These rules apply whilst using the facilities of the Bury Metro Model Flying Club at Unsworth Moss Farm, Simister and Drinkwater Park Prestwich It is the member's responsibility to familiarize himself/herself with all rules of the club and to abide by them at all times.
Any member who contravenes these rules will be dealt with at the discretion of the committee. The committee will set the penalties (verbal warning, written warning, suspension or expulsion) but members have the right to appeal against any such rulings.
A current Club Membership Card must be carried at all times as proof of identity and insurance and must be produced on request.
The committee may reject any application to join or rejoin the Club without explanation.
Only members holding a BMFA Basic Proficiency Certificate or above or have passed the Large Model Association Proficiency Test are considered competent for safe solo flying.
Dangerous flying will not be tolerated and will be dealt with at the discretion of the committee.
All children under the age of 14 must be accompanied by a parent, guardian or someone who has the written authority to bring the child to the field and supervise them.
Guests who are members of other model flying clubs or organizations and wish to fly solo must bring a valid certificate of insurance which provide sufficient cover to satisfy the committee. Further they must satisfy the committee that they meet the club criteria with regards to their proficiency and safety.
Guests may only visit and fly on three separate occasions in any club year unless they pay for a Guest Pass which is valid for 12 months at a rate equivalent to the current annual rates of membership as set by the committee at the AGM.
The Guest Pass does not extend to any club meetings nor does it confer any membership rights or any voting rights upon the holder. Guests may not hold any office or take part in any organization of the club. The Guest Pass may be withdrawn without notice and at the discretion of the committee.
We operate from three fields. The first (Field One) is located at the bottom of Egypt Lane and is primarily for fixed wing models. The second (Field Two) is located on the right hand side of Egypt Lane and is reserved only for helicopters and multirotors.
The third Field "C" is located at Drinkwater Park Prestwich and is reserved specifically for FPV Quadcopter flying and a separate set of racing rules apply.
Please drive down the road through Simister slowly and courteously. Give way to other cars and horses. On the track that crosses the motorway bridge, please be careful because Simister residents walk their dogs and children play on the track.
Car parking is restricted at the fixed wing field. The area immediately in front of the entrance gate is strictly for turning, unloading and loading. The use of the entrance to Egypt Farm for turning is strictly forbidden. If all the car spaces are taken then cars must be parked on the lane (not the track to the field).
Flying times for internal combustion engine and jet turbine models are 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. on weekdays and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays. Silent flight models (e.g. electric) may be flown at any time. No flying on Christmas day!
Jet turbine powered aircraft may only be flown with special permission of the committee, subject to adherence to the special safety precautions outlined in the BMFA handbook.
Multicopters are currently permitted on both fields provided flight patterns do not interfere with other pilots flying at the same time and they are only flown within line of sight (i.e Not by FPV).
Only 35 MHz and 2.4 GHz "type approved" radio control equipment will be allowed on Club flying site.
Channel numbers for 35 MHz radios are restricted as follows: Fixed wing models may only use even numbers between 56 & 86 inclusive. Helicopters may only use channels 85, 87, 88, 89 & 90.
Members who do not hold a Basic Proficiency Certificate or above cannot fly alone and must be accompanied at the flight line by a member who has an 'A' Certificate or above.
The transmitter control system "The Peg Board" must be used (this is located on the side of the club container) when more than two members are flying using 35 MHz radio equipment. A current transmitter frequency flag must be displayed on the transmitter at all times when using 35 MHz radio equipment. Transmitters must not be switched on under any circumstances unless the pilot is in possession of the frequency peg.
The test running and running in of I.C. engines may only be carried out at the designated area behind the container.
Landing and take-off areas will be designated and circuit directions fixed at each session. Members must check and confirm these before flying.
On sight of a low flying, full size aircraft, all models in flight must descend to a safe low altitude.
In the event of a model landing on the golf course then the pilot must seek permission from the golf club secretary before going onto the course to retrieve the model.
Helicopters are permitted to fly at the fixed wing field only by agreement with all fixed wing pilots who may be present and flying. Fixed wing pilots have precedence.
In the interests of safety only members holding A(H) or B(H) certificates may fly unaccompanied. All other pilots must ensure that they do not fly unless there is another member present who is an A(H) certificate holder.
Only one helicopter can fly circuits with the exception of arranged synchronised flying or beginners hovering on separate areas of the helicopter patch.
Electric helicopters must not be armed (i.e. flight batteries connected) in the pits area. A table at the flight line has been provided for this purpose.
Notification to a committee member must be made of any incident or accident however small where third party and/or property is involved and must also be entered into the Incident Book with all details (date, time, nature) of the incident and the names of witnesses.
Litter and model wreckage must not be left on the field.
Children must be supervised at all times. No dogs are allowed on the field unless held on a lead.
Rule 29 This is a concession to helicopter pilots and is not a right. The committee reserves the right to suspend this concession at any time without notice.
Flying is only permitted on days and times specified in the Forestry Commission's permission document. Details of these times can be obtained from any committee member.
The main gate at the entrance to the park MUST be kept closed at ALL times to prevent un-authorised vehicles from entering the park.
Warning signs and barriers surrounding the flying areas must be erected before any flying is allowed.
All litter MUST be removed from the site in accordance with the Forestry Commission permission document.
Failure to observe the above rules could result in the loss of the facilities and will be considered reasonable cause for suspension of membership of any offending members.


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South African regulator butts heads with Binance
Updated Sep 6, 2021 | Published Sep 6, 2021
Binance says South Africa's financial regulator has no clout over crypto and cannot meddle in the platform's operations.
The South African Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) has issued Binance Group with a reminder that the company is not is not permitted to act as a financial advisor.
The crypto exchange, which is currently under scrutiny from various regulators around the globe, was surprised by the FSCA notice, as the regulator has no power over cryptocurrencies.
In the warning, the regulator said: Binance was not "authorized to give any financial advice or render any intermediary services in terms of the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Service Act".
In a statement to Decrypt, Binance said that the regulator has no clout over crypto matter and explained that it has been collaborating with the Financial Intelligence Center (FIC).
The two financial regulators have different scopes of operation. FIC is more focused on cracking down on various financial practices that may be directly tied to financing terrorism, whereas the FSCA regulates banks and financial institutions, like the Securities and Exchange Commission's remit in the US.
Binance further denied the FSCA's claim that it was a Seychelles-based company, and has always been operating under the assumption that it's a "global company", with no specified headquarters, although Reuters specifically described it as a Cayman Islands-based entity.
Binance has faced trouble in the UK, Japan and Germany, among other jurisdictions. The exchange has undertaken a variety of steps to strengthen its AML and KYC practices and began scaling down its product offering in late-August to counteract possibly complaints by watchdogs.
The platform is one of the main exchanges in the world that people use to purchase cryptocurrency to play at some of the world's leading crypto casinos, including Bitcasino, 1xBit and FortuneJack.
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National firm leverages social media to rake in more clients
A national firm has challenged the changing dynamics of client interaction by focusing more on building its social media profile to appeal to current and prospective clients.
Speaking to Lawyers Weekly, MinterEllison partner Paul Kallenbach said the firm's online marketing strategy has changed significantly since the inception of social media, which has forced it to adapt to a new way of operating and attracting clients.
"Our corporate website plays a different role to social media. The website is a more traditional way of communicating, offering opportunities to communicate corporate information, content and thought leadership, as well as profiling specific areas of the firm and its expertise, credentials and capabilities. It allows us to broadcast messages to our audience," Mr Kallenbach said.
"Social media has changed the dynamics of how we interact online. With social media, we can interact and talk with individuals on a one-to-one basis.
"The ideal situation is to have social media and website content aligned, so that clients can access a rich suite of content and see the full scope of the firm's expertise and capabilities, and then also engage in two-way communications with the firm in a way that is tailored and meaningful to that client."
Mr Kallenbach noted that Minters has many online channels it leverages to reach current and potential clients.
