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Das Freiberger Brauhaus ist eine Brauerei in Freiberg, Sachsen, die zur Radeberger Gruppe im Oetker-Konzern gehört.

Geschichte
Am 11. August 1850 wurde der "Commun-Brauhof zu Freiberg" von der Freiberger Braugenossenschaft eröffnet. Das Freiberger Brauhaus braute 1863 als erste Brauerei in Sachsen unter der Bezeichnung "Freiberger Böhmisch" ein Bier nach Pilsner Art, sie firmierte 1898 zur "Bürgerlichen Brauhaus Freiberg AG" um, einer der ersten Aktiengesellschaften Deutschlands.

Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg lag Freiberg in der Sowjetischen Besatzungszone, später der DDR. Die Brauerei verlor 1946 ihren Rechtsstatus als Aktiengesellschaft; 1948 wurde sie zum Volkseigenen Betrieb (die Besitzer wurden enteignet) und später in das "VEB Getränkekombinat Karl-Marx-Stadt" eingegliedert.

Nach dem Ende der DDR wurde der Betrieb von der Eichbaum-Brauereien AG (Mannheim) übernommen und ging 2000 in der Actris AG des SAP-Gründers Dietmar Hopp auf. In dieser Zeit entstanden auch neue Betriebsanlagen am nördlichen Stadtrand, und das alte Firmengelände am Stadtring wurde aufgegeben, nur die Brauereigaststätte blieb erhalten.

Im Mai 2006 wurde das Unternehmen rückwirkend zum 1. Januar 2006 an die Radeberger Gruppe verkauft, der zu diesem Zeitpunkt schon drei sächsische Brauereien gehörten. 2006 produzierte Freiberger erstmals mehr als eine Million Hektoliter in einem Jahr.

Sortiment
Aktuell werden im Freiberger Brauhaus folgende Freiberger Biersorten hergestellt:

Vor der Umstellung im Frühjahr 2009 wurden alle Sorten in NRW-Flaschen abgefüllt, außer Freibergisch Jubiläums-Festbier, welches bis dahin in Longneck-Bügelverschlussflaschen verkauft wurde.

Marketing und Werbung

Eine Straßenbahn der Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe wurde als Werbefläche für das Freiberger Brauhaus beklebt. Auch im Jahr 2019 fuhr sie auf verschiedenen Linien im Stadtgebiet von Dresden.

Das Freiberger Brauhaus ist außerdem Premium-Partner der 3 sächsischen Eishockey-Mannschaften der DEL2 (Eispiraten Crimmitschau, Eislöwen Dresden und Lausitzer Füchse).

Sonstiges
 Das Brauhaus veranstaltet seit mehreren Jahren auf und vor dem Betriebsgelände das "Freiberger Brauhausfest", das sich zum regionalen Großereignis mit Auftritten bekannter Gruppen und Höhenfeuerwerk entwickelte.
 Von 2004 bis 2006 warb die Leipziger Pop-Band "Die Prinzen" für das Bier, davor Gunther Emmerlich.
 Das Eissport- und Ballspielzentrum in Dresden trug zwischen 2007 und 2010 den Namen "Freiberger Arena".

Weblinks

 Homepage des Freiberger Brauhauses
 Historische Bieretiketten der Brauerei

Einzelnachweise

Brauerei (Sachsen)
Brauerei (DDR)
Radeberger Gruppe
Unternehmen (Freiberg)
Freiberger Brauhaus
Wirtschaft (Erzgebirge)
Actris
Produzierendes Unternehmen (Landkreis Mittelsachsen)


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On Flight to Reef Conservation
Turtles Local Stories
Lady Elliot Island is like no place on earth, it's unique proximity to the continental shelf and the Eastern Australian Current make it a beacon for large mega fauna such as Manta Rays with a known population of over a thousand.
Managing Director and pilot of Lady Elliot Island Eco Resort, Peter Gash, has been flying guests to the Southern Great Barrier Reef for over 25 years and he wouldn't change it for the world. Armed with a lifetime of knowledge there is no one better to take the journey from the mainland out to the picturesque Lady Elliot Island with, having ferried guests to the island since the 1990s. Peter, his family and two business partners took over the island and eco-resort lease in 2005 and have been working ever since to provide an exceptional eco-tourism experience to visitors while protecting and preserving the reef.
(Credit: Kara Murphy)
Lady Elliot Island adorns its shelves with eco-tourism and reef conservation awards including the coveted Marie Watson-Blake award for 'Outstanding Contribution by an Individual' for Peter's 30+ years contribution to Queensland's dynamic tourism industry, specifically his passion, dedication and leadership in sustainable ecotourism. Leaders in eco-tourism Lady Elliot Island implements a number of strategies to ensure the protection and preservation of the reef including a 're-greening' revegetation/eradication program, to restore the island back to its original state after it was mined for Guano in the 1800's, the banning of plastic water bottles and straws, the use of a Hybrid Solar Power Station to power the island and a number of eco initiatives to keep our reef healthy for it's inhabitants and visitors to enjoy. Lady Elliot Island currently operates on 80% renewable energy with a goal to be operational with 100% renewable energy by 2021.
(Credit: Jeremy Somerville)
Come take a trip to Lady Elliot Island, disconnect from your phones and be inspired to go green.
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Chick-fil-A Plans Dupont Outpost in DC
By Christina sturdivant-Sani	November 7, 2018 5:12 pm
Chick-fil-A chicken sandwich, grilled nuggets, spicy chicken sandwich, fries and a wrap. Photo: Kaitlyn Flannagan/Commercial Observer)
Chick-fil-A plans to open an outpost at 1214 18th Street NW, south of Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C., according to a Washington Business Journal report.
SEE ALSO: Ricoh Moves to Prologis Warehouse in Inland Empire
While a Chick-fil-A spokeswoman told Commercial Observer that the fast-food restaurant "hopes to serve the Dupont community" but could not confirm any locations at this time, WBJ reported that the company signed a 15-year lease with Jefferson LP, an affiliate of Douglas Development.
Douglas senior vice president Matthew Jemal, who did not return CO's request for comment, told WBJ that Chick-fil-A will take up 5,298 square feet between the ground floor and the basement. It's unclear if brokers were involved in the deal.
The space was formerly occupied by MIA Lounge and Public Bar operates out of the second and third floors of the building
The lease restricts the landlord from leasing space in nearby properties to any eateries that sells or serves chicken "as a principal menu item" unless they are full-service, sit down restaurants, according to the publication.
This will be the chicken franchise's ninth location in the D.C. region.
Keywords: 1214 18th Street NW, Chick-fil-A, Douglas Development, Jefferson LP, Matthew Jemal, MIA Lounge, Public Bar
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The Windows 10 Mail app displays a high quality background image by default in any white space (i.e., any space not occupied by messages). If you don't like Microsoft's default choice for your Windows 10 Mail background image, here's how to change it or, going a step further, how to get rid of the background image altogether.
To get started, launch the Windows 10 Mail app from your Start Menu or by searching for it via Start Search or Cortana. If this is your first time launching the Windows 10 Mail app, you'll need to set up at least one email account first before you can proceed. Once that's done, you'll find yourself looking at your email account(s) set against one of the default background images chosen by Windows.
To change this background image, click the Settings icon (depicted as a gear on the right side of the leftmost column) and choose Personalization from the Settings list that appears on the right side of the Mail window.
From the Personalization menu, locate the Background section. This is where you can choose from one of the default Windows 10 Mail backgrounds or select your own image by clicking Browse and navigating to the image of your choice. Supported file formats are Bitmap (.bmp), Portable Network Graphics (.png), and JPEG (.jpg or .jpeg). Note that the Windows 10 Mail app will scale smaller images up to fill the available white space in the application window, so make sure you choose a custom background image of sufficient resolution to avoid degraded image quality.
As soon as you make your selection of either a default or custom background image, you'll immediately see the background of the Windows 10 Mail app change. If you're satisfied with the new look, you can now close the Settings sidebar and return to using the app.
The process of removing the Windows 10 Mail app background image is bit tricky, as the app doesn't provide an official user option to simply disable all background images. Instead, we can achieve the same effect as disabling the the background image by selectively using the option to change the background image, as discussed above.
The steps involved in this process are simple in hindsight: we simply need to set a custom background image that is a solid color that matches our Windows 10 theme. For our example, we'll assume that you're using the "light" theme and that you want a blank white background.
The first step is to create your blank background image. You can use any image editing application for this, but the easiest method is to rely on Microsoft Paint, as it is already available on every Windows 10 installation.
To get our blank background image, we'll just create a blank white image in Paint. The size doesn't matter much, as the blank white image will maintain the same appearance even if it's stretched by the Mail app. With your blank image created (which should be the default after opening the app unless you've previously changed Paint's settings), simply save it to a convenient location on your PC's hard drive, such as the Pictures folder.
Now, head back to the Windows 10 Mail app and repeat the steps outlined above for changing your background image. This time, however, select the blank white image you just created. You'll immediately see that all unused space in the Mail app is now white, and the app appears as if the background image feature has been completely disabled.
Our example was for a white background, but if you're using the Windows 10 dark theme you may want a blank gray or black background. To achieve this look, just repeat the steps above but create a blank gray or black image in Paint instead of a blank white image.
If at any time you decide that you want to once again have a nice background image for your email browsing pleasure, just head back to Settings > Personalization > Background and choose a new image.


