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Contents: Introduction | A/V Collections | The Clipper Editor | Clipper Editor – Structure and Software: | Clipper Data – it's small, very small: | Clipper Editor Data Model: | Clipper Editor JSON-LD: | Clipper Database MongoDB: | The Clipper Service Viewer: | Social Media APIs: | Custom APIs & Integrations: |
Introduction: A good place to start describing the technical aspects of Clipper is with this diagram showing the 'architecture' of how the different components of Clipper fit together and work.
Clipper Technical Architecture
Here we provide a 'walkthrough' describing how Clipper works with reference to the diagram. There is some technical jargon involved and we try to explain as we go through with explanatory links.
A/V Collections:
At the top right hand side of the diagram are the online audio-visual collections that Clipper can work with. At the moment Clipper works with YouTube and any MP3 or MP4 files on the web with a URL. In the future Clipper could expand to include other social media services and we have already had successful trials using Vimeo, FaceBook and SoundCloud. Clipper could also be integrated into private and open online collections of audio-visual content – such as archives and libraries. To get an idea of the potential uses of Clipper please see the 'Uses' page.
The Clipper Editor: Below we see a screen grab of the Clipper Editor in action. The user has just completed
Clipper Editor
a search of YouTube using the term 'Cars' and has created a clip from one of the the Disney films of the same name. For this we are using the YouTube api's that are made available to allow developers to create services that are linked to the YouTube collection, like Clipper. YouTube supply a whole load of data about each video that we can use, including thumbnail images that we use in our Cliplists. This YouTube example also provides a pretty good idea of what Clipper could be like if it was integrated into an archive or collection with access to catalogue data etc. – it would have the potential to transform existing under-used archives – for a fuller discussion please visit theUses' page.
The editor allows the users to preview the video (or audio) and choose where to create the start and stop points, add a title, write an annotation, and add tags, which you can see in the diagram. Once the user saves the clip it appears in the left-hand Cliplist as shown in the digram together with the thumbnail image (supplied via YouTube.
Clipper Editor – Structure and Software: The Clipper editor contains two components 1) a 'client' that the user interacts with to create the clips and Cliplists and play them and 2) a 'database server' that takes data from the client and passes it on to the database either in the form of clips to store or requests to retrieve data in order to search for and play the clips. The Clipper Editor software is written in AngularJS, a form of javascript, that can work on server-side applications. The AngularJS code runs on top of the Express.js web server – allowing Clipper to communicate over the web. Express.js, in turn runs on top of the Node.js javascript runtime environment. This combination of technologies enables javascript based software applications to run on the server-side, rather than just on the the client-side in a users's web browser. There are a number of advantages to this in terms of performance, but a major factor is that this now enables web developers to create server-side programmes to support their web development work using a language they are already familiar with.
Clipper Data – it's small, very small: As we described in the How it Works section the actual data Clipper handles for each clip is very small indeed – the video and thumbnail images from YouTube are served direct from the YouTube site (or other source) through the Clipper Editor, they are never stored on the Clipper servers. Below we show you the code that represents 1 clip, its from YouTube and the important information has been highlighted in bold orange text showing, in order from top to bottom, the Title, Annotation, Tag, Video URL, the start and stop times.
"_id" : ObjectId("58da74d1dbef2814122203a8"),
"id" : "http://clippertube.com/clip/1490711728723",
"type" : "Annotation",
"motivation" : "describing",
"body" : [
"type" : "TextualBody",
"text" : "
Vegetables and Nutritional Values

Common vegetables with their nutritional characteristics
",
"format" : "text/html",
"language" : "en",
"purpose" : "describing"
"text" : [
"purpose" : "tagging"
"target" : {
"source" : "http://www.youtube.com/v/wtDmnGzZNAs",
"format" : "video/mpeg",
"type" : "Video",
"selector" : {
"type" : "FragmentSelector",
"conformsTo" : "http://www.w3.org/TR/media-frags/",
"value" : "t=114,117"
"clipperNativeProps" : {
"parentProject" : "http://clippertube.com/project/1490711564535",
"parentCliplist" : [
"owner" : "clipper2@clippertube.com",
"thumb" : "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wtDmnGzZNAs/default.jpg"
Code for a clip
The total size of this saved as a local html document is about 1.4Kb – whether the clip is only a few seconds long or hours of high definition video the Clipper data that represents that clip stays the same. Below is what the Clip looks like in the Clipper Editor with video clip about to start playing:
The Single Clip Playing in the Editor
Clipper Editor Data Model: Clipper uses the W3C standards as much as possible to ensure the data it produces can be interoperable with other systems and to increase the likelihood of that data being useful and accessible in the long term. The Clipper data is encoded in compliance with the W3C Web Annotation Data Model produced by the work of the W3C WEB ANNOTATION WORKING GROUP who have produced some really useful resources including a detailed interactive infographic. This describes how web annotation technology works and how it has the potential to influence and change the way we use the web. It nicely describes how relations between content creators, publishers, annotators (who are also creating content) and annotation service providers may interact in the near future. We think this has particular implications and benefits for those operating digital collections in the heritage and culture sectors – we shall pick up that discussion again in the 'Uses' section of this website. The other W3c data standard we are using is that of 'Media Fragments', which provides a standardised way to describe parts of online media.
Clipper Editor JSON-LD: The data that Clipper creates is encoded in the JSON-LD format this is now widely used by web developers to encode their data and is often associated with the ideas about the 'Semantic Web' and 'Linked Data' as put forwards by Tim Berners-Lee. Like many others we are using it because of its expressiveness, simplicity and ability to link together different pieces of data in a human-readable way as well as being understood by computers. It is a popular and powerful format, considered by many to be superior to older data formats like XML because of its processing speed advantages and being based on the widely used javascript format is easier for web developers to work with. JSON-LD stands for JavaScript Object Notation for Linked Data. Here is a useful non-technical video explaining Linked Data and here is another video that does a great job of describing how JSON-LD works.
Clipper Database MongoDB: The data from the Clipper editor, encoded in JSON-LD format is saved on the database which is built on MongoDB, this is a 'document based' database where the data is stored in 'JSON-like' documents, this guide explains things further. You can see in the 'Clipper Technical Architecture Diagram' at the top of this page how the JSON-LD data flows back and forth between the Editor and the Database and from the Database into the Clipper Service Viewer.
The Clipper Service Viewer: This is what non-Clipper users see when a Clipper user shares a clip or a Cliplist with them. It is essentially the Editor view presented without any of the editor controls. The JSON-LD data for the content is passed to a webpage that presents and styles the data using HTMl and CSS, the recipient can then interact with the content in the Service Viewer.
Social Media APIs: Clipper can make use of the APIs that social media companies provide. When a Clipper user decides to share their content by clicking on the 'Share' icon they are presented with both the web links and a range of social media icons that enable the content to be shared through their network account with that social media provider.
Custom APIs & Integrations: Some services and collections, like YouTube, can offer deep and customisable links to using their service. Using this in Clipper with YouTube we are able to integrate Clipper closely into the YouTube ecosystem. The benefits of this include being able to search YouTube content and bring back lots of metadata and thumbnails for Clipper to use. The YouTube example provides a good example of what Clipper could do if it was integrated into an institutional archive


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calendar that you would like to demo or use.
Confluence looks extremely powerful, haven't had a chance to test this yet.
Please post your findings to the list!
>  I'd recommend a portal solution, e.g. Sakai (http://www.sakaiproject.org/).
> even portal Access Grid (http://www.rcs.manchester.ac.uk/research/PAG)!
> to manage our resources better.


