
36,654
Deferred liabilities
19,225
24,868
Lease liabilities
9
25,035
25,190
Provisions
160
138
Total non-current liabilities
80,857
86,850
Current liabilities
Interest-bearing loans and borrowings
11
546
---
Trade and other payables
14
26,359
25,728
Deferred liabilities
25,710
27,118
Lease liabilities
9
1,764
2,043
Provisions
114
109
Total current liabilities
54,493
54,998
Total liabilities
135,350
141,848
Total equity and liabilities
381,147
197,194
The accompanying notes form part of these unaudited condensed consolidated interim financial statements.
3
Immunocore Holdings plc
Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Interim Financial Statements
March 31, 2021
Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Changes in Equity for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2021,
Notes
Share
capital
£’000
Share
premium
£’000
Foreign
currency
translation
reserve
£’000
Share-
based
payment
reserve
£’000
Other reserve
£’000
Accumulated
deficit
£’000
Total
equity
£’000
At December 31, 2019
—
283,250
(32
)
10,659
-
(279,106
)
14,771
Effects of the corporate reorganization
12
49
(283,250
)
-
-
283,201
-
-
At January 1, 2020
49
-
(32
)
10,659
283,201
(279,106
)
14,771
Loss for the period
-
-
-
-
-
(18,639
)
(18,639
)
Other comprehensive income
-
-
367
-
-
-
367
Total comprehensive income / (loss) for the period
-
-
367
-
-
(18,639
)
(18,272
)
Conversion of interest-bearing loan
-
-
-
-
-
(510
)
(510
)
Derecognition of derivative liability
-
-
-
-
-
3,840
3,840
Issue of share capital
12
6
-
-
-
47,095
-
47,101
Equity-settled share-based payment transactions
12, 13
-
-
-
205
-
-
205
At March 31, 2020
55
-
335
10,864
330,296
(294,415
)
47,135
As at January 1, 2021
64
-
163
18,821
386,167
(349,869
)
55,346
Loss for the period
-
-
-
-
-
(29,038
)
(29,038
)
Other comprehensive loss
-
-
(92
)
-
-
-
(92
)
Total comprehensive loss for the period
-
-
(92
)
-
-
(29,038
)
(29,130
)
Issue of share capital
12
24
210,961
-
- - -
210,985
Equity-settled share-based payment transactions
12, 13
-
325
-
8,271
-
-
8,596
At March 31, 2021
88
211,286
71
27,092
386,167
(378,907
)
245,797
The accompanying notes form part of these unaudited condensed consolidated interim financial statements.
4
Immunocore Holdings plc
Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Interim Financial Statements
March 31, 2021
Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the Three Months Ended March 31,
2021
£’000
2020
£’000
Cash flows from operating activities
Loss for the period
(29,038
)
(18,639
)
Adjustments for:
Depreciation of property, plant and equipment
1,460
1,592
Depreciation of right of use assets
347
649
Loss on disposal of property, plant and equipment
191
23
Net finance costs/(income)
1,838
(316
)
Movement in provisions and other charges
28
1,878
Foreign exchange translation differences
(368
)
245
Equity settled share-based payment expenses
8,596
205
Income tax credit
(4,681
)
(3,164
)
Working capital adjustments:
(Increase)/decrease in trade and other receivables
2,068
(279
)
(Decrease)/increase in trade and other payables
631
(5,049
)
(Decrease)/increase in deferred liabilities
(7,051
)
(7,663
)
Net cash used in operating activities
(25,979
)
(30,518
)
Cash flows from investing activities
Proceeds from sale of property, plant and equipment
-
14
Purchase of property, plant and equipment
(220
)
(1,426
)
Proceeds from investment in sub-leases
245
78
Net cash flows used in investing activities
25
(1,334
)
Cash flows from financing activities
Proceeds from exercise of share options
-
4
Gross proceeds from issue of share capital
226,528
27,288
Costs from issue of share capital
(15,543
)
(58
)
Interest paid on non-current interest-bearing loan
(810
)
-
Repayment of lease liabilities
(802
)
(1,085
)
Net cash flows from financing activities
209,373
26,149
Increase/(decrease) in net cash and cash equivalents
183,419
(5,703
)
Net foreign exchange difference on cash held
(52
)
114
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of the period
129,716
73,966
Cash and cash equivalents at end of the period
313,083
68,377
The accompanying notes form part of these unaudited condensed consolidated interim financial statements.
5
Immunocore Holdings plc
Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Interim Financial Statements
March 31, 2021
Notes to the Financial Statements
1. Organization and nature of business
General information
Immunocore Holdings plc (the “Company”) is a public limited company incorporated in England and Wales and has the following wholly owned subsidiaries, Immunocore Limited, Immunocore LLC, Immunocore Commercial LLC, Immunocore Ireland Limited and Immunocore Nominees Limited (collectively referred to as the “Group”).
On February 9, 2021, the Company completed its initial public offering (“IPO”) of 11,426,280 American Depositary Shares (“ADSs”) representing 11,426,280 ordinary shares with nominal value of £0.002 per ordinary share for aggregate gross proceeds of $297,083,000. The Company’s ADSs began trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol “IMCR” on February 5, 2021.
In addition to the ADSs sold in the IPO, the Company completed the concurrent sale of an additional 576,923 ADSs at the initial offering price of $26.00 per ADS, for gross proceeds of approximately $15.0 million, in a private placement to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (“Gates Foundation”).
Prior to completion of the IPO, Immunocore Holdings Limited was incorporated in England and Wales on January 7, 2021. Following a subsequent corporate reorganization, Immunocore Holdings Limited became the ultimate parent company for the Group and was re-registered as a public limited company with the name Immunocore Holdings plc, the registrant. The corporate reorganization has been accounted for as a business combination under common control and therefore, Immunocore Holdings plc is a continuation of Immunocore Limited and its subsidiaries. The corporate reorganization has been given retrospective effect in these financial statements and such financial statements represent the financial statements of Immunocore Holdings plc.
The principal activity of the Group is pioneering the development of a novel class of TCR bispecific immunotherapies called ImmTAX – Immune mobilizing monoclonal TCRs Against X disease – designed to treat a broad range of diseases, including cancer, infectious and autoimmune. Leveraging its proprietary, flexible, off-the-shelf ImmTAX platform, the Group is developing a deep pipeline in multiple therapeutic areas, including five clinical stage programs in oncology and infectious disease, advanced pre-clinical programs in autoimmune disease and multiple earlier pre-clinical programs.
2. Significant accounting policies
Basis of preparation
The unaudited condensed consolidated interim financial statements for the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020 have been prepared in accordance with International Accounting Standard 34, “Interim Financial Reporting” (“IAS 34”). The accounting policies and methods of computation applied in the preparation of the condensed consolidated interim financial statements are consistent with those applied in the Group’s annual financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2020.
The unaudited condensed consolidated interim financial statements do not include all of the information required for the full annual financial statements and should be read in conjunction with the annual consolidated financial statements of the Group for the year ended December 31, 2020 included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2020, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 25, 2021 (the “Annual Report”).
The unaudited condensed and consolidated interim financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost basis, as modified by the recognition of certain financial instruments measured at fair value and are presented in pounds sterling which is the Group’s presentation currency. All values are rounded to the nearest thousands, except where otherwise indicated.
6
Date of authorization
These condensed consolidated interim financial statements were prepared at the request of the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) and were approved by the Board on May 12, 2021 and signed on its behalf by Dr. Bahija Jallal, Chief Executive Officer of the Group.
Adoption of New Accounting Standards
There have been no recent new accounting standards that have had an impact on these condensed consolidated interim financial statements. New accounting standards not listed below were assessed and determined to be either not applicable or did not have a material impact on the unaudited condensed consolidated interim financial statements or processes.
During the three-month period ended March 31, 2020, Interest Rate Benchmark Reform – Phase 1, issued by the International Accounting Standards Board (“IASB”), became effective. Phase 1 contained amendments to IFRS 9, IAS 39, and IFRS 7 related to the impact of interest rate benchmark reform on hedging relationships. These amendments were not applicable to the Group, as the Group does not have any hedging arrangements. During the three month period ended March 31, 2021, the Group adopted the amendments to IFRS 9, IAS 39, IFRS 7, IFRS 4, and IFRS 16 related to Interest Rate Benchmark Reform – Phase 2, issued by the IASB, which addresses issues that might affect financial reporting during the reform on an interest rate benchmark. The only financial instrument subject to interest rate reform is the Group’s loan and security agreement (“Loan Agreement”) with Oxford Finance Luxembourg S.A.R.L. (“Oxford Finance”), which has a carrying amount of £36,983,000 as of March 31, 2021. Currently, borrowings under the Loan Agreement bear interest at an annual rate equal to LIBOR plus 8.85%, with a minimum rate of 9.01% and a maximum rate of 12.01%. LIBOR is the subject of recent national, international, and other regulatory guidance and proposals for reform, which may cause LIBOR to cease to exist after 2021 or to perform differently than in the past. While the Group expects that alternatives to LIBOR will be implemented prior to the 2021 target date or that the 2021 cessation date may be extended, the consequences and timing of these developments cannot be predicted. There is currently no definitive information regarding the future utilization of LIBOR or of any particular replacement rate. A transition away from LIBOR as a benchmark for establishing the applicable interest rate may adversely affect the Group’s outstanding variable-rate indebtedness.
Going concern
The financial position of the Group, its cash flows and liquidity position and borrowing facilities are described in the statements and notes to these unaudited condensed consolidated interim financial statements.
The Group reported cash and cash equivalents of £313,083,000 and net current assets of £285,026,000 as at March 31, 2021, with an operating loss for the three months ended March 31, 2021 of £31,881,000. The Group did not generate positive operational cash flow which was largely due to the continuing focus on the research, development, and clinical activities to advance the programs within the Group’s pipeline. During the three months ended March 31, 2021, the Company completed its IPO and the private placement to the Gates Foundation and received net proceeds of $286,887,000.
In assessing the going concern assumptions, the Board has undertaken an assessment of the forecasts, prepared through the end of 2022. As part of this assessment, the Board has considered the impact of the ongoing coronavirus 2019 (‘‘COVID-19’’) pandemic and have concluded that COVID-19 may have an impact but the Board considers that any future cash flow impact will be minimal on clinical trials or other business activities over the period assessed for going concern purposes. As of the date of these financial statements, the Group is not aware of any specific event or circumstance that would require the Group to update its estimates, assumptions and judgments or revise the carrying value of its assets or liabilities. Actual results could differ from these estimates, and any such differences may be material to the Group’s financial statements.
