Housing trust funds are established by city, county, or state governments to financially support the preservation and production of affordable housing, and to increase opportunities for low-income families and individuals to access decent homes. Local housing trust funds are established by elected government bodies when a source or sources of public revenue are dedicated, by ordinance or law, to a distinct fund with the express and limited purpose of providing affordable housing.
Local housing trust funds are flexible and can be used to support innovative methods of addressing many types of housing needs. Generally local housing trust funds rely on more than one source of revenue to generate income, including taxes, interest on government assets, and/or developer fees. Once the housing trust fund generates a sizable income pool, revenue may be used for a variety of housing programs, including new construction, rehabilitation, down-payment assistance, special needs housing, or homeless programs. The key is to have a clear set of goals and then tailor the procedures and programs that flow from the trust in a way that assures that housing needs are met while retaining enough flexibility so the fund can adapt to changes in the market.
The model can work in virtually any situation. Housing trust funds have been created to serve small towns of about 1,000 people as well as large cities and counties. These funds are also very efficient due to their ability to leverage other funding sources, including the Local Housing Trust Fund (Matching Grant) Program (LHTFP) administered by the California Department of Housing and Community Development. Many housing trust funds report highly successful track records and, as a whole, have generated more than $1 billion annually to support affordable housing throughout the country.


From the jetty at Charlotte (Rochester) NY, February 21, 1998.
Both gulls are in adult basic (winter) plumage. They were at about the same distance (the Bony is a bit closer), so you can easily see the size difference. The dark underwings and rounded wingtips of the Little Gull can be spotted at great distances. In comparison, the Bony has a white leading edge, relatively pointy wings, and little contrast between the top and bottom of the wing.


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You are here: Home / Latest News / Yangon factories told to treat water or else
Yangon factories told to treat water or else
October 25, 2017 by thiha
The government warned factories to treat their wastewater properly before disposing it into rivers or face penalties, including closure of their facilities.
In Yangon Region's 24 industrial zones alone, there are 3474 factories but only 188 have proper wastewater treatment facility, said U Saw Win Maung, deputy head of Pollution Control and Cleaning Department (PCCD) under Yangon City Development Committee (YCDC).
U Saw Win Maung said that since most factories disposed their wastewater in creeks and rivers many of these water channels including the Yangon River, Hlaing River, Pun Hlaing River, Bago River and Nga Moe Yeik Creek, are becoming very polluted.
"There are only 10 percent of the factories which have proper wastewater treatment facilities," he said, adding that the government has taken action against distilleries, which have high volume of wastewater.
There are total of 72 distilleries around the country and out of 16 distilleries located in Yangon Region, 14 have been closed temporarily for not have wastewater treatment facility, according to PCCD's statistics.
U Sein Thaung Oo, deputy chairman of Myanmar Food Processors and Exporters Association, said that if the government intensifies its campaign against erring distilleries, 94pc of these facilities could be closed down because of lack of water treatment facilities.
"All distilleries do not have wastewater treatment system. Now, the distilleries which have been closed are the worst among them," he said.
U Sein Thaung Oo said that while the government has focused on distilleries in its campaign to require wastewater treatment facilities in factories, other sectors in the manufacturing industry will also be required to follow suit.
"We want to ensure all manufacturing centres also have wastewater treatment facilities. Other kinds of factories will be included in this measures too," he said.
U Thein Lin, production manager of Win Brothers Holdings Myanmar, which operates several distilleries in the country, said the government should crackdown on illegal distilleries that are currently operating without permits.
"We obtained permit to run our distillery. But it cost a lot. The illegally-run distilleries do not need to pay taxes, so they do not have much cost," he said adding that alcohol prices are falling because of competition, including from illegal distilleries. So, legally distilleries are not making much profit anymore.
Dr Kyaw Nyein Aye, visiting professor of Yangon Technology University, environmental management specialist and researcher of waste water from industrial zones, said the environment must not be sacrificed in pursuit of profits.
He warned that untreated waste water can adversely affect marine lives and plants, and also cause respiratory diseases.
Dr Kyaw Nyein Aye noted that once the untreated wastewater began yeasting, it produces a fermented liquid which emit a very foul smell.
"If it drops into water, the fish cannot stay (alive)," he said.
"Manufacturing industries like distilleries are present not only in Myanmar but all over the world. Something is wrong if only the businessmen are profiting and people are suffering" he added.
Myanmar has drawn wastewater related laws and rules under the Environmental Conservation Law in 2012, Environmental Conservation Rules in 2014, Environmental Impact Assessment Procedure and Environmental Quality (emission) in 2015.
But these laws and rules have not been effectively implemented, according to Permanent Secretary U Khin Maung Yi.
"The standards released in 2015 meet international standard. If they are amended (to accommodate the business sector,) the environment can be affected," he said.
In the country's pursuit to develop its industries, environmental protection must also be part of the economic development, said U Thein Lin, a chemical engineer.
"If economic development is pursued without considering the damages to the environment and ecosystem, our water, atmosphere and the soil can be affected," he said.
He said that disposal of untreated wastewater from industries are threatening the state's sustainable development.
"Wastewater is very dangerous and it should be controlled. It will leave behind a spoilt environment for next generation. Inspection has its shortcomings. Monitoring team should be formed with technicians from factories and other experts from various fields," U Thein Lin said.
Source : Myanmar Times
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Filed Under: Latest News Tagged With: Bago River, Environmental Conservation Law, Environmental Conservation Rules, Hlaing River, Myanmar Food Processors' and Exporters' Association, Nga Moe Yeik Creek, Pollution Control and Cleaning Department (PCCD), Pun Hlaing River, U Saw Win Maung, U Sein Thaung Oo, Win Brothers Holdings Myanmar, Yangon City Development Committee (YCDC), Yangon River, Yangon Technology University

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Well done to Jane Burdett and volunteers from the Molly's Smile Fund for raising over £3,000 at The Wimbledon Club.
Molly's Smile Fund was set up in memory of Molly Burdett, who died aged 19 of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, a rare blood immune disorder. Molly spent 44 days in our General Intensive Care Unit (GICU).
Molly's mum Jane and a team of volunteers, including staff from St George's GICU, spent Wimbledon fortnight collecting money from members of the public to go towards the new Oasis garden, which will help transform the view from GICU into a tranquil roof space for both patients and staff.
Jane said: "Molly's very own GICU nurses and matrons brought an edgy reality to our fundraising efforts volunteering their own precious time to help enhance our local GICU.
To date, Molly's Smile Fund has raised £37,000 for St George's Hospital Charity funding a brand new relative's room, purchasing tablets, and a regular weekly masseur for patients.
Thank you to Jane and all of the volunteers for all their hard work at Wimbledon.
You can support Molly's Smile Fund by donating via their JustGiving page.


Huawei Honor 8 Pro also known as Huawei Honor V9 in China has been launched at Mobile World Congress 2017 (MWC) event. The device is a premium smartphone that packs an impressive 6GB RAM with other decent features.
Huawei Honor 8 Pro comes pre-installed with Android 7.0 Nougat and it's powered by HiSilicon Kirin 960 chipset alongside 6GB RAM and 128GB internal storage although there is a version of the phone with 4GB RAM and 64GB ROM.
The 5.7 inches display screen phone supports 4G LTE VoLTE, it has fingerprint scanner for improved security. It uses dual LED flash on its 12MP rear camera lense. To keep the power always on, it comes with 4,000mAh non removable battery that has reverse charging technology which enables it to charge other phones. Having said that, below is the specs of Huawei Honor 8 Pro.
Note that the above prices are subject to change at any time.
But d price left something to be desired!


