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Tesla Motors (TSLA) shares fell sharply after hours Wednesday as the luxury electric car maker's first-quarter earnings and revenue only modestly beat the average of some wildly divergent analyst views.
CEO Elon Musk also announced that Tesla has a signed letter of intent with Panasonic to build a battery "Gigafactory," with groundbreaking expected to start next month.
Tesla delivered 6,457 Model S vehicles in Q1, slightly ahead of its guidance for 6,400. Wall Street expected a mild beat but the company couldn't blow much past that number, said Dougherty & Co. analyst Andrea James earlier in the day, because its battery cell supply from Panasonic is currently constrained.
Yet analyst views for Q1 performance had been "all over the place" which made the consensus "kind of irrelevant," James said. With revenue predictions ranging from $637 million to $808 million, "you could drive how many Teslas through that gap?" The variance was about 1,710 cars if you assume an average selling price of $100,000, she figured.
Ultimately for Q1, Tesla took in $713 million in revenue ex items, up 27% year over year and ahead of analyst consensus for $699 million, according to a Thomson Reuters poll. That's a big deceleration from prior quarters. (GAAP revenue rose 10% to $620.5 million.)
Adjusted earnings per share came in flat at 12 cents. That was two pennies ahead of consensus — the estimates ranged from a loss of 7 cents to a gain of 40 cents.
With Tesla failing to blow out the consensus, shares fell 7% late after closing down nearly 3% to 201.35 in the regular session.
No Shanghai Surprise
For Tesla "estimates always are all over the place — let's call a spade a spade," said Wedbush Securities analyst Craig Irwin, who told IBD ahead of the release that he didn't think it would be a "juicy quarter." The only thing he knew of that could've potentially pushed the stock back to the highs of a few months ago was if Tesla predicted some outsized number of deliveries into China for the year, such as beyond 5,000, he said.
Tesla did not, though Musk said in the shareholder letter that "we plan to expand in China as fast as possible because we believe the country could be one of our largest markets within a few years."
On the conference call with analysts, Musk said, "I really don't think we've got any kind of demand challenge in China ... actually I think we'll have to limit the number of cars we send to China."
Tesla says it expects to deliver about 7,500 Model S sedans in Q2 and, as it had said earlier, more than 35,000 for the year.
Theodore O'Neill, an analyst at Litchfield Hills Research, told IBD ahead of the earnings report that Tesla could see sales of the Model S — the only car Tesla makes at the moment — slow down in the U.S. market.
It would "make some people unhappy but perversely that's good for the company — they wouldn't be able to sell to China or the EU unless things were slowing here," said O'Neill, who has a buy rating on the stock.
The X Factor
Tesla said that Q1 North American net orders grew by more than 10% from Q4 2013.
The choice of where to sell more cars is really Tesla's, said O'Neill. In the U.S., he said, the early adopters have already got their cars and the economy hasn't really grown well enough to create a whole new round of buyers for the Model S. And "there's probably some cannibalization of the Model S to the Model X as well," he said, referring to people waiting for Tesla's upcoming crossover SUV.
"Model X efforts are on track to ramp up production in the spring of 2015," Musk said in the shareholder letter. "We have just completed the final studio release of the vehicle. The tooling process has started with several suppliers and we expect production design prototypes to be ready in Q4 of this year."
Batteries Limit Output
Musk said in the shareholder letter that battery cell supply "will still constrain our production in Q2 but should improve in Q3."
Irwin says that the supply from Panasonic that comes online in Q3 should end up supporting 60,000 to 80,000 vehicle units a year.
Tesla added that it has started production of Tesla powertrains for the Mercedes B-Class vehicle, and expects gross margin to rise slightly in Q2 from the 25.4% it reached in Q1. That was up from 25.2% in Q4.
Overall Musk said in the shareholder letter that he expects Tesla to be "marginally profitable in Q2" as operating expenses grow about 30% for research and development, and 15% for selling, general and administrative. In Q1, revenue included $15 million from electric powertrain sales to partner Toyota (TM).
Gigafactory Update
Tesla said a joint team with Panasonic is working out issues with the Gigafactory, which is expected to not only supply batteries in support production of a third-generation, mass-market vehicle, but also provide batteries for other industries such as stationary energy storage for cousin company SolarCity (SCTY). Past rumors have suggested it might supply Apple (AAPL) or other consumer-electronics makers.
