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Climate Change · News
Biodiversity decline puts food supply at risk
News Climate Change
Biodiversity decline around the globe is hurting our capacity to develop food. A new study from the United Nations found that biodiversity is a key element in producing sustainable and secure food sources — such as crops and livestock — is currently in a decline due to several factors, including climate change.
Scientists working with the Food and Agriculture Organization arm of the UN discovered that biodiversity has dropped across three levels: ecosystems, genetics and species. Without diversity in all three of the sectors, farmers and livestock owners will have a more difficult time raising reliable food sources in years to come.
"The proportion of livestock breeds at risk of extinction is increasing. Overall, the diversity of crops present in farmers' fields has declined and threats to crop diversity are increasing," the research stated.
Related: SUPERFARM design envisions an urban vertical farm that is energy self-sufficient
The decline in species, for example, affects essential tasks in nature like managing pests and pollination. With an estimated 40 percent of species expected to go extinct over the next 20 to 30 years, this could have a devastating impact all around the world.
Large mammals are also hurting from a lack of biodiversity, with over 25 percent of livestock on the verge of extinction. Further, there are only around seven percent of livestock breeds that are not at risk of extinction, which is alarming for the future of breeding.
The UN report concluded that climate change is a contributing factor in the decline of biodiversity. Other human interactions with the environment are also leading to a change in biodiversity, including pollution, demographic changes, land abuse, and overcultivation. The study also warned that our ability to monitor changes in biodiversity is limited, which means we might be worse off than we think.
Fortunately, the topic of biodiversity is getting more attention by worldwide leaders. In fact, it will take center stage at the upcoming G7 meeting and the World Conservation Congress gathering. It is unclear what will be done to combat the issue, but biodiversity decline is a problem that can no longer go ignored.
Via CNN
Biodiversity Decline
Recent research has lead to the discovery of a worrying decline in biodiversity.

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Newport, Monmouthshire
In the spring of 1836, Assistant Poor Law Commissioner George Clive visited the south Wales and catalogued a multitude of malpractices and poor conditions relating to former parish workhouses in the area.
Many workhouses are rented in the county of Monmouth; in the parishes now forming the Monmouth Union, nearly £150 is annually paid in rent for them. In only one or two of these houses is there any attempt at a dietary or employment, in none classification, in the generality every kind of abuse. In Monythusloine poorhouse the contractor keeps a shop; different families have apartments in the house; the whole is filthy to the last degree. In one room was a woman who has had nine bastard children, the last confessedly born in the house; and from the time she had been resident there, doubtless many more.
The system is much the same in the Newport poorhouse, though no shop is kept; the inmates going in and out for work or pleasure, the whole being enlivened by a lunatic in rags, who was running about where he pleased.
In 1835, the Newport workhouse on Commercial Street had Elizabeth Morgan as its Mistress.
Newport Poor Law Union was formed on 1st August, 1836. Its operation was overseen by an elected Board of Guardians, 43 in number, representing its 40 constituent parishes as listed below (figures in brackets indicate numbers of Guardians if more than one):
County of Monmouth: Bedwas, Bettws, Bishton, Caerleon, Christchurch with hamlet of Caerleon ultra Pontern, Coedkernew, Duffryn, Goldcliff, Graig, Henllis, Kemeys Inferior, Llandevenny, Llangattock juxta Caerleon, Llangstone with hamlet of Llanbedo, Llanhennock, Llanmartin with hamlet of Llanbedar, Llanwern, Llanvaches, Llanvihangel Llantarnam, Lower Machen, Upper Machen, Magor, Malpas, Marshfield, Michaelstone Vedow [-y-vedw], Mynyddyslwyn (2), Nash, Newport (2), Penhow, Peterstone, Redwick, Risca, Rogerstone, St Bride Wentllooge, St Woollos (2), Tredunnock, Witson, Wilcrick.
County of Glamorgan: Rhydgwern, Llanvedow
Later Additions (from 1895): Rumney, St. Mellons.
The population falling within the Union at the 1831 census had been 24,252 with parishes ranging in size from Llanwern (population 22) to Newport with St Woolos (7,052). The average annual poor-rate expenditure for the period 1833-35 had been £6,817 or 5s.10d. per head.
The Board of Guardians met at the workhouse each Saturday at noon.
A Newport Union workhouse was erected in 1837-8 at the south side of Stow Hill in Newport on land donated by Sir Charles Morgan. The Poor Law Commissioners authorised an expenditure of £4,000 on construction of the building which was to accommodate 200 inmates. The building was designed by TH Wyatt. Its layout adopted the popular cruciform or "square" plan, with an entrance block at the north, behind which four wings radiated from a central supervisory hub. Enclosed exercise yards for the different classes of inmate were created by the perimeter outbuildings. The workhouse location and layout are shown on the 1882 map below.
Newport workhouse site, 1887.
Poor Law Board inspections of the workhouse on 15th July 1865 and 9th June 1866 resulted in a critical report:
The sick wards are small and sometimes crowded. The workhouse is not adequate to the wants of the union, though there is a supplementary hospital (lately somewhat improved) where sick tramps and foul cases, and infectious disorders, are treated. An order has been issued for enlarging the workhouse, but many of the Guardians wish to postpone the additional building on account of the expense.
The Guardians were clearly persuaded that expansion was needed because the workhouse was enlarged in 1868-9 at a cost of £10,000 to increase its capacity to 500. The main additions were a new hospital and infirmary on additional land that had been purchased at the west of the workhouse. A chapel was also erected at the north of the site.
Newport 1869 infirmary from the north-east, 2005.
Newport chapel from the north-west, 2005.
In 1902-3, a much larger expansion took place when the workhouse was almost entirely rebuilt at a cost of £60,000 with only the 1869 infirmary, hospital, and chapel surviving. The new buildings followed the popular pavilion-plan principle with a number of separate ward blocks connected by passageways. The 1902 map below was surveyed during the redevelopment just before the original workhouse was demolished.
Newport 1902 entrance block, early 1900s.
Newport 1902 entrance block, 2000.
Newport 1902 entrance, 2000.
Newport 1902 ward block, 2000.
The picture below, which dates from around 1905, shows the elderly women inmates.
Newport elderly women inmates c.1905.
courtesy Mrs Taylor.
The picture above, and the one below of the workhouse staff, were kindly contributed by Mrs Taylor whose grandmother's sister Martha Hall was the assistant matron.
Newport workhouse staff, c.1905.
The site, now known as St Woolos Hospital, has been considerably redeveloped but a variety of older buildings still stands along the south side of Stow Hill.
The union operated a casual ward for vagrants at 67-69 Stow Hill.
Caerleon Industrial School
In 1859, the union acquired a property on Mill Street in Caerleon for use as a residential industrial school, initially with a capacity of 188 children. The numbers being placed at the school soon required that additional accommodation be created and, in 1861, extensions to house a further 200 were approved by the Board of Guardians at a cost of £4,600.
Caerleon Industrial School site, 1882.
The school's staff included the superintendent, the matron, a female industrial trainer, a farmer, a bailiff and a porter. As well as elementary education in reading, writing and arithmetic, the child were taught singing. The boys could join the school's military band and also received physical training and played football and cricket. The girls learnt needlework and all the girls' clothing as well as the boys' shirts were made on the premises. The school's 14 acres of land were cultivated under the supervision of the bailiff. Cows were kept and some of the girls could milk and churn.
In 1886, a house was erected for the superintendent of the school and his family. In 1892, a property known as the Red House was acquired, initially intended for use as a receiving ward but instead converted into a bakery and shoemaker's shop. Two cottages in Cecil Terrace were then rented for use as receiving wards until 1898 when the superintendent and his family moved into the main school and their house then became the school's receiving ward.
With a move towards other forms of children's accommodation, such as scattered homes (see below), the school closed in 1902. Apart from a period of use as a hospital during the First World War, it remained largely unused until 1930. From July 1937 to November 939, the premises, by now known as Cambria House, house children from Spain's Basque region, refugees from the Spanish Civil War. The premises were later used as offices by Monmouthshire County Council. The buildings no longer exist and housing now occupies the site.
The Newport Union operated what were variously referred to as 'scattered' or 'small' homes at at a number of locations including: 'Brenhilda', 83 Caerleon Road, Newport; 'Ty-Gwynfa', 59 Chepstow Road; and Vale View, Mill Street, Caerleon.
Former children's home, 83 Caerleon Road, Newport, 2005.
108 Stow Hill
In 1917, the Newport Union opened a children's home in a house at 108 Stow Hill, also known as the Court House. The house was previously owned by Lord Tredegar and then leased to Thomas Ponsford, a dealer and scrap merchant, who went bankrupt owing the Newport Corporation money. The Corporation acquired the freehold in 1918 and the site continued in use as a children's home until 1973.
108 Stow Hill, 2006.
© Veronica McKenzie.
The house is said to be haunted by the ghost of a child who committed suicide in the 1930s. A child calling has been heard in the top left-hand bedroom as viewed from Stow Hill.
Stelvio House
Young children were also accommodated at Stelvio House on Bassaleg Road. The impressive house was built as the home of 19th century Newport industrialist, Charles H Bailey. Some 1930s views have kindly been contributed by Veronica McKenzie whose grandmother, Rose Williams (née Hoare), was then Matron at the home.
Stelvio House, 1930s.
Stelvio House children and staff c.1934,
In 1996, developers McCarthy and Stone were prosecuted and fined £200,000 for deliberately demolishing the listed property.
Gwent Archives, Steelworks Road, Ebbw Vale NP23 6DN. Holdings include: Guardians' minute books (1836-1927, with gaps); Admissions and discharges (1837-1950, with gaps); Births (1837-1925); Deaths (1837-1914); Creed register (1893-1927, incomplete); etc.
Peeling, Brian and Knight, Cliff (2004) The Royal Gwent and St. Woolos Hospitals: A Century of Service in Newport (The Old Bakehouse)
The union's early correspondence with the central poor-law authorities is online on the TNA website .
Thanks to Mrs Taylor of Newport for providing the 1905 photos, Veronica McKenzie for the pictures of Stelvio House and 108 Stow Hill, and Mr Peter Davies for information on the history of 108 Stow Hill.


