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Romania will get development of contingency plan at NATO Summit in Warsaw
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At the NATO Summit in Warsaw this Friday and Saturday, Romania will obtain the development of the contingency plan, confidential Allied sources told Agerpres on Tuesday.
"The contingency plan development means to know who comes to help in case of an attack, when, and where. We have obtained a balance of the strengthening of the Eastern Flank. It's about a plan with precise deadlines, with people in charge, with allocated units," the sources explained.
The Summit is also expected to decide an advanced presence on the North-Eastern flank, with four battalions deployed in the three Baltic states and in Poland. "The focus on the northern flank will be on land, while on the southern of the [eastern] flank will be land, maritime and air," the same sources detailed.
Moreover, following the meeting, a land presence of NATO will be obtained, through the multinational brigade in Romania, consisting in 3,000 – 5,000 troops, including 1,000 coming by rotation from the Allied countries; the rest of them will be Romania's contribution.
"There are assurances for Bulgaria with 400 troops, and Poland will commit one company," the sources asserted.
The Summit will also declare the initial capability of the missile defence facility in Deveselu, and will consolidate the Black Sea's profile on NATO's agenda.
They sources also pointed out that there was confusion in Sofia during the recent visit of Romanian President Klaus Iohannis as regards NATO's naval presence in the Black Sea; the Romanian side proposed the setup of a cooperation framework for training and naval exercises, while the Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov mentioned a fleet.
"The creation of a cooperation framework for naval training and exercises in the Black Sea involves exercised for increasing interoperability. It is a decision to be respected. The project will continue because a decision of the defence ministers of the NATO member states was made in May 2015. The U.S., France and the United Kingdom support this project. With Turkey, with or without Bulgaria, Romania will assume its role of framework nation, to which other non-riparian states will join; namely, states that have carried out exercises in the Black Sea – the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Canada, and Poland," the sources explained.
The NATO Summit in Warsaw should produce a Final Declaration, which currently has 120 paragraphs referring to continuity and novelty.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg: We will agree to further enhance our military presence in the eastern part of the Alliance
"In Warsaw, I will report to Heads of State and Government that NATO has done what we said we would do. We delivered a faster, a stronger, and a more ready Alliance. We now need to take the next steps. So at our Summit in Warsaw, we will agree to further enhance our military presence in the eastern part of the Alliance," NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told a press conference on Monday.
"We will deploy four robust, multinational battalions to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. I welcome Canada's recent announcement that it will lead one of these four battalions. Together with Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States. This is a great contribution to our common security. And a clear signal that our nations will defend one another, on both sides of the Atlantic.
Our collective defence and deterrence includes much more. We will also agree to develop a tailored presence in the south-east, based on a multinational brigade in Romania.
In response, at our last Summit in Wales, we laid out plans for the biggest reinforcement of NATO's collective defence since the Cold War," said Stoltenberg .
"In Warsaw, I will report to Heads of State and Government that NATO has done what we said we would do. We delivered a faster, a stronger, and a more ready Alliance. We now need to take the next steps. So at our Summit in Warsaw, we will agree to further enhance our military presence in the eastern part of the Alliance. We will deploy four robust, multinational battalions to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. I welcome Canada's recent announcement that it will lead one of these four battalions. Together with Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States. This is a great contribution to our common security. And a clear signal that our nations will defend one another, on both sides of the Atlantic. Our collective defence and deterrence includes much more. We will also agree to develop a tailored presence in the south-east, based on a multinational brigade in Romania," NATO Secretary General added.
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im looking to get some tips on a 2002 GSXR 1000. i would like to get the suspension set to my weight.
i would also like to know if there are any tips to upgrading my susupension. like what would fit my bike, possibly from other bikes, so i can expand my options on what to look for and so on.
plus anything i should look out for or be aware of on the 2002 gsxr.
maybe parts that tend to wear out or go bad after so many miles.
any help would be great. thanks all.
What have you tried to adjust on your stock suspension and gotten no improvement?
That will help me with a recommendation.
Also...how much do you weigh? If you are in the same category as this guy, your options are much more limited.
my wife quickly got tired of her ex500, apparently she is learning to ride faster than me...weird I know. She sat on some GSXR motorcycles a few days ago and loves them, then she found out about this website, gixxer.com and it's pretty much anything and everything gixxer. We spend...well she spends a lot of her time there now.
On most bikes you can change the springs, valves, etc in the front end, which will give you better feel up front, in the rear, you are more limited without changing the shock out.. The biggest question though is how is the bike being used? If it is just a street bike and you want a plusher ride or a firmer ride, there are a ton of options out there.. if its a race bike or track bike, you can drop in Ohlins cartidges in a lot of the oem forks.. as I said though, options depend on use.. We do all sorts of suspension work out here at Duc Pond, regardless of brand of bike.
i actually havent gotten the bike yet. hopfully this weekend.
figured i would look at my options of what to do when i get it, so i can start adjusting it.
i am 205lbs. im not racing it or anything, just want somthing that is set up for my weight. i will worry about racing it later. but figured it would be ideal to set it up proper for me.
as far as upgrading the suspension, i was thinking that once i start getting more comfortable with riding it, and pushing it more. i would like to have more options then what stock will give me, to better suit my style of riding. but i dont plan on actually upgrading any time to soon. i can do that later down the road.
My STRONGEST recommendation is to bring it to one of the sponsored shops and just have them gove it a once over. Ill bet ya that the fork oil has never been changed. Its pretty much a night and day difference. You have to think that the bike was probably assembled by a guy making minimum wage. I think its better learining your bike when you know everything is right than learining on a bike that isnt set up right.
have someone who knows what they are doing set the suspension up (sag, etc).
Then, learning your bike is going to go SO MUCH EASIER. I remember when I first bought my 636, a frined of mine jumped on it and said, "DUDE..How can you ride this thing!" Him and I are the same size. I took it in and had the same stuff done..I got the bike back and it was like a veWHOLE NEW BIKE.. Where do you live and we can suggest a place..
ive always wanted to get my suspension done right. if ya dont mind do you know of any places near Rockville? if not just a good place to take my bike, i really dont mind to travel.
I pushed the f4i some but not to the limits, i dont plan on pushing the gsxr to the limits either. Im not looking to race. But like having the power. I just want to set it up right so that if i do start pushing it more, its not harder then it should be.
I will take it to rnr they helped with my f4i. Thanks for advise!
Even if you don't "pust it to the limit"..nothing beats a well set up bike. Especially for your frame of mind...but remeber..a bike that is perfectly for one person isn't perfectly set up for another.


Mostly sunny. It hit 77 today. It's hard to believe its December.
Freezing rain, was 32, 33 now, temp trying to warm, easterly wind up to 15 mph at times.
Bright sunshine with occasional clouds floating by. looks like it is going to be a little over 60* today. More rain possible tonight and/or tomorrow.
Good lord, it hit 80 today. A fairly dry 80 so not miserable, but still... in December???
they *say* we hit the upper 50s today but you couldn't prove it by me. it's in the low 50s now and supposed to get down to the upper 30s. i am too cold to be happy. at least it isn't raining even if it is gloomy.
We barely hit 60 yesterday and 64 today. Tomorrow we are only to be about 60. But sunny.
Cooling off here. 60 ish. . The giant storm that hit the Northwest is heading south. We are getting winds from the south today and and the storm moves in tonight. When it arrives in SoCal it will drag some of the tropical stuff into it and add to our rain totals. They are saying 5+ inches for my area in the first 24 hours. Ready to hunker down.
Be careful in that weather Tina!
Dry, warm and sunny. Cooling about 10 degrees tonight.
it did stop raining, and it did get warmer. we got up to 70 but it is already cooling back down.
Clear, 21, easterly wind up to 15 mph.
Cold (30*), windy (65+ mph gusts), snowy but it blows away before it can really stick.
Pretty much stayed right around 60 all day. Not much variation. Even now its only 59. No rain, but no sun eitiher.
Hope everyone affected is getting ready for the cold snap that will be moving into our area tonight. I'm expecting to get up to single digit wind chill in the morning. We are taking as many precautions as we can at work, opening the sprinkler system drains so there is a steady stream of water, wrapping air compressor lines with heat tape, leaving the water trickling in the bathrooms.
I'm glad this is only forecast to last 2 days and then begin to warm up a bit!
Yes, keep warm all of you.
Clear, upper 30's, easterly wind up to 15 mph.
I finally have calm winds. It hasn't been nice out due to wind for a few days. It should reach about 70* today with partly cloudy skies. We have a slight chance of rain over the weekend.
I'd be surprised if we hit 45 today. according to my car it was 39 when I left work and 36 at home.
Well it was 17° yesterday morning when I got up with a windchill of 7°. It was definitely cold for us. When I went home at 5:00PM it was 24°. I think we topped out at about 30° all day. The low this morning was 20° and we are up to 37° now.
I think I am ready for summer now.
We were about 10° warmer today than yesterday, throughout the day. it is currently 46 here. I think we hit a high of maybe 53.
pea soup fog and mid-50s. i don't know which is worse, fog or rain!