7
Given the current cash position and the assessment performed, the Board is confident that the Group will have sufficient funds to continue to meet its liabilities as they fall due until at least the end of 2022 and therefore, have prepared the financial statements on a going concern basis. As the Group continues to incur significant expenses in the pursuit of its business strategy, additional funding will be needed before the existing programs are expected to reach commercialization, which would potentially lead to operational cash inflows. Until the Group can generate significant revenue from product sales, if ever, it expects to finance its operations through a combination of public or private equity offerings and debt financings or other sources, such as potential collaboration agreements, strategic alliances and licensing arrangements.
Estimates and judgements
The preparation of the financial statements in conformity with IFRS requires management to make judgments, estimates and assumptions. These judgments, estimates and assumptions affect the reported assets and liabilities as well as income and expenses in the financial period.
The estimates and associated assumptions are based on information available when the consolidated financial statements are prepared, historical experience and various other factors which are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis of making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Judgements and assumptions are primarily made in relation to revenue recognition to determine whether promises contained within the collaboration agreements are distinct from the other promises in the contract, whether milestones or other variable consideration should be included in the transaction price, whether performance obligations are satisfied at a point in time or over time, and for performance obligations satisfied over time the appropriate method of measuring progress for the purposes of revenue recognition. Estimates and assumptions are also made in relation to the valuation of ordinary shares, the incremental borrowing rate for leases, and valuation of derivatives. Details of the estimates and judgements made are included in the accounting policies set out in the consolidated financial statements of the Group for the year ended December 31, 2020, contained in the Annual Report.
Existing circumstances and assumptions about future developments may change due to market changes or circumstances arising that are beyond the Group’s control. Hence, estimates may vary from the actual values.
The estimates and underlying assumptions are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Revisions to accounting estimates are recognized in the period in which the estimate is revised if the revision affects only that period, or the period of revision and future periods if this revision affects both current and future periods. The significant judgements made by management in applying the Group’s accounting policies and the key sources of estimation uncertainty are the same as those applied in the annual consolidated financial statements.
The significant accounting policies are disclosed in the consolidated financial statements of the Group for the year ended December 31, 2020, included in the Annual Report. There have been no changes to these accounting policies for the three months ended March 31, 2021.
IPO related expenses
Incremental costs incurred and directly attributable to the offering of securities were deducted from the related proceeds of the IPO. The net amount is recorded as contributed shareholders’ equity in the period when such shares, represented by ADSs, were issued. Costs that are not incremental and directly attributable to issuing new shares, represented by ADSs, are recorded as an expense in the consolidated statements of loss and other comprehensive income. Costs that relate to both new share issuances and listing of existing shares are allocated between those functions on a rational and consistent basis. In the absence of a more specific basis for apportionment, an allocation of common costs based on the proportion of new shares issued to the total number of (new and existing) shares listed has been used.
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3. Revenue
Revenue recognized during the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020 was from collaboration agreements with GlaxoSmithKline Intellectual Property Development Ltd (“GlaxoSmithKline”), Eli Lilly and Company (“Eli Lilly”) and Genentech, Inc. (“Genentech”).
For the three
months ended
March 31,
2021
£’000
For the three
months ended
March 31,
2020
£’000
GlaxoSmithKline
3,370
695
Eli Lilly
-
2,674
Genentech
4,900
4,886
8,270
8,255
United Kingdom
3,370
695
United States
4,900
7,560
8,270
8,255
Genentech Collaboration.
During the three months ended March 31, 2021, the Group recognized £4,900,000 revenue relating to the 2018 Genentech Agreement (for the three months ended March 31, 2020: £4,886,000). Of the total revenue recognized during the three months ended March 31, 2021, £628,000 represented research and development cost reimbursements (for the three months ended March 31, 2020: £251,000). Such reimbursements arise in order to ensure that research and development costs are shared equally in-line with the Genentech Agreement.
GlaxoSmithKline Collaboration
During the three months ended March 31, 2021, the Group recognized £3,370,000 revenue relating to the GlaxoSmithKline Agreement (for the three months ended March 31, 2020: £695,000). Of the total revenue recognized during the three months ended March 31, 2021, £591,000 represented research and development cost reimbursement (for the three months ended March 31, 2020: £324,000). Such reimbursements arise where research and development costs in excess of a defined amount are incurred on one specified program. Following an annual portfolio review, in March 2021, GlaxoSmithKline and the Group elected not to move forward with the expansion stage of the ongoing Phase 1 clinical trial for GSK-01 targeting NY-ESO. GlaxoSmithKline have forgone their option to acquire an exclusive license to this program and therefore, ownership of the program and NY-ESO target will remain with the Group. Accordingly, the balance of deferred revenue of £2,463,000 was released in full.
Eli Lilly Collaboration
During the three months ended March 31, 2021, the Group recognized no revenue relating to the Eli Lilly Agreement (for the three months ended March 31, 2020: £2,674,000). During the three months ended March 31, 2020, after a change in overall program focus under the Eli Lilly collaboration, the £3,132,000 balance of deferred revenue was released in full. While the focus of the remaining programs is reviewed, a deferred revenue balance of £7,361,000 is held under current liabilities in respect of both the second and third programs.
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Deferred revenue
For the three months ended March 31, 2021 and the year ended December 31, 2020, deductions from deferred revenue represent revenue recognized during the period. During the three months ended March 31, 2021 and the year ended December 31, 2020 there were no additions to deferred revenue.
The total revenue recognized during the three months ended March 31, 2021 was £8,270,000 of which £7,051,000 was included in deferred revenue at January 1, 2021 and the balance of £1,219,000 relates to reimbursed research and development costs. The total revenue recognized during the three months ended March 31, 2020 was £8,255,000, of which £7,680,000 was included in deferred revenue at January 1, 2020 and the balance £575,000 relates to reimbursed research and development costs. Reimbursed research and development costs are recognized gross as revenue. No revenue was recognized in the three months ended March 31, 2021 relating to performance obligations satisfied in previous years (for the three months ended March 31, 2020: £nil).
At
March 31,
2021
£’000
At
December 31,
2020
£’000
Current deferred revenue:
GlaxoSmithKline
1,260
2,668
Eli Lilly
7,361
7,361
Genentech
17,089
17,089
Current deferred revenue
25,710
27,118
Non-current deferred revenue:
GlaxoSmithKline
-
1,371
Eli Lilly
-
-
Genentech
19,225
23,497
Non-current deferred revenue
19,225
24,868
Total deferred revenue
44,935
51,986
Deferred revenue is in respect of the upfront fee and development milestone consideration received from the various collaboration agreements in advance of services performed by the Group.
4. Finance income
For the three
months ended
March 31, 2021
£’000
For the three
months ended
March 31, 2020
£’000
Bank interest on cash and cash equivalents
11
86
Interest on investment in sub-lease
11
10
Gain on change in fair value of derivative liability
-
1,287
22
1,383
10
The derivative liability represents a foreign exchange call option over certain series B shares which was settled in full in March 2020, resulting in a gain of £1,287,000 based on the fair value as at derecognition, and a credit to equity of £3,840,000.
The fair value of this derivative liability at the time of derecognition was determined using an option pricing model using a range of inputs both quoted, observable and unobservable in nature. The unobservable input is the expected final closing of the series B preferred share financing. The resulting derivative liability is not sensitive to changes in the expected close date nor in changes to other underlying input assumptions.
5. Finance costs
For the three
months ended
March 31, 2021
£’000
For the three
months ended
March 31, 2020
£’000
Interest on lease liabilities
439
642
Interest expenses on financial liabilities measured at amortized cost
1,421
159
Loss from change in fair value of embedded derivative asset
-
266
1,860
1,067
Interest expenses for the three months ended March 31, 2021 related to the $50.0 million of borrowings under the debt facility with Oxford Finance entered into on November 6, 2020 and includes £546,000, representing a fee of $750,000 that became payable to Oxford Finance on completion of the IPO on February 9, 2021 (see Note 11).
Interest expenses for the three months ended March 31, 2020 related to the convertible loan with the Gates Foundation, which was partially converted into series B preferred shares in March 2020.
The convertible loan received from the Gates Foundation contains conversion features which were accounted for as an embedded derivative and separated from the convertible loan. During the three months ended March 31, 2020, the loss from the change in fair value of the embedded derivative asset represented the movement in fair value of this embedded derivative asset on derecognition arising from the conversion of the loan into series B preferred shares.
The fair value of this embedded derivative asset at the time of derecognition was determined using an option pricing model, discounted and probability weighted for the conversion features within the underlying convertible loan, which included unobservable (Level 3) inputs supported by little or no market activity. Significant unobservable inputs used in the fair value measurement of the embedded derivative asset were predominantly regarding the probability of each of the conversion features occurring.
6. Income tax
Income tax credit is recognized at an amount determined by multiplying the loss before taxation for the interim reporting period by the Group’s best estimate of the weighted-average annual income taxation rate expected for the full financial year, adjusted for the tax effect of certain items recognized in full in the interim period. As such, the effective tax rate in the interim financial statements may differ from the Group’s estimate of the effective tax rate for the annual financial statements.
The Group’s consolidated effective tax rate in respect of continuing operations for the three months ended March 31, 2021 was 13.9% (for the three months ended March 31, 2020: 14.5%).
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A deferred tax asset of £2,213,000 has been recognized as of March 31, 2021 (December 31, 2020: £2,230,000) representing unused tax credits carried forward for Immunocore LLC following an annual assessment, or periodically as required, of all available and applicable information, including its forecasts of costs and future profitability and the resulting ability to reverse the recognized deferred tax assets over a short period of time.
7. Basic and diluted loss per share
For the three
months ended
March 31,
2021
For the three
months ended
March 31,
2020
Loss for the period (£000’s)
(29,038
)
(18,639
)
Basic and diluted weighted average number of shares
38,451,332
25,263,027
Basic and diluted loss per share (£) (1)
(0.76
)
(0.74
)
(1) The basic and diluted loss per share are adjusted for the (i) the exchange of shares of Immunocore Limited for shares of Immunocore Holdings Limited on a 1 for 100 basis, and (ii) the reorganization of the share capital of Immunocore Holdings plc, resulting in a consolidation with the effect of a 20 to 1 reverse stock split on the Company’s ordinary shares and non-voting ordinary shares, all of which took place in connection with the IPO which closed on February 9, 2021. Refer to Note 12 for further information.
Basic loss per share is calculated by dividing the loss for the period attributable to the equity holders of the Group by the weighted average number of ordinary shares outstanding during the period, including ordinary shares represented by ADSs. The dilutive effect of potential shares through equity settled transactions are considered to be anti-dilutive as they would decrease the loss per share and are, therefore, excluded from the calculation of diluted loss per share.