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Q: Why is Facebook returning the wrong page (affects Facebook Like and Share URL)? When we first put up a blog post, Facebook often (but not always) gets confused about what the page is. Specifically, if you try to use the Like button on the blog page OR if you try to share via the Share link on your profile, Facebook will see the root blog page rather than the actual post page.
For example, we recently posted:
http://thisorthat.com/blog/2010-song-of-the-year-round-1-results
If the user "likes" it, it returns the title for:
"http://thisorthat.com/blog"
When you run the post URL through the FB Linter, you can see the problem.
"http://developers.facebook.com/tools/linter?url=http://thisorthat.com/blog/2010-song-of-the-year-round-1-results"
In the Debug section it shows an extra og:title, og:url, description and og:image (the last 4 rows of the Debug section). This is the meta data from the root directory. What we cannot figure out is why.  Why is Facebook seeing the correct meta data on the page and then also pulling the meta data from the root directory (and using that incorrectly to populate the data for the Like button and the Share URL tool)?
One other oddity. FB "figures it out" after a few days. Of course, by that time relatively few people are viewing the post.
UPDATE -- I want to thank Peter Bailey again for his answer, but we also discovered that there was another issue that we had to resolve before the Like button worked.
The issue was that we were displaying the Facebook the Like button on a post that was not yet published.  The problem with this is that FB then can't resolve the URL and "guesses" as to the correct URL. In our case, it always guesses thisorthat.com/blog.   Unfortunately, it then caches that guess for a number of days and that cache cannot be cleared by the Linter.  So the ultimate solution was to both fix the og:type as Peter suggested, but also to remove the Like button from the blog post preview.  It's very important that you don't show FB a page before it's published or if you do, change the URL.

A: Pretty sure it's your Open Graph type that's the problem.
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Russell Square je rozsáhlé náměstí ve čtvrti Bloomsbury v londýnském obvodu Camden. Poblíž tohoto náměstí se nachází hlavní budova University of London a Britské muzeum. V roce 2002 bylo náměstí a kavárny rekonstruovány do podoby odpovídající původnímu vzhledu v 19. století podle návrhu Humpryho Reptona. Hlavní atrakcí nově opraveného náměstí je fontána s tryskami umístěnými přímo na chodníku. Náměstí je v současné době přes noc uzavřeno (důvodem je omezení pohybu homosexuálů hledajících sexuální partnery).

Název náměstí pochází z příjmení hrabat a vévodů z Bedfordu, jejichž rodina přispěla k rozvoji této oblasti (v níž vlastnila velkou část pozemků) v 17. a 18. století. Russel Square vzniklo když vévoda z Bedfordu nechal vybudovat novou cestu v zahradách svého původního domu – Bedford House. Zahrady jsou zahrnuty v Registru historických parků a zahrad.

Náměstí je obklopeno velkými terasovitými domy obydlenými především příslušníky vyšší společenské třídy. Velká část původních domů, hlavně na jižní a západní straně, se dochovala až do současnosti. Na západní straně se nachází komplex budov University of London. Na jedné z těchto budov je umístěna modrá plaketa připomínající, že zde pracoval T. S. Eliot. Na východní straně náměstí stojí hotel Russell, postavený roku 1898.

Dalšími známými obyvateli tohoto náměstí byli významní architekti 19. století – otec a syn Philip a Philip Charles Hardwickové, kteří bydleli v domu číslo 60.

U kavárny na jižní straně náměstí se nachází památník obětem bombového teroristického útoku na vlak metra jedoucího mezi stanicemi King's Cross a Russel Square 7. července 2005.

V roce 2016 na tomto náměstí došlo k hromadnému pobodání.

