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The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY SCREENFEED – DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT Projection has always been something of a fringe player in digital signage because of a series of technical barriers to adoption, most notably the limited operating life of the lamps, and the product and labor costs of switch them out. Laser projection has addressed that issue, but the other one that's harder to conquer is dealing with ambient light. Unless the projector is the size of a fridge, super-bright and seriously expensive, the environment's lights need to be off or dimmed and any windows covered. A startup called Obsidian Screens, based on the fringes of greater Toronto, has developed a projection screen that can show visuals that aren't washed out even with the lights on and the blinds open - and as the brand name suggests, the screens are black instead of white or silver. It's a super-thin laminated material light enough to marry with foam - like a poster with a 1/4-inch foam backing to make it rigid and ready to hang. Co-founder Chris Cavalieri and his business partner use Ambient Light Rejecting technology - something that's been around for years - but have their own "nanofilter" technology that does a better job, he says, of preserving projector brightness and visibility. And just as is the case with LED video walls, the more black on the display surface, the better the contrast. The company has been around for seven years, but remains quite small ... as they have struggled to find the right partners to specify, sells and deploy their tech. They've run into at least a couple of challenges - with end-users who were disappointed by conventional projection set-ups, and pro AV integrators who for logical reasons want to sell systems that cost a lot more and need ongoing paid support and services. Subscribe from wherever you pick up new podcasts. TRANSCRIPT Chris, thanks for joining me. You're based outside of the Greater Toronto Area and you've been working for a few years now on a company called, well, a product called Obsidian. Can you run through all of that for me?  Chris Cavalieri: Sure thing. Thanks for having me, Dave. I really appreciate taking the time to talk about it and boy, do I have lots to say. You have half an hour. Go! Chris Cavalieri: All right. Perfect. No pressure. So Obsidian, I should probably talk a little bit about projection. So what we've been trying to do and we've been doing for a while, is trying to find a way to take all the benefits. So if anyone's in digital signage, I assume there's a few listening to this what incredible things can be done with projection. So things like projection mapping holographic displays, very unique, creative stuff, and it's absolutely fantastic, and when we started out, we looked at things and said, like, why isn't this used more?  You know, we go to retail stores, we're going to shopping centers and there are LEDs, we've got LCD video walls now and only a few set cases, maybe a performance or display are using projection to its full potential and it begs the question is why, and that why is how we found it, our idea of Obsidian, which is to create a solution to get those benefits projection and make it a lot more accessible and practical in place of, or as an option compared to say our elite typical LED signage and LCD video walls.  So, I mean, projection, it's very renovation friendly, it's very scalable, and depending on what projector you use, it can be quite a low cost, the benefits are endless, and compared to LEDs, which are quite glaring, most of the time, I'm biased, obviously, no shame in that, but most people don't want to stare at an LED board as a backing, screen for like a speaker stage, for example, casino games. We've talked to fellows in Vegas before. It causes fatigue for people who are near them for too long. And that's, that comes down to the human eye and there's a whole science behind it, the wavelength of lights and all that. I won't go into it. It works. It's bright. It gets people's attention, but it just doesn't give the same aesthetic as a good projection setup would.  So coming back to it, why don't we use projection? And quite frankly, it's because it mostly just sucks because it fails. You need to have a dark room, dim room, or very well-controlled lighting, and by having controlled lighting and those restrictions, designers or retail commercial designers can't do solutions they want to do where this challenge is like a window nearby and sunlight there are challenges that they can't overcome and maintain a good looking display and that's where LEDs kind of help punch through that.  So the question is what if we had a solution where projection can punch through that can give you those same benefits and versatility, but you can have nearby lights? You don't have to overly control your space. I mean, of course, you can't do shopping in a grocery store with your lights off or a shopping mall. You know, it's not practical. You might be able to do a half-hour show or presentation, but it doesn't make sense, and that's at least my conclusion personally, my experience is why we don't see more of these really cool-looking projection map displays than we do now. It doesn't work in most cases. When it does, it's great, but most of the time it doesn't.  So Obsidian is basically to solve that problem. we've got our own proprietary technology and IP around it, and we've designed a system that harmonizes the projector and the screen, and we include the lighting as well for nearby lighting to essentially use the nanofiller technology to work together and what I mean in a very blunt sense from that is that these systems will work independent of the environment around it. So if people have heard of light rejecting screens, ALR screens essentially you have a gray screen or a silver screen. It'll absorb about 50%-60% percent of your light in the room and that gives you contrast, which is great because it helps you have a more adaptable, flexible display.  What our system does is the same thing, but that absorption, instead of normally it'll absorb your projector. So your white becomes gray, silver, whatever it is. In our case, your projector can shine on the screen and your lights can shine near or on the screen and have no loss, so it will reflect off of it. It keeps its colors, it keeps its white balance, and then the ambient light that is basically using this filter will absorb completely, not just the 60%. Whereas everything else gets knocked down by 50%-60%, and it creates this really neat illusion and really efficient display where fundamentally it's the same as any projection system, but you can see all your colors just popping. You maintain your contrast and your white balance and it's almost like you've doubled the lumens in your projector, and we love this because this opened up an option for again, adding an accessible and affordable solution somewhere between a TV set, and an LED video wall, where again, you can have something that's highly visible. It's got wide viewing angles. It keeps its color resilient, but you can also be adaptive. So again seasonal renovations for a retail environment stores, places where you don't really want to control lighting or it's too much work to deal with it. Plus you can install the thing in under a day. I mean, we've hung screens in under an hour compared to perhaps weeks on a video wall. So maintenance costs and benefits are endless.  So that was our goal with Obsidian again. What is holding it back from creating unique creative solutions? And how do we overcome that in this nanofilter system? And I think most people are afraid of it because it wasn't easy to develop and there are restrictions to it. Again, it's got to work as a cohesive system, that scared people and got a lot of resistance, but boy, does it work.  You're an engineer. I'm absolutely not. For simpletons like me, the simpleton explanation would be that instead of this being a white or silver screen, it's a black screen, correct? Chris Cavalieri: It is a black screen. So if you turn your projectors off and look at it, it'll look kind of a charcoal gray, maybe a little bit of a greenish tint to it, and you know, that's kind of like a decorative wall panel, and that's what it looks like. That's what it is, and that's because the light is bouncing off, it's still being absorbed. Their eyes don't have the nano filters in them. If you wear polarized sunglasses, you might, it might be interesting but that's essentially what's going on there. So it is indeed a dark-colored screen.  When you describe it as a system, you're talking about the kit of parts, but your part is the screen. The challenge with projection and the reason. It wasn't it hasn't really grown very much in digital science or anywhere else used to be with the projector and the lamp life and how you'd have to replace it all the time and it was unreliable and also that it wasn't very bright. Lasers have changed that. other technologies have improved. So that side is somewhat conquered. However, if you want a very bright projector, you're getting something the size of an Austin Mini. But, the screen thing is still by and large a white screen, right? Or film that you apply to a window glass that will make an image appear, but it's not very sharp or bright, I mean.  Chris Cavalieri: Exactly. I mean, that's the only solution people had to date is to get a bigger projector, and what's really unique about using our nano filter technology is you don't need a brighter projector to achieve the same result as you would. So there's almost a savings. I mean, I don't want to just say upfront savings, there is maintenance still involved, laser projectors have been a huge benefit to the industry on that front. They still need to be replaced eventually. But by using these filters and creating this super high-efficiency system effectively, it's not just the screen, it's the pairing of the projector and the screen. You can add the lights optionally as well. That allows you to use about half the lumens you would require in just a punch-through projector to achieve the same visible results that same effective brightness called legibility, of the display, and you're getting a little bit higher contrast because the screen is naturally darker than a white canvas or a white painted wall. Is it front projection or rear?  Chris Cavalieri: Front projection right now. We do have a prototype of the rear projection. It does work. We were working with the Art Gallery of Ontario at one point on a display which was kind of fun, so we almost accidentally made it just out of curiosity. There is a rear projection system for it. It's got, it's. own little challenges and restrictions, mostly just size, I say it's the only thing remaining. So while we don't offer it as an off-the-shelf product at the moment, customized solutions, that is something we can whip up together and it does work quite well. So is this almost like an architectural material that you could use instead of wallpaper or something if you wanted a projection surface in a retail environment or whatever? Chris Cavalieri: Absolutely. In fact, at one point, we had a version where we put an adhesive on the back instead of, we normally use PVC foam just to keep it rigid for hanging on the wall and we called it digital wallpaper and I know TV sets have tried to replace that and transparent LEDs, but absolutely this the screen itself is only about a millimeter thick. It is flexible so you can wrap it on columns, you can create decorative panels, and again, it does have a nice finish to it. You can route the edges, it's cuttable, machinable, you name it, and from an architectural standpoint, yeah, it's perfect. I mean, decorative panels, unique shapes. You can do multiple shapes in an array. You can make it continuous, join them together, and project whatever you want, and even when it's off, it'll have that kind of charcoal gray, very soft, it's a glare-free canvas finish to it like a print, and it definitely works. Could you print on it?  Chris Cavalieri: Yes. We haven't done it, but because it's built as a laminate, there was a layer on the front layer that we'd be able to print on the back of before it's assembled. So yeah, we could print a still image into it or a texture, maybe like a woodgrain pattern to it onto that one layer, stick it together, and embed a static image to it, which you could then nest to the digital content. That'd be really cool.  Is the front surface, the laminate part of it, is that like a fabric, or is that like an acrylic coating or something?  Chris Cavalieri: It's a polycarbonate substrate. So it's a kind of a semi-rigid plastic, a very thin layer, but there's a few layers. So it's kind of a blend of vinyl polycarbonate. We've got a few in there, but that top one would be a polycarbonate. So quite durable, quite resistant.  So you wouldn't have to rope it off or anything, people could be near it without being terrified that something's going to get damaged.  Chris Cavalieri: No, it's quite resilient. I mean, you can scratch it if you really try, but to break it or crack it is extremely difficult. What do you see as the primary use cases for it?  Chris Cavalieri: I mean, I've been dreaming of retail, commercial, public display, but honestly, I'm one person. I'm an engineer. I just want to get these in the hands of absolutely phenomenal designers, architects out there, and interior designers, to let them just run wild because it's so adaptable. In fact, you can shape it, you can wrap it, tile it, and do 3D shapes. Usually, when we go to trade shows we'll do like we have a pop can, it's like a cylinder and we put like a Pepsi animation on it and you can do arrays of different shapes together, and like the limits of creativity are endless. It's just like any good projection map and application. Get those into the right hands and it's a dream. So, I mean, I pictured grocery stores for advertising, to justify costs. So a lot of the time they have printed posters or a big mural at the back top of their store over their freezers and just put panels up. You have tons of ceiling space, running power, and signal to it, it's dead easy compared to like an led array for that size of display, and now you have a source of revenue, advertising, promotion of the week, whatever it is, and you have that control. So I mean, a store designer can really go to town because of that ease of use, ease of access, and the flexibility of a projection system, which now works by using our filters. What kind of challenges do you have around projection angles and things like that?  I gather we're talking, ahead of this a little bit, and I was asking about ultra-short throw projection and so on and there are some limitations around that, like you want to be a little bit further back in terms of the throw on the angle. Chris Cavalieri: Yeah, so right now, a short throw to a standard throw, and of course, long throws are all good for it. We have done some tests with ultra-short throws, unfortunately, the optics in the ultra-short throw right now do conflict with the optics in the laminate. So we can't use it with that at the moment. Although, secret R&D projects #1, #10 or #20. We are working on a potential solution to that, which should be independent of the projector that may work, but I won't say it will till I prove it. So let's assume it doesn't for now, for an ultra short throw, but again, standard throw and even short throw, long throw setups are all fine. That's what we recommend, and that's nice too, because that gives you, again, control over angles. We do play with the optics a little bit on the screen and it's part of our secret as well, we do narrow a bit of the vertical cone and bend light horizontally. So you have a more uniform viewing experience for things like foot traffic from left to right. So there is a restriction, but it's quite wide.  Most ALR screens, you might be able to see the thing at plus minus 30 degrees, sometimes usually less, where it comes down to a half-brightness angle. So we get very dark at an angle. Whereas ours actually, you can see funny enough, it's beyond 180 degrees, it gets brighter. That's steep, and it was really weird, totally not intended, but, so that's part of a little bit of the magic of our specific laminate that we've built is it has that really unique uniformity, kind of like paper, close to paper at all viewing angles left right around it. So there's a workaround. The challenge I've seen sometimes with projection systems is that they're great except when somebody needs to get up close to it or walk by and then there's a shadow and so on. So you can let's say in a corridor, a wide hallway, or something like that, you could mount this on like a track system or something like that and project down and people could walk by without, unless they're right in front of it, they're not going to, come into the shadow there? Chris Cavalieri: Yep. I mean, because we have that steep angle controlled on it, it can also affect bringing the projector into it. So we can have the thing off to the side. You can have it overhead. You can kind of project from steeper. So again, not quite an ultra-short throw, but that's because of the actual lensing in it. But a standard projector at a steeper angle will work quite well with that. So you have a lot of versatility and adaptability for that. Again, just making sure it's over people's heads, and by the time they block it, technically the advertisement, has done its job. So it's not too much of a concern on that front, but you can get away with quite a bit, and a lot of retail stores and public displays have lots of ceiling space to play with too. So it's very flexible there.  Do you have to monkey with the content in terms of how it's rendered or have particular software running on the media player or whatever to make all this happen, or it's a screen and point the projector at the screen?  Chris Cavalieri: That's why I love it because, I mean, ironically all the research we've done again, me and my colleague, both engineers, we love to keep it simple. So we've got a few projects on the go as well. Same idea, but all the software you need is the same that's already out there. It's projection mapping. Like that, nothing has changed. Nothing you learn there. If you know how to do projection mapping, or you have a team of guys who know how to do it, nothing's different. That's just content. All we do is you're putting the right projector with the right screen, and then you can see it. Simple as that.  So I wrote a piece a couple of years ago about an installation in London in a coffee shop, and it was a black wall with a kind of chalkboard, and they were putting the menu on that instead, well, on flat panel displays and it looked pretty cool, but the coffee shop was having to dim the lights and do everything else because there are windows and doors out to the street and so on.  If they're using your technology, do the lights have to be cranked down, drapes pulled, and all that, or it could behave as though, it is just being a regular shop? Chris Cavalieri: I mean, that's a perfect example, and that's exactly what we want to do, and in fact, we tried to approach McDonald's, Tim Hortons, and all that, and of course, they tell me to get lost because who's Obsidian, but that's just, it is, you don't need to turn your lights on.  Part of the founding purpose was, that Adrian, my colleague, kept tripping on everything in his classroom because he always had to turn the lights on and off and is prone to that he's always back and forth showing his slides and it's a safety risk. Even old age homes, we had approached at one point as well for they have movie theaters, they share and it's just not practical to do that, and like I said in the beginning, that's why projection isn't, and I wouldn't recommend using it in a lot of cases because if you're working as a barista and your lights are off, you can't see what you're doing. It's bad for your eye strain. If you're trying to focus look at what you're pouring, you're going to have accidents, you're going to slip, probably can't clean as effectively. And there's so many reasons you'd really need to have lights on for safety, if nothing else, and our screen will let you do that.  Again, we've had beams of sunlight across it, still keeping the thing readable. keep your lights on. I mean, there are things you can do to play with it. It depends on the projector you use, you'd use a brighter or dimmer one. You can control the lighting as well, and we do recommend it when you can, but you don't have to be quite as aggressive when you do it. So you can keep those lights on.  Part of the rise of the LED technology within workplaces has been the idea that in presentation theaters, big meeting rooms where more typically there's been a projector, but then the drapes are closed or a control room where the lights are very low so that you can see what's being projected on the screen. The idea was that a DV-LED would change all that. You could open the windows up and crank the lights and everything, and you'd be able to see what's on the screen with no problem. But the challenge is cost.  Chris Cavalieri: I mean, there's cost and there's also, I mean, with LED, do you want to see it? It's not very pleasant to look at for a long period of time. I mean, the concept is right. All these technologies have a purpose, and I'm not discrediting the value of LEDs like outdoor displays, and billboards, I mean, they punch through light. They're very good at getting through it. They're extremely visible. They'll get your attention. But they're just not pleasant to read, if that makes sense so in terms of a boardroom yeah, it could work, and I've seen stages done with full LEDs instead of a projection screen, and it's just unpleasant. Even if you're recording it, there are aliasing effects and a lot of unpredictable things you don't really expect. So it's one of those things that's good on paper, but in practical use is not great, and then the cost is the other end of it. So there's the cost to maintain it, install it, you have to calibrate it all those things because LEDs wear out, not no LED is the same when they come out of production, there's binning to them, all sorts of things to keep in mind. That was our other motivator with projection. These are my famous words. You don't have to blow your budget to blow minds, right? If you do something right with the right technology that's good enough, right? You got to know what your application is, know who your audience is, who's using it, and really understand and appreciate that and Obsidian was our way to say, look, you have another option. Because light ambient light is an issue. Architects absolutely love giant windows nowadays. A funny story about a university in Ontario that got millions of dollars to renovate their classrooms, I won't name them, and big giant skylight windows without drapes, funny enough, that would let the sunrise right in that window and really make the presenter glow at the front of the classroom and which also happened to have a projection screen, which was with white and not Obsidian, and let's just say it didn't end very well, and even the another Yoko university has used projection. They've put drapes on and with those giant lights, but they're not full block-out drapes. You know, they usually let a little bit of light in. Even with the drapes closed midday cloudy day, you still couldn't read the screen. So it is a major problem and aesthetically, the rooms look beautiful.  I mean, the architect is doing their job on that front. They're gorgeous buildings, beautifully renovated very nice aesthetics to them, but it's not functional. You need technology to overcome those challenges and to date, your only choice is to guess it is LED you either put up with it just squint or not reading it or you stick something expensive heavy bulky, and kind of blinding and you know now you can read it but you've also sort of made people uncomfortable in this space too. So you need another solution, and that's what we're hoping to do. It's an interesting predicament for companies such as yours in that you're offering what's presented as a better option and probably far less cost. But for the companies that sell into environments like higher education, corporate, public utilities, all that sort of thing, it's not necessarily in their business interest to sell them a cost-effective, low-maintenance solution. There's a lot more money to be made on the margin of one hell of a lot of LED and then calibration and support services and everything around it, as opposed to just selling them a display and saying, thanks, very much, call us at three years when you need a new projector.  Chris Cavalieri: Yeah, absolutely, and this has been driving me absolutely insane, to be honest. This projection system has existed for almost seven years now, and I still, we're still a startup. It says a lot. I mean, yes, we're engineers. We're probably terrible at sales and marketing and we are, but c'mon… You're not the first. Chris Cavalieri: It's just we've approached distributors, we've gone through universities, we've thrown sales in front of them practically, and the reality is in the end, you got to go where the money's at. They want something that's predictable. The use case is the same. The installation is the same, and the training for their technicians and the customer is the same. Everything's the same because once you've got your company up and running they're not wrong. It's expensive, change is expensive and it's risky, and nowadays no one wants to take that risk. They don't want to do anything different. You know, it might be better for the customer, but. I like my margins. You know, I need my income. I got to put food on the table. I got to pay my team.  Now, we're going to do this job because that's what we know how to do, and that's where we make money, and we understand that, and that's fine, but there's got to be someone who cares about the end user to find unique creative solutions find solutions to problems that You know, push the industry a little bit further and this has been an ongoing battle for years for us, and it drives me nuts.  So you're absolutely right that it's a paradigm for them if they're not used to working with it. If they do, it's a white screen and they know when and where it works, and that's the end of it. There's zero reception for anything else and I hope that changes.  I suspect there's a bit of a taint as well in that, a lot of larger environments will have used projection in the past and have the experience of going, “Well, God, I can't even see the screen properly, or anything else, so projections are off.”  So when that gets revisited, unless you have the opportunity to have a really high-quality conversation with them, they're thinking, well, shit, I'm not doing projection again. That was a mess.  Chris Cavalieri: Yeah. “Oh, we have used projection before. It didn't look that good.” The customer wasn't happy. You know, we can't have that, and I mean, that's valid too.  So is a better specifier or audience for your technology, quite possibly the architects and people who think about physical spaces and experience? Chris Cavalieri: I think it has to be, I think those are the only people that really get the experiential side of what you can do with projection, they have the vision they can see they have a basically working towards a solution, right? They have a client who wants something unique they're left to their creative devices to develop this solution or overcome a challenge and they need all the tools in their toolbox and the actual installers, the AV text distributors, but they're not the right people to do it. They're going to do business as usual. It's gotta be the people making the design decisions who can see something greater or want to do something, and previously, let's say they couldn't, that's where proceeding could fit in. So getting it in front of them, and that's something we're trying to do as much as we can network. That's also been challenging because these people are hard to find. I think I waited four months for a meeting at one point and met an interior design firm, and in the end, they didn't know or want to hang a TV set, so it wasn't a commercial designer, more of an interior designer, the right people are out there, and those are the people that, again, the architects, designers, those are the solution providers that really need to get their hands on this.  It sounds like along with the physical cost of the substrate or screen or whatever you want to call it, there are really minimal additional costs in terms of a mounting system you don't need to go to the sorts of mounting systems that would be used for DBLED or LCD anything else. There's not all that metalwork, right? It's just this piece of foam that hangs on a wall, like a poster that you get foam mounted. Chris Cavalieri: That's exactly it. That's what we tell everyone. If you hang it, you just hang it like a poster or a mirror or a print, and it's all adaptable too. Again, we do a lot of customization. So we can put the French cleat on, and hang it on your wall. What we love about that PVC foam is it's you can superglue hard points onto it from this very inexpensive and very lightweight, let's say like a 24-inch by 54-inch panel, so 4.5 feet by 2 feet, is I think about 8 kilograms, basically per panel and put a cleat onto it. We've screwed into it. We've put hooks to hang off of for summer trade shows, for portal displays. You can screw into it, you can cut it, shape it, layer it, can thicken it, or thin it, it's very versatile for the installer and whatever the application is.  So to really get our goal, the whole vision of the city is to remove barriers, remove restrictions, and that's a mounting system we've enjoyed because it really harmonized with what we're trying to achieve lightweight. It's just no metalwork. It doesn't take weeks. It takes under an hour. You just hang it on your wall. You can butt them together. Done. Very simple.  So you're a startup. So I assume there's not a cast of thousands working at the company?  Chris Cavalieri: Nope. We've got two and a dog, we're very small. I mean we've got a few people out there who are kind of advocates for us as well. So we've networked that way. We've got a really great PR guy as well who is helping us out network to the States, and Canada. He's absolutely fantastic. So we've officially the team is two, but we've got a number of people helping us. We've had some advisors we've worked with locally as well, from the university and then the forge and Hamilton as well, for example. So we've got lots of support, so we're a small team, but we're quite effective at what we do, and we've got contract manufacturers.  We have a whole network in China if we really had to go down the road for volume production. So we see a path to mass production very quickly if and when we get to that point, but we're still two people at the moment. Your biggest challenge is just the simple thing of awareness and finding people who get what you've got.  Chris Cavalieri: That's it. I mean, it's spreading the message, and I mean, anyone who's done a startup knows how hard it is. Anyone who's been an engineer or even not an engineer knows how hard it is to push a product on someone. It's sort of forbidden, forbidden knowledge to do that, and we've tried and iterated our design many times.  For example, we've made a home theater projection screen you can buy at Walmart right now. We have an adaptation of this technology for home use because during COVID everyone was at home. No one's putting signs in. I mean, we're very adaptable, flexible, and I mean, that's the benefit of being a very small, but creative, dynamic team is you can do these things we have the technology, we have to know how to do it and frankly, we love design and we love creative challenges. So that's something we do and we'll continue to do.  Are there any sort of caps on resolution or anything like that? Like, I don't really understand screen technology. If somebody has a 4k output, that's what's on there, that doesn't really matter.  Chris Cavalieri: Yeah. So the resolution is all just coming from the projector itself. So it depends on the projector you choose. I'd say the only limitation, people listing stuff as like a 4k projection screen is just. Throwing jargon at you to make it sound cool. It's, plastic. It'll be stretch vinyl or painted vinyl. The only thing that might affect your resolution in general is if the screen has a high texture in it. So sometimes there are some optical screens for an ultra-short throw, for example depending on the size of those you might see speckling or something at a certain resolution. That's the only thing I can think of you could justify putting a resolution to a screen, but we don't have that..  So if people wanna know more, where do they find you online?  Chris Cavalieri: So I mean, you can dig me up on LinkedIn, but obsidianscreens.com would be a good starting place. Shoot me an email, and then my name's Chris Cavalieri, should be on the screens look me up on LinkedIn. Shoot me a message. We got Facebook, we got YouTube, you name it. So save screen technologies wherever you can find them.  All right, well thank you for your time.  Chris Cavalieri: Yeah. Thank you so much, Dave. It's great to talk with you, and I hope we'll get to see you soon. Well,  We'll see what I can do.  Chris Cavalieri: I'll show it off. I hope all my words live up to it in person.

