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Leigh Halfpenny to miss Guinness Pro14 semi final
Posted on 15th May 2018 by admin in Club Rugby, Featured, Guinness PRO14 League, Latest News
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By Jake Jones
Wales international Leigh Halfpenny has been ruled out of Scarlets' Pro14 semi final showdown with Glasgow Warriors at Scotstoun on Friday due to injury.
Halfpenny sustained the torn hamstring in the Scarlets' win over the Cheetahs in their quarter final play-off a fortnight ago. The news of Halfpenny's absence has been softened by the news that Kiwi, Johnny McNichol is over his shoulder injury that has kept him out since February.
"Leigh has a small tear there so with any luck, should we get through the semi-final then he may be available for the final," said head coach Wayne Pivac.
"Johnny been's training really, really well for the last couple of weeks.
"The last obstacle for him was full contact and he's done that, come through so he's available for selection."
Scarlets were comfortable winners when the two sides last met in the competition, but Glasgow were able to fall back on their incredible start to the season to help them to finish top of conference B which secured them a home semi-final.
The quater final play off was the Llanelli side's third game of knockout rugby since 30 March, after facing La Rochelle and Leinster in the European Champions Cup quarter-final and semi-final respectively.
Glasgow did not get past the pool stages of the Champions Cup, and their last game was their loss to city rivals Edinburgh on 28 April.
Pivac said he was expecting a different Glasgow side to the one that lost at Parc y Scarlets.
"We'd like to think the intensity will go up from that game," he said.
"Certainly we know that Glasgow will be a lot better. I don't think they played their best rugby.
"The intent from both sides will be there when it's on to move the ball, but we're expecting a very big physical clash as well."
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Rajnath inaugurates two strategic helipads, 75 infrastructure projects
The 75 infrastructure projects built by the BRO across six states and two Union Territories (UTs) are expected to bolster the country's defence.
Rajnath Singh meets Egyptian counterpart; signs MoU to bolster defence cooperation across all sectors
Singh, who is on an official visit to Egypt, was accorded a ceremonial Guard of Honour at the Ministry of Defence in Cairo, prior to the commencement of bilateral talks.
UP will soon be ahead of all states in terms of new generation infrastructure: Rajnath Singh
Speaking at an event at Atal Bihari Vajpayee Convention Centre here, Singh mentioned how Uttar Pradesh is moving step by step on the path of development under a "double engine" government run by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Centre, and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in the state.
Rajnath Singh appreciates Indian Army for selfless, unflinching service to nation
The Defence Minister reaffirmed the faith of the billion-plus citizens in the Indian Army as one of the most trusted and inspiring organisations in the country.
Raksha Mantri confers conferred 21 gallantry and meritorious service medals on the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) personnel
According to the ministry in the last one year, ICG carried out 70 medical evacuations, conducted 555 search and rescue operations and saved the lives of more than 1,090 people.
Bolstering defences
New Delhi is ramping up infrastructure to counter China's advances in border areas of the North-east and Ladakh.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh pays tribute to Kargil war heroes at National War Memorial
'I congratulate all Indian citizens on the occasion of Kargil Vijay Diwas. The sacrifices made by soldiers, which helped us win the Kargil war, will always be a source of inspiration for the armed forces,' Singh told reporters.

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Council Questions > LegCo
Council question: Manpower development of and professional recognition for information technology industry
Following is a question by the Hon Charles Mok and a written reply by the Secretary for Innovation and Technology, Mr Nicholas W Yang, in the Legislative Council today (May 15):
Some practitioners of the information technology (IT) industry (including the communications industry) have relayed that the ever-evolving technological development makes it necessary for them to pursue continuing education through multiple pathways in order to stay competitive. They hope that their professional status can enjoy a higher recognition and their advancement paths can be clearer. In 2015, the Task Force on Information and Communications Technology Professional Development and Recognition (the Task Force) established under the Digital 21 Strategy Advisory Committee published a report (the report), putting forward recommendations on the establishment of a unified framework for IT professional recognition (the unified framework). However, the Task Force opined that as members of the industry had not reached a consensus on the implementation details, it would be difficult to implement the unified framework right away. Regarding the manpower development of and the enhancement of practitioners' professional status in the IT industry, will the Government inform this Council:
(1) with regard to the five recommendations made by the Task Force in the report for facilitating various stakeholders in reaching a consensus on the establishment of the unified framework, of the work progress made by the Government in following up such recommendations;
(2) whether it will, in the light of the recommendations of the report, formulate afresh a long-term plan for the manpower development of the IT industry, with a view to enhancing the recognition for and professional status of the practitioners; if so, of the details; if not, the reasons for that; and
(3) whether it will follow up the matters relating to the establishment of the unified framework, including:
(i) enhancing the proposed framework put forward by the Task Force by drawing reference from international practices and consulting afresh the practitioners in the industry in this regard; if so, of the work schedule (including the target time for completion of the relevant work);
(ii) exploring ways to introduce flexibility to the unified framework to dovetail with the changes in the market's demand for IT professional skills and to encompass novel modes of continuing education so as to ensure that the framework can keep abreast of the time; and
(iii) consulting the business sector afresh on the unified framework, and launching mitigation measures to assist small and medium enterprises in coping with the issue of increase in operating costs that might arise from the unified framework?
A consolidated reply to the three-part-question is set out below.
The Task Force on Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Professional Development and Recognition (Task Force) under the then Digital 21 Strategy Advisory Committee was set up by the Government in 2012 to conduct research on establishing a unified professional recognition framework for local ICT professionals (the Proposed Framework). In its report released in September 2015, the Task Force pointed out that as the industry and public had not reached a general consensus on the relevant issues of the Proposed Framework, including the credibility and transparency of the awarding body of the Proposed Framework, impact of the Proposed Framework on the operating costs of small and medium-sized enterprises, whether the introduction of the Proposed Framework would dampen innovation and creativity, and raise the entry barrier for pursuing a career in ICT, etc., it would be very difficult to implement the Proposed Framework. Nowadays, with the rapid development of ICT, the qualification requirements of ICT practitioners in the industry keep evolving with the emergence of new technologies. This adds to the difficulty in setting up a unified professional recognition framework. As such, the Government currently does not have any plan to further follow up on the establishment of a unified professional recognition framework nor to consult stakeholders again on this subject.
In the past few years, the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (OGCIO) together with relevant government departments and organisations have implemented numerous measures to nurture ICT talent in the industry with reference to recommendations of the report and the latest development of information technology (IT) and the Internet economy, details of which are elaborated below:
(a) setting up the "Student IT Corner" website to provide students and parents with IT-related information;
(b) setting up the "IT Career Role Models Platform" to provide students with information on IT positions and career prospects in different industries;
(c) organising the annual Hong Kong ICT Awards and establishing the award categories of Startup Award and Student Innovation Award to recognise local start-ups and outstanding ICT inventions and applications made by students;
(d) implementing the Enriched IT Programme in Secondary Schools to provide funding support for secondary schools to organise various types of IT activities to create more opportunities for students to learn about IT outside the school curriculum with an aim to fostering an IT learning atmosphere in schools and cultivating students' interest in IT;
(e) the OGCIO collaborates with the industry and professional bodies to organise conferences, thematic seminars and workshops to promote professional accreditation in information security and enhance IT practitioners' knowledge and skills in information security;
(f) the Cyberport organises the Digital Tech Internship Programme to subsidise and arrange local university students to take up internships in renowned overseas, Mainland and local enterprises or start-ups;
(g) the School of Professional and Continuing Education of The University of Hong Kong (HKU SPACE) launched in 2018 the first part-time Diploma in eSports Science programme at Level 3 under the Qualifications Framework. The Open University of Hong Kong and HKU SPACE will launch an e-sports-related Bachelor programme and a full-time Higher Diploma programme in September 2019 respectively;
(h) the Innovation and Technology Commission launched the Reindustrialisation and Technology Training Programme in August 2018 to subsidise local enterprises on a 2:1 matching basis for their staff to receive technology training covering different technology areas including IT; and
(i) planning to launch the IT Innovation Lab in Secondary Schools initiative to provide a maximum funding of $1 million to each publicly-funded secondary school in Hong Kong in the three school years from 2019/20 to 2021/22 for procuring IT equipment and organising IT-related extra-curricular activities.
