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Draw Back: Revisiting the Women's 2008 Australian Open
By Changeover Writing Staff on January 12, 2013
Lindsay, Amy, and Juan José have a back and forth about Maria Sharapova's dominating run down under at the 2008 Australian Open.
Lindsay: Hey guys! As we gear up for the Australian Open–which starts tomorrow(!)–I thought it would be fun to look back five years at the 2008 Australian Open on the women's side.
Going into the tournament all eyes were on Serena and Justine. Serena was the defending champion, and Justine was the current No. 1 who had defeated Serena in the quarterfinals of the other three Grand Slams the previous year. Luckily in this tournament the earliest they could meet was the semifinals. Few expected at the beginning of the fortnight that it would be Maria Sharapova and the Serbians who would steal the show. It was an event that seemed to at the time signal the changing of the guards.
I remember when the draw came out that all the talk was about how top-heavy it was. Serena, Justine, and Maria were all up there. A resurgent Lindsay Davenport was lingering there too, slated to play Maria Sharapova in a blockbuster second round. (Note that this was the first big tournament following the epic Justine/Maria WTA Championships clash in '07.)
Juan José: The 2008 Australian Open will always be special for me, but for different reasons: that's Djokovic's first Slam, and I did watch all of his matches there. Back then I didn't pay much attention to women's tennis, but I do remember Sharapova starting her crazy run and being amazed by it. However, I have a feeling I saw more of the women's side of the tournament than I actually remember.
Amy: To be honest, I had just graduated from college at the end of '07, and was working my first job, so I missed much of this. Having an Aussie Open watching schedule while working on the Hill wasn't realistic.
Lindsay: I understand that. I was in my final year at college and was working on my thesis film, so I was up all night every night anyway. I think this was my first time watching a whole lot of the Australian Open, as I had a big apartment with lots of roommates so we had a great cable package and a real-life living room. It was fun. But it was also a loft and my friend slept upstairs without a door so I had to keep the volume really low and sit right in front of the TV.
I woke her up yelling during the Kohls/Roddick match.
Amy: Haha. I'll bet.
Lindsay: Should we take a look at the seeds first?
Juan José: Kuznetsova at No. 2. Two Slams and she never reached No. 1. Chakvetadze at No. 6. That made me sad. Serena and Venus side by side, at 7 and 8. Hantuchova in the top 10?
Lindsay: Seeing JJ and Ana in the top 5 is so alarming, and so sad. They were so good then.
Amy: Yeah, Ana's 2008 seems incredibly distant from her current form.
Juan José: 2008 was the golden year for Serbian tennis, no? Slams in singles from a man and a woman. Zimonjic won Wimbledon with Nestor, too.
Lindsay: Look at Dinara down at 16, way before anyone expected anything of her. The next year she was a disappointment in the final and was the No. 2 seed!
Juan José: In 2008, Safina was "I won't come remotely close to what my brother achieved" Safina. Dementieva at No. 11, that also made me sad. I miss watching her play.
Lindsay: Who is Julia Vakulenko?
Amy: Julia Vakulenko, also known as "Kimmie Killer!"
Julia became Kim Clijsters' last opponent in her professional career (before Clijsters' return in 2009). Julia won 7–6(3), 6–3 in the second round of J&S Cup in Warsaw, Poland on May 3, 2007. This earned her the nickname "Kimmie Killer."
She was born in Ukraine, but switched to represent Spain in '08. You don't see that very often.
Juan José: Isn't it funny to see the future French Open champions Schiavone and Li Na sitting next to each other, in the 20s?
Lindsay: Yup, and Zvonareva is right there too. Who would have thought between the three of them in the next three years there would be six grand slam finals and two trophies?
Juan José: Eh … Nobody.
Juan José: Kerber is in the first section! That first round is classic Kerber – five years ago!
Amy: I was laughing at her scoreline. It's so very Kerber. She gets bageled in the first set, but comes back and wins the match in three sets.
Juan José: She's allergic to winning in straight sets.
Amy: I'll bet there was plenty of SarcastiKerber in action.
Juan José: I wish there were a video of Kerber getting bageled in that first set. SarcastiKerber is a given, and so is Kerber DeathGlare.
The recent Shenzhen finalist is here, too, Zakopalova.
Lindsay: Hsieh bageling Bammer was a huge upset at the time. And Rezai beating Golovin — yet another player from that generation whose back took her out of the game.
Juan José: Also, what's the deal with Rezai? She hasn't been heard from in a while. I swear the only reason I remember her is from the infinite Tennis Channel "Bag Checks."
Lindsay: Rezai and her gold lamé have just fallen apart. She and Cornet were so promising and now … Yikes. It's funny because Marion gets so much criticism for having her father involved in everything, but when you look at the French Federation and what it's done to the female players this generation it's hard to see the fault. If only they all had crazy Papa Bartolis.
Juan José: They'd all change serves every six months. But agreed, Cornet was supposed to be big. Didn't Rezai have some issue with her dad? Like, a serious issue?
Lindsay: Yes she did. Very sad. This is a good interview about it.
That entire Schiavone/Henin match in the third round is on youtube. Can we pause this for a few hours so I can watch? No?
Justine had no competition at all. She breezed through everything without dropping a set and there was no foreshadowing what was to come in the quarterfinals.
Juan José: A Federer-esque section for Justine.
Lindsay: This run by Sharapova here is what I remember. She thrashed Davenport, Vesnina, and Dementieva. (One of these things is not like the other.)
Amy: It's funny, as she goes on, she drops fewer and fewer games.
Juan José: Yes, her toughest match seems to be her first round one against J. Kostanic Tosic, whoever that was.
Amy: Peak Maria is pretty scary. Unless you're Serena Williams.
Lindsay: When she killed Davenport like that, everyone really took notice. It felt like it might be Maria's tournament even though everyone else was still in the draw. It was that impressive.
This was Davenport's mini-comeback, before she got hurt and then pregnant. She had been really impressive that fall after the USO and this was a huge test for her. It did not go well.
Nadia Petrova uploaded Maria's post-match presser to YouTube. That was nice.
Interesting in that presser that Maria talks about how she's not worried about her shoulder anymore. That was not the story five months later.
Juan José: Sara Errani is here! She pushed Davenport to the edge in their first round encounter, which I find interesting.
Lindsay: Wow, this video. A baby Errani, crazy music, and Italian commentators. I love Italians.
Juan José: Love the music. I swear that's Beethoven.
Amy: Yes, it's the second movement of Beethoven's 9th Symphony.
Lindsay: It's just such a funny/AMAZING thing to add to tennis.
Juan José: Did you see that volley by Errani at 1:58?
Lindsay: Crazy. She was ranked around 70 at the time. This was only Errani's 2nd Grand appearance. Not a bad showing.
Amy: Great video, Lindsay. what a find.
Lindsay: Nice to see Julie Ditty in that section, the ITFer and WTTer who was once on the Fed Cup squad.
Lindsay: Those scorelines. JJ and Momo.
Juan José: There's that awful match, Paszek-Jankovic! That match was a nightmare. Only seven of the 22 games in that third set were holds. It was awful. I have no idea why I watched that match, but I did. And I remember it being atrocious. Needless and endless drama.
Lindsay: She tried to warn us what was to come.
Amy: Dellacqua had a pretty impressive run.
Juan José: What happened to Dellacqua since then? That seemed like a coming out party, and it doesn't seem like it has translated into much.
Amy: She's had a ton of injuries, and a couple surgeries.
Juan José: I do remember the Dellacqua run, though. The Aussies were going NUTS. Nice little run of wins over Schnyder and Mauresmo.
Amy: 2008 was her best career year by far, and this tournament was her best Grand Slam performance.
Juan José: Shvedova is here, but playing under the Russian flag. Also, Cibulkova is here! I bet she annoyed the heck out of Pennetta.
Lindsay: I bet. I would love to have seen that.
Lindsay: Nicole Vaidisova, ladies and gentlemen.
Juan José: Mrs. Stepanek! Sharapova 2.0, supposedly.
Lindsay: I remember the Vaidisova/Serena fourth round match. It was closer than the scoreline suggested. I still hold out hope for a Vaidisova comeback.
