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Think hard about the relevance of the 1948 Havana Charter for addressing the imbalances and inequities of the 21st century global economy says Richard Kozul-Wright noting that with the rise of neoliberalism the aim of trade rules has moved in the opposite direction
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RICHARD KOZUL-WRIGHT: Here's a big question that I think needs to be honestly and frankly addressed. If state ownership, technology transfer agreements and subsidies work to sustain growth and eliminate poverty and these policies have taken 500 million people out of poverty in China, and by implication, because of China's connections to other developing countries, another 100 million people out of poverty in other parts of the developing world: Why do advanced economies want to deny their use to other developing countries? Given their success, given what they have achieved in terms of economic performance and social performance, why would you want, why would you want to eliminate these options from the policy toolkit of developing countries? It's a very serious question that needs to be, I think, asked in a more frank and honest way than has so far been the case.
Obviously, for us least in terms of the TDR, it's about rethinking multilateralism in progressive ways. It's a plague on both your houses This is not an issue of do we support regressive nationalism, which we've already seen in various formations. Nor is it a support for the kind of corporate cosmopolitanism that has dominated the multilateral discussion for the last…We need some kind of alternative that is neither of these options. And I'll finish here. We, in the Trade and Development Report this year, have gone back to the Havana Charter, which as many of you know, was the forerunner of the GATT, indeed more ambitious of the multilateral discussions in 1947 and 1948 than the GATT, that was signed up to by 50 odd countries, both developed and developing. Indeed, the majority of countries that signed up the Havana Charter were from the developing world. It was eventually rejected by the U.S. Congress and was shelved, but it is a remarkable document.
LYNN FRIES: It's The Real News, I'm Lynn Fries.
And this is part two of a conversation with Richard Kozul-Wright on Power, Platforms and the Free Trade Delusion, UNCTAD's 2018 Trade and Development Report. The opening clip featured Richard Kozul-Wright presenting the report at the Board meeting at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. As mentioned in part one, both the report and the UN institution are better known by their acronyms, the TDR and UNCTAD, respectively. Richard Kozul-Wright is lead author of the 2018 TDR and Director of the Division on Globalization and Development Strategies at UNCTAD. Thanks again for joining us, Richard, welcome.
RICHARD KOZUL-WRIGHT: Thank you.
LYNN FRIES: The report emphasizes the link between infrastructure and industrialization, and that since 19th century Great Britain through the 21st century China, a central building block of successful industrialization has been public spending on infrastructure. Talk about that.
RICHARD KOZUL-WRIGHT: I think one of the great tragedies of the neoliberal agenda as it's eviscerated public spending, particularly in the developing world, has been the way in which infrastructure finance has been crowded out of the resource mobilization discussion. And it's taken China, essentially, to put this back onto the agenda. Infrastructure has been a central feature of the Chinese development model. The Washington-based institutions, we think, have a fairly simplistic view of public-private partnerships as the way to manage infrastructure projects, which we don't find to be particularly convincing. The report is really calling for a return to the kinds of thinking that were commonplace in the debates on infrastructure in the 1950s and the 1960s. That is, linking infrastructure projects to the wider issue of structural transformation and economic growth.
So the report is a plea to go back and revisit the kinds of debates that have unfortunately dropped off the development agenda under the very simplistic belief that if you allow the private sector and market forces to rein free, then somehow infrastructure will spontaneously become a part of a healthy growth and development path, which is simply not the case.
LYNN FRIES: Enthusiasts in favor of global value chains in the structure of global trade argue global value chains provide developing countries with opportunities for economic advancement and development. You presented a far different narrative when presenting the TDR to the UNCTAD Board at the annual meeting. Here's a brief clip.
RICHARD KOZUL-WRIGHT: The idea that value chains offer this opening to climb up the value chain, diversify your economy, upgrade, is not backed up by strong evidence outside of the East Asia region.
LYNN FRIES: Tell us more about that.
RICHARD KOZUL-WRIGHT: Yeah. It's the big promise of global value chains linked to comparative advantage arguments, that somehow those countries with low skilled, low wage labor would be the big winners of this hyper-globalized world. And talk about the BRICS and emerging economies has being hard-wired into that narrative about the big winners from hyper-globalization. And as you said, we show that there is not very much evidence to support this, with one big exception. And the big exception, of course, is China. When you look at the share of the profits of the top 2000 TNCs in global income, the only part of the world that has actually made headways into that elite club, other than the advanced economies themselves, is of course, corporations from East Asia, including China.
And so, if you take the BRICS as being an indication of the rise of the South and you take China out of the BRICS acronym and you're left with the RIBS – Russia, India, Brazil, South Africa – their share of global income over the last 20, 25 years has increased, but not significantly and certainly not to have generated the kind of hype and, to some extent, hysteria that we have seen around the notion of emerging economies. So the story of the rise of the South, as we see it, still remains fundamentally an East Asia story, with China, in many respects, simply replicating the experience that began with Japan in the 1950s and was repeated by Korea and other countries in the 1960s and the 1970s.
Now, from our point of view of course, it's an interesting story if China has been able to buck the trend of hyper-globalization. The question is, how did it do it? And it turns out it did it by not following the rules of hyper-globalization as promoted within the capitals of the advanced economies, whether that's from Washington or Paris or Brussels. So we know now that the Chinese have been very successful in using industrial policy, including the use of subsidies. We know they've been very successful in using state-owned enterprises as part of their development model. We know that they've been very good at ensuring that if international corporations come to their country to make profits, they have certain responsibilities in terms of transferring technology to the to the host economy.
Now, what is worrying for us, of course, in the current discourse that we hear about reforming the multilateral system, is all the things that worked for China and lifted 500 million people out of poverty in China, and to some extent even more people out of poverty outside of China given China's connections with other parts of the developing world, these are the very elements that the advanced economies want to preclude other developing countries from using. So now, the endless rhetoric that we hear about, the dangers of state-owned enterprises, the problems of industrial subsidies, the problems with technology transfer agreements, are on the table for tightening the rules to prevent those being used in the future.
And that has to be a worrying trend, given the track record of successful use of these policies in the Chinese case. And it's one of the great ironies here, that hyper-globalization has been sold to many as a way of alleviating poverty. But it turns out that the only way that it can work to alleviate poverty is if countries have sufficient policy space to be able to make use of its benefits and to mitigate its problems. And now, we have an agenda that is trying to reduce the policy space further of countries to ensure that they can't do that in the future. It's a very troubling and clearly hypocritical agenda that is emerging under the rhetoric of reforming the multilateral system.
LYNN FRIES: In a recent article you wrote, and I quote, "China's success is exactly what was envisaged in the 1947 United Nations Conference on Trade and Employment in Havana, where the international community laid the groundwork for what would become the global trading system. The difference in discourse between then and now attests to how far the current multilateral order has moved from its original aims."
RICHARD KOZUL-WRIGHT: It's one of the great tragedies, I think, of discussion around the crisis and multilateralism, is just how much people have forgotten about the origins and evolution of this system. So the current tensions in the global trading system are essentially presented as a threat to a 70 year old international economic order that was hatched in the late 1940s and was gradually perfected over the subsequent seven decades. And that's clearly not the case. The kind of international order that was designed in the immediate post-war period essentially died in the late 1970s and the early 1980s, when policymakers in the advanced economies gave up on full employment as a central goal of their agendas, when financial markets were rapidly and in many respects recklessly deregulated, when the mixed economy, the idea of a mixed economy became a dirty phrase in which the public sector had a central role in the organization of a healthy and balanced economy.