Tesla hasn't decided where the multiple facilities will be built. Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico have been in the running, but Musk said Wednesday that California once again is a long-shot possibility.


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Brain stents are the latest in treatments for victims of stroke. Cutting edge medicine, they've steadily increased in popularity in recent years. Too bad they not only don't work, but make matters worse.
A stroke occurs when the blood supply to part of the brain is cut off or critically reduced. Brain cells deprived of oxygen and nutrients begin to die within minutes. One way the blood supply can be cut off is if the blood vessel narrows too much for blood to pass. A major health risk following a stroke caused in this manner is yet another stroke in the same region as the first stroke. To prevent another stroke from occurring, doctors have been increasingly using stents to keep the artery open. Every year about 90,000 Americans suffer the kind of stroke that the stents are designed to prevent.
Boston Scientific's Gateway-Wingspan stent system was approved by the FDA in August of 2005. A catheter on the device is inserted into the blood vessel and inflated to open the blockage. The stent, a metal mesh in the shape of a tube, is moved into the inflated catheter and expanded. The stent remains permanently implanted, keeping the artery permanently open and preventing future blockage at that site.
Seems pretty straightforward. The study that won Gateway-Wingspan its approval seemed pretty straightforward too. In retrospect, however, the study is found to be "small" and "less rigorous." It was pushed through the FDA under the Humanitarian Use Device Exemption, a kind of fast-track to approval for treatments that target a relatively small number of individuals. The incentive to rigorously test these treatments is diminished. As the FDA explains: "A device manufacturer's research and development costs could exceed its market returns for diseases or conditions affecting small patient populations."
The current trial, thankfully, does not concern itself with market returns. Called SAMMPRIS for Stenting and Aggressive Medical Management for Preventing Recurrent Stroke in Intracranial Stentosis trial, it compared the outcome of patients who had recently suffered a stroke and were treated with either a stent and drugs to those who received drugs alone. They began enrolling patients in November of 2008 with plans of evaluating a total of 764 patients. By April 5, 2011, with only 451 patients enrolled, they had seen enough. The analysis at that point showed that the 14.7 percent of the patients with the Gateway-Wingspan stent plus the drugs suffered another stroke or died 30 days after surgery. Meanwhile, only 5.8 percent of the patients who received drugs alone had a stroke or died in that time. The near 2.5 times increased risk for stent patients was substantial enough for the SAMMPRIS group to stop the trial.
It's clear from the study that the brain stent makes matters worse for the patient but it is unclear why. One hint may come from the abnormally high amount of hemorrhaging they saw. Placing stents in the carotid artery – the main artery that delivers blood to the brain – rarely results in hemorrhaging. But almost one-third of the patients with intracranial stents in the current study showed hemorrhaging. The authors speculate that the abnormal amount of bleeding could have caused the recurrent strokes. It also suggests that placing stents in the smaller intracranial blood vessels is simply more technically challenging. Not only are they smaller, but they have many more twists and turns compared to the carotid artery. Placing stents in such a tricky location could cause tearing and dislodge bits of plaque or tissue that could clog a blood vessel elsewhere and cause a stroke.
In addition to saving their lives, avoiding the stent could save patients' some bucks too. The drug regimen costs about $3,400 for the first year. Adding the Gateway-Wingspan ups the cost an additional $20,000. That's a lot of money to pay for increased risk of death and more strokes.
"Without the trial, this procedure seemed destined to become the standard of care," H. Gilbert Welch, a professor of medicine at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, told the Washington Post. "With it, we have another example in which the best medical care is not the most medical care."
But that's assuming the study will have an impact on the treatment and prevention of stroke. Again, seems straightforward, but it's actually quite complicated.
As an example, let's consider the most widely used stents, the ones placed in coronary arteries. Coronary arteries supply blood to the heart. When these arteries are blocked – usually by cholesterol-containing plaques – the heart is deprived of blood, oxygen and nutrients. This leads to chest pain, shortness of breath, or, at worst, a heart attack. The use of coronary stents has exploded since they were first used in the mid-1980s. In 2004, over a million patients received coronary stents. Entitled COURAGE (Clinical Outcomes Utilizing Revascularization and Aggressive Drug Evaluation), a 2007 trial sought to determine if coronary stents with drugs offered more advantages than drugs alone in alleviating chronic chest pain caused by blocked coronary arteries. They found no difference in the outcome of the two groups in regards to death, heart attack, and stroke. It didn't make matters worse, but it didn't help either. The published study was called a "blockbuster," Boston Scientific Corp. who makes the coronary stent saw their stock fall, and doctors saw usage of the stent begin to fall off.