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Mumbai, India (BBN)-The Sensex and Nifty were trading higher by nearly 0.4 per cent due to bargain-hunting in recently-beaten stocks though investors remained cautious ahead of January month derivatives expiry on Wednesday and the federal budget next week.
At 2.50pm, the 30-share BSE index Sensex was up 73.25 points or 0.27 per cent at 27,107.75 and the 50-share NSE index Nifty was up 36.8 points or 0.44 per cent at 8,386.15, reports The Hindu Business Line.
Among BSE sectoral indices, metal index gained the most by 2.33 per cent, followed by PSU 1.18 per cent, oil & gas 1.11 per cent and FMCG 1.03 per cent. On the other hand, capital goods index was down 0.84 per cent, healthcare 0.46 per cent and banking 0.11 per cent.
Top five Sensex gainers were GAIL (+2.35 per cent), ITC (+1.72 per cent), Lupin (+1.59 per cent), HDFC (1.55 per cent) and Tata Steel (+1.51 per cent), while the major losers were ICICI Bank (-2.2 per cent), L&T (-1.74 per cent), Axis Bank (-1.15 per cent), Sun Pharma (-0.86 per cent) and Reliance (-0.78 per cent).


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Affiliations List
Subscription & Payment
Indian Gymkhana is a social club established in 1932 during the erstwhile British Raj.
We are located in the heart of the city, at Cox Town.
The club is spread over an area of 4.25 acres with a lot of greenery and open lung spaces.
The following are a few salient features and facilities available at the club.
Indian Gymkhana Club has come a long way in the last decade and is now a highly rated club with state of the art air-conditioned Sports Complex spread over 45,000 square feet comprising of:
Semi-Olympic size swimming pool with adjacent kids' pool with coaching facilities.
International standard 3 badminton courts with wooden flooring and spectator seating of 200 persons, capable of hosting national level tournaments.
Snooker and billiards room comprising of 4 international size tables with state of the art facilities.
Well-equipped health club spread over an area of 2500 square feet with modern, bio-mechanical equipments with well-appointed trainers.
International standard squash court with spectator seating capacity of 50 pax.
Cards section with all modern facilities.
Lounge area in the center of the complex.
Landscaping spread over the entire club area.
Open air basketball court with synthetic turf.
Our Recent Achievements
Solar Project
The Managing Committee is happy to announce, notwithstanding the legal hurdles, the implementation of solar energy generation. With the ever increasing cost of electricity and substantial increase in our power requirement and consumption at all our facilities and the Club as a whole, we had initiated this Go-Green venture of generating Solar Energy looking into the future to meet our entire power requirement. Any excess power generated would be relayed back to the grid.
Guest Accommodation
Commissioning of the 10 Elegantly designed Guest Rooms and Suites has been completed and was formally inaugurated on March 17, 2017, at the main clubhouse building by renovating the entire premises. We have 4 suites and 6 double rooms that are luxurious and well-appointed with tastefully done interiors with all modern amenities. Affiliations to various premium clubs around the country are being worked on and underway.
Multi-Purpose Hall
A centrally air-conditioned Multipurpose Party Hall with a capacity to host 40 pax has been commissioned, equipped with the latest facilities which is made available for members that can be also be utilized as a Corporate Conference Room.
As mentioned earlier, a path-breaking initiative, the Managing Committee has commissioned the latest International Standard dry and wet waste equipment. With this addition, we are proud to say that our club is among the very few that is committed to working towards a greener and eco-friendly environment by undertaking Go-Green measures necessary for protection and improving the quality of our environment along with managing our own wastes productively.
New sport facilities
We have introduced Cross Fitness, Aqua Zumba, Yoga and Martial Arts as additions to our constant endeavor to improve and implement new facilities for the benefit of our members and their families. Some of these sports involve taking fitness to a totally new level which is being integrated with conventional fitness forms.
PROJECTS AND FACILITIES ON THE ANVIL
AC Bar Renovation
The existing AC Bar is proposed to be refurbished to convert to an AC Lounge for families, which would offer another facet to the existing open-air facilities with a different ambience for the benefit of our members and their families and guests. The approximate cost of this project is 50-60 Lakhs, and we are working in tandem with our liquor suppliers for major sponsorship.
Basketball/Multipurpose Court
An international standard Synthetic floor, flood-lit Basketball Court on a turnkey basis, which can also be used for multiple sports and activities. The cost of this project including flood lights, fencing and seating is approximately Rs. 29 Lakhs.
Heat-Controlled Swimming Pool
As previously proposed, we aim to convert our 5-Lakh liter swimming pool to a heat-controlled pool so members and families along with their guests could use the facility throughout the year. The cost of this project is approximately Rs. 27 lakhs.
Our resident staff has to be provided accommodation which is the urgent need of the hour. This work will be taken up on a priority basis.
SPA Form Men & Women
#5, Wheeler Road,CoxTown,
Bangalore-560 005, Karnataka, India.
Phone No: 080 25486422 , 080 25483208
Email: contactus@igbangalore.com
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'Oz the Great and Powerful' more like pretty good, sorta strong
Disney's "Oz the Great and Powerful" was destined to mediocrity by legal circumstances, abetted perhaps by Hollywood stubbornness. The Library of Congress designates the original "Wizard of Oz" as the most watched movie of all time. The revered musical was produced by MGM in 1939 and is currently owned by Warner Brothers. Thus copyright issues limited the screenplay's scope.
"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," the basis for the 1939 movie, was written as a standalone children's fantasy by "Mother Goose" author L. Frank Baum in 1900. After reading the novel, children clamored for other stories about Oz. Reluctantly, Baum was persuaded to write 13 sequels and prequels, the last just before his death in 1919. Other authors were licensed to continue writing Oz stories, but Baum's originals became public domain, beginning in 1956. Thus, Disney has every right to Baum's works, but the music and MGM embellishments - such as the ruby slippers — are protected.
Directed by Sam Raimi (the "Spiderman" trilogy), this prequel appears to go out of its way to emulate the MGM classic. It begins in black and white (square screen) in 1905 Kansas, about 30 years before Dorothy and Toto made such a splash in Oz. Much like the 1939 movie, many of the actors have duel roles, playing both Kansas and Oz characters.
Traveling with the seedy Baum Brothers Circus, magician Oscar Diggs (James Franco) - stage name Oz the Great — is a liar and altogether unsavory ladies man. The circus arrives in a dusty town and, after browbeating his loyal assistant Frank (Zach Braff), egotistical Oscar puts on a credible show until a wheelchair-bound teenaged girl (Joey King) begs him to make her walk again.
Discarded sweetheart Annie (Michelle Williams) appears and says she's considering marriage to someone else, "a good man" named Gale. The audience of course realizes that Annie is Dorothy's future mother. But crass Oscar makes it clear he's not interested in marriage or merely being merely a good man. "I want to be great, a combination of Harry Houdini and Thomas Edison all rolled into one."
As an ominous tornado approaches, Oscar gets himself into deep trouble. Chased by an irate strongman, he escapes in his Oz the Great hot air balloon. Dumped unceremoniously in Oz - resplendent in glorious 3-D color - by the twister, is it just a coincidence the kingdom bears his stage name?
After rescuing grateful Findley (Braff), a uniformed flying monkey who sports a bellhop's cap, Oscar meets comely Theodora (Mila Kunis), a naïve young witch who believes Oscar is Oz, the wizard of prophecy fated to rule Oz. But her regal older sister Evanora (Rachel Weisz) shows Oscar the Emerald City's fabulous treasure room and makes it clear he must first defeat Glinda (Williams), a wicked witch.
Glinda is really as sweet and kind as honey. As for Evanora, the apple she persuades her sister to taste changes everything nice about Theodora, including the color of her skin. Which witch is wicked becomes obvious.
As the spectacular ending approaches, Oscar's shallow outlook on life changes. Too late for a PG movie, the transformation to likeable hero begins with China Girl (King), a living doll with shattered legs.