8. Property, plant and equipment
During the three months ended March 31, 2021, the Group acquired assets at a cost of £220,000, of which £179,000 were additions to plant and equipment, primarily laboratory equipment, and wrote off leasehold improvements totaling £190,000. During the year ended December 31, 2020, the Group acquired assets at a cost of £3,074,000, of which £564,000 were additions to leasehold properties and improvements, £775,000 of plant and equipment, primarily laboratory equipment, and £1,735,000 of assets under construction, primarily related to leasehold improvements.
9. Leases
Right of use assets
Following a review of the Group’s lease commitments under leasehold agreements during the year ended December 31, 2020, the Group identified leasehold agreements in excess of the Group’s future requirements. As a result of this review, the Group terminated the leases for two leasehold properties reducing the Group’s right-of-use assets by £9,108,000.
Lease liabilities
March 31,
2021
£’000
December 31,
2020
£’000
Current
1,764
2,043
Non-current
25,035
25,190
Total lease liabilities
26,799
27,233
During the year ended December 31, 2020, the lease term for two leasehold properties was terminated and the lease liability for four leasehold properties were remeasured reducing the associated lease liability by £10,414,000 and £1,075,000, respectively. The Group also entered into a new lease for a leasehold property with an associated lease liability of £405,000 as at December 31, 2020.
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The Group entered into two guarantee agreements on December 23, 2020, associated with the termination of the lease term for one of the leasehold properties. These agreements indemnify the lessor for certain costs in the event of the new lessee defaulting under their lease agreement for the leasehold property. As at March 31, 2021, the Group does not expect to make future payments as a result of these agreements.
10. Trade and other receivables
March 31,
2021
£’000
December 31,
2020
£’000
Trade receivables
687
2,051
Other receivables
1,121
1,722
Prepayments and accrued income
7,013
6,507
8,821
10,280
Included within prepayments and accrued income are amounts paid in advance for clinical trials that are expected to be repaid within 12 months.
11. Interest-bearing loans and borrowings
March 31,
2021
£’000
December 31,
2020
£’000
Current interest-bearing loans and borrowings
546
-
Non-current interest-bearing loans and borrowings
36,437
36,654
36,983
36,654
On November 6, 2020, the Group entered into a loan and security agreement with Oxford Finance for the provision of up to $100 million debt financing to be provided under three tranches, of which the first tranche of $50 million was received on execution of the agreement. Upon closing of the IPO on February 9, 2021, a fee of $750,000 became payable to Oxford Finance. The carrying value of the Oxford Finance loan approximates the fair value of the loan.
12. Capital and reserves
IPO and Impact of Corporate Reorganization
On January 7, 2021 Immunocore Holdings Limited was incorporated as a private limited company under the laws of England and Wales with nominal assets and liabilities for the purpose of becoming the holding company of Immunocore Limited.
On January 22, 2021, each holder of series A preferred shares, series B preferred shares, series C preferred shares, Growth Shares and ordinary shares in Immunocore Limited, sold and transferred their shares to Immunocore Holdings Limited in exchange for 100 shares of the same class at par value of 0.01 pence in Immunocore Holdings Limited. Following this share exchange, Immunocore Limited became a wholly owned subsidiary of Immunocore Holdings Limited.
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All Immunocore Limited share options granted to directors and employees under share option plans that were in existence immediately prior to the reorganization were exchanged for share options in Immunocore Holdings Limited on a one-for-100 basis.
Following the share exchange, Immunocore Limited undertook a reorganization of its share capital to re-designate its series A preferred shares, series B preferred shares, series C preferred shares and Growth shares into a single class of ordinary shares and subsequently undertook a share capital reduction, cancelling all amounts standing to the credit of its share premium account and cancelling 6,414,412 ordinary shares.
On February 1, 2021, Immunocore Holdings Limited was re-registered as a public limited company (“plc”) with the name Immunocore Holdings plc. The Company’s consolidated assets and liabilities immediately following the reorganization were the same as Immunocore Limited immediately before the reorganization.
Effective immediately prior to completion of the IPO, the Company re-organized its share capital whereby all of the outstanding series A preferred shares, series B preferred shares and series C preferred shares were re-designated as ordinary shares of the Company on a one for one basis. A total of 16,632,540 of the ordinary shares, following the re-designation of the series C preferred shares, were converted to a separate class of non-voting ordinary shares. A total of 6,250,000 Growth Shares were re-designated of which 4,324,000 of the Growth Shares were re-designated as deferred shares of the Company. The remaining 1,926,000 Growth Shares were re-designated in the ratio of one ordinary share, issued for non-cash consideration and three deferred shares.
Immediately following these re-designations referred to above every 20 ordinary shares of £0.0001 and every 20 non-voting ordinary shares of £0.0001 in the Company were consolidated into one ordinary share and one non-voting ordinary share of £0.002.
On February 9, 2021, the Company completed an IPO of 11,426,280 ADSs representing 11,426,280 ordinary shares with nominal value of £0.002 per ordinary share, for gross proceeds of $297,083,000 (£226,527,000). In addition to the ADSs sold in the IPO, the Company completed the concurrent sale of an additional 576,923 ADSs, representing 576,923 ordinary shares with a nominal value of £0.002 per ordinary share, at the initial offering price of $26.00 per ADS, for gross proceeds of approximately $15.0 million, in a private placement to the Gates Foundation. A total of £15,543,000 representing underwriting discounts and commissions and other offering expenses incurred incrementally and directly attributable to the offering of securities and have been deducted from the gross proceeds of the IPO.
Under the terms of the Company’s agreement with the Gates Foundation, the Group is required to develop, manufacture and commercialize soluble TCR bispecific therapeutic candidates targeted to mutually agreed neglected diseases, currently HIV, with the potential to treat people at an affordable price in developing countries. In the event of certain defaults by the Group under the agreement, the Gates Foundation has the right to sell, or require the Group to buy-back, any of the shareholdings in the Group held by the Gates Foundation. In such an event, if within 12 months after such redemption or sale, the Group experiences a change in control at a valuation of more than 150% of the valuation used for the redemption or the sale of the shares, the Group has agreed to pay the Gates Foundation compensation equal to the excess of what it would have received in such transaction if it still held its shares at the time of such change of control over what it received in the sale or redemption of its shares.
The table below reflects the impact of the corporate reorganization.
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Share Capital
Issued share capital (0.2p per share, except deferred shares which are 0.01p per share)
Growth
Shares
Series A
shares
Series B
shares
Series C
shares
Ordinary shares
Deferred shares
At January 1, 2021
62,891
1,699,576
1,148,703
823,719
2,679,764
-
Impact of corporate reorganization
(62,500
)
(1,699,576
)
(1,148,703
)
(823,719
)
29,103,121
5,793,501
At January 1, 2021 – adjusted
391
-
-
-
31,782,885
5,793,501
Repurchased and cancelled
(391
)
-
-
-
-
-
New shares issued for cash
-
-
-
-
12,003,203
-
At March 31, 2021
- - - -
43,786,088
5,793,501
The impact of the corporate reorganization reflects the combined effect of each of the steps of the corporate reorganization set out in this Note 12. Included with ordinary shares are 831,627 non-voting ordinary shares. A total of 391 Growth Shares with a nominal value of £0.0001 per Growth Share were repurchased and cancelled.
Shares at Par Value
March 31, 2021
£
December 31, 2020
£
Allotted, called up and fully paid
Ordinary shares
87,572
268
Series A shares
-
170
Series B shares
-
115
Series C shares
-
82
Growth shares
-
6
Deferred shares
579
-
88,151
641
Share premium
£’000
At January 1, 2021 – adjusted
-
New shares issued for cash
210,961
Equity-settled share-based payment transactions
325
At March 31, 2021
211,286
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The £325,000 of share premium is attributable to ordinary shares issued for non-cash consideration arising from the redesignation of 1,926,000 Growth Shares in the ratio of one ordinary share, issued for non-cash consideration and three deferred shares.
Nature and purpose of reserves
The share-based payments reserve is used to recognize the value of equity-settled share-based payments provided to employees. All other reserves are as stated in the consolidated statement of changes in equity.
The other reserve arose as a result of the corporate reorganization described above.
No dividends were paid or declared in the three months ended March 31, 2021 (for the three months ended March 31, 2020: £nil).
13. Share-based payments
The Group operates various employee share schemes that grant equity settled awards to certain employees and directors to acquire shares in the Group at a specified exercise price. Grants are normally exercisable over a four-year period with 25% vesting at the end of the first year and the remaining award vesting quarterly over the following three years. All awards lapse on the tenth anniversary from the date of grant and are not entitled to dividends.
The total charge, to the consolidated statement of loss and other comprehensive loss, for such share-based payment plans during the three months ended March 31, 2021 was £8,596,000 (three months ended March 31, 2020 £205,000).
During the three months ended March 31, 2021, as a result of the reorganization (see Note 12), the following changes were undertaken in respect to share options and growth share awards in existence immediately prior to the reorganization.
All Immunocore Limited share options and Growth Shares granted to directors and employees under share incentive arrangements that were in existence immediately prior to the reorganization were exchanged for share options and Growth Shares in the Company on a one-for-100 basis with no change in any of the vesting terms and exercise prices.
Immediately prior to completion of the IPO, the Company re-organized its share capital which included the re-designation of 6,250,000 Growth Shares, or 312,500 Growth Shares reflecting the consolidation of every 20 ordinary shares into one ordinary share of £0.002, as both ordinary shares and deferred shares (see Note 12). Previously awarded Growth Shares were replaced with an award of share options in the Company on a one-for-one basis. For 216,200 of these replacement share option awards, the vesting terms and exercise prices were substantially unchanged. For the remaining 96,300 replacement share option awards the vesting terms and exercise prices and revised to an extent that these Growth Shares are considered cancelled, for the purpose of determining the share-based payment charge, prior to the replacement share options being awarded In addition, the replacement ordinary shares that arose from the re-designation of Growth Shares resulted in an incremental fair value of £325,000.
Immediately following these re-designations referred to above every 20 share options over ordinary shares of £0.0001 in the Company was consolidated into one share option over an ordinary share of £0.002. At the same time, the exercise price for each of the outstanding share options was adjusted to reflect the reorganization, subject to a minimum exercise price equal to the nominal value of a share and was re-designated into U.S. Dollars. The adjustment to exercise price did not impact the fair value of the underlying share options, with the exception of the 96,300 replacement share options re-designated from Growth Shares where the exercise price was increased.