For a time.
One month after the study was published the use of coronary stents in the US decreased by 13 percent. "But as the headlines about COURAGE faded, stentings soon began to rise again, and are now back at peak levels of about one million a year," reported the Wall Street Journal.
Why would health care providers continue stenting despite the evidence that there's no added benefit above drugs alone? As you might've guessed, it's all about the money.
William Boden, the cardiologist who led the study, told the WSJ: "Most [cardiologists] haven't voluntarily incorporated the COURAGE criteria into their practice. What's going to continue to drive practice is reimbursement." That is, as long as insurance companies continue to cover the coronary stents, doctors will continue to hand them out like candy. Adding to the inertia are patients with a hankering for the devices. Many doctors argued that suggesting to the patient they should take the drugs first, then implant the stents later if necessary, would only make the patients go seek another doctor who will provide the "best" treatment right now.
An important difference between the SAMMPRIS and COURAGE studies is that the former actually showed the stents to be harmful, compared to treating the stroke patient aggressively with drugs. No doubt, as with the COURAGE study, some doctors will find faults with the study. But we can only hope that, over time, data will trump agenda.
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The Great Synagogue of Budapest is a 10-minute walk away, whilst the Széchenyi Thermal Bath is a 20-minute bus journey away. St. Stephen's Basilica is 14 minutes' away using Budapest Metro. The oldest zoo in Hungary and one of the oldest zoos in the world, the Budapest Zoo and Botanical Garden offers a pleasant day out.
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Me and my girlfriend (both an age of 20) stayed at this beautiful apartment from 15 Jan until 19 Jan. The flat is located in the city centre, with heaps of good restaurant and bars within 500m. Furthermore, the metro station 'Opera' is located 1 minute walk and the apartment is right next to a bakery and a supermarket. The apartment is safe (door lock + extra gate), silence during night and day, cosy and very clean. Next to the facilities, the service was good too; we were warmly welcomed by Matteo's wife and when we asked Matteo for extra towels, he brought them directly. At last, the check out was at 11am, but Matteo's wife offered us a later checkout if needed.
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The hacking crew that promised to launch DDoS attacks on the Pokemon GO servers on August 1 suffered a minor setback yesterday after someone hacked their site, dumped the database, and shared the data with data breach index service LeakedSource .
The hacking crew's name is PoodleCorp , a relatively new unit on the cyber-crime scene, that has made a name for itself by defacing popular YouTube channels.
DDoS attack on Pokemon GO servers never came
The group had already launched a successful DDoS attack on Pokemon GO servers on July 16 and annoyed much of the Pokemon GO fanbase.
Seeing the huge media attention they received from that attack, two days later, on July 18, the group promised to launch another DDoS attack on Pokemon GO, much bigger than the first one, but on August 1.
August 1 came and went. Pokemon GO players didn't report anything. However, today, PoodleCorp's name surfaced online again after LeakedSource announced they've added details from PoodleCorp.org domain to their massive database of breached sites.
PoodleCorp launches DDoS attack on LeakedSource
PoodleCorp responded to LeakedSource's announcement with what they knew best, a DDoS attack.
A LeakedSource spokesperson told Softpedia that the attack lasted exactly 45 minutes and 9 seconds, and was mitigated from its first waves, an indication why PoodleCorp stopped after less than an hour.
During the time it took your reporter to write this article, LeakedSource reported several smaller 2-3-minute-long DDoS attacks, but nothing big enough to take down their website.
PoodleCorp data analysis
LeakedSource was kind enough to share some of the data with Softpedia. You can see the database schema embedded at the end of this article.
Based on the data's structure, the database is for PoodleCorp's DDoS botnet control panel, which the gang is renting to others, an opinion shared by both LeakedSource and Softpedia. LeakedSource said they received the PoodleCorp data from an anonymous source.
The database contains tables that hold information on the botnet's slaves (bots), control panel logins, logs, payment details, payment plans, support tickets, servers, and attack gateways.
"We can see who attacked, for how long and which method. We can see what IPs the purchasers attacked as well," LeakedSource told Softpedia. "The server list was not stored on their site, but we can see an endpoint they use to initiate attacks."