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Part 21: Submit Your Own Tribute to Basil Bey.
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Tribute Series to Ikey Legend, Basil Bey.
A UCT RFC Initiative
For those that would still like to submit a tribute to Basil Bey, we are continuing to collect stories, thoughts, anecdotes, and any pictures you have in tribute to this great rugby icon.
All submitted tributes will be compiled and uploaded periodically to the website. Furthermore, a book will be published in 2017, which will also contain all available tributes at the time of publishing.
Please submit all tribute content to Kevin Forte at kevin.forte@ikeytigers.com.
A Tribute Series to Ikey Legend, Basil Bey.
That great rugby man, a massive figure in my life, and in the lives of many of us, Basil Bey, 'Pops', as I affectionately called him, or Bey Pasha, passed away a short while ago. Basil had been critically ill with cancer for a long time, and when it spread to his bones, the referee was playing optional time.
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Part 1: Introduction – Basil Bey Tribute Series
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Part 2: Basil Bey – The Essence of Varsity Rugby
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Part 2: Basil Bey: A Tribute by Paul Dobson.
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Part 2: Basil Bey: A Man for All Season
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Part 2: Media Gallery
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Part 3: Short Tributes
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Part 4: Vincent Mai and John Rushmere.
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Part 5: Short Tributes by 1961 UCT 1st XV
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Part 8: A Tribute: Basil Bey, by Gus & Billy Enderstein
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Part 9: Basil Bey. A Tribute by Ian McCallum.
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Part 10: Short Tributes
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Part 12: A Tribute to Basil Bey by John Dobson
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Part 14: Anecdote: Basil Bey by Tim Hamilton-Smith
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Part 16: A Tribute to Basil Bey by Nick Koster
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Part 17: Change Exchange – Basil Bey by Andrew 'Tank' Lanning
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Part 18: A Tribute to Basil Bey by Richard Neville
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Part 19: A Tribute By Des Newton
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Ikeys UK Meet Up Part 20: Short Tributes

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Jorge Luis Borges wrote that he "always thought that paradise will be a kind of library." This month we focus on the committee in charge of the lofty kingdom upstairs.
committee co-chair Koichi Ishiyama, Bobbie van der List and Todd Crowell.
More tech upgrades, more elbow room, more attractive surroundings and access to more books, newspapers and periodicals than ever before. The Library, Archives and Workroom Committee has traditionally provided the tools to enable working journalists to go about their jobs, and the present 10-strong committee is busy enhancing the facilities and services in the FCCJ's new premises.
The "brains and memory" of the Club, the library subscribes to 10 foreign and 15 Japanese-language newspapers, as well as 50 magazines, including Time, The Economist and Der Spiegel. It can access information from a number of databases, including those of Kyodo News, Reuters and the Factiva service, and has a comprehensive clipping archive that dates back to the 1950s.
The library staff are skilled in fulfilling Members' requests for assistance in their research – a service that one journalist has described as "achieving the impossible in an infeasible amount of time" – while a collection of 300 rare books is the envy of many other institutions. Those titles include Lafcadio Hearn's Fantastics and Other Fancies, from 1914, and the 1880 work, The Classical Poetry of the Japanese, by Basil Hall Chamberlain.
The library has approximately 11,000 books on its shelves, as well as more than 1,200 DVDs, with more being added regularly.
Talking books: Discussing with Head Librarian Hiroko Moriwaki.
GIVEN THE LIBRARY'S ROLE as a focal point of the Club, the committee has no plans to rest on its laurels, with digitization a key element of the upgrades. A database of all books is available through all the public computers in the library, enabling Members to search for a specific title, while an e-book library was introduced this past January. Further enhancements are under way, including providing access to online academic journals and the digitization of newspaper clippings.
The committee typically meets once a month – although meetings are suspended during August, when many people are away, and in the run-up to the Christmas and New Year holidays – to discuss the purchase of new books and magazines and any issues that have been raised by Members.
One of the committee's primary responsibilities is to deliver a monthly Book Break event, with an author presenting his or her latest work and then taking part in a discussion with Members. "We discuss possible speakers at our monthly meetings and generally try to get authors of books about Japan or at least about East Asia. It varies from politics through economics, cultural issues, history, international relations and even some non-fiction books," said Koichi Ishiyama, the other committee co-chair.
OTHER EVENTS THAT HAVE proved particularly successful have been tie-ins with the publication of books, such as the memorable evening events dedicated to ninjas and practitioners of traditional Japanese tattoo artistry.
Members donate around 15 books to the library every month, while the committee approves the purchase of at least five new titles each time they meet. On occasion, when the selection is of a particularly high standard, that list expands to 10 books.
THERE HAVE BEEN A number of minor glitches in the library and correspondents' work room that only became apparent after the move was completed, Ishiyama says, but are being ironed out. The layout of the space has been tweaked as it became apparent where improvements could be made, while other enhancements – such as better lighting in the area set aside for easy chairs and shared computer terminals – are being planned.
By and large, Club Members who use the space and staff who work there are extremely happy with facilities that are approximately 20 percent larger than the library in the Club's former premises and far more stylish and up-to-date. What pleases Ishiyama and the committee most of all, however, is the sudden end to the disappearance of the library's books and periodicals.
"In the old library, we were losing around 200 books every year," he said. "The stacks were open and anyone could go in, so people would take books and not always return them. That meant that we had to use our budget to replace those books every year." The layout of the new book cases, and the need for anyone who wants to rummage through the selection to check in with the librarian first, appears to have remedied that problem, Ishiyama said.
Hiroko Moriwaki, who has served as the head librarian for six years, says the new database makes locating books easier, and the "more spacious and modern" library space makes her job more enjoyable. "Everyone who comes here to work likes the new facilities," she said. "I think all the members of the committee are working very hard for the rest of the Club.