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Q: Reinstalling an app after purging it Using Ubuntu 18.04 I am trying to setup a Nextcloud server. Everything works but I was trying to connect with my public IP and there was a port forwarding issue. Never the less I fixed the issue and was just trying to make the Nextcloud secure with certbot.
Unfortunately I got an error, and in an attempt to fix it I uninstalled it Nextcloud. For some reason now when I'm trying to reinstall I keep getting errors that its "unable to fetch some of the archives".
To install the application (certbot) i used: sudo apt install certbot
And this is what comes up:
E: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/python-ce rtbot/certbot_0.27.0-1~ubuntu18.04.1_all.deb
Could not resolve 'gb.archive.ubun tu.com' E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-mis sing?

The "failed to fetch" error happened multiple times.
Oh and I have tried sudo apt-get update
But when i do sudo apt-get update the same error still occurs so its more of a issue with my apt install

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Have you any idea why this does not work?
BTW when I put it out of unsaved() function, the plugin works. it only does not work in unsaved() function.
Do you have a testpage so we can have a look?
I googled about this stuff and it seem that it is not possible use custom dialog becauase of security reasons. And yet I found the simple way to solve this problem, although not in such way I wanted but at least users gets question - simply add plugins : "autosave" to tinyMCE.init.


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Q: Image scaling trouble in FancyBox2 I have two problems related to image presentation in FancyBox2:

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*Images are automatically applied zoom to. Ideally this should only happen when the user clicks on an image.

*The box holding the image does not fit.

The zooming problem is only present in IE and Chrome (not in Opera and Firefox), while the other problem is present in all browsers. This image illustrates the problems in chrome.
I have tried various configuration parameters in FancyBox, without luck. Right now I simply use:
$(".fancybox").fancybox({'type' : 'iframe'});

Any clues to why this happens?

A: You should use type: 'image' for images. Iframe type is for external html pages.
Images are displayed either re-sized to fit into the viewport (when fitToView is set to true) or in their original size (when fitToView is set to false). If the image is bigger than the view port, then you have to scroll down the parent page to view the whole image.
You may use the buttons helper to toggle an image from its scaled size to its real size too.