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The group of Test Masters alumni who have made a perfect score on either the SAT or ACT is made up of students of many backgrounds and varied talents and interests completely unrelated to their test-taking expertise, and Yang is no exception. Yang is trilingual (English, Mandarin, and Spanish), and she enjoys dancing (both Chinese and ballet), modeling, competing in pageants, and drawing. While her hobbies may be on the artistic side, Yang hopes to put her creative energy into a career in business or entrepreneurship.
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Spirituality & Beliefs > Philosophy > Social & political philosophy
Political Morality in a Disenchanted World (Hardback)
Edmund Abegg (author)
Political morality concerns what programs and policies government ought to adopt. What would this morality look like in a disenchanted world, one in which rationality prevails? The enchanted world is extensive, including not just religion but traditional morality. In this book, Edmund Abegg constructs a coherent path that leads from abstract psychological and moral theory to ideal political and economic scenarios and then to their real-world applications, which for him are in terms of national political goals. These goals, individual autonomy and welfare, function as political morality in this new framework in place of traditional mythical ideas such as justice. Descriptive chapters on our current world indicate that these goals are in play, if only partly. Concerning these national moral-political goals, which may be domestic or international, the crucial distinction he seeks to establish is between aggregated or big-picture goals and individualized goals. The latter are typically seen as establishing individual rights. This book establishes a framework that clarifies important public policy issues in a way not possible if a jungle growth of myth envelopes our efforts with confusion and unnecessary controversies.
Publisher: University Press of America
This is an ambitious, comprehensive, and very impressive book. In Political Morality in a Disenchanted World, Edmund Abegg draws out the implications of accepting moral non-realism. . . . Along the way, believers in the disenchanted world (naturalistic cosmos) will find a psychologized and non-deontological ethics, a careful examination of freedom versus welfare, and a rejection of the mythical principles of justice and equality. This book, cogently argued and fair in its assessments, will interest not only naturalists, but non-naturalists and social theorists across a wide spectrum. -- Richard Double, professor emeritus, philosophy, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
Political Morality in a Disenchanted World is an impressive effort to place moral and political life on a firm but realistic foundation, one that is less vulnerable than traditional moral foundations to appropriation by dogmatists for purposes that too often turn violent or exploitative. -- Sharon R. Krause, Professor of Political Science, Brown University
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A Little History of Philosophy
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Effective August 3, 2006, through 2400 hrs, Alaska local time (A.l.t.), December 31, 2006.
I.D.073106A
Temporary rule; reallocation.
NMFS is reallocating the projected unused amount of Pacific cod from vessels using jig gear to catcher vessels less than 60 feet (18.3 meters (m)) length overall (LOA) using pot or hook-and-line gear in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area (BSAI). These actions are necessary to allow the 2006 A and B season total allowable catch (TAC) of Pacific cod to be harvested.
Jennifer Hogan, 907-586-7228.
NMFS manages the groundfish fishery in the BSAI according to the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area (FMP) prepared by the North Pacific Fishery Management Council under authority of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act. Regulations governing fishing by U.S. vessels in accordance with the FMP appear at subpart H of 50 CFR part 600 and 50 CFR part 679.
The 2006 A and B season allowance of the Pacific cod TAC specified for vessels using jig gear in the BSAI totals 389 metric tons (mt) for the period 1200 hrs, A.l.t., April 30, 2006, through 1200 hrs, A.l.t., August 31, 2006. This amount is established by the 2006 and 2007 final harvest specifications for groundfish in the BSAI (71 FR 10894, March 3, 2006); the adjustment of the Pacific cod TACs in the BSAI on March 14, 2006 (71 FR 13777, March 17, 2006), and reallocations on March 24, 2006 (71 FR 14825, March 24, 2006) and May 1, 2006 (71 FR 25508, May 1, 2006). See § 679.20(c)(3)(iii), § 679.20(c)(5), and § 679.20(a)(7)(i)(A).
The Acting Administrator, Alaska Region, NMFS, has determined that jig vessels will not be able to harvest 296 mt of the A and B season apportionment of Pacific cod allocated to those vessels under § 679.20(a)(7)(i)(A) and § 679.20(a)(7)(iii)(A)(3). Therefore, in accordance with § 679.20(a)(7)(ii)(C)(1), NMFS apportions 296 mt of Pacific cod from the A and B season jig gear apportionment to catcher vessels less than 60 feet (18.3 m) LOA using pot or hook-and-line gear.
The harvest specifications for Pacific cod included in the harvest specifications for groundfish in the BSAI (71 FR 10894, March 3, 2006) are revised as follows: 93 mt to the B season apportionment for vessels using jig gear and 3,232 mt to catcher vessels less than 60 feet (18.3 m) LOA using pot or hook-and-line gear.
This action responds to the best available information recently obtained from the fishery. The Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, NOAA (AA), finds good cause to waive the requirement to provide prior notice and opportunity for public comment pursuant to the authority set forth at 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(B) as such requirement is impracticable and contrary to the public interest. This requirement is impracticable and contrary to the public interest as it would prevent NMFS from responding to the most recent fisheries data in a timely fashion and would delay the reallocation of Pacific cod specified for jig vessels to catcher vessels less than 60 feet (18.3 m) LOA using pot or hook-and-line gear. Immediate notification is necessary to allow for the orderly conduct and efficient operation of this fishery; allow the industry to plan for the fishing season and avoid potential disruption to the fishing fleet as well as processors. NMFS was unable to publish a notice providing time for public comment because the most recent, relevant data only became available as of July 25, 2006.
The AA also finds good cause to waive the 30-day delay in the effective date of this action under 5 U.S.C. 553(d)(3). This finding is based upon the reasons provided above for waiver of prior notice and opportunity for public comment.
This action is required by § 679.20 and is exempt from review under Executive Order 12866.
Dated: July 31, 2006.
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Ortega spoke in Spanish, with a court interpreter echoing her words in English. When the interpreter translated Ortega's tearful description of her imprisonment, Assistant District Attorney Stuart Silberg threw up his hands. Moments earlier, he'd cited Ortega's self-pitying behavior as evidence of remorselessness. "She has never shed a tear for those children," Silberg said. During her two-month trial, Ortega wept repeatedly — but only during testimony about her own suffering.
On Monday, standing at a podium perhaps ten yards away from Ortega, Marina Krim spoke slowly. "The last time I was here, I spent over six hours answering questions about what led to, and the day of, and the days after my daughter Lulu and son Leo were murdered by the evil defendant," she said. "I wasn't planning on coming back into this courtroom after that." During her grueling two-day testimony, Marina Krim screamed "You're evil! You're evil!" at Ortega.
But at the sentencing, Marina's voice was even. "I'm here once again to finish this horrible chapter of my and my family's life," she said. "I wrote this statement knowing that in the future, Nessie will read this." Nessie was with her mother on the day of the murderers, and saw her siblings' bodies. Marina continued: "Ines Olivia Krim, the girl who lived. We call her Nessie. She's 9 now." She is "happy, funny, [and] confident." She loves school and sports. But "each time she makes a wish, it's always for Lulu and Leo to come back to be with us. Nessie knows that wish will never come true." A figure skater, Nessie regularly performs to her late sister's favorite song, "Sir Duke" by Stevie Wonder, Marina said.
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Judge Carro went out of his way to refute the accusation of jury bias. He addressed Ortega directly: "Your planning and forethought regarding your suicide plan on that day was unmistakable," he said. Before going to work on the day of the crime, Ortega had arranged her insurance cards, credit cards, bank statements, government IDs, and family keepsakes for her family to find.