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Bogi Ágústsson ræddi við Björn Þór Sigbjörnsson og Þórunni Elísabetu Bogadóttur um lausn Julians Assange úr fangelsi í Bretlandi og við heyrðum hluta úr frétt Kristins Hrafnssonar í sjónvarpsfréttum 2010 þegar birt var myndband af árás bandarískrar þyrlu á fréttamenn Reuters í Bagdad. Það var meðal gagna sem Wikileaks birtu og leiddu til þess að bandarísk yfirvöld ákærðu Assange fyrir njósnir. Evan Gershkovich, blaðamaður Wall Street Journal, er fyrir rétti í Katrínarborg í Rússlandi. Rússnesk yfirvöld saka hann um njósnir, en hann sjálfur, Wall Street Journal og bandarísk stjórnvöld harðneita því. Wall Street Journal segir Gershkovich hafa stundað hefðbundna fréttaöflun. Vladimír Pútín hefur gefið sterklega í skyn að mögulegt sé að skipta á Gershkovich og Vadim Krasikov, rússneskum njósnara sem afplánar ævilangan fangelsisdóm í Þýskalandi fyrir morð á andstæðingi Pútíns. Alræðisstjórnvöld hafa víðar handtekið saklausa útlendinga til að fá eigin borgara lausa á fangelsum í vestrænum ríkjum. Nýlega sleppti klerkastjórnin í Íran þannig tveimur Svíum úr haldi í skiptum fyrir Hamid Nouri. Svíarnir voru handteknir eftir að Nouri var dæmdur í lífstíðarfangelsi fyrir morð á pólitískum föngum 1988. Þá voru allt að 30 þúsund myrtir. Það þykir skjóta skökku við að Evrópska knattspyrnusambandið hafi samþykkt að sex af þrettán aðalkostendum EM í Þýskalandi skuli tengdir ríkjum þar sem mannréttindi og jafnrétti og önnur ,,evrópsk gildi" eru ekki virt. UEFA skuldbatt sig í samningi við Evrópusambandið til að hafa slík gildi að leiðarljósi. Í lokin var rætt um kappræður Keirs Starmers og Rishis Sunaks í BBC. Þeir eru forsætisráðherraefni stóru flokkanna í Bretlandi þar sem kosið verður til þings eftir viku.