After the 13th Century Ashkelon disappeared from the map, until this century when it became again a sizeable city, which lies outside of the excavations.
The first wall was built 3000 years ago, when the Canaanite cities in the Levant were defended by mighty bulwarks.
Research showed that the Bronze Age city was the same size as in the Middle Age city.
There is no specific date for the founding of Ashkelon.
Its origins date back approximately 5000 years and it is considered to be one of the world's most ancient cities, a cradle of human culture.
Thanks to its special strategic position, the city fulfilled a vital role in the ancient history of the East.
The Egyptians recognized the importance of Ashkelon and its conquest is engraved in a picture on the wall of a temple dating from the Ramses II period.
During biblical times, Ashkelon was one of the five key Philistine cities along the coastal plain.
Although in the Book of Judges (1:18) it is said that the tribe of Judah took Ashkelon, the city actually remained in the hands of the Philistines.
More at Archaeology in Israel: Ashkelon.


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After six non-conference games to start the season, Notre Dame opens Hockey East play against Vermont tonight.
Irish junior left wing Sam Herr crashes the net against Lake Superior State on Oct. 17, at Compton Family Ice Arena. Herr has three goals on the season while junior left wing Mario Lucia leads the team with six.
The No. 20 Irish (4-2-0) host No. 13 Vermont (4-0-0, 2-0-0 Hockey East) at Compton Family Ice Arena tonight and Saturday. The Irish and Catamounts met in two games last season at Vermont's home rink in Notre Dame's first Hockey East appearances. Now, one year later, Notre Dame and Vermont meet once again to kick off Notre Dame's second season in the Hockey East.
While last year marked only the third time the Irish have faced the Catamounts in program history, Notre Dame now possesses more familiarity with its now-conference foe. In addition to breeding familiarity, one year of competition in Hockey East has provided invaluable experience on the ice against Vermont as well as other conference competitors, Jackson said.
Six games into the season, the Irish now have a better understanding of themselves and their team identity. Notre Dame enters tonight's game off back-to-back sweeps of Lake Superior State on Oct. 17-18 and Niagara on Oct. 24-25. The Irish outscored their opponents by a 23-7 margin in that stretch.
The young Irish roster has seen break-out performances from freshman right wing Jake Evans and center Connor Hurley, while junior left wings Sam Herr and Mario Lucia, junior center and captain Steven Fogarty and senior defenseman Robbie Russo all have contributed to the attack.
"I think people have seen that the young guys are going to contribute from an offensive perspective, [and] I think they've all grown, the younger guys, and the older guys are getting their games back," Jackson said. "We are getting a bit of chemistry with the lines, and we stayed with the line up for the most part for the first time [last weekend].
Vermont faces the Irish with two conference victories under its belt. The Catamounts beat Connecticut, 2-1, on Saturday and Northeastern, 6-2, on Oct. 11. The Catamounts boast one of the nation's strongest defenses, with junior goaltender Brody Hoffman holding a .940 save percentage overall and .935 save percentage in-conference. While the Irish underclassmen have seen their offense expand, Jackson said creating scoring opportunities against Vermont and in Hockey East will pose a new challenge.
"It's going to be a bigger grind … six periods of hockey against Vermont is going to be a grind," Jackson said. "They are a good defensive team, they've got good goaltending, and they've got decent depth.
The Irish open Hockey East action against the Catamounts tonight at 8:05 p.m at the Compton Family Ice Arena. Notre Dame and Vermont will begin Saturday's contest at 7:05 p.m.
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The Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) provides board, school and individual student reports based on the results of the annual provincial assessments for students. Board and school reports include results for the current year and the previous four years to help track the progress of the student population over time. They also include contextual and attitudinal information to support in-depth analyses of student achievement.
Used in conjunction with other achievement information—such as report card grades and classroom assessment results—EQAO data are a powerful tool that helps educators, parents and students identify achievements, challenges, as well as strategies for improvement.


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Evidence of meeting #85 for Industry, Science and Technology in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was broadband.
November 23rd, 2017 / 11:40 a.m.
For CRTC, I always like to ask these questions. What kinds of ideas or innovations are stakeholders coming forward with, if anything, throughout the course of your consultations at the moment?
We try to get as large a record as we can on any of our files. We did get quite a lot of interventions on our basic telecom proceeding from last year. We had over 50,000 Canadians participate, including all of the major service providers, and governments as well, and technology groups. They tell us what's coming down the pipe in terms of future innovation. We try to understand that when we develop our regulations.
Going to your earlier question, where there is market power, we would intervene. For example, we do regulate the rates for Northwestel's terrestrial Internet service up north because there isn't enough competition to sufficiently protect the interests of users. We will develop regulations for wholesale or open access, including the rates they can charge other providers. There is such a service in the north for other providers to get transport in the north from Northwestel, so we will step in.
However, innovation is clearly an important part of the Telecommunications Act, and we always look for that and step out of the way. We don't want to be impeding that anywhere in trying to support the growth.
We've been hearing comments overall around net neutrality. Can you talk to us a bit about how that might affect the way you're looking at funding or how to get a bit of...? Are you contemplating that at all in thinking through your work?
In terms of the CRTC broadband fund, no, it's not part of the discussion. We set net neutrality rules starting back in 2009, and most recently this year as well with the zero rating decision on differential pricing. We want to have a level playing field for the application space in Canada. We see service providers continue to invest in their networks, and we obviously encourage that and take that into account in all our decisions.
Is there anything the government needs to do from a policy standpoint, understanding that this is a context we may be operating in going forward?
I'm sorry. Can you repeat the question?
In the context of net neutrality, is there any advice you would give to the government? Well, I guess you're going to formulate that advice. Is there any policy thinking around this that we might be doing or should be thinking about?
Minister Bains has been clear that the government supports the neutrality principles and that they are very critical for innovation in an open Internet in Canada.
The Telecommunications Act does have quite strong provisions that empower the CRTC to put in place regulations that give life to these principles and that are flexible, such that the CRTC can evolve its framework in light of new technologies. Of course, this is a very fast-moving space.
Also, budget 2017 did announce that the government was going to be undertaking a review of the Telecommunications Act and the Broadcasting Act. There will be further news on that in the future, but certainly net neutrality will be a key theme in that review.
We're going to move to Mr. Eglinski for five minutes.
Thank you, and thank you to all the witnesses who are here today.
I'd like to follow through on a couple of things that were said earlier.
I come from the riding of Yellowhead, which is basically Alberta west to the Rocky Mountains, and almost as far south as Calgary. We have a lot of areas that suffer from lack of cellphone coverage, lack of telecommunications fibre, and stuff such as that. There are two major problems I want to talk about.
A lot of small companies have popped up. They put up a repeater or a tower in an area, and then they go off and market their product to the local residents. People buy into it because they're excited that they're going to get 10 megabits per second, or so much power. The guy just keeps adding and adding clients to the system, and then at peak periods such as from 5:30 to 11 o'clock, you can't get anything. It's just dead. The system is just so slow. If you get up at four o'clock in the morning, you can probably get what they promised you, whether it was 10 or 20 megabits.
My question would be probably to Christopher. Are there any regulations in place to control those companies from oversubscribing to what their service is capable of giving?
That's right. These are underserved areas.
They're eligible for the funding from various programs out there.
We should really try to stay away from any specific price regulation on the Internet. We consider that market essentially competitive in that case, because you do have choices. In some of those more rural areas, it might be just one fixed wireless provider that you have access to at this point. However, we really want the ability for others to grow out, so we don't have any regulations put in place on the small providers, especially for those rural areas. We're really looking to allow competition to grow out there or funding to support new infrastructure and upgrading of infrastructure.
I'll move on with my question, then.
I have a community of 4,500 people. It's 145 kilometres from the next community of Hinton. It has fewer than five megabits per second, probably two and a half. The main provider is Telus, but Telus will not spend any money because it says it isn't a big enough population to invest in a new fibre optic line to that community. Is it still available for that community to apply for funding through your organization, to either go on its own or find some system to bring in there? When you're only getting one and a half to two megabits per second during the daytime, it's almost impossible to get anything done.
For the Connect to Innovate program, the application period closed April 20 of this year. It would be too late to apply to our program. Maybe somebody did apply. I don't know.
I don't know either. I will find out probably by the end of today.
Will it be open again next year?
Given that around $4.4 billion was applied for in a $500-million fund, I suspect that once all projects have been selected, the full $500 million will be used up, which is why planning to apply for the CRTC fund is probably the best bet for this community.
It might have applied to the Connect to Innovate program. I don't know. If it hasn't, then the next step would be for the community to plan to apply for the funding under the CRTC. There is a good pot of money there, and it sounds like a perfect candidate if you're not able to even get five megabits per second in the community.
Not yet. Two and a half megabits is the highest.
The problem is that you've got 145 miles of somebody else's fibre.
You're dealing with a community at the end of the line.
I was wondering if funding is still available to apply for, and is there...?
Our funding has obviously not been launched, because we're in the implementation design phase right now. We'll have that decision next year, and then we'll set up the fund. Probably funds will start flowing in 2019.
As part of our decision back in December, we looked at transport issues. We said we'd do a research piece on that. We're looking at that right now to understand if there are some monopoly routes, as you might call them, where there is not sufficient access for other providers to potentially get access to those routes and to understand if any regulatory action needs to be taken. That's ongoing right now.
We're going to move over to Mr. Sheehan. You have five minutes.