"[These include] specialist blogs, LinkedIn, Instagram, SlideShare, Twitter and Facebook, and so for us, online simply offers additional channels we can tap into," he said.
"Because we think about online in this manner, it means our online marketing strategies are tightly integrated into our marketing planning. It is important that all of our marketing channels are aligned, online and offline, to ensure we portray a consistent brand, with consistent messages, across all of the channels we leverage.
"We are also very aware of interacting with channels for specific purposes, and that we know will reach the desired audience. For example, LinkedIn is very much a business tool, and we interact with it extensively to reach current and potential clients. Facebook, however, is a great channel for communicating with law graduates, but I wouldn't expect to use it to reach members of the C-suite. It is really important to be specific and be clear on who you want to reach, and the best channel or channels to do this."
However, Mr Kallenbach noted that relying on a personal social media account is not enough. He said it's important to leverage employee networks to reap the most rewards.
"Relying on your own social media account is not enough. Leveraging your employee networks to like/share/comment on your content is a powerful way to reach many networks that you wouldn't otherwise reach," he said.
"If your people are endorsing your content, chances are their networks will want to know more and will follow you too."


This chapter elaborates on design for the value of presence. As digital technologies have made it possible for us to connect to each other at a speed and scale that is unprecedented, presence is acquiring many new stances. The distinctions between being-there (in virtual worlds), being-here (making the being there available here) and the merging realities of these two, is essential to the notion of presence. Understanding the essence of presence is the focus of current presence research to which many disciplines contribute, including computer science, artificial intelligence, artistic research, social science and neurobiology.
The definition of presence used in this chapter is 'steering towards well-being and survival', and this definition introduces a neurobiological perspective on presence fundamental to the approach on which this chapter focuses. This perspective recognizes the choices and trade-offs involved in presence design. Presence design is a meta-design, which creates the context for human experience to emerge. Presence as a value for design can be a design requirement, a factor of analysis and a key value in a process of Design for Values.
This chapter discusses a number of analytical and design frameworks for constructing and deconstructing presence design. Acknowledging that presence is a fuzzy concept, and that a variety of open issues can be identified, presence as a value for design is fundamental for human beings to accept responsibility in complex environments. Further research will need to address how we, as human beings, change and how our sense of presence changes, as result of living in a network society with ubiquitous technology and all pervasive media being part of our day-to-day lives.
Presence is a word that appears in many social, political, religious and economic contexts and refers to an array of meanings. In the era of ubiquitous media, networks and many complex infrastructures on which society depends, presence is no longer solely coupled to physical reality. Presence has acquired new virtual stances, with completely new dynamics.
We, as human beings, connect to each other in many different ways. We meet virtually and participate in many different types of networks in merging on- and offline realities. We also participate in new types of communities such as energy communities in which participants organise their own exchange of energy. Energy communities rely on communication and visualisation technology, but also on technology needed to provide data, for example, on usage, pricing, availability, accounting and expected market developments mandating distributed data aggregation and service level agreements between participants.
To take responsibility we, as participants in such communities, need to have some form of presence for each other, both in on- and offline context as well as in information and communication trajectories. The design of presence is a prerequisite to participation: understanding the value of presence is a prerequisite to the design of large distributed complex participatory systems.
Human kind has been mediating presence since the beginning of times: leaving traces, making maps and drawings, telling stories, performing rituals, music and play. These are all ways with which we communicate presence from one time or place to another, from one human being to another. Technology has made it possible for us to mediate our presence in new ways facilitating communication, interaction and transactions over distance, often simultaneously. With the introduction of every new medium, new ways of establishing connection, and being able to say 'hello' for example, is the first achievement and source of surprise and curiosity. Soon after, when many people start to use a new medium, this is integrated in day-to-day practices of millions of people and new habits, customs and understanding emerge (Wyatt 2004). While new technologies produce increasingly better ways to produce mediated presence, natural presence is still distinct from mediated presence.
We, as human beings, are creative, and find unexpected ways to survive and serve our own well-being. New technologies, new systems, are emerging continuously, connecting people across the world, creating connections between family friends and total strangers. These connections can be beneficial or detrimental for those involved. Facebook, for example, is designed to anticipate specific types of behaviour with participatory scripts to build on this human potential of connecting with others. The outcomes of human behaviour, however, cannot be predicted, and unintended side-effects happen. The real-time connection between dozens, hundreds and thousands of people Facebook provides has shown to be powerful for gathering people both for the good and for the bad. Social networks were instrumental to the rising of the Arab Spring between 2010 and 2012, to the hooligan gathering in London in 2011 and to Project X in Haren in the Netherlands in 2012. In all of these events the behaviour of many individuals together creates a different situation and experience than any individual alone could have anticipated. In social networks individual behaviour is contextualized and inspired and this leads to new formation of (historical) experience, which is focus of further research in a variety of domains (Castells 2012).
This chapter elaborates on the notion that presence is essentially the strive for well-being and survival. Designing for the value of presence is not designing for a specific behaviour. It is designing for experience, as argued in this chapter. Presence as a value for complex systems design has great societal relevance. Research into this value is timely.
In today's ever changing network society the amount of multi-media information we can access within seconds is unprecedented: we are, in fact, experiencing a tsunami of information at a speed that society has not experienced in the past. Our experience of time, place and authenticity is changing (Benjamin 1936, McLuhan 1964, Baudrillard 1983, Postman 1985, Virilio 1989, Lovink 2012).
Some argue there are possibilities as never before, others claim that in the tsunami of copies at grand scale and speed the concept of 'meaning' implodes. In these times of fast transformation into the network society, place and time are still distinct factors in human lives and the social structures that are built. It is often, however, unclear how the 'space of places' in the physical world relates to the 'space of flows' in the many networks in which we participate (Giddens 1984, Castells 1996). In the collective experience of the emerging society a new culture and a 'next nature' is emerging in which we redefine, design and establish how we want to live our lives (van Mensvoort 2012, Lunnenfeld 2003). In the flow of images, text, and audio-visual communication a new sense of authenticity is emerging creating media-auras as a result (van der Meulen 2011). Key to this new culture and next nature is how we perform presence and participate in the complex networks that constitute our day-to-day reality (Brazier & Nevejan 2014).
The many online experiences and representations of selves mandate a new perspective on design of social, technical and ecological networks and infrastructures, including consideration of related values such as privacy, integrity and trust. The ethical dimension of presence design, including augmented reality design, is acknowledged as a value for the design of larger social technical en ecological infrastructures in a variety of public debates around privacy, integrity and trust (Hamelink 2000).
As mentioned above, different notions of presence function in a variety of social, political, religious, spiritual and ideological contexts. The focus of this chapter is on our natural presence qualified by breathing and a heart that ticks. It grounds presence in our physical nature.
Even though it was not labelled as such in a wide variety of scientific domains, presence research has been conducted over the last few centuries: in Philosophy, in Architecture, in Psychology, in scientific technology development, in Communications and Media Studies. The distinction between being present in the here and now, and being present elsewhere, by voice or by imagination (when reading a book for example), has been a topic of scientific interest for many years.
The current large scale spread of digital and distributed technologies has positioned the design of presence centre stage. With the ever developing technology, spreading Internet, evolving game culture, augmented reality, wearables, smart textiles, avatars and more, new presence designs and configurations are continually influencing the possible stances of presence. The five key notions that have and still guide presence design during the last two decades are: (1) being there, (2) being here, (3) merging realities, (4) presence as the strive towards well-being and survival, and (5) co-presence, social presence and witnessed presence. These notions and their historical context are discussed below in more detail.
A first issue of controversy is that presence is a fuzzy concept. Most measurements in the 'being-there' approach to presence design are concerned with effects of certain media configurations focusing on a reported sense of presence. Where does presence as a phenomenon start and where does it end? What is the opposite of presence?
Not having presence may not be the same as being absent or having/performing absence. How can presence be defined to make distinctions possible between more or less, better or worse, real or false presence? The notion of witnessing sheds light on these issues, but does not make hard distinctions possible.
