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From April 6 2021, responsibility for assessing the employment status of off-payroll workers will shift from individuals to their hirers. All companies — apart from those with fewer than 50 employees or less than £10.2m annual turnover — will need to comply with the changes. Judging by the fallout from reform in the public sector three years ago, contractors need to prepare now for the changes ahead.
The rule change will affect about 230,000 contractors in the UK. Although they will no longer carry the liability, limited company contractors are likely to face issues as many end-clients attempt to reduce risk. Firms and recruitment agencies will become liable for unpaid tax if HM Revenue & Customs finds a worker has been wrongly classified. This has already resulted in blanket IR35 determinations as well as outright bans on limited companies.
The changes were scheduled for 2020, however, Covid-19 led to an emergency delay barely a month before implementation. In the lead up to reform, it was clear that end clients were adopting the same blanket strategies that were seen in the public sector in 2017. Companies including Deutsche Bank, Lloyds and Reuters were among those to introduce the blanket policy. Although some suspended their decisions following the delayed implementation, it's almost certain that they will revert to these as April 6th draws closer.
While the reforms require companies to take "reasonable care" in making IR35 assessments, there's a grey area in the legislation that allows for multiple contractors working on a project in equivalent roles to receive the same determination, without considering the particulars of their individual contracts. In the case of limited company bans, the government has simply attributed this to the way in which individual companies choose to engage contractors.
The Lords Review found serious flaws in the legislation, while an amendment to the Finance Bill to delay reform in favour of finding a fairer alternative enjoyed widespread cross-party support. Despite this, the amendment failed when it was revealed that the Prime Minister and the Chancellor had intervened to ask MPs not to vote for it. This leaves many major issues unresolved for private sector implementation.
HMRC's online assessment tool, CEST, is another stumbling block, with tax experts warning that it is flawed. HMRC recently made some changes to the tool and stand by its verdict providing it is used in line with its guidance. However, numerous tribunal cases show that CEST cannot be relied upon. Only last year the NHS was handed a £4.3million tax bill for inaccurate IR35 determinations made using CEST, showing that HMRC will by no means stand by assessments delivered by its own technology.
The reforms being rolled out in April are likely to hit companies who are heavily reliant on contractors, such as financial services, construction, pharmaceuticals, energy and recruitment. Large FTSE 100 companies will come under scrutiny, and are unlikely to risk the significant sums involved should hundreds of contractors be found to have been wrongly classified. The risk is particularly high in heavily regulated sectors such as banking, where contractual workers may be subject to higher levels of direction and control.
In addition to introducing the blanket policy, there have been many instances of contingent workers being asked to sign new contracts with reduced hours and rates from which employers' NI is also deducted. Meanwhile, being classified as employed for tax purposes does not give contractors the same rights as employees. This means that although contractors are at risk of exploitation, there is little recourse, with the reformed legislation deferring IR35 status disputes to a "client-led" process that's unlikely to be in the contractor's favour.
An IPSE study showed that a third of contractors were considering leaving the sector for permanent employment due to the reforms, however Covid-19 means that there are substantially fewer permanent roles available. It's expected that the need for contingent staff will gradually rise. This is because companies still need to move forward with projects, while keeping overheads low and flexible in an uncertain marketplace. Sectors such as IT, renewable energy, healthcare and education are already seeing hiring growth, and there will be increasing opportunities for contractors in adversely impacted areas to transfer their skills to emerging areas of the market.
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Japanese apples are legendary for their gigantic round shape, sweet taste and a hefty price tag due to their flawless appearance. Recently, a "new" kind of apple has been getting popular in the mountainous and very snowy prefecture of Nagano. It seems that apple growers there have decided to make the most of the winter precipitation that covers their fields by burying freshly picked apples for several months under a huge pile of snow. The "snow apples" are said to be even juicier, crisper and sweeter after spending the winter months hibernating under the snow.
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The local agricultural association says that the snow keeps the apples in an optimum refrigeration level at around zero degrees Celsius and humidity levels above 90%. This "natural refrigerator" makes the apples extra juicy with a crisp bite. People also say that these apples have a much sweeter taste than regular apples.
This year, the apple farmers put more than 4,200 kg of the fruit under snow and expect their sixth year to be their best yet. They will be sold at local events and over the Internet. Several types of apples were buried, such as fuji apples, pink lady and Nagano's famous varieties: Shinano Gold and Shinano Sweet.
But apples aren't the only thing being buried under snow! In the Minami-Aizu area of Fukushima Prefecture, where cold weather and heavy snowfalls are the norm, farmers there are starting to use the difficult climate to their advantage. Instead of hurrying to harvest their crops before the snow hits, farmers instead leave the crops to grow as the snow falls and pick them at the end of winter.
Vegetables growing under the snow are said to be a little sweeter and have a richer taste than conventionally grown crops. Farmers have been growing cabbage, carrots, Japanese radishes, yams and all sort of vegetables using this method lately and produce-lovers around Japan are starting to pay attention.
Meanwhile, in Niigata Prefecture, where meter-high snowbanks become the norm during the long, snowy winters, farmers there have recently started growing "snow carrots," which have become especially popular with kids as they don't have the "grassy" smell typical to most carrots.
The snow carrots have more amino acids like glycine and asparagine, which is the cause of the sweeter taste. They also have more caryophyllene, which gives the snow-grown carrots a pleasant aroma.
These "snow vegetables" have been gaining popularity in Japan as they make their way all over Japan. And Japanese farmers in cold regions that may have a tough time in the harsh winter months are probably more than happy to be able to provide a unique product.
Have you ever had crops that were either stored in grown under the snow? Are they really that much better from their time spent under the snow? We would love to hear about your review of "snow fruit" or "snow vegetables" in the comments section below!
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Why App Design has Become Homogenous, and How We Can Fix It
Emily Gosling
A cursory glance at any app-packed smartphone screen will show more than just how reliant you are on a certain taxi service, that someone you swiped right on returned the favor, or just how into chasing virtual reality creatures you are.