We don't often dine at the same restaurant on back-to-back nights, but that's exactly what Christopher did at Bayside last week.
On Thursday, June 15, Bayside held a Macallan scotch dinner featuring four courses paired with different vintages and styles of Macallan scotch.
The evening began with a welcome cocktail of house made punch with Brugal 1888, accompanied by a meatball, crab cake and goat cheese crostini.
Then it was down to serious business with the first course: wild salmon tartare with seasoned rice, miso, soy, ginger and avocado, accompanied by Macallan 12 year.
Next course was the American kurobuta pork with cherry mustard, micro arugula and polenta, accompanied by Macallan 12 year double cask.
Next was farm raised venison loin with garnet yam with maple, five spice reduction and cranberry pear chutney, accompanied by Macallan 15 year.
For dessert: butterscotch budino paired with Macallan rare cask, a scotch that retails for upwards of $200.
Bayside holds these scotch dinners several times a year, featuring different scotch labels each time. Cost is generally around $55, a bargain for food and scotch this good. Scotch fans can also sample more than 50 different scotches at the Bayside bar.
For more information, visit BaysideRestaurant.com.
We returned to Bayside the next night to have dinner prior to the initial concert in the 2017 Hyatt Summer Concert Series: Candy Dulfer, a Dutch sax player and vocalist who we heard puts on a sensational show.
We decided to keep dinner simple and ordered the risotto shrimp ($26.50) with jumbo tiger prawns and sugar snap peas, and seabass with lemon risotto. The shrimp was superb, as was the risotto, which was dyed green from the peas. The fish was flavorful and the lemon risotto a nice accompaniment.
One reason we always dine at Bayside before attending a concert at the Hyatt is the free shuttle provided by Bayside.
It's also a stark contract to the Hyatt's $35 valet fee.
After our dinner (which was accompanied by the always fabulous Ron Kobayashi on piano), we hopped in the shuttle and three minutes later were at the front door of the Hyatt. We picked up our tickets and found our way to our seats just in time for Grace Kelly, an energetic saxophone player who despite her petite size blew some big sounds on her sax. Accompanied by three backup musicians, Kelly's set was lively and a perfect way to open the concert.
After a brief intermission, Candy Dulfer and her seven-piece backup band took the stage. Dulfer immediately set the tone with her dynamic playing and delightful stage presence. Her marvelous backup band contributed rich vocals and helped engage the audience with fun banter. By the end of her set, the audience was on its feet dancing and clapping along to the music.
The Hyatt has concerts nearly every Friday night through mid October, including Chris Botti, Herb Alpert, Chris Isaak, and many more.


An energetic revival of George Abbott's 50s musical opens this year's Chichester Festival.
Shakespeare's Globe starts its summer season strong with a storm and a shipwreck.
RSC re-boots the play with another outstanding performance from Jonathan Slinger in a production by David Farr.
Though not the best play Maxim Gorky ever wrote, Children of the Sun is in good hands with this National production.
Playwright Alan Bennett opens up with an autobiographical show.
Quite simply, Once is built around good songs, a talented cast and a good old-fashioned love story.
The Broadway import strays from the Broadway musical formula.
London can now see what all the Broadway-goers were raving about.
Simon Gray's Chekhovian 1981 play centers around a man doing as little as possible.
This new drama by John Logan gives off a graceful, elegiac expression of poetic yearning.


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French singer-songwriter and poet
Cette, France
Georges Charles Brassens (French pronunciation: [ ( ) a l b as s]; 22 October 1921 – 29 October 1981) was a French singer-songwriter and poet.
Now an iconic figure in France, he achieved fame through his elegant songs with their harmonically complex music for voice and guitar and articulate, diverse lyrics. He is considered one of France's most accomplished postwar poets. He has also set to music poems by both well-known and relatively obscure poets, including Louis Aragon (Il n'y a pas d'amour heureux), Victor Hugo (La L gende de la Nonne, Gastibelza), Paul Verlaine, Jean Richepin, Fran ois Villon (La Ballade des Dames du Temps Jadis), and Antoine Pol (Les Passantes).
During World War II, he was forced by the Germans to work in a labor camp at a BMW aircraft engine plant in Basdorf near Berlin in Germany (March 1943). Here Brassens met some of his future friends, such as Pierre Ont niente, whom he called Gibraltar because he was "steady as a rock." They would later become close friends.
After being given ten days' leave in France, he decided not to return to the labor camp. Brassens took refuge in a small cul-de-sac called "Impasse Florimont," in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, a popular and working-class district, where he lived for several years with its owner, Jeanne Planche, a friend of his aunt. Planche lived with her husband Marcel in relative poverty: without gas, running water, or electricity. Brassens remained hidden there until the end of the war five months later, but ended up staying for 22 years. Planche was the inspiration for Brassens's song Jeanne.
He wrote and sang, with his guitar, more than a hundred of his poems. Between 1952 and 1976, he recorded fourteen albums that include several popular French songs such as Les copains d'abord, Chanson pour l'Auvergnat, La mauvaise r putation, and Mourir pour des id es. Most of his texts are tinged with black humour and are often anarchist-minded.
In 1967, he received the Grand Prix de Po sie of the Acad mie fran aise.
Apart from Paris and S te, he lived in Crespi res (near Paris) and in Lezardrieux (Brittany).
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Tracking Earth's Secret Spy Satellites
With the right gear and know-how, anyone can keep tabs on the clandestine "moons" that surround our planet.
Geoff Manaugh
Gene Blevins / Reuters
Behind the night sky is another sky, one obscured by legal darkness and criss-crossed by satellites we're not meant to know exist. This is the "other night sky," as geographer-turned-artist Trevor Paglen calls it, a world of clandestine moons and unacknowledged orbiters. Kept out of official reach by defense and intelligence services, this hidden sky nonetheless can be uncovered—if you have the gear to track and observe it.
One of Paglen's many projects over the past ten years has been documenting this surreptitious astronomical realm, where surveillance spacecraft, military communications platforms, and rumored electromagnetic weapons drift in a state of near-invisibility. Many of these "black" satellites, as Paglen refers to them, are launched as National Reconnaissance Office missions, which means they receive the prefix NROL, or National Reconnaissance Office Launch. As websites such as "Gunter's Space Page" and "Spaceflight 101" readily show, there are many NRO launches planned for the years to come, including NROL-61, scheduled for a July 28th launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and NROL-79, slotted for December, to name only two.
We can know when and where the satellites go up; in other words, what we're not supposed to know is where they go and what precisely they do there.
In his 2009 book Blank Spots on the Map, Paglen takes a trip "a few miles north of the U.S. frontier" in order to meet with amateur satellite-spotter Ted Molczan in Toronto, Canada. According to Paglen, Molczan performs "a very peculiar version of amateur astronomy," inhabiting a world where "even full-time defense industry journalists and aerospace historians have a hard time knowing exactly what's what." As Molczan tracks a sky that "doesn't want to be seen," he reveals what Paglen evocatively describes as "Earth's most secret moons." "In most cases," Paglen writes, "the reflection is all we get."
Molczan is already widely known for his work in the very small but increasingly global world of satellite trackers, although he has attained something closer to notoriety in the realm of U.S. intelligence. Molczan and his loose confederacy of colleagues use high-powered optical gear, precision clocks, orbital prediction software, and the latest news they can find of U.S. satellite launches to piece together a semi-coherent map of an atmospheric geography that state officials would prefer to keep secret.
For Paglen, this is a question of watching the watchers, of revealing U.S. taxpayer-funded tools of planetary espionage and military communications that make things like overseas drone wars possible. It is about treating the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency as "the Pentagon's geography department," he writes in Blank Spots on the Map, deducing from their activities a sense of where and how the U.S. seeks to project its territorial power.
If you understand the locations of these satellites, then you can begin to deduce their underlying motivations, Paglen suggests—including what might be coming next, in terms of spotting satellites parked over future conflict zones. Think of it as a kind of predictive cartography of wars yet to come.
As Paglen explained to me over the telephone, his project is about "seeing the historical moment that you live in, and noting that a landscape that human beings have been looking at for tens of thousands of years is different now—and it's different because we put satellites up there. Some of them stay up there forever. Some of them are spying on you. Some of them are being used for telephones or the internet. Some of them are exploring Mars, or what have you." But it's the ones that try to escape notice that are, almost by definition, the most interesting.
When satellites are seen drifting from traditional orbits, engaging in what appears to be electromagnetic snooping on nearby constellations of satellites, or even purposefully disguising their locations using mirrors and Vantablack paint, then you know that you are witnessing a covert space program in which even the heavens themselves can be militarized.
For Paglen, however, something more purely artistic—more conceptual than political—lurks at the edges of this same investigative project.
In his introduction to a project called "The Last Pictures," for example, a note of sublimity creeps into Paglen's voice. "Over the last fifty years," he writes, with a sense of awe, "hundreds of satellites have been launched into geosynchronous orbits, forming a ring of machines 36,000 kilometers from earth. Thousands of times further away than most other satellites, geostationary spacecraft remain locked as man-made moons in perpetual orbit long after their operational lifetimes. Geosynchronous spacecraft will be among civilization's most enduring remnants, quietly circling earth until the earth is no more." They will outlast the pyramids—by far—surviving beyond even the continents we live on.
In response to these seemingly eternal spacecraft, Paglen has produced a series of beautiful, long-exposure photographs featuring geostationary satellites. For "The Last Pictures," however, he went beyond mere documentation, instead finding a way to participate in the same artificial astronomy of which he was once only a spectator. Paglen attached a specially fabricated metallic disc onto a yet-to-be-launched geosynchronous satellite. It was, as he describes it, "a micro-etched disc with one hundred photographs, encased in a gold-plated shell, designed [to] withstand the rigors of space and to last for billions of years."
Trevor Paglen's disc with "The Last Pictures."
That disc was installed on satellite EchoStar XVI, and successfully launched back in 2012, meaning that Trevor Paglen's "The Last Pictures" is now as permanent a part of the Earth's night sky as the moon and stars, another element in the expanded catalog of artificial astronomical objects that he, Ted Molczan, and their colleagues continue to study.
Much of the intrigue of Paglen's and Molczan's work comes from their brush with the world of top secret and clandestine services, accompanied by all of the elaborate conspiracies such a dark realm entails. A further conceptual resonance comes from the uncanny realization that geosynchronous satellites are so far above the Earth's surface that, from the point of view of human civilization, they might as well be eternal.
Their work gives us a glimpse of the fate of astronomy in one possible far-future scenario, in which a cataclysmic war or pandemic disease reduces humans to technological penury, the records of our world's space programs long since lost to time. Hundreds, if not thousands, of human generations could pass during which the ability to launch these sorts of artificial moons and orbiting spacecraft will seem so impossible as to sound more like medieval myths of angels or esoteric stories from global folklore.
It is not hard to imagine some determined group of future astronomers gradually honing their observational tools once again in order to peer up at the lights burning far above the Earth's surface every night. Amongst those wandering stars and constellations, however, will be hundreds of fixed points, unblinking lights that never move. These will be the same geosynchronous satellites that people today once studied, and they will spend billions of years in the sky before ever being at risk of falling back to Earth. That's billions of years of false stars for future astronomers, billions of years of myths and rumors as to what those lights might be—these artificial constellations that never seem to fade—reflecting the sun from on high.
In fact, Paglen himself has taken this sort of fantasy one step further. At a lecture in Amsterdam a few years ago, I listened as he described for the audience a post-human future Earth in which it might actually be deep-sea squid, with their huge brains and ultra-sensitive eyes, who might float up to the surface of the seas on quiet nights to stare at these unblinking lights that appear to follow no laws of planetary motion—and that seem to stare back at them, godlike, in turn.
Geoff Manaugh is the author of A Burglar's Guide to the City.