As much as I really enjoy cooking, some evenings my brain is just too tired to think about what to cook, I'm just too exhausted to be bothered with too much preparation. I rarely buy take out meals as attractive as they seem with such a variety available and home delivered, for some reason when I do indulge I seem to be disappointed. The food looks amazing online, but by the time I wait the 40 minutes or so and unwrap on arrival, the sense of excitement is overtaken by hunger. Besides if I'm ordering for one, as there is usually a minimum purchase I find I waste quite a lot.
Recently I've been reintroduced to the ease and yumminess of ham steaks. To be correct these are actually gammon not ham- gammon is the hind leg and cured but still needs to be cooked (unlike ham). Slices of good quality nicely cured gammon take but a few minutes to cook, no preparation required. Growing up we on occasions would venture from the usual red meat and vegetables at dinner for gammon steaks, typically accompanied by pineapple and salad. Whilst pineapple is a fantastic side, I love to enjoy fresh peaches, a natural choice at this time of year for me. Victoria is renowned for our peach orchards, having grown up on one myself they are currently in peak season and every so lush.
To enjoy fresh produce at its peak it is important to know your supplier or better still the producer. We are spoilt for choice in Melbourne and I've found a great producer of pork products at my local farmers market, they pride themselves on their English style recipes, everything is delicious, my favorites are their pork pies – a great lunch choice and gammon steaks (apple-brined amazing). Pacdon Park really understand their products and their niche in the market. Check out their website for your nearest supplier if there is not one in your area have a chat to your local butcher to see if they are able to source a good supplier.
Todays post isn't a recipe as such but more of a meal suggestion.
Substantial Salads – easy summer meals. My current favorite salad, or any salad you desire.
Quick, easy, no mess delicious and on your plate in minutes!


Zo Gang was screened at a cosy gathering on the Objectifs rooftop for a Cine65 party. Great food and nice film discussion along with Yeewei Chai, Wee Li Lin and Juan Foo. Cheers to peeps from Objectifs, Cine65 crew and filmmakers.


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Monthly Round Up
Contact Yasin
Category: Protect free TV licences for the over 75s
Protect free TV licences for the over 75s
Over the course of the past few months, I have been contacted by several constituents concerned that millions of people over the age of 75 could lose their free TV licences. The free TV licence was introduced in 2000 in recognition that the licence fee could be a source of concern for many people over the age of 75, nearly 50% of whom were in the lowest three income deciles.
However, in 2015 – as part of the BBC's Charter renewal – the Government shifted the cost of these licences to the BBC, without the funding to sustain the policy. The BBC reached an agreement with the Government to take on the cost of providing free TV licences by 2020/21. The BBC is now considering whether to keep, reform or end the free TV licence for over-75s. I understand the BBC is expected to reach a decision by this summer and I along with many others will be following this closely.
I recognise that many elderly people, along with Age UK, the Campaign to End Loneliness and Silver Voices have expressed concern at any changes to the licence. A recent report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation outlined that pensioner poverty is currently rising, with one in six pensioners currently living in poverty. Ending the free TV licence could see approximately 2.4 million pensioners lose their licence and a further 50,000 pushed below the poverty line.
The TV licence is an important benefit for pensioners who suffer disproportionately from loneliness and social isolation. If TV licences are ended or means-tested, millions of older people, almost half of whom consider television their main source of company, will have to pay to keep the little company they do have.
The current Government was elected on a manifesto which promised to maintain all pensioner benefits, including TV licences. I believe it must keep this promise by taking back responsibility for the TV licence. In February I asked a question on this matter. Unfortunately, the Minister chose not to answer the question and to shift responsibility.
I will continue to press the Government to step in and save free TV licences for over-75s.
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Some of the most enlightening scientific findings regarding the functions of different brain regions have come from in-depth studies of people who have lived with damage to specific brain regions. Due to limitations in technology, scientists prior to the 20thcentury could only fully study the brain in dissections after the patient died. It was otherwise impossible to fully understand what went on underneath the skull of a living human.
When scientists began studying cases of people who had damaged specific parts of their brains in accidents, they could observe what functionalities these patients lacked. While lab rats also provide a way for us to look at brain functionality, case studies can more directly inform us of how the human brain works. Phineas Gage, Patient RB, and Patient DF are three such case studies that contributed to the advancement of neuroscience research.
Fig. 1. Phineas Gage following his accident (left) and a reconstruction of the iron rod through his skull (right).
Phineas Gage (1823-1860) was a white male who worked as the foreman of a railway construction group. In 1848, however, an explosion at the construction site caused a 1.25" diameter iron rod to plunge into his face under his left cheekbone and out through the top of his head. The blow did not cause him to lose consciousness; however, it destroyed the left part of his frontal lobe.
Although his bodily functioning remained fully intact, his personality did not. Formerly known as a calm, thoughtful man, Gage became irritable, impatient, and profane. It also became difficult for him to follow through on any plans he made.
Gage's personality change appeared to last for only about two or three years, since he was able to take up a job as a long-distance stagecoach driver in Chile that required both focus and planning. This reversal may point to the potential rewiring in his brain that allowed him to regain the ability to plan, although no scientists followed up on Gage for further study.
These changes in Gage's behavior were some of the first pieces of modern evidence that the prefrontal cortex may be responsible for impulsivity control and executive functioning, the skills that appeared to be compromised in Gage. Gage's miraculous recovery also provided an early piece of evidence for neuroplasticity, or the ability for the brain to rewire itself and regain functionality.
Fig. 2. Photomicrographs of left (L) and right (R) coronal sections of Patient RB's hippocampus. Asterisks indicate evidence of complete loss of pyramidal cells in CA1 of the hippocampus but normal densities in the other regions.
RB (1926-1983) was a white male who worked as a postal worker before retiring in 1976 due to a medical disability. Two years later, he was hospitalized and underwent a coronary bypass operation. After the surgery, a sudden atrial tear occurred and, in the two minutes before it was repaired, led to a massive loss of blood. RB was then properly treated before his discharge from the hospital.
After this sudden blood loss, or ischemia, his family members noticed that he was often forgetful of things recently mentioned in conversation and commonly misplaced his belongings. Doctors suspected that the ischemia led to this memory impairment, and it was confirmed post-mortem that there was severe damage limited to the hippocampal region in his brain responsible for converting short-term into long-term memories. This was the first studied case of brain damage isolated completely to the hippocampus.
With his consent, neuroscientists conducted a battery of neurological examinations on RB to better understand the role of the hippocampus in memory. He had a normal IQ on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale but exhibited severe verbal and nonverbal memory impairments; most notably, RB demonstrated anterograde amnesia in tests of recognition and recall. His retrograde memory appeared to be intact, however, as he could recall most events that occurred before his ischemic episode, including famous faces and autobiographical information.
Scientists were able to fully section his brain following his death and found that only the CA1 region of the hippocampus was damaged, while the rest of the brain appeared completely normal. These findings helped neuroscientists isolate behaviors specific to CA1 hippocampal functionality.
Fig. 3. Ventral stream lesions in Patient DF shown in contrast to the expected location of the lateral occipital complex (LOC) in healthy participants. (A) Lesions in DF were traced on slices that indicated tissue damage in pale blue. The rightmost image shows a slice through the lesions. (B) The expected location of LOC based on group data from seven neurologically intact participants. The activation in the slice is also outlined in orange in panel A for comparison.
DF (age and race unknown) is a woman who suffered irreversible brain damage from carbon monoxide poisoning in 1988, causing her to develop visual form agnosia, a profound loss of visual form perception. It is believed that her lateral occipital cortex, which is responsible for initial processing of visual stimuli, was bilaterally damaged.
These first observations that DF could not identify objects visually but could still accurately grasp objects differently depending on their shape led to the two-streams hypothesis. According to this hypothesis, there are two paths of processing visual input: 1) the "ventral stream," or the "what" stream, which processes the physical characteristics of the object such as color and shape, and 2) the "dorsal stream," or the "where" stream, which helps locate where something is in space.
When asked to identify pictures of objects such as cars or chairs, DF could not recognize them. On the other hand, when she had to reach for objects such as a magnet, her hand would form the correct shape to grasp the object despite not being able to recognize it. Researchers thus proposed that DF's "ventral stream," the visual pathway that processes what objects are, was damaged, while her "dorsal stream," the pathway that processes where objects are located in space, was intact.
An fMRI study on DF confirmed the activation of the occipitoparietal system during grasping tasks but not object identification tasks, providing evidence that the dorsal stream may exist along the parietal lobe. Moreover, the occipitotemporal system was activated during visual identification tasks in normal subjects but not in DF, further confirming that a ventral stream may exist in the temporal lobe separately. The two-streams hypothesis has since been widely accepted.
These case studies served as foundations in understanding the functional organization of the brain. Phineas Gage helped establish the role of the prefrontal cortex in impulsivity control, while RB provided a unique opportunity to study the hippocampus and revealed its importance in memory consolidation. Finally, DF's specific loss of visual functionality allowed scientists to develop the two-streams hypothesis. Thus, these case studies provided us our first glimpse into the complex functioning of the human brain.
 "The Phineas Gage Story." School of Music, www.uakron.edu/gage/story.dot.
 Hamilton, Jon. "Why Brain Scientists Are Still Obsessed With The Curious Case Of Phineas Gage." NPR, NPR, 21 May 2017, www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/05/21/528966102/why-brain-scientists-are-still-obsessed-with-the-curious-case-of-phineas-gage.
 Zola-Morgan, S, et al. "Human Amnesia and the Medial Temporal Region: Enduring Memory Impairment Following a Bilateral Lesion Limited to Field CA1 of the Hippocampus." The Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 6, no. 10, Jan. 1986, pp. 2950–2967., doi:10.1523/jneurosci.06-10-02950.1986.
 James, Thomas W., et al. "Ventral Occipital Lesions Impair Object Recognition but Not Object‐Directed Grasping: an FMRI Study." Brain, vol. 126, no. 11, 2003, pp. 2463–2475., doi:10.1093/brain/awg248.
 Whitwell, Robert L., et al. "Patient DF's Visual Brain in Action: Visual Feedforward Control in Visual Form Agnosia." Vision Research, vol. 110, 2015, pp. 265–276., doi:10.1016/j.visres.2014.08.016.