"You clearly were going to end your life that day," the judge continued. "What's unclear, mainly because you claim to have a lack of memory, is why you decided to take the lives of the children as well as your own. That's always going to be a mystery to us, because you refuse to tell anyone." Acknowledging that Ortega seems to have some sort of mental illness (although not one severe enough to absolve criminal responsibility) Carro continued: "You went untreated not because New York state doesn't have facilities and services" for the mentally ill. "You failed in your responsibility — and your family failed in their responsibility — to seek treatment for your mental illness." During her argument, Valerie Van Leer-Greenberg confirmed that Ortega is still resisting treatment — she has, for years, refused to take the antipsychotic medication her doctors prescribe. And whereas mental illness may sometimes be a mitigating factor in sentencing, even when a person is responsible for a crime, Carro decided Ortega's resistance to treatment and unwillingness to admit culpability render her undeserving of lenience.
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A Conversation with Kwame Ulmer and Troy Barring on Healthcare Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship within the Healthcare sector can be a daunting challenge. Meanwhile, the industry continues to experience innovations, new technology, improved patient outcomes, and an influx of funding. Please join us as Kwame Ulmer and Troy Barring provide us some incredible insights on starting a healthcare technology company and the journey of a minority-based founder. Kwame and Troy will speak to us through the lens of MedTech Color, a 501(c)(3) organization that aims to build a community of leaders of colors in MedTech, increase the number of underrepresented executives who enter and stay in the industry, and drive thought leadership.
Kwame Ulmer, Managing Partner – MedTech Impact Partners & Venture Partner – Wavemaker 360; Founder & Executive Director – MedTech Color
Kwame Ulmer is the Managing Partner at MedTech Impact Partners – A Regulatory Strategy Consulting Firm. Kwame brings twenty years of experience evaluating medical technologies in the government and private sector, and serving in senior operating roles at medical device companies to help companies successfully engage the FDA. He has personally evaluated more than 1,000 medical technologies in his career. Kwame spent 12 years at the FDA in progressive leadership roles. He also served as Vice President, Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance at Implant Direct, a Danaher Corporation operating company. He is also a venture partner at Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health – the leading Southern- California based, early stage venture capital firm (Seed and Series A) focused on the healthcare industry. He leads the medtech practice and participates in all aspects of fund management (e.g. deal sourcing, diligence, negotiation and advising portfolio company management teams). Kwame sits on the board and advises several privately held medtech companies. Kwame serves on the board of the University of Virginia Licensing and Ventures Group and California Life Sciences. He is also a lecturer and researcher in medtech innovation at the University of California, Los Angeles. Kwame founded MedTech Color, a nonprofit with a mission to advance the representation of persons of color in the medical device industry. He earned his B.S. in Physics from Lincoln University, and has two Masters degrees from the University of Virginia, in Materials Engineering and Business Administration.
Troy Barring, Founder and CEO at TAB Diagnostic
Troy Barring is a C-Level Business builder and has held a variety of senior leadership positions in both small and large companies in General Management, Sales & Marketing, R&D and Operations. He has more than 15 years as a General Manager/VP Sales & Marketing at Fortune 500 companies with P&L's ranging from $80M-$400M. Troy has board experience at three private organizations and two non-profits. Previous leadership roles include COO at Avita Medical, a regenerative medicine company that specializes in a novel treatment for wound and skin defects ; COO and President of Orthozon Technologies, a medical device company focused on innovative surgical access products; General Manager of Baxter Healthcare's ambulatory pump business, a global leader of ambulatory medication infusion devices; SVP/COO for North American Scientific Medical, a leader in radiation therapy products in the fight against cancer. He also held various senior leadership roles at Biosense Webster, a leader in the science behind the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias, and a division of Johnson & Johnson. Troy served as Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Services, Vice President of R&D and Operations. Prior to joining Biosense Webster, Troy was the Vice President and General Manager of Intravascular Ultrasound at SCIMED, a division of Boston Scientific Corporation. Troy began his career in the healthcare industry at Sorin Biomedical, where he was Business Manager and Manufacturing Manager for its custom products division.
Charisma Kumar (Moderator), Senior Director – Medtronic Neuromodulation
Moderator Charisma is Senior Director of Clinical Research for Pain Therapies in Medtronic's Neuromodulation division. Her team is focused on generating high-quality, clinical evidence for Spinal Cord Stimulators and Targeted Drug Delivery products. She is committed to expanding patient access and increasing clinical adoption for therapies that restore function to patients living with chronic pain. She has held a variety of roles in Market Strategy, Real World Evidence and Software Development across the medical device industry for over 15 years. She has consulted on market growth strategy for large healthcare systems at McKinsey. Charisma has a BS in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins, MS in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western and an MBA from UCLA Anderson.


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American voters support action on climate change
Against the backdrop of the incoming administration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and a new Republican Congress, a recent national survey conducted shortly after the election by the Centre for Climate Change Communication, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, finds that, across party lines, 69% of registered voters say the U.S. should participate in the international agreement to limit global warming, compared to only 13% who say the U.S. should not.
US president-elect, Donald Trump. The report includes insights about what kinds of climate change and energy policies American voters support and oppose
Likewise, 70% of registered voters support setting strict carbon dioxide emission limits on existing coal-fired power plants to reduce global warming and improve public health, even if the cost of electricity to consumers and companies increased – a core component of the EPA's (Environmental Protection Agency) Clean Power Plan. Democrats (85%), Independents (62%) and Republicans (52%) all support setting strict limits on these emissions.
Other key findings include:
As strategies, 78% of registered voters support taxing global warming pollution, regulating it, or using both approaches. Only 10% oppose these approaches.
If Congress passes a fossil fuel tax, the most popular uses of the revenue are developing clean energy (81% of registered voters support), improving America's infrastructure (79%), assisting workers in the coal industry, who may lose their jobs as a result of the tax (73%), and paying down the national debt (67%).
Half of registered voters (51%) think government policies intended to transition away from fossil fuels and toward clean energy will improve economic growth and provide new jobs. An additional 21% think it will have no impact on the economy or jobs. Only 27% think it will reduce economic growth and cost jobs.
Across party lines, a large majority of registered voters (83%) support generating more renewable energy on public land in the U.S. Comparatively less support more drilling or mining of fossil fuels on public land (47%).
Registered voters support a major investment in the nation's infrastructure (69%) including majorities of Democrats (75%), Independents (58%), and Republicans (67%).
If Congress were to invest in the nation's infrastructure, registered voters' highest priorities are modernising and improving the nation's roads, bridges, and highways, followed by water supply systems, and the electricity grid.
During the campaign, Donald Trump promised a major investment in the nation's infrastructure. Across party lines, registered voters strongly support this proposal. Interestingly, they are also willing to support a carbon tax to fund these investments.
The report includes several more insights about what kinds of climate change and energy policies American voters support and oppose, broken down by political party and ideology.
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HomeMetaverseCanon Tries To Metaverse Its Way Out Of Obscurity
Canon Tries To Metaverse Its Way Out Of Obscurity
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Canon is moving beyond traditional cameras with Kokomo VR calling
Canon is hoping that metaverse-style technologies will give the company a future beyond the dwindling camera business.
Canon's CES press conference didn't make a single mention of the traditional cameras the company is most famous for – a reflection of the plummeting consumer appetite for cameras in the smartphone era.
Instead, the company focused on a series of products that are geared for the metaverse era.
Kokomo for tomorrow?
One of the products Canon is pinning its hopes on is Komoko, a virtual reality platform that allows people to communicate in a virtual, metaverse-like space.
Unlike traditional video calling, Canon says Kokomo lets people communicate face-to-face in "life-size setting". Canon made much of the fact that you saw the full body of the other person you're speaking to, in an echo of Mark Zuckerberg's infamous announcement that he was bringing legs to the metaverse.
Kokomo provides a series of Zoom-style virtual backdrops for people to communicate in, including a Malibu trailer, a beach house or a mountain tea house. There's also a passthrough mode if you just want to appear in your own office or living room.