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Japanese Pulpmills Have Increased Their Wood Chip Imports Since 2020
Wood Exports
Author: Håkan Ekström
Japan is the world's second-largest importer of wood chips behind China, accounting for about one-third of the world's total imports. While China is a relative newcomer in the overseas wood chip market, pulpmills in Japan have a long history of relying on imported wood fiber, with their first shipments arriving in Japan in the mid-1960s.
The all-time high was almost 15 million odmt back in 2008, followed by a long period when total volumes averaged around 12 million odmt annually. The most significant y-o-y decline in 10 years occurred in 2020 when wood chip import demand in Japan fell to its lowest level since the first year of the COVID-19 epidemic (see chart). However, importation grew in 2021 and the first six months of 2022, with the total volume for 2022 on pace to reach the highest level in three years, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly.
About 85% of wood chip shipments to Japan have been hardwood species, with the remainder being softwood chips, predominantly from the US and Australia. Deliveries of hardwood chips have increased from 8.2 million odmt in 2020 to an estimated 9.5 million odmt in 2021 and 2022. However, this volume is still lower than the annual average of just over ten million odmt during 2010-2019.
The biggest suppliers during the first six months of 2022 have been Vietnam (45% of total imports), Chile (13%), South Africa (12%), and Australia (11%). During most of the past 30 years, a clear majority of hardwood chips imported to Japan have originated from Australia, Chile, and South Africa, all countries with vast areas of fast-growing plantations of higher-yield Eucalyptus wood fiber (HYF). Their share of total imports peaked about 15 years ago at 75%, and shipments from countries with lower-yield wood fiber (LYF) have increased their share, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly.
The primary supplier of LYF to Japan is Vietnam, which in 2010 exported less than one million odmt and in 2022 is expected to supply over four million odmt or about 45% of total imports to Japan. Lower quality wood chips of Acacia and low-density Eucalyptus from Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia) have increased their share to almost two-thirds of the total fiber supply imported by Japanese pulpmills in 2022. The switch to LYF over the past decade has been driven by intense competition, a rise in the cost of higher quality hardwood chips, and the expanded availability of wood fiber from Acacia plantations established over the past 10-15 years.
Are you interested in worldwide wood products market information? The Wood Resource Quarterly (WRQ) is a 70-page report established in 1988 with subscribers in over 30 countries. The publication tracks prices for sawlog, pulpwood, lumber & pellets and reports on trade and wood market developments in most key regions worldwide. For more insights on the latest international forest product market trends, please go to www.WoodPrices.com.
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Pakistan has never won any World Cup match against India. However, they won the World Cup in 1992 so they are not a team to overlook just as yet!
When it comes to the cricketing World Cup, Pakistan have never won a single game against India.
The whole world knows about the riveting rivalry between India and Pakistan in all major sports but when it comes to Cricket, things intensify.
Whenever these countries face each other tension heightens to its peak.
Now with the 2015 World Cup looming over their heads, both teams are prepping up to a solid start. The arch rivals are scheduled to meet each other on 15th February in their Pool B match at the Adelaide Oval.
Pakistan's senior and most prolific batsman Younis Khan however hopes to end this jinx and hopes to win their first ever World Cup game against India.
These countries are at loggerheads with each other over Pakistan's world cup losses; India has always outshined them. India defeated the Pakistani team during the 1992 World Cup; however, Pakistan eventually crowned itself the World Champion owing to brilliant play in the field beating England in the final.
The men in blue have always outplayed the men in green in every world cup especially since the 1996 World Cup. They also succeeded in winning over them during the 1999 World Cup, 2003 World Cup and the last World Cup in 2011.
Younis told reporters in Pakistan.Their current squad comprises of some great individual talent with Misbah-ul-Haq heading the men in green. Mohammad Hafeez, Umar Akmal and ShahidAfridi are the promising and experienced performers. Young talent is plenty in the team consisting of Junaid Khan, EhsanAdil and WahabRiaz. Younis feels that if they perform as a team they have every chance to beat India considering the Indian squad is weaker this time compared to previous years owing to inexperienced and young talent being included in the playing XI.
The game, scheduled to be played at the Adelaide Oval, is already sold out.
The match is going to be an exhilarating one and the fight for the win promises to be spectacular.
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Jeremy Vine forced to defend wages by on-air caller
Former Coventry Telegraph reporter has been slammed as "grossly overpaid"
James RodgerAdvanced Content Writer
Radio 2 presenter Jeremy Vine has been slammed as "grossly overpaid" by a listener following the publication of his BBC pay packet.
Addressing the release of salaries of the highest-paid on-air BBC talent, the journalist was asked if he was embarrassed by his £700,000-£749,999 wage.
Harry Jones from Glamorgan told Vine: "I enjoy your programme and I enjoy you personally but I'd like to ask you a direct question, are you embarrassed to pick up your pay cheque?"
Vine said: "I just feel very lucky every day, is the answer to that," before Mr Jones asked: "Do you think you're overpaid?"
Jeremy Vine (Image: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire)
The broadcaster replied: "I don't really want to answer that because I don't think it's the moment for me."
Mr Jones, a former coal miner and construction worker, said he had friends who worked hard all their lives and had nothing to show for it, adding: "How can you justify the amount of money you are earning?"
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He called for all those included in the list to have their pay docked, adding: "All of you grossly grossly overpaid."
Earlier Vine himself had demanded to be told why he is being paid so much as he interviewed the director of radio at the BBC, James Purnell.
Vine asked for justification for his own salary, which is within the £700,000-£749,999 bracket.
Mr Purnell said: "You're a fantastic broadcaster, you provide a huge public service.
"Let's take the last few weeks you've been talking about funeral care and how people are being ripped off for that.
"That is something I'm proud to have on the BBC, proud to have in our country and provides a vital role in our democracy."
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He added the salary included Vine's work on quiz show Eggheads as well as a "wide range of programmes" and said the BBC "is not the civil service".
"There is a market for the Jeremy Vines, there is a market for John Humphrys, there is a market for the Chris Evans, there is a market for people at the BBC.
"That is the reality, we're not operating in the same market as people who go and work for the civil service."
BBC Breakfast presenter Dan Walker reacted to criticism over his salary being more than co-presenters Louise Minchin and Naga Munchetty.
He wrote on Twitter they get "exactly the same" pay for presenting the morning news show, but he earns more because of his additional work on Football Focus.
BBC presenter Andrew Marr defended his £400,000-a-year salary and claimed he has turned down higher offers from the broadcaster's rivals.
The former political editor said his pay had been steadily decreasing and had dropped £139,000 in the past two years.
A number of other BBC talent celebrated their lack of inclusion by sharing posts on Twitter with the hashtag #NotOnTheList.
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Ríkharður Hrafnkelsson (born 30 April 1957) is an Icelandic former basketball player and a former member of Icelandic national team. He won two national championships and three Icelandic Cups with Valur in the 1980's.