A second issue is the controversy of how presence is considered – as a result of human consciousness or as part of human consciousness. The notion of presence differs between the variety of social sciences and natural sciences, between deterministic and more holistic approaches. Also the role of emotions and the role of imaginations in processes of presence is approached differently. This regularly leads to misunderstandings.
A third issue concerns design trajectories of presence in complex systems. Inducing and deducing dynamics in virtual simulations and serious games requires rigorous analytical skills and an associative/creative capacity at the same time. Results often only shed light on a specific dynamic given a set of predefined rules and variables. Nevertheless, these simulations and serious games inform real life processes in which real people participate. The gap between simulations and serious games and real life situations is considerable and has to be taken into account. In cyber therapy this gap is used to induce healing processes in individuals. When complex systems assist in matters of life and death, as in crisis management systems, or more mundane applications as in railway systems, unintended side-effects can have dramatic effects. Virtual simulations and serious games are unable to anticipate how individuals will act and be witnessed in extreme situations in their strive for survival and well-being. Such unexpected side-effects are matters of concern.
Designing presence in complex systems in the context of the functionality and non-functional requirements on which a system is based should target specific functionality, such as: to facilitate social interaction, to facilitate collaboration, to facilitate exchange, to facilitate a marketplace, to facilitate distributed structures of governance. As the design of presence is not often explicitly addressed as an explicit requirement, it is often neglected. Developments in the outsourcing industry in India, for example, indicate that neglect for presence design is detrimental for the workers involved (Ilavarasan 2008, Upadhya 2008). Presence as a value for design, as a requirement, facilitates designs that make it possible for us to be able to have agency, accept responsibility, and be able to engage with others in meaningful interaction, making it possible for us to steer towards our own well-being and survival.
Presence research is a science of trade-offs (IJsselsteijn 2004). We, as individuals make these choices and trade-offs on the basis of what we know: we decide on how, when and where we perform our own presence in which situations. Collective experience with a medium affects how we, as a society, understand and respond to media realities.
When film was just invented, and a train was approaching, the whole cinema audience would dive under the chairs. For many years email was ignored as a legitimate form of communication – it took up until a decade ago for the Courts of Law to accept email as proof. (Note that the concerns with respect to legitimacy of email are well founded.) The implication of understanding presence as a choice and trade-off, on both the individual and collective level, is that presence can be designed and this opens up new fields for research and design.
There is a direct relation between design for presence and design for trust in the emerging network society in which on- and offline realities merge. Arguing that witnessed presence is fundamental for establishing trust, Nevejan (2007) introduces the YUTPA framework in which 4 dimensions of time, place, action and relation define potential trust in different presence configurations of these dimensions. Interdisciplinary research with artists, academics and experts elaborated this framework and identified factors of significance in human experience in each dimension (Nevejan & Brazier 2012), providing a frame of reference for the analysis of choices and trade-offs in presence design.
Designing for the making of choices and trade-offs, designing a context in which people can steer towards well-being and survival, needs to conceptualize presence design as meta-design (Fisher 2013). It is not designing for a specific behaviour, it is designing for the choice of behaviour or the creation of new behaviour. Social networks, Internet platforms, and participatory systems aim to offer such meta-design upon which we can perform our own presence in our own way. Presence as value for design is mandatory in these systems of participation (Brazier & Nevejan 2014).
Design for presence needs to include the complex notion of design for experience. We make choices for our own behaviour, for the performance of our presence, not only out of habit of previous behaviour. Such choices are more complex and include outcomes of reflection on our previous action and outcomes, understanding of contexts, imagination and anticipation of possibilities. Different levels of consciousness (proto, core and extended) influence performance of presence (Damasio 2004).
In the English language the word experience reflects different kinds of experience in one word only. In the German language the word 'erfahrung' is distinct from 'erlebnis'. A distinction is made between 'erlebnis', referring to sensations and happenings, which are foundational to behaviour, and 'erfahrung' which refers to experience, as being the reflexive context in which we, as human beings, reflect upon our own actions and understand our own situation to inform new actions. Design for presence not only includes design for sensations and behaviour ('erlebnis') as discussed above. Design for presence is distinct because it necessarily includes design for experience ('erfahrung') in which a larger context allows for individual reflection and choices. Performance of presence emerges from experience.
Experience design is a relatively young discipline in certain design schools in Europe, USA and India. Its theoretical foundation is diverse including media and cultural studies, marketing and business, philosophy and interaction design.
Not often used today, but very clear in their intention, is the work of the Frankfurter Schule on experience design in the previous century (Habermas 1983, Negt & Kluge 1972). This group of German philosophers and social scientists posed the question of design for experience, as the ground for human's autonomous choice, in the early 1960s. Confronted with the fact that millions of people had followed Hitler in the 1930s and into WOII, they were determined to understand how individual people could keep their autonomy and independent perception in mass media and propaganda contexts. As result the Frankfurter Schule introduced a specific idea about experience design in which sensations and happenings need to be historically contextualized in both personal and collective ways to nurture reflection and inspire people to steer towards their own, and others, well-being and survival. Artists and artistic research play a role of significance in this approach. In the era of ubiquitous computing and all pervasive media the thinking of the Frankfurter Schule is acquiring new attention.
Presence research uses many methodologies from the medical and natural sciences as well as methodologies from the social and design sciences. Artists, who have challenged the imagination of presence design with elaborate use of technology for several decades now, make specific contributions to presence research.
Every new technology is an inspiration for artists. They run with it, push its limits and focus on exploring experiences that the new medium facilitates. For over 50 years now technology artists have experimented with different presence designs. Using radio and television, video, audio and digital media in many ways, artists have explored how human beings can perform presence in different media configurations. Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Nam June Paik, Bill Viola, Char Davies, David Rokeby, Shu Lea Cheang, Lisa Autogena, just to name a few, have altered the way in which people experience the merging realities around them.
Artists are experts in creating experiences for others offering perception and reflection in unanticipated ways and affect the aesthetic experience that is part of everyday life (Dewey 1934). Artistic research, including the making of work and methodologies for research, offers radical realism, non-conceptualism and contingency (Schwab & Borgdorff 2014). Distinct from art history, and distinct form art practice, artistic research aims to contribute to larger research questions (Biggs & Karlsson 2011, Borgdorff 2012, Zijlmans 2013). Presence design in the era of ubiquitous computing and pervasive media is definitely such a question.
In a variety of disciplines scholars are concerned with understanding requirements for designing structures in which we, as human beings, can steer towards our own well-being and survival for establishing sustainable social structures. None of these approaches is currently considered part of presence theory or design.
However, when accepting that presence is essentially the strive for well-being and survival, these approaches contribute to presence design for larger social, ecological and technological structures. Fundamental to all of these approaches is that we participate with our own strive for well-being and survival while participating in a larger process of collective evolution or change. Each of these approaches is concerned with design processes or analyses as meta-design for the value of presence.
Interdisciplinary research has identified 4 dimensions of significance for making choices and trade-offs for the performance of presence. The YUTPA framework, acronym for being with You in unity of Time, Place and Action, sheds light on specific presence configurations in which a person performs presence with YOU, in the NOW, being HERE, with a specific potential to DO certain things.
Each of the dimensions of relation, time, place and action is defined by a number of factors, which affect how a person judges the presence configuration in which one finds oneself. As a result specific trust is established, which affects how a person performs presence.
When translating presence into design requirements, an application should facilitate a participant's capacity to steer towards his/her own and others' well-being and survival. A participant's possibilities to act have to be real in the sense that they can be aware of the situation they are in and act upon it. This is one of the great challenges in the design of augmented reality applications in which experts have to collaborate.
The research project CSI The Hague explores the potential of mediated and augmented reality for future crime scene investigation. Using special VR glasses through which experts see a real crime scene as well as augmented indicators that colleagues have placed, the application needs to facilitate experts to investigate together.