Juan José: Ai Sugiyama is here! She was fun.
Lindsay: I loved her. Still do, I suppose.
Amy: A very young Vika is in this quarter.
Juan José: That's a weird kit Azarenka is wearing. Weird in that it's completely standard.
Also, a visor?
Lindsay: I had completely forgotten that Vika/Serena match! I don't think Vika was on my radar at all then. Also look at that section — four qualifiers, both playing each other. It was Serena, Vika, four qualifiers, a wild card, and Agkul.
Amy: Zvonareva retired in the first round with an ankle injury.
Lindsay: Sad. I wonder how Madison Brengle got that WC. I don't really remember hearing about her until recently. She was 18 at the time, did the USTA have the playoff then?
Amy: Yes they did.
Lindsay: Here it is, she and Levine got wild cards in a playoff.
Lindsay: Venus had a cupcake draw. Wow. How lovely.
Amy: Yeah, she really did.
Juan José: MARTHA DOMACHOWSKA.
Lindsay: Tell us about her, JJ.
Juan José: Not much to say. Just, MARTHA DOMACHOWSKA.
It's interesting that she made it to the Round of 16 as a qualifier. That's hard to do. She took Li Na out in the process, although I'm guessing Li did some of the damage herself, as always. Also, Bartoli getting bounced in the first round as the 10th seed is kind of hilarious.
Lindsay: Aga had stolen her Polish spotlight. She had to do something. I bet that Arvidsson/Bartoli match was amazing and a disaster.
Juan José: About Bartoli … I thought you might find this interesting.
Lindsay: Oh, Marion.
Amy: Is Bartoli the most consistently ranked player ever? It's so funny, she's always ranked around the same range.
Juan José: Bartoli is always there, looming. Trying out different crazy drills, different crazy serves. Yet at the end of each year, she's more or less around the same spot in the rankings.
Amy: We've got Wozniacki in this section, and this happens to be the beginning of her rise. It was her best Slam performance so far in her career. In fact, it was the first Aussie Open she'd ever played.
Juan José: How old was she back then?
Lindsay Gibbs: She was 17. Here are highlights from her fourth round match against Ivanovic. Future number ones!
Amy: Is it me or is Ivanovic's court movement completely different? She looks so much more active on every shot. She moves her feet really well.
Lindsay: They are both moving so well. Caro is so bouncy. I'm having a hard time watching any highlights without Beethoven music.
Amy: Ivanovic just looks so completely different. I don't know what happened.
Juan José: It's funny, but you can see in this video the essential problem Wozniacki would have in years to come: that forehand is so soft, and lands so short. It gets her in so much trouble. Still, Dulko got trashed by the Woz.
Lindsay: Trashed. What was Woz ranked then?
Juan José: She started the year ranked #64.
Lindsay: She was ranked No. 12 by the end of 2008, so this was really when she came on the scene.
Juan José: That first match is so sad.
Amy: The heartbreaking Petkovic retirement. Of course.
Juan José: That was depressing.
Lindsay: Then they played each other 2 years later and Chakvetadze fainted. These two …
I really miss Chakky. This was the first major after the robbery that she suffered. It's pretty amazing that she was making it to the third round of the Australian Open a month later.
You have the emergence of Kleybanova in this section too, just a qualifier at the time.
Juan José: Yep – Kleybanova stars in that Lindsay Special, 9-7 in the third set against Peng.
It's funny to see Virginia Ruano Pascual playing singles and winning matches. She won eight doubles Slams with Paola Suárez, but I think their partnership was over by 2008. Ruano Pascual won the French Open that year and the next with none other than Anabel Medina Garrigués.
Amy: Kirilenko had a good performance here. It was the first time in her career that she reached the fourth round of a Slam.
Juan José: Hantuchova was the star of this section. Her career title haul is hilarious. Pattaya City twice, Indian Wells twice, and Linz.
Lindsay: She just loves it at Indian Wells. Of course, the Williams Sisters don't play there.
I love that Safarova was the 22nd seed and lost in the first round to a nobody. Because some things never change.
Amy: Radwanska reached her first career Slam quarterfinal in this tournament.
Juan José: I don't remember this at all. The Ninja into the quarterfinals? At age 18?
Lindsay: It was right after her big breakthrough in New York, taking out Maria, when I first became a fan.
Amy: She had a very good year in 2008 at the majors. Two fourth rounds, two quarterfinals. In fact, until 2012, that was her best career year at Slams.
Lindsay: She beat Kuznetsova in the third round.
Juan José: Naturally. Lindsay, I think you remarked about how terrible Kuznetsova's record in Oz is? Two quarterfinals. That's … horrific.
Lindsay: It's so, so bad. The Australian Open should be her surface, slower hard courts. Perfect!
Juan José: Remember when people thought Petrova could win a major?
Lindsay: According to Sanchez it's her year!
Amy: Check out that scoreline of Radwanska-Petrova. After Petrova handed Radwanska a breadstick in the first set, Radwanska bageled her in the last set!
Lindsay: It is just so Radwanska-Petrova.
Juan José: Yeah. Just by looking at that scoreline I can see Petrova losing her cool in the third.
Lindsay: This is when all the upsets happened. Most would have thought Justine, Serena, and Venus would have advanced. It was not so. Sharapova completely demolished Justine to the point where Justine was just shaking her head after the match. This would be the last major of Justine's first career.
Juan José: Yeah – didn't Safina beat her in Berlin later, triggering the retirement and Ivanovic's French Open win?
Lindsay: Yup.
Juan José: It's like Henin said, "Hey, if Sharapova kills me and I lose to Safina on clay, it's time to go." I remember reading about that result and not really understanding how that could happen. Four and 0 over Henin? That's nuts.
Lindsay: It's crazy because it was so different from their 2007 WTA Championships match just two months prior.
Juan José: AmyLu just reminded me that Yuri Sharapov made the throat-slitting gesture in that match against Henin. That went over so well.
Lindsay: That was that match! I had forgotten about that.
Then there's JJ. After that terrible match to start the tournament, she comes back and takes out Serena.
From Christopher Clarey:
Jankovic had nasal surgery in the off-season, which she said has helped to improve her breathing. But she has had a series of minor injuries in the early season, putting herself through ice baths for therapy and taking anti-inflammatory medication.
"I cannot give you all the details, because if I would begin I would never stop," Jankovic said. "I don't have big injuries, but I have pains and soreness in many places."
"I'm like a wounded animal but I still keep going," Jankovic said. "But the most important thing is I fight on the court and always give my best and never give up."
Juan José: I always liked Jankovic's game. I thought they put the emphasis on the wrong issues, and derailed her unique ability to change the direction of the ball seamlessly.
Lindsay: It was amazing how one off-season completely ruined her. She tried to build muscle and lost the ability to walk.
Juan José: Poor Ninja – got destroyed by Hantuchova.
Lindsay: I found Aga's presser from after that loss. It's classic.
Q. How did you enjoy your first quarterfinal?
AGNIESZKA RADWANSKA: Anyway, I lost today.
Q. Was Daniela one of the players you admired as a young girl?
AGNIESZKA RADWANSKA: I don't know. I mean…
Amy: Hysterical.
Lindsay: Meanwhile, I remember being very upset by Ana/Venus. The bottom half was so open that I thought Venus had a great chance to get to the final. I was convinced she was going to beat Ivanovic, and I got a little ahead of myself.
Lindsay: The Bollettieri Bowl: Jankovic vs. Sharapova. According to this, JJ gave up in the last game and ended the match injured and with tears in her eyes, had to take four painkillers just to play.
In the first set Sharapova took a 5-0 lead before you knew it, but then Jankovic came back and won three consecutive games. However, that was where her strength ended. In the second set Jankovic was slowly fading away. She left the court for treatment after losing her serve in the opening game.
"I wanted to withdraw, but it was not fair for the crowd," the 22-year-old Serb said."
Juan José: She did say earlier that she had a ton of injuries. Iverson-like.
Lindsay: The lasting memory from the 2008 Australian Open was the Ivanovic-Hantuchova semi. I mean, Dani was in control. She was breezing. The entire narrative was that Ana had come out too scared.