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Interview: Aki Mäkivirta (Genelec 4430/Smart IP)
The steady convergence of advances in technology, technical expertise, business experience and market opportunity have conspired to drive Finnish loudspeaker pioneer Genelec to bring a new, market-defining loudspeaker to market.
Cherry-picking from the company's existing work and adding in new Smart IP technology, the 4430 has a declared mission to 'empower the installer' by simplifying installation and connectivity, and offering unprecedented applications.
Sitting alongside Managing Director Siamäk Naghian, Genelec R&D Director Aki Mäkivirta is armed with an example of the latest fruit of the company's labours and the loudspeaker's story to tell. Its mission statement is displayed on a screen behind him…
'One of the key things we are trying to achieve is to empower the installer with something that is going to simplify their life a great deal,' he restates. 'Essentially, this is a loudspeaker with single cable connectivity and uncompromised audio quality. It also has a lot of flexibility that you wouldn't usually have in a loudspeaker.'
The enclosure itself is from Genelec's most popular model but much of what is inside is entirely new. 'It's rather challenging if you think in terms of trying to convince customers,' Mäkivirta jokes, 'it looks like the thing you had before.'
Loaded with a 5-inch woofer and 0.75-inch metal dome tweeter, the 4430 boasts a frequency response of 45Hz-23kHz (-6dB) and will deliver up to 107dB SPL – well beyond the capabilities of installers' familiar options.
The new design draws on the 'tools' that Genelec has acquired through the development of loudspeaker systems for a variety of applications over the past 40 years, and adds its implementation of Audio-over-IP (AoIP).
'We call it Genelec Smart IP, and it is comprised of three different things – audio, management and power – all over IP,' Mäkivirta explains. 'This means that there is only a single IP cable going to the loudspeaker. This is similar to the traditional way of dealing with installed audio where, typically, you have a single 100V connection. We have tried to do the same but with a modern twist, to deliver greater service but still using one cable.
'To install loudspeakers you need amplifiers, signal processing and possibly an automation system for control, and at the other end of the cable you need an IP switch. All of these are built into this loudspeaker – you don't need that additional gear any more. In order to implement a modern audio system, it is all here. You just need cabling that may be in the building anyway.'
Along with its monitoring-standard frequency response and high SPL capabilities, the 4430 also has very precise on-axis response and high directivity. 'These things come from our professional heritage into the installation world,' Mäkivirta says. 'The maximum SPL for an individual loudspeaker in a regular room can reach up to 107dB @1m – it is quite capable, considering its size – and we are supporting sample rates of up to 96kHz and 24-bit PCM.
'The directivity control enables us to have high-quality audio even in quite acoustically challenging rooms. We really try to develop loudspeakers that deliver very high-quality audio. Now you can have this installed in your house!
'You also have a good selection of colours and a good selection of mounting options.'
Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) first appeared as an IEEE standard in 2003, and provides a means of powering IP connected devices. 'Typically, an IP switch that is able to supply PoE comes with an external power supply and delivers power through the network cable,' Mäkivirta elaborates. 'These cables don't have very thick conductors so, if you have a long cable, there will be some voltage loss depending on how much power you are drawing. In an extreme situation, or, if you are drawing a lot of current, you have the option of supplying power locally with a PoE power injector – again, an off-the-shelf device.
'You can easily find devices that support the PoE standard or PoE+ – PoE supplying 13W or PoE+ supplying 25W into the device – this is the continuous power you can draw into the cable but this doesn't offer you very much in terms of audio.
'Audio is very dynamic, so you need high peak levels. The power supply that we have built into the loudspeaker will take care of this continuous power level as well as storing some of the power and being able to deliver it during these dynamic peaks. This enables us to supply power to the loudspeaker's amplifiers to deliver 105-107dB using standard PoE power – which is quite nice.
'Using this stored power, we can sustain a higher output level for some time, dependant on how high the peak level is. Typically, the high peaks in practical audio signals are not of very long duration. This type of amplifier design is very flexible because it can operate in these different PoE environments without problems.'
Using the AoIP platform means that multiple audio channels can be sent over a network to be employed in any way that connected equipment allows. 'This is where things get interesting,' Mäkivirta says.
'We are using AoIP streaming supporting two different formats – using the standard AES67 ST2110-30, each loudspeaker is able to receive a stream containing a maximum of eight channels, and it can select one or two of those channels and reproduce them. With Dante, if you have multichannel Dante formatted audio then it is divided into different flows with each flow able to carry four channels of audio. Again, the loudspeaker can reproduce one channel or the sum of two channels from that.
'The loudspeaker itself can connect to a very high channel count streaming arrangement and select just the audio it needs to reproduce. This means you can use the loudspeakers in a very complicated audio installation. Multichannel immersive audio can easily be played back using this arrangement. Modern streaming automatically takes care of everything using PTP clocking to synchronise all of the devices – as long as individual streams are received in time for delivery, they can be presented totally synchronised, even though they are moving independently within the IP network.
'This is much better than what can generally be achieved with standard house clocking systems, which means you have great flexibility with an AoIP approach. The main limiting factor is the network throughput capacity, as the more channels you have, the more network capacity you are using.'
The IP implementation in the 4430 also allows control and configuration of loudspeaker networks.
'You can configure the audio you are reproducing by using Dante Controller or Dante Domain Manager; so we are using a pretty standard method of doing things for installers,' Mäkivirta says. 'At the level of the loudspeaker, you have the streaming input in two different formats and the option of choosing which one of these you are reproducing, or if you are reproducing the sum of two. Also, you could be configuring the loudspeaker to produce one streamed audio channel and the line input simultaneously.
'Streaming is very flexible and, because we are using standard tools, it's also very easy for people to understand and configure. The other level of this is connecting to the house automation system and seeing that a multi-loudspeaker system is working as you would like. This can be achieved using API (Application Programming Interface) commands. This also allows you to be constantly aware of what is going on with any particular loudspeaker, by building a monitoring GUI.'
Controlling interest
'When you are installing the loudspeakers, you need things like acoustic calibration to ensure that are they are all aligned and that each loudspeaker's sound character is as good as it can be,' Mäkivirta continues.
'Depending on where the loudspeaker has been installed, you might have some room acoustic influence that you want to compensate for – in order to do this, we are offering Smart IP Manager software, software that can find all the loudspeakers on the network and manage them in terms of zones. It gives you access into the loudspeaker to adjust the room compensation filters, as well as the level and gain delay alignment. These parameters define the acoustic calibration, and can be written into one of the five memory locations.'
'If you think of zoning, the idea is that each zone has some aspects that can be controlled collectively. This Smart IP Manager software gives you that as well as access to all these API commands.'
The 3340 also has the ability to store five user-defined acoustic configurations that can be recalled using API commands. Additionally, the loudspeaker firmware can be updated via Smart IP Manager software.
If the installation world takes to the 4430 in the way Genelec anticipates, it seems inevitable that there will be further Smart IP models, offering a route forward that Genelec's success in other areas is beginning to deny the company – Siamäk Naghian believes that there is very little room for improvement in the flagship The Ones studio monitor range, for example. But with the bulk of analogue amplification replaced by the class-D alternative inside the loudspeaker enclosure, there is abundant space for the processing and management electronics being used in the 4430's design.
'I would say that the biggest advances in loudspeakers will probably come through signal processing, because you can disassociate the time domain from traditional analogue processing. You can compensate for characteristics in the drivers and any of the components in the loudspeaker and the acoustic environment it is being used in,' Mäkivirta says.
Having the foundations of its reputation in the controlled acoustic of recording and production studios, moving into installation has forced Genelec to confront often more hostile acoustic environments.
'The room is the most influential component,' Mäkivirta concedes. 'it causes the largest variance in terms of what you hear, so if you can take steps to reduce that, it is awfully valuable in delivering the most accurate reproduction.'
Siamäk Naghian is also keen to highlight another, contrasting, area of the company's development – not only the sustainability of its products, from manufacture through materials to recyclability, but also their exceptionally long working lifespan.