Autosub Long Range, famously known as Boaty McBoatface, had a busy 2023 and is set to continue to be at the forefront of autonomous ocean exploration this year. ALR Operations Engineer Stewart Fairbairn joins the podcast to tell us about the ALR's recent successes and the exciting missions it will undertake in 2024 and beyond. Learn more about Boaty McBoatface - https://noc.ac.uk/facilities/marine-autonomous-robotic-systems/autosubs Dive into the history of the Autosub programme - https://noc.ac.uk/technology/technology-archive/story-autosub Follow us on social media to keep up to date with new episode releases and latest news - https://linktr.ee/nocnews

Jeffrey ha vuelto de Ghana para destacar los primeros lanzamientos del año. ¿Qué estoy usando hoy?: Schon DSGN Pocket Six 3D Olive x Matte Black (B SIG) Pennonia 2023 Madrid Pen Show x InksInspiration Verde Retiro Tinterías Colorverse Season 8 The Grand Expedition Dominant Industry Alchemist Collection Nahvalur Pluma del año 2024: Dragón OPUS88 Serie Oceánico Delfín y Tortuga Pelikan Classic M200 Orange Delight Sailor Pro Gear Smoothie TWSBI 580 ALR in Black Tintería del episodio: DELFÍN

Unlock the secrets to a life of fulfillment and purpose with Jonathan Rivera from The Podcast Factory in an episode that's set to redefine what it means to be successful. As we tear down the walls of conventional success, we reveal the true foundations: guts, perseverance, and the readiness to grasp opportunity. Jonathan's personal tale of intertwining faith with work shows us how to create content that serves a greater mission, and why sometimes delivering what people need trumps giving them what they want.Ever considered how your daily habits shape the essence of who you are? Get ready to be inspired by tales of integrity and the formation of positive routines that can alter the course of both business and personal life. We discuss the ALR formula for networking, the art of accountability from Jocko Willink's "Extreme Ownership," and the monumental shift that happens when you take full responsibility for your actions.Prepare to challenge the status quo as we take you on a journey from the personal to the universal. This isn't just another podcast episode; it's a catalyst for change. Whether you're an entrepreneur looking for that edge or someone seeking to recalibrate life's priorities, this dialogue with Jonathan Rivera will arm you with the insights needed to step into your own version of greatness. Join us and be part of the conversation that sparks transformation.Key Moments in this episode05:42 The Customer is Always Wrong: Selling What They Want, Giving What They Need12:57 The Power of Borrowed Beliefs16:28 Reputation Equals Repetition: The Law of Reps21:07 Creating a Culture of Extreme Ownership24:34 The Importance of Listening and Understanding25:25 The Birth of The Podcast Factory26:19 The Power of Podcasting and Helping Others31:20 The Importance of Taking ActionHow to Reach JRWebsite: https://thepodcastfactory.com/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ThePodcastFactoryFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Riverathan/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/riverathan/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/riverathan/Support the showThanks for listening to the Revolutionary Man Podcast. If you would like to get more information about our programs use the links below to check us out. It could be the step that changes your life. To join our movement:

Welcome to the December 2023 Meaningful Leader. In this episode I talk about: What leadership skill will be most important in 2024? | Make yourself dispensable. | It's time for your ALR. | What would you, tomorrow, want you to do, today? Download the fillable ALR here.   Register for our December webinar: The 2024 Leadership Toolkit Mastering the Art of Leading with 3 Essential Tools   Get your team enrolled in our upcoming course: How to Manage Upto Accelerate Your Growth   The Meaningful Leader is a bite-sized disruption that gives insight into challenges other leaders are facing, the latest tools to tackle turbulence, and inputs to innovate your leadership.