Relation: Experts in the Crime Scene Investigation of the CSI The Hague project meet each other in professional roles. This defines their engagement and affects their reputation. Interestingly, the experts in this case need to create a shared meaning. Not the same type of shared meaning as the shared meaning we make with family or friends, but a shared meaning to contextualize and understand a crime scene investigation that also includes ethical positions in the process.
Time: Experts work together for the limited amount of time that is needed to do the investigation. They are trained in their professional roles to synchronize performance. This is not often possible as their rhythms will often not be integrated as they have different professional environments and may even live in different time zones. Because they work online in mediated presence, it is almost impossible to share moments that signify. It is almost impossible to share celebration when successful or share the mourning that comes with atrocity or defeat. On the time dimension the performance of presence is defined by the lack of trust caused by a low integration of rhythms and not-sharing of moments to signify.
Place: The body sense and environmental impact between an expert on the crime scene and an expert elsewhere is very different and therefore contribute very little to the collaborative performance of presence. The emotional space experts share, depends significantly on the compassion and experience of the remote expert. This emotional space is defined by professional roles, expert knowledge of the task at hand, but also by the gravity of the situation with which both experts have to deal. Situated agency, the fourth factor in the place dimension, is clearly defined as a requirement. The purpose of the application is to give agency to the remote expert to make remote collaboration effective, which if successful, will significantly contribute to experts trust in the situation.
Action: Reciprocity in signs and negotiation of conditions are performed in professional settings and can be executed in remote situations as well. However, these are hindered by the lack of tuning possibilities. No body moves or breath space can be shared. Trust in the expert collaboration may be created by a series of activities for contextualizing the actions experts may exchange at distinct moments in time.
Overall the YUTPA analysis shows that the degree of trust in the expert in augmented collaboration is a challenge. Of the 16 factors that have been identified so far, only 7 contribute significantly to trust affecting choices and trade-offs for presence in the current design. Synchronizing performance, situated agency, reciprocity, negotiation, quality of deeds and role are requirements on which the design of the system it is based. Depending on the experts that engage with each other, emotional space and communion may contribute to the degree of trust in augmented collaboration in which case the balance flips to more than half of the factors contributing to trusting mediated collaboration. But these are highly individual factors. From a presence design perspective the system could benefit from the time dimension by enhancing, for example 'integrating rhythm'. In the place dimension situated agency and emotional space could benefit from explicit functionality designed to this purpose. In the action dimension, there are options to improve tuning of presence and quality of deeds. In the relation dimension a reputation system may contribute to the sense of presence.
Presence as a factor of analysis judges the choices that are made in a design process giving agency to participants to steer towards their own and others well-being and survival. Such agency needs to be in balance with attention, intention and expectation of participants in the to be designed participatory scripts.
Presence as a value in Design for Values positions our 'strive for well-being and survival' centre-stage in all phases of the design process. However, systems necessarily have multiple actors each with their own strive for well-being and survival. Their needs may collide. Where in nature's design, according to Darwin, in the strive for well-being and survival the fittest will survive, in designs for human society more complex and more balanced presence design is possible. Colliding, interdependent needs of multiple actors need to be taken into account, as the context for design.
For social structures, including businesses, to be sustainable a balance between individual and collective strive for well-being and survival has to be met. To this end design choices have to be made for modes of participation, modes of communication and decision-making, modes of influence and authority in the context of network, networked, networking and network making powers (Castells 2012). Also this presence design is effectively a meta-design in which structures of governance and structures of participation are designed to be amended over time.
The different analytical frameworks, as discussed in section 3.1, are all of relevance to Design for Values: presencing, collaborative authoring of outcomes, simulations and emulations for paying tribute to the diverse links in the actor network system, poly-centricity and distributed systems design. Presence as a value in Design for Values needs to address agency of participants and the potential for trust between participants including the system itself. Being and bearing witness have to be scripted in (Nevejan & Brazier 2014).
Currently smart grid technology is developed worldwide. Boulder Colorado, for example, the first Smart Grid city in the USA, provided two-way connectivity to the city. Citizens can be both consumers and producers of energy and the Grid negotiates and divides according to the needs and possibilities of each household.
In Western Europe energy is available 24/7. In current energy market 'supply' follows 'demand'. With the expectation that over time, as energy resources and needs change (for example with the introduction of electric vehicles) future Smart Grids have to be designed in such a way that 'demand' will follow 'supply'.
Little is known about the embodiment of virtual and mediated experiences. Looking at data of users it seems that millions of people engage daily in network activities. How such activities affect us human beings is unclear. Effects on human psychology, on how communities and societies function, on how markets adapt, and many more questions are open issues and subject of further research.
How does network reality influences the mind maps we make? How does networked reality become embodied? How does network reality affect our feelings and emotions and are emotions and feelings also fundamental to steering in network realities, or are there other drivers in the online world? The relation between performance of presence and imagination needs to be explored much deeper for being able to answers question like this.
Network reality is part of our daily negotiation for performance of presence, but most psychological and sociological theories are based on a world in which network reality does not play a role. It is unclear whether psychological and sociological mechanisms can be transposed to network reality. In mass communication, media studies and in net critique these issues are being explored, a new paradigm for analysis and design is emerging but is not yet clearly defined.
A confusing issue is that we, as people, negotiate performance of presence based on how we trust a situation with which we are confronted. Trust may not be granted for appropriate reasons and performance of presence may not be beneficial in the end. As in the Facebook example above, it is easy to trust Facebook because its presence design supports us to significantly steer in each of the 4 dimensions of time, place, action and relation. However, this trust may be misleading. Power relations in the network society are often opaque, but not less relevant. It is an open issue how distributed transparency can be designed. Also it is unclear how we, as individuals, are positioned in personal-global dynamics. Whistle blowers like Edward Snowdon and Julian Assange show how technology in the hands of a few, control many. They reach a large audience via the media, but little political action happens as a result. These open issues have great societal impact and further research is timely.


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Naomi Clark describes her work with the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, the on-line trans and queer community Strap-On.org, and her career in video game design. She begins her oral history with her childhood. Topics of her childhood include her first memories of Seattle, parents' marital tensions, family move to Japan, return to the United States during high school and racial justice activism there. She then discusses her career as a coder for Lego and her process of coming out during that time. In the end of the oral history, Clark tells about her life after coming out, the community support she found in the forum Strap-On, and the growing presence of trans women in video game design.
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IMPACT Star Johnny Swinger Signs Contract Extension.
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IMPACT Star Johnny Swinger has extended his contract with the company.
Swinger returned to IMPACT Wrestling in 2019 and became a main stay in the X-Division scene competing for the X-Division title on a couple of occasions. Swinger is well known for his ''Hollywood'' gimmick and vintage style as well as attitude and will continue running with that well into 2023.
Speaking on the Tommy Dreamer's House of Hardcore podcast, Swinger confirmed he signed a new deal with IMPACT which will see him stay throughout 2023. Swinger spoke about the call he got from Scott D'Amore the Executive Vice President of IMPACT wrestling which would lead to his eventual return.
Here's what he said below:
"Brother, I'm telling you man and he [Scott D'Amore] said to me, he called me on fourth of July 2019, I was out by the pool so that's why I remember — he didn't call me, he sent me a text, said, 'I got an idea for you in IMPACT, it'll be fun and easy' and my response was, 'When do I start?' I didn't ask what it was, I didn't care because I knew that he knows what to do with me so I'll just trust in that so it was three weeks after that before he told me what I was finally doing and when I talked to him, he goes, 'We'll either get three months out of this or we'll get three years out of it,' and you know, obviously he's still happy with it,"
he continues on....
"They're offering me another year and there's a lot of people — I started thinking about all the people I've worked with there over the last three years that aren't around anymore that were really big time talent so, you know, I was just in awe of Ken Shamrock when I first came in, because I never really knew him before that but I got to kind of be friendly with him, really cool guy and I was thinking, you know, after a year-and-a-half, he was gone and I'm still here three years — that makes me feel good that I'm a pliable character that you just cameo into something and you have a good idea and it's like boom, it's an easy, simple thing and everybody gets it. I'm just grateful for the chance to come back on a TV level and do this character which it's not really a character. It's just what I am and what I've seen and I add a lot of color to it and I watch a lot of people."