The Genelec 4430 received its official launch at the Finnish Music Hall of Fame in Helsinki, where it proved its capabilities in serving applications ranging from stereo presentations, through Virtual Reality and artificial acoustic rooms to live sound stages – including a 16-loudspeaker (and subwoofer) configuration for the 90 audio channels being used in the Conductor's Room. It is being sold through selected sales partners: 'The idea is that we want to train people to make sure that they know what they are dealing with, in terms of the capabilities of the loudspeaker and the Smart IP platform,' Mäkivirta says.
Given the scope of Smart IP's potential, it is easy to see why.
Genelec 4430 Smart IP loudspeaker
Genelec joins Finland's fame game in Helsinki
Genelec Smart IP immerses MOMU Pompeii exhibition
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The Company of the Dead, by David Kowalski
Posted on August 29, 2013 Updated on January 16, 2015
First time author David Kowalski certainly took on an big task for his début novel: The Company of the Dead is a wildly ambitious story that hops around from genre to genre not so much breaking the rules of good writing as simply being completely oblivious to their very existence. The end result might not always be the prettiest or easiest read, but it's certainly strikingly original and vividly rewarding for those prepared to stick with it.
The narrative starts with a retelling of the story of the fateful last night of Titanic, a good choice since most everyone knows those events courtesy of the 1997 James Cameron film. At first the account is accurate, but then as things proceed you'll notice things starting to vary from the known facts: in particular, the ship successfully avoids the iceberg. One iceberg, at least, if not the second. People die who should live, and others that we know should die manage to survive. The effect on history proves to be immense as we move back to the modern day and find a steampunk world with huge dirigibles and even larger vessels dominating the skies above a completely unfamiliar geopolitical landscape. There's a Cold War stand-off between two global superpowers, but now it's Japan whose samurai enforcers walk the streets of New York City, while the rump of the former US is now the Confederacy and is aligned to the Kaiser's global German Empire. There were no Nazis, Hitler was merely a little-remembered second-rate Austrian painter of the mid 20th century, but there was still a fatal shooting in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas in 1963.
This is not a book for the faint-hearted: at best it's deliciously, fiendishly complicated and at worst it's an intensely frustrating mindf*ck. Part of that is because this wholly transformed world is necessarily drip-fed to us in small doses (it's either that or produce a two volume reference book of a century of altered history.) In fact the characters in the story are just as much at a loss as the reader thanks to the cloak of Cold War espionage, deadly political games, devious conspiracy theories and ultimately by the fog of all-out war. Everyone's guessing at what's going on and the motivations of the other players, and they're usually wrong. And as baffled as the reader might be much of the time, at least we have one piece of knowledge denied to the participants in the tale: we actually know what the world should look like and where it all went wrong.
Later on the spy games give way first to chase scenes and shoot-outs, then to all-out large scale military battle sequences and ultimately to a time travel hard-SF plot before finally a return to where it all started on April 14 1912 in an attempt to put things back on track – only to find out it's not nearly as simple as they expected and that they've been here before. Along the way, people you expected to be big players wane and fade before the end while others become unexpectedly important: if a big publishing house had got their hands on this manuscript they would likely have tightened everything up and made it more conventional so it's just as well that genre specialist Titan got there first and allowed Kowalski to have his exuberantly undisciplined way with it all.
Underneath all the slightly manic and confusing non-linear plotting and the at-times overwhelming genre mash-up, this is a very well written book which despite all the big ideas and concepts flying around manages to pay equal respects to creating a team of characters that feel real and personable, people you want to spend time hanging out with and miss when they're gone. They're not perfect people by any means – in fact there's not one who doesn't make a terrible misstep along the way, and equally, not one left at the end who isn't at least partially redeemed as well – but they're certainly interesting and varied ones with a tale to tell.
As befits a time travel that begins and ends with variations on the same events, this is a book that I could have cheerfully immediately turned back to page one and started to read all over again, this time with a greater sense of knowledge and awareness of what was going on. That would make it a totally different experience the second time around, although to be honest I'm in the group of people who fell under its bewildering spell early on first time through despite not having a clue what was going on half the time. Like a Steven Moffat plot for Doctor Who, the initially impenetrable intricacies eventually became clear and opened up like a closed flower responding to the first sunlight of morning. If you have patience and an open mind for a work of slightly unhinged imaginative genius delivered with a surprising technical precision then The Company of the Dead could well be for you.
The saddest thing for me was at the end when I'd finished reading, and when I realised that I didn't have a clue what to move on to next – because there wasn't anything else quite like this.
The Company of the Dead is available in trade paperback from booksellers and in e-book editions.
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Thailand last week gave South Koreans a chance to sample khao kluk kapi – rice with shrimp paste – at the Asean Culinary Festival, held in Seoul and hosted by the Asean-Korea Centre.
A favourite among Thais because of its robust taste, the dish is typically served with an array of accompaniments such as sliced cucumber, sliced shalฌlot, purple onion, fried shrimp, sour mango, chillies, thinly-sliced omelette, sweetened roasted pork and Chinese sausage.
Foreigners tend to know only a few Thai dishes, such as tom yam kung and pad thai, so the chance to try khao kluk kapi at the Thai food kiosk in Seoul caused something of a sensation.
"Every time we've held Thai food events, we've only included commonly known dishes. So this time, we decided to introduce a new dish that we are certain will become another favourite among foreigners," a Tourism Authority of Thailand official at the Thai kiosk said.
Khao kluk kapi is virtually impossible to find at a Thai restaurant overseas, she added.
The Thai kiosk also introduced bua loy nam kati – tapioca in coconut cream – which also earned instant admirers.
Khao kluk kapi was introduced in a demonstration video screened during the festival's opening ceremony and viewers were seen scanning the event's programme pamphlet for more information.
The Thai kiosk was among the most popular at the food fair, with visitors seekฌing advice on preparing the dish and its accompaniments.
In welcoming remarks, AseanKorea Centre secretarygeneral Lee Hyuk said Southeast Asia was already globally famous as a gastronomic paradise and Koreans were no strangers to cuisine.
"Why do we travel? I think we travel to see and eat.
AKC's Secretary General Lee Hyuk, delivering the opening remarks at the 2018 ASEAN Culinary Festival Opening Ceremony.
"Korean travellers are known to be very keen about trying the diverse cuisine of different countries, and about 7 million Koreans travel around Southeast Asia not only for beautiful sights, but also for the food, be it exquiฌsite restaurant food or ordinary street food," Lee said.
This year's Asean Culinary Festival was themed "Gourmet Trips to Asean" and showcased a slew of ricebased dishes and desserts.
Brunei presented nasi katok (rice with side dishes and chilli sauce) and bubur pulut hitam (black glutinous rice porridge). Cambodia offered sack kor ang jangkak (rice with grilled skewered beef) and borbor thnot (palmseed dessert).
Indonesia had bubur ayam (chicken rice congee) and kue lumpur (custard cake), while Laos offered pher (beef noodle soup) and khao sang kah gna (black and white sticky rice). Malaysia, meanwhile, served up nasi tomato with ayam masak merah (tomato rice with Malaystyle red chicken) and kuih seri muka (layered glutinous rice cake).
From Myanmar came nan gyi thoke (rice noodle salad) and shwe kyi (rice pudding), from the Philippines bringhe (sticky rice with meat and seafood) and ginataang halohalo (coconut milk with tapioca), from Singapore laksa and pandan cake, and from Vietnam pho ga (chicken noodle soup) and nem/cha gio (fried spring rolls).
Another highlight of the festival was when celebrity chefs Lee Wonil of South Korea and Haji Ismail Ahmad of Malaysia had the audience in fits of laughter as they took the stage for a cooking show.
Lee, 38, stars in the hit TV variety show "Please Take Care of My Refrigerator" and owns the Dear Bread bakery, while Haji, 56, owns Malay restaurant Rebung and also hosts cooking shows on television. Haji was once branded Malaysia's ambassador.
Though the two had met on stage for the first time, they performed like a seasoned duo, prompting suggestions that they should do a cooking show on TV. Lee often called Haji "father", due to the age difference, while Haji played along referring to Lee as his Korean son.
Apart from displaying Asean cuisine, the festival also featured booths offering beverages from the region. There were also public events offering information on gastronomy tourism, traditional performances and giveaways.
The Asean Culinary Festival, which has been held for three consecutive years, attracted 3,500 and 4,100 visitors in 2016 and 2017 respectively, giving the Korean public an opportunity to enjoy authentic dishes.