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Lords: 26 September 2019
Lords Chamber
Gas Tariffs Code (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019
Volume 799: debated on Thursday 26 September 2019
Motion to Approve
Moved by
Lord Duncan of Springbank
That the draft Regulations laid before the House on 10 July be approved.
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and Northern Ireland Office
(Lord Duncan of Springbank) (Con)
My Lords, I did not expect such a packed House for my statutory instrument. Let me give your Lordships some background. EU legislation governing our energy markets will be incorporated into domestic legislation via the withdrawal Act retained law. The department is working to ensure this energy legislation continues to function smoothly after exit, and supports a well-functioning, competitive and resilient energy system for consumers.
What does this statutory instrument do? The Article 50 extension to 31 October means that additional EU law will now be retained. Chapters 2, 3 and 4 of the TAR code, which established network code on harmonised transmission tariff structures for gas, have applied since 31 May. We need to amend our previous legislation, the Gas (Security of Supply and Network Codes) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, to address inoperabilities in these additional chapters—for example, with reference to the naming of EU institutions. This supports our aim to retain regulatory functions and frameworks in all eventualities by keeping Great Britain and Northern Ireland's gas markets working effectively, and by providing continuity for UK industry and its consumers.
The aims of TAR are to increase transparency and the coherence of tariff structures for gas sale and purchase and procedures used to set tariff structures. Tariff structures cover ways in which transmission system operators collect revenues associated with the provision of services at entry and exit points, and collect via capacity and commodity-based transmission tariffs and non-transmission tariffs.
Chapters 2, 3 and 4 applied across the UK and the EU from 31 May 2019. Regulations need to be amended by this statutory instrument to correct deficiencies in what will be the retained EU law—namely, where we state EU entity functions and references to EU institutions and bodies. Deficiencies need to be removed or replaced with reference to UK entities—for example, replacing "member states" with references to UK elements. The regime introduced by TAR is retained, subject to these amendments. The statutory instrument aims to maintain existing domestic rules while amending or removing provisions no longer functioning on exit day. It also aims to retain technical specifications wherever possible, with the result of maximising business continuity for market participants and cross-border gas trading.
In conclusion, the regulations are an appropriate use of the powers of the withdrawal Act to maximise business continuity for UK market operators, facilitate continued efficient international trade in gas, and help to protect security of affordable gas supplies for UK consumers. On that basis, I commend these regulations to the House.
Lord Teverson
(LD)
My Lords, first, I welcome the Minister to his role. I know this has already been done by our official Front-Bench spokesman, but I very much welcome that he has taken on this broader brief, particularly when the areas of climate change and energy are of great importance—globally as well as within this country. I have no issue with this secondary legislation, but it enables us to ask some key questions related to energy markets, Brexit and, in particular, gas.
The first area that I want to explore is the island of Ireland. As the Minister will be well aware, there is a single energy market across the Irish Sea. I notice particularly that this statutory instrument covers the whole United Kingdom, including Northern Ireland. It is important for the Minister at this stage, particularly in the context of potential no deal, which this secondary legislation is about, to assure us that the single energy market, which includes gas as well as electricity, remains coherent. There are ways of making it remain coherent, given the total dependency that there is on energy supplies between both sides of the border in a no-deal situation. The Republic of Ireland is almost completely dependent on the UK for its gas supplies—gas is starting to come through from its own fields, but that is far from full at the moment—and any disruption of that totally integrated market would be very negative for both the Province of Northern Ireland and the Republic.
I also want to ask about interconnectors, which are an increasingly important part of our energy strategy, and rightly so; I have welcomed many times the fact that we have pushed the interconnector concept forward in relation to energy balancing within the UK, particularly with the increase in renewables. When it comes to gas, we have three interconnectors: one is with Ireland, of course, but we also have them with the Netherlands and Belgium. Again, I seek the Minister's reassurances—I hope with some reason—that those interconnectors will continue to work, given the fact that we have had, albeit on the electricity side rather than gas, a number of energy incidents recently that mean that our energy security is particularly important in this area. As I understand it, PRISMA and the systems around it will stay in place but, as we come out of the internal energy market if we have a no-deal Brexit, I am not confident that those interconnectors will be quite so straightforward as they might be.
I wish to push the envelope slightly into the important area of oil. As I understand it, the Government have said that when we leave the European Union, however we do so, one area that has not been dealt with in terms of a rollover of European law will be the reserves of petroleum held by the UK after Brexit, and that the Government do not feel bound by the European Union rules on fuel reserves, which I think would mean some 85 million barrels of petroleum being held within our reserves. Rather, they are looking to the International Energy Agency rules, which would reduce that to 35 million barrels, under half that figure. I understand that some of that reserve is actually held in the Rotterdam/Antwerp area. If that is the case, I wish to be reassured by the Minister that in the event of no deal we would still have access to those reserves abroad.
Given the situations in Saudi Arabia with the drone attack, in the Strait of Hormuz, in Iran and in Venezuela, I caution strongly that at this time we should not look to reduce our petroleum reserves in the United Kingdom. This is fundamental to our national security and I urge severe caution on the Government. I would be very interested to hear the Minister's response to that.
In the Mansion House speech by the previous Prime Minister, and indeed this has since been confirmed by the previous Minister, Claire Perry, we intended to remain—if we could, difficult though that may be outside the single market—a member of the internal energy market, where we have been one of the greatest proponents of liberalisation and one of the countries that has done most to set up that internal market. I wonder whether it is still government policy to try to remain within that energy market, which covers gas as well as electricity.
One of the fears of the gas industry on Brexit is about our need for labour mobility. This industry, more than almost all others, depends on the mobility of expertise and the way that it operates. Why should the Minister be confident of keeping that expertise in circulation following Brexit?
Lastly, this statutory instrument mentions the transmission systems operator. Since the electricity brownout during the Summer Recess, there has been a question about conflict of interest and whether National Grid is the right body to remain as the transmission systems operator. Will the Minister comment on this with reference to the gas side of that operation?
Lord Howell of Guildford
(Con)
My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, has raised some very penetrating and expert questions—as one would expect from him—and I will briefly pursue two of them. He referred to our connectors. Of course, most of our interconnectors are for electricity, but there are some important gas connectors. These are part of our gas import scene, which is vastly important, given that domestic onshore gas is not really happening and offshore gas is still not at the level that it was. Post Brexit, will the auction rules on the granting of contracts for developing gas supplies and turbines apply equally to gas that originates inside the EU and comes to us when we are outside it? Remaining in the internal energy market of the European Union would be fine, but it is undergoing considerable stresses and strains—including, notably, the ever-growing appetite of Germany for imported gas, particularly Russian gas, from both existing pipelines and the new Nord Stream, which seems to be going ahead although the Americans oppose it. Will the Minister show a little more of the Government's hand and their attitude to the internal energy market, which is not working well—it is causing considerable difficulties in eastern and central Europe—and requires a steady hand to ensure that it works for us if we remain in it?
Lord Liddle
(Lab)
Building on the interventions by the noble Lords, Lord Teverson and Lord Howell, I have a question. The Minister will be aware that gas networks and cross-border supplies are a matter of high politics and security, as well as energy policy. The Russians, in their disputes with Ukraine, frequently threaten to interfere with gas supplies crossing Ukraine. When originally proposed, the new German pipeline that the noble Lord, Lord Howell, referred to, which connects Germany and Russia, was described by Poland and the Baltic states as the economic equivalent of the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact, in that it exposed them and made them vulnerable to discrimination by Russia, to put political pressure on their democracies.
As I understand it, if there was a such a crisis involving Russian gas supplies, we would be protected by the principle of non-discrimination, because we are members of the internal market. In other words, if there was pressure on gas supplies on the continent it would not be legal for suppliers on the continent to turn off the taps to Britain. What will the situation be when we leave the EU: will we have those kinds of legal protections, and will the Minister enlighten us as to what they are?
Lord McNicol of West Kilbride
My Lords, I join the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, in welcoming the Minister to the Dispatch Box. I am sure that in preparing for this SI, looking through the paperwork and the impact assessment, which says there is no significant impact, he might have thought this was a nice, easy one, but the noble Lords, Lord Howell, Lord Teverson and Lord Liddle, have rightly asked further far-reaching questions on the wider issues of energy and gas supply as we move forward. I shall take the Minister back to the start.
The regulations before us deal with the establishment of a network code on harmonised transmission tariff structures for gas, arising from the UK's withdrawal from the European Union. This issue was debated at length during the debate on the Gas (Security of Supply and Network Codes) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019. The Explanatory Memorandum makes it clear that today's instrument is needed because exit day has been pushed back: it therefore amends those regulations. Will the Minister therefore begin by assuring the House that these regulations do not mark any shift in policy towards the regulatory framework relating to gas?
Looking briefly at how these regulations were laid, I need not remind the House that they would not have been debated and passed until next month had the Supreme Court not announced that Prorogation was invalid. In such a situation, can the Minister be certain that they would have completed their passage before exit day? If not, what would the consequences have been? On the drafting of these regulations, the House will be aware that other regulations need to be amended as a result of the change in exit date. Will the Minister explain why these need to be amended? If this instrument is necessary to make such a small change, will he say why the Government chose to pass this through the affirmative procedure?
More widely, the regulatory framework is an important cornerstone of energy policy, and while the subject has been debated at length, I want to return to one core issue. My noble friend Lord Grantchester has been vocal on the transfer of powers relating to energy policy, particularly on the many responsibilities due to be handed to Ofgem, which has faced budgetary constraints under this Government. Can the Minister say whether any further regulations due to be laid before exit day will transfer any energy powers to UK agencies? Going back to a point made by the three noble Lords who spoke earlier, protecting our energy supply is critical to our safety and security in such difficult and troubling times. I agree with the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, that retention of the petroleum reserves is an issue of national security. Although it does not relate directly to the SI, some words about that from the Minister on behalf of Her Majesty's Government would be appreciated.
I thank all noble Lords for their participation in this short but none the less instructive debate. I will begin where the noble Lord, Lord McNicol, left off, to answer some of the questions specific to the statutory instrument.
The issue to remember is that because we did not leave on 31 March, the legislation that had been passed at that point as retained law had to incorporate the fact that this piece of EU law was passed on 31 May and therefore became part of EU retained law. The reason we have brought this back now is that there are certain elements of that retained law which would need to be adjusted to be functional after Brexit within domestic law. The changes are relatively modest but none the less critical.
The answer to why it was done via the affirmative procedure is simple: because it has elements in relation to fees. As to whether it represents any shift in our policy, at a fundamental level the answer is no. This is simply a tidying-up exercise, which is modest in its implications but none the less critical to make sure that there is a functioning statute book after Brexit. As to the transfer of powers to Ofgem—it was not in my briefing pack but it is now—in the transfer of powers from the EU regulator ACER to Ofgem, no additional powers are created.
Those are the specific answers to the questions on the statutory instrument. I will now turn to the questions raised by noble Lords and begin, in order, with the noble Lord, Lord Teverson. One of the important things to stress about the market on the island of Ireland is that it is a single electricity market, not a single gas market. The gas does not cross the borders, only the electricity. The UK Government remain fully committed—as do the Irish Government—to ensuring the single electricity market on the island of Ireland. We believe that will be a priority for both Governments to ensure.
There is an interconnector transferring gas from the United Kingdom into the Republic of Ireland and we do not anticipate that that will be affected by any of these issues. The gas market across the EU is a remarkably—I want to use the term without meaning it as a pun—liquid market, but it is a very significant and successful market.
When it comes to interconnectors with the EU, touching on some of the issues raised by the noble Lord, Lord Liddle, we secure only 5% of our gas from the EU. It is a modest amount. Will that be affected by some of the geopolitics on the continent of Europe? We do not anticipate so, but have reserves which will allow us to secure continued use of gas during any such period.
My noble friend Lord Howell raised the wider situation on the continent of Europe. It is important to look at some of the real challenges this creates for the continent, the EU and ourselves. The first thing to stress is that we believe the Nord Stream pipeline is a problematic reality, which is why we are supportive of where Ukraine stands. However, there are also serious issues for the states to the east of the European Union. In this country we are moving swiftly towards decarbonisation but Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and others are presently faced by the impossible devil's dilemma of having to continue with their indigenous coal reserves being utilised or importing from Russia. Noble Lords can appreciate the dilemma that creates for the EU as it seeks to determine a decarbonised agenda. We have been, as a number of noble Lords have noted, a very liberalising influence in trying to secure the movement going forward to help those countries decarbonise, but it is, as my noble friend Lord Howell correctly stresses, one of the greater challenges faced by the continent today.
We will seek to continue to be participants in the energy markets of the EU. Brexit will have an impact on that and it is very difficult for me to anticipate exactly how we shall continue in that area. For example, one of the issues on which we have been a great leader inside the European Union is emissions trading, where we have sought from a leadership position to encourage the decarbonisation through a market-based regime. Exactly how we will continue to do so after Brexit remains to be determined. Part of the difficulty, with which noble Lords will be very familiar, is that we are unable to begin to negotiate the future relationship until we have established the departure. Some of these questions which rightly should not only be answered now but should have been some time ago have not been answered. On that basis, we cannot do it unanimously and must wait until such time as we can move this forward with the EU after Brexit.
I thank the Minister for giving way. What I am trying to get at here is that the previous Government—the previous Prime Minister and her Ministers—were able to say, "We want to remain a part of the internal energy market. We may not achieve it, but that is our intent". I am very aware that the present Prime Minister is trying to quite substantially change the political agreement within any withdrawal agreement, and I am trying to determine what government policy relating to this is known. Is the position the same or has it changed?
Let me be very specific: it is the policy of this Government to remain part of the internal energy market. The policy has not changed—for the same reasons, in truth, that applied before. They still apply today.
I will write with a specific answer to the question about petroleum reserves, which might be helpful. It is important to stress that it is government policy to ensure that the reserves are adequate for every eventuality. They must be stress tested necessarily through the challenges that Brexit represents. It is not our ambition to in any way put at risk what those reserves mean for the functioning of the wider energy situation in the United Kingdom. I also stress that we are—primarily in gas, certainly—dependent on imports from outwith the EU as a whole, although not primarily from Russia.
We are talking about gas and not oil reserves. That means gas storage. As we know, our own gas storage system is not all that reliable and has within recent memory gone down quite severely, with devastating effects on short-term gas prices. Are we planning any further storage projects of the kind we have had in the past, or to replace the Rough storage facility in the North Sea as a result of moving into the Brexit situation?
I do not believe that the Brexit situation changes the dynamic of how we approach the wider question of gas storage. We need to make sure that the storage is adequate for any—in fact, every—eventuality. Brexit itself has not changed the policy on that. It will be our intention to ensure that it is not only adequate but able to anticipate whatever challenges come ahead. We will remain committed to that end.
I will not interrupt again. However, I feel that this is a really important national issue. Will the Minister confirm or give us assurance that, following Brexit, the Government will not—immediately or within a short period of time—reduce the amount of petroleum reserves that have to be held in this country?
The Government will ensure that the reserves held are adequate for every eventuality. I suspect that the noble Lord is asking a more fundamental question, which is whether that limit should be set by the EU or follow international standards. Quite clearly, in both instances, it is important for the Government to judge what is right for the United Kingdom. We will do so on that basis.
I think that I have just about tackled all the issues. If I have missed anything out, I am very happy to respond in writing. On that basis, I beg to move.
Motion agreed.