On this Episode of A Hard Look, ALR Senior Technology Editor Bennett J. Nuss interviews Professor Hilary J. Allen regarding the current status of federal banking regulation in light of the four bank failures in the United States earlier this year. The discussion ranges from the circumstances surrounding the failure of the Silicon Valley Bank, how the public's response to the failure may be overstated in terms of impact, the role of the FDIC in the disbursement of assets, and what the future would look like if all bank deposits were insured by the Federal Government. --- This episode was produced by ALR technology editor, Anthony Aviza. If you have any questions about this episode, the guest, the podcast, or if you would like to propose a topic or guest, please e-mail Bennett Nuss at ALR-Sr-Tech-Editor@wcl.american.edu   Recommended Reading: FDIC: Bank Failures in Brief – 2023 Investopedia: What Happened to Silicon Valley Bank? The Federal Reserves' Review of Supervision and Regulation of Silicon Valley Bank New York Times: Silicon Valley Bank Fails After Run on Deposits

We are back and still holding strong with SAG-AFTRA and the WGA, so no new actress interview, but we are joined by Emmy-winning actor and President of the Los Angeles Local branch of SAG-AFTRA, Jodi Long. You Might Know Her From Shang-Chi, Dash & Lily, All-American Girl, and season 4 of this podcast! Jodi breaks down the SAG strike and spells out what the union is fighting for, the threat to the working class, and what she'll treat herself to when this is all over. Fear not, we're still going deep on Kim Cattrall's :47 cameo on And Just Like That and the menace that is Michael Patrick King. Plus Barbie, Oppenheimer, and just in time for fall, sweet potato pie, sweet pies! Follow us on social media: @youmightknowherfrom || @damianbellino || @rodemanne Discussed this week: Jodi Long's full interview: S4 ep116 NYT on why we should keep killing lantern flies We saw Barbie Anne saw Oppenheimer on Labor Day Cillian Murphy and his translucent skin was in Breakfast on Pluto Kim Cattrall's (71 second) cameo in And Just Like That in S2 And Just Like That, The Writer's Room Podcast Kim Cattrall engraved her own name with “Liverpool's Cleopatra” next to it on her gravestone Michael Patrick King is a menace, let's bring back Darren Star Michael Patrick King also helped create one of our favorite shows of all time, The Comeback. But Lisa Kudrow doesn't want to be a mogul like SJP Why are screen actors (SAG-AFTRA) and screen writers (WGA) striking?   AMPTP is the negotiating organization for the Hollywood studios Jodi Long was full-body scanned on Shang Chi and the Legend of the 10 Rings. They own that image in perpetuity.  Reality shows are a different contract and not part of the current SAG-AFTRA  CEO salaries in 2022 for huge networks averaged $32M for 13 CEOas across 12 companies Actors have to make $26k+ in order to qualify for health insurance (only 12% of SAG-AFTRA actors make that every year) Hollywood studio CEOS are tonedeaf: Disney CEO Bob Iger / Warner Brothers CEO, David Zaslav AMPTP hired a new PR person to change the public narrative Movie studio A24 has agreed to all of SAG-AFTRA's terms, so they are currently in production while other studios are not Anne Hathaway,  Matthew McConaughey and others are working on waivers because their production companies have met SAG-AFTRA's demands SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher's call to arms We love pie: ALR-key lime, cherry, blueberry / DB-Banana cream, strawberry rhubarb, pumpkin Domino's song “Sweet Potato Pie”  Watch Norma Rae with us! 

On todays episode we talk about home theaters, what are they? what is included? Projection Screens, and TVs, understanding surround sound formats, including stereo, 5.1, Dolby Atmos, Acoustic Panels and their uses, including star field ceilings, lighting, Home Automation control systems, and Mark talks about a high end room, the "wonderful theater" that includes 9 McIntosh mono blocks, Sony 1025 projector, ALR screen, KEF in-wall speakers, 4 sub woofers, and more!!

Thank you for listening to The Brief Case! A podcast for lawyers, hosted by lawyer and cartoonist Sarah-Elke Kraal. Catch us on Instagram (@briefcasepod) and the world wide web: www.briefcasepod.com. **New website coming soon!** . . . "The Dissents that Michael Kirby Loved (Part Two): Nothing about us, without us" In episode 35, we conclude our Kirby Carnival with PART TWO of my interview with the Hon. Michael Kirby AM! #KirbyCarnival #bestHashtagEver In this series, Mr Kirby references: Al-Kateb v Godwin [2004] HCA 37; 219 CLR 562; 78 ALJR 1099; 208 ALR 124 (6 Aug 2004) New South Wales v Commonwealth [2006] HCA 52; 81 ALJR 34; 231 ALR 1 (14 November 2006) Wurridjal v The Commonwealth of Australia [2009] HCA 2 (2 February 2009) PSA: You can access PART ONE of my interview with Mr Kirby here. And BONUS! When you listen to both parts 1 & 2 in succession, you may be able to claim 0.5 CPD points in substantive law (pending the rules in your state or territory). You're welcome! . . . SEASON THREE of the Brief Case is proudly sponsored by The University of Queensland Law School. Discover a UQ postgraduate program custom-built for you. . . . With my sincere thanks once again to the team at QT Sydney for relieving my pre-Kirby heart palpitations with lavish accommodation at their luxe, designer hotel in the Sydney CBD! Next time you're in town, say hello – I basically live here now (but don't tell the concierge).

Alex speaks with Camden Hutchison about the nuances of freedom of expression laws in Canada and the United States, and the ways in which immature understandings of free speech can obfuscate the public discourse surrounding this fundamental right in North American law and politics.    Episode Notes   Freedom of Expression: Values and Harms - Camden Hutchison https://albertalawreview.com/index.php/ALR/article/view/2733    Guide to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Including Freedom of Expression) https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/how-rights-protected/guide-canadian-charter-rights-freedoms.html    Guide to The Constitution (Including the First Amendment)  https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/our-government/the-constitution/#:~:text=The%20First%20Amendment%20provides%20that,the%20right%20to%20bear%20arms    Overview of Bill C-19 (Including Division 21 criminalizing various forms of Holocaust denial) https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/trans/bm-mb/other-autre/c19/remarks-remarques.html   

On this episode of AMFA Insider, Scott sits down to talk with Jason Salazar, the ALR for Spirit Airlines. Jason has been with Spirit Airlines for 11 years and is in the process of negotiating their first ever union contract. Listen to this week's episode to hear Jason's take on what it takes to bring a union into a formerly non-union shop.

On this episode of the ⁠Administrative Law Review's A Hard Look⁠, tune in to listen to our Senior Technology Editor, ⁠Alexander Naum⁠ speak with Lauren Saxe, a rising 2L at American University Washington College of Law and ALR's incoming Senior Symposia & Communications Editor. In this episode, we review the regulatory framework surrounding FDA's approval of Mifepristone in 2000. Including reviewing and questioning its REMS status by the Agency. As well as analyzing how the Supreme Court's ruling in Dobbs has limited access to this medication. And how recent and pending federal jurisprudence can potentially jeopardize nationwide access to this medication for patients seeking access to abortion and miscarriage treatment. If you have any questions about this episode, the guest, or the podcast, or if you would like to propose a topic or a guest, please email Bennett Nuss at ALR-Sr-Tech-Editor@wcl.american.edu

In Episode 75, we will be discussing a range of topics in the tech industry, from the latest news and updates to the standards that govern video displays and lighting with Greg Jeffries.In higher education, there is a growing trend towards using technology in classroom spaces, with many universities and colleges investing in direct view LED displays. However, there are issues with energy use and eye strain, as many of these displays are too bright, causing discomfort to students and professors alike. Choosing the right screen size and type is also crucial, followed by selecting the appropriate ALR screen for the location, using DISCAS standards.In the future, architects will need to learn how to deliver technology-enabled spaces, which require different-shaped and sized rooms, leading to changes in actual building structures. When working with existing spaces, it is essential to establish a hierarchy of needs and prioritise what is important, even if it means some metrics might be compromised.Standards play a crucial role in the AV tech industry. Although they can be intimidating, using standards can help manage equipment, identify essential items to spend the budget on, and keep the campus functioning. In the pro AV market, standards apply mostly to applications like higher ed, corporate, and government. While the industry has content and best practices for live events and other applications, digital signage and trade associations have a separate universe and specific standards.Justin also discuss the latest news in the tech industry, from the opposition of messaging apps like WhatsApp and Signal to the UK government's new online safety bill to Facebook's legal action settlement. In addition, we talk about the Irish police force's new speed camera technology, the National Cybersecurity Centre's guidance to Irish Government against using TikTok over cybersecurity concerns, and moreDon't forget to follow us on social media and subscribe so you never miss an episode. Visit our official website at www.AllThingsTech.IE