So that order died in the late 1970s and early 1980s. But one of the high points, in my opinion, of those early negotiations was the Havana Charter. 55 countries that negotiated the Havana charter, or 53, 54, signed up to that in 1948, so 70 years ago this year. The majority of those countries were actually developing countries, so it was a really genuine dialogue between the North and the South that gave rise to the Havana Charter. And of course, the charter eventually died when the U.S. Senate, the U.S. negotiators having originally signed up to it, but when the U.S. Senate essentially killed off the charter at the end of the 1940s, early 1950s. And all that remained were the GATT rules that became the basis for structuring trade rules in the postwar order.
LYNN FRIES: I just want to give viewers a very brief overview of the chronology of the history of the multilateral trade system that you're going to be referring to. So from 1945 to 1947, over 50 countries began to create an International Trade Organization, the ITO. And in 1947 in Havana, 56 countries started negotiating the charter for the ITO. And the Final Act of that charter, the Havana Charter, was signed in 1948 in Havana. But the Havana Charter and its policy goals of full employment and domestic industrialization for structuring trade rules in the post-war order, as you said, got shelved. The International Trade Organization, along with its charter, the Havana Charter, was shelved.
Instead, from 1948 to 1994, a provisional arrangement, the GATT, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, was the only multilateral instrument governing international trade. And as you said, the GATT rules became the basis for structuring trade rules. The last round of multilateral trade negotiations under the GATT, the Uruguay Round, was from 1986 to 1994. The Uruguay Round led to the end of the postwar order governed by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, replacing it with the creation of the World Trade Organization, or WTO. The World Trade Organization was established by the Uruguay Round in 1995 and governs the multilateral trade system into the present. So what made the original aims of the Havana Charter so different from the current multilateral order?
RICHARD KOZUL-WRIGHT: The Havana Charter itself was far more ambitious than the GATT rules. As you said, it recognized that a healthy trading system could only evolve out of an economy that guaranteed full and stable employment in which aggregate demand was at a level that could generate full and decent work. It recognized that there were distributional issues always on the trade agenda that had to be managed at the international level. They were, at that time, seriously concerned about the use of restrictive business practices in distorting the international trading system and sought ways of dealing with those restrictive business practices by large international firms.
And as you said, they recognized this central role for industrialization in the South as part of a healthy trading system and they found ways to ensure that industrial policy and the use of various tools of industrial policy would be a legitimate part of the international trading rules. And all that was part of the Havana Charter that was negotiated by these 50 odd countries after the end of the Second World War. And to some extent, these features were retained in a more informal way in the post-war architecture, but not really as part of the rules of the system. Obviously, with the rise of neoliberalism, the Uruguay Round, the direction of trade rules was in the opposite direction. Concerns about unemployment were essentially removed from the discussion, industrial policy became a dirty word, particularly for developing countries.
LYNN FRIES: I have one more quote of something you wrote marking the 70th anniversary of the Havana Charter and then I'm going to ask you for a concluding thought. "The silence on the 70th anniversary of the Havana Charter speaks volumes about the current era's approach to multilateralism, not simply in the contrasting levels of ambition, but in subverting its underlying logic by assuming that by opening up to trade and private capital flows, full employment and economic development will automatically follow. Evidence continues to favor the drafters in Havana." And your concluding thought?
RICHARD KOZUL-WRIGHT: I strongly believe that despite all the changes that have happened in the global economy since 1948, there is a serious need to take a look again at what the Havana Charter was trying to do in terms of generating a more balanced and healthy trading system and to find ways of replicating those kinds of ambitions in line with the changes that we've seen in the second half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century. And the report tries to make a case for revisiting the Havana Charter in light of the challenges of the digital economy, in light of the challenges of environmental and financial stress that we've seen over the last few years.
LYNN FRIES: Richard Kozul-Wright, thank you.
RICHARD KOZUL-WRIGHT: Thank you, Lynn.
LYNN FRIES: And thank you for joining us on The Real News Network.


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Model and Actress Ankita Chouhan is all set to make her Bollywood debut through upcoming movie BA Pass 3. The film is produced and directed by Narendra Singh. It is penned by Deep Chugh and Narendra Singh and shot by ace cinematographer Anmol Dhiman. The music is composed by Altaaf-Manny and stars Sunny Sachdeva, Ankita Chouhan, Armaan Sandhu, in the pivotal roles.The film revolves around those unwanted relationships, which are made, and then they are punished as well. BA Pass 3 narrates the story of a jobless Anshul and how his life changes upside down when he meets a married woman and gets into a relationship with her.
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From bhajans and abhangs to mantras, shabads and stotras, Padma Shri Suresh Wadkar is known all over the world for his spiritually enlightening Bhakti Sangeet.
Now, on the auspicious event of Hanuman Jayanti, music maestro Suresh Wadkar is all set to launch his own devotional YouTube Channel, 'Suresh Wadkar Bhakti' with Maruti Stotra as its first offering. Maruti Stotra, sung by Suresh Wadkar and composed by his student Padmanabh is being released at 12 noon.
Maruti Stotra or Hanuman Stotra is a 17th-century Stotra, hymn of praise, composed in Marathi language by saint-poet of Maharashtra, Samarth Ramdas ji. It is a compilation of praiseful verses that describe the many aspects and virtues of Maruti Nandan or Lord Hanuman.
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Now Padma, my wife, has completely taken over the day to day supervision of the academy. Also, I had a lot of time for myself due to this pandemic, I started working on this channel and I am happy that with Hanuman Jis blessing it is finally on," he says.
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NR Group Launches Unique Campaign To Save People From Corona In Mumbai
10,000 special masks are distributed to Mumbai Police by Nilesh Raghani, head of NR group through Kalpana Foundation
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अरविन्द अकेला कल्लू, नीलम गिरी, शिल्पी राज का वीडियो सांग "बियाह बिना बिगरतारु" हुआ रिलीज, मिल रहा है लाखों का प्यार
भोजपुरी सिनेमा के सुपरस्टार अरविन्द अकेला कल्लू अपने फैन्स और चाहने वालों के मनोरंजन के लिए बहुत ही इंटरटेनिंग वीडियो सांग लेकर आये हैं। जी हाँ, अरविन्द अकेला कल्लू, ट्रेंडिंग गर्ल नीलम गिरी और पॉपुलर गायिका शिल्पी राज की तिकड़ी का धमाल वीडियो सांग "बियाह बिना बिगरतारु" वर्ल्डवाइड रिकॉर्ड्स भोजपुरी के ऑफिसियल यूटयूब चैनल पर रिलीज किया गया है। जिसके वीडियो में कल्लू और नीलम गिरी की गजब केमिस्ट्री खूब धमाल मचा रही है। अरविन्द अकेला कल्लू के मधुर सुर में सुर मिलाया है सिंगर शिल्पी राज ने।
वर्ल्डवाइड रिकार्ड्स प्रस्तुत इस वीडियो सांग में अरविन्द अकेला कल्लू और नीलम गिरी की जोड़ी बेहद आकर्षक लग रही है। कल्लू का ड्रेस डिजाइन काफी लाजवाब है, जिसमें वे काफी काफी अट्रैक्टिव लग रहे हैं। वहीं अलग-अलग डिज़ाइन के ड्रेस में नीलम गिरी कयामत ढा रही हैं। इस बेहतरीन गाने में शानदार डांस और मन मोहक अदायगी का लाजवाब मिश्रण है। इस वीडियो को रवि पंडित ने डायरेक्ट किया है। कोरियोग्राफर राहुल यादव हैं। गाने को लिखा है गीतकार आशुतोष तिवारी ने और संगीतकार बसाजन मिश्रा ने संगीत दिया है।
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Mumbai : The versatile actor of Bollywood, Irrfan Khan may not be in this world anymore, but his fans in the country and abroad will continue to miss him. Famous singer Ravindra Singh, with his melodious voice, paid a sweet tribute to the late actor by releasing the music video 'Dil Se Kaha' in his loving memory.