Juan José: Hantuchova won eight straight games to start the match! When was it that Hantuchova failed to put away a hobbled Serena at Wimbledon?
Lindsay: '07.
Juan José: The year before. When you have that match in your history, a story about squeaky shoes will never go over well with anybody.
Lindsay: The squeaky sneaker controversy was my favorite thing. Gosh, this match had everything. An epic choke. Squeak-gate. A double bounce controversy!
Amy: Couldn't ask for anything more.
Lindsay: The worst thing about this was that every single person called it the GLAM SLAM and I wanted to throw up.
Juan José: It was the WTA's dream come true, given the emphasis they put on looks, no?
Lindsay: It's crazy to look back at this final because at the time everyone thought this rivalry was the future. It was their fifth match and they were 2-2 against each other. It was Ana's second GS final and Maria's third Slam. They were both 20. Everyone talked about how it was going to be a rivalry for years to come – the Glam Slam. The word sultry was used a lot.
But they have only met two more times, never again in a Slam, and not until this year.
Juan José: That's fascinating. You never know how things will turn out, even when they look like sure things, like this match-up.
Amy: The word sultry should never be used in women's tennis, really.
Lindsay: I'm laughing at this whole article.
Amy: It's so frustrating to see the tennis media encouraging that. Let casual fans fawn over them, whatever. But the media shouldn't be focusing on some sort of model-off.
Lindsay: After this match and the extreme hype and marketing money put into these two, heir paths diverged, they didn't converge. And the WTA had all those rough years because so much focus and attention had been put into this rivalry and these stars that just couldn't hold up. Then when Justine retired there was a hole. There was no more Glam Slam — there was Dinara Safina, and sometimes Serena, and sometimes JJ, and the stories that had been written suddenly didn't hold up.
Juan José: Yes, the men have the Big Four now, but the women could have had an awesome decade. Sometimes even having all the best ingredients doesn't work out.
Lindsay: It shows how fragile things are. It also shows why you need a media narrative that focuses on athletics and the sport; not looks, superstardom, and invincibility, which are fleeting.
Juan José: The NBA suffered from that same mistake – you don't build your sport on stars that are temporary. You built it on the love for the game. That's the true success of the NFL and soccer everywhere.
Lindsay: Exactly. But back to the match. I remember it being straightforward but fairly entertaining, and just a wonderful moment for Maria who had gotten demolished by Serena the year before. It was just another reminder to never count Maria Sharapova out. Apparently we need reminders every once in awhile.
Juan José: Yet, given Sharapova's nature, it's not surprising, really. She just keeps going, even if her serve kind of deserted her mid-career. She's the greatest overachiever in history, I think.
Amy: Sharapova is so high profile and popular with fans, but I almost feel like she doesn't get talked about enough in the tennis world at this point in time. I think it makes some sense because she has so many technical flaws in her game, but she's remarkably consistent in her results and had an amazing year. She's World No. 2, but nobody really brings her up. She flies strangely under the radar, but I'm sure she likes it that way.
Lindsay: Also, to give kudos to Ana who we've not really talked about enough during this chat, her 2007-2008 stretch was spectacular. A French Open final, a Wimbledon semi, Australian Open final, then winning the French Open. It does make me sad that she's such a different player now. She is so far off of the path.
Juan José: Final thoughts?
Lindsay: This Slam really proves how fickle everything is, and how even with the best athletes in the world you can't predict what's going to happen. So just appreciate it? I don't know if we'll ever do that.
Juan José: It was fascinating to look at how everything that seemed to come into fruition at that Slam ended up being a mirage of sorts . So many things have changed in such a short period of time.
Amy: Aside from what you guys have already said, it's always fun to look back and see which young players were emerging early in their careers. Look at Radwanska, Wozniacki, Kirilenko, Azarenka, and many more we mentioned. You never know at the time, but sometimes a good run from a young player really is a sign of things to come.
Lindsay: Caro, Aga, Lisicki, and Kerber were all planting the seeds.
Juan José: Even Errani.
Lindsay: Even Errani. (Cue the Beethoven music.)
And scene.
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Posted in #NeverForget, Australian Open, Draw Back | Tagged Agnieszka Radwanska, Ana Ivanovic, Australian Open, Daniela Hantuchova, Jelena Jankovic, Justine Henin, Maria Sharapova, Serena Williams, Venus Williams
Ophelia January 12, 2013 at 2:30 pm | Permalink
It's really interesting that your draw analysis of the men's 2006 French Open was mainly about the seeds being sown for future storylines, while your draw analysis here of a women's final that came 2 years later is mainly about potential future storylines that ultimately failed to bear fruit. Funny how things work out sometimes.
Jewell January 13, 2013 at 3:00 am | Permalink
Enjoyed this very much. Completely agree with the comments on the WTA's often-misguided marketing, although I've heard a contrary opinion, which is that it helps to encourage girls to take up and keep up sport – the idea that sportswomen can't be feminine is still quite a strong one, and so part of the WTA's emphasis may be to counter that.
Slight tangent – how often does one see things like "women's tennis should be graceful" in comments; or "Radwanska is such a feminine player compared to the muscly ones who only know about power and no brain?" Too fucking often, IMO.
People forget just how good Ivanovic was, up to and including her French Open win. I hear "fluke" hovering on the edge of conversations so much – and it really wasn't. It was the culmination of a year of great play.
If we're talking serves deserting players for no apparent reason, I'd put Ana in that category rather than Maria. Sharapova's shoulder injury and surgery really wrecked her serve for her – and the reason people kept on mentioning it in commentary is that the effects were still visible years later. Maybe even *are* still visible, despite last year's return to #1 & career slam.
Love the glimpses of Baby Caro and Baby Vika. I also remember when people talked them up as the rivalry of the distant future. Again, hasn't worked out that way, at least not so far. I think Caroline played Jankovic at Wimbledon that year, and really showed her stuff – IIRC she took a set. First time I'd seen her play and I really enjoyed it. She seems to have lost some of her energy and visible fight since then.
I'm not saying you're doing this, Linz, at all – but sometimes, the hoping for Vaidisova to make a comeback strikes me as a bit entitled. She's clearly happy where she is now, and it's equally clear that playing tennis on tour didn't make her happy. Do we really want her to come back when she's made it very clear that she doesn't want to? What does it say about us that we want her back despite her feelings on the matter? Why can't we just leave her alone and respect the choices she's made? (and why can't we just get over the fact that she loves Stepanek and stop judging them as a couple? Grr. GRR.)
Justine getting hammered still puts a smile on my face. Lovely game to watch for sure, but I just could not warm to her.
Patrick of La Verne March 29, 2013 at 9:14 pm | Permalink
I'm not sure that Ana was ever anything more than a lovely illusion. Her victory over Venus here was the only win in her career against the foursome of Venus (1-8), Serena (0-3), Justine (0-5) and Kim (0-5).
Ana is 1-21 lifetime against the best players of her time. She was very fortunate, IMO, to have dodged them all in the slams in which she did well, and the confidence issues which were to plague her after she rose to the top are easily understandable considering those numbers.
That said, thank you for an entertaining look back at a fine tournament.
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As you might expect, Chris Pratt (Delivery Man) joked around off camera, and we get to see some, plus Zoe Saldana (Star Trek Into Darkness) and Dave Bautista (Riddick) talk about the hours they spent in the makeup chair, or in Bautista's case, standing for hours to have his tattoos put in place.
The disc also has a fun gag reel, some deleted scenes and an audio commentary. Definitely one for the home collection.