Early life
Ríkharður grew up in Stykkishólmur, Iceland. He played his first games with Snæfell at the age of 16 before moving to Reykjavík and joining Valur.

Icelandic national team
Ríkharður played 69 games for the Icelandic national team from 1976 to 1983.

Awards and accomplishments

Titles
Icelandic champion: 1980, 1983
Icelandic Cup (3): 1979, 1981, 1986
1. deild karla (1): 1990

Golf
Ríkharður was the chairman of the Golfklúbburinn Mostri in Stykkishólmur for 25 years.

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External links
Úrvalsdeild statistics 1978-1991 at kki.is

1957 births
Living people
Rikhardur Hrafnkelsson
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Rhopalophora rugicollis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by John Lawrence LeConte in 1858.

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One night's accommodation in your choice of room style, country cooked breakfast for two included with a three course a la carte dinner for two in the famous Barn Steakhouse (Beverages & side dishes additional, $40 surcharge for Wagyu beef and $20 surcharge for Rib Eye & 1kg New York, maximum 6 oysters per person). Suitable for 2 people only. Public holiday weekends, Easter or Christmas period (23rd December to 10th January) will attract a $50 surcharge.
For more than a century, happy couples have been celebrating their marriages and tying the knot at The Barn. The Barn Palais offers a truly unique setting for a stylish and stress free wedding. Our experienced staff will help you plan every facet of your special day. Our magnificent garden is perfect for your ceremony, photos or pre dinner drinks and hors d'oeuvres. We have a range of menus available that will be sure to impress your guests. It goes without saying that our aged grass fed Hereford steaks will leave your guests reaching for superlatives.
W.F. Ploenges a German immigrant settled on section 426, Hundred of McDonnell in 1877. With his farming activities expanding, Friedrich built a large barn with stone picked up on the property, possibly the largest building of its type in the South east at the time. In 1919 Otto died suddenly and in 1928 Agusta sold the property to her husband's nephew, Adelbert Spehr and he conceived the idea to convert the "Barn" into a Palais after the style he had seen in Germany on a trip to Europe in 1925. Consequently in 1937 it opened with 1000 people from the South east of South Australia and Western district of Victoria flocked to the opening of the" Barn Palais". Today the activities of The Barn have been expanded with the acquisition of the neighbouring Barn Accommodation and the development of The Barn Catering business.


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The Single Audit (also known as the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) A-133 audit) is a rigorous, organization-wide audit of governments and agencies such as Louisville Metro Government that receive and spend more than $500,000 of federal funds. The Single Audit's objective is to ensure that these funds are managed and spent properly.
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Each year, the Office of Internal Audit conducts program audits of all city government departments and agencies.
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Narrated Anas bin Malik: Allah's Prophet used to say, "A disbeliever will be brought on the Day of Resurrection and will be asked. "Suppose you had as much gold as to fill the earth, would you offer it to ransom yourself?" He will reply, "Yes." Then it will be said to him, "You were asked for something easier than that (to join none in worship with Allah (i.e. to accept Islam, but you refused).
Narrated `Adi bin Hatim: The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "There will be none among you but will be talked to by Allah on the Day of Resurrection, without there being an interpreter between him and Him (Allah) . He will look and see nothing ahead of him, and then he will look (again for the second time) in front of him, and the (Hell) Fire will confront him. So, whoever among you can save himself from the Fire, should do so even with one half of a date (to give in charity).


We are pleased to advise the Self-Harm & Suicidal Behaviours workshop has been updated and is being held in Invercargill next term on Wednesday 15 November 2017, from 9.30am -2.30pm. This will also include a two hour follow up session two weeks later on 29 November, where we will discuss the learning and implementation of strategies and see how people are getting on. Time still to be confirmed.
There are limited places available, so please register early to ensure you get a place. Registration is essential, please follow this link to register.


The mission of education is to guide a student along the pathway to mastery – from beginner to expert to even master in some areas. If we look at education in this way we can see lots of common elements between the progression in a game and the evolution of education. The pathway to mastery describes the mechanics of games – it takes the player from the beginning of the game through to its successful and inspiring end. That's what we want to achieve in education as well.
-The mission of education is to guide a student along the pathway to mastery – from beginner to expert to even master in some areas. If we look at education in this way we can see lots of common elements between the progression in a game and the evolution of education. We call gamification the use of game elements like points, badges, and leaderboards to solve non-game related problems.
The pathway to mastery describes the mechanics of games – it takes the player from the beginning of the game through to its successful and inspiring end. That's what we want to achieve in education. We want to guide the student from the beginner level to the highest possible level in a certain field.
It's almost the same in education. We introduce some concept or skill and we repeat it until we are convinced that the student has achieved the desired result. Then we introduce a new concept or skill.
The Engagement Loop consists of the individual steps that repeat the same cycle until a player achieves the necessary result. Each loop consists of an action, which induces some kind of result, which then prompts a new action. Everything in this group is important. If, for example, the result of an action isn't motivating enough for the player, they will stop playing.
Let's look at the most successful game in the history of computer games – Tetris. In this game poliminos (this is the name of the bricks) fall from the upper part of the screen and the player gets points if they are able to move the bricks to create a full row while they are falling to the bottom part of the screen (action). If the player succeeds, they earn points; however, if the player is able to optimally move the poliminos, they get even more points. This motivates the player to focus on optimization. The more points the player gets, the faster their reaction time needs to be. Therefore, the faster player starts winning more points sooner.
Every step, no matter what type, has to entertain the player. Otherwise they will simply stop playing. This means that the motivating factors and feedback received from every step need to be balanced. On the one hand, each step needs to motivate the player to help them continue playing so that they get to the end of the game. On the other hand, the player needs to receive feedback to know that there are new rewards on the road to mastery. If we continue with the Tetris example we can see that in some stages the player gets a new tool – they are able to see the type and orientation of the next polimino. At low speeds this is not necessary, but as the speed of the game increases this new advantage turns out to be priceless. This allows the player to begin thinking about how to strategically combine the current polimino with the next one. This makes them combine spatial thinking, which they learned during the first stage, with strategic thinking that is needed for earning more points in the second phase.
How do we achieve this in the virtual classroom?
I'll share a personal experience. In corporate trainings on data analysis with spreadsheets, which I lead, employees are given the task of assimilating some moderately complex functions into spreadsheets. The problem comes from the fact that any one business result can be accomplished by using either one of these functions or time consuming human labor. The technical application of these functions requires explication. Therefore, it can be challenging to get your employees to use these functions over the timely and error-filled human analogue. Gamification helps me overcome this problem. I use one of the techniques in the progression loop: I place the employees in a situation similar to their day-to-day lives. I play the role of a boss who has just received long-awaited data about the achievements of the company. The data is in a table consisting of many numbers making them hard to compare, so the important numbers must be made to stand out. Based on these indicators they can determine which company performed better.
The result is the same almost every time – everybody solves it using the first method. The person who wins is the one who is faster with their keyboard.
Gamification In The Virtual Classroom – How do we achieve this in the virtual classroom?
The next task is more difficult. I want to see the same result but this time about the performance of one player (my company) versus five other players chosen by me for four other games. That means that now I want to see how the company is presented from a global point of view. The task requires the same action to be done as in the first task, but repeated five times. The person who remembers and uses the two needed functions will definitely win against everyone that uses the same solution as in task 1 and repeats it five times. As I have been hinting to the students that I will be constantly changing the games and the players, everyone is assuming they will win if they can build a system that dynamically pulls data for the games and players. Most of the students usually try really hard to construct a dynamic report and avoid repeating the same "easy" solution many times so as to limit making a mistake. Still, the time that it takes to write two functions is far less than to repeat a certain thing lots of times.
By this time the trainees can almost guess what the task will be. Those who have developed the needed template with functions only wait for me to formulate the next objective and they are ready to show me how two random players have performed in several games. A solution that is fully based on the functions will be unbeatable. Therefore, those who have invested in the adoption of the new tools are sure winners. At the same time the objective in this step demonstrates the disadvantages of solutions based on the use of the traditional "easy" method.
If you think about this, this is exactly the strategy used by the creators of Tetris. Thus, if it works in a game, it can work in corporative lessons too.
Mariela Stancheva is an experienced math and computer science teacher, mobile apps developer and author of popular science books. She has a Master's Degree from Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics in Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski". Her fields of interest include: mathematical linguistics, gamification, data analysis.