The biggest obstacle to adoption is the hardware requirements. Both participants need a VR headset, with Kokomo currently supporting only the Meta Quest 2. Canon says it hopes to expand support for other VR headsets in the future.
Virtual basketball
Continuing the metaverse theme, Canon also gave more information on its Free Viewpoint video system, which is being trialed with two NBA teams.
Using a series of cameras mounted above the basketball court, Canon is able to create a virtual representation of real-life basketball games. The user experience is similar to a video game, rather than watching actual video footage.
Canon says this has a number of advantages for viewers. First, they can watch the action from camera angles that simply wouldn't be possible with conventional broadcast coverage, such as a player's-eye view of a slam dunk. Fans watching from home could choose from a variety of camera angles to watch the action.
"Younger generations already get it," said Mike Conley, chief information officer at the Cleveland Cavaliers, one of the club's Canon is working with. "They're [already] doing it through gaming, doing it through Oculus [VR headsets]."
The system also has advantages for the teams, including a huge amount of player data capture that doesn't require the athletes to wear any special tracking equipment. For example, clubs could monitor a player's gait after an awkward landing to assess the risk of injury.
Commercial opportunities also reared their head. For example, the virtual courts could be plastered with sponsors' logos that don't appear on the real-life court, giving the club new revenue-generating opportunities.
Getting Mreal
Mreal lets users combine the virtual and real-world environments
Canon's also hoping to get a slice of the commercial VR business already scoped out by products such as Microsoft's Hololens, with its Mreal headset.
The Mreal X1 is a compact headset now in the market research phase. The company claims it could be put a wide variety of business uses, including collaborative product design, training and prototyping.
One demonstration showed how someone wearing the headset could walk around and even sit inside a prototype car. As the wearer of the headset looked out of the car's windows, they could see the audience at Canon's press conference, showing how the virtual and real worlds can (relatively) seamlessly converge.
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A stretch of water main pipe on Laxdal Road will be given the highest priority to be replaced after a series of breaks in recent weeks.
The section of water main between Ridgewood Avenue and Beiko Avenue has had 12 leaks between December 29, 2013 and January 19.
The pipe was installed in 1970 and has interrupted water service for up to 38 homes.
Over the weekend, police were called to the area after residents became confrontational with City of Winnipeg crews working to fix the most recent leak.
The cost to replace about 400 metres of water main on Laxdal Road will be approximately $500,000. It will be included in the city's 2014 Water Main Renewal Program and be the first corroded water main to be replaced with new PVC pipe this year.
Construction can begin no sooner than late April or early May when the ground thaws.


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This entry is our analysis of a document considered particularly relevant to improving outcomes from drug or alcohol interventions in the UK. The original document was not published by Findings; click Title to order a copy. The summary conveys the findings and views expressed in the document. Below is a commentary from Drug and Alcohol Findings.
Drug misuse in over 16s: psychosocial interventions
https://findings.org.uk/PHP/dl.php?file=NICE_51.txt&s=dy&sf=rel
Drug misuse in over 16s: psychosocial interventions.
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health.
[UK] National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, 2007.
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After examining the evidence for psychosocial therapies for problem drug use, the UK's official health advisers recommend behavioural couples therapy and contingency management, argue against cognitive-behavioural therapies, and pose residential rehabilitation as a last resort – in some respects surprising and controversial recommendations.
Summary This clinical guideline covers psychosocial interventions for adults and young people who misuse opioids, cannabis or stimulants (for example, cocaine or amphetamines). The guideline will be of relevance to the NHS, in particular inpatient and specialist residential and community-based treatment settings, and related organisations, including prison services.
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NICE clinical guidelines are key quality yardsticks for NHS services and those commissioned by the NHS.
After examining the evidence for psychosocial therapies for problem drug use, NICE recommended behavioural couples therapy and contingency management, argued against cognitive-behavioural therapies, and saw residential rehabilitation as a last resort.
These in some respects surprising and controversial recommendations seem in part based on questionable interpretations of the evidence base.
The general principles advanced by NICE form the basis for a humane treatment system which affords drug misusers the same priority and right to choice and quality care as other patients.
Itwas developed by the National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health, which worked with a group of health-care professionals, patients, carers, and technical staff who reviewed the evidence and drafted recommendations finalised after public consultation.
Health-care professionals are expected to take it fully into account when exercising their clinical judgement. However, the guidance does not override their individual responsibilities to make decisions appropriate to the circumstances of an individual patient, in consultation with the patient and/or guardian or carer. Implementation of this guidance is the responsibility of local commissioners and/or providers.
Though published in 2007, the guideline was checked in July 2016; no new evidence was found which affected the recommendations.
To enable people who misuse drugs to make informed decisions about their treatment and care, staff should explain options for abstinence-oriented, maintenance-oriented and harm-reduction interventions at initial contact and subsequent formal reviews. Staff should discuss with them whether to involve their families and carers in their assessment and treatment plans, ensuring that the service user's right to confidentiality is respected.
To reduce loss of contact when people transfer between services, staff should ensure that there are clear and agreed plans to facilitate effective transfer.
All interventions should be delivered by staff who are competent in delivering the intervention and who receive appropriate supervision.
People who misuse drugs should be given the same care, respect and privacy as any other person.
Supporting families and carers
Staff should ask families and carers about, and discuss concerns regarding, the impact of drug misuse on themselves and other family members, including children, offer family members and carers an assessment of their personal, social and mental health needs, and provide information and advice on the impact of drug misuse on them and on service users.
Where the needs of families and carers have been identified, staff should offer guided self-help (typically consisting of a single session with the provision of written material) and provide information about, and facilitate contact with, support groups, such as self-help groups specifically focused on addressing families' and carers' needs.
Where families have not benefited, or are not likely to benefit, from guided self-help and/or support groups, and continue to have significant problems, staff should consider offering individual family meetings. Over normally at least five weekly sessions, these should provide information and education about drug misuse, help to identify sources of stress related to drug misuse, and explore and promote effective coping behaviours.
Identification and assessment of drug misuse
Staff in mental health and criminal justice settings (in which drug misuse is known to be prevalent) should routinely ask service users about recent legal and illicit drug use. The questions should include whether they have used drugs and, if so of what type, how administered, how often, and in what quantity.
In settings such as primary care, general hospitals, and emergency departments, staff should consider asking people about recent drug use if they present with symptoms that suggest the possibility of drug misuse.
When making an assessment and developing and agreeing a care plan, staff should consider the service user's medical, psychological, social and occupational needs, their history of drug use and experience of previous treatment, goals in relation to drug use, and treatment preferences.
Staff responsible for delivery and monitoring of the care plan should: establish and sustain a respectful and supportive relationship with the service user; help them identify situations or states when they are vulnerable to drug misuse and explore alternative coping strategies; ensure all service users have full access to a wide range of services and that maintaining engagement with services remains a major focus of the care plan; and maintain effective collaboration with other care providers.
Health-care professionals should use biological testing (for example, of urine or oral fluid samples) as part of a comprehensive assessment of drug use, but they should not rely on it as the sole method of diagnosis and assessment.
Brief interventions
Brief interventions can be used opportunistically in a variety of settings for people not in contact with drug services (for example, in mental health, general health and social care settings, and emergency departments) or in limited contact (such as attendees at needle and syringe exchanges and community pharmacies).
During routine contacts and opportunistically (for example, at needle and syringe exchanges), staff should provide information and advice to all people who misuse drugs about reducing exposure to blood-borne viruses. This should include advice on reducing sexual and injection risk behaviours. Staff should consider offering testing for blood-borne viruses.
Group-based psychoeducational interventions that give information about reducing exposure to blood-borne viruses and/or about reducing sexual and injection risk behaviours for people who misuse drugs should not routinely be provided.