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Recently, an accountant commented on social media that borrowing from the ATO at 9.1% is a good deal. This struck us as a very risky approach to business finance.
The ATO is different to other creditors. The ATO has the right to demand tax debt and take money from you without proving its debt in court. It also has the power to demand and take security deposits for future debts even before they exist. They can turn a company tax debt into the director's personal liability and take the director's house. The tax office is a very powerful creditor that demands careful handling and negotiation.
During the 2015 financial year, the amount due to the ATO totalled approximately $34 billion, of which some $26 billion was 90 days or more overdue, up $2 billion on FY14. It is estimated that 60% relates to SMEs. So it is a widespread problem for Australian businesses and the ATO is being much more pro-active in tackling arrears.
The ATO will, on occasion, allow directors to negotiate a payment arrangement allowing the ATO debt to be repaid in smaller amounts without interest or penalties over time.
Sometimes, the better solution is to restructure your business or look at finance options to clear the arrears and fix underlying working capital issues. Growth inevitably leads to cashflow pressures so finding a solution is critically important.
The good news is that there are many new sources of growth funding available these days. So ask your accountant or trusted advisor and have a good look around to find a strong finance partner.


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November 14, 2012 Staff
In the year, months and, especially, days leading up to the 2012 presidential election, it seemed impossible to log onto a social networking site or leave the house without being reminded of the upcoming vote.
Tweets, Facebook statuses, signs, and bumper stickers supporting one candidate or bashing another were everywhere. This isn't a bad thing; it's promising to see so many people caring so passionately about the future of our country.
Keeping that in mind, now that the election has passed, it is important that people don't let their passions get too out of hand. It is one thing to support a candidate in the time leading up to the election, but it is also important to support the President in the four years afterward.
Last Tuesday, Barack Obama was reelected as President of the United States. It was a close race, but, after taking the key swing state of Ohio, the incumbent pulled ahead of his challenger.
His supporters were ecstatic, taking to Twitter and Facebook to declare "Four More Years!" while those who supported the Republican candidate Mitt Romney went to sleep, naturally, disappointed. But whether that night was spent celebrating or protesting, it is time now to move past the campaign frenzy.
What Republicans and Pro-Romney Americans everywhere must remember is that their candidate's loss isn't the end of the world. In four years there will be another election and another candidate to get behind.
Hopefully, with the campaign out of the way, things can start to get done in Washington D.C.
What Obama supporters must realize is that his election does not reflect the mindset of the whole country. Half of the country was enough of a majority to reelect the President, but not enough to please 100 percent of Americans.
It is true that 50 percent of the voting population did not vote for President Obama to be reelected. But whether you've been rooting for him or for another candidate over the last few months, it is time to let that go, at least until 2016.
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Two letters from Shaw, to his fiance Annie and to his Father; description of initial recruiting from Emilio [BBR 9,10]; one of the recruiting ads.
Boston [BCF]
Feb. 16,1863, Monday
Dearest Annie,
I arrived here yesterday morning, after a very uncomfortable night in the sleeping-car. I have been at work all day, looking over papers with Hallowell, and talking with Governor Andrew. We have decided to go into camp at Readville, and not at Worcester. It is near enough to Boston to make the transportation of supplies an easy matter, and we see no reason to apprehend any trouble from the white soldiers stationed there. Now that it is decided that coloured troops shall be raised, people seem to look upon it as a matter of course, and I have seen no one who has not expressed the kindest wishes for the success of the project. Governor Andrew's ideas please me extremely, for he takes the most common-sense view of the thing. He seems inclined to have me do just what I please.
With much affection, your
Feb. 16,1863
Dear Father,
I arrived here yesterday morning. Things arc going along very well, and I think there is no doubt of our ultimate success. I took a long drive with the Governor, and liked him very much. His views about the regiment are just what I should wish. We have decided to go into camp at Readville; as we think it best to plunge in without regard to outsiders. We shall have to do it some time, and it is best to begin immediately; I do not apprehend any trouble out there. We have a great deal of work before us, but every one seems anxious to give us a helping hand, and applications for commissions come in, in shoals. The more money we can get, the better; the transportation of men from other States will cost a great deal.
I will write to Mother soon.
In haste,
Your affectionate Son
Emilio [BBR 9,10]:
In five days [after the Boston Journal ad] twenty-five men were secured; and Lieutenant Appleton's work was vigorously prosecuted, with measurable success. It was not always an agreeable task, for the rougher element was troublesome and insulting. About fifty or sixty men were recruited at this office, which was closed about the last of March. Lieutenant Appleton then reported to the camp established and took command of Company A, made up of his recruits and others afterward obtained.
Early in February quite a number of colored men were recruited in Philadelphia, by Lieut. E. N. Hallowell, James M. Walton, who was subsequently commissioned in the Fifty-fourth, and Robert R. Corson, the Massachusetts State Agent. Recruiting there was attended with much annoyance. The gathering-place had to be kept secret, and the men sent to Massachusetts in small parties to avoid molestation or excitement. Mr. Corson was obliged to purchase railroad tickets himself, and get the recruits one at a time on the cars or under cover of darkness. The men sent and brought from Philadelphia went to form the major part of Company B.
New Bedford was also chosen as a fertile field. James W. Grace, a young business man of that place, was selected as recruiting officer, and commissioned February 10. He opened headquarters on Williams Street, near the post-office, and put out the United States flag across the street.Colored ministers of the city were informed of his plans; and Lieutenant Grace visited their churches to interest the people in his work. He arranged for William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Frederick Douglass, and other noted men to address meetings. Cornelius Rowland, C. B. H. Fessenden, and James B. Congdon materially assisted and were good friends of the movement. While recruiting, Lieutenant Grace was often insulted by such remarks as, "There goes the captain of the Negro Company! He thinks the negroes will fight! They will turn and run at the first sight of the enemy! " His little son was scoffed at in school because his father was raising a negro company to fight the white men.
At camp the New Bedford men, — some seventy-five in number,—with others from that place and elsewhere, became Company C, the representative Massachusetts company.
Watson W. Bridgee …[his] headquarters were at Springfield, and he worked in Western Massachusettts and Connecticut. When ordered to camp, about April 1, he had recruited some seventy men.
[1863-01-25] DELAWARE.; Gov. Cannon on the Slavery Question.
[1863-02-16] Great Emancipation Demonstration at Exeter Hall.
[1863-02-16] Use of Negroes as Soldiers.
[1863-02-16] FROM FORTRESS MONROE.; The Contrabands at Craney Island–Their Labors, Their Hopes and Prospects–Deaths, &c.
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Q: How to interpret autocorrelation plot? I'm having trouble making sense out of this ACF plot
According to an ADF test, the series is definitely stationary. Also, the presence of autocorrelation is explained by the order 1 lag, as evidenced by the pacf, however the peak around 65 confuses me, how should I interpret it? The pacf does indicate there is something happening around the order 60 lag