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Those share options awarded in 2019 were modified during the three months ended March 31, 2021, through the removal of accelerated vesting conditions under certain circumstances. The incremental fair value granted was valued on a consistent basis to other awards made within the Group and was valued at $5.19 per share
and has been applied to those unvested awards as at the date of modification resulting in an incremental charge to the consolidated statement of loss and other comprehensive loss of £1,820,000 for that period. During the three months ended March 31, 2020, those share options awarded in 2019 were modified through a reduction in the associated exercise price from $40.932 to $17.4643 per share. The incremental fair value granted was valued on a consistent basis to other awards made within the Group and was valued at $3.84 per share and has been applied to those unvested awards as at the date of modification resulting in an incremental charge to the consolidated statement of loss of £65,000 for that period.
During the three months ended March 31, 2021, options over a total of 4,482,045 shares were awarded at the time of the IPO which will vest over a four-year period from the date of grant, with 25% of the award vesting at the end of the first year and the remaining award vesting quarterly over the following three years. The awards are not entitled to dividends prior to exercise. There were no grants during the three months ended March 31, 2020.
The number and weighted average exercise prices of share options are as follows:
Number of shares issuable
Number of share
options (#)
Weighted average
exercise price ($)
Outstanding at January 1, 2021
4,551,359
17.16
Awards granted
4,482,045
26.00
Awards exercised
-
-
Awards forfeited
(30,175
)
21.34
Awards replacing growth shares
312,500
38.72
Outstanding at March 31, 2021
9,315,729
22.14
Exercisable at March 31, 2021
2,012,001
19.40
The weighted average fair value of options granted in the three months ended March 31, 2021 was $16.16.
The number and weighted average hurdle rate of Growth Shares are as follows:
Number of shares issuable
Number of growth
Shares
Weighted average
hurdle rate $
Outstanding at January 1, 2021
314,456
37.53
Awards forfeited
(1,956
)
40.95
Awards replaced with options
(312,500
)
37.489
Outstanding at March 31, 2021
-
-
Exercisable at March 31, 2021
-
-
No Growth Shares were issued in the three months ended March 31, 2020
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For share options outstanding at March 31, 2021, the range of exercise prices and weighted average remaining contractual life are as follows:
Share options
Exercise price $
Number of
Options
Weighted average
remaining
contractual life
11.8348
459,970
3.9
17.4643
4,001,580
9.2
26.00
4,576,939
9.9
32.983
16,545
4.8
40.932
123,850
8.5
46.3896
136,845
9.9
Awards granted in the three months ended March 31, 2021, have been valued using the Black-Scholes option pricing model. The assumptions used in the models for awards granted during the three months ended March 31, 2021, are as follows:
Share options
Share price at grant date
$
26.00
Exercise price
$
26.00
Expected volatility
88
%
Expected life
4 years
Risk-free rate
(0.05
%)
Fair value
$
16.16
As the Group completed its IPO on February 9, 2021, there is insufficient trading history at this time to derive historical volatility from the Group’s own ADS price. Accordingly, the expected volatility is determined by reference to the historical volatility of similar listed entities. The expected volatility used reflects the assumption that the historical volatility over a period similar to the life of the awards is indicative of future trends, which may not necessarily be the actual outcome. The expected life of the share options is based on expectations and is not necessarily indicative of exercise patterns that may occur. The risk-free rate is based on the Bank of England’s estimates of gilt yield curve as at the respective grant dates.
14. Trade and other payables
March 31,
2021
£’000
December 31,
2020
£’000
Trade payables
5,165
5,783
Other taxation and social security
623
620
Accruals
20,571
19,325
26,359
25,728
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15. Commitments and contingencies
The following table summarizes the Group’s contractual obligations as of March 31, 2021:
£’000s
Less than
1 year
1-3
years
3-5
years
More than
5 years
Total
Lease liabilities – existing
3,490
5,247
4,249
31,979
44,965
Lease liabilities – contingent
282
2,308
2,418
1,558
6,566
Manufacturing
2,172
74
-
-
2,246
Capital commitments
72
-
-
-
72
Total contractual obligations
6,016
7,629
6,667
33,537
53,849
The following table summarizes the Group’s contractual obligations as of December 31, 2020:
£’000s
Less than
1 year
1-3
years
3-5
years
More than
5 years
Total
Lease liabilities – existing
3,529
5,322
4,286
32,600
45,737
Lease liabilities – contingent
-
2,254
2,471
1,841
6,566
Manufacturing
2,824
500
-
-
3,324
Capital commitments
77
-
-
-
77
Total contractual obligations
6,430
8,076
6,757
34,441
55,704
The Group has contractual obligations for two leasehold properties under which it is obligated to take on the leases should the properties become vacant at specified dates in the future. For both properties, the Group has reassessed these contingent events as at March 31, 2021 and has continued to recognize an additional contingent commitment totaling £6,566,000 (December 31, 2020: £6,566,000).
The Group entered into two guarantee agreements during the year ended December 31, 2020, associated with the termination of the lease term for one of the leasehold properties. These agreements indemnify the lessor for certain costs in the event of the new lessee defaulting under their lease agreement for the leasehold property. As at March 31, 2021, the Group does not expect to make future payments as a result of these agreements.
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Exhibit 99.2
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
You should read the following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations together with our unaudited condensed consolidated interim financial statements and the related notes to those statements included as Exhibit 99.1 to this Report on Form 6-K, or this Report, submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission, or the SEC, on May 12, 2021. We also recommend that you read our discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations together with our audited financial statements and notes thereto, and the section entitled “Risk Factors”, each of which appear in our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2020 filed with the SEC on March 25, 2021, or our Annual Report.
We present our unaudited condensed consolidated interim financial statements in accordance with International Accounting Standard 34, “Interim Financial Reporting” or IAS 34, which may differ in material respects from generally accepted accounting principles in other jurisdictions, including generally accepted accounting principles in the United States, or U.S. GAAP.
We maintain our books and records in pounds sterling. For the convenience of the reader, we have translated pound sterling amounts as of and for the period ended March 31, 2021 into U.S. dollars at the noon buying rate of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on March 31, 2021, which was £1.00 to $1.3795. These translations should not be considered representations that any such amounts have been, could have been or could be converted into U.S. dollars at that or any other exchange rate as of that or any other date.
We have historically conducted our business through Immunocore Limited, and therefore our historical consolidated financial statements previously presented the consolidated results of operations of Immunocore Limited. Following the completion of our initial public offering in February 2021, our consolidated financial statements present the consolidated results of operations of Immunocore Holdings plc.
Unless otherwise indicated or the context otherwise requires, all references to “Immunocore,” the “Company,” “we,” “our,” “us” or similar terms refer to Immunocore Holdings plc.
The statements in this discussion regarding industry outlook, our expectations regarding our future performance, liquidity and capital resources and other non-historical statements are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the risks and uncertainties set forth in the “Risk Factors” section of our Annual Report and any subsequent reports that we file with the SEC.
Overview
We are a late-stage biotechnology company pioneering the development of a novel class of TCR bispecific immunotherapies called ImmTAX – Immune mobilizing monoclonal TCRs Against X disease – designed to treat a broad range of diseases, including cancer, infectious and autoimmune. Leveraging our proprietary, flexible, off-the-shelf ImmTAX platform, we are developing a deep pipeline in multiple therapeutic areas, including five clinical stage programs in oncology and infectious disease, advanced pre-clinical programs in autoimmune disease and multiple earlier pre-clinical programs.
To date, we have dosed over 600 cancer patients with our ImmTAX product candidates, which we believe is the largest clinical data set of any bispecific in a solid tumor and any TCR therapeutic. Our clinical programs are being conducted with patients with a broad range of cancers including lung, bladder, gastric, head and neck and ovarian, among others. Our lead product candidate tebentafusp demonstrated superior overall survival (OS) in a Phase 3 randomized clinical trial, we believe this is the first TCR to demonstrate survival benefit, the first bispecific t-cell engager to improve OS in solid tumor, and first immunotherapy in low tumor mutational burden. Tebentafusp is the lead candidate from our ImmTAX platform and has the potential to be the first new therapy in uveal melanoma in four decades. Our following ImmTax product candidates have the potential to address other tumor types with larger addressable patient populations and significant unmet need.
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Our ImmTAC Platform (Oncology)
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Tebentafusp, our ImmTAC molecule targeting an HLA-A*02:01 gp100 antigen, demonstrated monotherapy activity and achieved the primary endpoint of superior overall survival in a randomized Phase 3 clinical trial in patients with previously untreated metastatic uveal melanoma. The OS Hazard Ratio (HR) in the intent-to-treat population favored tebentafusp, HR=0.51 (95% CI: 0.37, 0.71); p< 0.0001, over investigator’s choice (82% pembrolizumab; 12% ipilimumab; 6% dacarbazine). We anticipate completing submission of a Biologics License Application, or BLA, to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, in the third quarter of 2021, followed by a Marketing Authorization Application, or MAA, submission to the European Medicines Agency, or EMA.
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IMC-C103C, our ImmTAC molecule targeting an HLA-A*02:01 MAGE-A4 antigen, is currently being evaluated in a first-in-human, Phase 1/2 dose escalation trial in patients with solid tumor cancers including non-small-cell lung cancer, or NSCLC, gastric, head and neck, ovarian and synovial sarcoma. We anticipate reporting Phase 1 initial data from this trial in the fourth quater of 2021.
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IMC-F106C, our ImmTAC molecule targeting an HLA-A*02:01 PRAME antigen is currently being evaluated in a first-in-human, Phase 1/2 dose escalation trial in patients with multiple solid tumor cancers. PRAME is overexpressed in many solid tumors including NSCLC, SCLC, endometrial, ovarian, and breast cancers. We anticipate reporting Phase 1 initial data from this trial in mid-2022.
Our ImmTAV Platform (Infectious Diseases)
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IMC-I109V, our ImmTAV molecule targeting a conserved hepatitis B virus, or HBV, envelope antigen, is our most advanced ImmTAV program and is currently being evaluated in a Phase 1/2 clinical trial in patients with chronic HBV who are non-cirrhotic, hepatitis B e-Antigen negative, and virally suppressed on chronic nucleot(s)ide analogue therapy. Our goal is to develop a functional cure for HBV and we anticipate commencing dosing in our Phase 1 single ascending dose, or SAD, trial in mid-2021.
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IMC-M113V, our ImmTAV molecule targeting a human immunosuppression virus, or HIV, gag antigen bispecific TCR molecule, is currently in pre-clinical development. We anticipate regulatory submission to enable clinical testing during the second half of 2021.
Significant Events in the Three Months Ended March 31, 2021
On February 9, 2021, we announced the closing of our initial public offering, or IPO, and concurrent private placement. The financing was $312.1 million in aggregate, of which approximately $287 million in net proceeds was from the IPO on Nasdaq of 11,426,280 American Depositary Shares, or ADSs, including the exercise in full by the underwriters of their option to purchase an additional 1,490,384 ADSs, at an IPO price of $26.00 per ADS and $15 million from the completion of the concurrent sale of an additional 576,923 ADSs at the initial offering price of $26.00 per ADS, for gross proceeds of approximately $15.0 million, in a private placement to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, or the Gates Foundation.