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Weekend MetroLink Maintenance Work May Cause Short Delays for Passengers Saturday & Sunday
MetroLink will operate on a single track Saturday and Sunday evenings this weekend to accommodate rail grinding maintenance work.
Saturday, April 7, from 8 p.m. until the end of service, MetroLink will conduct rail grinding on the tracks between the Central West End and Forest Park-DeBaliviere MetroLink Stations. To accommodate the crews, MetroLink will operate on a single track at the Central West End MetroLink Station. Red Line and Blue Line passengers may experience 5 minute delays.
Sunday, April 8, from 8 p.m. until the end of service, MetroLink will conduct rail grinding on the tracks between the Union Station and the Stadium MetroLink Stations. To accommodate the crews, MetroLink will operate on a single track at the Union Station and the Civic Center MetroLink Stations.
During the single track operation on Sunday trains will only operate between the Forest Park-DeBaliviere and Shrewsbury I-44 MetroLink Stations. Blue Line passengers should allow an extra 10 minutes for their commutes.Red Line passengers may experience five minute delays.


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Home » Prepaid Wireless News » FreedomPop
FreedomPop Now Offering Unlimited Talk, Text And 5GB Data On GSM Network For $12.50/Month
By Joe Paonessa – Jun 13, 2018
FreedomPop New 5GB Annual Plan
FreedomPop has just launched a new new plan that utilizes their GSM partner's network. The coverage map for the plan indicates that their network partner is AT&T.
FreedomPop's new annual plan includes unlimited talk and text with 5GB of monthly 4G LTE data at an average cost of just $12.50/month. Priced annually it is $149.99 and that must be paid up front. Additionally, the MVNO's Best Buy exclusive plans are no longer exclusive to Best Buy. You can now get unlimited talk, text and 1GB of data on the AT&T network for less than $7/month directly from FreedomPop.
New 5GB Plan Details
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Maximilian Schmidt (25 February 1832 Eschlkam – 8 December 1919 Munich) was a German novelist and humorist.

Biography
He served with distinction in the Bavarian army from 1850 to 1872, when he retired and settled at Munich to devote himself exclusively to his literary work.

Among the best of his numerous tales and novels, dealing vividly and realistically with the people and scenery of the Bavarian Mountains, should be mentioned: Volkserzählungen aus dem Bayrischen Wald (Folktales from the Bavarian Woods, 1863-1869); Der Schutzgeist von Oberammergau (1880); 's Austragsstüberl; Der Georgithaler (1882); Die Fischerrosl von St. Heinrich (1884); Der Musikant von Tegernsee (The musician of Tegernsee, 1886); 's Lisel von Ammersee (1887); Die Künischen Freibauern (1895). Gradually these productions fell off in literary merit, as the author became more and more prolific. Lasting success attended his Humoresken (1892), the collection of dialect poems Altboarisch (1884), and several popular plays, dramatized from his novels.

He also published the autobiography Meine Wanderung durch 70 Jahre (1902). His Gesammelte Werke appeared in popular edition of 34 vols. (Reutlingen, 1893–98).

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1832 births
1919 deaths
19th-century German novelists
German humorists
German poets
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Ex post evaluation of Rural Development Programmes is a legal requirement under Council Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 and the overall aim is to improve quality, efficiency and effectiveness.
The ex post evaluation of the NIRDP is the final part of ongoing evaluation of the 2007-2013 programming period and the evaluation has built upon all monitoring and evaluation activities conducted throughout the programme implementation period. It focuses on both the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and the Northern Ireland Executive funds delivered through the NIRDP over the period 2007-2013.