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Federal Cases
Seaboard Air Line Railway v. Moore, No. 609
Document Cited authorities 1 Cited in 43 Precedent Map Related
Court United States Supreme Court
Citation 228 U.S. 433,57 L.Ed. 907,33 S.Ct. 580
Decision Date 28 April 1913
Parties SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY, Plff. in Err., v. P. R. MOORE
Docket Number No. 609
228 U.S. 433 33 S.Ct. 580 57 L.Ed. 907 SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY, Plff. in Err.,
P. R. MOORE.
No. 609. Argued and submitted December 3, 1912. Decided April 28, 1913.
Messrs. James F. Glen and P. O. Knight for plaintiff in error.
Messrs. George C. Bedell, A. H. King, Roswell King, Hilton S. Hampton, and Horatio Bisbee for defendant in error.
Memorandum opinion, by direction of the court, by Mr. Chief Justice White:
The defendant in error sued to recover damages for injuries sustained on October 6, 1909, while in the employ
of the railway company as a foreman of switch engines, in being thrown from an alleged defective step or footboard of a switch engine. The case was submitted to a jury upon a single count of the declaration. The jury was specially instructed that it was the duty of the plaintiff to prove the existence of the defect complained of, that it was a defect of such a character as to cause its existence to be a negligent failure of the defendant to properly equip its engine, that the defect was the proximate cause of the injury, and that the plaintiff was, at the time he was injured, 'engaged in interstate commerce.' The jury was also instructed that the burden of proof was upon the railway company to establish the truth of defenses interposed by it of contributory negligence and assumption of risk. A judgment entered for the plaintiff upon a verdict in his favor was affirmed by the circuit court of appeals, in a brief opinion, and this writ of error was then prosecuted.
The matters pressed upon our attention on behalf of the plaintiff in error embrace assertions of the commission of error by the circuit court of appeals in deciding that the trial court rightly refused to give instructions asked on behalf of the railway company, covering the various issues raised by the pleadings. Based upon a statement made in the opinion of the court below to the effect that the case of Second Employers' Liability (Mondou v. New York, N. H. & H. R. 44, 32 Sup. Ct. Rep. 169, was decisive (N.S.) 44, 32 Sup. Ct. Rep. 169, was decisive of the constitutionality and applicability to the case of the employers' liability law, and, moreover, disposed of a number of contentions urged in the assignments of error filed below, it is pressed upon our attention that the court decided and erred in deciding that the employers' liability law abolished, as to all cases coming under its provisions, the defense of assumption of risk, and,...
Waithaka v. Amazon.Com, Inc., No. 19-1848
United States Courts of Appeals. United States Court of Appeals (1st Circuit)
...even if the worker's role in transporting the goods occurred entirely within a single state. In Seaboard Air Line Railway v. Moore, 228 U.S. 433, 33 S.Ct. 580, 57 L.Ed. 907 (1913), the Court held that a railroad worker thrown from a train was "engaged in interstate commerce" at the time of ......
Illinois Cent. R. Co. v. Humphries, 31708
...evidence of contributory negligence on either trial. M. & O. R. R. Co. v. Campbell, 114 Miss. 803; Seaboard Air Line R. R. Co. v. Moore, 228 U.S. 433; Central of Vt. R. R. Co. v. White, 238 U.S. 507; 59 L.Ed. 1433. Damages are not limited to railroad earnings alone. St. Louis & I. M. R. R. ......
Yazoo & M. V. R. Co. v. Lucken, 24405
...the negligence of the driver and to limit the recovery to only such damages as were caused by the railroad company. Railroad Co. v. Moore, 228 U.S. 433. Authorities cited in appellant's brief do not apply to the case at bar. We have made a very exhaustive search of the entire reporter syste......
Southern Ry. Co. v. Howerton , No. 22656.
Indiana Supreme Court of Indiana
...is said: "The defense of assumed risk was submitted to the jury under a full and fair charge." The case of Seaboard, etc., Co. v. Moore, 228 U. S. 433, 33 Sup. Ct. 580, 57 L. Ed. 907, apparently approves the rule. It is also declared in Northern Pac. Co. v. Maerkl, 198 Fed. 1, 117 C. C. A. ......


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Berman Edward Borisovich
Edward Berman joined the owners of the Capital Group holding company in 1993.
From 1991 to 1998, the company was generally engaged in construction of office buildings. In 1997, the company realized a project of country elite housing for the first time; in 2002, some Metromarket shopping centers were constructed.
Later the Capital Group company considerably extended and occupied a leading position among the builders of Moscow.
In 2007, the management of the holding decided to form a Capital Group Commercial company to manage commercial assets.
In 2007, a Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat developed a project the Capital Group, but the developer rejected the drawings and gave the order to the American Bureau NBBJ without having paid the van Egeraat's work. In addition, the developer based his Capital City project on the sketches of Erick van Egeraat, partly simplified them and started building the complex. The arbitration court of Stockholm issued a decision that the Capital Group was obliged to pay for the van Egeraat's service, pay him 12.5 million rubles for compensation, and no longer use images of the architect.
Source: Interfax, April, 3, 2008
In the spring of 2009, the Capital Group agreed with Sberbank on installment debt of more than $400 million for five years and co-investment in the City of Capitals project at the Moscow City International Business Center territory. In February 2009, the developer delayed payment on the $ 400 million credit and offered Sberbank to take away the deposit. In settlement of the debt, Sberbank received areas in the City of Capitals project in the Moscow-City business center (about 50 000 sq. m. of apartments).
Source: FLB, October 7, 2010
In 2011, the commission on conservation of buildings in the historical parts of Moscow banned the Capital Group to dismantle a commercial apartment building on Big Yakimanka 15/20, Building 1, built by architect Fyodor Kolbe in 1899-1901. But the company still demolished the building having declared that the exterior wall "had felt itself".
There was a scandal, and the firm was obliged to restore the building. According to media reports, the company has already spent about $ 30-35 million, part of which has gone to resettle 61 apartments in the Central District of Moscow.
Source: Vedomosti, May 16, 2011
The Moscow Arbitration Court satisfied the claim of the Moscow government to a major developer of the Capital Group and to the Museon public cultural institutions of Moscow to terminate the investment contract for the Russian Avant-Garde project on Crimean Rampart Street (Krymsky Val).
The project contemplated construction of an architectural complex including hotel and office buildings, as well as construction and equipment of the Museon complex – an art park near the Central House of Artists.
In 2008, the director of Museon Michael Pukemo said that the Capital Group planned to build five towers as tall as the monument to Peter I located nearby - hotels with the title Russian Avant-garde: the Tower of Kandinsky, the Tower of Malevich, the tower of Rodchenko.
In February 2011, Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin signed a resolution on the audit of all investment contracts with the Government of Moscow. It provided for termination of the contract on the Russian Avant-Garde project and noted that there were no land legal documentations issued for all of the objects in the contract.
During the hearing, the representative of the city government requested to terminate the investment contract for which the scheduled performance had been violated. He said that in 2009 the Capital Group was to have developed project documentation and obtained a construction license but it still hadn't been done.
In his turn, the representative of the Capital Group said the company didn't recognize the claim. The contract, according to them, was valid. The representative also said that the Moscow government itself had failed the terms of the contract which were necessary for coordination of project documentation.
Source: RAPSI, January 10, 2012