The music video is produced by R Vision. Music by Amandeep Singh and the Music Video is directed by Naresh Shah. DoP by Suhas Rao and Edited by Imran Hussain.
This musical song is sung beautifully by Ravindra.
Irrfan was an inspirational actor, his acting in films was very natural and was liked by all classes of audiences. Apart from Bollywood, he also had a good reputation in Hollywood.
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There's a monster lurking under Texas, beneath the sand and oil and cowboy bones, and it's getting a little restless after a 15 million year nap. Shaking things up in the city of Irving, just slightly west of Dallas, where no less than ten earthquakes yesterday and today bring the total tremors to 26 since October in that town alone. Over 100 quakes have been registered in the North Texas region since 2008, a staggering uptick from just a single one prior that year.
The Balcones Fault Zone divides the Lone Star State in half, loosely following the route of Interstate 35 and passing under Fort Worth, Waco, Austin, and San Antonio. And it's not just a huge amount of human populations that sit on top of it. There are also thousands of fracking wells boring down in to the earth's crust, pumping millions of gallons of water down with the direct intent of breaking apart what lay beneath.
Irving itself has more than 2,000 of these sites nearby, and some of the more than 216,000 state wide "injection wells" responsible for disposing of fracking's wastewater byproduct are in close proximity. Located thousands of feet below the ground, these wells hold millions of gallons of chemically tainted h2o, and science has proven that the pressure and liquid combination can combine to "lubricate" fault lines. And that may well be what is happening in the Barnett Shale region around, yes, Dallas and Irving.
Barnett Shale is the largest land-based gas field in Texas, with an estimated 40 trillion cubic feet of natural gas just waiting to be hammered out of the ground and into your SUV's tank. It's a nearly bottomless potential bank account for corporations with the resources to drill and grind. But, as the people of Irving are now discovering, all of this poking and prodding is not without potential consequences.
And it's not just Texas. Poland Township in Ohio had 77 earthquakes happen last March that researchers have definitively linked to fracking, in a paper published just days ago. And British Columbia has the oil addiction shakes, too.
So we know that boring down to the bedrock and pumping it full of fluid can cause earthquakes. And while it's also admittedly rare that these quakes are felt by humans, this shows signs of changing. Could the (thus far) timid trembling give way to a full-on, grand mal seizure?
The simple answer seems to be yes. They can. Studies are showing that the magnitude of the activity may be linked to how long a disposal well is in use, meaning that the more we spew wastewater into aging wells, the higher the potential for a major incident.
"With time, as an injection activity continues, so will the seismic hazard as measured by the maximum magnitude," the US Geological Survey's Art McGarr was quoted as saying by NPR.
Whatever the cause, the activity is growing more violent.
"This is the largest earthquake in Irving since the '70s. That's as far back as our catalog goes," USGS geophysicist Jessica Turner said to CBSDFW. "There hasn't been anything like this at all, so it's new."
This is not making the 228,000 residents of Irving, Texas feel very relaxed. The most recent activity had a high point of 3.6 on the Richter Scale. While minor, it's strong enough to be felt and shake objects. And feel it they did -- the local 911 system was overloaded with calls, the school district held earthquake drills, and the Irving's mayor met with her counterpart in Dallas to discuss emergency management plans, according to the Dallas Morning News.
And "minor" can be relative.
"Was looking to see if an 18-wheeler wrecked into our building! That is what it felt like," Irving local Aletha Allie Pate Martinez told a local ABC affiliate.
As of now, there's no 100-percent definitive scientific connection between this latest swarm of earthquakes and fracking activity, but the United States Geologic Survey noted in a statement on the swarm, "Activities that have induced felt earthquakes in some geologic environments have included impoundment of water behind dams, injection of fluid into the earth's crust, extraction of fluid or gas, and removal of rock in mining or quarrying operations."
Worth noting: This cluster of quakes is taking place almost directly beneath the Exxon-Mobile world headquarters, which is located in Irving. The company's CEO, Rex Tillerson, joined a lawsuit last year to prevent a water tower used in the fracking process from being built near his 83-acre horse ranch in a swanky suburban Dallas enclave. Whether these are considered ironic or karmic quakes – that's up to you. But for the repeatedly shaken up people of North Texas, it's not very funny anymore.


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Jack Carey first caught the shutter bug when he got a Buster Brown camera for his eighth birthday on Sept. 22, 1920.
For the next 88 years, until he died three weeks ago, he was seldom without a camera in his hands. That passion let Carey establish himself as one of the world's leading nature photographers.
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After observing the little critters for many years, he produced a 28-minute film called Success Story about the remarkable ability of insects to adapt to their environment. It won all kinds of international awards and was adapted by Encyclopedia Britannica as a science teaching aid.
His films have often appeared on television, including the CBC science show The Nature of Things. In 1978, he was made a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society.
In 1987, Global Television turned the camera on the famous movie-maker with a one-hour profile called Nature in Close-up: The Small World of Jack Carey.
Carey's world started in Hamilton on Sept. 22, 1912, and ended in a Dundas hospital on June 3. He died as a result of complications from a broken hip. His funeral service was held in Burlington, where he'd lived for almost 60 years.
John (Jack) Carey was the youngest child of a family of four and lost his mother when he was 14. She had instilled in him a love of nature and an insatiable curiosity about the world around him.
With his first camera, the Buster Brown, he tried unsuccessfully to sneak up and photograph birds.
He got his first movie camera, an eight-millimetre model, in the 1930s and started his film career by making movies about his family.
He got his first break as a professional filmmaker while working as a metallurgist at Stelco. In 1956, the steelmaker commissioned him to make a promotional film called Steel for Canadians.
Shortly after, he made his first nature film, The Miracle of the Bees.
During the next 50 years, he pursued every form of life in the most exotic parts of the world, from the Galapagos Islands to the jungles of Africa. As a supporter of Greenpeace, his wildlife photography usually carried a strong ecological message.
But most of his filming was done within 20 kilometres of the Burlington home he shared with his only sister, Dolly, from the 1950s until her death in 1995.
She was an avid gardener and grew some of the nicest roses in the neighbourhood.
Apart from his love of photography, Carey was a published poet and avid antique collector who scoured garage and yard sales on weekends. He had a love of hurricane lamps and had a sizeable collection of them in his home.
His nephew Dave Carey, who gave the eulogy at his funeral, remembers Uncle Jack as an incurable pack rat who never threw anything out.
His Burlington home was chock full of Carey family memorabilia, from old Christmas cards to family photographs and home movies.
"I expect we are one of the most photographed families in Canada never to have been involved in a political scandal or Hollywood infidelity," Dave said in his eulogy.
To his neighbours, Carey was known as a friendly guy who showed up with homemade chocolate truffles at Christmas.
Robb McQueen, a neighbour, said he last saw Carey taking pictures in his backyard about a year ago.
"He packed a lot in his 95 years," said McQueen, who teaches at Aldershot High School. "He was one of those rare guys. He wore out. He didn't rust out. He was always doing something."