Opportunistic brief interventions focused on motivation should be offered to people in limited contact with drug services (for example, those attending a needle exchange or primary care settings) if concerns about drug misuse are identified by the service user or staff member. Over normally two sessions each lasting 10–45 minutes, these should provide non-judgemental feedback and explore ambivalence about drug use and possible treatment with the aim of increasing motivation to change behaviour. Similar interventions should be offered to people not in contact with drug services if concerns about drug misuse are identified.
Staff should routinely provide people who misuse drugs with information about self-help groups. These groups should normally be based on 12-step principles; for example, Narcotics Anonymous and Cocaine Anonymous.
If a person who misuses drugs has expressed an interest in attending a 12-step self-help group, staff should consider facilitating initial contact with the group, for example by making the appointment, arranging transport, accompanying him or her to the first session, and dealing with any concerns.
Formal psychosocial interventions
A range of psychosocial interventions are effective in the treatment of drug misuse; these include contingency management and behavioural couples therapy for drug-specific problems and a range of evidence-based psychological interventions, such as cognitive-behavioural therapy, for common comorbid mental health problems.
Contingency management
Contingency management is a set of techniques that focus on changing specified behaviours. In drug misuse, it involves offering incentives for positive behaviours such as abstinence or a reduction in illicit drug use or participation in health-promoting interventions. For example, an incentive is offered when a service user submits a biological sample that is negative for specified drug(s). Reinforcing positive behaviours is more likely to be effective than penalising negative behaviours. There is good evidence that contingency management increases the likelihood of positive behaviours and is cost-effective.
For contingency management to be effective, staff need to discuss with the service user what incentives are to be used so that these are perceived as reinforcing by those participating in the programme. Incentives need to be provided consistently and as soon as possible after the positive behaviour. Limited increases in the value of the incentive with successive periods of abstinence also appear to be effective.
A variety of incentives have proved effective in contingency management programmes, including vouchers (which can be exchanged for goods or services of the service user's choice), privileges (for example, take-home methadone doses), and modest financial incentives.
Drug services should introduce contingency management programmes – as part of the phased implementation programme led by the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse [now absorbed into Public Health England] – to reduce illicit drug use and/or promote engagement with services for people receiving methadone maintenance treatment, and for the same purposes in services for people who primarily misuse stimulants.
Staff delivering contingency management programmes should ensure that the targeted behaviour is agreed in collaboration with the service user, incentives are provided in a timely and consistent manner and are perceived to be reinforcing and supportive of a healthy/drug-free lifestyle, and that the service user fully understands the relationship between the treatment goal and the incentive schedule.
For people at risk of physical health problems (including transmittable diseases) resulting from their drug misuse, material incentives should be considered to encourage harm reduction. Incentives should be offered on a one-off basis or over a limited duration, contingent on concordance with or completion of each intervention, in particular for hepatitis B/C and HIV testing, hepatitis B immunisation, and tuberculosis testing.
Implementation of contingency management presents a significant challenge for drug services, in particular with regard to staff training and service delivery systems. Drug services should ensure that staff are trained and competent in appropriate drug testing methods and in the delivery of contingency management. Contingency management should be introduced to drug services in the phased implementation programme led by the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse [now absorbed into Public Health England], in which staff training and the development of service delivery systems are carefully evaluated. The outcome of this evaluation should be used to inform full-scale implementation.
Behavioural couples therapy
Behavioural couples therapy should be considered for people who are in close contact with a non-drug-misusing partner and who present for treatment of stimulant or opioid misuse (including those who continue to use illicit drugs while receiving opioid maintenance treatment or after completing opioid detoxification). The intervention should focus on the service user's drug misuse and consist of at least 12 weekly sessions.
Cognitive-behavioural therapy and psychodynamic therapy
Cognitive-behavioural therapy and psychodynamic therapy focused on the treatment of drug misuse should not be routinely offered to people presenting for treatment of cannabis or stimulant misuse or those receiving opioid maintenance treatment.
For people who misuse cannabis or stimulants, and for those who have achieved abstinence or are stabilised on opioid maintenance treatment, evidence-based psychological treatments (in particular, cognitive-behavioural therapy) should be considered for the treatment of comorbid depression and anxiety disorders in line with existing NICE guidance.
Residential, prison and inpatient care
The same range of psychosocial interventions should be available in inpatient and residential settings as in community settings. These should normally include contingency management, behavioural couples therapy and cognitive-behavioural therapy. Services should encourage and facilitate participation in self-help groups.
Residential treatment may be considered for people who are seeking abstinence and who have significant comorbid physical, mental health or social (for example, housing) problems. They should have completed a residential or inpatient detoxification programme and have not benefited from previous community-based psychosocial treatment.
People who have relapsed to opioid use during or after treatment in an inpatient or residential setting should be offered an urgent assessment. Offering prompt access to alternative community, residential or inpatient support, including maintenance treatment, should be considered.
For people who misuse drugs, access to and choice of treatment should be the same whether they participate in treatment voluntarily or are legally required to do so.
Prison-based treatment options should be comparable to those available in the community. Health-care professionals should take into account additional considerations specific to the prison setting, which include the length of sentence or remand period, and the possibility of unplanned release, and risks of self-harm, death or post-release overdose.
People in prison who have significant drug misuse problems may be considered for a therapeutic community developed for the specific purpose of treating drug misuse within the prison environment.
For people who have made an informed decision to remain abstinent after release from prison, residential treatment should be considered as part of an overall care plan.
commentary Experts from the British Psychological Society have developed guidance on implementing the main psychosocial therapies recommended in the featured report, emphasising "flexibility and adaptation at the level of the individual service user". This emphasis is important because researchers often prefer to deliver interventions according to a set schedule and time period to standardise them, limit costs, equalise time spent with therapists in a comparison therapy, and have a set end date from which the follow-up period can begin. These regimens gather an evidence base around them and authorities like NICE may be persuaded that this is also how treatment should be delivered outside a research context – not necessarily the case, and certainly not for each individual patient.
The general principles put forward by NICE form the basis for a humane treatment system which affords drug misusers the same priority and right to choice and quality care as other patients. However, some of the specific recommendations seem surprising, and in part based on questionable interpretations of the evidence base.
Questionable choice of therapies
Among the questionable elements of this impressively evidenced guidance is its embracing of contingency management, despite research at that time and now providing little evidence of lasting impacts. Typically the promising results which persuaded the NICE committee were seen during the time rewards and sanctions were in place, often just 12 weeks; many trials do not go beyond that time to see if benefits persist. These often transient benefits must be set alongside ethical concerns, including the possible aggravation of health inequality if only already advantaged patients qualify for prizes and benefit from any therapeutic effects, professional and public resistance to rewarding what most people do in their own interests and to stay within the law, the common finding that in-treatment gains do not persist, and some evidence that intrinsic motivation may be undermined if patients see themselves as 'just doing it for the prizes'.
Surprisingly, the guidelines relegated cognitive-behavioural therapies – a mainstay of addiction treatment in the UK and elsewhere – to the treatment of co-occurring mental health problems, and recommended against these approaches as a routine treatment for drug problems. In contrast, later guidelines drafted by the same centre, but for the treatment of problem drinkers, saw these therapies as candidates both for the treatment of drinking and of mental health problems. The analyses on which the judgement for drug users was based did not show that cognitive-behavioural therapies were ineffective, just not convincingly more effective than other well structured therapies, a conclusion confirmed by an amalgamation of research findings published two years after the guidance. This later review nevertheless concluded that these therapies had demonstrated their utility across a large and diverse sample of studies and for different types of substance use dependencies.
Cumulated findings suggest that the decision between bona fide therapies can be taken on the grounds of what makes most sense to patient and therapist, the therapist's training, availability, and cost. In respect of cost and availability, cognitive-behavioural therapies may (more evidence is needed) prove to have two important advantages. The first is that effects may persist and even amplify without having to continue in therapy. The second is that they lends themselves to being packaged as an interactive computer program and made available in services lacking trained therapists – potentially a crucial advantage for widespread implementation.