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Grumpy Old Drivers
by Stuart Prebble
ON SALE: 29th December 2011
Genre: Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure / Humour / Tv Tie-in Humour
How modern motoring drives Grumpies to distraction
We've said that Christmas is the worst thing; we've said that working for idiots is the worst thing; we've said that holidays are the worst thing. But driving is the worst thing of all. It brings together so many of the multitude of individual elements which combine to make Grumpy Old Men and Grumpy Old Women grumpy.
It's got queuing – at petrol stations, on side roads, on A roads, on motorways, at car parks and even at the 'drive through'. Very few things make Grumpies more grumpy than queuing.
It's got being ripped off – when you buy a car, when you have it serviced, when you buy anything for it, when anything goes wrong, when you put petrol in it, when you wash it, when you park it, when it gets towed away and when some arsehole you've never met bumps into it.
It's got being pissed about – when you want to book it in for a service, and when you get to tax it, insure it and get the MOT for it, and again when you want to sell it. And last but not least, it's got the most essential ingredient of grumpiness. Driving is a triumph of disappointment over expectation. When we were kids we thought driving would be the ultimate freedom and all it has turned out to be is a total pain in the tushkin.
And that is not even mentioning Top sodding Gear…


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Imagine Cup est un concours technologique international réservé aux lycéens et aux étudiants organisé par la société informatique Microsoft. Créé en 2003, le concours Imagine Cup a déjà accueilli plus de  million étudiants issus de plus de 190 pays différents.

Selon le principe des Jeux olympiques, l'Imagine Cup est organisé en plusieurs catégories qui représentent les différents domaines des nouvelles technologies. Les meilleurs de chacune des 9 catégories se retrouvent ensuite pour une grande finale, qui est organisée chaque année par un pays différent.

Thème 2007 : Éducation & Technologie
Tout comme le pays hôte des phases finales, le thème de la compétition change chaque année. L'édition 2007 d'Imagine Cup aura donc pour thème l'éducation, à travers la problématique suivante : « Imaginez un monde dans lequel la technologie permette d'améliorer l'éducation. Tandis que certains tenteront d'uniformiser l'accès à l'éducation à travers le monde, d'autres rechercheront la prochaine avancée technologique, médicale ou scientifique. Quel que soit le point de vue que vous adopterez, vous déciderez comment la technologie vous permettra d'améliorer la situation. ».

Ce thème s'applique aux six catégories de « Solutions Technologiques » (Technology Solutions) et « Arts Numériques » (Digital Arts).

Catégorie Technology Solutions

Software Design
« La catégorie Software Design (conception logicielle) met au défi les étudiants du monde entier pour combiner imagination, innovation et compétence. L'objectif est de créer une solution applicative pour répondre de manière originale au thème de la compétition de cette année : Imaginez un monde où les technologies permettent une meilleure éducation pour tous ».

Embedded Development
« Les appareils deviennent plus petits, plus portatifs et ont de plus en plus d'impact sur nos vies quotidiennes. Voici l'occasion de libérer votre créativité et de changer le monde en développant votre propre appareil. Précédemment appelé Windows Embedded Student Challenge, cette compétition vous met au défi d'aller au-delà de l'ordinateur de bureau, de faire preuve de créativité pour construire une solution matérielle et logicielle complète en utilisant Windows CE et le matériel fourni. Créez une équipe de 3 à 4 membres, avec un tuteur du corps enseignant, pour développer un prototype en état de marche, qui permettra de résoudre certains des plus importants problèmes du monde. Entrez en compétition avec des étudiants du monde entier et démontrez votre capacité d'innovation. Comme les vainqueurs précédents, vous pourrez mettre à profit vos idées pour créer votre propre compagnie, ou les utiliser comme tremplin pour votre future carrière. »

Web Development
« En augmentant l'exposition du public à de nouveaux sujets et idées, Internet a révolutionné les méthodes de recherche et d'enseignement utilisées par le public. Comment mettre à profit cette technologie pour améliorer l'éducation à travers le monde ? Cette catégorie propose aux étudiants d'utiliser Internet pour créer des sites d'enseignement innovants en utilisant ASP.NET. »

Catégorie Digital Arts

Photography
« Racontez une histoire sans utiliser de mots. Sous format photo uniquement, les participants doivent créer une histoire sur le thème de l'éducation. La définition de l'éducation varient selon les personnes. Pour certains, c'est la clé d'une vie meilleure. Pour d'autres l'éducation permet de repousser les limites du savoir humain. Cette année, les candidats doivent raconter une histoire, transmettre une émotion et provoquer le débat au travers d'une série d'instantanés. En informant et créant un lien émotionnel avec votre public, vous provoquerez le débat et même des passages à l'action. C'est ce lien émotionnel capable de démontrer à votre audience que la technologie peut améliorer l'éducation qu'il vous faut créer pour remporter la compétition. »

Short Film
« Dans cette catégorie, les étudiants sont invités à partager leur point de vue sur le thème d'Imagine Cup sous l'un des formats les plus difficiles de l'art audiovisuel : le court métrage. Du concept au montage, en passant par le scénario et l'enregistrement, votre défi est de transmettre votre message et d'émouvoir le public. Une vision innovante et une forte créativité sont indispensables à cet exercice, mais il vous faudra également utiliser les technologies numériques les plus récentes afin de transmettre un message fort en significations. Seuls les jeunes réalisateurs les plus talentueux parviendront à relever le défi. »

Interface Design
« Créativité, innovation, et fonctionnalité – lorsque ces 3 éléments sont réunis, l'utilisation d'un logiciel ou d'une application devient un pur moment de magie. L'expérience d'une interface utilisateur bien conçue peut élever ou détruire l'application qui y est liée. Le défi pour les designers à travers le monde est ici de créer une interface utilisateur fonctionnelle, innovante et captivante. Les participants ont l'occasion de créer l'application de leurs rêves, en relation avec le thème d'Imagine Cup, et de montrer au monde ce dont ils sont capables. Innovez et créez des interfaces révolutionnaires en vous affranchissant de toutes les approches traditionnelles. Renouvelez la manière dont l'utilisateur se comporte devant son moniteur. »

Catégorie Skills Challenges

Project Hoshimi

IT Challenge
« La catégorie Systèmes & Réseaux met en avant l'art et la science du développement, du déploiement et de la maintenance de systèmes informatiques performants, robustes et sécurisés. Avec l'ensemble d'outils et de techniques de base mis à votre disposition, vous devez élaborer une configuration personnalisée qui tienne compte des besoins du client. Vous aurez pour cela besoin d'une profonde compréhension du fonctionnement du client. Outre les processus d'analyse et de prise de décision, cette catégorie vous permet de montrer votre connaissance des réseaux, des bases de données et des serveurs ainsi que du processus de prise de décision lors de la mise en place d'un système informatique. »

Algorithm
« La catégorie Algorithme met en évidence votre aptitude à résoudre un problème. Dans un monde où nous sommes limités par les processeurs et les capacités de stockage, la maitrise de cet art est essentielle. Grâce à la découverte, l'application et la mise en œuvre des algorithmes appropriés, il est possible de réaliser de nombreux tours de force. Le décodage du génome humain, l'acheminement de millions de paquets de données sur des réseaux, ou la recherche dans l'intégralité d'Internet en une nanoseconde en sont quelques exemples. Cette catégorie défie les plus pointus d'entre vous au travers d'énigmes, problèmes de codage et autres casse-têtes algorithmiques à résoudre. »

Critiques
Microsoft a été critiqué pour inclure dans les règles légales encadrant la compétition le fait qu'en acceptant leur prix, les vainqueurs autorisent l'éditeur de logiciels à utiliser leurs concepts, technologies, idées et solution développées.