On February 16, 2021, we announced the appointment of Ralph Torbay as our new Head of Commercial and the appointment of Dr. Roy S. Herbst as a member of our Board of Directors effective January 28, 2021. Dr. Herbst served as a member of Immunocore’s Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) and is currently Ensign Professor of Medicine (Medical Oncology), Professor of Pharmacology, Chief of Medical Oncology and Associate Cancer Center Director for Translational Research at Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital.
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On February 19, 2021, we announced tebentafusp was granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation by the FDA for unresectable or metastatic uveal melanoma. Additionally, in February 2021, the European Commission, upon recommendation of the EMA’s Committee for Orphan Medicinal Products (COMP) awarded tebentafusp Orphan Drug Designation for the treatment of uveal melanoma. Medicines that meet the EMA’s Orphan Drug Designation criteria qualify for several incentives, including ten years of market exclusivity, protocol assistance, and potentially reduced fees for regulatory activities.
Recent Developments since March 31, 2021
In April 2021, we launched a global early access program for tebentafusp in metastatic uveal melanoma.
On April 10, 2021, we presented Phase 3 clinical trial data from IMCgp100-202 clinical trial in an oral presentation in the Phase 3 clinical trials plenary session at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2021. Tebentafusp demonstrated a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in overall survival (OS) as a first-line treatment in mUM. In the intent-to-treat population, tebentafusp demonstrated a median overall survival of 21.7 months compared to 16.0 months for investigator’s choice and with 73% of patients alive at 1 year for tebentafusp vs. 58% for investigator’s choice. The OS Hazard Ratio (HR) favored tebentafusp, HR=0.51 (95% CI: 0.37, 0.71); p< 0.0001, over investigator’s choice (82% pembrolizumab; 12% ipilimumab; 6% dacarbazine). In addition, tebentafusp resulted in a statistically significant longer PFS. Treatment-related adverse events were manageable and consistent with the proposed mechanism.
On April 28, 2021, we announced one oral presentation and three posters detailing lead candidate tebentafusp were accepted at the 2021 American Society of Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting. ASCO will be held virtually from June 4-8, 2021. Per ASCO’s Embargo & Release Information, abstracts will be released to the public on ASCO’s Meeting Library at 5:00 p.m. ET on May 19, 2021.
Operating Results
Basic and diluted loss per share was a £0.76 or $1.05 for the quarter ended March 31, 2021 compared to an adjusted £0.74 for the quarter ended March 31, 2020. Total operating loss for the quarter was £31.9 million or $44.0 million compared to £22.1 million for the same period last year, largely due to an increase in employee costs associated with the non-cash share-based payment charge.
For the three months ended March 31, 2021, revenue from collaboration agreements was unchanged at £8.3 million or $11.4 million compared to the same period last year. For the three months ended March 31, 2021, our research and development expenses were £19.9 million or $27.4 million, as compared to £20.8 million for the three months ended March 31, 2020. For the quarter, our administrative expenses were £20.2 million or $27.8 million compared to £9.6 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2020 including a £7.7 million increase in the non-cash share-based payment charge.
Cash and cash equivalents are £313.1 million or approximately $431 million as of March 31, 2021 compared to £68.4 million for the same period last year.
Components of Results of Operations
Revenue
To date, we have not generated any revenue from the sale of marketed pharmaceutical products. If our development efforts for our product candidates are successful and result in regulatory approval of a product candidate, we may generate revenue in the future from product sales. However, there can be no assurance as to when we will generate such revenue, if at all.
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Revenue from Collaboration Agreements
Our revenue has been solely derived from our collaboration agreements with Genentech, GSK and Eli Lilly. Our revenue from collaboration agreements consists of non-refundable upfront payments, development milestones as well as reimbursement of research and development expenses. To the extent that existing or potential future collaborations generate revenue, such revenue may vary due to many uncertainties in the development of our product candidates and other factors.
As of March 31, 2021, we have received a total of $216.8 million in upfront and milestone payments, intended to fund the research and development activities under each contract. As part of the agreements, we contribute our ImmTAC technology and commit to participate in joint research activities. In addition, we agree to license, or option certain target rights and the possible product candidates developed under the collaboration. The agreements provide for future payments if development, regulatory or sales milestones are achieved. In addition, we are entitled to future royalties. The uncertainty of achieving these certain milestones significantly impacts our ability to project revenue.
Upfront payments and development milestones are initially recorded on our statement of financial position as deferred revenue and are subsequently recognized as revenue as the underlying programs progress through research and development using an estimate of the percentage completion of each program in accordance with our accounting policy as described further in “Critical Accounting Policies and Significant Judgments and Estimates.”
Operating Expenses
Research and Development Expenses
Research and development expenses consist primarily of costs incurred for current or planned investigations undertaken with the prospect of gaining new scientific or technical knowledge and understanding and consist primarily of personnel-related costs, including salaries, for the various research and development departments, costs associated with clinical trial activities undertaken by contract research organizations, or CROs, and external manufacturing costs undertaken by contract manufacturing organizations, or CMOs, research and development laboratory consumables, internal clinical trial expenses and costs associated with maintaining laboratory equipment. All research and development expenses are expensed as incurred due to scientific uncertainty. Research and development expenses incurred with external organizations typically relate to clinical programs and are assigned to the individual programs, however for pre-clinical programs and other research spend incurred externally, such spend is typically not assigned to individual programs. Internal research and development expenses typically relate to personnel-related costs and research and development laboratory consumables and due to the cross functional expertise of our people it is not possible to provide a breakdown of internal costs by program.
We expect our research and development expenses to remain significant in the future as we advance existing and future product candidates into and through clinical studies and pursue regulatory approval. The process of conducting the necessary clinical studies to obtain regulatory approval is costly and time-consuming. We maintain our headcount at a level required to support our continued research activities and development of our product candidates. Clinical trials generally become larger and more costly to conduct as they advance into later stages. We cannot determine with certainty the timing of initiation, the duration or the completion costs of current or future preclinical studies and clinical trials of our product candidates due to the inherently unpredictable nature of preclinical and clinical development. Clinical and preclinical development timelines, the probability of success and development costs can differ materially from expectations. At this time, we cannot reasonably estimate or know the nature, timing and estimated costs of the efforts that will be necessary to complete the development of any product candidates that we develop from our programs. As a result, our research and development expenses may vary substantially from period to period based on the timing of our research and development activities. Several of our research and development programs are at an early stage. We must demonstrate the safety and efficacy of our product candidates in humans through extensive clinical testing. We may experience numerous unforeseen events during, or as a result of, the testing process that could delay or prevent commercialization of our products, including but not limited to the following:
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after reviewing trial results, our collaboration partners may abandon projects that might previously have been believed to be promising;
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we, our collaboration partners, or regulators may suspend or terminate clinical trials if the participating subjects or patients are being exposed to unacceptable health risks;
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our potential products may not have the desired effects or may include undesirable side effects or other characteristics that preclude regulatory approval or limit their commercial use if approved;
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manufacturers may not meet the necessary standards for the production of the product candidates or may not be able to supply the product candidates in a sufficient quantity;
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regulatory authorities may find that our clinical trial design or conduct does not meet the applicable approval requirements; and
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safety and efficacy results in various human clinical trials reported in scientific and medical literature may not be indicative of results we obtain in our clinical trials.
Any changes in the outcome of any of these variables with respect to the development of our product candidates in preclinical and clinical development could mean a significant change in the costs and timing associated with the development of these product candidates. We may never succeed in achieving regulatory approval for any of our product candidates. We may obtain unexpected results from our clinical trials. We may elect to discontinue, delay or modify clinical trials of some product candidates or focus on other product candidates. For example, if the FDA, EMA or another regulatory authority were to delay our planned start of clinical trials or require us to conduct clinical trials or other testing beyond those that we currently expect or if we experience significant delays in enrollment in any of our planned clinical trials, we could be required to expend significant additional financial resources and time on the completion of clinical development of that product candidate.
Administrative Expenses
Administrative expenses consist primarily of personnel-related costs, including salaries and share-based compensation expense, for corporate and other administrative and operational functions including finance, legal, human resources, and information technology, as well as facility-related costs. These costs relate to the operation of the business, unrelated to the research and development function or any individual program.
Due to our substantial increase in planned research and development expenses, as explained above, we also expect that our administrative expenses will increase proportionally. We expect that we will incur increased accounting, audit, legal, regulatory, compliance, director, and officer insurance costs as well as investor and public relations expenses associated with being a public company. We anticipate that the additional costs for these services will substantially increase our administrative expenses. Additionally, if and when we receive regulatory approval of a product candidate, we anticipate an increase in payroll and expenses as a result of our preparation for commercial operations.
Net Other Operating (Expense) / Income
Net other operating (expense) / income consists primarily of profit on derecognition of leases, the profit or loss arising on the disposal of property, plant and equipment and sublease income.
Finance Income
Finance income arises primarily from interest income on cash and cash equivalents, short-term deposits and gains on entering into sub-lease arrangements on leasehold properties as recognized under the accounting standard IFRS 16 “Leases” and gains arising on changes in the fair value of an embedded derivative asset and derivative liability.
Finance Costs
Finance costs consist of the movement in fair value of an embedded derivative asset and derivative liability and interest expenses related to financial liabilities and lease liabilities as recognized under the accounting standard IFRS 16, “Leases”.
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Income Tax Credit
Our income tax balance largely comprises research and development tax credits. Research and development credits are obtained at a maximum rate of 33.35% of our qualifying research and development.
We are subject to corporate taxation in the United Kingdom. Our wholly owned U.S. subsidiaries, Immunocore LLC and Immunocore Commercial LLC, are subject to corporate taxation in the United States. Due to the nature of our business, we have generated losses since inception. Our income tax credit recognized represents the sum of the research and development tax credits recoverable in the United Kingdom and income tax payable in the United States.
As a company that carries out extensive research and development activities, we benefit from the U.K. research and development tax credit regime and are able to surrender some of our losses for a cash rebate of up to 33.35% of expenditures related to eligible research and development projects. Qualifying expenditures largely comprise clinical trial and manufacturing costs, employment costs for relevant staff and consumables incurred as part of research and development projects. Certain subcontracted qualifying research and development expenditures are eligible for a cash rebate of up to 21.68%. A large portion of costs relating to our research and development, clinical trials and manufacturing activities are eligible for inclusion within these tax credit cash rebate claims.