From a design perspective, it shows how remarkably similar most of the little app icons are. Stylistically, they almost overwhelmingly share a friendly, curved typeface, a simple symbol and a bright, inoffensive single colour. As part of a wider identity design, there's nothing wrong with this; but why do they all look so homogenous?
"I think there's a visual vernacular that's evolved for the startup scene where people hang around a few colours and a few geometric shapes and typefaces," says James Hurst, executive strategic creative director at DesignStudio, which rebranded Airbnb back in 2014, and more recently created the identity for Stratejet, a tech-first way to book a private jet online.
He adds: "These phones have only been around for the last 10 years, so it's still a very, very young market relatively speaking. Icon design has gone from being an afterthought to becoming a big question for new brands—'which other apps do you sit next to?' The digital calling card is going to become a much bigger thing."
Lee Coomber is creative director for Europe and the Middle East for creative consultancy Lippincott. He sees a parallel between the designs of apps today and the pictograms we've lived with for decades. "Designing for screens has nurtured particular looks, so perhaps it's no surprise that many company logos also now want to look more like pictograms themselves. Gumtree, Uber, Apple, and Airbnb are but a few examples," he told It's Nice That. "These companies want the feel of a utility fit for purpose, to be a tool as much as a company emblem."
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Alongside Airbnb, Gumtree is another brand that looked to a soft, curved little icon in a recent rebrand. Earlier this year it was redesigned by Koto, an agency led by ex-DesignStudio executive creative director, James Greenfield. The new branding was centered around a vastly simplified tree icon, formed as a single, soft, bright green line against a darker green background.
While Greenfield says the colour palette introduced in the rebrand aims to "retain the natural feel of the brand," he concedes that many marques bear similarities to one another. "There's a dominance of round sans serif and bright palettes right now in the world of digital, but these are no better than other type styles as such," he says, "they just happen to be the fashion and in the main quite easy to execute.
"When the app store first exploded app icons often had elements of photography or more complex visual moments. Over time these have seen a reduction, and rightly so. The app icon screen on a smartphone these days is a cleaner, more refined item that works as a gateway into a brand experience. It would take a rare genius to convince me a photo is right on an app icon."
Uber's new design was unveiled in February this year and created in-house. Though it differs in its use of a geometric pattern, it shares the circles and softness of its app brothers and sisters. Instead of the "U" of its name, the icon was redrawn as a circular branding device. The design concept is based around "bits and atoms," and in a roundabout way, inspired by the bathroom tiles of Uber's communication designer Catherine Ray. The branding takes on different colours for different territories, such as red for China and turquoise for the US; there are currently 65 country-specific color- and pattern-palettes and five global ones.
So what will we see in the future of these little icons' look and feel? "You're going to end up having much more interactivity with that icon," says Hurst. "In future they might react to things like night or day, or create visual representations around having 100 unread messages or a clear mailbox. Today they act as a flag or shortcut, tomorrow it could be another space for interactivity.
"I think the opportunity to be really bold is there. There are the established codes that have come to exist, but I bet we're going to start to see a range of brands punching through."
Greenfield agrees. "I do feel we are on the edge of a revolution where we re-introduce some layers into the brand to aid recognition," he says. "All design, whether digital or physical, goes in cycles with the early adopters and new brands breaking in with leaps of imagination."
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Home - President's Award, 2014 - А series of scientific work "development of nondestructive methods and equipment to control the current state of structural materials of engineering product based on indentation and hardness measurements"
А series of scientific work "development of nondestructive methods and equipment to control the current state of structural materials of engineering product based on indentation and hardness measurements"
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Authors:O.A.Katok (Cand.Tech.Sci, scientist) and V.P.Shvets (Cand.Tech.Sci, scientist).
Presented by the G.S. Pisarenko Institute for Problems of Strength of the NAS of Ukraine.
The series of scientific works is composed of 15 scientific papers and 9 abstracts to papers.
Both the procedures and unique equipment have been developed for determining the current characteristics of structural material mechanical properties, including those in aggressive media, for example, in the radiation fields of high intensity, using the indentation method.
The procedures for practical implementation of the LM-hardness method concept to diagnose the state of structural materials during the operating time have been experimentally justified, which makes it possible to increase considerably the efficiency of material nondestructive testing and to solve a number of practical problems on the assessment of the actual state of the metal in structures during the operating time.
The results of the investigations have been implemented into practice at the manufacturing enterprise "Pivdenno-Ukrainska NPP", National nuclear energy generating company "Energoatom," the branch of the Fastiv distance of the Pivdenno-Zakhidna Railways and the "Vymiryuvalni Tekhnologii, TOV"
The total number of author publications is 78.The results of the investigations on this subject matter were presented in 15 papers and 9 abstracts to the papers. The works of the authors were cited in more than 35 scientific journals, the general index of publication citations is 11 (according to the Scopus database), h-index = 3. 9 patents were taken out.
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The Research Foundation of the State University of New York (SUNY) settled claims that it falsified audits of the state's Medicaid program between October 2007 and September 2008, hiding the number of ineligible people receiving Medicaid benefits, according to Syracuse.com.
The Research Foundation of SUNY agreed to pay $3.75 million after federal prosecutors joined a lawsuit filed by former Research Foundation employee Ava Dock and four others. As an analyst for the Research Foundation, Dock discovered the agency deleted data files and altered information before presenting the audit to the federal Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, according to Syracuse.com. The altered records allowed the state to receive its annual $22 billion in Medicaid funding from the federal government. Dock is slated to receive a portion of the settlement as part of her whistleblower claim. Article
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Testing a Treatment for Internet and Computer Game Addiction
November 22, 2011 • By Dr. James Pendleton, Psychotropic News Contributor
In the last ten years, clinicians and researchers have noted that some individuals experience a compulsion to use the Internet or play computer games at the expense of other responsibilities. These individuals may spend 40 or more hours each week engaged in nonessential Internet usage or gaming. There remains some debate as to whether Internet addiction is a mental health issue in itself, or merely a symptom of another mental health problem. MRI scans, however, have revealed that both drug addiction and computer game addiction generate activity in similar areas of the brain (Ko, 2009).