Residential rehabilitation a 'last resort'?
Somewhat controversial was the guidance's advice that residential treatment be reserved for substance users with "significant comorbid physical, mental health or social (for example, housing) problems", who should have "not benefited from previous community-based psychosocial treatment". This formula poses residential rehabilitation as a last resort for multiply problematic substance users who must already have tried and been failed by non-residential treatments, potentially perpetuating its very minor role in current treatment systems. Though not contradicted by the evidence, it is questionable whether this line is positively supported by evaluation findings.
NICE's experts reached this conclusion based partly on not even a handful of studies recording no overall advantage for residential care over alternatives. Most influential among the studies reviewed for NICE was a randomised comparison of a non-residential therapeutic community versus a residential version for US crack users. It found no lasting anti-relapse benefits from the residential setting but – as in several other trials – the researchers had to limit the severity of their subjects so that all could safely be allocated either to residential or non-residential care. The result was that nearly three-quarters of potential participants could not join the study, and those who could were the ones least likely to need and differentially benefit from residential care.
Critics of NICE's 'last resort' position argue that the reason why some residential clients are in such poor mental, physical and/or social states is that residential rehabilitation had been denied them earlier in their drug using careers when they had a greater chance of succeeding before deterioration became too deep. The opposing argument is that trying residential services first risks unnecessary expenditure which drains treatment resources because it is impossible to predict with any certainty who will do well and who badly after their spell at the rehabilitation centre.
NICE did briefly allude to a possible role for residential rehabilitation with people not yet at the last-resort position: "While traditional practice in the UK has been for service users to be referred for residential treatment when they have failed a long period of community care, there is some evidence to suggest that those less well established in their drug using careers may benefit from residential care." However, this observation was not examined in any further detail, nor reflected in the recommendations.
DOCUMENT 2017 Drug misuse and dependence: UK guidelines on clinical management
STUDY 2019 Efficacy and cost-effectiveness of an adjunctive personalised psychosocial intervention in treatment-resistant maintenance opioid agonist therapy: a pragmatic, open-label, randomised controlled trial
REVIEW 2012 Meta-analyses of seven of the National Institute on Drug Abuse's principles of drug addiction treatment
DOCUMENT 2012 Quality standard for drug use disorders
MATRIX CELL 2018 Drug Treatment Matrix cell A4: Interventions; Psychosocial therapies
REVIEW 2014 Interventions to reduce substance misuse among vulnerable young people
DOCUMENT 2009 Management of cannabis use disorder and related issues: a clinician's guide
STUDY 2012 The forgotten carers: support for adult family members affected by a relative's drug problems
REVIEW 2012 The effectiveness of incarceration-based drug treatment on criminal behavior: A systematic review


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Dairy special: Conversion from straw yards drives drop in antibiotic usage
26 Apr Dairy special: Conversion from straw yards drives drop in antibiotic usage
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Historically, loose housed cattle bedded on straw was the most common & popular housing system in the UK. Following extensive research into bedding types and more thought given to their welfare, shed design and cow comfort- housing design has changed significantly. Cubicles were first introduced in the 1950's and have been a popular investment for farmers across the country. Most commonly floored with a rubber mat, the soft cushioning provides cows with the best comfort, leading to improved lying times. Research shows that where cattle lying times increase, so do milk yields.
Recently published by the Farmers Guardian was the below article written by Hannah Noble – following the Broadley's, who undertook the conversion from a straw yard based system to a cubicle system, using sawdust bedding- and are reaping the benefits. Thank you to Farmers Guardian for permission to republish the below.
"Three generations of the Broadley family have farmed at Home farm, Ripon, and currently it is run by Michael who farms in partnership with his wife Vivienne and father, Chris. Their three children, James, Alex and Helena are also actively involved in the farm.
Oldest son James, 23, works full time on the farm, returning home after gaining a degree in agriculture at Askham Bryan College, York. Alex, 20, is currently studying agriculture at Newcastle University and daughter Helena, 18, is doing her A-levels with aspirations of studying biology at York University.
They also employ Arthur Lockey, a stockman who has worked at Home Farm for 50 years and two self-employed part-time workers, Josh Beresford and Ryan Dixon who help with tractor and livestock work.
In August 2018 the Broadleys undertook the conversion from a straw yard based system to a cubicle system, as despite the availability of home grown straw from cereals and good muck for straw deals, it did not last all winter, Mr Broadley says: "We always ran out of straw by March, last year was a bit of a one off, it was not a case of what you could pay for straw, it was whether you could find straw."
Over winter, they were using eight big square bales each day just to bed the milking herd, at an average of £80/tonne bought-in, it was costing about £250 per day.
The buildings had to be mucked out every three weeks which took a day and a half each time.
"In the summer James was bailing 24/7 to keep up with the straw demand and all winter was spent moving muck. We saw a drop in milk every time we mucked the beds out," he says.
"We were working with spikes in cell count every three weeks, and missing targets for cell count and bactoscan." Mr Broadley says at its worst, somatic cell count was peaking in the 300,000's cells/ml and now they are running at less than half this level.
The number of antibiotic tubes required for the treatment of mastitis has decreased by half as a result. Cleanliness of the cows is much better and it now takes 30 minutes less to prepare cows for milking.
Mr Broadley says the positives of the straw yards were that they allowed the natural sleeping position of the cows, they were easy to spot bulling and worked well for smaller numbers of cows, but he felt they had outgrown the system.
Fellow dairy farmer, John Walmsley, Ripley offered lots of advice, sharing their experiences and helping out with dimensions.
Matthew Sharp, dairy specialist for I'Anson's feeds, recommended Wilson Agri to help with the conversion, and in particular they worked closely with Charlie Sutcliffe, who offered advice.
"When you are making such an investment, you are reliant on the knowledge and experience of the middleman," says Mr Broadley.
They adapted the existing buildings and have installed 240 cubicles so far, the majority of work was done by the Broadleys with the help of a local builder and some good friends.
They chose to top the beds with 40mm mats and sawdust which is swept off twice a day and spread with fresh sawdust with a newly purchased bedding-up machine. Bedding now costs between £20 and £25 per day and it takes a total of 10 minutes to bed and clean the cubicles.
By November 2018 the 240 milking cows were moved in. "We are amazed how well both older and younger cows have taken to it, we have not had many problems getting the cows to sleep in the cubicles, we thought it was going to be a nightmare," says Mrs Broadley.
Although spotting bulling behaviour was not a problem in the straw yards, groups of cows on heat at the same time became a problem. The majority of bulling behaviour was carried out on the bedded area which disturbed the other cows and tore up the beds making them too dirty to use and effecting cow cleanliness. However, Mr Broadley says visual heat detection in the new cubicles is going well with cows showing heats in the concrete passages, causing less mess and disruption.
Both Mr Broadley and James are AI trained and all replacements are bred using sexed semen, and as well as the milking herd, there are currently about 180 followers and 50 calves on the farm.
Mr Broadley says: "We have been using sexed semen from Cogent since the early 2000s with great results, there is not a cow on the farm that was not bred with sexed semen."
Sexed semen is used on about a third of the best of the milking herd, including some milking heifers, second and third lactation cows and a handful of the best fourth lactation cows. "It has got to be a good one, once it has done a lactation you have a better idea if they have a future. It needs to look like it is going to last and is producing well."
The remaining cows are bred to beef semen with Limousin being the preferred breed.
Mr Broadley runs a predominantly closed herd but occasionally buys in an Angus bull which runs with the heifers, the current bull has been with them for the last six years. No semen is used on heifers.
The main method of disease control on the farm is through their closed herd status, Mr Broadley says in the future they may use embryos to breed bulls to help keep the herd completely closed
"Our next venture is to start using male sexed beef semen, because the bull calves are worth so much more than the heifer calves, there will be at least £50 to £60 difference."
When selecting Limousin bulls for use on the cows they look at calving ease, "We want a reasonably good calf that is easy to calve, if we do not have to assist, it is so much easier to get that cow back in calf," Mr Broadley says.