En este episodio no entramos a describir todos los detalles de la nueva Specialized Epic World Cup (para eso tenemos otros episodio completo, video en YouTube y reportaje en la web). Hemos preferido debatir y charlar sobre el posicionamiento de la bici, sobre algunas de sus peculiaridades o sus similitudes con la Trek Supercaliber, También hablamos de un concepto muy interesante como es la Lapierre Pulsium Allroad, una bici entre el concepto “gran fondo” y el grave. Una bici que, sin duda, tenemos que probar. Otro de los grandes lanzamiento de la semana ha sido la nueva Emonda ALR. Una de esas bicis que nos gustan simplemente por su planteamiento: rendimiento, calidad y precio interesante. Además, es la constatación de que el aluminio todavía tiene mucho que aportar en el ciclismo de carretera. Y otra de las noticias esperadas de las últimas semanas era el estudio de AMBE sobre las ventas de bicicletas de 2022. Muchos lo esperaban con temor. Analizamos algunos de sus “titulares”. También comentamos otras noticias como la presentación del motor para ebikes de Mavic o el lanzamiento de la nueva gama Fox Float de amortiguadores. Más información sobre estos temas en: Test y análisis de la Specialized Epic World Cup: https://www.mtbpro.es/afondo/specialized-epic-world-cup Lapierre Pulsium AllRoad, con dos montajes en carbono -uno de ellos con sistema SAT- para ir más allá del asfalto: https://www.maillotmag.com/actualidad/lapierre-pulsium-allroad-con-dos-montajes-en-carbono-uno-de-ellos-con-sistema-sat-para Nueva Trek Émonda ALR 2023: el aluminio sigue vivo: https://www.maillotmag.com/actualidad/nueva-trek-emonda-alr-2023-el-aluminio-sigue-vivo Las ventas de bicicletas en España siguen mejorando los datos pre-pandemia, pero caen un 13,59% en 2022: https://www.mtbpro.es/actualidad/las-ventas-de-bicicletas-en-espana-caen-un-1359-en-2022-con-descenso-del-mtb-convencional Llegan los renovados amortiguadores Fox Float, incluido el Float SL, especialmente diseñado para el XC más exigente: https://www.mtbpro.es/actualidad/llegan-los-renovados-amortiguadores-fox-float-incluido-el-float-sl-especialmente-disenado Mavic vuelve a la carga con un motor para e-bikes de carretera y gravel, el Mavic X-Tend ¿El más ligero del mercado?: https://www.maillotmag.com/actualidad/mavic-vuelve-la-carga-con-un-motor-para-e-bikes-de-carretera-y-gravel-el-mavic-x-tend-el

Trek has revamped the aluminium Émonda ALR to offer aero tubing, integrated cable routing and, on the face of it, competitive value against similarly-priced carbon bikes. BikeRadar's George Scott, Jack Luke and Liam Cahill take a closer look, and discuss why performance-focussed aluminium road bikes like the Émonda can still get the pulse racing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Surrey uses provincial communities fund to pay for police transition and drop property tax increase to 12.5% Frank Bucholtz, Surrey Now-Leader Columnist discusses Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke's announcement of a drop in property tax increase to 12.5% Richmond farmland removed from ALR for recycling and landfill operations Harold Steves, Former Richmond City Councillor and Former MLA discusses Richmond farmland being removed from ALR. The lack of capacity in Vancouver hotels Royce Chwin, President and CEO of Destination Vancouver discusses why there is a lack of capacity in Vancouver hotels 299 Queen Street West - documenting the legacy of MuchMusic Sean Menard, Director of 299 Queen Street West discusses the history of MuchMusic Thwarting a rodent home invasion Andy Baryer, Mouse hunter and Tech and Digital Lifestyle Expert at HandyAndyMedia.com discusses his adventures trying to catch a mouse in his house. Lack of hotel capacity in Vancouver - is cost a reason for this? Michael Geller, President of The Geller Group, Architect, Planner and Real Estate Consultant discusses the lack of hotel capacity in Vancouver. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Harold Steves, Former Richmond City Councillor and Former MLA discusses Richmond farmland being removed from ALR. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.02.27.530319v1?rss=1 Authors: Swords, S. B., Jia, N., Norris, A., Modi, J., Cai, Q., Grant, B. D. Abstract: Autophagosomes fuse with lysosomes, forming autolysosomes that degrade engulfed cargo. To maintain lysosomal capacity, autolysosome reformation (ALR) must regenerate lysosomes from autolysosomes using a membrane tubule-based process. Maintaining lysosomal capacity is required to maintain proteostasis and cellular health, especially in neurons where lysosomal dysfunction has been repeatedly implicated in neurodegenerative disease. Cell biological studies have linked the DNA-J domain Hsc70 co-chaperone RME-8/DNAJC13 to endosomal coat protein regulation, while human genetics studies have linked RME-8/DNAJC13 to neurological disease, including Parkinsonism and Essential Tremor. We report new analysis of the requirements for the RME-8/DNAJC13 protein in neurons, focusing on C. elegans mechanosensory neurons in the intact animal, and in primary mouse cortical neurons in culture. We find that loss of RME-8/DNAJC13 in both systems results in accumulation of grossly elongated autolysosomal tubules. Further C. elegans analysis revealed a similar autolysosome tubule accumulation defect in mutants known to be required for ALR in mammals, including bec-1/beclin and vps-15/PIK3R4/p150 that regulate type-III PI3-kinase VPS-34, and dyn-1/dynamin that severs ALR tubules. Clathrin is also an important ALR regulator implicated in autolysosome tubule formation and release. In C. elegans we found that loss of RME-8 causes severe depletion of clathrin from neuronal autolysosomes, a phenotype shared with bec-1 and vps-15 mutants. We conclude that RME-8/DNAJC13 plays a conserved but previously unrecognized role in autolysosome reformation, likely affecting ALR tubule initiation and/or severing. Additionally, in both systems, we found that loss of RME-8/DNAJC13 appeared to reduce autophagic flux, suggesting feedback regulation from ALR to autophagy. Our results connecting RME-8/DNAJC13 to ALR and autophagy provide a potential mechanism by which RME-8/DNAJC13 could influence neuronal health and the progression of neurodegenerative disease. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC

*More Questions: Fred Williams and Doug McBurney dive in to part II of their review of Ellis Hughes' “20 Reasons to Question Plate Tectonics.” *Varmints Work for Walt Brown: Could recent discoveries of mammalian fossils in the arctic be more evidence for Walt Brown's Big Roll? *Subduction of a Theory: Professor Hughes notes with data and fabulous diagrams in the “20 Reasons” book that the physics of plate subduction simply does not work, and that's just the beginning! Hear about the seamounts, Benioff Zones, spreading centers, missing sediment “scrape”, seismic tomography, Bullard's Fit, and at least a dozen more. Get the book right here!  

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2022.12.14.520480v1?rss=1 Authors: Bhattacharya, A., Mukherjee, R., Kuncha, S. K., Brunstein, M., Rathore, R., Junek, S., Munch, C., Dikic, I. Abstract: Acute lysosomal membrane damage reduces the cellular population of functional lysosomes. However, these damaged lysosomes have a remarkable recovery potential independent of lysosomal biogenesis and remain unaffected in TFEB/TFE3-depleted cells. We combined proximity labelling based proteomics, biochemistry and high resolution microscopy to unravel a new lysosomal membrane regeneration pathway which is dependent on ATG8, lysosomal membrane protein LIMP2, the Rab7 GAP TBC1D15, and proteins required for autophagic lysosomal reformation (ALR) including Dynamin2, Kinesin5B and Clathrin. Upon lysosomal damage, LIMP2 act as a lysophagy receptor to bind ATG8, which in turn recruits TBC1D15 to damaged membranes. TBC1D15 hydrolyses Rab7-GTP to segregate the damaged lysosomal mass and provides a scaffold to assemble and stabilize the ALR machinery, potentiating the formation of lysosomal tubules and subsequent Dynamin2-dependent scission. TBC1D15-mediated lysosome regeneration was also observed in a cell culture model of oxalate nephropathy. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC

Welcome to the December 2022 Meaningful Leader. In this episode I talk about: How do I change my reputation as a leader? | Help the people on your team find a new job | Executive reflection and your ALR | How are you keeping score? Enhance your ability to become a game-changer next year and conduct your own ALR by clicking here.  BY THE WAY, We are offering subscribers to this newsletter access to a self-driven pilot course, How to Create Your Best Year Yet. If you'd like free access, please fill out this form and we will get you started! The Meaningful Leader is a monthly bite-sized disruption that gives insight into challenges other leaders are facing, the latest tools to tackle turbulence, and inputs to innovate your leadership.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Do bamboos set themselves on fire?, published by Malmesbury on September 19, 2022 on LessWrong. Cross-posted from Telescopic Turnip. As we all know, the best place to have a kung-fu fight is a bamboo forest. There are just so many opportunities to grab pieces of bamboos and manufacture improvised weapons, use them to catapult yourself in the air and other basic techniques any debutant martial artist ought to know. A lesser-known fact is that bamboo-forest fights occur even when the cameras of Hong-Kong filmmakers are not present. They may even happen without the presence of humans at all. The forest itself is the kung-fu fight. It's often argued that humans are the worst species on Earth, because of our limitless potential for violence and mutual destruction. If that's the case, bamboos are second. Bamboos are sick. The evolution of bamboos is the result of multiple layers of shear brutality, with two imbricated levels of war, culminating in an apocalypse of combustive annihilation. At least, according to some hypotheses. Bamboo wars: bamboo-made famine Recommended soundtrack for this part If you enter a bamboo forest and wait for a long time, you may have the chance to witness their strange mating ritual. And by "a long time", I mean you'll probably have to wait for decades before you see anything happen at all. But eventually, all the bamboos in the forest will start to produce an absolutely massive amount of seeds, all at the same time. And then they all die. The swarm of seeds will give birth to a new generation of bamboos, and it will take another few decades before you see any flower again. Based on historical texts relating the event, we can estimate that some species like Phyllostachis bambusoides flower only once every 120 years: That's really puzzling. Wouldn't a species with a shorter cycle, hence a higher growth rate, take over the forest exponentially fast? Why would bamboos wait for so long before blooming? The extension of flowering cycles to ridiculous lengths probably happened in two stages. The first stage is about bamboos fighting their predators, the second is about bamboos fighting each other. Then, there is a speculative bonus third stage about bamboos destroying every form of life that has the misfortune to be nearby. Imagine you're a bamboo. You just released a batch a freshly-baked seeds, only to discover that all the animals in the forest are eating them. You could respond by making more seeds, but then the population of predators would just become bigger and still eat everything. That's when it becomes useful to increase the gap between two flowering events. Instead of producing n seeds every year, you produce 3n seeds every three years. This way, all the predators with a lifespan below 3 years will starve between two flowerings, so their population remains low. When the day comes to release your seeds, there are so many of them that the small predator population can only eat a little part of it, until they are simply not hungry any more. And then, they should leave enough seeds to start a new generation of bamboos. The predators might reproduce like crazy after the feast, but it's ok: your descendant will take so long to flower that most of their descendants will have died of starvation by then. (Now you can stop imagining you're a bamboo.) This destructive but effective phenomenon is known as "predator satiation". And when we say satiation, we are not kidding. Here we love beautiful stories of cute little animals, so here are some from the archives: "The seed grew in clusters and resembled oats, and all the animals and fowls got rolling fat from eating this seed" (Hughes 1951), "I have known of village cattle gorging themselves on the fruit to such an extent as to die subsequently from the effects of overeating" (Thom 1935) and so on. Alr...

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Do bamboos set themselves on fire?, published by Malmesbury on September 19, 2022 on LessWrong. Cross-posted from Telescopic Turnip. As we all know, the best place to have a kung-fu fight is a bamboo forest. There are just so many opportunities to grab pieces of bamboos and manufacture improvised weapons, use them to catapult yourself in the air and other basic techniques any debutant martial artist ought to know. A lesser-known fact is that bamboo-forest fights occur even when the cameras of Hong-Kong filmmakers are not present. They may even happen without the presence of humans at all. The forest itself is the kung-fu fight. It's often argued that humans are the worst species on Earth, because of our limitless potential for violence and mutual destruction. If that's the case, bamboos are second. Bamboos are sick. The evolution of bamboos is the result of multiple layers of shear brutality, with two imbricated levels of war, culminating in an apocalypse of combustive annihilation. At least, according to some hypotheses. Bamboo wars: bamboo-made famine Recommended soundtrack for this part If you enter a bamboo forest and wait for a long time, you may have the chance to witness their strange mating ritual. And by "a long time", I mean you'll probably have to wait for decades before you see anything happen at all. But eventually, all the bamboos in the forest will start to produce an absolutely massive amount of seeds, all at the same time. And then they all die. The swarm of seeds will give birth to a new generation of bamboos, and it will take another few decades before you see any flower again. Based on historical texts relating the event, we can estimate that some species like Phyllostachis bambusoides flower only once every 120 years: That's really puzzling. Wouldn't a species with a shorter cycle, hence a higher growth rate, take over the forest exponentially fast? Why would bamboos wait for so long before blooming? The extension of flowering cycles to ridiculous lengths probably happened in two stages. The first stage is about bamboos fighting their predators, the second is about bamboos fighting each other. Then, there is a speculative bonus third stage about bamboos destroying every form of life that has the misfortune to be nearby. Imagine you're a bamboo. You just released a batch a freshly-baked seeds, only to discover that all the animals in the forest are eating them. You could respond by making more seeds, but then the population of predators would just become bigger and still eat everything. That's when it becomes useful to increase the gap between two flowering events. Instead of producing n seeds every year, you produce 3n seeds every three years. This way, all the predators with a lifespan below 3 years will starve between two flowerings, so their population remains low. When the day comes to release your seeds, there are so many of them that the small predator population can only eat a little part of it, until they are simply not hungry any more. And then, they should leave enough seeds to start a new generation of bamboos. The predators might reproduce like crazy after the feast, but it's ok: your descendant will take so long to flower that most of their descendants will have died of starvation by then. (Now you can stop imagining you're a bamboo.) This destructive but effective phenomenon is known as "predator satiation". And when we say satiation, we are not kidding. Here we love beautiful stories of cute little animals, so here are some from the archives: "The seed grew in clusters and resembled oats, and all the animals and fowls got rolling fat from eating this seed" (Hughes 1951), "I have known of village cattle gorging themselves on the fruit to such an extent as to die subsequently from the effects of overeating" (Thom 1935) and so on. Alr...

Last meeting review & updates -MJ left the group-Gmail addy to long (CannabisBroadcastingGroup@gmail.com) – looking into shorter username – Alg – not discussed……. Keep account… use forwarding… set up mail chip-Standard Agreement - commitment, content use, code of ethics, quality ++ (open to all) – Al G has something in the works.. to be focus of next meeting (sept 13) to give everyone a week to review.. not enough attended. Moved to next week.-Network bio information to Scott – Al G in…Al R not done… Done-logo ideas – Alr – mj suggests molecule, big letter … Alr is working on something -‘Green' Irene York and Thomas O'Neil joined group – video tech….-just cannabis content or cannabis lifestyle content?... to be discussed more… yes to psychedelics…-Thomas talked about Rogers community channel is interested in cannabis community content.. ownership plus other concerns raised(suitability) raised by Irene from past experience . it was agreed some content might be suitable and to explore in the future…. Nothing to report-platforms and dns services discussed. OBS etc… nothing to report-Roku.. only or others? .. gonna start with one and go from there. Alr mentioned platforms are similar… nothing to report-Thomas says we should incorporate … to be looked into once roles are in place.. nothing to report-Administrative roles – all agreed and to be discussed in more depth at next meeting … nothing to report-website domain… purchased cbgtv.com by Thomas….. each network sent funds to Thomas to purchase domain name for 3yrs .. total cost $60….done..-grants… some are available but there are some concerns of controlling content… to be looked into .. nothing to report-pitch different target audiences.. nothing to report-Alr makes suggestion to add his sister Sharon who is a book keeper to act as treasurer .. no decision was made.. nothing to report-Thomas offered to be a website developer.. nothing to reportNew BusinessAdditions from members (new items to be discussed that are added to this list. ..plus any correspondence (emails, phone calls, msgs etc)

Chris Seymour talked to Michael about a ALR screen from Seymour Screens. $350,000 pair speakers damaged in shipping to Audio Advice Live! Erin probably won't be bringing his Klippel to next years get together. Erin clears the air with no DSP on REL sub video from Shane Lee's interview of RELs engineer. Channa Loves his new Monolith coaxial THX speakers! Erin didn't see a big buck difference with new laser projectors! Is 8K coming to Blu-ray? Two SVS PB2000pro VS two SVS SB3000? What Are Streaming Devices Differences? Rings Of Power Is Here! Also There Is This Movie About Naval Aviators Called Top Gun: Maverick, It Is Now On Streaming! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dailyhifi/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dailyhifi/support

Velkomin að speglinum. Umsjón hefur Hafdís Helga Helgadóttir. Vísindamenn segja að búast megi við því að eldgosið á Reykjanesskaga verði langlíft. Gervihnattamyndir sýna landbreytingar á skaganum en vísindaráð almannavarna telur það ekki vera vegna kviku. Alríkislögregla Bandaríkjanna gerði í gær fyrirvaralausa húsleit í húsakynnum Trump, fyrrverandi forseta. Leitað var klukkustundum saman að leyniskjölum sem óvitað er hvort hafi fundist. Foreldrar verða sér út um ófáanleg lyf á samfélagsmiðlum. Yfirlæknir barnaspítalans segir mikla ábyrgð liggja á herðum þess sem útvegi barni lyf ólöglega, komi til alvarlegs atviks. Sérfræðingur ASÍ segir mikilvægt að styðja vel við barnafjölskyldur á tímum verðhækkana. Yfir hundrað prósent munur er milli sveitarfélaga þegar kemur að gjöldum fyrir skóladagvistun og mat. Rússlandsstjórn bregst illa við ákalli forseta Úkraínu um að Vesturlönd banni komur rússneskra ferðamanna. Talsmaður Rússlandsstjórnar segir kröfuna út í hött. Veðrið hefur leikið við íbúa á Austurlandi í dag. Von er á hlýrra lofti suðvestanlands, en því fylgja djúpar lægðir að sögn veðurfræðings.

Velkomin að speglinum. Umsjón hefur Hafdís Helga Helgadóttir. Vísindamenn segja að búast megi við því að eldgosið á Reykjanesskaga verði langlíft. Gervihnattamyndir sýna landbreytingar á skaganum en vísindaráð almannavarna telur það ekki vera vegna kviku. Alríkislögregla Bandaríkjanna gerði í gær fyrirvaralausa húsleit í húsakynnum Trump, fyrrverandi forseta. Leitað var klukkustundum saman að leyniskjölum sem óvitað er hvort hafi fundist. Foreldrar verða sér út um ófáanleg lyf á samfélagsmiðlum. Yfirlæknir barnaspítalans segir mikla ábyrgð liggja á herðum þess sem útvegi barni lyf ólöglega, komi til alvarlegs atviks. Sérfræðingur ASÍ segir mikilvægt að styðja vel við barnafjölskyldur á tímum verðhækkana. Yfir hundrað prósent munur er milli sveitarfélaga þegar kemur að gjöldum fyrir skóladagvistun og mat. Rússlandsstjórn bregst illa við ákalli forseta Úkraínu um að Vesturlönd banni komur rússneskra ferðamanna. Talsmaður Rússlandsstjórnar segir kröfuna út í hött. Veðrið hefur leikið við íbúa á Austurlandi í dag. Von er á hlýrra lofti suðvestanlands, en því fylgja djúpar lægðir að sögn veðurfræðings.