A: This looks like ARIMA(1,1,0) to me: PACF cuts off at lag 2, which suggests AR(2), but ACF at lag 1 is close to 1, which suggests differencing.
If you're positive that it's stationary, then AR(2) would be another choice.

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Weed and ATVs: Border Patrol Snags Both in Latest Marijuana Bust
James King | May 13, 2010 | 2:33pm
Border Patrol agents made another substantial weed bust yesterday, and as well as becoming the new owners of hundreds of pounds of weed, agents got some sweet, new toys out of the deal, too.
Agents on patrol near Three Points noticed some ATV tracks in a remote section of the desert.
The agents followed the tracks, which led to two, un-manned ATVs that -- like a lot of things motorized and found in the middle of the desert these days -- were full of weed.
Stashed throughout the ATVs, agents found 25 bricks of ganja, weighing a total of 633 pounds with an estimated street value of about $500,000.
Agents seized both the pot and the ATVs
If you've been keeping score, you know that weed busts like this are just the cost of doing business in Arizona's drug corridor.
Since October of last year, Border Patrol agents have seized more than 622,000 pounds of marijuana with a street value -- according to the authorities -- of more than $498 million.


Knowledge Hunter: It's a new day, a new life!
It's a new day, a new life!
Life is too short to drink bad wines, eat fast food, drive muscle-less cars, carry out numbing projects and spend time with boring people. Got that?
Quaero, who will lead ?
Quaero, who will participate ?


Let me begin by saying that stencil burning is not as easy as you might think. I've sucked in enough toxic mylar fumes to choke a horse and still haven't produced anything to brag about. My dear friend Julie here at Lost Luggage is an expert though and she's been trying to teach me the tricks of the trade, but to no avail, I have not been a good student. Michelle Ward is responsible for starting all this craziness here at GPP Street Team a.k.a. Green Pepper Press. Thank you both for the push and inspiration.
now on to the matter at hand, "Domicile" pg. 6 in "The Book of Eve"
You've heard the sayings, "Home is where the heart is" or "Where your story begins,"
My story begins in the first house that I can remember, the house where I was born, 2324 E. 73rd St. Brooklyn, New York, Bergen Beach to be exact. The dwelling was split level, we lived in the upstairs. Last time I was in N.Y. the house was still standing, small, very small quaint charming little house in a neighborhood now overrun by ungodly mansions and a complete disregard to any sense of community or architectural informity.
In the 1950's this was the new affordable community to raise your family. The streets were not paved, nor were there sidewalks. I lived in this house until my sister Linda was born and then we moved around the corner upstairs in my aunt Mary and uncle Tommy's house, I believe the address here was 2348 E. 74th street. We liked living here. My uncle Tommy had a pool in the backyard and this is where I learned how to swim. I love swimming, even today. Soon my sister Gina was born and we needed more room so we moved to a larger flat across the street 2357 E. 74th St. This was the last stop. It would be here in this domicile, where my heart would grow, and my wonderful childhood memories would unfold. I lived here 13 years.
We moved from this home in 1974 to Denver, Colorado.
When I think of all the places I have lived in my life, I realize today that I'm still searching for the home where my heart lives. Please don't get me wrong, I have a lovely beautiful home with a wonderful husband, but there is a feeling you have when you and your domicile are one and I have not had this feeling for a long time. Home is definitely where the heart is.
I hope your heart finds you home.
"Once you are outside your door, the hardest part of the journey is behind you."
Have a wonderful week! My other blogspot: "ThE ArTfuL EyE"
AAAAAAhhhhhhhhhhhhhh that stencil!!! Bravo chica!! Qien es mas macho??
a lovely perfect post. i wonder how many of us are still longing for the perfect house, that home?
Ohhhhhhh.....this is gorgeous! Your stencil is beautifully done! I hope to work on some stencils tomorrow!
I long for my heart to find the perfect house too! I can see it in my mind...some I will be home!
Mature in the best way post.
This journal gives us all insight.
I remember the childhood Christmas stencils when you had white snow fleck spracy paint and created winter on the inside of a northern california window. Bells and snowflakes and maybe a sled.
Thank you for the lovely work and words.
I love this blog as much as you other one. I love this post to and your beautiful writing. You are a gifted lady and I am honoured to be able to observe.
What a great art journal this is turning out to be. It will be a treasure when it is full. Sold to the highest bidder? Or invaluable?
My home is where my heart is and it is here with Eduard in this little apartment.
Now...where did I put these red slippers, Toto?!


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Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value. She brings him good, not harm. A woman who fears the LORD is to be praised (Proverbs 31:11-12; 30, NIV).
And they are all family. Family is a group of persons belonging to or forming a household. We've looked at what a family is, but the more important question is, "What is the purpose of family?" There are no perfect families. There never have been. However, the purpose of family is to illustrate the nature and character of God. In other words, family is the primary place we learn about God.
Family is important to God. He created it before He created the church and, as with each of His creations, He made a plan for it to succeed. At the heart of that plan is love. To be part of a family is to be loved. So the challenge is … how can we love our family?
I know we all want to be part of a family where we give and receive love. Proverbs 31 is a portrait of a wife and mother, painted by a King as the kind of woman his mother wanted her son to marry. It is a standard of excellence, not only for women but also for every member of every family. In the life of this woman, we find several ways to love our family.
Proverbs 31:11 tells us "her husband has full confidence in her." "Full confidence" literally means to trust, to take refuge in or to lean on. The Proverbs 31 woman spent a lifetime building trust. She trusted God and had a personal relationship with Him. We cannot be trustworthy if we are not trusting – and if we don't trust God, we cannot truly trust others. If we are not "taking refuge" or "leaning on" Jesus Christ, when others take refuge and lean on us, we will crumble and fall. Trust shatters fear.
Trust is fragile and once broken, very hard to rebuild. When our son was a little boy, he constantly rode on the trusted shoulders of his dad, and loved it. Then, one day, at a church youth activity, one of the youth was playing around and punched Dan in the stomach. Dan was caught off guard and the youth hit him harder than he meant to. Dan doubled over and Jered tumbled to the ground. The next time Dan tried to put Jered on his shoulders, Jered flatly refused. It took months for Dan to earn Jered's trust again. To enjoy our family, we must first trust God, which then enables us to build trust in our family. Our family needs to be able to trust us, no matter what – with no hidden land mines. There will be no joy in our homes if there is not an atmosphere of trust. Family is a "team" idea and nothing is more deadly to the success of a team than a lack of trust. Trust God and then build trust in your family. In tomorrow's devotions, we will explore other ways to enjoy your family. Don't miss it!
Father, thank You for the family You have given me. I want to love them like they need to be loved. Help me to build trust in them as I learn to trust You more. Lord, help me to be trustworthy and to be the woman You want me to be in my family.
Identify any areas where you can build more trust.
Everywhere I look, splintered and broken families abound. Why? I believe that somewhere along the way, trust was broken by an affair, a betrayal or a forgotten vow. What is even more frightening is the casual approach to that broken trust. God is calling us to trust Him and then to build that trust in our family. Right now, no matter how many times you have failed, begin again. We are with you!
Join women from across the world in Bible study by enrolling in my weekly online Bible study, Light for the Journey. The current topic is Power Up With Proverbs. Connect with Mary through email or on Facebook.


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The first new projections of future aircraft emissions in 10 years predict that carbon dioxide and other gases from air traffic will become a significant source of global warming as they double or triple by 2050.
The study is in ACS' Environmental Science & Technology, a semi-monthly journal.
Bethan Owen and colleagues note that aviation is not now one of the main drivers of global warming, with international aviation (source of 60 percent of carbon dioxide emissions from aircraft) not even included in the Kyoto Protocol. Global air traffic currently contributes to between 2 and 3 percent of carbon dioxide emissions -- the main "greenhouse" gas linked to global warming.
The scientists' computer model forecast that emissions of carbon dioxide will likely double or triple within the next 50 years. By 2100, carbon dioxide emissions could increase by up to seven times the current levels, they say.


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It seems like just yesterday...the last time I blogged here. I've been occupied by work, play, and introspection. My activities have taken me to the middle of Oct. and I finally have a free moment to blog.
Today my goal is to really see everything that comes into my line of vision. To sense whatever I am doing, to acknowledge my feelings, and live in honor of this one day only.