The Narrow Louis XV Console Table from Theodore Alexander is a narrow burl veneer and acacia console table with a rectangular top with rounded corners. Featuring a brass gallery, above four frieze drawers. Supported on six turned and fluted legs joined by a galleried undertier, on block and turned peg legs terminating in brass cappings. Original Louis XV styling.


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Be Here Now: Petit St. Vincent
For the "Intimate Escapes" feature in the January/February 2009 issue of ISLANDS, staff editor Sue Youngsteadt wrote about how she and her husband experienced the private Caribbean island of Petit St. Vincent. Now in this exclusive article for islands.com, Sue further explores the island and the personal connection it has for her.
"Oh, the Grenadines!" my well-traveled colleague exclaimed when I told him I'd be traveling there. "That's the true Old Caribbean!"
"Yes," I said, nodding knowingly. In truth, I'd never been to the Windward Islands chain, which curves down like the tail of a timid dog, defining the southeastern corner of the Caribbean Sea. I knew what he meant: The Old Caribbean can still be found in places that escaped the cruise-ship explosion of the 1990s, and these small islands have harbors too shallow to berth a mega-ship. But a much Older Caribbean is what I'm searching for -- the one still shaped by 400 years of colonialism and slavery. My plan: to surreptitiously discover hidden truths about that Caribbean while reporting on how "the other half" travels. I'll be hob-knobbing with that fabled portion of mankind -- the ones who can afford to pay high-season rates of $1,000 a night to stay on private islands like Petit St. Vincent. (Locals pronounce it "Petty" Saint Vincent.)
It is my first morning on PSV, and I've slept like a volcanic rock, just steps from the full force of the Atlantic trade winds. Directed by the rotation of the Earth, these winds move from the northeast at a fairly constant 18 knots in the Grenadines, billowing the spinnakers of sailing craft drawn from around the world.
I carry a morning cup of coffee through the wind-sculpted thicket that encases my beach-side cottage, following a sand path down a few stone stairs to a rugged beach. Instantly I'm enveloped by wind, wrapped in a sonic phenomenon like the sound of a cheering crowd in a distant stadium. A kayaker plows through the blue-gray chop not far from shore, and I recognize the paddler's huge mane of red hair: It belongs to the woman I met on yesterday's flight from Barbados to Union Island. She was the one who smiled sympathetically as I tried to open a folded-down seat on the small plane. "Sit down! Sit down!" the co-pilot had barked at me as the plane began to taxi, the ground crew jogging alongside, trying to latch the door. It was that charter flight and its hair-raising landing on a short island airstrip that clearly separated me from the cruise-ship crowd.
"Hello!" I yell at the kayaker, waving. She raises an arm to wave back, and the kayak hangs motionless in the wind, threatening to lose ground. She turns back to her task, paddling with the clockwork movement of a wind-up toy. Gazing beyond her to the horizon, I realize nothing lies between me and the west coast of Africa, a geographic fact that drew this area deeply into the horror story known as the Trans Atlantic slave trade.
It's hard to believe that a perfect, lapping-wave, white-sand beach lies a mere two-minute walk away, where the resort's main path curves to the leeward side of this 122-acre islet. There, trade winds cease -- as if by the flipping of a gigantic switch -- and the dark, agitated Atlantic gives way to the sparkling turquoise Caribbean Sea. In a sheltered space between Petit Saint Vincent and its companion island, Petit Martinique, yachts from around the world bob close to shore (yachties can swim to the beachside restaurant).
"Oprah Winfrey comes here," a chatty guest confided on yesterday's introductory tour.
"Really?" I asked, appropriately awed.
"Yes. And Bill Gates."
"Oh!"
"Of course they don't come ashore," said the knowing Long Islander who visits PSV every year. People that famous, she explained, stay aboard, sending out landing parties to bring back five-star take-out. Lesser lights, however (think rock stars and actresses), might be spotted in the bar.
I'm intrigued. But I secretly hope for something more than world-class people watching on this trip. In fact, I have a personal interest in this part of the Anglophone Caribbean, where the English -- after centuries of trying to wrest the Celts and Gaels from Ireland and Scotland -- devised an ingenious colonial plan: First, get in on the land grab underway in the Caribbean, competing with the Spanish, Dutch and French to carve out a piece of sunny tropical pie. Next, wipe out the Caribbean natives, round up the Scots and Irish and transport them to the newly emptied islands, where they could work on plantations along with African slaves. This history triggers no small amount of emotion in me, an American of Scottish (and partly Irish) descent, and I'm disturbed by the lack of attention paid to it by Caribbean tourism programs. Shamrock logos and tourist pub crawls don't begin to acknowledge the strains of Scottish and Irish culture that echo through these islands. In the Grenadines and on nearby Barbados, Scottish remnant communities date back to the removals of the 1600s and 1700s, and green-eyed, light-skinned Africans in the Grenadines carry on Scottish surnames. I'm hoping that the multiply ethnic and variously hued people I saw bustling around the resort yesterday will reveal part of the deeper story I'm looking for.
"They call me Indian," says a smiling Elvel Gaymes, the head gardener of PSV Resort. I find him a short distance inland, surrounded by lovingly tended plants on the island's main farm. He is fiercely proud to be a Black Caribe, a cultural group formed when escaped African slaves mixed with a remnant of Caribe Indians on the nearby island of St. Vincent. There they successfully resisted a string of European colonizers for more than 150 years. Surely this man would understand my search for lost highlanders -- victims of the same "Old Foe," England -- freedom fighters exiled for defending Scotland to the bitter end.
But faced with this smiling gentleman on this sunny day, I don't have the first idea how to broach the subject. I ask a few questions about the resort, and I can barely understand his answers. "Excuse me?" I ask again and again. His creolized English, known simply as "dialect," developed when planters forced African slaves to learn the Queen's English. They learned, but they also created a sub-language unintelligible to the planters, a language designed to make the English feel -- as I was feeling now -- more than a bit inferior.
I am about to thank Mr. Gaymes and move on when he quite clearly and proudly says, "I have another plantation on the island." His sense of triumph -- and his choice of words -- is not lost on me. Today in this space and time, the past -- however painful -- seems vanquished in the life of Elvel Gaymes, a man who grows elegant produce for world-class chefs in paradise.
I walk on, knowing that PSV resort workers are the lucky ones in this area and that poverty and unemployment are the legacy of colonialism on many if not most Caribbean islands. I've seen the empty highlands and islands of Scotland, where communities never recovered from the "removals," and I've stared at the diagram of my own family tree, (which dates to the 1500s) where shortened branches end in terse notes: "Gone to South Africa, "Gone to Australia," and in my family's case, "Gone to America."
I notice plump, green miniature apples gathered in a shallow gully by the side of the path. Resort guests are strongly warned to avoid this tempting, poisonous fruit; its parent tree, the manchineel, has sap that can blister the skin. Giving the scrubby trees wide berth, I head for Marni Hill, one of several high points on this craggy volcanic island. Parts of the hike are steep, and today -- like most days in the Grenadines -- the temperature stays near 80 degrees. All around, tall grass and wind-blown brush are sketched in charcoal and beige, punctuated by slashes of vibrant green: giant cactuses towering 10 feet high. At the end of dry season, every fiber of this evocative landscape yearns for the coming downpour. I sip from my water bottle and drink in the Marni Hill view of Petit Martinique, less than a mile away. I imagine women peering back at me, looking out from the small homes that cling to its rugged hillsides. Many of them wait for husbands, sons or daughters to return from jobs on Petit St. Vincent -- jobs many have held for decades, even generations. Strangely enough, these sister islands belong officially to separate nations: Petit Martinique is the northernmost member of Grenada's three-island nation, and Petit St. Vincent the most southern of St. Vincent's island group.
A huge cotton plant anchors a corner of the path near the resort's old desalination plant, puffs of white fiber dangling from gnarled black pods. Could this ancient-looking bush have survived from the 1700s, when a French slave-holding family owned PSV? Was it carefully tended by the lone Catholic priest who tried to farm here in the 1800s? Perhaps Arthur Oliverre, the cotton farmer who owned the island in the early 1900s, walked this same path, pausing to examine this very same plant. His daughter kept Petit St. Vincent in the family until the 1960s, when the island's current owners began to develop the resort.
I arrive at the water-sport dock to meet my snorkeling guide, Larrie, a smiling 26-year-old with caramel skin and green eyes. Yes! I think to myself. He could be part of the Caribbean's Scottish remnant! I keep my suspicions to myself -- asking about someone's race is not easy, even for a reporter.
As we swim around the rugged near-shore outcroppings, I'm startled to see my whole body below the water line. I seem to be flying in liquid air; nearby boats are airships, flying from one volcanic peak to the next. Larrie picks up a white spiny sea urchin from the mostly-empty bottom, offering it to me underwater. Startled by the soft texture of the spiky globe, I smile a mouth-full-of-plastic smile.
"It's OK to touch the white ones," he explains later, "but touch a black spiny sea urchin, and your vacation is over!"
He picks up a lone lobster, and we stand up to look at it, but the creature is dead and partially eaten.
"Fish eat each other," he says. "That's the way life is."
He assures me I'll have a more dramatic sea-life encounter tomorrow on my day trip to the Tobago Cays, known as one of the best snorkeling spots in the world.
Finally, I work up the courage to say, "Larrie, your looks are very interesting." He smiles and laughs a nervous laugh.
"Do you have Scottish blood?" I ask.
"Yes," he says shyly.
"Yes!" I shout inside my head. I am face-to-face with the archetypal Caribbean Gael!
"Oh, no." He quickly explains. "I don't know about that."
"But your eyes -- they're green, like mine."
He shrugs and looks down. I've clearly made a mess of it. I've embarrassed him.
"Well, you must be Catholic," I say cheerfully, pointing to the rosaries draped around his neck.