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Where Deep Ecology, Traditionalism, And Nationalism Meet
Mainstream political views consist of ways to work within the system, its precedents, and assumptions; outsider views want to work with a different system or substantially modify the core of our existing system. Some even want to discard it and go back to the kings.
Select outsider views seem similar because they share a common approach. Deep Ecology, Traditionalism, and Nationalism all throw out the idea of using the system or other external forces to shape people to do what is right, and encourage instead using culture to compel each other to behave.
Deep ecology, for example, wants to redesign society around the idea of existing within nature and according to its pattern order; Traditionalism wants to do the same for inner pursuit of the transcendent; nationalism, by sending away all other ethnic groups and keeping the founding group, intends to replace laws and economic incentives with culture, which then rewards behavior that is continuous to the founding of the group as well as preserving the unique genetic strain against adulteration.
Interestingly, these are compatible with conservatism as envisioned by Roger Scruton, who believed in the creative and constructive power instead of an impulse to destroy disguised as "progress":
He told the story of watching protesters in the streets from the window of his apartment in Paris in May 1968, and realizing that building things of value (communities, societies, nations, legal and economic systems, institutions of civil society) is hard and takes time, while destroying them is easy and often accomplished in a flash. It was then, he said, that he became, or realized that he was, a conservative.
In this way, he applied a variant of Chesterton's fence, namely a desire to understand why things are as they are and to preserve them and nurture them if they are realistic and good.
He created a philosophy of the love of home including nature:
Perhaps the most interesting element of Scruton's brand of conservatism was his emphasis on the love of home, what he called "oikophilia." Oikos, from which we take our word economy, means the household and names the order and guidance of a home. It is the private world of a family, but by extension also of a village, a people, or an ethnicity. In Scruton's use, oikophilia is a principle of value for the small, the local, and the private that stands against universalism.
Universalism projects one truth, values system, and communication method upon all people, ignoring that humans are not only inherently unequal but greatly varied in their life choices and experiences as well. In his view, the time-tested and real was superior to the universal which serves as a control method that naturally destroys the good and replaces it with obedient conformity to the will of the herd and its taskmasters:
Oikophilia, Scruton argues, is what emboldens people to make sacrifices for their surrounding environment and neighbour. Scruton spends many pages tracing the history of oikophilia, particularly in his native Britain, and how oikophilia has been destroyed by internationalism and big-government subsidies and regulations. A good example would be the state of farming, where government subsidies and regulations have favoured agribusiness over local family farms, causing not only the small-plot farmers to suffer, but the environment as well. He outlines how British farmers in post World War II Britain were encouraged through subsides and quotas to remove hedgerows and transition from a more organic multi-crop way of farming to a monocrop, chemically dependent approach, thus destroying both the habitat for biodiversity as well as the very soil in which their crops were grown.
In light of the success of small-scale initiatives born out of a love of one's own place, the question then becomes "How do we engender oikophilia?" In the bigger picture, Scruton would advocate for the lessening of central government control so that civic associations and local municipalities are forced to deal with their own environmental issues. Secondly, Scruton suggests that oikophilia can be fostered through education. In this regard I am reminded of Rachel Carson's much quoted statement that "if a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in."
In this way, he pushes back against "progress" with the eternal and local, or specific to human experience, which is inherently esoteric or dependent on the ability of the person parsing it to understand it; there are no universal truths in esotericism because there is no universal human consciousness.
Scruton visualized a sharing of power with past and future ages so that our immediate wants and desires did not obliterate things of value:
When politicians address them with questions such as "How do we repair the economy?", "How do we reform our educational system?", "How do we ensure a fair deal for pensioners?", there is one word in all such questions that stands out for them, and that word is "we". Who are we, what holds us together, and how do we stay together so as to bear our burdens as a community? For conservatism is about national identity. It is only in the context of a first-person plural that the questions – economic questions included – make sense, or open themselves to democratic argument.
But a rule of law requires a shared allegiance, by which people entrust their collective destiny to sovereign institutions that can speak and decide in their name. This shared allegiance is not, as Rousseau and others argued, a contract among the living. It is a partnership between the living, the unborn and the dead – a continuous trust that no generation can pillage for its own advantage.
In this way, he emphasizes continuity and reverence, or the idea of the transcendent: that which inspires in us an appreciation for the function of the world so that we can overlook the "veil of Maya," or the disorienting and sometimes fearful methods like natural selection used to achieve that beauty.
Nationalism, Traditionalism, and Deep Ecology converge on this idea: we cannot use external forces to shape us into behaving as if we were identical parts on a factory assembly line conveyor belt, but instead must develop within us an urge to preserve and nurture the good, and exclude the bad.
Until we make this transition, we will be constantly attempting to control each other in the name of finding the "right" form of conformity, but this simply enables people to do a token job and then continue being bad when off-camera.
Instead, we need a civilization dedicated to the eternal things: beauty, goodness, realism, sanity, health, and decency. We can only achieve that by forging it in the center of our souls, investing it with our hope, and then holding each other to this mutual standard.
Tags: conservatism, oikophilia, roger scruton
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Attention Capital is acquiring Girlboss
Sara Fischer, author of Media Trends
Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images for Girlboss Rally NYC 2018
Attention Capital, the new media and technology investment firm, announced Tuesday morning that it's acquiring Girlboss, a media company geared towards female millennials that was founded by female fashion entrepreneur Sophia Amoruso.
The big picture: It's the latest example of a venture group consolidating smaller media startups or struggling legacy media brands.
Attention Capital, which launched this past spring and is co-founded by Joe Marchese, is looking to only invest in companies that shape the attention economy.
The company partnered with James Murdoch's investment firm in August to acquire a controlling stake in Tribeca Enterprises, the producer of the Tribeca Film Festival.
The goal of the acquisition is to grow the brand and scale to new platforms, products, and events globally.
Girlboss's leadership team and headquarters will remain the same. The company plans to hire more people in technology, audio, events and sales.
What's next: As Axios has previously reported, Attention Capital is looking to raise nearly $500 million to invest in everything from measurement companies to news brands and entertainment upstarts, per sources.
Go deeper: Media mergers highlight arbitrary private valuations