A clinical trial is underway in Germany to test the effectiveness of a specific form of cognitive behavioral therapy in treating addiction to the Internet and computer games. Organizers of the trial are recruiting males aged 17 to 45 years with a diagnosis of Internet or computer game addiction. This study, which is currently recruiting participants at sites in Austria and Germany, will employ a "manualized" treatment approach.
Behavioral therapy sessions and interventions will follow a script, with the aim of eliminating variation between therapists. An earlier trial of Celexa (escitalopram) for Internet addiction demonstrated significant effectiveness, but similar studies have shown mixed results (Dell'Osso et al., 2008). The German research team hopes to provide evidence that therapy alone can be effective in the relief of behavioral addictions.
Until recently, the idea of a behavioral addiction was not taken seriously in the therapeutic community. Repetitive or compulsive behaviors were seen as offshoots of obsessive compulsion. Another theory suggests that obsessive gaming or Internet usage may be a way for depressed or anxious individuals to escape their negative mood states (Hussain, 2009). The dynamics of the stimuli itself—whether a game or simply the Internet in general—have not been extensively studied. Treatments for these forms of addiction are still in their infancy and rely mainly on analogies between game addiction and other addictive behaviors, such as gambling.
On the other hand, King et al. (2010) has suggested that viewing problem gaming through the lens of problem gambling is not effective. The researchers argue that games and the Internet have distinctly interactive properties that warrant study in isolation. In particular, the social element of multiplayer games like World of Warcraft renders useless the analogy between problem gambling and gaming addiction.
Partly in response to the surge in diagnoses of gaming and Internet addictions, the upcoming fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual will include a new section on behavior addiction (Holden, 2010). Internet addiction will be among the compulsive behavioral issues included under this new definition. As with most addictions, a combination of cognitive behavioral therapy and psychotropic medications will likely be the recommended course of treatment.
The German study is expected to conclude in October 2014. The results will offer new insights into the still emerging field of behavioral addiction treatment. In addition, the results may highlight the ways in which Internet and game addiction are unique mental health issues, demanding unique treatment approaches.
Effects of a Manualized Short-term Treatment of Internet and Computer Game Addiction – Full Text View – ClinicalTrials.gov. (n.d.). Home – ClinicalTrials.gov. Retrieved from http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/study/NCT01434589?cond=%22Behavior%2C+Addictive%22&rank=1
Holden, C. (2010). Behavioral addictions debut in proposed DSM-V. Science, 327(5968), 935.
Hussain, Z., & Griffiths, M. (2009). The attitudes, feelings, and experiences of online gamers: a qualitative analysis. CyberPsychology & Behavior, 12(6), 747-753.
King, D.L., Delfabbro, P.H. & Griffiths, M.D. (2010). Cognitive behavioural therapy for problematic video game players: Conceptual considerations and practice issues. Journal of CyberTherapy and Rehabilitation, 3, 261-273.
Ko, C., Liu, G., Hsiao, S., Yen, J., Yang, M., Lin, W., et al. (2009). Brain activities associated with gaming urge of online gaming addiction. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 43(7), 739-747.
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If the test is to be criterion-referenced, item difficulty is determined by the difficulty of the learning tasks described in the specific learning outcomes. If the test is to be norm-referenced, item difficulty is deliberately altered in order that a wide spread of test scores may be obtained. These different approaches to item difficulty constitute one of the major distinctions between criterion-referenced and norm-referenced testing. Since a criterion-referenced test is designed to describe the specific learning tasks a n individual can and cannot perform, item difficulty should match the difficiilty of the task.
Essay qiiestions are generally reserved for measiiring the more complex learning outcomes, where the difficulties in scoring are offset by the importante of the outcomes and by the uniqiie responses that can be called forth by siich questions (the ability to create, the ability to organize, and so on). Selecting the Type of Objective Test Item to Use There are two major considerations in selecting the specific type of test item to use. The first is the nature of the learning outcome. As we noted earlier, a test item should measure the learning outcome as directly as possible, and this frequently dictates a specific item type.
Poor: The paucity of plausible, but incorrect, statements that can be related to a central idea poses a problem when constructing which one of tlie following types of test items? A. Short-answer. B. True-false. *C. Multiple-choice. D. Essay. Beller: The lack o£ plausible, but incorrect, alternatives will cause the greatest difficulty wlien constructing: A. sliort-answer items. B. true-false items. 'C. multiple-choice items. D. essay items. Another common fault i n stating multiple-choice items is to load the stem with irrelevant and, thus, nonfunctioning material.


Telltale's Poker Night 2, a game where a bunch of video game characters come together to play hold'em poker, is no longer available for purchase on most digital platforms according to a support article on the developer's official website.
Telltale Games is best known for their adventure games, but they've also dipped their toe into other genres. One of the most notable projects was the Poker Night games which featured a cast of characters from different video game franchises coming together to play hold'em poker. Aside from their colorful cast of characters, the Poker Night games were used as a vehicle for delivering unique items for other games like Team Fortress 2 provided that players could complete certain in-game goals.
Unfortunately, the use of IP from other games necessitates a license agreement and license agreements have a tendency to expire. The one for Poker Night 2 has since wound down and Telltale Games has no intention of renewing it. This means that they no longer have the legal right to sell the game any longer, and as a result, it's been pulled from digital storefronts entirely.
If you already happen to own the game on Steam, iOS, Xbox 360, or PlayStation 3, you'll still be able to download it in the future as with any other purchased product. Telltale warns that Apple, in particular, may have issues with listing the game and will restore it to your account at their discretion.
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A "Familiar Sensibility": Cookbooks for Fall
By Stuart Mitchner
This Book Scene began with lunch at cookbook legends Melissa Hamilton and Christopher Hirsheimer's newly opened Canal House Station restaurant in Milford, N.J.
At the time, all I knew about the Canal House series was what I heard from my wife on the drive up. According to an August 12 article in Food and Wine, the "meticulous restoration" of the Milford station took about two years, with the result evoking "the warmth of a dear friend's home…. Even the entrance, past the small garden and through a back door, contributes to the familiar sensibility the brand new restaurant has already managed to create."