"Yes!" He nearly shouts his answer, his hand reflexively reaching for the beads. "I am Catholic!" His tone conveys pride and deep reverence, and in it I sense the depths of historical irony: Early Catholic conquerors -- Spanish and French -- may have slaughtered natives and traded slaves, but they also planted a faith that sustains this young man and the 1,000 residents of Petit Martinique, most of whom remain Catholic to this day.
"Everyone knows everyone on PM," says Larrie.
Petit Martinicans who work at PSV travel back and forth in small boats each day, but many others leave the island, finding work in places like Brooklyn, New York.
"Many more of us live in Brooklyn than on Petit Martinique," he says.
Larrie's cohort, Ron Isaacs, emerges from the dock house. I've been told he makes the beaded jewelry on offer in the PSV gift shop. "I could feature your jewelry in my article," I say magnanimously, feeling no small amount of power. "It might generate a lot of business for you."
"Oh, yes," he says politely. "But I only make the jewelry when I'm in the mood. If it turns into a business, then I have to make the jewelry."
"And you wouldn't want to do that?" I ask.
"No," he says, gently shaking his head. The young men turn to each other and converse in what sounds like a different language.
"What language are you speaking now?" I ask.
"English!" they exclaim together, laughing.
"Did you say something about me? Were you making fun of me?"
"No!" they exclaim, genuinely distressed. "No, never!"
"In school the teachers speak like you do," Larrie says. "They try to make us stop speaking dialect, but we are proud of it. We won't give it up."
Capping off our water-sports outing, I blithely agree to head into the trade winds with Larrie on a Hobie Cat -- a contraption made up of little more than a trampoline, a set of pontoons and a giant sail -- with only a single canvas strap to hold onto. Young men in the Grenadines grow up sailing a variety of craft between these closely clustered islands, and I have complete faith in my captain. It's me I'm not so sure about as we take off at what feels like 50 miles per hour. Suddenly, Larrie leaps to the other side of the trampoline, shouting, "Tack!" over the pounding of the Cat's framework on the waves.
"What?" I yell.
"Tack!"
"What?" I can hear him. I just don't know what he wants me to do.
"Move to the side!" he yells, pointing.
Attempting to comply, I end up on my stomach, pinned by the wind and facing headfirst into waves that break over the leading edge of the speeding trampoline.
He slows the craft, gently asking if I'd like to head back to shore. Spluttering, I say yes. He kindly drops me off, scrambles back onto the Cat and flies away on the wind.
Now, don't get me wrong, I am not afraid of boats -- real boats with seats and sides. And here in the Grenadines, it's all about the boats -- from dinghies to launches to water taxis to big, beautiful motor yachts like the Hera, which ferries guests to PSV from the airport on Union Island. But the mother of all boats on my Grenadines adventure -- indeed, the matriarch of all Windward Island schooners -- is Jambalaya.
"We're going to tack -- sail out of the way to catch the wind," Captain Jeff Stevens shouts the next day as he maneuvers the 73-foot Jambalaya toward the Tobago Cays. It is a term with which I am now familiar. "That's the whole point of sailing, isn't it?" Stevens asks rhetorically. "Not just to turn the engines on and get there, but to get there under sail!"
Smooth sailing takes us past Union Island and Palm Island before the wind shifts north. Secure on a bench seat next to the captain's chair, I watch the 65-foot mainsail come around, slamming into place. Before long I'm lying backward, pinned against the seat back as the schooner tilts nearly to the water's surface. Gunmetal-gray swells rise and fall just over my shoulder. I tilt my head back and thoroughly enjoy the ride. But across from me a married couple sits ashen-faced, arms folded, staring down at their laps.
"Look at the horizon," the captain shouts at them, but they are beyond help. Unable to raise their heads, they shake them weakly.
Now mine is the high side, and I'm leaning forward, bracing with my feet, looking sharply down across the deck. A bright-white wake rolls off the low side of the ship and disappears into royal-blue waves just over the shoulders of the rigid couple. When the ship rights itself, they scramble below.
"That's the worst thing -- going below when you're seasick," Stevens says to me quietly. But below is where they stay as Jambalaya glides past Mayreau island and approaches the five tiny, uninhabited islets called the Tobago Cays. Stevens anchors away from the thickest concentration of visiting yachts.
Now's my chance to ask the captain, an Englishman raised on the Isle of Wight, about legendary Scottish boat builders who came to the Grenadine island of Bequia in the 1700s. Their descendants, who still live on Bequia, helped Stevens build Jambalaya in 2005. Why had the Scots come to the island, and what were those boats used for?
"I guarantee they don't know anything about that anymore," he says crisply. And that's that. I wonder for the hundredth time why this history is so important to me -- why, indeed, my Scottish roots matter so much to me. "It's your identity," comes the answer from a voice in my head. And that's that.
"Are you coming?" asks first mate Timothy Frederick as he lowers the inflatable over Jambalaya's side. About a half- mile up-current we don our masks and stretch out on the water, and I awake joyously to a Technicolor here-and- now. It's impossible to brood over history when silvery jacks and rainbow runners gather less than a yard away, circling a brain coral 3 feet in diameter. A juvenile angelfish swims right up to my mask, inspecting it with a youngster's lack of inhibition. We make eye contact, and the little fish literally jumps, darting off to the left. I hold still. He turns and swims back, tracking me with a sidelong, one-eyed glance. After one more pass, the coy, almost flirtatious encounter is over.
Calling us to the rubber launch, Tim hands out Ritz crackers. "Hold your arm straight out in front of you," he says.
I kick off, extending a rigid arm into the empty water with half-smashed crackers hidden in my fist. Before I can open my fingers, a flashing ball appears out of nowhere, exploding into a starburst of fish -- some tiny, some big as a finger, others as big as my hand. I let go of the crackers, and the darting mob scurries around at arm's reach, devouring every floating orange morsel. Each specimen is more beautiful than the next -- each face more unique -- but they appear and disappear before my attention can fully take them in. From that moment on, any objection I might have had to the practice of artificially baiting fish with snack food will be forever overpowered by the memory of that fleeting, flashing moment.
We snorkel our way back to Jambalaya, which is no longer isolated from the crowd. Many more yachts have arrived, and an enterprising local man in a small wooden boat is selling fresh lobster to a couple on the deck of the yacht nearest us. Capt. Stevens waves to another vendor, known only as "Mr. Quality," who brings his launch alongside. "I like to see some tourism money go to the local people," says Stevens. I couldn't agree more, eagerly shopping from Mr. Quality's selection of T-shirts. After our transaction, with two passengers still disabled below, Capt. Stevens gingerly sails back to PSV.
"Oh, the Scots and Irish were treated terribly," says Lisa, the PSV masseuse, whose lineage is part English, part African, part Palestinian -- to name only a few parts of her multi-ethnic makeup. During a massage punctuated by political discussion, she thoroughly dispels my romantic notions of the noble Caribbean Scot. "Scots were hired by the English to be the overseers on Caribbean plantations," she says. "So you won't find much sympathy toward the Scots in these islands."
But what about the uprooted Scottish peasants? What about the exiled freedom fighters?
"Their story's been lost," she says, matter-of-factly. Or at least overpowered. There's no doubt Scottish merchants and planters came here to profit from slavery; other Scots gladly hired on as militia; some no doubt built ships that transported human cargo. "The Scots got lumped together with the English. They weren't seen as victims." My brain struggles to contemplate the lack of justice in the world, but calmed by an expert massage, I drift off to sleep.
Early the next day I arrive at the resort's weekly beachfront barbecue, where I'm warmly greeted by chef Anthony "Jamaicy" Ferril, who presides over an elegant buffet table. Nearby, chef Yuri Thomas grills rock lobsters to perfection. Elvel Gaymes' homegrown potatoes, onions and peppers make an appearance in the delicious Caribbean salad, a dish made unique by the unusual texture of the potatoes -- a cross between soft, stringy yams and firm Idaho spuds. Polenta, or cornmeal mush, is a tasty staple in these parts. "In the Caribbean we don't call it polenta," Anthony chides. "We call it cou cou." His secret? "Add fresh coconut milk to the cornmeal, not canned -- canned is too sweet." The yacht folk who come ashore for the barbecue are polite and subdued -- no rich Frenchmen talking loudly on cell phones as other travel writers have complained.
In fact, most of the yachts that cruise the Caribbean these days are chartered, not owned, rented by several parties at a time, like the two couples at the next table, partners in a plumbing-supply company in Colorado. My populist spirit is buoyed by the thought of luxury travel trickling down to the (upper) middle classes.
On the final day of my visit I wait on the PSV dock for Hera to arrive, finally feeling relaxed enough to stay in this remote locale. I came looking for insights into the past, pursuing what some call a compulsive search for my ethnic identity. But I failed to uncover any forgotten truths about my heritage; I disproved no remembered lies. I have not satisfied the noble Celts and gallant Gaels who haunt my dreams. Instead I've been captured by a vibrant present in a beautiful part of the world. For now, all I can do is shift my attention to the living color of this Caribbean Sea. My heart breaks a little, knowing that I won't be spending the rest of my life staring into this beautiful blue.
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blo Teens Read and Write: YA Fantasy Showdown - Favorite Characters Battle It Out!
YA Fantasy Showdown - Favorite Characters Battle It Out!
The first ever YA Fantasy Showdown. In celebration of Suzanne Collin's final book in the Hunger Games trilogy, a group of bloggers are pitting some of the best-known characters in YA in the ultimate showdown. And you get to pick the winner.
You read the battles, evaluate the characters, and vote for who has the honor of moving on to the next round. It's a tournament like you've never seen before (because there's more). The authors have been asked to participate and advocate their character in writing their own version of the battle. It's going to be truly epic. Or at least a good way to pass the time until Mockingjay comes out. It's been going on since August and 10 and our favorites are still in the running!
Go check it out and see how your favorites are fairing!
And check out their Anouncements page for a chance to write a battle!