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"Riverdale"'s Marisol Nichols Gets Real About Playing Hermione Lodge, Dealing with Hiram, and KJ Apa Falling Asleep On Set
Hermione has some plans up her sleeve.
By Carolyn Twersky
Warning: Riverdale spoilers ahead.
Riverdale may be on their winter break, but that doesn't mean we aren't constantly thinking about what's going to come next (What does the quarantine mean for the town? Where is Archie going? Who is the Gargoyle King?). We have so many questions, and we aren't the only ones — the cast of Riverdale is dying to know more about their characters' fates as well!
"I have no idea who the Gargoyle King is," Marisol Nichols, who plays Mayor Hermione Lodge told Seventeen. "I have heard all of the rumors that everybody thinks it's me. I have no idea if that's true."
So when Marisol visited New York to check out the launch of Vicks DayQuil and NyQuil SEVERE with VapoCOOL, Seventeen sat down with her to discuss Hermione's toxic relationship with Hiram, her love for Veronica, and what's coming up next when Riverdale returns in January. Check out the full interview below:
Seventeen: What are you thoughts on Hermione's relationship with Hiram and how that's changed over the last season and a half?
Marisol: I think Hermione realizes that she's in a very, very dangerous place with Hiram and so the best way to handle any kind of danger is don't let them see you coming. So, I think she wants Hiram to think that she's fully supportive. And she will be fully supportive to a point. If it puts Veronica in danger, no way in hell. She just can't openly defy him.
Seventeen: So the breaking point is Veronica?
Marisol: Always. It will always be Veronica. I mean, even when Hiram took shots at Hermione at the election, that was horrible, but then when he put Veronica in danger, that was it. And we're going to see what she's been working on behind the scenes, which I'm really excited about. I can't wait for people to see.
Seventeen: OK, because up until now, Hermione has still been very loyal to Hiram.
Marisol: I know, and it's driving me crazy! I'm like, "Come on, can we give her a friggin' backbone, please?" You know, especially in this day and age. So, that's coming and I was really, really happy about that. I'm really excited about her taking matters into her own hands. I can't wait, truly, for everyone to see that. I'm like, "Yes! Finally!"
Seventeen: What about Hermione's relationship with Veronica? It has been strained so much. Do you think we're ever going to see a happy Lodge family again?
Marisol: You know, yes. I hope so. I think even this season was supposed to get back into Veronica and Hermione's relationship because it's got a very good foundation and always has. I think Hermione's relationship with Veronica is "I'm going to protect my daughter at all costs." Even if that means, "Fine, you want in the business? Here you go. You better sink or swim. You better rise to the occasion because this isn't a business that you can just blow off." And I think that's true for any mom. It's like, "OK, you want to grow up? Here you go. This is what you've got to do. You wanted responsibility." You know, that annoying thing that all of our parents did? They had a point! And so I think with Veronica and Hermione, she's going to do whatever she can to protect her at all costs, even if that means, "Baby, you need to sink or swim and you need to learn how to swim right now."
Seventeen: And this is in regard to the speakeasy?
Marisol: And other things that are coming...
Seventeen: So, what else can we expect from Hermione in the remainder of season 3?
Marisol: We haven't shot all of it so I'm still finding out as well, but I was even surprised at the lengths Hermione is going to go to. She always surprises me. But yeah, she's definitely going for it. And I think there's self preservation for her and her daughter that she's willing to do anything to keep that.
Seventeen: So we're going to see more Hermione and Veronica?
Marisol: Yes, we're going to see them together trying to pick up pieces and keep themselves both safe.
Seventeen: Do you think Hermione would ever leave Hiram for good?
Marisol: Oh my god. Please please please please. I hope so! I don't know if she'll ever actually get away though and I don't think that she thinks that she can. I think that Hermione knows that as long as Hiram is around she'll never be able to go away. Like, do you think Hiram would ever allow Hermione to walk away? Never. And she knows that. So, I think she's using her mayoral position like, "All right. Give me some power. Let's see what I do with it."
Seventeen: So far she has just been using her mayoral power to help Hiram.
Marisol: Yeah, we're going to see why and what she's doing and particularly why she went along with quarantining the town.
Seventeen: So she had her own motives in doing that?
Marisol: Exactly.
Seventeen: What About Veronica and Archie? Do you think that they're endgame?
Marisol: I hope so. You know, I don't know if they're going to make it through however many years of high school that we play this show, but sometimes if you're endgame you don't stay together throughout. Sometimes you have to come back to that. But I do think that they're endgame, and I hope that they're endgame because I like that, but you never know. It's TV.
Seventeen: Anything else you want to say about season three and the mid-season finale?
Marisol: I have no idea who the Gargoyle King is, just know that. I have heard all of the rumors that everybody thinks it's me. I have no idea if that's true. I think anybody could be it in Riverdale. I really hope Hermione's not that bad. I don't know that the motivation would be for that, but we'll see.
Like season 2, there will be some questions answered half way through the season, and others will be left toward the end. So just know that.
Seventeen: The character who is the Gargoyle King, do they know yet?
Marisol: No! We never know. No idea.
Seventeen: OK, time for some rapid fire questions. Who's the most likely to fall asleep on set?
Marisol: Me or KJ [Apa]. Probably KJ just because he works more hours than I do.
Seventeen: Who's the most likely to eat everything in sight?
Marisol: KJ. Yup, with second place going to Mark [Consuelos].
Seventeen: Who's the most likely to spend the longest time in hair and makeup?
Marisol: Charles [Melton]. No, I'm kidding. Probably me or Mädchen. Although, we've gotten it down to about an hour and a half so maybe not.
Seventeen: Who's the most likely to forget their lines?
Marisol: Mädchen. She'll say that.
Carolyn Twersky is the Editorial Fellow at Seventeen.com. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram!
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N.C. State Board of Elections sends Judicial Voter Guide to all N.C. households
Posted on September 18, 2020 by Mike Fuhrman
RALEIGH — All North Carolina households – about 4.7 million in all – will soon receive the Judicial Voter Guide 2020.
The 2020 guide contains information about all candidates for N.C. Supreme Court and N.C. Court of Appeals. It also includes important election dates and deadlines, tips for voters, information about the three options for voting, and a removable North Carolina Absentee Ballot Request Form.
The guide also features a letter from State Board Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell, which details safety precautions that will be in place at all early voting sites and Election Day polling places to minimize the opportunity for COVID-19 transmission.
"We are excited for voters to receive this year's edition of the Judicial Voter Guide," Brinson Bell said. "Along with judicial candidate profiles, we've included a wealth of information to ensure North Carolinians are ready to vote in the upcoming election."
All three voting methods are still available for North Carolina voters: (1) by mail (2) in-person during one-stop early voting, October 15-31; or (3) on Election Day, November 3.
Voters who have already requested an absentee ballot – either on paper or through the State Board's Absentee Ballot Request Portal– should not submit another request.
To track the status of their absentee ballot, voters can create an account on BallotTrax.BallotTrax allows voters to receive text, email, or phone messages as their ballot moves through the process.
For more information about the Absentee Ballot Request Portal and BallotTrax, please visit https://www.ncsbe.gov/voting/vote-mail/absentee-ballot-tools.
Any North Carolina registered voter may request and receive a mail-in absentee ballot for the 2020 general election.
Although the request deadline is 5 p.m. October 27, the State Board encourages voters who wish to vote by mail to request a ballot as soon as possible.
The Judicial Voter Guide 2020, which is required by state law, is also available electronically HERE.
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I've been organizing art supplies on weekends lately. Last night I sorted through some random bits of molded and painted model magic and air dry clay that I had made years ago. I must have been inspired by Maggie Grey's "Raising the Surface with Machine Embroidery" book at the time. The random bits inspired today's rainy day art project. I got out the air dry clay, a bunch of stamps, and some bits of copper, fused Angelina fibers, and Glitterati film. Tyler and I had a great time playing with it.
I started embedding thin bits of sheet copper in the piece of clay that I was molding so Tyler decided to do the same thing. His creation on the left below got smooshed and turned into something else shortly after I took the photo. We'll have to paint the final creations another weekend since the clay has to air dry two to three days first.
I still have to figure out what I'm going to do with all the other molded bits.
Oh my goodness. The pieces are beautiful. Tyler is the most adorable little guy. I bet he had a great time. He has such a wonderful curiosity and attention to tasks. Can't wait to see the finished products!