Swinger was featured on before the IMPACT, as well as competing at the Bound For Glory PPV in which he competed in the Call Your Shot Gauntlet match.
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After what seems to have been years of promotion, the fight is here. If you want to know my prediction, I posted it yesterday.
I will do live play by play for the main event. But I will also list the undercard winners on this post as well.
We'll be back with updates as the night goes on.
Andrew Tabiti beat Steve Cunningham fairly easily in the PPV opener. I missed the fight so I'll link to Bad Left Hook's recap.
Badou Jack stopped Nathan Cleverly in the 5th round of an impressive performance. He had Cleverly up against the ropes and was throwing punch after punch and Cleverly wasn't throwing back. He was trying to bob and weave, but the referee stopped it.
Gervonta Davis knocked out Francisco Fonseca in a weird fight. Davis showed spurts of flashy athleticism but looked to be frustrated by Fonseca for most of the fight. In the 8th, Davis hit Fonseca with a body shot and Fonseca fell forward a bit to clinch. Instead, Davis swung and hit him on the back of the neck and Fonseca went to his knees. He was hugging Davis' legs and Davis pushed him off. Fonseca never got off his knees.
McGregor comes out with his MMA stance and isn't fighting in a boxing stance. He's attacking Mayweather against the ropes and Mayweather is staying patient. Conor is pawing his jab out there and Mayweather is fighting very conventionally with his hands right at his head. McGregor threw an awkward MMA style punch off a shuffle that made Floyd a bit uncomfortable. Mayweather came inside and McGregor landed an uppercut that surprised Floyd. That's McGregor's round.
McGregor was warned for holding the back of the head and hitting, which is legal in MMA. Mayweather looks to be setting up his lead right. McGregor is holding the body and hitting too. The round is probably for McGregor, but I think Mayweather is figuring him out.
McGregor tried to hammer first him reflexively. MCGregor's jab is working well this round. McGregor is doing a lot of switching with his feet to create angles. He's throwing some of his shots lazily and on his back foot and it may hurt him down the line.
McGregor's getting tired and he's keeping his hands out there to keep Mayweather at bay, but not Mayweather is picking up his pace. He's still not comfortable enough to let it go, but he's landing solidly. I think we're going to see McGregor's face get marked up a bit. I have it 3-1 for Conor.
That was easily Floyd's round. McGregor has nothing left on his shots and maybe he just took the round off, but it's not looking good here. Floyd is walking him down and landing right hands. McGregor's defense and head movement is still strong.
McGregor is fighting a little dirty, probably out of exhaustion. The referee pulled McGregor away for hitting Mayweather in the back, but Mayweather was turning his back to him. Mayweather is landing his lead right at will. McGregor is having trouble hitting him now. It's 3-3.
That was another easy round for Mayweather. McGregor's not fighting well backing up but he's so tired and Mayweather is winning the inside fighting, that McGregor can only go backward. Every time McGregor tries to get a better position, Mayweather turtles and turns his back to him.
McGregor is doing much better offensively. I'm so impressed at his defense and head movement. That movement stuff is real. This is still going to be Floyd's round, but McGregor finally had a competitive round. I'm more impressed with McGregor's willingness to hang in there and fight.
McGregor looked to hit Mayweather low, but you couldn't tell. Mayweather reacted like it was. The referee pushed them apart and Mayweather went to tap gloves while McGregor threw a punch. Mayweather smiled out of respect. McGregor is ready to fall. He's so tired and probably tired of eating right hands. He lasted the round and it looked like he could barely walk. Kudos to McGregor. But it's still 6-3 Floyd.
McGregor took so much punishment in the 10th. If I was the corner, I would've thrown the towel at the end of the ninth. McGregor didn't need to take so many shots. Floyd had him reeling and when it looked like he was going to fall, he'd smartly hold onto Mayweather. The referee finally topped it. But Conor didn't fall.
Floyd did what I thought he'd do, which is wait for McGregor to get tired and then start chopping him down. McGregor fought well and did as good of a job as you could expect.
Tagged Andrew Tabiti, Badou Jack, Conor McGregor, Floyd Mayweather, Francisco Fonseca, Gervonta Davis, Nathan Cleverly, Steve Cunningham.


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1. Is this school governed by the DPS Society?
DPS Gurugram, Sec 84 is under the aegis of DPS society, New Delhi. We are honoured to have Mr. V.K. Shunglu, Chairman, DPS Society as Chairman of our Managing Committee.
2. What Curriculum will be offered by the school?
The school offers the CBSE Curriculum delivered in the best practices of international education systems. We will create a holistic environment where a child will bloom to the best. The school climate will reverberate with joy and respect.
3. What activities are there as a part of the normal Curriculum?
We pride ourselves on our teaching philosophy a unique, high impact education programme that unlocks multiple pathways to learning and all-round development. Through an academically rigorous education enriched with robust co-curricular, sport and enrichment activities, students develop key skills which include the ability to apply knowledge, think creatively, express oneself, work with others, and persevere, as well as develop their values, character and leadership qualities to influence and change the world.
4. Is it a co-education school?
Yes, our school is a co-educational school.
5. What is the process of getting admission into DPS 84?
For students applying for Pre-Nursery to grade-II, we conduct an informal interaction between the Principal, the Headmistress/Pre-Primary representative and the child.
From grade-III onwards, the student is expected to sit for entrance papers for English and Mathematics, which are more like interactive worksheets.
6. When is the right time to apply for admission & how will we get to know about admission/ vacancy?
Forms for the new academic session will be available in the month of July for Pre-Primary, Primary, Nursery and Kindergarten classes and January for classes 1 and above. General information about classes in which vacancies exist will be updated on the website.
7. What is the process for Final admission and mode of payment?
At the time of admission the parents have to bring the requisite documents and pay the Admission fees along with the first quarter fees. Thereafter, fees can also be paid online.
The payment schedule is mentioned below for your reference.
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If the parent has transferred from another state or country, he/she has to provide the original mark sheet/report card and Transfer Certificate from the previous school before taking admission. The Transfer Certificate has to be attested by the concerned Educational Board Authorities.
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2016 Turkey, London France Prague >
Turkey London Chunnel Train
France beautiful France
France, Prague and back to Turkey
Ending 2016 in Turkey
2015 Turkey, Greece, (maybe) and Italy >
From Home to Margie's Bay
Palamut to Leros Greece
Leros Greece to Skopea Lamani
Gocek to Kekova Roads and back
Leaving Turkey for Italy
2014 Sailing Turkey and Greece then trip Amalfi Coast >
Arriving in Marmaris, luggageless
Deep Bay, Kas(paragliding), Fetiye
The Cycladic Circuit
Nysros, Greece, Turkey and Amalfi, Italy
2013 Sailing Turkey and Greece >
Istanbul, Gocek to Marmaris
Marmaris to Gorkova Korfesi
Turkitreis to Gocek Lamani
Bozukbuku to Marmaris and Home
2012 Sailing Turkey >
Kekova Roads to Marmaris
Bozubuku to Lisbon
Marmaris to the Hisaronu Korfesi
Gocek to Kekova Roads
Home to Marmaris to Gocek
Leaving home
Sailing 2011 >
Fetiye and all Skopea Lamani, to Marmaris, Istanbul, 15th to 19th Sept Skopea Lamani, Marmaris, Wrighteau to bed, and off to Istanbul
Bozubuku to Fetiye 18th Aug- 4th Sept Marmaris, Ekincik, Skopea Lamani
the Dodecanese to Turkey 6th - 18th August Kos, Simi and into Turkey at Datca
the Dodecanese 24th July - 5th August Agathonisi, Marathos, Patmos, Leros, Kalimnos, Kos Wrighteau's birthday yesterday, a big 7 year old now
Leaving home to Margies Bay
Istanbul Gocek and Marmaris
Home to Gocek
Marmaris to he Hisaronu Korfezi
Bozburun to Lisbon Portugal
Wrighteau 2006
Chianti and Rome 2006
2005 Croatia
Turkey, London and to Paris
Well hello folks, off we go again. Another year of hydrangeas, and off to play in the sunshine. We set off at the end of June, and so we have been away just over a week, (actually 2 weeks by the time I get to send this off). And it certainly has been a holiday beginning with some interesting challenges. We had a good flight over, emerged from the familiar arrivals hall of Ataturk Airport in Istanbul, making our way to a taxi to ferry us to our familiar WOW Airport Hotel. We tucked down early and woke to the news in the morning that 5 hours after we walked through the arrivals terminal it ended in tatters of bombs and bullets and fatal destruction.