Natural Earth (www.naturalearthdata.com) is an integrated collection of raster and vector data for small-scale mapping that builds on Tom Patterson's original Natural Earth raster datasets. Its intended users are practicing mapmakers, which makes it unique among geospatial datasets. We will discuss the components of Natural Earth applicable for web mapping. Available at 1:10-, 1:50-, and 1:110-million scales, the goal is to give cartographers an off-the-shelf solution for making small-scale world and regional maps. All data are in the public domain. The Washington Post donated much of the 50- and 110-million scale data; the 10-million scale data derive from WDBII augmented from newer sources. Available in shapefile format, the vectors are fully attributed, thanks to volunteers worldwide, and contain names and other data attributes relevant to mapmakers. Our presentation will examine the creation and organization of Natural Earth vector data, and plans for collaborating with the user community to update and expand the data offerings.


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July 28, 2020 /in News /by Kara Maddox
This announcement was published by the EPA on July 28, 2020. Click here for more!
EPA has released a temporary guidance regarding the certification of pesticide applicators of restricted use pesticides that offers flexibility during the COVID-19 public health emergency.
The Agency is aware that state, tribal and federal certifying authorities may need to make temporary changes to their existing pesticide applicator certification programs during this time. Given the evolving circumstances and the urgency involved, EPA has determined that certain temporary changes to their programs should be preapproved and may be implemented provided that they are not likely to significantly diminish applicator competence or undermine future certification activities and all conditions are met.
Currently, certifying authorities can make non-substantial changes to their certification plans without prior EPA approval, but need to notify EPA within 90 days or with the required annual report, whichever occurs first.
So long as such temporary changes are reported to EPA as outlined in the guidance, EPA does not intend to impose sanctions on certification programs that miss reporting deadlines specified in the CPA rule. EPA will instead accept notifications included in the annual reporting, which are due December 31, 2020.
EPA is temporarily pre-approving substantial modifications if the modifications meet all the following conditions:
Time-limited to no later than Dec. 31, 2021, and revocable within 90 days or less by the certifying authority if EPA determines that the modification is no longer appropriate;
Consistent with pesticide labeling;
Consistent with EPA's Certification of Pesticide Applicators regulation;
Will not significantly diminish applicator competency; and,
Will not undermine future certification activities.
To read the temporary guidance in full, visit our webpage.
Certifying authorities must still obtain EPA's advance approval of substantial modifications of their certification plans that do not meet all the above conditions. State and tribal certifying authorities should contact their EPA regional office for more information or to request approvals for substantial modifications to be made in response to the COVID-19 public health emergency.
This temporary guidance also includes a modification to the recertification period for certificates issued to certified applicators that apply restricted use pesticides in Indian country under EPA's Plan for the Federal Certification of Applicators of Restricted Use Pesticides within Indian country. Certified applicators holding an EPA-issued certificate based on a currently valid underlying certificate from another jurisdiction (e.g., state-issued) are granted an extension that aligns with the expiration date of the underlying certificate.
This guidance is temporary, and EPA will assess the continued need and scope of this temporary guidance on an ongoing basis. EPA will provide notice here under "Certifying Pesticide Applicators" at least seven days prior to terminating this guidance.
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EPA Provides Consumers Additional Options for COVID-19 Disinfectants
This original announcement was published by the EPA on July 23, 2020. Click here for more!
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) added 32 new surface disinfectants to List N, the agency's list of products expected to kill SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
"Since day one, EPA's priority has been to provide the public with easy access to the information they need to protect themselves and their families from the virus that causes COVID-19," said EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler. "Through our efforts to expand List N, we are ensuring that Americans have a broad set of approved products to clean and disinfect surfaces to help reduce the spread of the coronavirus."
Disinfectants can qualify for inclusion on List N three ways:
The product has been tested against the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19).
The product has demonstrated efficacy against a different coronavirus similar to SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19).
The product has demonstrated efficacy against a pathogen that is harder to kill than SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19).
EPA has added 32 new products to List-N. These products have already been approved as tuberculocidal. While they have not yet been tested against SARS-CoV-2, they are approved for killing the pathogen that causes tuberculosis and are expected to kill SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) when used according to the label (category three noted above).
Many tuberculocidal products are potent disinfectants and have a long history of use for cleaning hospitals and other health care settings. When using such products, it is critical to follow the label directions, including the precautionary statements.
Disinfectant products may be marketed and sold under multiple different brand and product names. Therefore, List N users should use the first two sections of a product's registration number when searching List N, rather than its brand name. For example, if EPA Reg. No. 12345-12 is on List N, you can buy EPA Reg. No. 12345-12-2567 and know you're getting an equivalent product. For more information on using an EPA registration number to search List N, see our FAQ at https://www.epa.gov/coronavirus/frequent-questions-about-disinfectants-and-coronavirus-covid-19.
Throughout the COVID-19 public health emergency, EPA has provided the American public with information on disinfecting surfaces against SARS-CoV-2. For more information about EPA's response to COVID-19 visit: https://www.epa.gov/coronavirus
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EPA Opens Comment Period on Pyridate Proposed Decision
EPA is taking comments on pyridate, a pesticide active ingredient that could help consumers with weed management and resistance.
EPA has opened a 30-day comment period on the Agency's proposed decision to register one technical product and four end-use products for pyridate, an herbicide that controls various types of broadleaf weeds. Pyridate is proposed for use on weed control related to the growing of vegetables, including cabbage, chickpea (garbanzo bean), collards, field corn, mint and peanuts.
The proposed label for pyridate suggests it could be used on difficult-to-control and economically important weeds such as redroot pigweed and Palmer amaranth. Pyridate might also be important for over-the-top weed control in chickpeas and mint.
EPA has not identified any dietary, residential, aggregate or occupational risks of concern for human health. Based on the ecological assessment, the most notable finding involves larval bees. However, pyridate has a contact activity and is unlikely to move to pollen and nectar sources. Additionally, none of the proposed crops involve sites where managed bees are used for pollination.
Pyridate was previously registered for use in the United States, but all registrations were cancelled in 2004 for administrative reasons. Tolerances for residues of pyridate were retained, and they will need no adjustments with this proposed registration.
The public comment period for this proposed decision will be open for 30 days, closing on August 10, 2020. Visit https://www.epa.gov/pesticides/open-comment-pesticide-actions-and-documents to read more and submit comments.
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EPA takes action to help Americans disinfect indoor spaces efficiently and effectively
July 9, 2020 /in News /by Kara Maddox
This original announcement was published by the EPA on July 7, 2020. Click here for more!
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking action to ensure that Americans are able to disinfect public spaces effectively and efficiently to control SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The newly released guidance outlines what information registrants need to submit in order to expedite the review of requests to add electrostatic sprayer application directions to disinfectant product labels for use against SARS-CoV-2.
"Cleaning and disinfecting surfaces continues to be an effective way to reduce the spread of the virus," said EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler. "With this guidance, EPA is ensuring offices, schools, and local governments have access to as many effective and approved surface disinfectant products as possible—including those designed to disinfect large indoor spaces."
Electrostatic spraying has drawn increased interest through the public health emergency because of the need to disinfect large indoor spaces (e.g., schools, offices, businesses) or areas with many surfaces. Unlike conventional spraying methods, electrostatic sprayers apply a positive charge to liquid disinfectants as they pass through the nozzle. The positively charged disinfectant is attracted to negatively charged surfaces, which allows for efficient coating of hard nonporous surfaces.