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Q: Power and logarithm in Z3 I'm trying to learn Z3 and the following example baffles me:
from z3 import *
a = Int("a")
b = Int("b")
print(solve(2**a <= b))
print(solve(a > 0, b > 0, 2**a <= b))

I would expect it returns "[a = 1, b = 2]" but it instead returns "failed to solve".
Why cannot it be solved?
Is it possible to compute with powers and logarithms in Z3 at all? How do I find, say, the length of binary string representation of a number (log base 2)?

A: Long story short, z3 (or SMT solvers in general) cannot deal with non-linear constraints like this. Exponentiation/Logs etc are difficult to deal with, and there are no decision procedures for them over the integers. Even over reals they are difficult to handle. That is, the solver will apply some heuristics, which may or may not work. But for these sorts of constraints, SMT solvers are just not the right tool.
For an earlier answer on non-linear arithmetic in z3, see this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/13898524/936310
Here're some more details if you are interested. First, there is no power-operator for integers in SMTLib or z3. If you look at the generated program, you'll see that it's actually over real values:
from z3 import *
a = Int("a")
b = Int("b")

s = Solver()
s.add(2**a <= b)
print(s.sexpr())
print(s.check())

This prints:
(declare-fun b () Int)
(declare-fun a () Int)
(assert (<= (^ 2 a) (to_real b)))

unknown

Note the conversion to to_real. The ^ operator automatically creates a real. The way this would be solved is if the solver can come up with a solution over reals, and then checks to see if the result is an integer. Let's see what happens if we try with Reals:
from z3 import *
a = Real("a")
b = Real("b")

s = Solver()
s.add(2**a <= b)
print(s.check())
print(s.model())

This prints:
sat
[b = 1, a = 0]

Great! But you also wanted a > 0, b > 0; so let's add that:
from z3 import *
a = Real("a")
b = Real("b")

s = Solver()
s.add(2**a <= b)
s.add(a > 0)
s.add(b > 0)
print(s.check())

This prints:
unknown

So, the solver can't handle this case either. You can play around with tactics (qfnra-nlsat), but it's unlikely to handle problems of this sort in general. Again, refer to https://stackoverflow.com/a/13898524/936310 for details.


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MPhil in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies by Research (Japanese Studies)
This MPhil in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies by Research (Japanese Studies) provides initial research training and, in most cases, aims to develop students' linguistic skills as well as methodological sophistication. Please note that the one-year MPhil in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies by Research (Japanese Studies) is offered by thesis only, and is not a taught course option.
At the end of the MPhil programme, students will be expected to have:
acquired, where appropriate, the ability to read, interpret and translate primary sources in Modern and/or classical Japanese;
acquired a good knowledge of the general scholarship on modern and/or classical Japanese culture(s);
acquired an in-depth knowledge of the secondary literature relevant to the subject of their thesis;
developed the ability to formulate original research questions and to produce a well-constructed argument to answer them, in the form of an independent piece of research based on the use of primary and secondary sources; and
developed independent library- and internet-based research skills concomitant with successful completion of a Masters-level degree.
Applicants for the PhD should submit, via the Applicant Portal, a workable and interesting research proposal and demonstrate that they have the required academic knowledge and skills to carry out their project.
Admission is at the discretion of the Degree Committee, which judges each graduate applicant on his or her own merits and in accordance with its own set rules and regulations.
The Open Day usually takes place at the beginning of November. The event is suitable for those considering applying for postgraduate study at the University. It provides opportunities to meet with academics, explore the Colleges, and find out more about the application process and funding opportunities. Visit the Postgraduate Open Day page for more details.
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POLL: 58% of Northern Irish people do not want a "hard border"
A poll has revealed Northern Irish voters back staying in the EU's single market and customs union.
Commissioned by the European Parliament's European United Left/Nordic Green Left, which Sinn Féin forms part of, the results gathered by LucidTalk suggests that 58% of Northern Ireland support the province staying in the single market and customs union or having some kind of special status after Brexit in order to avoid a hard border with the Republic.
Backing for the measure is high among the Catholic community, with 98% in favor, and those who define themselves as neither Protestant or Catholic, with 87% also in favor.
Protestants on the other hand remain firmly against special status, with 84% against.
In the event that Britain leaves the European Union and reverts to trading on World Trade Organization terms (which would mean tariffs on various goods and border checks between north and south) support for Irish unity shoots up to 48%.
When the same pollster asked in October how people would vote in an Irish unity referendum if Brexit benefited Northern Ireland support remaining part of the United Kingdom soared to 63% to 27%, suggesting people view on the province's future will depend on what is agreed in Brussels over the next year.
In the 2016 referendum 56% of Northern Irish voters opted for the United Kingdom to remain an EU member. However, as so often in Northern Ireland, the result was split down community lines with nationalists overwhelmingly backing continued membership and unionists mostly voting to leave.
In the constituency of Foyle - which covers the city of Derry - the result was 78% in favor of remaining; whilst in the North Antrim just an hour's drive away 62% of votes were against EU membership.
In the Republic, another survey released this week found that 49% of voters back Irish unity with 29% opposed. 22% were unsure.
The pollster asked the same question last year for RTÉ Claire Byrne Live and support has shifted since: in December 2016 46% thought it was "time to have a united Ireland" whilst 32% were against.
However in March another poll for RTÉ found that when voters were asked how they would vote if unity meant an annual cost to the Irish taxpayer of $10 billion a year then support for a 32 country drops to 33% in favor, with 33% against and 34% undecided.