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This section includes descriptions and links to key MSU FFI lectures and presentations. The content is usually posted on YouTube. To shorten the running time the speed playback can be increased in YouTube.
GFSI Cooperation on Food Fraud Prevention [GFSI] – Overall introduction: a presentation to the GFSI China Local Group. This covers an introduction to the GFSI definition and scope and the specific GFSI audit requirements ("the 7 yes or no question") (15 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcquW3B2PY0
Food Fraud Prevention Strategy Development [SQF] – Intro to Vulnerability Assessment": A presentation at the 2018 SQF Conference. This covers the basic audit requirements then the "how to start" and how to conduct the first stage of a Food Fraud Vulnerability Assessment (35-minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU7dQ-xUUNE
Specific direction for a company or country, July 2018 presentations to the government of Trinidad & Tobago:
Defining the Public Health Threat of Food Fraud – definition and scope [Trinidad]: a lecture at the Trinidad and Tobago Government led Food Fraud Conference, presented by John Spink, MSU-FFI (25 minutes): URL: https://youtu.be/xZgEqNaoQLI
Food Fraud Detection, Prevention and Management – what to do an how to start [Trinidad]: a lecture at the Trinidad and Tobago Government led Food Fraud Conference, presented by John Spink, MSU-FFI (25 minutes): URL: https://youtu.be/0wAAxfjdQ2c
Preventive Controls Qualified Individual Training, Chapter 5, Section on Economically Motivated Hazards (FDA and FSMA) [FDA] – FDA/FDCA/FSMA requirement: This reviews the specific FSMA requirements. This is a lecture conducted in several of the QI sessions (18 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqMHhfSbvek
Global Consensus on Food Fraud Prevention [GFSI] – Overall GFSI requirements: a presentation at the GFSI International Workshop in Jilin, China. This covers the an overview of Food Fraud, the focus on prevention, and the specific GFSI compliance definition and scope (19 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LKFDOLfWmg
Food Fraud Prevention Research [Interpol] – Method for a strategy: a presentation at the INTERPOL Operation Opson VI debriefing. This specifically focuses on the "Food Fraud Prevention Cycle" which "connects everything to everything" in a Food Fraud Prevention Strategy (27 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcltJy3LLMk
Food Forensics: Scientific Investigation of Urgent Food Safety and Quality Issues [IFT] – the role of science and technology: a presentation at the 2017 IFT Annual Conference. This covers what you need to know before you start testing, the threat of physical violence to food inspectors, incident clustering to focus the program, and "how to investigate suspicious activity" (19 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovXJtlTjojk
Food Fraud Prevention Challenges in E-Commerce [FSAI] – e-commerce and country-level assessment: a presentation at the Food Safety Authority of Ireland meeting for the EU Food Integrity Project. This covers a Food Fraud Vulnerability Assessment (initial screen or pre-filter) for an entire country of a specific product problem. This is an example of a FFVA for an entire country (18 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhrkoUuOhEk
Food Fraud Table Top Exercise (FFTTX) [FDA/MDARD] – crisis management: The FDA funded project to the State of Michigan and MSU is provided at this <LINK>. The resource includes situational manual, presentation, and video lectures or each part of the exercise. This covers a mock incident exercise. Summary (8 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ziUS9_FX3k
Management to Food Fraud Prevention with Case Study [Kerry] – applying enterprise risk management: a project deliverable. This covers the application of Enterprise Risk Management/ COSO. This covers comparing a new food fraud incident to all other corporate-wide risks and includes how to assess "how much is enough" and (22 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVl_k-7_NEw&t=89s
The Role of Enterprise Risk Management in Food Fraud Prevention [Accounting] – intro to ERM: a webinar reviewing the ERM concepts and the MSU-FFI report. This covers the basic concepts of food fraud and of ERM which is an entry point for either a top-down or bottom-up starting point (6 minutes): URL: https://youtu.be/Cg8T9C8nURs
Please consider these training and education opportunities. For more please see www.FoodFraud.msu.edu.
Other video links:
Food Fraud and the Security of the Global Food Supply (2013, The Current with Mike Finnerty, Canadian Broadcast Corporation, February 22, 2013. Interview of John Spink, [24:00 total]
Improving Food Safety in the US (2013), Inside Story program, Al Jazeera Americas, Al Jazeera Global News Network, January 10, 2013. Interview of John Spink (broadcast to 269 million homes in over 100 countries). [Food Fraud is on at14:45/25:00]
Combating Food Fraud (2012), U.S. Pharmacopeia. Interview of John Spink [Video, 4:18 total]
Spink, J. (2012) Food Fraud Outreach – MOOC Madness, FoxFire 2012, MSU Global, Michigan State University, November 6, 2012. Presentation by John Spink [Video, 4:22 total]
Counterfeit Products: Bad for the Economy, Bad for Michigan. DSE-TV presents the IPPSR (Institute for Public Policy & Social Research) meeting that took place on January 16, 2013 at the Michigan State University. This segment includes John Spink focusing on the IPPSR Spring Policy Forum. [Video, 9:40 total]
Print Media Coverage
"Is it the real thing?" Independent [London, England] 10 Feb. 2011: 14. InfoTrac Newsstand. Web. 20 Feb. 2011.
"Though food fraud can take a variety of forms – from brand counterfeiting to "honey laundering" [falsely claiming that a product, often Chinese honey, comes from somewhere else to justify a higher price] – all follow the single principle of misleading consumers for financial gain," says Dr John Spink, associate director of the Michigan State University anti-counterfeit and product protection program, who is working to define food fraud's threat to public health.
"Every time there's an exchange of goods and services along the food supply chain there's an opportunity for fraud – when food passes from producer to processor, or from manufacturer to distributor," he explains.
"Though expert perception is that the volume is probably the same per head of the population it has been since Roman fraudsters watered down wine, globalisation and our growing willingness in the West to pay a premium for certain products has made food fraud a pressing concern."
Investigations and disincentives such as fines or prison sentences are all fine and well, but the key to beating the problem is ensuring food fraud doesn't pay, says Dr Spink: "The biggest disincentive is making it hard for them to make money out of it. Which is why my advice to anyone is: identify suppliers and brands and retailers with a clear, vested interest in keeping customers happy and encouraging repeat purchases."
Layton, L. (2010). At US Dinner Tables, The Food May Be A Fraud, The Washington Post, Washington, DC, March 30, National Edition, Section 1, Page A01. (This was syndicated by over 4,000 news agencies including the Seattle Times and Dallas Morning News.)
"John Spink, an expert on food and packaging fraud at Michigan State University, estimates that 5 to 7 percent of the U.S. foods supply is affected but acknowledges the number could be greater." We know what we seized at the border, but we have no idea what we didn't seize," he said."
Clifford, S. (2010). In A Downturn, Even Knockoffs Go Downscale, The New York Times, Sunday, National Edition, Section 1, Page A01. (This was syndicated to over 7,000 news agencies.)
""If there is demand, there will be supply," said John Spink, associate director of the Anti-Counterfeiting and Product Protection Program at Michigan State University. In China, he said, "It's all of a sudden them saying, 'We have capacity. What can we make?' "
Huffstutter, PJ. (2010). Ex-Owner of SK Foods Indicted in Tomato Scandal. Los Angeles times, Los Angeles, February 19, Business Section, B01
"Fraudulent practices in the food sector are a long-standing problem; they include processors or distributors misbranding products or conspiring to inflate prices that trickle down to the consumer, said John Spink, a food-fraud expert at Michigan State University. But most people aren't aware that such practices happen and don't even think to look out for them, he said." ""Food used to be moved around regionally," Spink said." Now, there's so much product moving so fast around the world and little oversight, particularly in other countries. Fraud in food has become a small side-effect of globalization.""
Interlandi, J. (2010). The Fake Food Detectives. Newsweek (online).
'"Products are moving around the world so fast now that there is just ample opportunity," says John Spink, a food-fraud expert at Michigan State University. "And the demand for inexpensive food virtually guarantees that the problem will persist and grow." […] But Spink says that monitoring everything isn't necessary. "What we need to do is focus on the chemistry of the crime," he says. "That means understanding the fraudsters themselves—who they are, what their motivations are, and how they find their opportunities." And according to Spink, we've got a long way to go: "Based on our understanding of food fraud, the FDA is doing a fine job of dealing with it. But the problem is, we really don't understand it all that well."'
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Mom says principal threatened to keep students from taking part in the school's field day if the debt wasn't paid.
ASHEVILLE - A Buncombe County principal is getting criticized online for his efforts to get families to pay school lunch debt accumulated during the school year.
Karina Barnes, who has a child at Haw Creek Elementary School, says the school was "lunch shaming" students over unpaid debt, and that Principal Jay Dale threatened to keep students from taking part in the school's field day if the debt wasn't paid.
Barnes started a GoFundMe campaign after getting an email from her child's teacher about the principal's decision.
The campaign has already raised more than half its $10,000 goal. It has also generated criticism toward the school.
In a letter to parents earlier this month, Dale noted the elementary school had more than $600 in unpaid lunch charges for the year.
"We have asked and will continue to ask that you consider completing a free and reduced lunch application as next year you might be surprised to see that you could qualify. If your child's account has not been settled by the time field day arrives, he or she will not be able to participate," the letter read.
School officials say that since parents were notified most of the lunch debt at Haw Creek has been paid.
And no student will be prevented from participating in field day activities, said Stacia Harris, director of communications for Buncombe County Schools.
Harris said the principal made it clear if families couldn't afford to pay their child's debt, to contact him and the school would work with the family.
"Buncombe County Schools is fortunate to have community partners, such as local churches, who are kind enough to donate money throughout the year to assist families by paying off meal debt," she said in an emailed statement.
Across the district's more than 40 schools, outstanding lunch debt was more than $48,000.
"We ask all principals to collaborate with their faculty, staff, and families to work together to find ways to reduce debt by the end of the school year," Harris said.
The district leaves it up to principals to figure out how best to do that, according to Harris.
The child nutrition department also sends home reminders to families who have lunch debt.
Barnes said she understands that schools must attempt to collect debt owed by families, but she wants a policy that prevents any tactic that threatens to exclude or single out students.
"How is the child responsible for the parents' action?" she said.
New Mexico recently passed a law that prevents schools from singling students out by making them do chores or giving them an alternate meal because of lunch debt, according to the New York Times.
Harris stressed the principal's intent was not to punish families.
But some of the people donating to the gofundme site were critical of the school and the principal.
Barnes said she has extended the fundraising effort and wants the money raised to help pay whatever lunch debt is left across the Buncombe County Schools district at the end of the school year.
"Our plan is to continue to raise money until the debt is cleared for the 2016-17 school year," she said. "And we're also reaching out to other community groups to find out what kind of policy can we change, what can be done to prevent shaming and what can we do to make sure the schools meet their budget in terms of nutrition debt."
School officials, meanwhile, encourage those who are struggling financially to apply for free or reduced priced lunch. They stress that the information is confidential.
More than half of Buncombe County students received free or reduced price lunch during the current school year.