I understood "familiar sensibility" as a way of describing the quality that has made the Canal House books so popular, an idea that accords with the Cambridge English Dictionary definition of sensibility as "an understanding of or ability to decide about what is good or valuable, especially in connection with social activities."
Poetry Up Front
I found the "familiar sensibility" in evidence as soon as I opened my wife's prized copy of Canal House Cooks Every Day (Andrews McMeel $45) to a photograph and a poem that would seem to have more to do with what is "good and valuable" than with cooking. The first image you see after turning the title and dedication pages is a blurry vision of blue sky and cloud mass photographed through the window of a plane en route to Istanbul; taking up the facing page is C.P. Cavafy's poem "Ithaca," which begins, "When you set out on your journey to Ithaca,/pray that the road is long,/full of adventure, full of knowledge" and ends "Wise as you have become, with so much experience,/you must already have understood what these Ithacas mean."
As someone whose heart has never soared at the sight of a cookbook, I was more impressed by the association of cooking with a "beautiful voyage" than with any of the celebrity testimonials on the endpapers, except perhaps the tribute to "this kitchen bible" from actress Jamie Lee Curtis, a Canal House devotee who, like me, is not a "foodie" and admits to "no discernible culinary talent." In fairness to Jamie Lee, the resemblance is strictly superficial; she cooks every day for "lots of people" and I'm a back-up cook, occasional sous chef, grater of cheese, composer of salads, and cleaner-upper.
Autumnal Radiance
Another example of Hirsheimer and Hamilton's subtle understanding of the "good and valuable" is the photograph of a Dutch Oven on the cover of Canal House Cooking Fall and Holiday (Canal House paperback $34.90). I should admit that I've never been responsive to gastronomical photography, even when it's as artfully done as it is in the Canal House series. Take the cover shot on the newly published Cook Something: Recipes to Rely On (Voracious $35). The clarity of the image is striking, the presentation state of the art, but no visual artist this side of Paul Cézanne could make a cluster of scallions aesthetically appealing or appetizing to my eyes. If, as Cavafy says, the road to Ithaca is "long, full of adventure, full of knowledge," the green onion route is not for me.
The image of the Dutch Oven on the cover of Canal House Cooking Fall and Holiday has a yellow-orange hue that absolutely radiates autumn. Better yet, this sturdy piece of cookware clearly has a history. Memorable meals have simmered inside it, and it is what it is without benefit of photographic tarting up. Compared to the minimalist clarity of conventional, air-brushed, soft-core food porn, it has the depth of a Rembrandt. Its blemishes, flecks of red, specks of black, are in full view, marking its passage through generations of use, a kitchen poet's equivalent of Cavafy's journey to Ithaca. With its lid ajar and the track of some long-ago overflow baked for all time into the enamel, it's worthy of a Cézanne still-life or at least a place of honor in his kitchen. More than the patina of age, an aura both painterly and human, its primary beauty is that autumnal radiance.
Cooking à la Downton Abbey
Speaking of "what is good or valuable, especially in connection with social activities," if you're a fan of a certain wildly popular Masterpiece Theatre series, you'll want to check out food historian Annie Gray's Official Downton Abbey Cookbook (Weldon Owen $35), which contains over 100 recipes showcasing, says the publisher, "the cookery and customs of the Crawley household — from upstairs dinner party centerpieces to downstairs puddings and pies. The emphasis is on original recipes of the period, replicated as seen or alluded to on screen," or typical of the period covered (1912-1926), all the recipes reflecting "the influences found on the Downton Abbey tables." There's a foreword by executive producer and co-creator of Downton Abbey Gareth Neame, along with a host of color photographs, including stills from the PBS series as well as the recently-released feature film. Besides providing notes on the etiquette and customs of the times, the book includes quotes from the characters, and descriptions of the scenes in which the foods appear. A sample of the upstairs menu includes Oysters au Gratin, Quail and Watercress, and Charlotte Russe. Downstairs in the kitchen, the heart of the series, it's Toad-in-the-Hole, Beef Stew with Dumplings, and Jam and Custard Tarts.
"Joy" Returns in Time for Thanksgiving
One of the most notable new fall arrivals, with a title that should evoke fond memories in cooks of all sensibilities, is the 2019 Joy of Cooking, revised and updated for the first time since 2006, with a release date just ahead of Thanksgiving.
The first commercial edition of Irma S. Rombauer's Joy of Cooking was published by the Bobbs-Merrill Company in 1936. Subsequent editions were revised and updated by Irma Rombauer and Marion Rombauer Becker throughout the 20th century, selling hundreds of thousands of copies by the end of World War II. Marion Rombauer Becker took over with the publication of the popular 1963 edition. Her son Ethan Becker helped her revise the 1975 edition, and then oversaw the releases of the 1997 and 75th Anniversary (2006) editions rewritten by Irma's great-grandson John Becker and his wife, Megan Scott. Besides being the first revision since the 2006 edition, this is the first Joy of Cooking available as an eBook.
A Wedding Present
In my years lurching cluelessly around the kitchen, the book I turned to in times of stress was the 1966 edition of Joy of Cooking, a wedding present, which means we've had it more than 50 years. The big book has held up beautifully, the only sign of age the slightly torn rear dust jacket, probably from the times I pulled it off the shelf in a panic looking for how to make something embarrassingly basic like cinnamon toast or scrambled eggs. Just now, opening it at random, I landed on the pumpkin page, where it's suggested that "each of the children carve his own pumpkin and then stack them into a totem pole." Sounds like a recipe for disaster. I wonder if this idea made it into later editions.
The Heart of Things
Like the kitchen in Downton Abbey, the one in the new Canal House Station restaurant is at the heart of things — as you walk through it on your way to the dining rooms, you might find yourself saying hello to Hamilton and Hirsheimer, who were there the day we had lunch.


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In Joyner v. Bowen & Marvel in U.S. Circuit Court Lincoln writes agreement: "We consent that a commission in this case may issue at once, to the person named. Dec. 15, 1859. Lincoln & Herndon, for Def'ts." Files.