In the morning we were having trouble getting through to Turkish Airlines, our next flight was cancelled of course, so we went out to the airport The media scrum was setting up and growing just outside the airport, it was astonishing, and when we came back at the end of the day it was like a city of dishes, and vans, the vultures waiting for more activity. We got the hotel shuttle there, and went into the departures and approached the check in desk, I showed the lady my home printed ticket asking what we should do because this flight was cancelled, so she promptly printed out a boarding pass for the same flight. I gently reminded her she had printed a boarding pass for a now nonexistent flight!!! We were sent to the next desk and received a boarding pass for later in the day, 5.25 departure. The terminal was fairly quiet, not that many people around, not even a policeman to be seen which alarmed us. We then got a taxi that took us down past the arrivals where we had happily walked out of 17 hrs earlier, they had tidied up such a lot in such a quick time, but it was eerily quiet, the repair crew still very busy, and parts of the ceiling still hanging down. After that we set about entertaining ourselves for the rest of the day, and at 10 got the shuttle to Sultanahmet, the old city in Istanbul. We walked up from the entrance of the old city, and were completely struck by the lack of people on the streets, no big buses filing one after the other with tourists to traipse their way through the mosques and Topkapi Castle, taking a photo of the Blue Mosque eerily unimpeded by people of every colour and race in the way of a good photo. There were less people than when I got up at 6am to beat the tourists for photos last year. However incredibly there were Police parked on every corner, with big powerful firearms. Joe kept saying, "do you think they know something we don't" I felt so safe there as there wasn't enough bang for buck for a terrorist. We called at our regular hotel Armagrandi to book our room for 15th Sept, he looked so sad I wanted to take him in my arms and comfort him. Everyone says how quite it all is, the new president is trying to eliminate tourism slowly but completely, as well as the squirmishes that have been happening in Turkey, and apparently foreign governments recommending people don't visit Turkey
We had a nice beer at our favorite little Irish Bar, watching the entertaining ice cream vendor opposite, and then around the corner for some beautiful Kale Kesh and then we did what we were not going to do, caught a train back to the airport hotel. After a small wait it was time to return to Ataturk. The city of media had grown astonishingly. As we drove up to the departures, a Police shot around us with lights blazing, our driver had a few words with someone outside his window, and turned around with an ashen face and said another bomb gone off inside. He was very pale for a Turk all of a sudden. He put the phone in my hand with an interpreter who said something about we can go in but Police are not going in. None of it made sense and other people were entering, so we decided to just go for it. The police were having a real screaming match with a taxi driver, it sounded really heavy duty, by the time I got inside waiting to put our luggage through the xray I was shaking. The airport was just manic, of course with all these delayed planes to fill. What really struck us the most was a complete lack of presence of police or army or security. And yet in Sultanahment with barely anyone around they were everywhere. It was a relief to make it to the other side of passport control and then take off.
Things seem to go to plan now, the marina shuttle was on track, and soon we were back in the familiar surrounds again. It is ideal to have a couple of nights in the apartment when we arrive, with airconditioning to slowly acclimatize to the heat, which was quite a jump from 15C in NZ to a hefty 37C, and get our luggage into and unpacked on Wrighteau in the quiet of the next day. Then a few days to prepare Wrighteau and anti foul to get her into the water before we set off on our little European sojourn.
One thing we didn't factor into it all was the end of Ramadan. At the end of the Ramadan fasting, there is a 4 day holiday, and on Monday we were the last boat to be launched at 12 pm. When in the launching pool we checked the boat was dry and not leaking, all good, so into gear, shaft in revolution mode, off we go. By the time we got around to the berth, we realized that water was gently trickling through the stuffer box. I got my best panic boots into action, and raced off to see if I could stop the launching crew, or our little sojourn to Europe land trip would be off the plan and constant pump out for the Ramadan holiday would have been on the table. I was so lucky to find them, all changed and ready to leave, but in very good humor, they lifted us back out. As you might imagine, spirits were slightly dampened, but we got ourselves ready for going away, and in the morning off we went.
3 days in London. We are members of the CA, (Cruising Association) a yachting association, and they have cabins available for members in their CA House, for a most reasonable £60 a night. It is situated in Limehouse Basin, a little marina off the Thames through a couple of lochs, and full of predominantly canal boats permanently based. They pay £10,000 a year to moor their boat here, but personally they look a little claustrophobic for my liking.
Limehouse was about 35 minutes walk from Tower Bridge, so not so far out, but each day meant tackling some sort of public transport, and in London that is frighteningly expensive. Especially at the beginning before we discovered the Oyster Card. Our first trip which took us in the Zone 1, so not far, cost £9.8 for the two of us. Goodness, that is NZ$8 each, to go from Karori to the city, or Greerton to Otumoetai. The sea of people everywhere and the stand still traffic jam problems in this city are a real nightmare. We often love to try the double decker buses to get an overview of the city, but crawling along slower than a crab beat us by the time we got to Victoria St and we hopped off to make a new plan. Our lovely Barbara has a son working in London and he sent through some restaurant ideas, so we made our way to Shoreditch, using directions on the phone. Tube went successfully, but we hit a snag when we tried to board a bus, "no ticket" We finally hailed a taxi, and, my word, it was worth the effort, a Peruvian restaurant, it had wonderful staff, and tapas to behold. We took to the streets to work some of that off, and of course got a little bit lost, so we popped into a lovely English little bar, watched some tennis with a small glass, to collect our thoughts again you understand. Then who should we become involved in some sporting banter with, but a first cousin of, not just someone we vaguely know back home, but of the Kings who I grew up with and very close friends from childhood, in the horse world and school. His family came to live in London when he was quite young. Just what are the chances???
So on that we made our way safely back to our end of town. Next day we foolishly forgot about the traffic jams and gave the big bus another go. We only made it to the changing of the guards this time, it was a fortuitous move to alight the bus here, we were just in time for the actual Changing of the Guards. And then we enjoyed a beautiful stroll through St James Park. Whatever anyone says about Royalty and their place in the world, Buckingham Palace teams with people milling around getting such enjoyment from it all. It is all just such a beautiful area to amble along, and up the Mall into Trafalgar Square, an ideal spot to sit with a traditional English steak and stout pie and watch the world go by.
We encountered a last minute ticket office and got some tickets to Kinky Boots. A musical. Brilliant. That's all I can say, just brilliant. It revolved around a shoe factory, with transvestites involved. Very funny, and a good story line
The last day we had been in touch with our good friends, Mel and Jill. Mel is playing a lot of cricket in Essex, so the plan was for us to meet half way down at Tumbridge Wells. Woman are meant to be able to do two things at once, but on this occasion this woman dropped the ball. Sitting on the train I was also organizing our Euro Star tickets as we approached a place called Tonbridge. We just sort of got off. It wasn't glaringly obvious to me that it missed the Wells and was spelt with an O and not a U. I was still battling with travel agent duties as Joe hopped around wondering why they were late. I didn't mind as I was at a crucial stage in my booking process and their arrival might have sent me back to the beginning. At conclusion and back to concentrating on one thing, I realized we had hopped off one stop too soon. What a mistaka to maka. Turned out it was a good mistake. Mel and Jill came up to us, and we set off around the tiny English countryside lanes. Nobody was completely sure where we were going, but it didn't matter one bit, as it was quite away from madding crowds, and so green and beautiful. We found a gorgeous country pub, The Spotted Dog, after which exercise was required, so a little cricket ground to the side of a mansion plonked in a paddock, and Joe and Mel launched into a couple of overs of fairly rusty cricket. There were a couple of good moves there though. We then discovered the Tumbridge Wells station finally. It was an awesome afternoon and thanks to M and J for giving us such a good outing
At the end of a busy day our one last trip to a local was in order, it was to be the Grapes. Excellent. Then out of the blue a rather scruffy looking chap walked in, wispy hair floating about, looking somewhat familiar, and it was only the one and only Sir Ian McKellen, who, we were to discover, owned that little pub on the Thames.