All calves are fed fresh milk and reared in individual hutches. They are sold between six and 10 weeks old, the majority go through Leyburn and Skipton markets and the others are sold privately.
Home Farm is a total of 238 hectares (583 acres) and the Broadleys try to be as self-sufficient in feed as possible. The majority of their milk is produced from forage, with dairy cake fed to yield in the parlour which is the only regularly bought-in feed.
As well as grass silage, each year they grow about 60ha (150 acres) combined of wholecrop oats and barley. They also grow about 48.5ha (120 acres) of wheat which is sold as an arable crop, Mr Broadley says it is a safety net to compensate for fluctuations in milk price, if required.
"With the dry summer and the ground being so dry we are looking to go back to maize, which we have not grown for five years, just to give us another option in the diet.
"We are covering ourselves, if it is a dry year we will get a good maize harvest, and if it is a wet year we will have a good grass and oat harvest," says Mr Broadley.
"The aim is to try and grow as much [feed] on the farm as we can, but trying to grow wholecrop and cereal forages took away our straw for the straw yards, we have ended up buying in a lot more bedding straw."
Since the introduction of cubicles the option to turn out during the day and keep the cows in at night is now feasible too. Previously when the cows were turned out there was no option other than for them to stay out as they made too much mess: "But we will play everything by ear as it is all new to us," he adds.
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Cobalt Digital's Fusion3D Cards Now Feature Dolby Digital Plus Processing
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 - 11:08 am
Cobalt Digital has added Dolby Digital Plus processing to the new Fusion3G range of cards for openGear. Dolby Digital Plus allows access to more content and delivers the superior surround sound audio quality associated with Blu-ray Disc, HD broadcast, and streamed and downloaded media.
The addition of Dolby Digital Plus positions Cobalt's Fusion3G 9900 card as a fully-featured audio processor offering Dolby E and AC-3 encoding and decoding, loudness processing via AeroMax technology, and up-mixing (UpMax technology) using Linear Acoustic audio processing. The new Fusion3G range provides the complete audio solution to end-users with its universal I/O capability to support analog audio, AES, embedded / de-embedded HD/SDI and this new range of cards. Fusion3G cards also offer Cobalt's audio loudness metering and monitoring, audio shuffling and audio channel mixing.
"This new Fusion3G card provides the answers to today's TV Broadcasting audio environment," says Chris Shaw, Cobalt Digital VP of Sales. "Audio has become more complex and it is our plan to provide a single card that addresses all of its current challenges as well as those that arise as technology evolves. Because there is no requirement to purchase all options up front the Fusion3G card offers economic future proofing to any end-user."


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Tag: noise pollution
Port of Rotterdam announces new initiative in favor of noise measurement
Under the name ESI Noise, the Port of Rotterdam Authority will be giving vessels a financial discount if – on the basis of an internationally accepted standard – the amount of noise produced by the vessel when moored has been made transparent.
IMO focuses on underwater noise from commercial shipping
BIMCO informed that IMO is going to shed its focus on underwater radiated noise that has a devastating impact on fish and whale populations, during a series of meeting starting on January 17th. The aim is to agree on a mitigation plan in order to minimize the short and long-term effects on marine life..
Shipping needs international mandatory regulations to mitigate ocean noise
byMaria Faraou
The ocean disruption and the continuous noise generated by the maritime industry highlights the importance of getting used to noise-reduction requirements and regulations, in efforts to save the oceans.
SEA Europe: How to achieve sustainable shipping
SEA Europe, representing EU's shipyards, and EU equipment manufacturers and suppliers focuses on making shipping a sustainable means of transport, by addressing today's barriers and proposing ways on achieving the sustainable goals set.
Non-compliance to St. Lawrence's speed restrictions results to up to $25,000 fine
According to the Canadian Government, the Minister of Transport, Marc Garneau, issued a statement based on unfortunate deaths of many North Atlantic right whales in Canadian waters; Because of this, he implemented a precautionary speed restriction of 10 knots, for vessels of 20 metres and more, that sail in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in the two designated shipping lanes north and south of Anticosti Island.
Port of Vancouver expands geographic areas of ECHO program
The Port of Vancouver reminds the shipping industry that as of June 1 the commercial shipping sector is alerted to begin voluntarily slowing their ships southern resident killer whales return to Haro Strait and Boundary Pass to feed for the summer.
Notation on reducing marine noise
RINA, the Italian Classification Society, focused on the matter of noise coming from vessels, as the majority of noise is emitted underwater, thus the public is unaware of the problem. Yet, marine noise results to the interference of animal's ability to hear, having a huge impact the reproduction and survival of animals.
UK creates first map of underwater noise
UK unveiled the first UK-wide map of underwater noise made by ships. Researchers from the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) in Suffolk used data captured from microphones placed on the seabed to identify "hotspots".
NEPTUNES aims to a quieter shipping
NEPTUNES, a project organisation that consists of 11 ports and was established two years ago by the port of Rotterdam to mitigate shipping noise, presented the noise label at a conference in Rotterdam on March 28. NEPTUNES stands for Noise Exploration Program To Understand Noise Emitted by Seagoing Ships.
BC ferries shipping threatens endangered whales
The B.C. government will continue expanding its ferry routes, despite National Energy Board's statement that specifically BC Ferries generate ship noise that threatens the endangered southern resident killer whales. Although there is a plan to reduce underwater noise, BC ferries alerts that the change will be slow.
Did you know how many Bulk Carriers were detained in Paris MoU? 82 Bulk carriers detained within 2020.


The early institution of enteral feeding in the first few days of life is known to impact on the development of unconjugated hyperbilirubinaemia. However, the effect of early intravenous nutrition on neonatal jaundice remains unknown.
To determine the effect of early intravenous nutrition on neonatal jaundice.
The standard search strategy of the Cochrane Neonatal Review Group was used including searches of the Cochrane Controlled Trials Register (Cochrane Library: Issue 3, 2002), MEDLINE (1966-December 2002), and EMBASE (1974-December 2002).
Randomised or quasi-randomised controlled trials evaluating the effect of early intravenous nutrition on unconjugated bilirubin.
The search strategy identified no eligible studies, thus no data were collected.


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"The Missing Picture": Cambodia's killing fields, in miniature
Rithy Panh's strange and moving documentary re-creates Cambodia's Khmer Rouge years with dozens of clay figures
Andrew O'Hehir
Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh has become his nation's cinematic poet of genocide, the Southeast Asian cognate to "Shoah" director Claude Lanzmann. With his strange and moving "The Missing Picture," winner of the Certain Regard prize at Cannes last year, Panh blends documentary, personal memoir and eccentric artistic experiment to create a portrait of his nightmarish teen years, spent under the Khmer Rouge dictatorship that ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. While younger people may know little or nothing about the Khmer Rouge and its shadowy leader, Pol Pot (described in propaganda newsreels as "Brother No. 1"), that history remains profoundly traumatic for Cambodians, and hangs over the second half of the 20th century like a brooding specter.
I'd personally be interested in a more encyclopedic treatment of the Khmer Rouge years, and the West's often bewildered reaction to it – some leftists, including the late Alexander Cockburn, defended the revolutionary state of "Democratic Kampuchea" far longer than they should – but that's not Panh's film. His family was forcibly evacuated from Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital city, along with some 2 million other people, shortly after the Khmer Rouge seized power. This was probably the most far-reaching experiment in social engineering of the last century, and also quite likely the darkest moment in the history of revolutionary Marxism. Until it was engulfed by civil war, and the spillover from the Cold War conflict next door in Vietnam, Cambodia in the mid-'70s had been a calm, prosperous and relatively Westernized society. Under the Khmer Rouge, the entire country was to be remade as a peasant monoculture, with no Western medicine, no movies or musical performances, no automobiles and no colored clothing. Personal names were replaced by numbers; the only permissible personal property was an individual spoon.