Velkomin að speglinum. Umsjón hefur Hafdís Helga Helgadóttir. Vísindamenn segja að búast megi við því að eldgosið á Reykjanesskaga verði langlíft. Gervihnattamyndir sýna landbreytingar á skaganum en vísindaráð almannavarna telur það ekki vera vegna kviku. Alríkislögregla Bandaríkjanna gerði í gær fyrirvaralausa húsleit í húsakynnum Trump, fyrrverandi forseta. Leitað var klukkustundum saman að leyniskjölum sem óvitað er hvort hafi fundist. Foreldrar verða sér út um ófáanleg lyf á samfélagsmiðlum. Yfirlæknir barnaspítalans segir mikla ábyrgð liggja á herðum þess sem útvegi barni lyf ólöglega, komi til alvarlegs atviks. Sérfræðingur ASÍ segir mikilvægt að styðja vel við barnafjölskyldur á tímum verðhækkana. Yfir hundrað prósent munur er milli sveitarfélaga þegar kemur að gjöldum fyrir skóladagvistun og mat. Rússlandsstjórn bregst illa við ákalli forseta Úkraínu um að Vesturlönd banni komur rússneskra ferðamanna. Talsmaður Rússlandsstjórnar segir kröfuna út í hött. Veðrið hefur leikið við íbúa á Austurlandi í dag. Von er á hlýrra lofti suðvestanlands, en því fylgja djúpar lægðir að sögn veðurfræðings.

ALR made a conditional offer to acquire the 4 Klang Valley highway concessionaires, based on total enterprise value of RM5.5 billion. But is the conditional offer fair and sound? And who does it really benefit? Pankaj C Kumar, business commentator breaks down the details for us. Image credit: Unsplash.com

Andrew Bell Chairman of Red Rock Resources #RRR discusses the acquisition of its first Lithium Assets in Zimbabwe via the establishment of a subsidiary, African Lithium Resources. Highlights Ø African Lithium Resources Pvt Ltd ("ALR") has been established as a 75% owned subsidiary in Zimbabwe with a local partner. Ø ALR has acquired 51 ha of lithium claims 29 km NW of Bikita in SE Zimbabwe at Tin Hill, and is in the process of transferring title. Ø Spodumene and petalite lithium mineralisation identified in 10m thick exposures averaging 1.43% Li2O (Geological Survey of Rhodesia 1975). Ø ALR has taken 7 samples in one area of the licence, with best grades received from an accredited laboratory at 2.07% Li2O, 1.082% Li2O, 0.87% Li2O, 0.62% Li2O  Ø Consideration of $25,000, has been paid, with a further $10,000 retained by ALR until completion of transfer. Ø A new 125 ha application near Arcturus, a mining site 32km E of Harare in Zimbabwe has been approved for grant  with a further application nearby in process  Ø A 107 ha application near Bikita has been made and another property with high grades from our sampling has been identified for purchase.

Fala Pessoal!!! Novo episódio do ALR, vamos comentar sobre o novo trailer do filmes e as nossas expectativas para o novo filme do Doutor Estranho! Não deixem de acompanhar o nosso trabalho também no Instagram e Youtube: https://www.instagram.com/alrcast/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcTi2fPWIdm9bOowHKhU3bw/featured

“Just Press Play” Andrea Rogers is founder of XTEND, a workout that combines Pilates and dance methods along with ballet basics that sculpt your body into a lean, strong physique. Andrea's philosophy of “Don't think about It, Just do It” is a mantra she even instills in her children. Her story of XTEND began when she was a young dancer and a huge dreamer.  Understanding what makes XTEND unique begins with understanding the origins of the brand. She developed her lifelong love of movement with a career as a professional dancer and choreographer, traveling the world with celebrity performers, dance companies, and most notably, principal dancer for Walt Disney World Co. The ever changing evolving program of moving, creating, dancing and dreaming is what's behind the scenes. The XTEND brand grew organically. The movement was born and spread contagiously across the globe. XTEND programming is available in franchised and licensed live studio classes in 12 countries and is lead by over 1,000 certified instructors. On this weeks episode of Ritch in Life, Ritch talks to Andrea about how she launched her own personal brand ALR, which is all about empowering women, building community and creating movement in all areas of life. How have YOU “filled someone's bucket today?” Find out what Andrea means as you listen to this motivational conversation.  For more about Andrea check out these links: AndreaRogers  @andrealeighrogers @xtend_barre

Professor Terje Alræk leder en forskergruppe som er tildelt 4,7 millioner fra Kreftforeningens og Brystkreftforeningens Rosa sløyfe-aksjon. Forskningsprosjektet skal vurdere om akupunkturbehandling kan redusere kronisk tretthet etter brystkreftbehandling. Alræk har i de senere årene vært involvert i et internasjonalt samarbeid knyttet til å øke reliabiliteten og validiteten av tradisjonelle kinesisk medisinske diagnoser. Han er professor ved Avdeling for helsevitenskap ved Høyskolen Kristiania og ved UiT Norges Arktiske Universitet. Her finner du informasjon for deg som ønsker å delta i studien.

In Folge 44 geht es um Astrologie! Kein Tippfehler - wir reden über Horoskope, Aszendenten und den ganzen anderen Quatsch. Anlass ist ein Artikel, der sich Gedanken über “Exo-Astrologie” macht und sich fragt, wie man wohl Horoskope auf anderen Planeten erstellt. Außerdem reden wir über Tiroler Satelliten, machen uns auf die Suche nach der österreichischen NASA und beantworten Fragen zu Asteroiden, Magnetfeldern und Strahlungsdrücken. Evi muss in “Neues aus der Sternwarte” sehr intensiv für eine Prüfung lernen und freut sich über moralische Unterstützung.

In this episode guest host Myles Gross and I speak with Julie Sinaw, the founder of Animal Lighthouse Rescue. ALR is a wonderful organization that has saved the lives of countless dogs in Puerto Rico. We chat with Julie about how and why she got started, the mission of ALR, the challenges presented by hurricane Maria in 2017, how COVID has impacted operations and much more.

01. Diplo & Sonny Fodera - Turn Back Time (Wilkinson Remix) 02. Fred V - Icarus 03. Madface, Symplex, V O E - Call On You 04. Id- Id 05. Dimension, E11E - Hatred 06. Dimension - Organ 07. Used - Take It 08. Dimension - Altar 09. Despersion - Id 10. Tenside, Zardonic - Cannibals (They Don't Care) (Zardonic Remix) 11. Edub - The Falcon 12. Carbone - Large Up 13. Shadow Sect, Transforma - The Devil In My Mind 14. Redpill - I Am With You 15. Malux - Joystick 16. Prolix - Forward Thinking 17. Turno, A.M.C - Voyage 18. Singular Mind - Our Way 19. Dimension - Psycho 20. Alr, Formula - Wasp Season 21. Selecta J-Man, Suku - Couple Guinness 22. Document One, Levela - Heat Beams 23. D-Fuser - Night & Day 24. Klay - No Joke 25. Hexa - Strike First 26. Id - Id 27. Kushty - Jungle Vibes 28. Dungeon Kru, Liondub, Bandit Mc - Fearless 29. Kings Of The Rollers - Shella (feat. Chimpo) (Halogenix Remix) 30. Dungeon Kru, Eztee, Ele - Navy Seal 31. Dub Head - London 32. Sematic, Friskee Mc - Never Leave 33. Dunk - Vibration 34. Dungeon Kru, Visuals - Pushing (Dunk Remix) 35. Rollyax - Stander 36. Kidsonic - Losing You 37. Dunk - Brain Damage 38. Bruk - Maui Mowie 39. The Urbanizer feat. Dee Bo General - Bigup Di Youtdem 40. Falco - Mayday 41. Audio Gutter - Carosel 42. Elliott Saloman - Jungle Minimalist 43. Conrad Subs - For The Dj 44. Mugshot - Jungle Volunteer Force 45. Aries Haslem - Just Break 46. Zarine - Polka On The Bones 47. Dom & Roland - Sundown 48. Lakeway - 3 Years feat. Becca Jane Grey 49. Brandnewtrumpets - Smile Disable 50. Klute - Autokarma (2021Re-Master) 51. Winslow - Lost In The Black Lodge 52. Low-R, Sili - Chubby Bubbler 53. Screamarts - Shake A Leg 54. Duoscience - Golgotha 55. Kray - Overflow 56. Bru-C, Bou - Streetside 57. Id- Id 58. Id - Id 59. Alb, Flowanastasia - Voyage 60. Winslow - Mad Flavours 61. Edlan, Joan De Bruyn - Lone Pine (Macca Remix) 62. Id - Id 63. Dimension, Sub Focus - Desire

Til siðs er við upphaf nýs árs að velta fyrir sér ástandi og horfum. Hvernig er líklegt að mál þróist? Við á Morgunvaktinni höfum byrjað síðustu ár á að velta fyrir okkur horfum í efnahagsmálum, hér og í heiminum öllum, og fengið til okkar Þórólf Matthíasson, prófessor í hagfræði, við Háskóla Íslands. Við héldum í þá hefð; Þórólfur fór yfir það sem vænta má að hafi áhrif á efnahag í ríkjum heims á nýja árinu. Kórónuveirufaraldurinn virðist stjórnlaus í Bretlandi, þar sem 55 þúsund manns greindust í gær. Óvíst er hvernig skólahaldi verður háttað - það fá ekki öll börn að fara í skólann í dag - og búið er að vara við því að útgöngubann gæti verið næst á dagskrá. Í öllum erfiðleikunum er einhver von, það á að dreifa bóluefninu frá Oxford/AstraZenica í dag. Sigrún Davíðsdóttir sagði okkur frá þessu og fleiru í Lundúnaspjalli dagsins. Aðeins í örfáum ríkjum heims hafa enn ekki greinst nein tilfelli kórónuveirunnar. Alræðisríkið Túrkmenistan í Mið-Asíu er þar á meðal. Margir utan Túrkmenistans telja raunar að stjórnvöld ljúgi að umheiminum um að engin smit séu í landinu, meðal annars þykja mál tveggja erlendra stjórnarerindreka benda til þess. Og þrátt fyrir að engin séu smitin hefur forseti Túrkmenistan lýst því yfir að hann þekki lækningu við covid-19. Vera Illugadóttir fór með okkur til þessa, um margt, sérkennilega ríkis við vestan vert Kaspíahafið. Tónlist: I?ll never smile again - Tommy Dorsey og Frank Sinatra Ferry cross the Mersey - Gerry and the Pacemakers

In most practical use situations, projected images are diluted by ambient light. What is the science behind this effect, and what are the solutions for maintaining a bright image when the environment will not allow for the proper darkness? Steve Cook, Consultant Relations Manager at Draper, provides some insights on ambient light rejection (ALR) in this episode of Engineering Value.