Cette compétition a également été précédemment critiquée pour avoir été essentiellement centrée autour de Microsoft, en instituant des consignes telles que l'obligation d'utiliser le framework propriétaire .NET 2.0, ainsi que Microsoft Visual Studio.

Notes et références

Liens externes
 http://imaginecup.com Site officiel Imagine Cup

Concours scientifique

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/ NEWS / ÖBB appoints Grayling in Germany and Austria
ÖBB appoints Grayling in Germany and Austria
Austrian Railways (ÖBB) has appointed Grayling in Germany and Austria to support their market entry as a passenger night train operator in Germany. The account win includes media relations work as well as strategic stakeholder communications.
Inter-city night train services represent an important market segment for the Austrian Railways (ÖBB). Therefore, ÖBB are expanding their passenger night train service to Germany in order to offer attractive connections between several German cities. The company will run a set of night train rail links which were previously operated by German Railways (DB). Among the six new connections are links between Hamburg and Zurich and between Munich and Venice. In total ÖBB will operate 15 German night train links from December 2016, eight of which include car-carrying train services.
"By taking over selected train connections ÖBB is able to offer travellers an even more attractive night train service between Germany, Austria, Italy and Switzerland. Convenient instead of complicated – this way traveling becomes an enjoyable experience again", says Michael Braun, corporate spokesman of ÖBB. "We appointed Grayling to communicate our market entry in Germany, because we were truly convinced by the team. Additionally, it is important for us to have on-site professional communication support both in Germany and in Austria."
The cooperation between ÖBB and Grayling officially began on the 7th of October with a press conference and stakeholder event at the Austrian embassy in Berlin.
"Next to classical media relations work the ÖBB account also includes target group-specific dialogue with relevant decision makers in the government, infrastructure and tourism sector in several large German cities. An exciting task for our cross-border Grayling team", says Frank Schönrock (CEO, Grayling Germany) and Sigrid Krupica (CEO, Grayling Austria). The directors Peter Tasch in Germany and Karin Wiesinger in Austria are in charge of the account management.
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We are open! Veterinary care is an essential service
Veterinary Referral Hospital Open Day
We have relocated to Dandenong
Cranial Cruciate Ligament Rupture & Treatment
Elbow Dysplasia in Dogs and Medial Coronoid Disease
Is the diagnosis straight forward?
How useful is looking for osteophyte formation on radiographs?
The most obvious radiographic feature in dogs with elbow dysplasia is development of osteophytes. These are normally first apparent on the dorsal margin of the anconeal process but eventually develop on all aspects of the joint (Figure 1). A fully flexed view of a well exposed radiograph is critical or the early signs will be missed. Unfortunately many affected dogs have no visible osteophytes. Only 70% of 263 dogs with confirmed medial coronoid disease had osteophytes on the dorsal margin of the anconeal process (1).
Is there another subtle radiographic sign that is useful?
Trochlear notch sclerosis is increased bone density below the region of the medial coronoid (Figure 1). Trochlear notch sclerosis (TNS) was identified in 86.7% of dogs with elbow dysplasia and medial coronoid disease. Another study described the sensitivity for correctly diagnosing medial coronoid disease using TNS as 91%-96% (2). This study also showed that the severity of the sclerosis significantly increased with increasing severity of coronoid disease grade as evaluated by CT.
Figure 1. Flexed lateral of the elbow. By fully flexing the elbow it allows visualisation of the osteophytes on the dorsal margin of the anconeal process. Trochlear notch sclerosis is characterised by increased bone density in the region adjacent to the medial coronoid.
Can dogs with elbow dysplasia have normal radiographs?
Unfortunately some dogs with medial coronoid disease can have unremarkable radiographs. Fitzpatrick reported 13 dogs (3%) of elbows had normal radiographs. Six of these had fragmentation, two had fissures and five had an intact MCP with significant chondromalacia (1).
Are older dogs easier to diagnose than younger dogs?
Diagnosis is not always easier in older dogs. A study comparing dogs with arthroscopically confirmed medial coronoid disease which were either less than or more than six years old showed no difference in the radiographic degree of osteoarthritis between the two groups. Furthermore 20% of older dogs had erosions fissures or fragments despite a 0 IEWG score (3). The onset of lameness in the older dogs was frequently within months prior to presentation (irrespective of age of presentation) and arthroscopic fragment removal resulted in resolution or markedly reduced lameness.
If radiographs fail then what is the 'gold' standard?
Elbow CT is probably the most useful imaging modality for assessing elbows. It is the gold standard for diagnosing incomplete ossification of the humeral condyle and will detect most cases of medial coronoid disease (Figure 2). CT can also detect fragmentation of the medial coronoid process which may be missed arthroscopically (4). However differentiating fragmentation of the medial coronoid process from osteophytes can be challenging and similarly OCD cannot be easily differentiated from "kissing lesions" on the medial aspect of the humeral condyle [16]. Some non-displaced fissures appear to be solid bone on CT but most of these dogs will have an abnormal appearance to the medial coronoid process. It is recognised that cases with arthroscopically confirmed fissures can have normal CT. For these reasons CT should not be used to exclude arthroscopic treatment (4).
Figure 2. CT images demonstrating radial commissure fissures of the medial coronoid in a 16 month old dog (left) and 7 year old dog (right). Both dogs had a history of lameness of less than 2 months and both dogs had dramatically reduced lameness (older dog) and resolved lameness (young dog) with fragment removal.
Do radiographic changes correlate with the severity of the disease?
Unfortunately the radiographic severity in general does not correlate with the severity of disease (Figure 3). A recent abstract presentation on this topic suggested that if the osteophytes are greater than 5mm high then these are associated with more severe pathology identified on arthroscopy.
Figure 3. Arthroscopic images (left) with matched extended and flexed mediolateral radiographs and craniocaudal radiograph (left to right) demonstrating the spectrum of joint pathology identified. (A) 12-month-old male neutered German Short Haired pointer with moderate synovitis and modified Outerbridge grade 2 cartilage pathology at the tip of the MCP without overt fissure or fragment formation (left elbow); (B) 11- month-old male entire Rottweiler with fissure formation in the region of the radial incisure of the MCP (right elbow); (C) 18-month-old female neutered Labrador retriever with gross fragment formation at the radial incisure of the MCP (left elbow); (D) 28-month-old male neutered Golden Retriever with modified Outerbridge grade 3 pathology of both MCP and medial humeral condylar surface demonstrating typical linear striations in absence of gross fragmentation of the MCP (left elbow); (E) 15-month-old male entire English Springer Spaniel with modified Outerbridge grade 3–4 pathology of both MCP and medial humeral condylar surface including gross fragmentation of radial incisure of MCP with apparently undiseased cartilage cap (right elbow); (F) 60-month-old female neutered German Shepherd Dog with modified Outerbridge grade 5 pathology of both MCP and medial humeral condylar surface in absence of gross fragmentation of the MCP (right elbow); (G) 20-month-old male entire Golden Retriever with modified Outerbridge grade 5 pathology of both MCP and medial humeral condylar surface including gross fragmentation of radial incisure of MCP with apparently undiseased cartilage cap (left elbow). From Noel Fitzpatrick et.al. Radiographic and Arthroscopic Findings in the Elbow Joints of 263 Dogs with Medial Coronoid Disease Veterinary Surgery 38:213–223, 2009
1. Fitzpatrick, N., et al., Radiographic and Arthroscopic Findings in the Elbow Joints of 263 Dogs with Medial Coronoid Disease. Veterinary Surgery, 2009. 38(2): p. 213-223.
2. Draffan, D., et al., Radiographic analysis of trochlear notch sclerosis in the diagnosis of osteoarthritis secondary to medial coronoid disease. Veterinary and Comparative Orthopaedics and Traumatology, 2009. 22(1): p. 7-15.
3. Vermote, K.A., et al., Elbow lameness in dogs of six years and older. Veterinary and Comparative Orthopaedics and Traumatology, 2010. 23(1): p. 43-50.
4. Moores, A.P., L. Benigni, and C.R. Lamb, Computed Tomography Versus Arthroscopy for Detection of Canine Elbow Dysplasia Lesions. Veterinary Surgery, 2008. 37(4): p. 390-398.