Panh's title refers not to a specific missing image, but to the fact that virtually no honest documentary images of those years exist. He draws extensively on Khmer Rouge propaganda films, which purport to show happy and well-fed peasants working on large-scale agricultural engineering projects, or celebratory meetings of the party bureaucracy in an eerily empty capital. Of course we watch these with the benefit of historical hindsight, but as Panh's voice-over observes (read, in the English-language version, by actor Jean-Baptiste Phou), many of those happy peasants look dangerously thin and wear forced smiles, and no one in the Khmer Rouge leadership ever looks one another in the face, or dares to stop applauding in the presence of Brother No. 1. (The revolution's promise, Panh acridly observes, existed only on film.)
But the most distinctive aspect of "The Missing Picture" is Panh's use of complicated dioramas involving hand-carved, hand-painted clay figurines, to stand in for the nonexistent pictures of ordinary life under the Khmer Rouge. Created by sculptor Sarith Mang, these detailed figures can't precisely be called lifelike, but each is strikingly individual and the elaborate tableaux constructed around them – representing family huts, compulsory reeducation meetings, rice fields with water buffalo, even scenes of execution and mass burial – exert a peculiar power. These colorful and innocent-seeming images are meant to stand in contrast to the apparent realism of the Khmer Rouge newsreel footage: In this context, photography tells a lie and these obviously artificial constructions tell the truth.
At times I couldn't help wondering whether this device struck a note of preciousness, or detached us from the grim reality of Panh's memories, as when Panh's own father chooses to die rather than struggle along on Khmer Rouge starvation rations. Quite likely that's the point of this lovely, rueful memoir – to render some of the most dreadful events of modern history (and of one human being's life) as a delicate work of the imagination. "This missing picture," his narrator says near the end of the film, "I now hand over to you." Panh intends "The Missing Picture" as a gift to his own family, to the Cambodian nation and to history, as a testament that the Khmer Rouge's efforts to destroy Cambodian culture failed, despite all the death and suffering they caused.
"The Missing Picture" is now playing at Film Forum in New York, and also opens this week in Los Angeles. Wider release will follow beginning April 4.
Andrew O'Hehir is executive editor of Salon.
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Q: Interval of convergence of $\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{n^{n}x^{n}}{e^{n}(n+2)!}$ I have already found the endpoints of the interval of convergence of $$\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{n^{n}x^{n}}{e^{n}(n+2)!}$$ to be $x=\pm 1$. How do I prove that the series diverges/converges at these points?

A: We can derive weak Stirling bounds by noticing that
\begin{align}\ln(n!)&=\sum_{k=1}^n\ln(k)\\&\ge\int_1^n\ln(t)~\mathrm dt\\&=n\ln(n)-n+1\\n!&\ge e\left(\frac ne\right)^n\end{align}
which gives us a direct comparison with
\begin{align}S&=\sum_{n=1}^\infty\frac{n^n}{e^n(n+2)!}\\&=\sum_{n=1}^\infty\frac{(n/e)^n}{(n+2)(n+1)n!}\\&\le\sum_{n=1}^\infty\frac1{e(n+2)(n+1)}\\&=\frac1e\sum_{n=1}^\infty\left(\frac1{n+1}-\frac1{n+2}\right)\\&=\frac1{2e}\end{align}
and hence it converges absolutely at both endpoints.

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The equity market is on a roll, and nobody seems to mind. Yes, its the right time to uncork that Dom Perignon.
The partys just begun, my friend. And youll be surprised if we tell you how far our Indian markets could go. How about beyond 280,000 level for the sensex and over 89,000 level for the Nifty by 50. No, its no faux pas or a typo.
And, its definitely not New Years hangover. Its for real, and a distinct possibility. If you dont believe what you just saw or rather read in the headline, we shall also show you how we arrived at our conclusions. Mind you, these are very very conservative estimates.
Think long-term and you will find that things are all hunky dory. After all, the geniuses dont simply say that returns from the equity market outperform returns from all other investment class in the long term.
And thats exactly what the Indian equity market will deliver. How does this sound you can actually multiply your money by a little over 42 times if you hold it long enough.
Rs 1,000 invested in the market right now will be slightly more than Rs 42,000 by 50. This is based on the extremely conservative assumption that the BSE sensex will be around 280,000 level and the NSE Nifty at 89,000 level by 50.
If the large number makes your eyes pop out, worry not. There is sound logic behind the above argument. The basic argument is, that irrespective of short-term fluctuations, over long term, equity returns will grow at rates at least equal to the growth rate of corporate profits.
The next argument is that corporate profits will grow at rates at least equal to the growth rate of the economy over long periods. Both these are fairly well known and accepted notions, so you can trust us on those assumptions.
Next, we borrowed from the by now well-known and widely accepted research document the BRIC report of Goldman Sachs. The report states that India will be one of the strongest economies by 2050, growing at over real rate of 5% for the next 30 years and around 5% thereafter.
The report states that by 2050, Indias GDP would be $27,803 bn from the present levels of $603 bn. In other words, Indias nominal GDP the real rate plus inflation will grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.5%.
So, if one believes this argument, then one can safely assume corporate profits and ergo, the BSE sensex can also grow at 8.5% compounded rate till 2050. The next step was simple; a little bit of spread-sheet research and one gets the sensex number for 2050 close to 280,000 and the Nifty at a little over 89,000.
And, this is a rather conservative number, because it keeps the same market capitalisation to GDP ratio as it exists now. Current traded market capitalisation (mcap) to GDP ratio is around 58%.
This is lower than that of advanced countries, which India will be by 2050. For developed economies, the ratio is at least 100% or more. So, even for India, the ratio would ideally inch higher. As another bit of random information, with a GDP of $27,803 bn, the total traded mcap of the Indian bourses would be $16,230 bn in 2050, or more than $16 trillion. Similarly, the mcap of sensex stocks would be more than $7 tn and that of Nifty will be more than $9 tn.
For those who dont want to wait too long, we have calculated a five-yearly index levels . By 10, the sensex would be at 9395, 14,270 by 15, and 21,279 by 20. The Nifty, similarly, will be at 2982 by 10, 4530 by 15 and 6755 by 20. Overall, the indices will be growing approximately 50% every five years and so will the m-cap.
And, for those who want to factor in the rupee appreciation, both the sensex and the Nifty would be growing at 6.3% CAGR. Thus, rupee adjusted 50 sensex levels would be almost 110,000 and that of the Nifty 35,000.
Whoa, gotta rethink my pension strategy.
Interesting but hypothetical. Many interesting indicators but whether the ground reality(or chart) will follow remains to be seen.
Yes, This type of unimaginible can come from Economic Times only.
my take is.... in another 20 years, most of the African countries will be in Leve-II development. Like what India is witnessing today. so, when Indian become costly, companies move to Africa.
and you can see Sensex @ -280,000 also.
Such articles written by clowns always appear without fail in bull markets. This is like the book titled "DOW 36000" that came out during the tech boom of late 1990s in the USA - US markets crashed few months after the book came out. I am not saying that our markets will crash now but such funny articles usually appear during booms.
yes what is written is all true.I had a dream and I saw the sensex at exactly 280.000 and I looked at the calendar...hey presto..it was 2050.There was also a suspicious looking character lurking about in my dream.I'm sure he stole my dream and wrote it up in the economic times, the cheat.You guys I challenge you to prove my dream wrong and if you do, you can hang me on the first of jan. 2051.


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2 weeks have passed already since the 2017 Ladies Kennel Association 50th Championship Dog Show. Generously sponsored by Bayer & Lesukut.
A Special thank you must go out to the tireless ladies behind the organising of this show! Chairlady Barbie Winter who makes a feast of every meeting. Linda van Dalen who took on the role of Learner Ring Steward under Bruno Boucher who flew out especially for our show!
Thank you to Zepherino Silva for travelling to our humble corner of the world to judge our show with much good humour and zest.
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