Morgunútvarpið 10.11.2020 Umsjónarmenn: Sigmar Guðmundsson og Rúnar Róbertsson Guðni Ágústsson fyrrum landbúnaðarráðherra er ekki alls kostar sáttur við stöðu landbúnaðarins í stjórnkerfinu og segir í opnu bréfi til forsætisráðherra, fjármálaráðherra og samgöngu- og sveitarstjórnarráðherra að landbúnaðurinn sé í skúffuráðuneyti og stöðugt halli undan fæti. Hann rekur í bréfinu, sem birtist í Bændablaðinu í síðustu viku, ástæður þess að svo er komið og hvetur stjórnvöld til breytinga svo landbúnaðurinn megi vera lífvænlegur. Guðni kom til okkar og ræðddi þessi mál. Stýrihópur á vegum Reykjavíkurborgar hefur skilað skýrslu um þjónustu við gæludýr þar sem þar sem lagt er til að öll málefni dýra verði á einni hendi hjá borginni. Hundaeigendur segjast sáttir við að skýrsluna en leggja samt til breytingar. Freyja Kristinsdóttir frá Félagi ábyrgra hundaeiganda segir möguleika á að hundaeigundur muni þá borga fyrir önnur dýr. Við spurðum Freyju nánar út í þetta. Árni Árnason sem hefur unnið í markaðsmálum tók uppá því fyrir nokkrum árum að skrifa barnabækur. Í fyrra kom t.d. út bókin Friðbergur forseti og núna í ár er það Háspenna, lífshætta á Spáni. Gott ef hann fékk ekki hjálp frá dóttur sinni þar. En hvað fær menn til að skipta svona um gír í lífinu? Við heyrðum í Árna. Við heyrðum í Brynjari Níelssyni, alþingismanni, sem skrifaði grein á Vísi í gær með fyrirsögninni Alræði. Hann gagnrýnir þar sóttvarnarráðstafanir stjórnvalda harðlega og segist sjálfur hættur meðvirkni með þeim. Hann tiltekur að börn megi ekki leika sér saman eða stunda íþróttir við skipulagðar aðstæður. Allir þurfi svo að ganga í takt og viðurlögin ef út af bregður séu opinber smánun. Öll gagnrýni sé kaffærð með hræðsluáróðri og að allt sé þetta með eindæmum. Guðmundur Jóhannsson mætti í tæknihornið sitt. Tónlist: Klassart - Gamli grafreiturinn Duran Duran - Perfect day Jóhanna Guðrún - Sumar konur Auður ásamt Valdimar Guðmundssyni og Club Dub) - 2020 Hall & Oates - I can't go for that (No can do) Nýdönsk - Örlagagarn Ed Sheeran - Lego house Coldplay - Clocks Björk - Big time sensuality Elín Jónína Bergljótardóttir - Ég rís

Loopholes, tricks, and dirt cheap land. We chat with Harold Steves, a Richmond Councillor about the ALR. He paints the historic picture for us.   We then talk to Layla Yang, Founder of Dracco Pacific Realty, who has had her share of headache in relation to this.  

Mick and Carol welcome the New Year with helpful advice to pet owners and the latest ALR rescues.

Chapter 1

Chapter 1 Hot question of the day Ottawa Senators players who were caught on tape joking about and criticizing their team's defence and coaching staff in a video posted online are apologizing for their comments. The Senators released a statement Monday night from Thomas Chabot, Dylan DeMelo, Matt Duchene, Alex Formenton, Chris Tierney, Chris Wideman and Colin White, who were shown talking about Ottawa's ineffective penalty kill and mocking one of their coaches in a recording that apparently came from a camera mounted on the dash of an Uber driver's van or SUV. The players mocked assistant coach Martin Raymond, who handles the team's penalty-killing unit, in the five-minute clip that was recorded in Phoenix during Ottawa's west-coast road trip at the end of October. “We want to apologize publicly to Marty Raymond, our teammates and coaches for our comments in Phoenix, Arizona on October 29,'' read the statement emailed to The Canadian Press.“Our private conversation was recorded without our knowledge or consent. We're passionate about our team, and focusing on growing together. We are grateful for the support of our fans and organization. This is an important learning experience, and we will do better.'' Ottawa Senators players who were caught on tape joking about and criticizing their team's defence and coaching staff in a video posted online are apologizing for their comments. What is the most offensive part of the situation? Engaging in workplace gossip Players not being discreet Being secretly filmed   Chapter 2 Full steam ahead in Surrey: New council unanimously votes to end RCMP contract and tear up LRT in favour of Skytrain Right after being sworn into office last night, Surrey mayor Doug McCallum wasted no time putting two motions on the table: cancelling LRT and beginning work on extending SkyTrain into Langley and starting work on creating a Surrey police force and serving notice to the federal and provincial governments that the city will be terminating its contract with the RCMP. Surrey Mayor Doug McCallum made a speech after being sworn in as mayor yesterday. The motions were passed unanimously, even lone opposition councillor Linda Annis voted in favour… Surrey RCMP officer in charge Dwayne McDonald is disappointed... Guest: Janet Brown Global News Senior Reporter   Chapter 3 Provincial government moving to restrict the size of mega-mansions on ALR land Richmond's new city council is expected to discuss ALR home size limits at today's council meeting, the day after B.C.'s government introduced its own legislation on the issue. Simi speaks with Agriculture Minister Lana Popham about the reasoning behind the government's introduction of the ALR home size legislation. Guest: Lana Popham Minister of Agriculture   Chapter 4 Speed limits being lowered on 15 sections of B.C. highways Some highway speed limits around BC are going back to where they began. Transportation Minister Claire Trevena, says 15 stretches of highway will drop 10 kilometers an hour - again at the rate they were before the previous government increased limits.Back in 2014, 33 sections around the province increased 10 k. Trevena says some of those areas saw crashes increase as much as 65 percent. 16 areas will remain at the higher limit. The sea to sky and some sections of the trans canada on the Island and east of Hope are some that are reverting back.ENSE BC says changing speed doesn't mean people will suddenly slow down. Chris Thompson says drivers typical decide for themselves what's safe depending on weather and road conditions. Guest: Liza Yuzda Global New Legislative Reporter   Chapter 5 A video of a baby bear overcoming a hill has gone viral - but was it safe to use a drone there? In a video that went viral on social media over the weekend, a bear cub struggles up a steep, snow-covered slope towards its mother. The bear climbs a few steps, slips back down, and tries again — over, and over, until it finally reaches the top. To the thousands of people who shared it, it's an inspirational nature video. To wildlife experts, it's an irresponsible stunt that endangered the bears. Guest: Clayton Lamb PhD Candidate and Vanier Scholar, University of Alberta   Chapter 6 Harvard professor suggests interstellar object may have been alien probe Guest: Professor Abraham Loeb Chair of the Astronomy Department at Harvard University   Chapter 7 SIMI'S LOSER AND WINNER OF THE DAY Loser Lila Guzman, an election supervisor and judge in Williamson County, Texas Lila Guzman has resigned from her position of election supervisor and judge  following an incident in which she was caught on camera screaming at a voter who was reportedly confused about where to vote. Winner: Jennifer Maddox Jennifer is one of 10 women who's being honoured by L'Oreal as one of their ‘Women of Worth'. She's a police officer in Chicago, who wanted to help people in their community. So she created a nonprofit group called Future Ties, which offers help with homework, with resumes, with life skills - and most importantly, it gives kids a safe place to go to after school. She created the nonprofit after she found herself regularly getting called out to incidents where kids were getting into trouble. So she wanted to try to create somewhere fun, where kids had a choice to pick a different path in life.

Richmond's new city council is expected to discuss ALR home size limits at today's council meeting, the day after B.C.'s government introduced its own legislation on the issue. Simi speaks with Agriculture Minister Lana Popham about the reasoning behind the government's introduction of the ALR home size legislation. Guest: Lana Popham Minister of Agriculture

Það er heimsmeistaramót í knattspyrnu og Halldór Armand Ásgeirsson rithöfundur er í byrjunarliði Lestarinnar. Í pistli sínum í dag fjallar Halldór um fantasíur heimsbyggðarinnar um íslenska knattspyrnulandsliðið og varar fólk við að festast í hlekkjunum sem draumar annarra geta verið. En það er hraðlest í dag og að venju verður farið um víðan völl: Alræðistilburðir í Rússlandi, náttúruvín, sjónvarpsþættirnir The Alienist, þjóðernishyggja, verðlaunavæðing menningarlífsins, Beyoncé og Jay-Z í Louvre, fjallkonan í dragi, danskur málari á ferð um Ísland og textagreining á íslensku rappi. Lag dagsins er Osundi Owendi með nígeríska highlife-tónlistarmanninum Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe

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