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WHAT DRIVES UNCERTAINTIES IN ADAPTING TO SEA-LEVEL RISE?
Posted by David Pike 27sc on March 19, 2016
photo by Dr. Benjamin Horton
Let me get this off my chest – I sometimes get frustrated at climate scientists as they love to talk about uncertainties! To be sure, their work thrives on it...
I'm someone who researches the projected impacts and adaptation to sea-level rise and gets passed 'uncertain' climate data projections to add to other 'uncertain' data projections in my impact modellers work bag. But climate scientists do a good job. Without exploring uncertainties, science loses robustness, but uncertainties in combination can become unbounded and unhelpful to end users.
Let's take an adaptation to sea-level rise as an example: With increasing scientific knowledge, acceptance and mechanisms that would allow adaptation to potentially occur, one would think that adaptation would be straight forward to implement. Not so. Instead of hard and fast numbers, policy makers are faced with wide ranges of uncertainties from different sources, making decision making challenging. So what uncertainties are there in the drivers of change, and can understanding these uncertainties enable better decisions for adaptation?
Prior to considering adaptation in global or regional models, or implementation at local level, drivers of change and their impacts (and thus uncertainties) require analysis – here are a few examples.
Between 1901 and 2010, global sea levels rose by 0.19±0.02m, albeit at varying rates and spatial distribution (Church et al. 2013) – these past values (including their uncertainty) are potentially much smaller than those associated with future projections. Whether this precise trend will continue is uncertain, but scientists are confident that sea-levels will continue to rise and accelerate due to global warming
My background is partly in geology, so I often recall the well-known quote referring to Earth's history 'the present is the key to the past' (Hutton / Lyell). In sea-level science however it might be the other way around: 'the past is the key to the present'. Kopp et al. (2016) recently found that from the late in the 20th century sea-levels have risen faster than in any of the previous 27 centuries. Further back in time again, sea-levels have risen at much faster rates during the end of the last ice age. Past rates of change, if used wisely, provide potential constraints of future projections, together with the many semi-empirical approaches to project future sea-level rise (e.g. Rahmstorf, 2007) which are typically greater in magnitude than those from process based models. Hybrid approaches have also been undertaken (e.g. Moore et al. 2013, Mengel et al. 2016). Scientific knowledge input into process based models has much improved, reducing uncertainty of known science for some components of sea-level rise (e.g. steric changes), but when considering other components (e.g. ice melt from ice sheets, terrestrial water contribution) science is still emerging, and uncertainties remain high. Still, our understanding has a wide range of projections, particularly for high emissions scenarios as Jevrejeva et al. (2014) illustrates. Given emerging knowledge and changes in uncertainty, this leads me to the question, what are we adapting to, and when could this occur? Is it about 1m of rise by 2100? Or 1.4m?
Planning for sea-level rise does not just depend on how much waters rise, but also how land levels change. Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA) occurs in response to retreating ice from the last glacial period, where around most of the world, land is subsiding at a fraction of a millimetre per year, compounding the problem of sea-level rise. In northern latitudes the reverse is happening – land is rising after being liberated from the mass of the ice sheets, again normally by less than 1mm/yr, but in places over 5mm/yr (Peltier et al. 2015). Land levels also change due to tectonics, natural compaction of soft soils as well as human influences.
I recently researched causes of subsidence in Bangladesh (Brown and Nicholls 2015) and struggled with the uncertainties, data errors, and in some cases, poor science when recording rates of subsidence. In Bangladesh, subsidence can be much higher than GIA – with 10mm/yr being a local norm, rather than an extreme rate. A major cause can be groundwater withdrawal resulting from the needs of a growing population. These factors can be spatially highly variable, even within a short distance. Additionally, rates of subsidence also change with time (Kaneko and Toyota, 2011). Subsidence is common in deltas and projecting relative change (particularly when causes vary or are unknown) remains uncertain.
Relative land level change is extremely important in low-lying delta regions.
When I undertake an impacts assessment, land elevation and population exposed to hazards becomes extremely important. Global elevation levels, such as from the Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission (Rabus, 2003) is an extremely helpful dataset. Elevation data has a resolution of tens of metres, and subject to errors which can mean important coastal features are omitted, such as entire small islands. Similar distribution issues occur with respect to population.
Projecting how population changes – per country and it's spatial distribution – is an additional uncertainty, particularly as coastal population grows differently to those areas further inland (Neumann et al. 2015). Of course, there are changes in economic growth too – who could have imagined rapid growth seen in Asian cities over the last few decades? Whilst projections of socio-economic change can be made, these still have a wide range of implications in impact assessments and choices over adaptation.
All these factors and many more combine uncertainties resulting in different scenarios of change – each potentially likely to occur. Fed into impacts assessment, further uncertainties arise. But even faced with this, modelling and choosing the type of adaptation itself is uncertain, whether this involves 'hard' barriers, such as sea-walls, 'soft' protection including sand nourishment, accommodating sea-level rise by raising buildings, or even deliberately retreating from the sea. Furthermore, sea-levels won't stop rising in 2100 – even under climate mitigation, so adaptation has to be a long-term investment. Nevertheless, engineering reasoning may question the scientific and financial values of adapting newly built infrastructure to sea-level rise over a 100-year timeframe, if the design life is far less than this. Adaptation therefore has to take a flexible modular approach, allowing for uncertainty, rates of change and investment choice. Long-term investment in infrastructure could become a cat-and-mouse game, where monitoring becomes increasingly important leading to reactive adaptation to avoid an unacceptable situation of escalating risk.
With this, adaptation remains a choice or an opportunity which may not be available to all. Better decision making is enabled by making policy makers aware of the wider range of uncertainties, possibilities and options available. This includes how best to apply for and utilise climate change adaptation funds for developing nations, so that intelligent choices can be made to encapsulate uncertainty.
Adaptation is a manner of choice, mixed with local needs
In recent years there has been a push towards climate services to provide forecasts or projections of long-term change to enable adaptation. I think this is a welcome development as it indicates that climate change is becoming more accepted within the international community leading to action. It's important to remember that climate change is not the only issue and multiple uncertainties exist in other fields that can sometimes be greater than the climate signal alone, leading to deep uncertainty.