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It has been a nasty week. The crisis in Libya and escalating oil prices continue to pummel the market, and today, two other global giants joined in the fray. China announced a significant trade deficit, and Japan revised its 4th quarter GDP downward by 1.3%. Then U.S. jumped in, announcing a widening trade deficit and initial jobless claims that were worse than last week's (though still within the expected range). Nothing else out of the ordinary happened, but all this was enough to send the market to its knees. The S&P 500 dropped below its 50-day moving average for the first time since August 31, 2010. That, we consider a bearish sign.
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Wife's Dying Wish To Husband Ends Up Being A Hilarious Practical Joke
This man just realized his late wife has been trolling him from beyond the grave.
When Phedre Nicol was battling cancer in 2013 at the age of 69, she gave her husband, Nigel, strict instructions should she pass away. Those instructions? Keep watering the plants in their South Africa home.
And when Phedre lost her battle in the same year, Nigel, now 73, started keeping that promise. And he's been watering the ferns in their bathroom for years. Though he probably did wonder why there were puddles of water on the floor every time he watered them.
Fast forward to 2018, and Nigel is moving into a retirement home. The ferns were still in such good shape, that he decided to pack them along with his belongings. Only then did he realize that how wife has been playing a prank on him this entire time.
Daughter Antonia, a firefighter from London, explained the prank on Twitter...
Yes, Phedre has had Nigel watering plastic for a few years. Antonia explained to The Mirror that no one else was in on the prank...
"My mum battled cancer for five years, but sadly passed away in November 2013. She was hospitalised for the last few weeks. It was very traumatic for all of us. I live here in London, so I was back and forth to South Africa a lot."
"When she was in hospital, she told my dad that he was under strict instructions to water the plants in the bathroom. There was a purpose built container for real plants with a drain, but my mum must have replaced them with plastic ones. None of us knew."
Antonia explains that her father was so "overcome with grief," he religiously watered the plants. The couple had apparently always been pranksters...
"It was hilarious. They were always jokers. Once, my daughter sent them a picture she had drawn of 'naughty Grandad' jumping on the bed and granny being shocked. They recreated the picture and sent it back to her."
She goes on to explain what the discovery meant for her father...
"My mum died a while ago, so this is a lovely memory of her for my my dad."
And the reaction it got from social media was even more heartwarming.
"I was totally shocked when I saw how many people liked it. What has been lovely are the responses from so many people remembering their loved ones who have gone."
"Or people wanting to have the same relationship as my parents did. Or sharing stories of how they've done similar stuff."
"It brought a tear to my dad's eye to see how happy it has made so many people and that's been so brilliant. Remembering my mum in such a positive way like this means a lot to us."
Nigel even reenacted the watering of the ferns for his new fans...
To say this is peak relationship goals is an understatement...
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It's the beginning of the year and, although you are in momentum and swing of following your international business strategy, it's a good idea to review your website, marketing, and sales statistics and see if your strategy needs adjustment. Yes, it is most likely part of your processes anyway, yet when things work well and we see some daily sales and visitors, a detailed review might get a not so close look. Following are a few questions to ask yourself:
Are the foreign visitors of my website proportional still the same or do I get visitors from a market that I haven't considered yet?
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How do you study the interior of a dwarf planet 5 billion kilometers away? You use an ancient impact.
Millions of years ago, a huge asteroid struck Pluto, creating the landscape we know as Sputnik Planitia, a feature that makes up half of Pluto's "heart." A team of scientists now have re-created those ancient waves to study Pluto's internal structure. They found that Pluto might have a substantially thick internal ocean and a core that hints at an environment potentially habitable to life.
"Once you go even a little bit beneath the surface of Pluto, there's just a lot of question marks," Adeene Denton, a planetary scientist at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., told Eos. "And the work that I did was trying to remove a few of those question marks." Denton was scheduled to present the research at the canceled Lunar and Planetary Science Conference on 17 March.
In July 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft unveiled Pluto to us in unprecedented detail as it zoomed by the dwarf planet at 14 kilometers per second (that's about 31,000 miles per hour). Scientists discovered a geologically active surface covered in ice mountains, smooth plains, and oozing, nitrogen ice glaciers. There's even a thin, hazy atmosphere made up of nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and methane.
Scientists are also fairly certain there's an ocean sloshing around beneath Pluto's icy surface, but the details of that ocean remain a mystery. How deep is the ocean? What kind of rock makes up its floor? Could that ocean be interacting with its rocky floor in a way that produces chemicals necessary to sustain life? These are the questions Denton set out to answer.
Pluto's farside, which New Horizons saw from a distance as it approached the dwarf planet, inspired Denton to investigate further. At almost exactly opposite Sputnik Planitia (at Sputnik's "antipode"), other scientists had spotted geological features that resemble grabens on Earth. Grabens are extensional rifts that form as a continental plate is split and pulled apart by faults. They look like a series of high plateaus and valleys, striping the surface.
"Curiously, a lot of the weirdest stuff on Pluto's far side is close to the antipode of Sputnik Planitia," James Tuttle Keane, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who has studied these antipodal features, said in an email. "When these seismic waves collide on the opposite side of the body, they can amplify and result in intense surface deformation."
Denton wondered whether Pluto's internal structure (namely, its core and subsurface ocean) acted as a lens to focus the impact waves to deform the opposite surface. On Earth, scientists use instruments that measure seismic waves—waves of energy produced by large movements or breaking of rock, either on Earth's surface or below—to study our planet's interior. These waves travel faster or slower through different kinds of material, and studying them helped us understand the structure of Earth.
But we can't send seismometers to Pluto, so Denton decided to study the waves of the ancient impact that created Sputnik Planitia. Using a computer program that models impacts, Denton tweaked the interior properties of Pluto to see how different combinations of core composition and ocean thickness affected seismic wave propagation.
What Denton found was that a core made primarily of serpentine and a 150-kilometer-thick ocean could act to focus those waves strongly enough to rupture Pluto's surface antipodal to the impact. Other compositions, like a dunnite core or a thicker or thinner ocean, didn't focus the waves in the right way, Denton said.
Finding a serpentine core could lead to some exciting new questions. Serpentine is a mineral that forms when seawater reacts with rock. On Earth, these reactions occur deep in the ocean, between seawater and exposed mantle rock, which is primarily made of olivine and pyroxene. When the rock and seawater react, serpentine forms, and those reactions release heat and molecules useful to life. In our oceans, bacteria colonize places where serpentinization occurs, such as in the Lost City hydrothermal field in the northern Atlantic Ocean. Some scientists propose that serpentinization could have occurred—or could be an active process—on other ocean worlds, like Saturn's moon Enceladus or Jupiter's moon Europa.
If Pluto does have a serpentine core and a substantial subsurface ocean, then "theoretically, you have an environment that might be conducive to life in some capacity," Denton said.
The new research "sets up a lot of new testable hypotheses for a future Pluto mission, which NASA is actively talking about," Keane said.
And the research has implications that stretch farther than to just Pluto. "There are a lot more Kuiper Belt objects out there than just Pluto, and if Pluto is geologically active and hosts a potentially habitable location in its interior, that really opens up what's possible for Kuiper Belt objects in general," Denton said.
—JoAnna Wendel (@JoAnnaScience), Freelance Writer
Wendel, J. (2020), Ancient impact's seismic waves reveal Pluto's ocean, core, Eos, 101, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EO142337. Published on 06 April 2020.
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The comments seemed to indicate that this dress was indeed tute worthy. I'm breaking it up in parts.