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package gov.samhsa.consent2share.service.consent.pg;

import gov.samhsa.consent2share.service.dto.ConsentDto;

import java.util.Set;

import org.junit.Rule;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.rules.ExpectedException;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.mockito.InjectMocks;
import org.mockito.internal.util.collections.Sets;
import org.mockito.runners.MockitoJUnitRunner;

@RunWith(MockitoJUnitRunner.class)
public class ConsentOneToOneAssertionTest {

	@Rule
	public ExpectedException thrown = ExpectedException.none();

	@InjectMocks
	private ConsentOneToOneAssertion sut;

	@Test
	public void testAssertConsentDto_Fail_With_To_Ind_To_Org_From_Ind_From_Org() {
		thrown.expect(IllegalArgumentException.class);
		// To Org
		Set<String> mockOrganizationalProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo = Sets
				.newSet("mockOrganizationalProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo");
		// To Ind
		Set<String> mockProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo = Sets
				.newSet("mockProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo");
		// From Org
		Set<String> mockOrganizationalProvidersPermittedToDisclose = Sets
				.newSet("mockOrganizationalProvidersPermittedToDisclose");
		// From Ind
		Set<String> mockProvidersPermittedToDisclose = Sets
				.newSet("mockProvidersPermittedToDisclose");
		ConsentDto mockConsentDto = new ConsentDto();
		mockConsentDto
				.setOrganizationalProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo(mockOrganizationalProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo);
		mockConsentDto
				.setProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo(mockProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo);
		mockConsentDto
				.setOrganizationalProvidersPermittedToDisclose(mockOrganizationalProvidersPermittedToDisclose);
		mockConsentDto
				.setProvidersPermittedToDisclose(mockProvidersPermittedToDisclose);
		sut.assertConsentDto(mockConsentDto);
	}

	@Test
	public void testAssertConsentDto_Fail_With_To_Org_From_Ind_From_Org() {
		thrown.expect(IllegalArgumentException.class);
		// To Org
		Set<String> mockOrganizationalProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo = Sets
				.newSet("mockOrganizationalProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo");
		// From Org
		Set<String> mockOrganizationalProvidersPermittedToDisclose = Sets
				.newSet("mockOrganizationalProvidersPermittedToDisclose");
		// From Ind
		Set<String> mockProvidersPermittedToDisclose = Sets
				.newSet("mockProvidersPermittedToDisclose");
		ConsentDto mockConsentDto = new ConsentDto();
		mockConsentDto
				.setOrganizationalProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo(mockOrganizationalProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo);
		mockConsentDto
				.setOrganizationalProvidersPermittedToDisclose(mockOrganizationalProvidersPermittedToDisclose);
		mockConsentDto
				.setProvidersPermittedToDisclose(mockProvidersPermittedToDisclose);
		sut.assertConsentDto(mockConsentDto);
	}

	@Test
	public void testAssertConsentDto_Fail_With_To_Ind_From_Ind_From_Org() {
		thrown.expect(IllegalArgumentException.class);
		// To Ind
		Set<String> mockProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo = Sets
				.newSet("mockProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo");
		// From Org
		Set<String> mockOrganizationalProvidersPermittedToDisclose = Sets
				.newSet("mockOrganizationalProvidersPermittedToDisclose");
		// From Ind
		Set<String> mockProvidersPermittedToDisclose = Sets
				.newSet("mockProvidersPermittedToDisclose");
		ConsentDto mockConsentDto = new ConsentDto();
		mockConsentDto
				.setProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo(mockProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo);
		mockConsentDto
				.setOrganizationalProvidersPermittedToDisclose(mockOrganizationalProvidersPermittedToDisclose);
		mockConsentDto
				.setProvidersPermittedToDisclose(mockProvidersPermittedToDisclose);
		sut.assertConsentDto(mockConsentDto);
	}