So, to answer my question 'what uncertainties are there in the drivers of change, and can understanding these uncertainties enable better decisions for adaptation?', perhaps it as apt to quote Albert Einstein: 'The more I learn, the more I realise how much I don't know'. The quest to reduce uncertainty (and my frustration!) continues.
Guest article by Sally Brown, University of Southampton
Sally Brown is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Southampton, UK and a member of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.
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What type of galaxy is NGC 4622?
February 13, 2021 By admin Life
spiral galaxy
NGC 4622 is a rare example of a spiral galaxy with arms pointing in opposite directions. What caused this galaxy to behave differently from most galaxies? Astronomers suspect that NGC 4622 interacted with another galaxy. Its two outer arms are lopsided, meaning that something disturbed it.
Who discovered NGC 4622?
R. Buta
On May 25 2001, an image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope captured a supernova in NGC 4622. It was discovered by R. Buta and GG Byrd of the University of Alabama as well as T. Freeman of Bevill State Community College.
When was the backwards galaxy discovered?
It was taken in May 2001 by Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, designed and built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
How big is the backwards galaxy?
1.7′ x 1.6′
Backward Galaxy – unbarred spiral galaxy Backward Galaxy , is a unbarred spiral located in the constellation Centaurus . Backward Galaxy is magnitude 12.6*, is 200 million light-years away, and is 1.7′ x 1.6′ in size.
What kind of galaxy is NGC 1365?
NGC 1365 is an enormous, visually-stunning spiral galaxy located in the Fornax Cluster. At 20,000 lightyears across (twice the length of the Milky Way), it's one of the largest galaxies currently known to astronomers.
What does M83 look like?
M83 is a barred spiral galaxy, likely similar in structure to our own Milky Way. Knots of red hydrogen-alpha light mark star-forming regions in this visible-light view. M83 is often cited as a close match to how our own Milky Way might appear from afar — though it's only half as big, about 40,000 light-years across.
Which way do spiral galaxies rotate?
About half of all spiral galaxies appear to be rotating clockwise and the other half counterclockwise. The direction a galaxy rotates depends on your perspective. As an analogy, consider a spinning bicycle wheel. When you look at a spinning wheel from one side, it looks like it's spinning clockwise.
What is the oldest thing in the galaxy?
GN-z11
The oldest known galaxy in existence remains GN-z11, which formed around 400 million years after the Big Bang, as previously reported by Live Science's sister site Space.com.
How many stars are in a spiral galaxy?
Estimate of stars varies from 200 billion to 400 billion. Milky way is a barred spiral.
Where is the spiral galaxy NGC 4622 located?
The spiral galaxy, NGC 4622 (also called backward galaxy), lies approx. 111 million light years away from Earth in the constellation Centaurus.
Is the Galaxy 4622 part of the Centaurus Cluster?
The type of supernova was not determined. According to AM Garcia, NGC 4622 is a member of the NGC 4709 group which consists of at least 42 galaxies including NGC 4616, NGC 4622B (also called PGC 42852 ), NGC 4679 and NGC 4709. The NGC 4709 group is part of the Centaurus Cluster.
Why was the discovery of NGC 4622 met with skepticism?
These results were met with skepticism in part because they contradicted conventional wisdom with one quote being "so you're the backward astronomers who found the backward galaxy." The fact that a pair of arms could lead was not easy to accept.
When did the Hubble Space Telescope capture NGC 4622?
On May 25 2001, an image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope captured a supernova in NGC 4622. It was discovered by R. Buta and GG Byrd of the University of Alabama as well as T. Freeman of Bevill State Community College. The type of supernova was not determined.
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Prince Sufri attends AFC Conference, meeting (2019)
Category: Local Sports
His Royal Highness Prince Haji Sufri Bolkiah, President of NFABD with AFC President Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, AFC Vice President Zaw Zaw and committee members at the conference. PHOTO: AFC
BY James Kon
His Royal Highness Prince Haji Sufri Bolkiah, President of the National Football Association of Brunei Darussalam (NFABD) attended the Asian Football Confederation's (AFC) Social Responsibility Conference and the Social Responsibility (SR) Committee Meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia recently.
The second AFC Social Responsibility Conference underlined the power of football to inspire hope and strengthen communities across Asia.
"The AFC has always placed significant emphasis on using football as an enabler for social development. Asia is a vast continent with its unique set of challenges and by bringing everyone together, this conference aims to increase our chances for success," AFC Social Responsibility Committee Chairman Zaw Zaw said during the conference.
"Across the continent, we are seeing the incredible impact of football to inspire hope not only with AFC's activities and programmes, but also through the concerted efforts of all our stakeholders – our member associations, NGOs as well as corporate partners.
"Our partnership is stronger than ever, and we are in the best possible position to fulfill our purpose to empower communities and ensure the game continues to create a meaningful legacy on those who need it the most."
The landmark conference kicked off with a strong focus on one of the five AFC social responsibility pillars – children and youth. Led by FIFA Senior Child Safeguarding and Protection Manager Kathryn Leslie, delegates were presented with an in-depth overview on the new FIFA Child Safeguarding Programme and Toolkit launched in July this year.
Participants also gleaned insights on the Scort Foundation's highly successful Young Coach Education programme in Vietnam before representatives from UNICEF Malaysia and Indochina Starfish Foundation from
Cambodia joined the dialogue alongside FIFA, on the best practices and approaches to ensure stronger child safeguarding measures in sport.
Marc-Andre Buchwalder from Scort Foundation said, "It is good to have all the people working on social responsibility projects in one room. This is a good opportunity for them to discuss, meet and exchange ideas. It is vital through this conference for staff in different member associations to talk to the organisations and key speakers to understand what they are trying to accomplish."
Social inclusion was another key theme of the conference with a presentation by Brian Suskiewicz from Coaches Across Continents, who shared the work undertaken to empower the Rohingya community from the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
The year-long project, conducted in partnership with the AFC, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the Bangladesh Football Federation and the Football Association of England, has been instrumental in strengthening the capabilities and pool of football coaches, who in turn, are spreading the joys of the game to nearly 10,000 children directly under their care.