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Q: Auth wireless access though an http server I'm the admin of a wireless network ... but as most people aint expert there seem to be a general problem connecting to it ... as we are using WPA Enterprise, so on windows platforms there are some common steps that have to be used to get it to work. But users are stupid.
Many places they have some kind of opennet, where you are just able to connect ... but when trying to access sites, that are not in some kind of internal list, you are redirected to a login page on a web server, so after you are authenticated there, you can browse the internet.
How is this done? Any hints? Linux? Windows? Some special hardware/firewall ?
Links, info ... all are welcome.

A: Here's how it's accomplished where I work (our networking guy could probably elaborate more):
When you connect to the open WL network you are on the 1st public vLAN which redirects (via Squid) all traffic to our authentication page. Authenticating (via kerberos) puts the user on the 2nd VLAN which has unrestricted access.
I'm a little gray on some of the details in there, but I'm sure someone else will fill in the missing spots.

A: In another life I wrote exactly such a mechanism.  A little firewall here, a web server there, some stuff in between to turn on and off the firewall for a given IP address, and a default rule that redirects all port 80 traffic to a web server that has the login page.  Easy as cake?  Not really.
First, you can try looking at nocat, an open source project to do just this sort of thing.
Don't try to do it (write up a mechanism that does wireless authentication through a captive portal) yourself.  It's a short road to crazy-town.
The simplest way to do it yourself is to run 2 sets of APs (if they're cheapo non-vlan, single ssid consumer APs).  One set of APs is on a private network with a web server, a DHCP server and a DNS server that answers with the IP of the web server for all DNS lookups.  Someone looks up google.com?  They get 192.168.66.6. They look up snoopy.com? 192.168.66.6.  They look up bobsyeruncle.net?  192.168.66.6.  And on that web server, you put a web page that says "welcome to (insert company here)."  "If you want to use the wireless network, change your ssid to "securenet", set it to "WPA2" and "eap-ttls" (or whatever wireless auth protocol you're using might be).
The other APs will, of course, be connected to the "wireless" interface on your firewall and allow whatever access you deem proper for wireless network access at your site.
Oh -- wait --  you're not using a pre-shared key, are you?  If you are, you really don't have any wireless security at all.  Once I know the key, I can spy on everyone's traffic.  Even junky consumer APs these days support WPA-enterprise and radius, and you can use the radius server on windows and make wireless authentication work properly.
For that lesson, you'll need to put another quarter in the machine and ask another question...

A: If you're open to commercial solutions, Cisco wireless products can do exactly this. You buy a number of lightweight Aironet access points (enough to cover the physical space), a Wireless LAN Controller to manage them, and configure Web Authentication on the controller.
Your expense is $500/AP plus $2K-$5K for the controller (depends on how many APs you need to manage).
However, I must say here that properly executed Enterprise auth doesn't require any steps on the client side. It just works. Take AD, RADIUS, same Wireless Controller to manage the network, push the correct GPO down to the clients, and - magic! - everyone is on the wireless, transparently authenticated with their AD credentials. And then you can use Web Auth for guest access, where it belongs.