Attacking LeakedSource was a bad idea in hindsight
LeakedSource also says the group hadn't been successful at monetizing their botnet. "They didn't make much money," LeakedSource said, revealing that the group made only $335 in PayPal sales from renting their botnet. This may be because PoodleCorp is still relatively new.
One thing LeakedSource staff spotted was that the first payment recorded in the botnet's control panel was of $1, while payments for the same package plan were of $19.99.
This looked like a test payment, most likely made by the person that set up the botnet's rental payment service. The data dump contained enough information to identify the person behind this initial payment in LeakedSource's own data stores. The team discovered a full name and email address, which the LeakedSource team had remembered seeing before.
"Looks like that guy tried to spread the leak of a rival competitor booter," LeakedSource told Softpedia in a Twitter conversation.
Following this discovery, LeakedSource said they've also managed to identify "full address information on 3 members, which we plan on reporting to the relevant authorities."
"It's a terrible idea to attack a business that knows something about virtually everybody," LeakedSource also added. Softpedia reached out to PoodleCorp and PoodleCorp member XO for additional comments.
PoodleCorp's DDOS tool was hacked and all user data leaked. Search for yourself on #LeakedSource . #ddos #poodlecorp #data #hack #breach — LeakedSource (@LeakedSource) August 2, 2016
PoodleCorp servers were hacked which makes it unlikely they are able to ddos #PokemonGo . #pokemon #attack #ddos #hacked #poodlecorp #poodle — LeakedSource (@LeakedSource) August 2, 2016
Despite ongoing attacks, #LeakedSource is online and stable. We are going to go play #PokemonGo now. — LeakedSource (@LeakedSource) August 2, 2016
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Hybrid Dielectric-Loaded Plasmonic Waveguide-Based Power Splitter and Ring Resonator: Compact Size and High Optical Performance for Nanophotonic Circuits
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The key challenge of the plasmonic waveguide is to achieve simultaneously both the long propagation length and high confinement. The hybrid dielectric-loaded plasmonic waveguide consists of a SiO2 stripe sandwiched between a Si-nanowire and a silver film and thus promises as a best candidate to overcome this challenge. We propose to exploit this unique property of this structure to design different high-efficient silicon-based plasmonic components including waveguide, power splitter, and wavelength-selective ring resonator. As a result, the proposed power splitter with a waveguide cross section (λ2/60) and a strong mode confinement area (~λ2/240) features a low power transmission loss (<0.4 dB) at the optimal arm length of 4 μm with respect to different separation distances of output arms. Moreover, we also demonstrate that a plasmonic ring resonator with a compact ring radius of 2 μm may achieve high optical performance such as high-extinction ratio of 30 dB, large free spectral range of 67 nm, and small bandwidth of 0.6 nm. These superior performances make them promising building blocks for integrated nanophotonic circuits.


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It is located in a quiet street. IL is attic (for larger, + 1.80m it will head down under 2 beams;)).
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5 minutes: Epernay and cellars, the Avenue de Champagne (Moët & Chandon, Mercier, De Castellane ...) / Reims is only 25 minutes (Cathedral, Veuve Clicquot, Mumm, Ruinart ...) / Circulation walk in Ay: trade, many small and large champagne houses (Deutz, Bollinger, Gosset, Giraud, ...), exhibition spaces on the champagne in Cogevi, Villa Collet, paths of walks along the canal Marne, in the vineyards ....
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SERIES: 26th regular-season meeting. The Steelers lead the series, 19-6, but the Chargers have beaten the Steelers when it mattered most. Twice when playing each other in the postseason the Chargers prevailed. The most critical win came in the 1994 AFC Championship Game, when the Chargers were nine-point underdogs and won to advance to their lone Super Bowl.
PREDICTION: Steelers 27-21
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Steelers: Ben Roethlisberger has been able practice more this week, with the Steelers hoping that will increase the cohesiveness of the offense. Even better news is the expected return of RB Willie Parker. Roethlisberger has been sacked 28 times, while the lack of a pass rush is the primary reason the Chargers rank last in the league allowing 264.9 passing yards per game. New coordinator Ron Rivera will employ a lot of stunts and overloaded looks to attack a Steelers offensive line that often struggles picking up assignments.
Chargers: WR Chris Chambers (ankle) and CB Antonio Cromartie (hip) should play.