Other speakers included representatives from the India Blind Sports Association (IBSA) and Indian Blind Football Federation (IBFF) and Mongolian Football Federation on life changing projects in their countries.
Deputy General Secretary of the Mongolian Football Federation (MFF) Munkhzul Chuluunbat said, "This conference gives a platform to everyone to learn from one another. Through football we can achieve and reach out to different communities. I'm delighted to be invited by the AFC to share MFF's social responsibility initiatives. I hope this conference will motivate more member associations to create social responsibility programmes in their country."
The conference concluded on a high note with the Chinese Football Association sharing their plans on utilising the AFC Asian Cup China 2023 as a catalyst to maximise the social and health of the hundreds of millions as the country prepares to stage Asia's most prestigious football tournament in 2023.
Meanwhile, at the AFC's Social Responsibility (SR) Committee Meeting for the cycle 2019-2023, AFC President Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa pledged that the AFC will continue to use the power of football to benefit communities in need across Asia in the coming years.
"Unfortunately, there are many people in Asia who are living in difficult circumstances. The AFC believes that football can not only be a sport, but also a force to bring good and hope to many people. We have carried out a lot of projects – many providing humanitarian aid – but we can still do more."
Through the AFC Dream Asia Foundation, he said, "We know that football can make a difference and bring a positive change to people across the continent."
Zaw Zaw, who is also AFC Vice President, added, "The role of this committee is to do more to help and to serve those who need us the most.
"Under the leadership and guidance of our president, the AFC has strengthened its belief to use football as an important tool for social development. More than 20 member associations have been impacted by our SR programmes."
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Q: Is there a way to export Oracle's UNDO? I tried exp utility to dump all database. Looks like this exports only the last version of data skipping undo log. Using flashback queries I see:
01466. 00000 -  "unable to read data - table definition has changed"
*Cause:    Query parsed after tbl (or index) change, and executed
           w/old snapshot

What I'm trying to do is to capture db changes, make backup for later use with the ability to flashback to timestamp.
With rman backup I have similar situation:
ORA-01555: snapshot too old: rollback segment number 3 with name "_SYSSMU3_2472002983$"  too small
01555. 00000 -  "snapshot too old: rollback segment number %s with name \"%s\" too small"
*Cause:    rollback records needed by a reader for consistent read are overwritten by other writers`.

Update:
I managed to do what I needed only by increasing undo retention and direct copying of data files and control file modification on cloned instance.

A: You could insert the results of a flashback query or flashback versions query into a table and export that table or you could do your own versioning.  You could also look at the Change Data Capture feature which may meet your requirements.  The real answer to your specific question though is...
No, you can't do that.

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Young Single Adults Conference, Vanuatu, 9-11 December 2016.
Young people in Vanuatu assemble emergency kits. 10 December 2016. Photo: Intellectual Reserve, Inc.
Young people pack emergency kits in Vanuatu. Photo: Intellectual Reserve, Inc.
Young Ni-Valuatu Latter-day Saints assemble emergency kits.
Young adults in Port-Vila, Vanuatu, took part in a three-day conference starting Dec. 9.
As part of the conference, the young Latter-day Saints assembled 1,000 hygiene kits to be distributed in Vanuatu or Solomon Islands in the event of a cyclone or other disaster.
Local Latter-day Saint leader, Norton Atkins, explained that the activities organized during the three-day event aimed to remind the young people to base their lives on the teachings of Jesus Christ.
The conference included workshops emphasizing the importance of education, self-reliance, fortifying faith in Jesus Christ and enduring adversities and challenges in life.
"And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall".
The conference started on the afternoon of Friday, December 9th, with enrollment followed by a dance.
On Saturday morning 10 December, the young people attended a series of workshops at the Port-Vila LDS Chapel.
The first workshop emphasized the importance of education and self-reliance.
The second workshop focussed on the importance of individuals fortifying their faith in Jesus Christ in order to be able to endure and withstand all the adversities and challenges in life.
Other activities included a dance, a service project assembling hygiene kits and a closing devotional.
The hygiene kits are ready to be distributed anywhere in Vanuatu or in the Solomon Islands — where it is now cyclone season — in case of an emergency.


If you're just starting Kingdom Hearts 3 today, you will come across a part where you need to make choices.
You have to decide how Sora should be customized. Will he be more offensive or defensive or even balanced, and what skills should he prioritize?
Here's how you can decide between wisdom / vitality / balance and also guardian / mystic / warrior in KH3.
After approaching the mirror at the beginning of the game, you will get to this point.
You will first have to choose between wisdom, vitality or balance.
What happens if you choose either one?
As the name suggests, vitality gives more HP, wisdom gives more MP and balance is in between.
Personally, I went for balance. I'm not sure how much this actually affects the gameplay yet.
How to choose between Guardian, Mystic and Warrior?
For the second part of choices, you have to go with either the Guardian, Warrior or Mystic.
They are represented by friendship, sword and a creature.
I'm not certain what the main differences are between the three in the long run, but for now, it seems like it only affects the skills you learn first.
In short, Guardian gives you defensive skills first, Warrior gives you melee attacks first and Mystic lets you learn magic abilities first.
It's more towards the priority on what you will learn first.
Personally, I chose the Warrior route.
After choosing desire and power, you have to confirm that it is your choice before you proceed.
This will lead to a tutorial where you have to defeat some heartless and a mini boss.


stuck, so any help is very much appreciated.
>An update on this issue: I still can't build the 0.8 branch using Maven.
>- Rename POM and copy to correct location???
>  Try downloading the file manually from the project website.
>[INFO] Using 'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources.
>Is anybody able to reproduce this?
>> I use 12.1.4 Ultimate on OS X.
>>> Thanks. Which version of Intellij are you using?
>>>> project in IntelliJ w/o problems.
>>>> The latest release is 1.4.0, perhaps upgrading would help?
>>>>> Kafka code cleanly loaded to Intellij after doing "./sbt gen-idea".