We may not be able to continue to claim research and development tax credits in the future under the current research and development tax credit scheme when we become a public company because we may no longer qualify as a small or medium-sized company. However, we may be able to file under a large company scheme.
Un-surrendered tax losses are carried forward to be offset against future taxable profits. No deferred tax asset is recognized in respect of accumulated tax losses in the United Kingdom because future profits are not sufficiently certain. A deferred tax asset is recognized in respect of the unused tax credits for the subsidiary in the United States.
In the event we generate revenues in the future, we may benefit from the new “patent box” initiative that allows profits attributable to revenues from patents or patented products to be taxed at a lower rate than other revenue. The rate of tax for relevant streams of revenue for companies receiving this relief will be 10%.
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Results of Operations
Comparison of the Three Months Ended March 31, 2021 and 2020
The following table summarizes our consolidated statement of loss for each period presented:
Three Months Ended March 31,
2021
2020
$'000
£'000
£'000
(unaudited)
Revenue
11,408
8,270
8,255
Research and development expenses
(27,431
)
(19,885
)
(20,779
)
Administrative expenses
(27,844
)
(20,184
)
(9,605
)
Net other operating (expense) / income
(113
)
(82
)
10
Operating loss
(43,980
)
(31,881
)
(22,119
)
Finance income
30
22
1,383
Finance costs
(2,565
)
(1,860
)
(1,067
)
Non-operating (expense) / income
(2,535
)
(1,838
)
316
Loss before taxes
(46,515
)
(33,719
)
(21,803
)
Income tax credit
6,457
4,681
3,164
Loss for the period
(40,058
)
(29,038
)
(18,639
)
The results for the three months ended March 31, 2021 are not necessarily indicative of the operating results to be expected for the full year or for any other subsequent interim period.
Revenue
Three Months Ended March 31,
2021
2020
$'000
£'000
£'000
(unaudited)
GlaxoSmithKline
4,649
3,370
695
Eli Lilly
-
-
2,674
Genentech
6,759
4,900
4,886
Total
11,408
8,270
8,255
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For the three months ended March 31, 2021, revenue from collaboration agreements was unchanged at £8.3 million compared to the three months ended March 31, 2020. No revenue has been recognized from the Eli Lilly Collaboration during the three months ended March 31, 2021, while a review is undertaken of the two ongoing programs. During the three months ended March 31, 2020, £3.1 million of revenue was recognized from the Lilly Collaboration following a change in program focus partially offset by a reduction in revenue of £0.4 million arising from the change in estimate noted below. The increase in revenue recognized from the GSK collaboration of £2.7 million is primarily due to GlaxoSmithKline having forgone their option to acquire an exclusive license to the NY-ESO program and ownership of the program resulting in the recognition of £2.5 million revenue during the three months ended March 31, 2021.
During 2020, we reviewed and revised the estimated completion of each of the programs under our collaboration agreements, arising from the availability of additional historical data as the programs progress through our research and development activities. The impact of this change in estimate decreased revenue recognized in the three months ended March 31, 2020 by £0.7 million.
Research and Development Expenses
Three Months Ended March 31,
2021
2020
$'000
£'000
£'000
(unaudited)
External research and development expenses:
Tebentafusp
11,133
8,069
9,464
IMC-F106C (PRAME)
1,717
1,245
540
IMC-C103C (MAGE-A4)
1,481
1,074
1,401
IMC-I109V(HBV)
1,012
734
438
Other programs
3,021
2,190
1,035
Research expenses
99
72
142
Total external research and development expenses
18,463
13,384
13,020
Internal research and development expenses:
Headcount related expenses
7,228
5,238
5,663
Laboratory consumables
1,224
888
1,322
Laboratory equipment expenses
515
374
716
Other
1
1
58
Total internal research and development expenses
8,968
6,501
7,759
Total research and development expenses
27,431
19,885
20,779
For the three months ended March 31, 2021, our research and development expenses were £19.9 million, as compared to £20.8 million for the three months ended March 31, 2020. This decrease of £0.9 million was primarily attributable to a decrease in internal research and development expenses of £1.3 million partially offset by an increase in external research and development expenses of £0.4 million.
For the three months ended March 31, 2021, our external research and development expenses increased by £0.4 million driven by an increase of £0.7 million of expenses incurred for our IMC-F106C program due to increased clinical activities, £0.3 million for our IMC-I109V program reflecting increased activity in advance of commencing dosing in our Phase 1 single ascending dose trial, anticipated in mid-2021, and £1.2 million on other programs across our portfolio pipeline. These are partially offset by a decrease of £1.4 million for our tebentafusp program due to full patient enrollment in the pivotal trials for tebentafusp in 2019 and the corresponding decrease in patient recruitment expenses and £0.3 million for our IMC-C103C program.
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For the three months ended March 31, 2021, our internal research and development expenses decreased by £1.3 million. This is driven by a decrease in headcount-related expenses of £0.4 million due to a decrease in staff related expenses of £1.1 million partially offset by an increased share-based compensation charge of £0.7 million and a decrease in laboratory consumables and laboratory equipment for £0.4 million and £0.3 million, respectively. The decrease in laboratory consumables and laboratory equipment required reflects both a decrease in headcount and a slowdown of some internal research and development activities as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic as noted above under “COVID-19 Business Update.”
Administrative Expenses
For the three months ended March 31, 2021, administrative expenses were £20.2 million, compared to £9.6 million for the three months ended March 31, 2020. The increase of £10.6 million is primarily due to an increase in staff related expenses of £5.2 million comprising an increased share-based compensation charge of £7.7 million partially offset by a decrease of £2.5 million in other staff related expenses. In addition, the legal and professional fees increased by £2.5 million primarily attributable to the IPO, an increase of £1.2 million in pre-commercial expenditures related to tebentafusp and £2.1 million related to unfavourable foreign exchange movements partially offset by a decrease in depreciation of property, plant and equipment of £0.4 million.
Net Other Operating (Expense) / Income
For the three months ended March 31, 2021, net other operating expense totalled £0.1 million, compared to £nil for the three months ended March 31, 2020. The increased expense of £0.1 million reflects £0.1 million from sub-lease income offset by a loss of £0.2 million on the write-off of property, plant and equipment.
Finance Income
For the three months ended March 31, 2021, finance income was £nil compared to £1.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2020. This decrease of £1.4 million largely reflects the movement in fair value of the derivative liability for £1.3 million, a foreign exchange call option over certain series B preferred shares which was settled in full on March 2, 2020.
Finance Costs
For the three months ended March 31, 2021, finance costs amounted to £1.9 million, compared to £1.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2020. This increase of £0.8 million is primarily due to an increase in interest expenses on financial liabilities measured at amortized cost of £1.2 million reflecting our loan from Oxford Finance of $50 million which was drawn down on November 6, 2020, including £0.5 million relating to a fee that became to Oxford Finance upon completion of the IPO, during the three months ended March 31, 2020 such interest expenses of £0.2 million reflect our outstanding loan from the Gates Foundation, which converted into series B preferred shares on March 2, 2020. This is partially offset by £0.3 million decrease in the loss from a change in the fair value of the embedded derivative asset also following the conversion of our outstanding loan from the Gates Foundation, and £0.2 million decrease in interest on lease liabilities reflecting the termination of two leasehold properties subsequent to the three months ended March 31, 2020.
Income Tax Credit
For the three months ended March 31, 2021, the income tax credit amounted to £4.7 million compared to £3.2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2020. This increase of £1.5 million primarily relates to an increase in loss before taxes of £11.9 million.
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Liquidity and Capital Resources
Sources of Liquidity
Since our inception, we have not generated any product revenue and have incurred operating losses and negative cash flows from our operations. We expect to incur significant expenses and operating losses for the foreseeable future as we advance our product candidates through preclinical and clinical development, seek regulatory approval and pursue commercialization of any approved product candidates. We expect that our research and development and general and administrative costs will increase in connection with our planned research activities. As a result, we will need additional capital to fund our operations until such time as we can generate significant revenue from product sales.
We do not currently have any approved products and have never generated any revenue from product sales. We have funded our operations to date primarily with proceeds from sales of equity securities, debt financing and collaboration agreements. Through March 31, 2021, we have raised an aggregate of $1,135.1 million through private placements of our ordinary and preferred shares, payments from our collaboration partners, debt financing and most recently, the completion of our IPO where we listed our ADSs on the Nasdaq Global Select Market and raised gross proceeds of $297.1 million. In addition to the ADSs sold in the IPO, we completed the concurrent sale of an additional 576,923 ADSs at the IPO price of $26.00 per ADS, for gross proceeds of approximately $15.0 million, in a private placement to the Gates Foundation.
As of March 31, 2021, and December 31, 2020, we had cash and cash equivalents of £313.1 million and £129.7 million, respectively.
Other than our debt facility with Oxford Finance described below, we currently have no ongoing material financing commitments, such as lines of credit or guarantees, that are expected to affect our liquidity over the next five years, other than our lease obligations and supplier purchase commitments described below.
Cash Flows
The following table summarizes the primary sources and uses of cash for each period presented:
Three Months Ended March 31,
2021
2021
2020
$'000
£'000
£'000
(unaudited)
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year
178,943
129,716
73,966
Net cash flows used in operating activities
(35,838
)
(25,979
)
(30,518
)
Net cash flows from / (used in) investing activities
34
25
(1,334
)
Net cash flows from financing activities
288,830
209,373
26,149
Net foreign exchange difference on cash held
(72
)
(52
)
114
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period
431,897
313,083
68,377
Operating Activities
Net cash used in operating activities decreased to £26.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2021 from £30.5 million for the three months ended March 31, 2020. The decrease of £4.5 million is primarily due to favorable movements in working capital of £8.6 million and an increase in the non-cash share-based payment charge of £8.4 million partially offset by increased losses of £10.4 million and an increase in the income tax credit to the statement of loss and other comprehensive loss of £1.5 million.
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Investing Activities
Net cash from investing activities for the three months ended March 31, 2021 was £nil compared to net cash used in investing activities of £1.3 million for the three months ended March 31, 2020. This was primarily related to £1.2 million decreased in capital expenditure on plant, property and equipment.
Financing Activities
Net cash from financing activities during the three months ended March 31, 2021 was £209.4 million compared to £26.1 million during the year ended March 31, 2020. This increase of £183.3 million was specifically related to net proceeds we received of £211.0 million from the IPO which closed in February 2021 compared to £27.2 million received from the second close of our series B preferred share financing round which closed in March 2020.