The Garmin nuvi 765T introduces 3-D lane assist, 3-D building view, faster screen redraws, route planning, and host of other new enhancements to Garmin's already top-notch nuvi product line. A few grievances aside, the new 7x5T series is a major update from previous nuvi models, and ups the ante in GPS navigation. Physically identical to the nuvi 785T, the 765T uses an included FM traffic receiver instead of the MSN Direct service used on the more expensive 785T.
New to the nüvi 7x5 lineup is Garmin's HotFix satellite prediction (which locates your position quickly and precisely), Lane Assist (which provides lane guidance and junction views when possible), automatic time zone transitioning, and 3D Building views as well as Garmin Connect Photos to help you visually ascertain your position. Additionally, the nüvi 765T includes Bluetooth connectivity to your cell phone and free real-time traffic updates from Navteq (for the life of the device) via the included FM traffic receiver with vehicle power cable.
With the new Lane Guidance feature built into the nüvi 7x5 series, you'll never question which lane you should be driving in again. It provides you with a view of what lane you should be in for upcoming turns. And with the 3D Lane Assist Junction View, you'll be able to see a photo-realistic screen that shows you both the road detail as well as the signs as you will see them on the road. The signs that aren't needed for navigation are faded compared to the appropriate lane signage.
Where Am I? Where's My Car?
The nüvi 7x5 series is the first to answer two common questions: "Where am I?" and "Where's my car?" At any time, with a single tap of the screen, drivers can display their exact latitude and longitude coordinates, the nearest address and intersection, and the closest hospitals, police stations and gas stations. And to help drivers find their car in an unfamiliar spot or vast parking lot, all nüvi 7x5s automatically mark the position in which they were last removed from the mount.
This lets you enter several spots into the device (day care - supermarket-cleaners - office - day care, for example) and it will plot the fastest route. And once you've found the best router, the "Route Planning" feature lets you save up to 10 different routes, Garmin touts the feature for providing, "the most efficient route for errands, deliveries and sales calls." The feature also makes this an instant essential accessory for anyone who shops garage sales (you know what we're talking about). A trip log provides an electronic bread crumb trail of up to 10,000 points, so you can see where you've been on the map.
The 3D Buildings feature helps you navigate by landmark.
* The 3D Buildings feature is able to reference the buildings displayed on the map as well. Some buildings will be grey images "extruded" from the map, other buildings will be life like representations of the actual property.
* With Automatic Time Zone Transition, you'll never have to remember to set the time as you travel. When the unit acquires a position fix, it automatically sets the unit to the correct time zone.
* Compatible with optional content plug-ins available via SD card, such as the Garmin Travel Guides and Garmin SaversGuide, which provide detailed data for attractions and information on nearby merchants offering discounts.
The new Garmin nüvi 3760T is less than 9 mm thick, about the same as a standard #2 pencil. It has a full glass 4.3" diagonal multi-touch display. Dual orientation capabilities allow you to use the nüvi 3760T either horizontally or vertically, fitting smartly in your hand when walking. Sleek design also disappears neatly into your pocket or purse. With a rechargeable lithium-ion battery, it's ready to guide you by car or foot.
No more guessing which lane you need to be in to make an upcoming turn. Lane assist with junction view guides you to the correct lane for an approaching turn or exit, making unfamiliar intersections and exits easy to navigate. It realistically displays road signs and junctions on your route along with arrows that indicate the proper lane for navigation.Steer clear of traffic with the integrated FM traffic receiver and free lifetime¹ traffic updates. Receive alerts about traffic delays and road construction that lie ahead on your route. Next, simply touch the screen on nüvi to view traffic details or detour around the problem area.
Garmin nüvi 3760T has an intuitive interface that greets you with two simple questions: "Where To?" and "View Map." Touch the color screen to easily look up addresses and services and get voice-prompted, turn-by-turn directions that speak street names to your destination. It comes preloaded with detailed City Navigator® NT street maps for the U.S, Canada and Mexico with nearly 6 million points of interest (POIs) such as stores, restaurants, hotels, entertainment venues, gas stations, ATMs and more, and speed limits for most major roads.
Garmin's 4.3" nüvi 1690 portable navigator offers built-in Bluetooth® connectivity and excellent guidance, along with the power of real-time search. And this pocket-sized travel companion adds more to your journeys than just right and left turns. Just enter a keyword, and Garmin's nüLink! Services provide real-time search results that help you find what you're looking for. And you'll still have easy-to-follow directions that'll take you to your chosen destination.
The Garmin 1690 GPS navigator--with Bluetooth and included Traffic Receiver--features an enhanced user interface, ecoRoute, public transit mode, and text-to-speech. Plus, pedestrian navigation capability is enabled through optional CityXplorer maps, which are available for select tourist destinations in North America and Europe and can be downloaded easily directly to the nüvi. The device's enhanced user interface features improved graphics and a slide control for menu operation, while ecoRoute suggests fuel-efficient routes to save drivers money and fuel. Also, Garmin's public transit mode allows you to navigate using buses, tramway, metro, and suburban rail systems. Pre-loaded with City Navigator North America NT.
nüvi 1690 comes ready to go right out of the box with preloaded City Navigator North America NT street maps and millions of points of interest (POIs) such as hotels, restaurants, fuel stations, ATMs and more, with map data provided by NAVTEQ, a world leader in premium-quality mapping. Enter a destination on the touch screen, and nüvi takes you there with 2-D or 3-D maps and turn-by-turn voice directions. Text to speech enhances standard sat-nav voice guidance by speaking the names of places and roads. It even announces the name of exits and streets so you never have to take your eyes off the road. In addition, nüvi 1690 accepts custom points of interest, such as school zones and safety cameras and lets you set proximity alerts to warn you of upcoming POIs.Keep track of yourself and your car with nüvi 1690. Just tap "Where Am I?" to find the closest hospitals, police stations, fuel stations, nearest address and intersection. Also see your exact latitude and longitude coordinates. nüvi 1690 even remembers where you parked. It automatically marks your position when you remove it from the windshield mount, so you can navigate with nüvi on foot and find your way back to your vehicle. Perfect for unfamiliar spots and crowded lots such as amusement parks, stadiums and malls.
Bluetooth connectivity allows you to make and receive hands-free calls with your compatible phone. The navigator also includes a built-in digital picture viewer that lets you enjoy all your photos on the 4.3" screen — just slip your personal microSD™ memory cards into the microSD card slot. You can also purchase SD cards from Garmin with travel guides and coupons to aid you on your journeys.