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Restaurant Review: Menton in Boston
At her new Fort Point restaurant, Barbara Lynch takes diners for an exhilarating, expensive ride.
By Corby Kummer·	 7/21/2010, 1:48 a.m.
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THE FIRST TIME I HAD DINNER at Menton, it was so good I stopped taking notes after the second course. The dish was langoustines — true scampi, that sweet cross between shrimp and lobster — wrapped in finely shredded phyllo, served over a bright sauce of fresh peas, and topped with a few thin slices of pickled rhubarb and green-topaz dots of pumpkinseed oil. The langoustines were crisp outside and soft inside, the peas and rhubarb messengers of spring. Here was technique and inventiveness at the service of impeccable ingredients.
And then there were the flourishes, the kinds of studied details that define luxury dining. Three types of homemade bread were stellar; a round of fresh-baked mini honey croissants came to the table with great ceremony. By the time the mignardises — button-size macarons with surprise ingredients like basil and black sesame — arrived, I was convinced I'd eaten the most expert, refined dinner I'd had in Boston since Jean-Georges Vongerichten made his astonishing debut at the old Lafayette Hotel in 1985. It was practically flawless.
Then I went back, and neither of the two subsequent dinners reached the heights of the first. It wasn't just because I was tasting the same dishes I'd had before, or that the first-time thrill was fading. (Menton offers two prix-fixe tasting menus, one a four-course meal with a choice of three or four items per course, the other a nine-course parade of set dishes. I focused on the shorter menu, so I wound up tasting almost everything three times.)
Obviously the restaurant, which opened in Fort Point in April, is still settling in. But the inconsistencies in execution are surprising, and they're not what you'd expect from a restaurant whose prices — $95 for the four-course menu, $145 for the nine-course — make it the most expensive in town (and this is without wine; the suggested pairings for the nine-course menu cost $105).
Still, Menton is a remarkable debut, one of the most ambitious restaurants to open anywhere in the country this year. It's an extremely assured establishment operating at a very high level, the kind of place that takes lots of staff and pricey equipment but doesn't rely, to my relief, on too much of the molecular gastronomy that is producing an increasingly tired bag of special-effect tricks. I say this as a nonmember of the Barbara Lynch cult, and an intermittent fan of the chef's restaurants (which now number five, plus cocktail bar Drink and demonstration kitchen Stir). My admiration of her business savvy and eye for design has been unwavering. But I'm put off by the odd excess of butter at Sportello, and No. 9 Park has always struck me as needlessly fancy.
Menton is elegant without calling attention to itself. The design, by Cheryl and Jeffrey Katz, is subdued and luxurious, with dove-gray and wood-veneer panels and a wall of gray brocade patterned in a Chinese cityscape. Together, the décor choices all say, "Put me up next to anything in New York" and "Consider me for a Michelin star." The ideas in the mainly French menu — Menton is named for a town on the Italy-France border — are moderately daring without being really challenging, the presentation careful. And much of the food is as good to eat as it is elegant.
Who knew, for example, how meaty fresh hearts of palm could be when they're roasted, or what a fine pairing they'd make with the first fat asparagus of the season? Executive chef Colin Lynch did. (Asked whether he's related to Barbara, he has a snappy comeback: "If I was, I'd have risen a lot faster.") Of the other first courses, terrine of duck foie gras — a thick slice with a dot of sweet wine gelée — was the only real failure. The underseasoned terrine was like a cross between mayonnaise and whipped butter, the gelée cloying. The dish was pretty, but seemed contrived.
The second-course options featured the most gems, starting with those langoustines. At one dinner, a velouté with English peas, chanterelles, and a dollop of curry yogurt and mint was marvelously potent and springlike. A square of halibut "en croute" was crusted with a butter-crisped wafer of sourdough bread in place of the skin, a clever idea that worked, as did the fresh fava purée and maitake mushrooms underneath. And yet. One night the fava purée was emerald green, the seasonings perfect; another night it was watery and all salt. The velouté was similarly uneven: Its texture varied between a thick, creamy vichyssoise and a barely thickened broth. Soft-shell crabs showed the oddest variation — light and crisp one night, greasy and leaden the next.
The third courses were more consistent, if less interesting, and stood as lessons in sauce technique. Satiny, deep-flavored jus accented the lamb with black garlic, as well as the foie gras-stuffed quail. I didn't find the flavor of either the meat or the vegetables noteworthy, but I did go through one main like a thresher: "duet of rabbit." It's really rabbit three ways, the star being a round mini tart of confit leg meat mixed with sweetbreads, wrapped in cabbage, and then baked in homemade puff pastry. It's called a pithiviers, and it was fantastic. So was the teeny-tiny rack, with frenched legs you'll find either adorable or nauseating, depending on your pet-rabbit associations. The terrinelike combination of poached loin and puréed shoulder meat, though, was disturbingly undercooked, becoming progressively pinker at each dinner until I had no desire to take a bite.
Menton's desserts are mostly up to the same standard of inventiveness and skill. This is where molecular tricks turned up in the greatest profusion, as in strawberries dehydrated and crushed to a powder, then baked into tuiles for a deconstructed shortcake spritzed with lime foam. (Foam? Please.) The standouts were a chocolate ganache draped in a sinuous curve, served with peppermint foam and peanut ice cream; and a small lemon tart with mint purée, blackberries, and yogurt sorbet. Words can barely describe the perfection of the tart's lemon-curd filling, or the crackling shell. Many people dream of the ideal lemon tart, me included. This is cheaper than a trip to Paris.
But it's not cheap — dinner for two, including wine, can easily cost $350, and far more if you go for nine courses. Is Menton worth the money? Yes, opening inconsistencies and all. It's major, and will be the Important Meal destination for a long time. I hope the kitchen irons out the glitches, and that it shows a bit more imagination with the main courses. But my first dinner experience brought on the kind of magic-carpet exhilaration you feel at a great restaurant. True, I came down to earth a few times at later meals. But I'm looking forward to soaring again.
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Performance photos of Answer Machine Tape, 1987
We've just completed the run of premiere performances of Answer Machine Tape, 1987 with the four co-commissioning festivals: Time of Music in Finland, November Music in the Netherlands, hcmf// in the UK and the Festival d'Automne à Paris. Thanks to…
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I was very fortunate to be featured this year at hcmf// across three concerts of my most recent works: Answer Machine Tape, 1987, performed and commissioned by Zubin Kanga; Numbers 81–100, performed and commissioned by Lovemusic; and My Favourite Piece…
"The Faggots and their Friends Between Revolutions" at Aix-en-Provence Festival
The Faggots and their Friends Between Revolutions, has just been announced by Festival d'Aix-en-Provence in France, in July 2023. This will not be the world premiere (which is still to be announced), but will be the European premiere. The music…
"The Faggots and their Friends Between Revolutions" announced at Bregenz Festival
My next opera, The Faggots and their Friends Between Revolutions, has just been announced by Bregenz Festival in Austria, in July 2023. This will not be the world premiere (which is still to be announced), but will be the Austrian…
Naomo Pinnetuo
This is the catalogue page for Naomo Pinnetuo Naomo Pinnetuo was written for the Royal Academy of Music. as a gift on their 200th Birthday. It is dedicated to Naomi Pinnock and the Royal Academy of Music. The first performance will…
More dates announced for 'Answer Machine Tape, 1987'
Answer Machine Tape, 1987, my a new work for piano and multimedia, has more performances announced this autumn. Zubin Kanga, who commissioned the piece, will perform the work at the following places: 12th November 2022 — House73 Courtroom in 's-Hertogenbosch,…
4.48 Psychose revival at the Semperoper Dresden
The Semperoper in Dresden has announced a third run of performances of 4.48 Psychose, postponed from 2021. The opera had its german premiere run at Semper Zwei in April/May 2018, with sold-out performances. The dates next season will be 16,…
Denis & Katya revival next season in Hannover
Denis & Katya was given its german premiere in Hannover this season on 26th Feburary, and a revival has just been announced in the 22—23 Season of the Niedersächsische Staatsoper Hannover. The Staatsoper Hannover commissioned a german language version of…
Denis & Katya announced at Finnish National Opera
Opera Company Taite, Finnish National Opera and Musica Nova Helsinki have just announced their co-production of Denis & Katya on 8th, 10th, & 11th March 2023 at the Arminsali at Finnish National Opera, Helsinki. Opera Company Taite is making a new version…
Pittsburgh Opera announces Denis & Katya in 2023
Pittsburgh Opera has just announced its 2022/23 Season, including performances of Denis & Katya on 6th, 9th, 12th, 14th, & 20th May 2023. They will be performing the Opera Philadelphia premiere production that we made in September 2019, with direction…