	@Test
	public void testAssertConsentDto_Fail_With_To_Ind_To_Org_From_Org() {
		thrown.expect(IllegalArgumentException.class);
		// To Org
		Set<String> mockOrganizationalProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo = Sets
				.newSet("mockOrganizationalProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo");
		// To Ind
		Set<String> mockProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo = Sets
				.newSet("mockProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo");
		// From Org
		Set<String> mockOrganizationalProvidersPermittedToDisclose = Sets
				.newSet("mockOrganizationalProvidersPermittedToDisclose");
		ConsentDto mockConsentDto = new ConsentDto();
		mockConsentDto
				.setOrganizationalProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo(mockOrganizationalProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo);
		mockConsentDto
				.setProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo(mockProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo);
		mockConsentDto
				.setOrganizationalProvidersPermittedToDisclose(mockOrganizationalProvidersPermittedToDisclose);
		sut.assertConsentDto(mockConsentDto);
	}

	@Test
	public void testAssertConsentDto_Fail_With_To_Ind_To_Org_From_Ind() {
		thrown.expect(IllegalArgumentException.class);
		// To Org
		Set<String> mockOrganizationalProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo = Sets
				.newSet("mockOrganizationalProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo");
		// To Ind
		Set<String> mockProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo = Sets
				.newSet("mockProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo");
		// From Ind
		Set<String> mockProvidersPermittedToDisclose = Sets
				.newSet("mockProvidersPermittedToDisclose");
		ConsentDto mockConsentDto = new ConsentDto();
		mockConsentDto
				.setOrganizationalProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo(mockOrganizationalProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo);
		mockConsentDto
				.setProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo(mockProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo);
		mockConsentDto
				.setProvidersPermittedToDisclose(mockProvidersPermittedToDisclose);
		sut.assertConsentDto(mockConsentDto);
	}

	@Test
	public void testAssertConsentDto_Success_With_To_Ind_From_Org() {
		// To Ind
		Set<String> mockProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo = Sets
				.newSet("mockProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo");
		// From Org
		Set<String> mockOrganizationalProvidersPermittedToDisclose = Sets
				.newSet("mockOrganizationalProvidersPermittedToDisclose");
		ConsentDto mockConsentDto = new ConsentDto();

		mockConsentDto
				.setProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo(mockProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo);
		mockConsentDto
				.setOrganizationalProvidersPermittedToDisclose(mockOrganizationalProvidersPermittedToDisclose);
		sut.assertConsentDto(mockConsentDto);
	}

	@Test
	public void testAssertConsentDto_Success_With_To_Org_From_Org() {
		// To Org
		Set<String> mockOrganizationalProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo = Sets
				.newSet("mockOrganizationalProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo");
		// From Org
		Set<String> mockOrganizationalProvidersPermittedToDisclose = Sets
				.newSet("mockOrganizationalProvidersPermittedToDisclose");
		ConsentDto mockConsentDto = new ConsentDto();
		mockConsentDto
				.setOrganizationalProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo(mockOrganizationalProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo);

		mockConsentDto
				.setOrganizationalProvidersPermittedToDisclose(mockOrganizationalProvidersPermittedToDisclose);
		sut.assertConsentDto(mockConsentDto);
	}

	@Test
	public void testAssertConsentDto_Success_With_To_Org_From_Ind() {
		// To Org
		Set<String> mockOrganizationalProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo = Sets
				.newSet("mockOrganizationalProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo");
		// From Ind
		Set<String> mockProvidersPermittedToDisclose = Sets
				.newSet("mockProvidersPermittedToDisclose");
		ConsentDto mockConsentDto = new ConsentDto();
		mockConsentDto
				.setOrganizationalProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo(mockOrganizationalProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo);
		mockConsentDto
				.setProvidersPermittedToDisclose(mockProvidersPermittedToDisclose);
		sut.assertConsentDto(mockConsentDto);
	}

	@Test
	public void testAssertConsentDto_Success_With_To_Ind_From_Ind() {
		// To Ind
		Set<String> mockProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo = Sets
				.newSet("mockProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo");

		// From Ind
		Set<String> mockProvidersPermittedToDisclose = Sets
				.newSet("mockProvidersPermittedToDisclose");
		ConsentDto mockConsentDto = new ConsentDto();
		mockConsentDto
				.setProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo(mockProvidersDisclosureIsMadeTo);
		mockConsentDto
				.setProvidersPermittedToDisclose(mockProvidersPermittedToDisclose);
		sut.assertConsentDto(mockConsentDto);
	}
}


In a new pictorial for High Cut magazine, the ladies of Girl's Day undergo a hair color color makeover.
Under the concept of "Girl's Color," the members sport hair featuring eye-catching shades of blonde, brown, and red.
During the corresponding interview, the girls share their thoughts on Hyeri's aegyo on "Real Men," a clip of which went viral, topping search portals everywhere and possibly even causing Girl's Day's official website to crash.
"Frankly, at that time Hyeri was annoyed. The members know," Minah adds, laughing.
Meanwhile, you can catch the full pictorial and interview featuring Girl's Day in the 149th issue of High Cut.


Ah Sydney, why do you show off so with your beautiful waterside weddings? They're such a treat to pour over! Dunbar House sets the scene for Katie and Bryce and their beautiful waterside ceremony!
Beautiful photographs today from Jack Chauvel who captured the warm, golden light and fun fresh feeling of the wedding.
Katie describes the day as, "The happiest day of our lives – everything we had dreamed of. " Katie wore a gown by Fashions by Farina.
Katie and Bryce married at Dunbar House. Katie says "Dunbar House was the perfect venue for our wedding. We got married in Robertson Park, under the Fig Tree, looking out on to Sydney Harbour. Then our guests went upstairs and enjoyed cocktails and canapes while we had photos taken. Stefania and Tony were so great to deal with. They are so professional and nothing was a problem for them. The venue is stunning, especially for an intimate wedding, and the food was really good. Many of our guests have commented on the food and attentive waitstaff. I can't recommend Dunbar House highly enough." Katie chose Pachelbel's Canon in D for her walk down the aisle.
Simmone Logue Fine Food Company created a two tier wedding cake adorned with fresh blooms.
Special touches? Kate had been given her mum's wedding dress years ago. As a surprise she had it cleaned and changed in to it for the bouquet toss. Kate and her mum had a dance when she came out wearing it!
Congratulations Katie and Bryce! Thank you for sharing your wedding with us! Thank you also to Jack Chauvel for sharing today's images with us!
Lovely photos Jack. The golden light on that day was perfect and I love the brides changing of dress at the end – very sweet !
They're the Plum Pretty Sugar range! Including their line Castelbel & Trumpet!
Thanks so much for your help!!!! I Love the site and all the work your put into it so thanks for all you do.
Hi, what a beautiful wedding! Would love to know where the bridesmaid dresses are from?