Steelers: CBs Bryant McFadden (broken arm) and Deshea Townsend (hamstring) and TE Heath Miller (ankle) are out; Parker (shoulder) will wear a harness; LT Marvel Smith (back) is uncertain.
FAST FACTS: The Chargers are 0-12 all-time in Pittsburgh in the regular season, but have won both their postseason meetings in the city. ... Roethlisberger is 24-8 (.750) lifetime at home.
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-- CB Antonio Cromartie (hip) was able to work and is a go for Sunday.
-- OLB Marques Harris (hamstring) didn't work and could be compromised on Sunday - if he suits up. Harris plays on passing downs.
-- WR Buster Davis (groin) didn't work and it's unlikely he will be active on Sunday.
-- CB Cletis Gordon (knee) will miss at least the next two weeks.
-- S Steve Gregory (neck) was limited and has a chance to play Sunday.
-- DT Jamal Williams was given a rest day and will start Sunday.
--LB LaMarr Woodley returned to practice Thursday and should start Sunday. Woodley, second on the team with 9.5 sacks, missed last Sunday with a calf injury.
--CB Anthony Madison might play the nickel on Sunday instead of newcomer Fernando Bryant, signed on Tuesday.
--RB Mewelde Moore might handle the kickoff return duties if Willie Parker starts at running back, although Gary Russell did a decent job on kickoff returns last week.
--WR Santonio Holmes will remain as the punt returner, even if Mewelde Moore does not start. Holmes has increased his average return to 6.6 yards.
--TE Matt Spaeth will make his second straight start because of a high ankle sprain to Heath Miller. Spaeth caught six passes against the Colts.
The Chargers head to Pittsburgh on Sunday, hoping to take advantage of the Steelers' banged-up secondary.
The Chargers' deep corps of receivers against a questionable pass defense -- although ranked first in the NFL -- could be among the matchups leaning in the visitor's direction. That ranking is based primarily on the top-ranked pass defense.
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And the Chargers' receiving group got another boost Thursday when Chris Chambers went through a full practice without a hitch.
A sprained ankle, an injury that he sustained Oct. 5 in Miami, has bothered Chambers. He missed two games and was in a substitute role last Sunday when the Chargers beat the Chiefs.
Chambers, though, didn't have a catch against Kansas City. It marked but the third time in his eight-year career he played in a game and didn't record a catch.
Chambers, who came over from Miami last season in a midseason trade, has only 16 catches for 273 yards this year. But he has made his receptions count as five of them have resulted in touchdowns.
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Offensive tackle Marvel Smith will miss his fifth straight game with back problems, and nobody inside the Steelers is complaining anymore that they kept Max Starks.
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BeschreibungBuilding forth upon recent developments in democracy theory that have identified multiple forms of legitimacy, this volume observes a EU-wide shift from output legitimacy to input and throughput legitimacy. Top down policy making is increasingly meeting local resistance. As a result, the importance for policy makers of enhancing the democratic legitimacy of their policy plans has increased. In this volume, nine case studies are presented, seven case studies of protected areas in different countries (Belgium, Germany, Poland, Spain, Finland, France and the UK), and two case studies of protected species (the geese in the Netherlands, and the great Cormorant in Denmark and Italy). These case studies are followed by extensive comments. The volume opens with an introductory chapter on the problematic production of legitimacy in current European nature policy. It concludes with a chapter that situates the case studies within the wider EU environmental policy and political context.
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Chapter 1: European Nature Conservation Policy Making
From Substantive to Procedural Sources of Legitimacy
Ewald Engelen, Jozef Keulartz & Gilbert Leistra
Chapter 2: Endangered Legitimacy
Nature Policy in Flanders: Messy Participation Strategies
Dirk Bogaert & Pieter Leroy
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Messy Participation or Unfavourable circumstances?
Comments by Erik van Zadelhoff
Chapter 4: Between European Injunction and Local Consultation
Analyzing the Territorialization Process for a Public Nature Conservation Initiative in France
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Chapter 5: The Local Implementation of Nature Policy
Deliberative Democracy or Interest Politics?
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Chapter 6: Legitimacy of Biodiversity Policies in a Multi-Level Setting
The Case of Germany
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Chapter 7: Are Conflicts of Nature Distributive Conflicts?
Comments by Michiel Korthals
Chapter 8: Creation of a Bottom-up Nature Conservation Policy in Poland
The Case of the West Polesie Biosphere Reserve
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Chapter 9: Nature Conservation in Poland and the Netherlands
Bottom-up or Bottom Line?