We asked all English the people we came across what they thought of Brexit, and apart from Mel, we didn't honestly find one who was for it. And of course replacing all the restaurant and bar staff would be huge. We didn't encounter one English accent in the waiting staff attending to us. Russian, Polish of course, Lithuanian, the list is endless. So that was a very interesting thing.
Another thing that has struck us is how helpful the people are. It is still a fairly surly journey on the underground, with people looking suspiciously at each other. But the staff in the public transport are outstanding, they obligingly want to go the extra mile without exception. On our last trip on the DLR to join the Underground at Bank, the DLR was closed for maintenance. This through us into all sorts or turmoil, but we discovered a bus to replace it. When we finally made it to a tube station it was Tower Bridge, not my original plan, but a simple question to the very dark underground assistant and he came down the escalator to the platform to personally assist us onto the train, and his instructions were so involved I almost had to return to my own research to get it clear. There is an abundance of good help available.
Then on one of the trains we had a good laugh, when the announcer came out with the usual, "please take all your belongings, mind the gap," but then in this case an extra sentence "and please don't put your hands in anybody else's pockets"
So it is good bye to England and hello to France, via the very fast (249km) Euro star, through the Chunnel at 75 meters below the surface on the sea bed. When we arrived we were inundated with touting taxi drivers, who clearly didn't recognize a couple of street smart savvie slightly getting older kiwi globe trotters, and just for the heck of it I asked how much to St Germain. The reply was an astronomically daft 75 Euro. I mean, how naïve do we really look. Well, I have only recently ventured into the world of UBER. We used it for the first time in London with wonderful success. The question was how would we go with a foreign language. I just figured if I gave all the exact details, we could not go wrong. They are amazing, they give the number plate we are looking for and the type of car, and on the phone can even see it hovering around. I could not have imagined a better outcome, for 8.60 Euro, (remember the taxi tried to extricate 75 from us) we were entertained with wrap, or it might have been hip hop, music darting in and out of little alleys, with me keeping a sharp eye on my google maps as to our whereabouts, and VOILA neck minute, here we were.
So that will do for now, we have been in Paris for one night and one eventful day. The big football cup is here, (I am a bit green when it comes to Football, so I'm not sure exactly what it is, but it is causing much hysteria) final in Paris tonight, so it promises to be full of colour. But here we are for now, 2 weeks away feels like longer.
Keeps safe, warm and well all


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Jellyfish — Bellybutton
Remastered classic!
All the bands we worshiped harmonized and wrote catchy hooks. That's what we want to do. It's very natural.
—Andy Sturmer
Jellyfish's two critically acclaimed and influential releases—Bellybutton and Spilt Milk—have found new life, being rediscovered and appreciated by generations new and old. Omnivore Recordings goes 'Fishing again with deluxe editions of these landmark albums, just in time for the anniversary of Bellybutton, which was originally released in August of 1990.
Bellybutton contains the original 10 track album in full, plus a whopping 26 bonus tracks. This 2-CD set, housed in a digipak, features material fans have been looking for, most of which has been unavailable for over a decade. In addition to demo and live versions of both released and unreleased tracks, in true Jellyfish fashion, the extra material includes covers of Paul McCartney & Wings, The Archies, and Donovan songs.
The full color booklet with rare photos and memorabilia features an essay from noted music writer Ken Sharp (author of books on KISS, Eric Carmen and John Lennon & Yoko Ono, among others), utilizing recent interviews with the band's Andy Sturmer, Roger Joseph Manning Jr., and the album's producers. Sturmer and Manning also chime in with track by track commentary on the original album tracks.
From the demos to the album to the tour, this deluxe edition of Bellybutton is the ultimate Jellyfish experience!
CD Track List:
The Man I Used To Be
That Is Why
The King Is Half-Undressed
I Wanna Stay Home
She Still Loves Him
Now She Knows She's Wrong
Bedspring Kiss
Baby's Coming Back
Calling Sarah
The King Is Half-Undressed (Live at the Roxy, Los Angeles)
Sugar And Spice (Live at the Roxy, Los Angeles)
Mr. Late (Live at the Roxy, Los Angeles)
All I Want Is Everything (Live at the Roxy, Los Angeles)
Jet (Hard Rock Café, San Francisco)
The King Is Half-Undressed (Live at Wembley Stadium, London)
Baby's Coming Back (Live at Wembley Stadium, London)
I Wanna Stay Home (Live at Wembley Stadium, London)
She Still Loves Him (Live at Wembley Stadium, London)
All I Want Is Everything (Live at Wembley Stadium, London)
The Man I Used To Be (Demo)
The King Is Half-Undressed (Demo)
I Wanna Stay Home (Demo)
She Still Loves Him (Demo)
All I Want Is Everything (Demo)
Now She Knows She's Wrong (Demo)
Bedspring Kiss (Demo)
Baby's Coming Back (Demo)
Calling Sarah (Demo)
Deliver (Demo)
Queen Of The U.S.A. (Demo)
Always Be My Girl (Demo)
Let This Dream Never End (Demo)
Season Of The Witch (Demo)
That Girl's A Man (Demo)
Bye Bye Bye (Demo)
Cat: OV-5
Categories: Power Pop, Rock, All, CD
Tag: Jellyfish
Jellyfish — Spilt Milk
Power Pop, Rock, All, CD
Jellyfish — Live At Bogart's
Jellyfish — Stack-a-Tracks
Jellyfish — Bellybutton Demos
Power Pop, Rock, All, Digital


Scientists on Wednesday revealed the first image ever made of a black hole, depicting a fiery orange and black ring of gravity-twisted light swirling around the edge of the abyss.
A California man caught hauling marijuana through Nebraska has been given jail time and probation.
Lawmakers proposed measures Thursday intended to discourage a repeat of the college admissions bribery scandal that largely began in California but is roiling universities nationwide.


7 books for a 'mental' getaway: the books that will transport you to other places!
Most of us can't afford to travel too often, but there is always an amazing alternative to that: books! Books can transport you, not only to different places, and also to different eras. Here are seven choices that will do the trick for you – and they're amazingly written, too!
The Historian will guide you through three different eras. Using stories within stories, you will meet London, Istanbul, Budapest, Sofia, Crete, and many more places. Kostova's book is truly a masterpiece, and you will soon find you can't let that book off your hands!
There's no place like…wait for it…Florence! Yes, Florence in the Medici era, and back today, and back again… A hunt for the background story of a mysterious painting will guide you through Florence and Tuscan villages in summertime.
Rivers of London follows a young policeman who discovers magic actually exists, and his hunt for a supernatural felon in the streets of London. The story is set in the present, but is nonetheless very well written.
An absolute must-read, Axeman's Jazz takes you to New Orleans in 1919. And as if that wasn't fascinating enough, you will follow the hunt for one of the most notorious serial killers of that time, the Axeman of New Orleans. Ready to pick up the book yet?
Travel to India and watch the life of Barlam Halwai, as he sets off from a small, poor village to become his own man; finding and overcoming obstacles in various, sometimes dubious ways.
Set in seventeenth century Amsterdam, follow the life of Nella Oortman is she leaves her home and gets married into a wealthy, yet peculiar family of sugar traders. Beautifully written, historically detailed and with a plot twist that will make you gasp- the Miniaturist is absolutely worth reading!