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PREVIEW: DRFC v Leeds
Thursday 13th August 2015 (7:45pm), Capital One Cup R1, Keepmoat Stadium.
Doncaster Rovers' rise to nationwide prominence arguably came a decade ago when they claimed the scalps of Manchester City and Aston Villa en route to a League Cup quarter final tie in a period that culminated in a League One play-off final win over Leeds United at Wembley some three years later.
Back in the third tier now, Rovers are in the process of rebuilding and welcome the Whites back to South Yorkshire for the first round of this seasons competition; one which the visitors won back in 1968.
It is the third time in five seasons that the Whites will have made the short journey to Keepmoat Stadium and they've enjoyed their visits to date; having not lost in 64 years.
For Rovers manager Paul Dickov, who comes up against his old Manchester City teammate Uwe Rosler – and one time employers – it is a chance for the League 1 club to showcase their talents to a captive, nationwide audience.
Both sides came away from the opening games of the 15/16 season with respective 1-1 home draws, however the nature of Doncaster's against Bury was far more complex than United's over Burnley.
Harry Forrester – whose goal saw Rovers overcome York City at this stage of the League Cup last season – saw his misplaced backpass end up in the Shakers goal, before Dickov intervened and allowed the visitors to equalise.
It will be interesting to see whether the feat would be repeated if a place in the second round was at stake.
LAST TIME:
Sat 29th March 2014:
Leeds – 1 (McCormack, 62)
DRFC – 2 (Cotterill, 23 ; Sharp, 45)
Elland Road
Attendance – 23476
LUFC - J Butland, S Byram, D Pugh, J Pearce, T Lees, A Mowatt, R Austin (M Tonge, 45), L Murphy (A White, 45), C Stewart, R McCormack, M Smith
DRFC - S Johnstone, P Quinn, L Neill, A Meite, J Husband, J Coppinger, D Cotterill, R Wellens (D Furman, 71), P Keegan, B Sharp (T Robinson, 84), C Brown
HEAD TO HEAD: League Cup results (in Doncaster): Rovers – 0 LUFC – 2 Draws – 0
WHAT ARE THE ODDS? DRFC 7/4; Draw 12/5; Leeds 6/4.
ROVERS PLAYER: Listen to live coverage from 19:30 with Tom Biltcliffe and Danny Czepiec.
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Consolidation Enterprises Pty Ltd is one of Perth's leading temporary fencing hire companies for around fibreglass and concrete pools. We have been providing our customers with competitive prices and reliable temporary fencing hire & sales service since 2002.
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It prevents not only the hold up to the installation of your pool, but also stops any unwanted visitors venturing or nearing the water. This in turn will stop any undue stress or worry you may have at the time.
Just let us know when the pool is being installed and we will take care or the rest.
There are a number of factors which are involved when installing a temporary fencing around a swimming pool. Due to the process in which a pool is complete, there is a criteria which is carried out prior to the fence being installed.
Excavation takes place and pool shell installed.
Backfill commences but generally only half will be used.
temporary fencing is installed the same as the first backfill.
Water can then be put into the pool.
The 2nd stage backfill will be finished at a later date as long as the fence is up.
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In Finland Metsä Group and VR intensify their cooperation on sustainability
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Metsa Group Aanekoski pulp mill. Source: http://www.metsafibre.com
Finnish companies Metsä Group and VR are intensifying their cooperation on sustainability in logistics and have agreed a new joint target to halve emissions from transport covered by their cooperation by 2030. In addition, Metsä Group aims to transfer some of its current road transports to railways. For Metsä Group, the measures would represent a total emission reduction of around 14,000 tCO2e per year, which is equivalent to more than 25,000 average lorry journeys.
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DSM is accelerating its GHG emissions reduction efforts
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Headquarter of Royal DSM in Heerlen (The Netherlands)
Royal DSM, a global purpose-led science-based company, pledges to purchase all of its electricity worldwide from renewable sources as well as further reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from its own operations faster with stringent new 2030 sustainability targets.
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DSM aims to halve its 2016 GHG emissions from its own operations by 2030
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Royal DSM, a global science-based company in Nutrition, Health and Sustainable Living, aims to halve its 2016 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from its own operations by 2030. The acceleration of its initial 30% reduction target is based on the strong progress over the past few years. With this step-up DSM continues to be an ambitious climate leader in its sector and the updated target provides a firm foundation for DSM to achieve net-zero by 2050.
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Boeing goes green: 100% sustainable aviation fuels by 2030
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KLM Boeing powered by biofuel
Boeing is setting an ambitious target to advance the long-term sustainability of commercial aviation, committing that its commercial airplanes are capable and certified to fly on 100% sustainable aviation fuels by 2030. Boeing has previously conducted successful test flights replacing petroleum jet fuel with 100% sustainable fuels to address the urgent challenge of climate change.
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HRH Prince of Wales calls for a 'green and human-centric recovery' based on circular bioeconomy
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Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I must say how grateful I am to have been invited to be with you here today as we bring together the United Nations and the Commonwealth to discuss what we are calling The Great Reset. I would also like to thank the Permanent Representatives of Canada and Jamaica for convening this meeting and Prime Minister Trudeau for his inspiring leadership on the Green Recovery.
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How Better Electronics Will Drive the Sustainability Revolution
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While it may not always seem like it, our world is slowly becoming more eco-conscious. People, and particularly those in younger generations, are recognizing the threats of climate change and looking for ways to contribute to a healing effort. There's still a great deal of work to be done though, and right now, in the spring of 2020, we may be at something of a crossroads.
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DuPont Industrial Biosciences broke ground on its new site at the Leiden Bio Science Park
Leiden, Netherlands
DuPont Industrial Biosciences officially broke ground last Thursday on its new site at the Leiden Bio Science Park in Oegstgeest, the Netherlands. The state-of-the-art, multidisciplinary facility will utilize the tools of modern biotechnology to make industrial processes more efficient and products more sustainable. The bio-based solutions created in Leiden will have a direct impact on some of the most pressing societal issues of today: reducing food waste; reducing the environmental impacts of livestock farming and improving animal health; producing renewable fuels; and lowering environmental impacts in the textile and laundry industries.
Business, Economy, Technologybioproducts, Dupont Industrial Biosciences, Leiden Bio Science Park, sustainability
The circular economy and the bioeconomy. Partners in sustainability. New report by EEA
The European Environment Agency (EEA) has published its report on the circular economy and the bioeconomy. The circular economy and the bioeconomy — Partners in sustainability shows that the two policy agendas have similar objectives and areas of intervention, including food waste, biomass and bio-based products, and that they would benefit from stronger links, particularly in product and infrastructure design, and collaboration throughout the value chain.
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IKEA aims to cut food waste by 50% in all IKEA stores by August 2020
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With the Food is Precious initiative IKEA aims to cut food waste by 50% in all IKEA stores by August 2020. A little more than a year since the roll out of the initiative IKEA has diminished food waste that is equivalent to one million meals.To put that into a context; one million meals could feed one thousand people for a whole year.
Economy, Societycircular economy, Food waste, IKEA, sustainability
The LEGO Group invests in new bio-based materials to make bricks and packaging
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World LEGO Tower in Milan @EXPO 2015
The LEGO Group announced a significant investment of DKK 1 billion (approximately € 135 million) dedicated to research, development and implementation of new, sustainable, raw materials to manufacture LEGO® elements as well as packaging materials. The LEGO Group believes a new sustainable material must have an ever-lighter footprint than the material it replaces across key environmental and social impact areas such as fossil resource use, human rights and climate change.
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While it is important to allow a real estate agent to handle your house hunt and sales, it is also essential that you choose what is best for you in efficiency and affordability.
The above statement says it all. As the year 2018 advances, many homeowners will be making new purchases and moves. According to analysis, many homeowners make their moves during the beginning of a new year, starting fresh in a new home.
For the above reason, it is vital that your real estate agent is doing their best to bring back good results for you.
Below we have put together some critical points that will get you the best out of your agent.
Choose your type of agent: Are you selling a residential home or a commercial property? Do you want a real estate agency located online or those with physical locations? Go through the benefits and disadvantages that both have to offer. Do you have a busy schedule or do you want a location you can visit in person? Also, have in mind the area you wish to move to while making this consideration. If finding an agent online, using a trusted platform like realty.com can help you in vetting your agent.
Make a short-list of selected agents: After going through step one, chances are you will have more than one agency ready for you to contact them. However, before randomly picking, you shouldn't forget that a firms services can deteriorate over time due to mismanagement, and not all that glitters is gold.
Therefore, it is important that you do some research about the firms that most appeal to you. You can check on realty.com to know which trusted real estate agent is located closest to where you have interest in moving. Find out what previous clients have to say about them, and find out if the agency belongs to a trusted industry organization.For those who are selling a home, you should check your agents website and the links they have with any major online platforms. See if they are representing the properties of their clients well with quality photos, which are informative and rightly taking, These points should lead you to the right agent.
Note: any agency that has no link with a significant, online property marketing, platform, should be removed from your shortlist. There is a huge chance your experience with them will be dissatisfactory.
Test their knowledge: For property sellers, the final step to take before saying yes to a real estate agent is to see how much your property can be sold for in their hands. You should give the remaining agencies on your shortlist a chance to look at your home. Also, you should ask the financial value of your property with proof of their claim, through samples of similar residences they have sold. It is always a good decision to check a directory like realty.com for similar home prices.
Once, the above is done, you should have enough information to select the right firm for your home sale.
Tell your agent what he needs to know: This is both for the seller and buyer. Let your real estate agent know how serious you are and what you expect from them when you expect it from them. This move will enable them to adjust the priority of your project efficiently.
Work closely with them: This point is for the sellers. Don't forget that you and the agency are now a team. You should frequently call and check the progress garnered so far.
For buyers: Use a trusted platform like realty.com to find vetted agents and homes that match your financial budget and taste.