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Medieval Rock Stars?
December 22, 2015 December 22, 2015 / The First Musketeer	/ Leave a comment
We were very priviledged during filming to have the fanastic Entr'act Spectacle spend a day filming with us in "The Pomme Du Pain", our Musketeers' fictional tavern.
It's not often you come across a band who play the kinds of hits that can please both renaissance and modern ears alike, but after years of performing to delighted audiences across Europe Entr'act has mastered the art of entertainment.
They very kindly allowed us to use two of their songs in our show, in fact the track "Cahir" is the very one our Porthos refers to as his favourite, and you can listen to a number of their tracks here, as well as being able to download their albums on iTunes.
But in the meanwhile subscribe to them on YouTube for some crazy displays of skill, and enjoy one of their trailers for their live shows (and as scary as they look in make-up, we promise you they're the loveliest people in real life!):
All The Awards
It's been an exciting few months since the release of Season 1, and we've already had the priviledge of being selected for a number of festivals across the globe.
That's a mention/official selection from every festival we've entered so far, which is a fantastic boost for the First Musketeer team, who all worked so hard to bring this series into existence!
Here is an list of our nominations to date:
The Geekie Awards: Honourable Mention and inclusion in their top 8 fictional series.
Raindance Festival: Best New Discovery – Harriet Sams (Director), Best Production Design, Best Costume.
International Online Web Fest: Best European Series (awaiting results)
UK Web Fest: Best UK Series (Winner)
Toronto Web Fest: Best Action/Adventure Series, Best Screenplay – Harriet Sams (awaiting results)
Watch The First Musketeer
May 31, 2015 December 18, 2015 / The First Musketeer	/ Leave a comment
The First Musketeer is out on June 1st 2015! Watch all 6 Episodes for free on our Official YouTube Channel!
The First Musketeer is nearly here!
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At long last our series is finally complete! So keep your eyes peeled for release dates as we'll be coming to a computer near you very soon.
In the meantime don't forget to Subscribe to us on YouTube and check us out on all our other platforms:
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The First Musketeer Season 1 Clips
December 27, 2014 August 26, 2015 / The First Musketeer	/ Leave a comment
Over the last few weeks we have released a number of clips from Season 1 of The First Musketeer on our official YouTube Channel. Just in case anyone has missed them we've curated them all here.
Clip 1 introduces us to the mysterious Marion (Nicole O'Neill) as she meets the troubled Athos (Edward Mitchell) for the first time:
Clip 2 sees Lazare (Tony Sams) share a little about his past, as Porthos (Charles Barrett) and Ghislain (Paul McMaster) clash swords:
Clip 3 introduces our villain, The Pilgrim (Sean Knopp), who seeks information from one of his many court spies (Mariya Mizuno):
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International Space Station captures fast-moving 'UFO' heading towards Earth
Jasper HamillMonday 20 Nov 2017 2:58 pm
An astronaut has captured images of a mysterious and unidentified object plunging into Earth's atmosphere, sparking claims that it is an alien spacecraft.
The European Space Agency's Paolo Nespoli shot video of a bright ball of light outside the ISS on November 5, prompting his scientist colleagues to describe it as a 'fireball'.
But alien hunters said it was alien in origin and have seized upon the sighting as proof of a gigantic cover-up.
Tyler Glockner, who runs the YouTube channel SecureTeam10, accused both ESA and NASA of hiding the existence of aliens in a video which has now been watched more than 300,000 times.
He believes the fact ESA released a statement so quickly after the strange sighting proves that it's trying to conceal the truth about alien visits to Earth.
A screenshot from a YouTube video by SecureTeam10 showing the mysterious object circled in red (Picture: YouTube/secureteam10)
He asked: 'Why did they do this? Why were they so adamant about publishing this when when they've never jumped on a story so fast?
'I don't think it's a meteorite at all.'
The fiery ball of light was travelling at about 89,478 miles per hour when it hit Earth's atmosphere, which is about twice as fast as most meteorites, according to ESA.
Glockner believes a natural object would not be travelling at this kind of speed.
He also claimed that the speeding light's trajectory was too steep for it to be a meteor and said it was lacking a characteristic tail.
The unidentified object was travelling twice as quickly as most meteors when it hit the Earth (Picture: YouTube/secureteam10)
Space scientists offered a rather less exciting description of the mysterious orb.
Detlef Koschny, co-manager of the Near-Earth Object (NEO) division of ESA's Space Situational Awareness team, said: 'It looks like a bright meteor, or fireball.
'One can see the fireball illuminating the clouds from above, so it must have been close to them — and close to the Earth's limb. It also seems to show a little tail.'
The sighting has split the alien-hunting community, with one prominent extraterrestrial spotter questioning the claims made by SecureTeam 10.
Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, said: 'I'd rather believe ESA than SecureTeam10 any day.
A view of the International Space Station (Picture: Getty)
'Even if it was debris, it doesn't turn it into a extraterrestrial scout ship filled with tentacled aliens on a mission to invade our planet, which is what SecureTeam10 imagines every time they see a blob of light filmed by NASA cameras.'
The ISS is humanity's only permanent outpost in space and has found itself at the centre of many alien conspiracy theories.
Earlier this year, it was suggested that a massive extraterrestrial 'megaship' buzzed the orbiting space base.
UFO hunters subsequently claimed that three 'alien portals' appeared right next to the satellite.
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For over 100 years a humble weatherboard cottage had sat on this site, bracing against the rugged coastline and the 'Apollo Bay Howlin' Wind'. Built without nails (using dowel joints) and set on bluestone blocks, it was a simple, but charming shelter. For the past 34 years it was a home for the current owners of this sheep and cattle farm.
But it wasn't without its charms -- it wasn't until the old chimney collapsed (luckily everyone escaped without injury) that the owners decided it was time to rebuild.
The original shack was designed without consideration for sun or, it seems, the spectacular ocean views. Yet it was well-sited near a creek and had access to clean water thanks to a nearby freshwater spring. It was decided to build the new house on the same site as the cottage. But this new home would be warm, efficient and make the most of views up the rolling green hills and down towards the crashing waves.
Keeping Warm: Combining passive solar design, double-glazing and a high efficiency French made Cheminees Philippe fireplace protects the house from fiercely cold Winters.
The house has a tough act. It needs to keep the occupants warm and dry during cold and wet winters and protect from the notorious 'Apollo Bay Howlin' Wind'. But it would also need to keep its cool during equally hot Summers.
It achieves all this with a passive solar design which captures warming sunlight through North-facing clerestory windows and locks it all in the house thanks to double glazing and good insulation. In Summer, large overhanging eaves protect the house from the higher sun, while double hung windows open for good cross-flow ventilation.
Capturing Views: Well-place windows mean the home enjoys stunning views over the wild ocean, natural light from North-facing clerestory windows and framed views of the rolling hills.
Beachy Feel: Limed hoop pine plywood is used for the kitchen joinery, giving the space a beachy, driftwood look.
Clerestory Windows: North-facing clerestory windows run along the entire length of the house, letting light in and securing sweeping views up the lush hillside.
Picture Frame Windows: Large fixed double-glazed windows are combined with long and narrow double hung windows to strike the balance between enjoying an unimpeded view, insulating against the howling winter winds and allowing for ventilation. The effect is more like a finely balance composition than a window suite.
Sugar Gum House is constructed from three meter wide modules which are either glazed or clad in local Sugar Gum shiplapped boards. This helps the home sit lightly on the land, almost like it's floating. It also helps to reduce building costs and gives the home and elegant proportional harmony.
Pavilions: The house is composed of two self-similar pavilions -- one for living and one for sleeping.
The home is designed around two pavilions. One for sleeping and one for living - so even if there is a noisy get-together in the living area, the bedrooms remain blissfully quiet (save, perhaps, for the sound of waves crashing at the shore). There is more than enough space for visitors -- a key requirement of the brief for a family who love to entertain.
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The World War on Women
by Andrew North
Sally Thurer
In Turkey, a conservative Muslim president announces that women who don't stay home and bear children are "deficient." In Russia's Duma, a campaign is afoot to decriminalize domestic violence. In India, the editor of a liberal investigative magazine corners an employee during a glitzy literary gathering, puts his hands under her clothes and penetrates her, then dismisses the whole incident as "drunken banter." In the Philippines, the new president jokes about having missed his chance to lead a gang-rape.
If the grotesque behavior of the Republican nominee shocks many Americans, for the world watching the campaign from afar it has been a kind of leveler, demonstrating that when it comes to attitudes toward women, the United States is more like anywhere else than perhaps it wanted to believe. "We know this language from politicians," says Rebecca John, an Indian lawyer based in Delhi who has represented many rape victims.
Misogyny remains everywhere a rich seam that more politicians are mining. Donald Trump is the latest in a growing cast of leaders and political movements worldwide that explicitly or implicitly denigrate women as part of their platform. The former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi was the Western pioneer of this new trend, with his flamboyant blend of sexism, narcissism, and nationalism, not forgetting his à la carte relationship with the truth.
There are now many subspecies of this political type worldwide. They are almost always nationalists, often authoritarian and religious, always populist, but often democratically elected, too. If women thought they could relax a little with the rights they have gained, in many places they are looking at a return to the past. Repeatedly — think of Trump's bragging about how he couldn't have assaulted his accusers because they weren't sufficiently attractive — the new generation of strongmen signal that they are not interested in the norms of modern women's rights. And the divisive strategy appears to be working.
Take Turkey. Its conservative Muslim president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and his Justice and Development Party are steadily moving to put women in a second-class box, say his critics — effectively halting decades of slow improvement in their rights under his secular predecessors. Now, Erdogan insists, a woman's role is to stay at home and have "at least three children," and he labels those who don't as "deficient" and "denying their femininity."
Since surviving a coup attempt in July, the Turkish leader and his party have doubled down on this message. Prescriptions about a woman's role have been tied to wider nationalistic demands to boost population numbers, according to Gulsum Kav, a doctor and co-founder of an activist group that campaigns against domestic violence. And the atmosphere has become increasingly toxic. Some of Erdogan's supporters have said the wives of any men who backed his ouster should be raped as punishment. They are the "spoils of war," tweeted one loyalist, though he was later forced to resign from his job at a soccer club.
Move northward to Russia, and President Vladimir Putin (yes, he of the much-discussed Trump bromance). In alliance with the country's Orthodox Church, the Kremlin's enforcer has overseen similar changes in the language of government about the need to protect traditional family values. That has been coupled with a concerted effort to squeeze women's rights, including moves to further restrict access to abortion and dilute legislation on domestic violence.