Option #1: Buy a t-shirt or use one you already have. That'd be the easy way to do it. And you can skip ahead to Part 2.
Option #2: Make the top, which is what I did.
I had Macy get a shirt from her closet. I folded it in half and placed it on the fold of some knit yardage (this color came from Hobby Lobby). There are actually 2 folds it's placed on (one for the front and one for the back) but it's hard to see that in the picture.
I traced, including 1/2" for seam allowances.
I also screwed up a little, see? Good thing I used a disappearing ink marker!
Cut both pieces out. Decide which one you want to be the front and cut a lower neckline.
Trace and cut sleeves (again on a fold and including seam allowances):
Sew ONE shoulder seam. Use a serger or a zig zag or stretch stitch (looks like a lightning bolt) for all of your sewing with knits.
(Several pictures are missing here….I WILL get them up, it just might be after I get back from girls camp.)
Next I cut several 1" strips. I folded them in half lengthwise and used them for the neck and sleeve trim…NOT the ruffle-y gathered stuff, just the normal trim you'd see on a t-shirt. This ended up being covered completely by the ruffles, but it gives your shirt a more finished look.
Attach the strips to the neckline and bottom of both sleeve pieces using 1/4" seams. Press up and top stitch.
Now you'll sew your other shoulder seam.
Sew on the sleeve pieces.
Sew the side seams, from the sleeve cuffs to the bottom of the shirt.
For the ruffles, I cut 3/4" strips of knit. I didn't pre-gather or anything, I just wadded it up every few inches and then sewed over it and repeated the process around the neckline and the bottom of the sleeves.
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It's the fifth inning. Boston is 4-0 as I write these words. Mark my words: the Sox will make it. And if the Sox make it into the Series, then I have a strange feeling that Kerry will take the White House with ease. It's only a working theory and I have nothing sizable to go on other than the Massachusetts connection. But for the love of baseball and for the love of the nation, suffuse all your good juju into the Sox, baby. Let's take this nation back. Preternaturally. This will be Mass's year.
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It's more than just a Massachusetts connection, even if you can't quite put a finger on it. For a while now, I've been developing this theory that the Red Sox are to the Democratic party as the Yankees are to the GOP. I too can't quite flesh it out with a proof, but it strikes me as true in a very real sense.
The corollary to this theory is my belief that no one should root for the Yankees. Beyond representing support of the Right, it also strikes me as rooting for wealthy or powerful people; they just don't need it, and even if they did, why would you want to give it to them?
But then, I live in Massachusetts and embrace the liberal reputation Bush ascribes to the state as a whole, so perhaps this theory is just me. All that said, go Sox!
Brian: I think you hit the nail on the head. Here in the Bay Area, I eschew the 49ers in favor of the Raiders as my local football team in choice — the reasoning being that, football being a savage game, it requires no holds barred thugs to win (although the Raiders have been in bad shape of late and they were even recently forced to trade Rice away).
The point: No genuine person could possibly root for a patrician sportsman or team, unless there are glaring exceptions (Tiger Woods comes to mind) or underdog sympathy has been stored up only after repeated losses — in which case, from an empathic standpoint, the bloated turkey deserves to win.
Barring these obvious emotional factors, it comes down to pure reason. Which makes me wonder why Immanuel Kant never bothered to whip up some sort of philosophy over partisan sportsmanship.
Guys, guys–this would be a lot more convincing if the Sox weren't actually, you know, one of the richest teams in the league! Only in comparison to the Yankees could they be taken for underprivileged strivers. The 'Fesser will have my head for this, but doesn't the studied, almost concocted quality of the Bostons' (as my man Ernie Harwell would call them) anti-elitism–the hairdos, the mudded helmets like stage props–give you just a little pause? Don't get me wrong, I'm for the Sox. But their we-ugly schtick sometimes strikes me as a little bit much. (Spoken, by the way, by someone who didn't pay an iota of attention to baseball until last week and may well be uninformed in some regard.)
Also, Ed, I think loyalty in sports comes down to history. Loyalists of other teams can rail all they want, but if the team you were born and bred to love starts handing out fat contracts Yankees-style, I just don't think you should be expected to apologize for them or disavow them–*that* would seem to me not "genuine"–and it would make the team less fun for others to hate! I've stood by the Tigers through near-historical badness, and I'll stand by them if they start outspending the Yankees and collecting pennants like crackerjack prizes.
Just to clarify my position, though I did say that supporting the Yankees is "like rooting for wealthy or powerful people," my point wasn't really about money. That really wouldn't make a lot of sense, because if the Sox aren't really that poor in comparison to the Yankees, Kerry certainly isn't poor either.
It's just that the Yankees have had it so good and are so pretty and … oh, I don't know, there's just something very creepy about them in a Stepford Wives kind of way. The ugliness of the Sox might just be shtick, but it's hardly wholly ironic. When you look at Derek Jeter (either in his shampoo commercials or on the field) standing next to any of the Sox (excluding, perhaps, Johnny Damon, who actually knows he looks good and intends to keep it that way) it's clear that the Sox are just embracing a grittiness that has always been there, which I kinda like.
Perhaps it's nothing more than a gut reaction, but I can't see how supporting the Yankees can give anyone any pleasure. The Sox just make me feel good to live in Boston and like following baseball, and the Yankees don't make me feel good about anything. And that's basically how I feel about the respective political parties I've assigned them in my theory (subsituting US for Boston and politics for baseball, of course).
OGIC: Three factors in response to your argument.
1. How respective team represents their home town. I think what Brian's trying to get at is that the Yanks' haute couture is a pisspoor match with the variegated steading known as New York at large. This has been a problem since 1957, when the Brooklyn Dodgers were lured to Los Angeles and the quintessential NYC-within-NYC team was lost, thus creating a gargantuan chasm between classes, forcing the Yanks to choose between two immutable options: to pomade their hairs and dry clean their suits; or to opt for a more down-to-earth quality. As we all know, they chose the former, failing in all regards to appeal to the self-respecting baseball appreciator planting himself in front of a television unit in Brooklyn with a bottle o' suds and a few grunts. (And why did New York so willingly give up the team that launched Jackie Robinson? The conspiracy broadens.)
The Sox, meanwhile, have boldly expressed their camaraderie with their brethren, even when it comes across aloofly. Steps such as the aforementioned humorous commercials, a certain swagger reminiscent of the golden days of Babe Ruth, and of course the quintessential underdog quality that Sox fans are actually more adamant about than the team.
2. Fashion. Granted, baseball as a whole has a comparatively limited fashion spectrum with American football — a sport that more actively encourages its players with protective jet eye lining and testosterone-induced dives into the ground. It involves a fashion pardigm where the players resemble overgrown versions of the kids in "The Lord of the Flies."
Not so with baseball. Baseball's very limitations force its players to meet the regulatory standards of the MLB, while selecting specific hues with which to stand out. The Red Sox, beyond deliberately mispelling the plural of footwear, have opted for red and white. The colors are more vibrant within the limitations and are thus laudable. The Yankees, meanwhile, have opted for a more conservative blue and white. (With pinstripes, no less!) This creates a subtle impression that the Yanks are aligned with the NYSE and thus "not of the people."
3. Loyalty in sports. Like politicians, sports teams and figures can be disavowed at any time. (And I suspect this will happen to the Sox should they win the World Series.) Sure, this is hypocritical, unfair, and highly irrational. But with sentiments running high, what more could be asked for at the given moment? As we're all aware, it's a pivotal race we're talking about.