EPA's new guidance covers requests to add electrostatic spraying directions to both new and currently registered disinfectant products—including those on EPA's List N: Disinfectants for Use Against SARS-CoV-2—that require review under Pesticide Registration Improvement Act (PRIA). Today's guidance builds on EPA's previously announced expedited review of certain submissions for products intended for use against SARS-CoV-2.
When using these products, always follow the directions and safety information on the label. A disinfectant product's safety and effectiveness may change based on how it is used. If a product's label does not include disinfection directions for electrostatic spraying, EPA has not reviewed any data on whether the product is safe and effective when used by this method.
EPA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released updated guidance to help facility operators and families properly clean and disinfect spaces. The guidance provides step-by-step instructions for public spaces, workplaces, businesses, schools, and homes. EPA has compiled a list of disinfectant products, including ready-to-use sprays, concentrates, and wipes, that can be used against COVID-19.
For information on EPA's efforts to help address the novel coronavirus, visit: https://www.epa.gov/coronavirus.
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EPA approves first surface disinfectant products tested on the SARS-CoV-2 virus
Throughout the COVID-19 public health emergency, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has worked to provide the American public with information about how to safely and effectively kill the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, on surfaces. Last week, EPA approved two products, Lysol Disinfectant Spray (EPA Reg No. 777-99) and Lysol Disinfectant Max Cover Mist (EPA Reg No. 777-127), based on laboratory testing that shows the products are effective against SARS-CoV-2.
"EPA is committed to identifying new tools and providing accurate and up-to-date information to help the American public protect themselves and their families from the novel coronavirus,"said EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler. "EPA's review of products tested against this virus marks an important milestone in President Trump's all of government approach to fighting the spread of COVID-19."
Before pesticide products can legally make claims that they can kill a particular pathogen such as SARS-CoV-2, the claim must be authorized by EPA based on a review of data. Because novel viruses are typically not immediately available for laboratory testing, EPA established guidance for Emerging Viral Pathogens.
In January 2020, the agency activated the guidance for the first time in response to the SARS-CoV-2 public health emergency. The guidance allows product manufacturers to provide EPA with data, even in advance of an outbreak, that shows their products are effective against harder-to-kill viruses than SARS-CoV-2. Through this guidance and the agency's review of newly registered products, EPA's list of products that meet the agency's criteria for use against SARS-CoV-2 (known as List N) includes more than 420 products. In many cases, the agency was able to approve claims in as little as 14 days.
This week, EPA updated the entries for two products on List N to show they have now been tested directly against SARS-CoV-2. These are the first List N products for which the agency has reviewed laboratory testing data and approved label claims against SARS-CoV-2. EPA expects to approve such claims for additional List N products in the coming weeks.
All products on EPA's List N meet the agency's criteria for effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2. When using an EPA-registered disinfectant, follow the label directions for safe, effective use. Make sure to follow the contact time, which is the amount of time the surface should be visibly wet. Read the agency's infographic on how to use these products.
Additional information on EPA's coronavirus efforts: https://www.epa.gov/coronavirus
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EPA Proposes Registration of Nootkatone, A New Active Ingredient in Insect Control
EPA is seeking public comment on the proposed registration of a new active ingredient called nootkatone, which was discovered and developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and can be used as an insect repellent. The agency's proposal adds a new active ingredient that can be used to protect people from biting insects and ticks.
Nootkatone is a naturally occurring substance found in minute quantities in Alaskan yellow cedar trees and grapefruit skin. It is responsible for the characteristic smell and taste of grapefruit and is widely used in the fragrance industry to make perfumes and colognes. Nootkatone is considered a biopesticide, or a pesticide derived from nature.
EPA currently has no applications to register consumer products containing nootkatone. Companies interested in developing insect repellents or insecticides with it as the active ingredient will be required to submit a registration package to EPA for review. Based on registration timeframes under the Pesticide Registration Improvement Act, new products using nootkatone could be available as early as 2022.
To read more about the proposed registration of nootkatone, see docket EPA-HQ-OPP-2018-0122 in www.regulations.gov. The public comment period will be open for 15 days, closing on July 14, 2020.
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Commonwealth chess championship in New Delhi to clash with Kochi U17 nationals
Sri Lanka was supposed to host the Commonwealth chess championship but after the Easter bomb blasts there, the event will now be happening in New Delhi from June 30 to July 7, thereby clashing with Kochi's under-17 National.
Stan Rayan
KOCHI 26 June, 2019 23:14 IST
The Kochi National will run till July 7, which is the same day the New Delhi Commonwealth Championship will be ending. - Getty Images
The Easter terror attack in Sri Lanka in April has hit Kochi hard as it gets ready to host the 30th National under-17 chess championship at the Oberon Mall here from Saturday.
"Sri Lanka was supposed to host the Commonwealth chess championship but after the bomb blasts there, the event had to be moved out. And since Bharat Singh Chauhan (the Indian body AICF secretary) is the president of the Commonwealth Chess Association, it came to a situation where India was virtually forced to host it," said R. Rajesh, the secretary of the Chess Association Kerala, on Wednesday evening.
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Unfortunately, the Commonwealth championship's new dates – it will be held in New Delhi from June 30 to July 7 – clash with Kochi's under-17 National.
"So, many players who had wanted to play in Kochi, suddenly decided to play in the Commonwealth event. Even Divya Deshmukh, who would have been the tournament's top seed in the open section here, pulled out," said Sandhya Krishnakumar, the secretary of the Four Queens Chess Club which is organising the National on behalf of the Chess Association Kerala.
"We have probably lost some 60 to 80 players (who would have paid a special entry fee of Rs 5000 each), that will hit us financially. We have a budget of Rs 12 lakh for this event. Still, we are happy to host the National for the sake of our players."
The Kochi National, which runs till July 7 and which will be played in the open and girls categories, will have about 150 players. The event has a total prize fund of Rs 2.5 lakh with the winner of the open and girls sections taking home Rs 25,000 each.
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Is it permissible for a woman to visit Dargah sheriff? If yes, what is the rule for her? I could see in many dargah sheriff that both Men and Women are allowed for ziyaarath of mazaar sheriff. Whether it is according to the aqaid of ahle sunnath wal jamaath.
Few Ulamas have permitted but with the condition of adab and to be within the boundary of shariah. No mingling and no immodesty is allowed.


Women who wear a veil at Mass as a devotion to the Virgin Mary.
Women who practice this devotion wear a veil over their head during Mass.
Wearing the veil during Mass shows devotion to the Virgin Mary.
The veil symbolizes the Virgin Mary's meekness and humility, as well as her submission and obedience to Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior.
"But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a woman is her husband, and the head of Christ is God. Any man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head, but any woman who prays or prophesies with her head unveiled dishonors her head—it is the same as if her head were shaven. For if a woman will not veil herself, then she should cut off her hair; but if it is disgraceful for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her wear a veil.
Wearing the veil during Mass shows submission and obedience to Christ and to the Catholic Church.
Wearing the veil during Mass is an acknowledgement that a woman's role in the Church, the family, and society is different from a man's role.
"As in all the churches of the saints, the women should keep silence in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be subordinate, as even the law says. If there is anything they desire to know, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church." (1 Corinthians 14:33-35).
A married woman who wears the veil during Mass is also acknowledging her husband as the head of her family.
This devotion is for women only. Women may wear the veil, men may not. A woman's role in the Church, the family, and society, is meant by God to be different than a man's role.
Read this article, Why I've Chosen to Wear the Headship Veil, by a devout Christian woman.


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