Broadly conservative journalist and commentator Matt Gurney says, in a column on the Global News website, with which I agree fully, that "Defence literacy is horrifically low in Canada. It's not an issue the public is engaged in, and a few notable exceptions aside, it's not something the media spends much time on. No doubt it's a chicken-egg dilemma: if there's no public demand, the media won't report on it, which promotes even more public apathy, which lowers demand…" Absolutely true.
The other day I suggested one way to "push back" ~ I suggested using the inherently political defence procurement system to send a political message to Donald Trump and his supporters. We should, I suggested, be less tied to America's apron strings and should look more broadly at issues like material interoperability.
Mr Gurney says that he is not trying "to suggest that we should be arming ourselves to resist an American invasion … [because] … Such a thing is virtually unthinkable, and even if it weren't, Canada could bankrupt itself amassing the best military it could, and the U.S. would simply roll over us anyway. The U.S. is too big and too good at war … [but, he adds] … there are still many things that Canada should be able to do for itself, that we aren't. And the reason we aren't isn't because we don't have the know-how or the money. We're one of the most high-tech nations in the world, with a gigantic economy completely out of proportion with our small population. We don't have the military capabilities we need simply because, in the backs of all of our minds — in the forefronts of some of our minds, if we're being honest — we have always believed there just wasn't a point. Why spend money to do something your big, friendly neighbour will just do for you? … [and, he thinks, and I agree that] … That's an appalling attitude. It is astonishingly cynical and self-absorbed. Countries should care about their own defence because that's basically what countries are for. It's deeply embarrassing that Canada has forgotten this. But I've long since reconciled myself to the bleak reality that whatever I might think about such a lazy, self-indulgent attitude, it is the accepted defence consensus among both our major political parties … [but, he ads] … it shouldn't be, and Donald Trump, whatever else he might be, is a very helpful reminder of that." maybe President Trump will do us a favour … maybe his mindless hatred of anything and anyone who isn't American and doesn't put "America First!" will, finally, convince Canadians that, by and large, we have been, since about 1970, lazy, cheap, freeloading slackers when it comes to doing our fair share of defending the West.
"Trump is wrong on most of his views on trade (he's right about his views on our dairy subsidies, but that's a column for a different day)," Matt Gurney says, "But he's always been absolutely right that the U.S. has, for generations now, effectively subsidized the social welfare nets of many of its allies by underwriting their costs of national defence. He's often inarticulate when expressing that view, but it's an accurate one … [and] … This is a problem for Canada. We have no real counter-argument we can make. Our long neglect of our armed forces isn't a matter of debate, it's a matter of record. It's objectively true. Prior U.S. presidents have had the good grace not to harp on it too publicly; Trump is not similarly restrained. And it absolutely puts us in a weaker negotiating position … [but] … While we'll never be an equal partner in our alliance, there are still many things Canada could do that would at least leave us less dependent on U.S. military munificence. Canada would improve its standing with Washington, and do a better job just being a grown-up country, if it was more capable of taking care of itself at home. We'd find ourselves on firmer footing when dealing with a bellicose president, too." It's a bit embarrassing when it takes a semi-literate buffoon like Donald J Trump to tell us another "home truth." We are, quite simply, very close to reversing Arthur Lower's suggestion (in 1946) that we had gone from "Colony to Nation" ~ we had, sometimes in the face of daunting obstacles, but, after 1968 we, Canadians, seem to have gotten tired of paying the price of nationhood and we have, almost imperceptibly, drifted back towards colonial status … this time with Donald Trump's America as our master, not Queen Victoria's Britain.
Taking better care of ourselves, at home and in the world, are, Mr Gurney says, "achievable goals … [but] … Canada does not have a large enough fleet to effectively patrol its massive coastlines while also contributing meaningfully to international missions abroad. I used the term "fleet" deliberately there — we could handle a lot of missions in our own waters by bulking up our Coast Guard, not just our navy. We've chosen to do neither. That's sub-optimal … [and] … Our fighter squadrons, similarly, are too few and too old to be a significant player abroad while also watching our own massive airspace. Our search-and-rescue capabilities are inadequate for a country of our size. Our Army is well-trained and relatively well-equipped, but is too small and difficult to deploy for either missions abroad or emergencies (including disaster relief) at home. Our procurement system is a permanent disaster — every capability referenced above has recent procurement screw-ups that I could point to as proof." I have made these same points over and over again but they are lost on both the Liberal and Conservative parties because, as Matt Gurney says, the overwhelming majority of Canadians simply do not care and politicians care about the things that matter to ordinary people.
There it is: Colony to Nation and now, since about 1968, because "we've chosen to outsource a big chunk of our sovereignty to Washington," it's Back to Colony, again. The choice is clear: we either continue to surrender our sovereignty to Donald J Trump's America or we must pay to have real, practical independence. Being an independent, sovereign nation means, inter alia, having the sort of hard military power we need. Independence isn't cheap; being a colony is easy … the choice is ours to make.
Since about 1960 I have whined, bitched, thrown tantrums about this and it's done me absolutely no good, I love my country, we have something unique to give to the world, but now that we are reverting back to colony status, no one is going to listen, why should the world listen to losers like us if we won't stand up for ourselves, our history should be one of the things emphasized in our school system it's not, our military should go for the best we can afford not what someone else is using for the sake of optics, our politicians should have an idea of where we are going as a country and stick with it from one party to the next because you are right liberal or conservative have no vision of our military, it's funny, if I remember correctly one the few that seemed proud of our country and military was Ed Broadbent, ah I'm probably wrong any how I agree with most of what you say.
The point missed in expecting the US to defend us is that they won't do it for free. In the case of the recent Republican Presidential victory, the most remarkable outcome is not D Trump as the winner but that the slogan "Make America Great" won. The Monroe doctrine is transformed but still alive and well. James Laxer wrote that the US since the beginning of its life has been an incipient imperial power. Nixon observed that the US is a Pacific power from Mexico to the Bering Straits. While the US may not again militarily attack Canada, if it ever defends us, it will demand payment: henceforth the provinces bend knee to Washington–not Ottawa. The US citizen is spending great amounts of money on defence which could be spent on his welfare. Canadians the reverse. A defence threat to Canada will be economic and imperial opportunity for Washington. Americans will not miss a profitable opportunity.