Plus, have you noticed how the very logo for Yankees seems to have become synonymous with the American flag? Like its overused and abused counterpart, it's turned into some kind of symbol for what it means to have "American pride." Just as I can't stand the American flags plastered all over the huge bumpers of SUVs to show how much everyone uncritically supports anything that the current administration does in the name of America, I cringe at the ubiquity of the overlapping NY I see everywhere. When I lived in Northern California last year, I began an unsuccessful search for a Red Sox cap in any sports store I could find. What did I find? Caps for every Californian team (as one would expect) … and Yankees caps.
It's one thing for a New Yorker to be a Yankees fan. But when being a Yankees fan became the mark of a true patriot, that's when I started associating the Yanks with Republican rhetoric.
But America is filled to the gills with Yankee-hating patriots! Seriously, I've never had a sports bias I felt more comfortable expressing, and expressing anywhere–even in NY, you're more than likely to have a sympathetic Mets fan within earshot. Would it were so with the bad, bad Colorado Avalanche!
I do think if the Red Sox hang on tonight–and they'd better, as several of my dearest friends' happiness depends on it–celebrations will break out from sea to shining sea.
And they did it!
And, Mr. Sawyer, as much as I appreciate your comments (and the corresponding post on the Olive Press), I hope you're aware of the extant tomfoolery here, eh? 🙂
Er … yes, Ed. Extent tomfoolery well understood. Sometimes it just feels good to willingly take things a little too seriously. Basically, it's just all too convenient for me to combine two of my deepest wishes into one ball and call it a Serious Theory.
At any rate, phase one is now complete (the World Series is just gravy). Now, I really would like to see Kerry in the White House. I'd even embrace votes by Yankee fas, of which I'm sure there will be many.
Thanks for the fun.
I don't know that I will have the OGIC's head for anything, except as a spot for the toque I plan to present her when she comes south for some hockey. I agree that the spectacle of the team with the 120m payroll crying underdog against the team w/ the 180m payroll is more like Francis and Peewee than David and Goilath. However, and this is a major however, the stylistic issue OGIC criticizes I think represents a significant part of their appeal: there is not a "hairdo" — there is an array of distinctly terrible hair. This is a departure from the Cowboy Upness of last year, which put the marginal Kevin Millar on center stage, and resulted in antics with clippers more resonant of a high school lacrosse team, and was almost wearisome even before the end of the 2003 series. You have the improbable Jheri reset of Pedro, Manny's subtly different hommage to Topsy, Damon's ever changing mane and beard (look for many babies resembling Damon to appear early next summer around NE), Bellhorn's unapologetic mullet, and a skinny white dude, all of 2 when _10_ enjoyed its theatrical release, rocking cornrows. Not to mention Ortiz' Dominican Abe Lincoln look, or the Antarctic Pimp getup he was sporting postgamne. No defined culture, like, say, the 79 "Family" Pirates, but a but a team. E pluribus, as they say, unum.
I should also take this chance before I clamber off the soapbox to assert the disconnect between the overlapping N and Y, and the US of A. Some say Yanks logo swastakasque, in fact. Someone in the blogosphere was railing against Steinbrenner's cynical appropriation of 9-11, but I can say with some confidence, the Yankees are not America's team. Here in South Carolina, Sox hats outnumber Yanks roughly 6-1, and the support is more anti-Yanks than pro Sox– there are broad swaths of the flyover district where "Yankee" is still a bad word. Add to that the huge cultural, radio and cable hearths of the Braves, Cubs, and Cardinals, and it is very difficult to make the Yankees = America statement. I hope that the Red Sox help Kerry, but I can't promise I would choose that if I could make one wish for the next two weeks. In any event, wouldn't take nothing for my journey.
Uncle, Fesser, uncle. The Red Sox are 100% genuine authenticity. The team of the people, I tell you!
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Behind High Five Productions
It's honestly surprising that I ever ended up in this family. In some ways, this shouldn't have ever happened. There were so many opportunities to settle before this. In other ways, I couldn't imagine doing anything else. I've always wanted something more. And I think the same goes for everyone here at High Five. We all knew for a long time that we wanted to make something of ourselves. As musicians, that is inherent. When you finally accomplish your goal, there is a need to create again and again and again. It's not exhausting, it's inspired!
I was well on my way to teach music for the foreseeable future. I really did enjoy it and spent some time teaching in an elementary school. But I couldn't imagine going into my 10th year teaching and still having the same passion and excitement that I had now. I could see how drained the other teachers were, doing 30x the work of their pay and then still getting shit on by the education system. I give every educator so much credit, but it wasn't sustainable for me.
There are no limits to where we can go with High Five. It all depends on the concentrated effort that we put into it. And since the four of us have been pushing together, the mountain doesn't seem as steep. Big results are coming from our work. I contribute as High Five's Social Media Marketing Manager and Web Developer. On top of that, I am part of our four person administrative team that makes all High Five decisions. That can range from executive producing Lyn's music video for "Fit In", to workshopping beats, album artwork, potential artists and projects, etc.
With all this being said, I would have never been in the position to contribute to this family if it wasn't for meeting Nick Hawkins.
I met Nick at marching band camp my sophomore year at Seton Hill. We hit it off pretty quickly and spent a ton of time hanging out with our other band friends. Before this, I wasn't listening to much Hip Hop. In high school, if someone asked what my favorite album was, I'd probably say Blue Slide Park, because that's pretty much all I remember giving a chance. But Nick introduced me to this guy Chance the Rapper, and with some convincing, I was hooked. So thank you Nick!
At High Five, Nick is our Artist Manager, Event Coordinator, and Director of Outreach. I would say that he is the glue holding our group together. He is constantly thinking of every possible outcome of our choices. He keeps us grounded when we start to drift too far into speculation. He is equally logical and creative, unlike myself sometimes! Nick cares deeply about the process rather than the end result, always prepared to go the long route to get the right outcome. On top of all this, he's probably the wittiest of the group, always ready to clown someone and just keep us laughing. This is it for him, just like it is for all of us.
Luc is the most recent member of our administrative team. He is our Marketing Manager who plans our marketing schedule and collaborates on new product ideas. In addition to this, Luc is an incredibly gifted producer and produced the majority of Lyn's last EP, Universe 25. Luc is also an up and coming rapper, who is preparing his first tape to be released through High Five in the near future. We currently sell his beats on our site!
We all met Luc at school as well, but we never really worked creatively until the last year. The growth that Luc has shown in his production and his own music is really impressive and shows how determined he is to perfect his craft and tell his story. His innovative production and marketing ideas are helping to propel us forward every day.
We all reached out to Lyn when we felt we could give a part of ourselves to his vision. He accepted us and gave us a purpose in High Five Productions. And now we're just at the very beginning of seeing the fruits of our labor. I am so excited to work with these guys and create an untouchable pillar in the Hip Hop community. High Five is doing huge things and I couldn't be more proud of everyone working behind the scenes. High Five for life.
You can follow us on IG at @ryanrick, @est_indy, @l_booyay, and of course @stoasta
Thanks for reading!
- Ryan
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Bamboo Furniture: Ideas and Inspiration
Go green with some slick and stylish bamboo furniture. It's durable and strong, it's even stronger than steel! It's available in an array of colors and varieties. It holds its shape no matter the changes in climate, which makes it okay to use as outdoor pieces. And yes, that means if water hits it, it won't ruin the look, feel or shape! Now that you know some of the great advantages to bamboo furniture, let's take a look at some great ideas and inspiration on where and how to use it!
1.Organic Sitting Area.