Operation and Funding Requirements
Since our inception, we have incurred significant losses due to our substantial research and development expenses. We have an accumulated deficit of £378.9 million as of March 31, 2021. We expect to continue to incur significant losses in the foreseeable future and expect our expenses to increase in connection with our ongoing activities, particularly as we continue research and development and clinical activities for our product candidates. In addition, due to our IPO in February 2021, we have and expect to continue to incur additional costs associated with operating as a public company. Our expenses will also increase if, and as, we:
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continue to advance our clinical trials and the development of our pre-clinical programs;
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continue to invest in our soluble TCR platforms to conduct research to identify novel technologies;
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change or add additional suppliers;
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add additional infrastructure to our quality control, quality assurance, legal, compliance and other groups to support our operations as we progress product candidates toward commercialization;
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seek to attract and retain skilled personnel;
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create additional infrastructure to support our operations as a public company listed in the United States and our product development and planned future commercialization efforts;
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seek marketing approvals and reimbursement for our product candidates;
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establish a sales, marketing and distribution infrastructure to commercialize any products for which we may obtain marketing approval;
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seek to identify and validate additional product candidates;
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acquire or in-license other product candidates and technologies;
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maintain, protect, defend, enforce and expand our intellectual property portfolio; and
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experience any delays, interruptions or encounter issues with any of the above, including any delays or other impacts as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
We held cash and cash equivalents of £313.1 million as at March 31, 2021. We believe that our existing cash and cash equivalents, together with our debt facility, is sufficient to enable us to fund our planned operating expenses and capital expenditure requirements through at least the end of 2022. This estimation of funding requirements includes an assessment of the forecasts including the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. We have based this estimation of capital requirements on assumptions that may prove to be wrong, and we could utilize our available capital resources sooner than we currently expect. If we receive regulatory approval for our other product candidates, we expect to incur significant commercialization expenses related to product manufacturing, sales, marketing and distribution, depending on where we choose to commercialize. We may also require additional capital to pursue in-licenses or acquisitions of other product candidates.
Because of the numerous risks and uncertainties associated with research, development and commercialization of pharmaceutical product candidates, we are unable to estimate the exact amount of our working capital requirements. Our future funding requirements will depend on and could increase significantly as a result of many factors, including:
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the progress, timing, scope and costs of our clinical trials, including the ability to timely initiate clinical sites, enroll subjects and manufacture soluble bispecific TCR product candidates for our ongoing, planned and potential future clinical trials;
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the time and costs required to perform research and development to identify and characterize new product candidates from our research programs;
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the time and cost necessary to obtain regulatory authorizations and approvals that may be required by regulatory authorities to execute clinical trials or commercialize our products;
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our ability to successfully commercialize our product candidates, if approved;
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our ability to have clinical and commercial products successfully manufactured consistent with FDA, EMA and other authorities’ regulations;
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the amount of sales and other revenues from product candidates that we may commercialize, if any, including the selling prices for such potential products and the availability of adequate third-party coverage and reimbursement for patients;
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the sales and marketing costs associated with commercializing our products, if approved, including the cost and timing of building our marketing and sales capabilities;
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the cost of building, staffing and validating our manufacturing processes, which may include capital expenditure;
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the terms and timing of any revenue from our existing collaborations;
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the costs of operating as a public company;
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the time and cost necessary to respond to technological, regulatory, political and market developments;
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the costs of filing, prosecuting, defending and enforcing any patent claims and other intellectual property rights;
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the inability of clinical sites to enroll patients as healthcare capacities are required to cope with natural disasters, epidemics or other health system emergencies, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
A change in the outcome of any of these or other variables with respect to the development of any of our current and future product candidates could significantly change the costs and timing associated with the development and commercialization of that product candidate. Furthermore, our operating plans may change in the future, and we may need additional funds to meet operational needs and capital requirements associated with such operating plans.
Until we can generate sufficient product and royalty revenue to finance our cash requirements, which we may never do, we expect to finance our future cash needs through a combination of public or private equity offerings, debt financings, collaborations, strategic alliances, licensing arrangements and other marketing or distribution arrangements as well as grant funding. If we raise additional capital through marketing and distribution arrangements or other collaborations, strategic alliances or licensing arrangements with third parties, we may have to relinquish certain valuable rights to our product candidates, technologies, future revenue streams or research programs or grant licenses on terms that may not be favorable to us. If we raise additional capital through public or private equity offerings, the terms of these securities may include liquidation or other preferences that adversely affect our shareholders’ rights. Further, to the extent that we raise additional capital through the sale of common stock or securities convertible or exchangeable into common stock, our shareholders’ ownership interest will be diluted. If we raise additional capital through debt financing, it would be subject to fixed payment obligations and may be subject to covenants limiting or restricting our ability to take specific actions, such as incurring additional debt, making capital expenditures or declaring dividends. If we are unable to obtain additional funding on favorable terms when needed, we may have to delay, reduce the scope of or terminate one or more of our research and development programs or clinical trials.
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Critical Accounting Policies and Significant Judgments and Estimates
Our unaudited condensed consolidated interim financial statements for the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively, have been prepared in accordance with International Accounting Standard 34, “Interim Financial Reporting,” or IAS 34. The preparation of the consolidated financial statements requires us to make judgements, estimates and assumptions that affect the value of assets and liabilities—as well as contingent assets and liabilities—as reported on the statement of financial position date, and revenues and expenses arising during the fiscal year.
The estimates and associated assumptions are based on information available when the consolidated financial statements are prepared, historical experience and various other factors which are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis of making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Existing circumstances and assumptions about future developments, however, may change due to market changes or circumstances arising that are beyond the Group’s control. Hence, estimates may vary from the actual values.
The estimates and underlying assumptions are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Revisions to accounting estimates are recognized in the period in which the estimate is revised if the revision affects only that period or the period of revision and future periods if this revision affects both current and future periods.
Those judgements and estimates made, together with our significant accounting policies, are set out in the consolidated financial statements of the Group for the year ended December 31, 2020. There have been no changes to these accounting policies for the three months ended March 31, 2021.
Recently Issued and Adopted Accounting Pronouncements
A description of recently issued accounting pronouncements that may potentially impact our financial position and results of operations is disclosed in Note 2, “Significant Accounting Policies,” to our unaudited condensed consolidated interim financial statements included in Exhibit 99.1 of this Report.
COVID-19 Business Update
With the global spread of the ongoing coronavirus 2019, or COVID-19, pandemic since the first quarter of 2020, we have implemented business continuity plans designed to address and mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our employees and our business, including our preclinical studies and clinical trials. While we are experiencing limited financial impacts at this time, given the global economic slowdown, the overall disruption of global healthcare systems and the other risks and uncertainties associated with the pandemic, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be materially adversely affected. We continue to closely monitor the COVID-19 pandemic as we evolve our business continuity plans, clinical development plans and response strategy as required or recommended by government authorities or in the best interests of our employees and business partners.
To date, the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a short-term delay of up to six months in progressing our early-stage pipeline programs and specifically, our Phase 1 clinical trial in HBV. In addition, our current and planned clinical trials may also be affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, including (i) delays or difficulties in enrolling and retaining patients in our clinical trials, including patients that may not be able or willing to comply with clinical trial protocols if quarantines impede patient movement or interrupt healthcare services; (ii) delays or difficulties in clinical site initiation, including difficulties in recruiting and retaining clinical site investigators and clinical site staff; (iii) diversion or prioritization of healthcare resources away from the conduct of clinical trials and towards the COVID-19 pandemic, including the diversion of hospitals serving as our clinical trial sites and hospital staff supporting the conduct of our clinical trials and, because as healthcare providers, may also have a heightened exposure to COVID-19 and adversely impact our clinical trial operations; (iv) interruption of our future clinical supply chain or key clinical trial activities, such as clinical trial site monitoring, due to limitations on travel imposed or recommended by federal, state/provincial or municipal governments, employers and others; and (v) limitations in employee resources that would otherwise be focused on the conduct of our planned clinical trials, including because of sickness of employees or their families or the desire of employees to avoid contact with large groups of people.
The COVID-19 pandemic remains a rapidly evolving situation. We will continue to closely monitor, assess and mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business.
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PRESS RELEASE
Immunocore Reports First Quarter 2021 Financial Results
Biologics License Application (BLA) submission to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to be completed in third quarter of 2021
Launched a global early access program for tebentafusp in metastatic uveal melanoma
Cash position of $431 million as of March 31, 2021 includes $287 million in net proceeds from initial public offering and concurrent private placement in February 2021
(OXFORDSHIRE, England & CONSHOHOCKEN, Penn. & ROCKVILLE, Md., US, 12 May 2021) Immunocore Holdings Plc (Nasdaq: IMCR), a late-stage biotechnology company pioneering the development of a novel class of T cell receptor (TCR) bispecific immunotherapies designed to treat a broad range of diseases, including cancer, infectious and autoimmune disease, today announced its results for the quarter ended March 31, 2021.
Highlights for the quarter included the presentation of the Phase 3 randomized data from the Company’s lead candidate tebentafusp in the plenary clinical trial session at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting, the launch of a global early access program for tebentafusp, and the successful completion of the Company’s initial public offering resulting in net proceeds of $287 million.
Bahija Jallal, Chief Executive Officer of Immunocore, said: “Tebentafusp has been demonstrated to prolong survival in patients with metastatic uveal melanoma, a cancer that has historically proven insensitive to chemotherapy and immunotherapies. These data, recently presented at AACR, represent the first positive Phase 3 clinical trial for a TCR therapeutic and the first time that a bispecific T cell engager has demonstrated a survival benefit in a solid tumor, representing a significant breakthrough in the field of oncology.”
First Quarter 2021 Highlights (including post-period)
Tebentafusp
In April, one oral presentation and three posters on tebentafusp were accepted at the 2021 American Society of Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting being held virtually from June 4-8, 2021. Per ASCO’s Embargo & Release Information, full abstracts will be released to the public on ASCO’s Meeting Library at 5:00 p.m. ET on May 19, 2021.
In April, the Company launched a global early access program for tebentafusp in metastatic uveal melanoma (mUM).
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In April, the Company’s Phase 3 data of tebentafusp in metastatic uveal melanoma was also the subject of an oral presentation in the Phase 3 clinical trials plenary session at the AACR Virtual Annual Meeting 2021. Tebentafusp demonstrated a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in overall survival (OS) as a first-line treatment in mUM. In the intent-to-treat population, tebentafusp demonstrated a median overall survival of 21.7 months compared to 16.0 months for investigator’s choice and with 73% of patients alive at 1 year for tebentafusp vs. 58% for investigator’s choice. The OS Hazard Ratio (HR) favored tebentafusp, HR=0.51 (95% CI: 0.37, 0.71); p< 0.0001, over investigator’s choice (82% pembrolizumab; 12% ipilimumab; 6% dacarbazine). In addition, tebentafusp resulted in a statistically significant longer PFS. Treatment-related adverse events were manageable and consistent with the proposed mechanism.