Pulling & flipping tires. Farm style CrossFit!
One of the things I love about where my in-laws live is how removed it is from their city center. I know that might sound strange coming from someone who is obsessed with living in a downtown environment but without streets to explore and restaurants to try and parks to play in right out the front door here, we tend to stay close to home, enjoying a quieter weekend. Trips to the garden to pick vegetables and drinks on the deck in the setting sun are about as busy as it gets around here.
But as much as I love the country life, I am a city girl at heart. So today Lee is taking me to a city I've always wanted to explore. Vancouver, B.C.,.... Here we come.
Weekend Workouts: Saturday - Nike Training Club! 30 min of walking lunges, and jumping squats, and inchworm push-ups. Sunday - Farm style CrossFit! Lee took me through his workout of pulling, flipping and pushing tires all over the yard.
Such a lush green area. Looks like Alice is trying to help her Daddy. Have a fun vacation to Vancouver, it's such a beautiful city. Enjoy!


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Martin Harrison (1949 – 6 September 2014) was an Anglo-Australian poet.

Born and educated in England, Harrison arrived in Australia in the late 1970s after spending three years in New Zealand. He published poems and limited edition books in London and New Zealand before his first main collection, The Distribution of Voice (University of Queensland Press),appeared in Australia in 1993. In the 1980s Harrison worked as a literary journalist and reviewer as well as a producer for ABC Radio, where he was closely associated with sound art, new music and experimental radio work.

Harrison's 1997 poetry collection The Kangaroo Farm (Paper Bark Press) was shortlisted for the Victorian Premiers Award, and his 2001 collection Summer (Paper Bark Press) won the Wesley Michel Wright Prize in Poetry from the University of Melbourne. A selected poem, Wild Bees (University of Western Australia Press) was shortlisted for both the South Australian Premiers Awards and the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Poetry Prize.

Harrison wrote extensively about Australian poetry.  Some of his essays are collected in the internationally acclaimed volume Who Wants to Create Australia? (Halstead Press).  This book was a Times Literary Supplement book of the year selection for 2004.

Harrison's poetry has been translated into Mandarin (A Kangaroo Farm trans Shaoyang Zhang, Jiangsu, Nanjing 2008) and into French.

There is a wide range of critical commentary on Harrison's work, principally in Australian and some UK journals. In the main, these views focus either on the detailed micro-perceptual approach to environment and natural phenomena in his work or on the self-reflective, time filled nature of selfhood in his work or they focus, more directly, on the metaphysical nature of many of the poems.  British critic David Morley has defined Harrison as the writer of "some of the most brilliant metaphysical nature poems of our time." Michael Farrell, however, considers the subjective side of his work in the preface to the Out of the Box anthology (Puncher and Wattman], Sydney 2009) describing his poetry as about selfhood caught in the process of learning, in which "learning the self and world are in alternation." Nigel Wheale captures a similar sense, reviewing The Kangaroo Farm in the London Review of Books (20:19, 1998), describing the poems as attempts to create "livable locales" and a form of pursuit for places where, in Wheale's words, "ordinary happiness might reside."

On 8 September 2014, Susan Wyndham reported in the Sydney Morning Herald that Martin Harrison had died.

On 1 November 2014, Cordite Poetry Review republished a 1998 interview Harrison did with Sydney poet Adam Aitken, one of five or fewer Harrison interviews known to exist.

Works
Leisure: Poems, Limited Edition, illustr. Denise Riley, Great Works, London 1978.
Truce: Poems, Limited Letterpress Edition, Alan Loney's Hawk Press, Wellington, New Zealand, 1979.
1975: Poems, Limited Edition, Ferry Press, London, 1980.
The Distribution of Voice: Poems, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, Queensland, 1993
The Kangaroo Farm, Paper Bark Press, Brooklyn, New South Wales, 1997.
Summer, Paper Bark Press, Sydney, 2001.
Our ABC: A Dying Culture, Currency House, Strawberry Hills, New South Wales, Australia, 2004.
Who wants to Create Australia? Essays on Poetry and Ideas in Contemporary Australia, Halstead, Sydney, Australia, 2004.
Music: Poems and Prose, Vagabond Press, Newtown, New South Wales, 2005.
A Kangaroo Farm, trans Shaoyang Zhang, Jiang-su Literature and Art Publishing, Nanjing, 2008.
Wild Bees: New and Selected Poems, University of Western Australia Press, Perth, Western Australia, 2008.
New and Selected Poems: Wild Bees, Shearsman Books, Exeter, England, 2008.

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1949 births
2014 deaths
Australian poets
English emigrants to Australia
English emigrants to New Zealand
English male poets
20th-century English poets
20th-century English male writers


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Russia pushes back PAK DA stealth bomber to upgrade existing Tu-160 Bomber
April 7, 2017 July 24, 2015 by Brian Wang
Russia's Air Force has suffered from a string of crashes over the past month that highlight the country's maintenance and modernization woes.
On June 4, a MiG-29 and an Su-34 both crashed. The SU-34 is one of Russia's most advanced fighter jets, and was officially introduced into service in March of 2014. On July 14, a Tu-95MS bear bomber crashed.
Russia is flying a lot of flights. Both for the Ukraine war and because they are following a policy of increasing patrols close the western countries. The conflict with the Ukraine and the sanctions from the west and low oil and gas prices have put their economy into a bad shape.
Russia has been flying sorties across Europe, the Atlantic, and the Pacific with a frequency unseen since the Cold War. This increased workload has put heavy strain on an aging fleet of mostly Cold War-era bombers and fighters.
Russia let a lot of their gear get into poor repair after the fall of the Soviet Union.
They had planned to make an advanced PAK DA stealth bomber.
Cheaper and faster to get more bomber capability by building an upgraded Tu-160M2 bomber
Now, Russia's new-generation PAK DA bomber will be delayed past 2023 due to the development of the new-build Tupolev Tu-160M2 bomber, according to Russian deputy defence minister Yury Borisov
"According to the plans, serial production of the [Tu-160] aircraft new version [the Tu-160M2] is to be implemented starting from 2023," Borisov said during a visit on 17 July to the Samara-based Kuznetsov Plant of the United Engine Corporation.
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