This living room looks like they took the bamboo right from the great outdoors and make seats out of it. It's pretty, light and organic in make and style.
2. The Modern Outdoors.
This bamboo furniture is perfect for the outdoors because, as we mentioned above, it will not weather due to climate changes. These pieces are fresh and modern, and definitely more unique than colorful, plastic lounge chairs.
3. Bits of Bathroom Uniqueness.
Yes, even your vanity can be made of bamboo! Which is perfect for the bathroom, it'll never ruin with your splashes of water!
4.Vacation-Worthy Beds.
Even your canopy bed can have a green spirit without loosing its luxurious appeal. We love the way bamboo makes everything seem a little more magical and delicate.
5. Textural Tables and Chairs.
Whether used on the inside or the out, bamboo tables and chairs are the perfect way to bring texture to a slick space. And especially to a city skyline!
6. An Eclectic Mix.
We love how bamboo meshes well within all styles. Even among a mid-century modern setting, they'll still hold lots of stylish value.
7. Some Colorful Creations.
Yes, you can paint your bamboo furniture too! This breakfast nook is light and bright now, all because of their versatile bamboo pieces and a quick redo.{image from site}.
8. Spacey, Spectacular Pieces.
Another piece of modern furniture, but when made with bamboo, it never looses its shape! Made with other materials and after awhile the chair starts to dull.
9. A Tad Boho.
If you're looking for something with lots of character. Try finding some vintage, bamboo rattan furniture! It'll definitely add a bit of boho flair to your bedroom or home office.
10. Artistically Strong Pieces.
Are these chairs not beautiful and magical and stylish all at the same time? Yes, bamboo can be quite pretty too!


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UPDATE: OK, now the Nats and Lee are talking
UPDATE: I'm just going to stop updating this Cliff Lee stuff, because it's changing too fast: now it's being reported that the Nationals and Lee are "maintaining a dialogue." Still, Lee's agent is saying that a deal is unlikely this week, so take it all for what it's worth.
11:57 A.M.: Well, there goes our fun for the morning. Jon Heyman says that the Nats aren't really in on Lee and that they're looking at other pitchers instead. So if Heyman is right, earlier reports are no longer operative. That's how the Winter Meetings roll, I guess.
To get us through the afternoon I think I'll start a new rumor or two. In the comments, please put the best ideas for rumors that are (a) obviously not true; but (b) still sorta kinda plausible if you squint. I'll consider tweeting the best ones as stone-cold-fact tonight during happy hour.


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The factory in Sweden marks Wood-Mizer's fifth manufacturing plant throughout the world
Popular woodworking machinery from MOReTENs AB is now available through Wood- Mizer's global distribution network.
Wood-Mizer has acquired the Swedish company, MOReTENs AB, placing a full range of popular four-sided moulders, planers, table saws, spindle moulders, planer/thicknessers and CNC routers into Wood-Mizer's product range.
"Throughout our history, Wood-Mizer has been committed to providing the best quality equipment to process logs into finished wood products," said Wood-Mizer President and CEO Richard Vivers. "The affordable and versatile moulder and planer product lines from MOReTENs have been proven worldwide for decades, and are now backed by the high-quality service and support network customers expect from Wood-Mizer."
The founder and owner of MOReTENs, Bo Mårtensson has joined Wood-Mizer as the General Director of the factory in Ostersund, Sweden. The factory in Sweden marks Wood-Mizer's fifth manufacturing plant throughout the world including three facilities in the USA and one in Poland.
A moulder being assembled in Wood-Mizer's factory in Sweden
"Many years ago, I was a young engineer with carpentry experience when I started MOReTENs and began building woodworking machinery," said Bo Mårtensson. "I'm proud to see my products in workshops worldwide, and now we are very pleased to be joining the Wood-Mizer team, which will see our existing products being available to a much wider customer base and will also accelerate our capability to introduce new products to meet our customers' needs."
Beginning in March 2018, Wood-Mizer will offer the new range of moulders/planers through their distribution network. The latest acquisition of MOReTENs builds on Wood-Mizer's position as a worldwide manufacturer and supplier of narrow band sawmills, now offering a full range of equipment that can seamlessly convert logs into dried lumber and finally into finished wood products – all backed by Wood-Mizer's expertise and commitment to excellent customer service.
Founded in 1980, MOReTENs designs and manufactures a popular range of woodworking machinery which includes four-sided moulder/planer combination models, spindle moulders, and a workshop table saw. In addition, MOReTENs also supplies high-end, CNC-controlled routers and log home building machinery.


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Hinterland was the collective name for Gerry Leonard and Donal Coghlan a musical partnership based in Dublin between the years 1987-1994. Although both had been in a verity of local bands during the Eighties, Leonard and Coghlan did not get to know each other until they moved to Copenhagen in 1986.
Coghlan had decided on Denmark because he had spent the previous year in Dublin going in and out of hospital until he was diagnosed with M.S. and he felt he had to escape the "intensive care" he had found himself in after he had left hospital.
Leonard moved to Copenhagen in pursuit of a romantic affair. Leonard had been given the word that another young Irish musician was recently resident in the city and, one night, turned up on Coghlan's doorstep. It was the start of a friendship which soon turned to musical matters.
From 1978, Coghlan had been in The Departure, a popular Dublin band much influenced by XTC and The Stranglers. Four years later he quit the local rock scene, vowing never again to play live in this way. He opted instead, to concentrate on song writing and bought one of the first Porta-studio's which he operated from his bedroom. One of his first clients, co-incidentally, was a band featuring Gery Leonard. This was in 1984, two years before their friendship was properly cemented.
Leonard meanwhile was also involved in the Dublin burggeoning rock scene. Soon after leaving school he landed a job as tape operator in a twenty four track studio. During the subsequent three years he worked his way up the ladder, becoming a studio engineer.
At the same time Leonard was playing with Dublin outfit The Spies also attending the local school of music studying guitar. After The Spies broke up he joined a group called Above the Thunderclouds
When Coghlan and Leonard returned to Dublin they decided to get a musical partnership together and to cut a long story short Hinterland was formed. Having caused quite a stir in the music business with own produced demos they singed to Island Records and publishing in 1989.
The group spent a lot of time in the USA promoting there first release on Island records finally parting company with the label in 1994.


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Zippi® Rabbit Run Platforms - Create More Space in Your Zippi Run
8 Things You'll Love About the Zippi Rabbit Platforms
Click on the links below to read more
- Instantly increase the useable space space in your Zippi run
- Enrich the run with new levels to exercise and relax
- Safe, sturdy structure designed to fit the Zippi Runs
- Entertain your pets with Zippi Shelters and Play Tunnels
- Add more platforms any time with extensions kits
- Rabbits will love looking out from the elevated position
- Keep platforms clean with easy to wipe, non-slip surface
- Pets can use all year, with insulated panels and shade below
Instantly Increase the Useable Space in Your Zippi Run
Rabbits love to hop, skip and jump, and with the new Zippi Platforms your bunnies will have even more space in their Zippi Run to enjoy.
The Zippi Platforms provide new heights and possibilities for exercising, playing, grooming and resting. Not only do the platforms give your pets an even bigger area to enjoy without interfering with the floor space below, they also transform your pets' run into a fascinating bunny playground with multiple levels to explore.
Please note: The platforms are only compatible with the Omlet Zippi Rabbit Runs, not with Omlet's Outdoor Rabbit Run or a DIY enclosure.