In February, tebentafusp was granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) for unresectable or metastatic uveal melanoma. Additionally, the European Commission, upon recommendation of the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Orphan Medicinal Products (COMP) awarded tebentafusp Orphan Drug Designation for the treatment of uveal melanoma. Medicines that meet the EMA’s Orphan Drug Designation criteria qualify for several incentives, including 10 years of market exclusivity, protocol assistance, and potentially reduced fees for regulatory activities.
Immunocore will be working with the FDA to facilitate complete BLA submission in the third quarter of 2021, followed by submission of a Marketing Authorization Application to the EMA.
Additional Clinical Programs
IMC-C103C – MAGE-A4
In the first quarter, the Company continued to advance, IMC-C103C, an ImmTAC molecule targeting an HLA-A*02:01 MAGE-A4 antigen, in a first-in-human, Phase 1/2 dose escalation trial in patients with solid tumor cancers including non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), gastric, head and neck, ovarian and synovial sarcoma. The Company plans to report Phase 1 initial data from this trial in the fourth quarter of 2021.
IMC-F106C – PRAME
In the first quarter, the Company continued to advance IMC-F106C, an ImmTAC molecule targeting an HLA-A*02:01 PRAME antigen, in a first-in-human, Phase 1/2 dose escalation trial in patients with multiple solid tumor cancers. PRAME is overexpressed in many solid tumors including NSCLC, SCLC, endometrial, ovarian, and breast cancers. The Company plans to report Phase 1 initial data from this trial in mid-2022.
IMC-I109V – HBV
In the first quarter, the Company continued to advance IMC-I109V, an ImmTAV molecule targeting a conserved Hepatitis B virus (HBV), envelope antigen, in a global Phase 1 single ascending dose trial. The Company plans to initiate dosing mid-year 2021.
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Operational Highlights
In February, the Company made key appointments to management and Board of Directors. The appointment of Ralph Torbay as Immunocore’s new Head of Commercial and the appointment of Dr. Roy S. Herbst as a member of the Company’s Board of Directors became effective January 28, 2021. Dr. Herbst served as a member of Immunocore’s Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) and is currently Ensign Professor of Medicine (Medical Oncology), Professor of Pharmacology, Chief of Medical Oncology and Associate Cancer Center Director for Translational Research at Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital.
In February, the Company completed its initial public offering (IPO), and concurrent private placement. The financing was $312.1 million in aggregate of which approximately $287 million in net proceeds was from the IPO on Nasdaq of 11,426,280 American Depositary Shares (ADSs), including the exercise in full by the underwriters of their option to purchase an additional 1,490,384 ADSs, at an IPO price of $26.00 per ADS and $15 million from the completion of the concurrent sale of an additional 576,923 ADSs at the initial offering price of $26.00 per ADS, for gross proceeds of approximately $15.0 million, in a private placement to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Financial Results
Basic and diluted loss per share was a £0.76 or $1.05 for the quarter ended March 31, 2021 compared to an adjusted to £0.74 for the quarter ended March 31, 2020. Total operating loss for the quarter was £31.9 million or $44.0 million compared to £22.1 million for the same period last year, largely due to an increase in employee costs associated with non-cash share-based payment charges.
For the three months ended March 31, 2021, revenue from collaboration agreements was unchanged at £8.3 million or $11.4 million compared to the same period last year. For the three months ended March 31, 2021, research and development expenses were £19.9 million or $27.4 million, as compared to £20.8 million for the three months ended March 31, 2020. For the quarter, administrative expenses were £20.2 million or $27.8 million compared to £9.6 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2020 including a £7.7 million increase in the non-cash share-based payment charges.
Cash and cash equivalents totaled £313.1 million or approximately $431 million as of March 31, 2021 compared to £68.4 million for the same period last year.
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About Immunocore
Immunocore is a late-stage biotechnology company pioneering the development of a novel class of TCR bispecific immunotherapies called ImmTAX – Immune mobilizing monoclonal TCRs Against X disease – designed to treat a broad range of diseases, including cancer, infectious and autoimmune. Leveraging its proprietary, flexible, off-the-shelf ImmTAX platform, Immunocore is developing a deep pipeline in multiple therapeutic areas, including five clinical stage programs in oncology and infectious disease, advanced pre-clinical programs in autoimmune disease and multiple earlier pre-clinical programs. Immunocore’s most advanced oncology therapeutic candidate, tebentafusp, has demonstrated an overall survival benefit in a randomized Phase 3 clinical trial in metastatic uveal melanoma, a cancer that has historically proven to be insensitive to other immunotherapies.
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Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including, but are not limited to, statements regarding the Company’s business strategy including its proposed regulatory plans for tebentafusp, the efficacy, safety and therapeutic potential of tebentafusp, the planned submission of a BLA submission for tebentafusp for the treatment of mUM, the potential approval and commercial launch of tebentafusp for mUM, the design, progress, timing, scope and results of the Company’s clinical trials including IMC-C103C, IMC-F106C and IMC-I109V, the potential benefit of Breakthrough Therapy Designation or Orphan Drug Designation for tebentafusp, and the Company’s anticipated cash runway. Any forward-looking statements are based on management’s current expectations of future events and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially and adversely from those set forth in or implied by such forward-looking statements, many of which are beyond the Company’s control. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Company’s business, clinical trials and financial position; unexpected safety or efficacy data observed during preclinical studies or clinical trials; clinical trial site activation or enrollment rates that are lower than expected; changes in expected or existing competition; changes in the regulatory environment; and the uncertainties and timing of the regulatory approval process. For a discussion of other risks and uncertainties, and other important factors, any of which could cause our actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see the section titled “Risk Factors” in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2021 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 25, 2021, as well as discussions of potential risks, uncertainties, and other important factors in the Company’s subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All information in this press release is as of the date of the release, and the Company undertakes no duty to update this information, except as required by law.
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Upgrading a system is an important measure to maintain the security of the system. Outdated software often contains bugs and vulnerabilities that an attacker misuses for its own purposes. For example, to penetrate into a system.By default, updates must be done manually. Alternatively, there is the possibility that a system automatically downloads and installs the security updates. Unattended upgrades is software that can automatically and unattended download and install security updates.
task
Install and configure unattended upgrades.
Solution: Automatically set up security updates with unattended upgrades
Unattended upgrades can automatically and unattended download and install security updates. The packages of the pre-set APT source are installed.
First the package is installed:
sudo apt-get install unattended-upgrades
Then you have to make a tiny configuration. This is the activation of the automatic security update. There is a package configuration for this:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow unattended-upgrades
This opens a graphical user interface in which the automatic security update is activated with “Yes” and deactivated with “No”.
The package configuration creates the file “20auto-upgrades” in the directory “/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/”.
cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades
The file contains two lines by way of example:
APT :: Periodic :: Update Package Lists "1";
APT :: Periodic :: Unattended Upgrade "1";
The first line indicates how often “apt-get update” should be executed automatically. The “1” in the case stands for “every day”, which is fine for an automatism. A “0” would disable this automatism.
The second line shows how often an “upgrade” should be done automatically. The “1” stands for “every day,” which is fine. A “0” would turn off the automatism.
What exactly should be updated can be defined in the following configuration file:
sudo nano /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades
By default, only security updates are made. That should be enough for the beginning. If that works well, you can also extend the updates. But then you have to learn more about the configuration and should know what you are doing there.
Then we want to test if the automatic download and install really works. To do this, we execute the following command:
sudo unattended-upgrades --dry-run
In general, the command line will return after a few minutes. It takes as long as a manually executed “apt-get update” and “apt-get upgrade” also takes.
Then we look in the corresponding log file, what exactly happened:
tail /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades.log
If you want to disable the automatic security updates, then call the package configuration:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow unattended-upgrades
There you just choose “No”. Thus the automatism is switched off. If you want to remove it completely, you have to uninstall the package “unattended-upgrades”.
Note about the automatic update
If the risk of damaging a stable system through an automatic update is lower than the risk posed by a security vulnerability, then an automatic update might be considered. In that case, the automatic update would close the vulnerability and prevent any possible damage by an attacker.
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12. I still have doubts about the vaccine. Why should I get it?
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12. I still have doubts about the vaccine. Why should I get it?
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12. I still have doubts about the vaccine. Why should I get it?
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12. I still have doubts about the vaccine. Why should I get it?
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12. I still have doubts about the vaccine. Why should I get it?
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12. I still have doubts about the vaccine. Why should I get it?
There is no way to know how COVID-19 will affect you should you get it. The vaccine not only greatly increases your chances of not getting sick, but should you happen to contract COVID-19, the vaccine will significantly lessen the severity of the disease and increase your chances of survival. Not only this, but getting vaccinated protects your family, and you will help the pandemic end sooner for everyone. The benefits of getting vaccinated far outweigh any possible risks. We can all do our part to save lives.
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12. I still have doubts about the vaccine. Why should I get it?
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12. I still have doubts about the vaccine. Why should I get it?
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Data = information = knowledge = power. Do you want to hold the keys to that power? Are you motivated by solving challenging problems, where creativity is as crucial as your ability to write code, deliver solutions, and bring valuable data sets together to answer business questions? If this sounds like an environment where you will thrive, come and join our Data Engineering team. Interested? Cause we are!
Senior Data Engineer
About the role
As a Data Engineer, you will work as a member of the Data Engineering team to ensure the highest quality data is made available for swift analysis and BI report generation. You will help to architect and further develop the data processing pipeline. You should have extensive experience in the creation, development, and business usage of extremely large data sets. You should be eager to work with massive data sets, someone who loves to bring data sets together to answer business questions, drive change, and deliver answers.
Part of your responsibilities will be building reliable and scalable tools. On a typical day, while working closely with analysts and managers, you will improve the data processing and modeling pipeline by providing high-quality designs and structures to feed our self-service platform. As a member of the Data Engineering team, you will be at the center of Dynatrace product innovation. In addition, you will help to improve the speed of ingesting data into our data lake, find ways to make our data pipeline more efficient, or even come up with ideas to encourage self-serve data engineering within the company. This is an exciting opportunity to make a direct, tangible impact on our product and work on our crucial Digital Business Platform.
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Responsibilities
Develop new capabilities in our data warehouses and pipelines in most complex data environments
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Coordinate with key stakeholders (including BI expert, analytics team, and product management) to deliver and optimize data sources to address specified business requirements
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At least 3 years professional experience as a software engineer or data engineer
Advanced SQL knowledge, including data structure optimization and fast data retrieval from data warehouses such as Snowflake and AWS Redshift
Strong work experience in data warehousing and business intelligence in an enterprise setting
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