For an even more rancid version of this noxious mix, head to the Philippines, where Rodrigo Duterte won the presidency this year after a campaign that trumped even Trump. Once Duterte "joked" to a crowd about not having gotten to participate in the rape and murder of an Australian woman in the city he governed, his poll numbers went up.
In India, where I was based as a journalist, the battle over the place of women in society was the dominant theme of my reporting. The recent history there of agitation for women's rights has been one of relentless disappointment. When a medical student was gang-raped and killed in the capital in 2012, prompting global headlines, the left-leaning government faced national protests. One of the crusading editors who led the criticism was Tarun Tejpal — the man himself charged with assaulting a journalist in an elevator shortly thereafter.
The failures of the left sparked hopes that women would get a better deal from the right-wing prime minister, Narendra Modi, who won in a landslide in 2014. Instead, campaigners say, he and his Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are presiding over a backlash against greater female emancipation. Sexual violence remains a common weapon in enforcing tradition in India, and Modi's hardline supporters have whipped up panic about a "Love Jihad" by India's Muslim minority to marry and convert Hindu women.
However it is enforced, the goal is to "relegate us to the role of homemaker," says John, the Delhi lawyer. Not that you'll catch Modi saying anything like this. On the contrary, since he swept to victory with the slogan "Good Days Are Coming," he has urged Indians to show more respect for women, calling in a recent speech for them to "be treated right." But what matters just as much in India is what he doesn't do. Modi has repeatedly turned a blind eye to the misogynistic excesses of his supporters. As a leader who has sold himself as a decisive strongman, that lack of condemnation is read as assent.
Like Modi, the Russian president has been delphic in his statements about women. But in the looking-glass world that Putin's Kremlin has become infamous for, it has encouraged a misogynistic mindset even as it claims to be defending the female population. Under the conservative banner of "family values," the government and its Orthodox allies have redefined the rights of women, according to Dr. Vikki Turbine, a specialist on Russia at Glasgow University. "Their rights are framed in terms of their right to have more children, or their right to be paid not to have an abortion."
This redefinition shades quickly into a more direct attack on women's rights in favor of "families." "Should a family member go to prison for a slap?" asked Yelena Mizulina, a conservative senator in Russia's parliament, when she introduced a bill that would make it easier for men to beat their wives with impunity. The chair of the Duma's Committee on Family, Women, and Children, Mizulina previously authored Russia's notorious "anti–gay propaganda" law.
Much like LGBT rights, in fact, universal human rights are portrayed in Russia and India as a Western Trojan horse. The idea that human rights are a Western construct has been a cornerstone of Vladimir Putin's philosophy. Substitute "liberal" for "Western" here, and you start getting something akin to Trump. The basic message is that the niceties of women's rights and universal rights are a tool of distant elites. Far from decrying these attitudes, the public in many countries, as at Trump's rallies, has come to embrace them.
In India, voters have made clear they don't much care even if their politicians are accused of serious sex crimes. Several years ago, I interviewed an Indian politician, Manoj Kumar Paras, who had been indicted for taking part in a rape (six years later, in typical Indian fashion, the case is still pending). He claimed the charge had been fabricated by his opponents. But his real argument was that the voters had in effect acquitted him. Everyone in his constituency knew about the rape charge, Paras said. "They could see through it, and that's why I won by thirty thousand votes."
Modi himself faced serious questions about his past before he became prime minister. He is accused of turning a blind eye to communal riots that broke out in his home state of Gujarat when he was in charge, which claimed the lives of at least a thousand people, most of them Muslims, including hundreds of women who were raped and butchered.
For some voters the willingness to accept violence — against Muslims, against women, against foes of the state — in the service of nationalism is part of Modi's appeal. I followed Modi's campaign closely, and looking back it had echoes of the Republican challenger's revivalist message. It was in effect a promise to "Make India Great Again." And the Indian prime minister has the same kind of fanatical admirers, with almost twice as many followers on Twitter.
In Turkey, the link between nationalism, violence, and the eclipse of women's rights is even more direct. Kav, the doctor and Erdogan critic, has no qualms about comparing Erdogan's ideology to its very dark models. "Like Hitler or Mussolini," says Kav, "he wants the population increased so he has more soldiers and more cheap labor."
A dismissive misogyny has become so commonplace on the international stage that when aired in anything but the ugliest terms it barely elicits comment. Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, gave a sharp sense of Kremlin attitudes in a recent interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour. Invited to comment on Trump's "pussy" remark, he ducked the opportunity to condemn it, instead joking that "there are so many pussies in your presidential campaign that I prefer not to comment."
Watching the video clip, Amanpour's giggling reaction was just as disturbing as the smirk on Lavrov's face. Here was one of America's best-known journalists collapsing into laughter at a joke that effectively legitimized a U.S. presidential candidate's boast of getting away with assaulting women. The steady patter of comments has inured even journalists to their meaning.
Meanwhile, for their intended audience, they gain power from constant repetition. From Istanbul to Gujarat, Moscow to Illinois, this is old-style dog-whistle politics in a globalized world. The mix changes with each strongman leader, but not the overall strategy. Like a graphic equalizer, they vary the balance of misogyny or racism, nationalism or fear, but it's still the same treacherous tune.
Andrew North is a journalist based in Tbilisi, Georgia. Follow him on Twitter @NorthAndrew.
Correction: An earlier version of this story misspelled the name of Gulsum Kav, the Turkish activist and doctor.
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Firefight
If ever there was a test case proving that hard work, tenacity, a healthy amount suffering and word of mouth pays off, BLACKGUARD is it. Formed in 2001 as a genuine black metal outfit, the heavy metal sextet began as lesser known "PROFUGUS MORTIS", made popular in their hometown of Montréal. Hungry for bigger stages, they fought a pitched battle to stand out amongst their international metal brethren, going through numerous line-up changes along the way. Over a decade later, BLACKGUARD stands strong, remaining the pride and joy of the French-Canadian death metal scene.
In late 2004, the band welcomed gritty vocalist Paul Zinay, bassist Étienne Mailloux, and began working on a cleaner, more definitive sound. Committed to their Northern roots, the band zeroed in on their own unique blend of Scandinavian folk-metal and melodic black metal. "This comes to us naturally," says Zinay "and we're definitely the sum of our parts. What's going on around us influences us to a certain degree, of course, but in the end we're putting our own spin on it and giving the band its own defining characteristics. Before we came in the band's sound was a lot more progressive black metal; there were a lot of riffs and tempo changes, but we've gone in a much more straightforward direction since then. I guess we took on a power metal and a straight up folk metal influence along the way."
Releasing a self-produced demo in 2005, BLACKGUARD (still PROFUGUS MORTIS at the time), hopped on the Xtreme Distortion Festival in Montreal with KATAKLYSM. Blowing the crowds away with their epic guitar riffing and synth infused power; they easily won the title Best Unsigned Band at the event, gaining hundreds of loyal followers. With metal supporters behind them, "PROFUGUS MORTIS" released …So It Begins, their first professional recording in 2007. Receiving rave reviews, critics were shocked and amazed to discover the band's dynamic, heavy-hitting backbone was Justine Éthier, Montreal's premiere female drummer. In the next two years, the band had redubbed themselves BLACKGUARD and released album Profugus Mortis, in 2009 as a tribute to their past. Top of the line production quality, controlled vocals and killer keyboard solos eventually got the attention of Victory Records, who added BLACKGUARD to their metal roster in 2010.
With a lineup of vocalist Zinay, Mailloux on bass, Terry Deschenes and Louis Jacques on guitar and Justine on drums, BLACKGUARD has been keeping busy churning out epic-metal for the masses. Playing what can only be described as "warrior metal", fans are transported to an immense battle field, getting hit by heavy chugging bass lines and intricate guitar riffs along the way. Under their new label, BLACKGUARD perfected their epic death-power metal sound, releasing their most successful album to date, Firefight, on March 29, 2011. Flooring metal fans by their speed, the band had become known for their exact technical work and hauntingly explosive keyboard melodies.
Before long, BLACKGUARD had recruited an army of thousands, performing sold out shows all over the world. Recently touring with KAMELOT, XANDRIA, and TRIOSPHERE, fans all over Europe flocked to the stage to witness the metal journey they have created. Committed to achieving metal excellence, their tour-hard sensibilities have them consistently traveling, letting their culture-soaked darkness sweep over the hardcore scene. Featured on Todd And The Book Of Pure Evil, SpaceNet's most successful show, BLACKGUARD's death metal had finally made its way into the homes of millions.
In March 2013, BLACKGUARD joined SOILWORK, JEFF LOOMIS, THE BROWNING and label-brothers WRETCHED, finally making their long-awaited return to the US on a two month, fifty-plus date run through North America. Dedicated, talented, and pissed off, BLACKGUARD plans to continue their epic quest to convert non-believers – Scandinavian death metal is here to stay.
Firefight Poster
Epic Metal T-Shirt
Firefight CD
These Voices T-Shirt
BLACKGUARD HEADS TO EUROPE
Canadian power metal band BLACKGUARD are proud to announce their return to Europe, supporting KAMELOT on their upcoming European tour beginning November 2nd in Eindhoven, Netherlands. See a full list of tour dates here.
Vocalist Paul Zinay comments "We had a blast conquering North America with Kamelot and now it's time to conquer some new territories. We are very honored that we were asked to join them on this tour and we'd like to give our deepest thanks and gratitude to Thomas and all of the Kamelot crew for extending us this invitation. This will be the last tour supporting our latest album Firefight and we can't imagine ending on a higher note than this."
BLACKGUARD is currently in the studio completing their forthcoming album STORM, out Spring 2013. They will begin a month long headlining tour starting October 7th in New York City and then join EPICA on tour starting October 23rd. Watch their most recent video "Firefight" here and view a complete list of tour dates here.
Blackguard begins pre-production
BLACKGUARD is hard at work on pre-production for their fourth album, STORM. Click here to see what vocalist Paul Zinay released as an official statement on the band's progress.
BLACKGUARD LIVE FROM MILWAUKEE!
BLACKGUARD is playing at The Rave in Milwaukee tonight at 9:30 pm (CST). Watch the LIVE webcast here.
BLACKGUARD ON MTV's FANTASY FACTORY
Tonight Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory gets EPIC with BLACKGUARD's "A Blinding Light" in the episode @ 10pm EST/9pm CST on MTV!
After the show go to MTV's Soundtrack Blog for a free download of the song!
BLACKGUARD MUSIC VIDEO
BLACKGUARD have released the video for the title track off the hugely anticipated album Firefight, out March 29th on Victory Records. BANG YOUR HEAD. Watch Here.
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Justine Ethier - Drums
Etienne Mailloux - Bass
Paul Zinay - Vocal
Louis Jacques - Guitar
Terry Deschenes - Guitar
Blackguard is currently not on tour.


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