1890, Bucharest, Romania. Dacia and Lou arrive from New York to meet their maternal family, but they find much more than what they expected. A beautiful fantasy novel that truly makes you wan to travel to Romania.


JSON-for-VHDL is a library to parse and query JSON data structures in VHDL. The complete functionality is hosted in a single VHDL package, without special dependencies.
The JSON-for-VHDL library can be used to parse and query JSON data structures, which are read from disk. The data structure is read via VHDL file I/O functions and procedures and parsed into a internal compressed representation. While the parsing is done, a lightwight index is created to ease the navigation on the data structure.
Values can be selected by simple path expressions.
Here is a short example *.json file, which describes two common FPGA boards.
report "Query='KC705/Eth/0/Address' Value='" & jsonGetString(JSONContent, "KC705/Eth/0/Address") & "'"
The library can be downloaded as a zip-file (latest 'master' branch) or cloned with git from GitHub. GitHub offers HTTPS and SSH as transfer protocols.
This is a local copy of the Apache License Version 2.0.


In the style of concrete and structural music, this work departs from documentation of the piano in Franziska Koch's house as it is cleaned, creating a random and abstract melody. The artist had a 7" vinyl record pressed of the audio recording of the act of cleaning the piano, which lasted 5'05". She then invited two musicians and one visual artist to create a renotation of the piece. Sebastian Gottschick transcribed the recording as classical notation, the resulting score of which is included as a leporello. Marlon Schumacher used a computer program and sound database to create an animated video, housed on an SD card. Bei Romy Rüeggers contributed a textual translation on a sheet of perforated cards.; The original record, three responses, and one large fold-out poster are housed inside a plastic slipcase with descriptive text.; Text in German and English.
1 sound disc ; 7 in.
The original object was photographed with a CANON EOS 5D Mark II digital camera at 300 ppi as a camera raw file (NEF). The NEF file was converted to the TIFF format in Adobe Photoshop.


One of our greatest tools on our road to recovery from our eating problems is to share with other people who have eating disorders. On the internet, email is one way we share with others in our recovery program. The easiest way for newcomers to meet others in Overeaters Anonymous is to join an "email loop" - a group of people who email each other in a safe, confidential group. Anyone who can use email can easily join an email sharing loop. It's the easiest way to meet new people in our program, and to find the support you need any time of the day or night.
We have several email loops, so click on the links below to read more about each loop and to choose the email loop that will help you the most. We strongly recommend that you only join ONE LOOP. Our loops are very active, and you will get a great deal of email every day. Please, try one loop to make sure the email volume isn't too much for you before joining another loop. YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR UNSUBSCRIBING YOURSELF if at any time you wish to leave. Directions and a link for unsubscribing are at the very bottom of each and every email from the loop.
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Buy a license, save the planet. That would be nice, right? While not 100% accurate, there is some truth in the statement. In fact, thanks to the Sport Fish Restoration Program, anglers and boaters help protect our aquatic natural places and the wildlife that lives there through the purchase of fishing licenses, boat registrations, fishing gear, boat fuel, and much more.
In addition to the conservation benefits of buying a fishing license, there are other things you can do to protect and maintain your local waterways for future generations to enjoy. Be an ethical angler by following your state rules and regulations for catch size and catch limit, use catch and release best practices, and use the Boy Scout Rule by leaving your favorite fishing hole cleaner than you found it.


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SAS closes PDP revolver for six Airbus aircraft
By Dino D'Amore December 15, 2014 22:09
Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has secured a pre-delivery payment (PDP) financing facility for two A330-300 Enhanced and six A320neo aircraft and is structured as a revolving credit facility under which SAS may draw up to $74 million in total, with a maximum of $54 million outstanding at any time. DVB Bank SE is the sole arranger and financier.
"We are very pleased to have signed an agreement that secures PDP financing for the first two new long haul aircraft and for the first phase of our A320neo order," SAS Group EVP and CFO Göran Jansson said. "The agreement reflects the strong working relationship we have with DVB and confirms the investor appetite for the aircraft we have on order."


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CHINA Hong Kong's economy to improve with motherland's support: HKSAR gov't official
Hong Kong's economy to improve with motherland's support: HKSAR gov't official
08:31, August 16, 2021
HONG KONG, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- Paul Chan, financial secretary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government, said on Sunday that Hong Kong's economy will continue to improve with the support of the motherland's package of measures.
File photo: Xinhua
Chan said in his blog that taking into account the strong performance of Hong Kong's economy in the first half of the year, the HKSAR government raised its economic growth forecast for the year to 5.5 percent to 6.5 percent from the previous 3.5 percent to 5.5 percent.
Chan believed that as the COVID-19 epidemic situation in Hong Kong remained under control and also with the support of the motherland, Hong Kong's economy will continue to have room for improvement.
Hong Kong's economy grew 7.6 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier, down slightly from 8 percent in the first quarter but marking the second consecutive quarter of rebound. Hong Kong's economy grew 7.8 percent year-on-year in the first half of the year, Chan said.
Chan said thanks to the strong exports from the mainland, Hong Kong's overall goods exports have risen for four consecutive seasons, with a year-on-year increase of 20.2 percent last quarter.
Meanwhile, the stable epidemic situation in Hong Kong has provided a favorable environment for economic growth, he said, adding that the fixed investment increased by 23.8 percent year-on-year in the last quarter and private consumption expenditure grew by 6.8 percent in the last quarter.
As private consumption spending continues to improve, the unemployment rate in Hong Kong to be released later this week is expected to fall further from the current 5.5 percent, he added.
The strength of the momentum of Hong Kong's economic growth will, however, depend on the epidemic situation in Hong Kong and other places around the world in the months ahead, Chan said.
The financial chief also said that Hong Kong's jobless rate rose from 3.4 percent at the beginning of 2020 to a high of 7.2 percent at the beginning of this year due to the impact of social unrest and epidemic.
Although the employment situation in Hong Kong has improved significantly in recent months, he said, it will be difficult for the jobless rate to fall to the low level in a short time unless the epidemic situation is completely controlled and Hong Kong resumes personnel exchanges with the mainland and the international community.
Moreover, Chan said, Hong Kong must create favorable social and economic conditions, strive to maintain social security and stability, and avoid external political interference, so as to enable its economy to develop continuously.
He said the country has made every effort to safeguard Hong Kong's security, stability, prosperity and development by enacting the national security law in Hong Kong and improving the electoral system in the HKSAR. In addition to the anti-foreign sanctions law that will soon be implemented in Hong Kong, these are all powerful responses to emerging challenges and are all for the long-term steady development of Hong Kong.


The What: NFS' Rendezvous Workspace meeting room scheduling technology will integrate with new room scheduling-specific touch screens developed by global automation and control solutions provider Crestron.
The What Else: This integration provides enterprise clients with a resource scheduling solution (Rendezvous) natively integrated with an AV signage and in room control and management solution (Crestron).
The new Crestron TSS-7- and 10-inch panels offer a solution for companies seeking better display technology without any compromise in functionality or security. The overall solution also includes integration with innovative room availability indicators in four different formats to suit many different client aesthetic preferences.
NFS has partnered closely with Crestron since 2016. NFS chief executive Luis De Souza said the new TSS touch screens will allow workplace managers to take their use of meeting spaces to new levels of efficiency. It is designed to improve workplace collaboration, uptake of videoconferencing, and reduce no-shows at meetings dramatically.
"NFS and Crestron have been engaged for several years with strong API-based integrations between our Rendezvous meeting room and desk booking solution and the Crestron Fusion platform," he said.
"When NFS Technology Group expressed interest in being included among our lineup of Room Scheduling Partners, the choice was easy," said Bob Bavolacco, sr. manager of partnerships for Crestron.
The Bottom Line: NFS worked with Crestron to develop a version of the company's software application to run natively on Crestron's TSS-series Scheduling Panels, supporting importing functionality including availability display, smart booking, check in/out and no-show tracking.