Hi everyone, we announced in the last post, today we want to continue showing you some news about Css features and how we can use them in our Divi posts and pages.
More in detail we will see now how the @supports Css works and when it can come useful to us; in order to do it we will start right from the last Css post, we have seen how we can work with the experimental Scroll Snap css property, but it is an 'experimental' property and probably we can use the @supports in this case!
First of all, let's introduce this Css feature. @supports is part of the Css Conditional Rules, just like the more common @media we daily use in order to make our web designs responsive for every screen and device.
Nowadays, in fact, Css properties are growing and undergoing changes and browsers not always are able to follow along. So we can found ourselves in bad situations with awesome styles applied in Chrome, for example, but not supported in Safari and IE and similar.
So, let's give a look at this Css rule in practice!
CSS SCROLL SNAP, BE CAREFUL!
The idea is really a good idea, we don't want the user stays at some scrolling point in which is not interesting content; however, when we look at the documentation about the Scroll Snap property we figure out it's not compatible at all with Chrome and Opera.
Of course you should always test by yourself these compatibilities and you may find that these property works really really well only in Firefox for example. At this point you should always choose the safest way, so you may want to apply this effect in Firefox but not at all in all the other browser (or you can just opt for a totally different design like that we did in the last post leading the user through scrolling with buttons).
Let's take another example, in our Divi Ads system we used Css variable to store the border color of our Ad labels (those ones you see on the left).
NOTE that obviously also the @supports could be not supported (for example in IE) and you might need to fix the problem in the old way.
So, for every relatively new Css property we should be careful on its usage, the best we can do is adopt the @supports feature and eventually test the feature itself on IE, so we will be sure that our Css style is exactly how we designed it.


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See? Even God pulls practical jokes every now and then
"Ha, ha, you got cream on your face!"
~ joker on practical jokes
"Heard the joke about two balloonist and a lawyer. It ends with one balloonist saying that the person was a lawyer, as his answers are correct, but never informative to the actual matter of your question?"
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A practical joke (also known as a prank, gag, jape or shenanigan) is a trick or joke that isn't really all that funny because they're actually useful. Either people can actually use these jokes and do something with them, or these jokes are too real or true to be funny.
Blonde jokes could also be considered practical jokes. They can also be dumb jokes that nobody gets. Examples:
You have new messages.
Are you retarded?
I'm going to send the Squirrels to get you!
Origin[edit]
The practical joke was invented in 198 B.C. by a man named Practicus Lafus, Greek by trade. He started it all by storming into Rome and yelling at Caesar: "Your head is bald and your crown is a bunch of leaves!" He then proceeded to crack up laughing. Legend has it that when they tied him up and threw him into the Mediterranean Sea (his sentence for the evil crime he committed), he was still laughing.
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Original Jesus pulling a prank on Obama.
198 BC—Practicus Lafus invents the practical joke.
184 AD—Zhang Jue declares himself the Great Teacher of the funk group; The Way of Peace. Many people called the group gay, so Zhang Jue tried to come up with a joke to make the people of China's jimmies even more rustled. This led to the creation of their spunk group; The Yellow Turbans. The Han Dynasty didn't like the spunk group so they cut them up and ended it. Since then the revival of spunk was scheduled to return when Michael Jackson was born. He was the King of Pop but really had spunk! Zhang Jue's followers then joined The Black Parade.
1492 AD—A sailor aboard the ship Pinta named Rodrigo de Triana yells "Land Ho!" at 2 AM in the morning, as a practical joke. It wakes up Christopher Columbus, who locks Rodrigo in the hold and fed him only toast. Charles the Special Needs Kitty is the true spotter of the new world, and spotted it at 4 AM.
1776 AD—Benjamin Franklin insists that the turkey be the official bird of the U.S. as a practical joke. When the joke was discovered, however, it was changed promptly to the eagle.
1790 AD—Some crazy person that didn't like George Washington told him that his peas had been poisoned, then quickly ran out to where the chickens were scratching around in the dirt below the window where Washington was eating. As soon as Washington threw the peas out the window, the man threw crumbles of rat poison down. The chickens, of course, ate both peas and poison, so they all died. And you always thought that the chickens died from the peas.
1865 AD—John Wilkes Booth fires a popgun behind Abraham Lincoln as he watches a play in the Ford Theater. However, some raving lunatic had swapped out the popgun for a real one. Booth did not like this dirty practical joke at all, so he pulled out a knife, and jumped from the balcony to the floor in an attempt at suicide.
1898 AD—An angry Mexican celebrates Cinco de Mayo by lighting fireworks and throwing them in the air. However, someone had tied a small paper airplane to it, which changed it's course. The fireworks flew in through an open hatch on the USS Maine. They then flew down into the ammunition magazine and blew up the ship.
1914 AD-The notorious Black Hand clan of Serbian practical jokers jump out on an expecting Archduke Franz Ferdinhand with unloaded pistols and shout "BANG". Little did they know that the guns were loaded in a separate practical joke by France, and thus resulting in the second most deadly practical joke, accounting for the deaths of millions of soldiers.
1917 AD—The German mad scientist, Frankenstein III, makes a beaker full of a extremely nauseating gas. He planned to use it to play a practical joke on the division commander when he got back from Mexico from delivering a secret message. It backfired on him, however, when he tripped over his cat, who, by the way, was a direct ancestor of Charles the Special Needs Kitty, and broke the beaker. Even though the practical joke failed, he did (quite by accident) invent the infamous poison gas so famous to World War 1.
1929 AD—An escapee from an Insane Asylum runs up and down the streets of Washington, D.C., yelling "The stock market will crash! The stock market will crash!" as a practical joke. And it worked.
1939 AD—Hitler tells the people of Germany that his Third Reich will last a thousand years.
1944 AD—Smallish rockets meant to be a practical joke on the Canadians from Hitler land in and around London, England. Hitler's comments: "We have the most terrible sorriness for our stupidity in the aiming of the rockets. Next time we will see if bigger rockets do the job."
1955 AD-Rosa Parks, a middle-aged black woman in Montgomery, Alabama thought it would be a "laugh riot" if she sat in front of the bus reserved for white people. She gets thrown out of the bus, arrested by the police and taken into custody, but her joke was taken seriously by a black minister Martin Luther King Jr. and that's when he "started it all".
1992 AD—Bill Clinton pretends to be running for president as a practical joke, and ends up winning.
2001 AD—A few conspirators in the Grand Conspiracy Theory hijack planes as a practical joke. It backfired, however, when they tried to scare the people in New York City and Washington, D.C. by flying too close to some buildings.
2004 AD—Saddam Hussein tries playing a practical joke on U.S. soldiers searching a farmhouse in Iraq. He jumped out of a self-dug hole and yelled "BOO!", thinking it would scare the soldiers away. And look at where it got him.
2005 AD—A butterfly, trying to play a practical joke on another butterfly, causes a series of massive hurricanes, the first of which was known as 'Hurricane Katrina'.
2006 AD—The user Filmcom plays a practical joke by starting this page. Haha.
2007 AD--I farted, but then again it wasn't a joke AT ALL.
2008 AD-Barack Obama elected the mayor of Homoville.
2009 AD-Barack Obama declared himself the "Third anti-christ".
March of 2009 AD-Marilyn Manson declares gothic protests against Obama
2010 AD-We're doomed.
2011 AD-Civilization collapses.
2012 AD - Megan Stammers and his twice the age lover is sent of to Bordaux for the weekend. They do not return. Her parents cry their eyes out on British TV, and the French say : What if Megan is halfway as daft as her parents? Are we in for a practical joke? We will deport them, and then we will learn what joke that was meant for us.
2012 AD- the world ends. THE END?
2019 AD- China thought they sold bad bat-soup to only mess with Wuhan
2101 AD- War was beginning.
2939 AD-Hitler's reich actually lasts a thousand years.
2940 AD-A freshmen sends someone a link to a Rick Astley video, that actually links to this article.
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