>>>>> you able to do that successfully?
>>>>>>> Try the one under core/targets?
>>>>>>>> pom do I need to open?


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'Fantastic Beasts' Sequels Will Include Hogwarts Flashbacks
By Lauren Sarner
Filed Under Entertainment, Harry Potter & JK Rowling
The Harry Potter spinoff franchise Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them initially seemed like it would only connect to the Potter series through Dumbledore. But thanks to a new casting call, it's looking like the two stories will also share a setting — because early 1900s era Hogwarts will appear in flashbacks.
According to Pottermore, a casting call has been announced for young actors to play teenage versions of Newt Scamander, Leta Lestrange, Gellert Grindelwald and Albus Dumbledore.
"An open casting call has gone out for three actors between the ages of 13 and 16 to play young versions of Newt, Leta, and another character called Sebastian," writes Pottermore. "They are also looking for actors between 16 and 18 to portray both Gellert Grindelwald and Albus Dumbledore as teenagers."
Leta Lestrange, played by Zoe Kravitz, appeared only briefly in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them in a photo. It was mentioned that Newt and Leta were close in their youth, but they had a mysterious falling out which causes Newt to sadly ponder her photograph. Newt's new friend Queenie Goldstein, who can read people's goals and emotions, discerns that Leta was a "taker" in their relationship, and Newt needed a "giver."
Newt Scamander and Tina Goldstein in 'Fantastic Beasts'
Since Leta Lestrange is, of course, Bellatrix Lestrange's ancestor, it's reasonable to assume she was a Slytherin in her Hogwarts days. Newt was a Hufflepuff, and he got kicked out of school at the age of fifteen or sixteen. He took the fall for Leta's wrongdoing. Judging by the actor's ages in the casting call, it looks like the Fantastic Beasts sequels intend to show this event onscreen.
The call for a teen Dumbledore and Grindelwald means that Dumbledore might get to kiss another young man onscreen, and the events leading up to his sister Ariana's tragic death could be depicted. Since Jude Law is already playing one version of young Dumbledore, this means the Fantastic Beasts sequels will have substantial flashbacks.
The second installment of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them will hit theaters November 16, 2018.
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Home News Germany slashes audiobook VAT, pushes for e-books cut
Germany slashes audiobook VAT, pushes for e-books cut
Published May 1, 2014 by Lisa Campbell
The German government has cut VAT on audiobooks to 7%, and the rate on e-books might soon follow.
The decision was...
The decision was made by the German coalition government's executive board on Tuesday (29th April) and means audiobook sellers will be able to charge less for the product now the VAT rate has been slashed from its previous 19%.
The German ministry of culture is also pushing for the same 7% VAT rate to apply to e-books in the country at European Union level. Print books currently attract a 7% VAT in Germany, so the decision, if made, would make e-books and print books equal as far as VAT is concerned.
The German government's executive board's decision read: "Due to rapidly advancing digitisation we insist on a rapid implementation of the agreed points. We want to make sure that print and electronic media and audio media are treated equally for tax."
It added: "For audiobooks the European VAT system policy allows us to introduce today the reduced rate of VAT. At this point, we therefore want to amend the German turnover tax law accordingly. However, the VAT system policy provides no corresponding possibility for e-books, e-paper and other electronic information media. We think therefore that it is important that Germany is strongly committed in the discussions and negotiations at the European level, in favour of an exemption ."
The European Union's VAT Directive does not allow VAT to be lowered on e-books. The European Commission is currently embroiled in legal battles with Luxembourg, which lowered its e-book VAT rate to 3% and France, which lowered its VAT to 7% on e-books in January 2012, against the ruling of the directive.
Luxembourg is the country that Amazon, Kobo and Barnes & Noble's Nook base their European headquarters and the companies argue they vend e-books to consumers in the UK and other countries, so they only have to charge the lower 3% VAT. This puts domestic e-book retailers such as Watersones and Foyles in the UK at a competitive disadvantage, because the UK is following EU rules and charging 20% VAT on e-books. In the UK, print books attract 0% VAT. However, the e-book VAT loophole is due to be closed on 1st January 2015 when e-books will be charged by the country they are destined for, as opposed to where they are sold from.
As a result of Luxembourg and France's flouting of the EU directive, both countries have been referred to the European Court of Justice by the European Commission.
The German government's executive board also said on Tuesday (29th April) that it thought fixed book prices were "essential" for "the preservation of the diversity of books and bookstores" and should be "ensured by European law with regard to e-books."
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An scene of the film, Transformers, written by Mexican screenwriter, would be released in theater nationwide on July 3.
The hottest Hollywood action movie this summer, Transformers, would be coming out on July 3.
Transformers tells the story of a war between two robotic clans, the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons, which takes place on the Earth, leaving the lives of mankind in serious danger.
Transformers was directed by Michael Bay (Pearl Harbor, The Island) and written by Mexican screenwriter Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, starring Shia LaBeouf (Disturbia), Tyrese Gibson (Four Brothers), Josh Duhamel (Turistas), Anthony Anderson (The Departed), John Turturro (The Good Sheperd), Jon Voight (National Treasure, Glory Road), and Latino Actor Amaury Nolasco (Prison Break, The Benchwarmers).
Transformers is expected to have a high standard of visual-effects and tensional plots. Also, the cast with young talented stars such as LaBeouf, Megan Fox and Duhamel, is quite eye-catching.
You may have seen the TV series or played with the toys decades ago, but it is still a good choice to see how transformers are in nowadays.


Am I able to book a child seat?
By Law, children (Under 3 years old) are allowed to travel in the back seats of minicabs without a child seat or seatbelt. In the case that a child is over 3 years of age, they can travel without a child car seat provided they wear a seat belt.
Requesting a child seat or booster seat is an option supported by many of our Cab providers. Please select the option on the website. Once you complete the booking, you will have to call the Cab provider to confirm the availability of the seat. Some Cab providers may charge for the seat (typically £5) which you can pay the driver directly for. As this is optional, we strongly advise to call in advance to assure your baby or babies are safe.