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Ecography Gold OA
Ecography
A journal of space and time in ecology
Published by The Nordic Society Oikos.
Ecography is Gold Open Access
Ecography is a gold Open Access journal
Ecography switched to a full Gold Open Access journal in January 2021. This means that all our papers are freely accessible for anyone to read. Authors may share their articles with anyone, on any platform or via any communication channel. Open Access increases visibility and helps make research reach a larger audience, and generally, this also leads to increased downloads and citations.
In addition, all articles published from 1997 onwards are free for anyone to read. We are convinced that Open Access offers many advantages over traditional publishing and that the free and unlimited access to Ecography's papers will strengthen the journal.
Why did Ecography go Open Access?
The publishing landscape is rapidly changing. As a society, we need to adapt to these changes, to make sure that our journals can continue to thrive and deliver the very best research to readers across the globe. For a long time, the publishing of Ecography has been heavily subsidized by the Nordic Society Oikos (NSO). This model has worked when the landscape has been stable and our other journals have been able to attract enough subscription income to provide support for the full journal portfolio. But now, when more and more funders and countries mandate Open Access, increasing pressure and uncertainty is placed on the traditional subscription system. To ensure the long-term survival of all our journals, and to start the transition towards a more open and freely accessible publishing landscape, the board of NSO has decided to move Ecography to Open Access beginning in January 2020. The move to Open Access will not affect the editorial process — the scientific judgement of paper quality is independent of our publication model. We intend to keep the quality of published papers at the highest scientific level.
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Forget About Brexit, Let's Head North West!
Are you tired of hearing nothing but Brexit at the moment? I for one certainly am! Poor Theresa May, eh? She's not had it easy, what with taking on the job of getting the UK out of the EU in the first place, but also the backlash she's received along the way and more recently over her proposed deal.
Over the past few months, Hopewiser has turned to The Times' Bricks and Mortar to seek clarity on how Britain's looming divorce from the EU is affecting the property market. We found that rental prices were up due to a lack of buyers in the midst of Brexit uncertainty, meaning there has been a surge in the demand for rental properties, thus giving landlords the power to hike up their prices. Cheeky devils.
That said, it would now seem that Brexit is failing to put certain buyers off claiming their property prizes. Charlie Kannreuther of Savills, who runs both the Chester and Knutsford offices, states that he barely hears the word used in the North West, claiming, "it's almost as if this part of the country is insulated from it". Any chance this area can remain whilst the rest of Britain leaves? No? Worth a try.
One wonders why this region lives in blissful ignorance whilst others panic about what state the country will be left in once the die is cast? It's a well-known fact that the number of Londoners abandoning the capital to move "up North" has reached record-breaking levels, which isn't surprising considering that more and more homeowners are being enticed by larger homes at a fraction of the cost. Talk about dangling the carrot! This isn't to mention the increased job opportunities, with such contributions to the Northern Powerhouse as the arrival of MediaCityUK over 10 years ago now. This saw the likes of the BBC and the University of Salford expanding and setting up camp in the new and improved surroundings at Salford Quays.
Despite reports suggesting that that the BBC's move to Salford provided only a marginal benefit to the region, Sean Anstee of Trafford Council said in 2017 that the relocation of the BBC has helped double the value of Greater Manchester's digital and creative sector to £3.1bn, and that there are now 55,000 people employed in the sector. It can't just be us that thinks 55,000 is far from marginal, right? If you work for a large enterprise, you'll probably agree that businesses expand and relocate to increase prosperity, and personnel will follow suit as and when convenient opportunities arise.
Digressing aside, the aforementioned has no doubt contributed to the rise in people leaving the hustle and bustle of Kensington and Mayfair for the more rural yet still affluent towns and villages of Cheshire. David Lewis of Garrington Property Finders believes that whilst the North-South gulf is as wide as ever, the "potential for strong capital growth is a key part of the appeal". Amongst the sought after South Manchester belt are the likes of Hale, Alderley Edge, and Wilmslow, in addition to Chester and the Wirral which also lie in desirable commuter belts. With the promise of high-performing schools both in the public and private sector, as well as the ability to enjoy a balance of city work and suburban living, it's clear to see why these North-West locations are so high in demand. Oh and I almost forgot, you can get to central London via train in just 2 hours!
The Times again confirms our thoughts about the reasons behind the boom in the North West, in that the economic growth of Manchester has significantly driven the rise in prosperity across the region. Those grand mansions that were once a luxury for cotton merchants and traders are now being enjoyed by families whose breadwinners have risen to affluent positions in such industries as IT, the media, and digital technology. Good news for those of you working in those sectors!
Are you looking for recommendations on where to relocate? Perhaps you've taken a job in the North of Britain after realising the opportunities the region has to offer. Or maybe you simply want more for your money, and a move to the North West will give you just that whilst still maintaining a good quality of life. Charlie Kannreuther from Savills returns to suggest looking at properties in Chester, which has an average housing price of £245,112 and is an important retail hub for the North West. He expresses that the change from retail shops to coffee shops and restaurants has been extraordinary, contributing to its desirability.
Chester is also home to a number of competitive schools, such as the independent co-ed King's School, and the all-girls Queen's School, not to mention the good quality state options as well. If you fancy living within the city walls, there's a period townhouse up for grabs through Savills, boasting a library and walled garden for £500,000. For higher-end properties, think Curzon Park North and houses lining the River Dee overlooking Chester Racecourse.
Also on Savills' recommendations list is Knutsford, with an average property price of £438,094, as well as Wrexham in North Wales (10 miles south of Chester), where the average housing price comes in at only £158,839. If you're looking to get onto the property market, it might be an idea to swoop in on prices like the latter whilst they remain low, as they're up to a third cheaper than their more established neighbour in Chester. That said, if demand continues to increase in the North West, what is to say that housing prices won't rise? In these trying times, one should never rest on your laurels.
If you're planning on relocating, whether that's to the North West or somewhere else, make sure you take Proximity with you. It's the must-have app designed by Hopewiser that allows you to find all your nearest transport, leisure, and healthcare facilities. Perfect for when you're starting out in a new town, village, or city. For your FREE download, head over to the App Store or Google Play today. Hopewiser are all about address data, so please get in touch for more information on our other services.


The engineering group, Rolls-Royce has proposed a restructuring plan that involves cutting 2,600 jobs over the next 18 months. The majority of the cuts would be in the aerospace division, where most of the reduction would be achieved by 2015. Rolls-Royce has a global workforce of 55,000 people. The reduction in workers is a part of an intense program to improve operational efficiency and reduce cost across the Group. According to a statement released on Tuesday, the company is committed to accelerate progress on the 4Cs: Customer, Concentration, Cost, and Cash. Rolls-Royce plans to continue to pursue farther cost improvements in all areas."The investment we have made in technology and new capacity, alongside the organizational changes we have made to simplify the Group, have embedded us to increase output improve efficiency," Rolls-Royce said in a press release. These reductions are not the last to come. However the company views them as a way to make Rolls-Royce a stronger, more profitable company.