Enrich the Run With New Levels to Exercise and Relax
Compared to a one-level run, having an additional floor in your rabbit's enclosure boosts exercise opportunities, helping the bunnies activate muscles that they would use in the wild to climb up and down underground warrens. Jumping on and off a raised area helps to keep muscles and bones strong, which is why platforms are recommended as an essential bunny accessory by vets and animal charities.
Adding new levels and accessories to your rabbits' run will also encourage exploration and adventurous play, stimulating their minds and activating their natural instincts.
Hang an interactive and slow-release feeder, such as the Caddi Treat Holder, above the Zippi Platforms for your rabbits to search out and enjoy!
Safe, Sturdy Structure Designed to Fit the Zippi Runs
Zippi Platforms are incredibly strong and will not flex or bend when your rabbits are on them. The platforms all come with a wire support frame which adds extra stability to ensure the floor feels safe and sturdy underfoot, so rabbits of all sizes will be able to enjoy the platforms to the full without any worry!
The Zippi Platforms panel packs and Corner Platforms have been designed to perfectly fit the double height Zippi Runs, and they easily attach to the side mesh panels at any height to create a fascinating structure that your rabbits will feel safe running up and down exploring.
"Very sturdy product and easy to fit. Rabbits eat on it, relax and play. It's a great way to utilise the higher space in the run and create more space for the bunnies."
Entertain Your Pets With Zippi Shelters and Play Tunnels
For a happy and healthy bunny, it is important to provide your pet with a range of exciting toys in their run to encourage physical exercise and mental stimulation. The Zippi Platforms are a great way of making space in your rabbits' enclosure for even more toys!Provide a cosy hide on top with the Zippi Shelter, a place where your rabbit can go for protection from the elements, a quick disco nap or for a thrilling game of hide and seek. Thanks to the specially designed Zippi Shelter Fixing Pins, the Shelter can be firmly attached to the platform, making sure your rabbit can have a completely relaxed nap. You can add fun Play Tunnels above or below the Zippi Platforms too, for bunnies to explore like burrows in the wild.
Add More Platforms Any Time With Extensions Kits
The Zippi Platforms offer a customisable and modular solution, making it easy to find the perfect kit for your Zippi Run setup. If you choose to expand your Zippi Run in the future, you will easily be able to add more platforms, either to make the top floor space deeper, or to place a new system of platforms on the opposite side, so your pets can run down one ramp and straight up another!
While the Corner Platform cannot be extended, you can easily install a couple of Corner Platforms opposite each other for your rabbits to skip between. And don't forget, you can add additional accessories such as Play Tunnels and Caddis at any time too!
Rabbits Will Love Looking Out From the Elevated Position
As well as providing an exciting additional level to the run, your rabbits will also benefit from the safe and secure feeling they get while watching the world from a vantage point high up on their platform, almost like a lookout tower.
Use our range of Zippi Run covers to provide weather protection around your Zippi Run so your rabbits can enjoy their Zippi Platforms and stay warm and dry. A Zippi Shelter could be positioned on the Platform to add a cosy hide for wet and windy days, and bunnies will also appreciate the sheltered spot the platforms offer below the extra level. It's the perfect place to relax and sleep, or to get some shade from the sun.
Keep Platforms Clean With Easy to Wipe, Non-Slip Surfaces
The Zippi Platforms are easy to keep clean, ensuring a happy and healthy environment for your rabbits. Simply hose down or wipe clean with a pet-safe disinfectant, and all components of your Zippi playground will come out good as new. Keeping your rabbits' run safe and hygienic has never been easier!
As well as being strong and sturdy, the Platforms also have a non-slip finish to ensure your rabbit feels safe to run and skip across the floor without fear of slipping over.
Pets Can Use All Year, With Insulated Panels and Shade Below
Rabbits adapt well to cold temperatures, enjoying outside play throughout winter, and the Zippi Platforms are a weatherproof accessory your rabbits will love to explore all year round. The Zippi Platforms are insulated to ensure the floor under your rabbits' feet is a comfortable temperature. Place Zippi Run covers over the platform area to keep them dry for rabbits to enjoy in wet weather.
In summer, the additional shaded area below the Zippi Platforms offers a comfortable space where your pets can snooze away hot summer afternoons, making sure there is never a day when your rabbits can't enjoy their new run accessory!
"When used under a cover, the platforms offer a lovely dry surface where they can give themselves a good clean. An excellent addition to their run, like a loft conversion for bunnies."
How to Use the Zippi Platforms in your Zippi Run
Do: allow two Zippi Run panel lengths (96cm) for the rabbit to safely run down the ramp, as shown by the arrow here. Zippi Platforms should be fitted to an enclosed double height run, and platform panels should fill the width of the run.
Don't: install Zippi Platforms in a single height run for rabbits, as it will be too cramped for them, as shown by the red arrow here. If you have 2 or more platforms they must fill the width of the run with no gap. A corner platform can be installed by itself with the correct support (included in corner pack). Zippi platforms cannot be fitted to open playpens, Zippi starter packs or Omlet's Outdoor Rabbit Run.
Frequently Asked Questions
A corner platform can be fitted in any size double height Zippi Run, or if you want multiple panels, you should fill the width. For example, if your Zippi Run is 3 panels wide, you should install 3 platform panels to fill the width.
The Zippi Platforms are made from HDPE with steel wire frame supports. Each panel measures 48.4 x 48.4 cm, the ramp measures 84 x 24 cm, and both are 2.5cm thick.
While tough, the Zippi Platforms are not completely chew proof, and some determined rabbits may be able to mark the plastic. We recommend additional strong chew toys for rabbits who love to chew!
No, the platforms are only compatible with the Zippi Rabbit Runs.


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Alexi Casilla served as a translator for Dominican countryman Pedro Florimon after the Twins defeated Cleveland 7-2 on Monday.
When asked which play was tougher -- the play in the hole or the backhand play -- Casilla jokingly launched right into his answer without relaying the question to the shortstop. After all, the same question could have been posed to Casilla about his defense at second base.
"For me, I think the barehanded play is more difficult," Casilla said.
Casilla then posed the question to Florimon, who gave a long answer in Spanish.
"He agreed with me," Casilla said, drawing chuckles from the media.
Anyway, click this link and take a look at the highlights yourself. I circled six Twins defensive plays on my scorecard. Not all were saved as highlights in the above link, but I'll rank them like this:
1) Casilla's barehanded charging play in the ninth inning. (Punto-esque)
2) Florimon's barehanded play in the seventh. (Quickness and athleticism)*
3) Revere's diving catch in the second. (Nothing he does surprises)
4) Florimon's one-hop throw from the hole in the sixth. (Tough play made easy)*
5) Mauer's catch over Cleveland's dugout railing. (Rangy for a catcher)
6) Casilla's diving stab of Brantley's eighth-inning liner. (Honorable mention)
* Though it's often overlooked, Justin Morneau scooped balls out of the dirt to complete both of Florimon's plays at first base.


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Cowboy Christmas 2018 at the National Finals Rodeo
December 6, 2018 @ 9:00 am - December 15, 2018 @ 5:00 pm
Get ready to see the best of western fashion at the Cowboy Christmas Gift Show at the 2018 National Finals Rodeo. Visit the Hyo Silver at the Las Vegas Convention Center at the official NFR gift show! Enjoy hundreds of the best boutiques and shops from around the nation in one stop. Discover new items in the Hyo Silver Collection. Design a custom class ring, mother's ring, or wedding ring in your own signature style. Add your brand or initials to a custom knife, money clip, or cufflinks for a truly remarkable gift.
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