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Q: iPhoneX and Notch detection Using Javascript; how can I check if the users device is an iPhoneX?
Also, how can I determine what side the iPhones' 'notch' is positioned when in the landscape orientation?
There are some great articles out there: https://webkit.org/blog/7929/designing-websites-for-iphone-x/
... but these tend to take advantage of cutting-edge features that aren't natively supported in many mobile browsers at the time of writing this.

A: iPhone X and 11 have 9:19.5 aspect ratio:
9 / 19.5 = 0.4615384615.toFixed(3) = "0.462"

Let's try this on all iPhone X and 11 using window.screen.
X, Xs, Xs Max (Display Zoom: Zoomed), 11 Pro, 11 Pro Max (Display Zoom: Zoomed):
375 / 812 = 0.4618226601.toFixed(3) = "0.462"

Xs Max (Display Zoom: Standard), XR, 11, 11 Pro Max (Display Zoom: Standard):
414 / 896 = 0.4620535714.toFixed(3) = "0.462"

So...
let iPhone = /iPhone/.test(navigator.userAgent) && !window.MSStream
let aspect = window.screen.width / window.screen.height
if (iPhone && aspect.toFixed(3) === "0.462") {
    // I'm an iPhone X or 11...
}

Please keep in mind, window.screen always return sizes in portrait, regardless active device orientation.

A: So I've come up with a method of detecting the iPhoneX with Javascript. My process also checks for the position of the Notch depending on the users device orientation:
https://codepen.io/marknotton/pen/NwpgBK
(function(window){

  // Really basic check for the ios platform
  // https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9038625/detect-if-device-is-ios
  var iOS = /iPad|iPhone|iPod/.test(navigator.userAgent) && !window.MSStream;

  // Get the device pixel ratio
  var ratio = window.devicePixelRatio || 1;

  // Define the users device screen dimensions
  var screen = {
    width : window.screen.width * ratio,
    height : window.screen.height * ratio
  };

  // iPhone X Detection
  if (iOS && screen.width == 1125 && screen.height === 2436) {

    // Set a global variable now we've determined the iPhoneX is true
    window.iphoneX = true;

    // Adds a listener for ios devices that checks for orientation changes.
    window.addEventListener('orientationchange', update);
    update();
  }

  // Each time the device orientation changes, run this update function
  function update() {
    notch();
    iphoneXChecker();
  }

  // Notch position checker
  function notch() {

    var _notch = '';

    if( 'orientation' in window ) {
      // Mobile
      if (window.orientation == 90) {
        _notch = 'left';
      } else if (window.orientation == -90) {
        _notch = 'right';
      }
    } else if ( 'orientation' in window.screen ) {
      // Webkit
      if( screen.orientation.type === 'landscape-primary') {
        _notch = 'left';
      } else if( screen.orientation.type === 'landscape-secondary') {
        _notch = 'right';
      }
    } else if( 'mozOrientation' in window.screen ) {
      // Firefox
      if( screen.mozOrientation === 'landscape-primary') {
        _notch = 'left';
      } else if( screen.mozOrientation === 'landscape-secondary') {
        _notch = 'right';
      }
    }

    window.notch = _notch;
  }

})(window);

// Bespoke functions:
// The above functions have no jQuery Dependencies.
// The below code uses jQuery solely for this quick demo.
if ( window.iphoneX === true ) {
  $('body').addClass('iphoneX');
}
function iphoneXChecker() {
  if (window.notch == 'left') {
    $('body').removeClass('notch-right').addClass('notch-left');
  } else if (window.notch == 'right') {
    $('body').removeClass('notch-left').addClass('notch-right');
  } else {
    $('body').removeClass('notch-right notch-left');
  }
}

I can't help but feel like this is just a combination of little hacks. As you'll probably notice; my Javascript isn't exactly to a high standard and I'm sure there are better/cleaner ways to do this.
I'd be very happy to receive feedback and solutions to issues I've not considered.

If you just want to check for the iPhoneX (ignoring the Notch), this should do the job:
https://codepen.io/marknotton/pen/MOpodJ
(function(){

  // Really basic check for the ios platform
  // https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9038625/detect-if-device-is-ios
  var iOS = /iPad|iPhone|iPod/.test(navigator.userAgent) && !window.MSStream;

  // Get the device pixel ratio
  var ratio = window.devicePixelRatio || 1;

  // Define the users device screen dimensions
  var screen = {
    width : window.screen.width * ratio,
    height : window.screen.height * ratio
  };

  // iPhone X Detection
  if (iOS && screen.width == 1125 && screen.height === 2436) {
    alert('iPhoneX Detected!');
  }
})();