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Hands on: HiSense Glasses-Free 3D prototype review
Decreasing the need for 3D glasses, increasing the viewing angle.
Not yet rated By Matt Swider 09 January 2013
What is a hands on review?
Doesn't require 3D glasses
Maintains a 2160p resolution
Doesn't always work at all angles
Half the resolution of 4K UHD TVs
Only a prototype
Hi-sense Glasses-free 3D prototype deals
HiSense, having already claimed the world's largest HD trophy with the 110-inch XT900, wants to do the world one more favor: riding everyone of those annoying active shutter and passive glasses.
The GF60XT980 Glasses-Free 3D is just a prototype, but it accomplishes that goal with an illusion of depth that is very similar to current 3D technology out there right now.
The HiSense booth at CES 2013 had a video montage of athletes running and hurling objects forward and background, demonstrating the multiple 3D layers that this UHD could pull off.
The big difference is that this specially made video didn't have pop out with in-your-face 3D visuals. Instead, more of the 3D layers looked as if they receded into the background.
Glasses-free 3D viewing angles
Like a giant Nintendo 3DS, the HiSense GF60XT980 looked better when standing in front of its UHD screen from the dead center.
This 60-inch television uses a high-precision lenticular lens so that the 3D can be viewed from wide angeles.
Still, moving about still made its 3D a little less apparent and a little more out-of-focus. It was like a Magic Eye painting that didn't look quite right at some angles.
To fix this, HiSense tucked a facial tracking system into the GF60XT980 that tweaks the sweet spot for better wide angle viewing. Sadly, with crowds buzzing about the CES show floor, this particular technology was best reserved for another day.
GF60XT980 prototype tech specs
At 60 inches, the GF60XT980's screen size can compare to most other UHD televisions that are being shown at CES 2013.
However, its 2160p panel is half the resolution of a normal 2D Ultra high definition set. Losing glasses in the name of 3D loses that 4K benchmark.
2160p isn't bad. It's still double the resolution of current 1080p HDTVs out there, so the difference between the GF60XT980 and a 4K UHD set is only going to be discernible to the most critical eye.
Sadly, just a prototype
GF60XT980 pricing and availability
This HiSense concept model is just the latest development in the years-long quest for watching 3D television without having to put on a pair of unfashionable and comfortable 3D glasses.
Quite accurately, HiSense calls glasses-free 3D "the holy grail of the television industry."
The GF60XT980 makes the concept seem further along than it did two years ago thanks to UHD resolutions - everyone agreed that cutting 1080p on normal HDTVs never looked particularly good.
But don't count on seeing this 60-inch prototype outside the halls of CES just yet. HiSense was quick to point out that this is just a concept model; one without a price or release date.
The television industry's "holy grail" remains undiscovered.
Early Verdict
A glasses-free 3DTV that works flawlessly would make 3D a more worthwhile experience. But, as it stands, HiSense's GF60XT980 is just a prototype.
No price has been set for this glasses-free UHD TV that's half the resolution of normal ultra high definition televisions.
Hands on reviews' are a journalist's first impressions of a piece of kit based on spending some time with it. It may be just a few moments, or a few hours. The important thing is we have been able to play with it ourselves and can give you some sense of what it's like to use, even if it's only an embryonic view. For more information, see TechRadar's Reviews Guarantee.
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How you Change Students' Lives through Sciences
Meet Kashmire, whose life you help change!
Across Africa, 28 million girls won't finish school. Since 95% of jobs by 2020 will require a formal STEAM* education, girls are often kept from the workforce. With your support, Nyaka is determined to stop our female students from becoming a statistic.
Kashemire, a third year Vocational student, always loved science. Yet, until she discovered Nyaka's Robotics Club, she wasn't able to apply her scientific knowledge outside the classroom.
However, your gifts allowed Kashemire to turn her scientific interests into job-friendly skills! After joining the club, she learned skills such as electrical wiring and computer programing.
Because of your compassion, Kashemire can combine her critical thinking abilities with her technical skills to help her community! Kashemire recognized that the understaffed, overcrowded local hospitals couldn't care for all patients. To combat preventable deaths, the students created a hospital bed that automatically distributes IV medications.
This invention you empowered her to create is clearly beneficial. Last year, Kashemire competed with the club in a national robotics competition. Nyaka WON against other secondary and university schools!
Her success with the robotics club has encouraged her to become a doctor. With the education in tech innovation that you have provided her, she's confident she'll be a great doctor!
By investing in Nyaka, you are empowering a generation of women in STEM! If you want to enable more girls like Kashemire to take on the workforce, donate here!
*STEAM=Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math education
Click here to learn more bout changing students' lives!
Watch to see how you help Kashmire pursue her love for science!
Empowering Self-Sufficient Stars!
Meet Shillah, the girl who's life you help change!
You created a space at Nyaka Vocational Secondary School Shillah to transform her musical passions into a career!
By the time Shillah was three, she had lost both of her parents. Her grandmother welcomed Shillah and her seven older siblings into their home, but she couldn't afford school fees. Without a formal education, Shillah was destined to be like many uneducated girls in her village: an early bride and a young mother.
However, thanks to your kindness, by the time she was school-aged, Shillah's life changed! Her uncle had heard of how the nearby Nyaka Primary School offers a free education to orphans. Shillah's family enrolled her immediately.
At Nyaka Vocational Secondary School, you gave Shillah another chance to use her love of music. She joined the drama club.
Your support offered Shillah the tools she needed to learn how to read and write. Before attending Nyaka, Shillah didn't have books or pencils, but as a primary student, she could write her own stories and poetry. Shillah also loved to sing and dance. Your commitment to Nyaka allowed her to further her artistic interests through the school's Anti-AIDS Club. The club uses song/dance to educate the community and other schools about AIDS. You have provided Shillah the platform to use her musical gifts to help others.
At Nyaka Vocational Secondary School, you presented Shillah another chance to foster her love of music. She joined the drama club. In the club, she worked every weekend with a teacher to write her own songs. Through the club, Shillah went from being a girl who liked to sing in a group, to a performer who performs solos of her own work. Thanks to your investment, Shillah was also able to compete in a national vocal competition, which she won!
Shillah graduates this December. Because you empowered her, she plans to record her own music. Since she studied tailoring, Shillah intends to make all of her performance outfits so they will be as unique and beautiful as she is.
You have helped Shillah become the strong, self-sufficient woman she was always meant to be! Thank you!
Ruth is Bettering Nyaka Because of YOU
Meet Ruth, who now keeps Nyaka students healthy!
Girls in Rural Uganda are often told to quit school so they can start a family. Without your support, Ruth believes that at 22, she would "be a mom to many children; rather than one of Nyaka's amazing nurses. Ruth lost her father at a very young age. She and her five younger siblings were sent to live with their grandmother. While attending Primary One, her grandmother couldn't purchase her books or pay school fees. Her education was going to end before her eighth birthday. Ruth accepted that she would be a housemaid, rather than achieve her dream of being a nurse. However, thanks to your support, everything changed for Ruth when her grandmother discovered a FREE school for orphaned children--your Nyaka Primary School. Ruth was a Pioneer Student, part of Nyaka's first class of students. As a student, Ruth watched nurses care for her ill grandmother. She knew she wanted to become a nurse to serve her community, particularly for sick children. Thanks to the strong education foundation you provided Ruth, she made her dreams a reality. Ruth graduated nursing school! Your compassion not only benefited Ruth, but also allowed her to impact the Nyaka community. Today, Ruth is the nurse at your Nyaka;s Vocational Secondary School. Ruth treats sick students so they can stay in school. She also counsels and provides emotional support for students. This is Ruth's dream job because she can inspire students everyday. Young students gain confidence by seeing how Ruth was a Nyaka student who became a medical professional. Because compassionate people like you invested in Ruth over 10 years ago, she is able to continue to inspire Nyaka's female students every day. Can you imagine what the children you are investing in today will do when they grow up?
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Texas's new governor is playing a new tune. Instead of boasting about Texas biggests and bests, Democratic Gov. Mark White warns that the state's serious economic problems seem to be worsening.
''I am going to be very active and aggressive in searching out new industries for our state,'' he says. But mounting the search won't be easy, he admits, because Texas has been hit unexpectedly hard by the triple blow of declining oil and gas revenues, the effects of a major national recession, and the spillover impact of Mexico's economic turmoil.
Economists differ in their estimates of how much recession-reduced purchasing power outside Texas has undermined demand for Texas goods and services. But according to a recent report issued by Texas Comptroller Bob Bullock, every $1 drop in the price of a barrel of Texas crude oil translates directly into a $40 million drop in oil severance tax revenue and a $30 million less in sales tax revenue for the state.
With its share of oil industry earnings down sharply following the $5 plunge of world oil prices from $34 to $29 a barrel, Texas simply has less to spend. So along with most other state governors, White is being driven by the fiscal squeeze into trying to trim state spending enough to avoid the politically costly step of imposing new taxes.
Just as he did during last autumn's bitter gubernatorial campaign, White continues to blame many of Texas's current problems on his predecessor and on the Reagan administration.
The governor is particularly incensed about underfunding for education. ''You see the neglect of my predecessor when he let schoolteachers be paid less money than prison guards in their first day in training,'' White says, ''so that a four-year BA graduate at minimum levels in about 500 of our school districts will be making about $11,100 a year.'' White is fighting for a two-year, 24 percent pay hike for teachers but now recognizes it may be impossible to force this large an increase through the Texas Legislature.
If White does win a pay boost for teachers, more job-training funds, and a bond issue for highways, it will be through convincing Texans that such investments are needed for sound economic reasons. Attracting new industry, he insists, depends on providing good state services - starting with ''quality education at every level.'' He's also trying to raise Texas from ranking 49th in the level of welfare aid to families with dependent children.
''And you find Massachusetts, for instance, having made a commitment to education and diversification years ago, has lower unemployment rates than we have in Texas,'' he adds.
USA Update Is Texas ready for a Democrat? Wendy Davis to announce for governor.