Comments by Henny van der Windt
Chapter 10:Legitimacy Problems in Spanish Nature Policy
The case of Donana
Susana Aguilar Fernandez
Chapter 11: How to Deal With Legitimacy in Nature Conservation Policy?
Comments by Jan van Tatenhove
Chapter 12: Resistance to Top-down Conservation Policy and the Search for New Participatory Models
The Case of Bergö-Malax¿ Outer Archipelago in Finland
Susanna Björkell
Chapter 13: Visions and Scales of Nature and Society in Nature Management
Comments by Jacques Swart
Chapter 14: Conservation in Context: A View from Below
Implementation of Conservation Policies on the North York Moors
Elizabeth Oughton & Jane Wheelock
Chapter 15: Towards governance and procedural sources of legitimacy?
Comments by Marielle van der Zouwen
Chapter 16: Wintering Geese in the Netherlands... Legitimate Policy?
Gilbert Leistra, Jozef Keulartz & Ewald Engelen
Chapter 17: Vindicating Arrogant Ecologists
Comments by Wim Dubbink
Chapter 18: Legitimacy of Species Management
The Great Cormorant in the EU
Felix Rauschmayer & Vivien Behrens
Chapter 19: Animal Governance
The Cormorant Case
Comments by Hub Zwart
Chapter 20: European Union Environmental Policy and Natura 2000
From Adoption to Revision
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PressestimmenFrom the reviews:"Numerous expert contributors-25 in total-examine issues of governance and legitimacy via exploring various European case studies. ... the text to be straightforward, the discussions of policy issues to be informative, and the examinations of legitimacy production to be revealing. ... accessible to novices of EU nature conservation policy as well as to experts in the field. ... With its breadth of information, depth of discussion, and clarity of presentation, this text is accessible to both novices and experts of EU nature conservation policy." (Sarah Beach, Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, Vol. 24, 2011)
Untertitel: Case Studies in Multilevel Governance. 'The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics'. Auflage 2008. Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
Erscheinungsdatum: Dezember 2007
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MISSOULA, Mont. - Organizers for Forestry Days, held annually at Fort Missoula, say the event offers a rare bright spot for Montana's timber industry. This year it's the last stop on a national circuit where the world's best professional athletes in logger sports compete.
College students kicked off the event Friday with teams from across the Northwest.
The University of Montana, Montana State University and Flathead Valley Community College all had athletes compete.
"All these events originated from old-time logging practices, from cross-cut saws, climbing poles," said Alex Williams, a Forestry Days announcer.
Williams says it's a way to keep the state's rich logging tradition alive.
"I think the older generations definitely appreciated the preservation of the tradition, seeing the old-time practices continue," said Williams. "While they're not necessarily used in the field as much as they used to be, the tradition stays alive through events like this."
Business developers say the wood products industry is still an important part of Montana's economy, even though new data shows the industry in freefall since its peak in the '90s.
According to the Bureau of Business and Economic Development at the University of Montana, lumber production peaked in the late '80s at more than 1.5 billion board feet a year. A board foot is a measurement used in the lumber industry.
Sales value numbers for timber mirror that decline, peaking at $2 billion a year in the mid-90s, and down to a quarter of that by 2010, at $500 million.
Encouraging data has been collected in the last few years that shows slight growth in production and sales since 2010. We're told that follows an uptick in U.S. home starts.
"Most of our lumber goes to housing, so when the housing drops, most of the mills in Montana feel the effect," said Scott Kuehn, a chairman for the Society of American Foresters. "We're starting to see the increase right now. Now we're starting to see mills going to two shifts, three shifts. It's on the uptick."
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They'd never been apart before. Or, if they were, they were meters away. And suddenly, the meters became miles. And now they were sworn to give their life to a king/steward whether they liked it or not.
Merry was falling for a human, and Pippin was terrified of the impending battle. They needed each other so badly. They needed to tell the other that it was alright, they were going to be fine. Fine.
Pip was watching. Of course he was seeing Merry, the smallest of the lot. But he didn't want to believe the orc's sword catching Merry by surprise. Death was here.
Pippin yelled, and almost jumped off the battlement, restrained only by Gandalf.
He watched, sobbing, as more orcs stuck their swords in Merry. They'd obviously been told to look for the short ones.
This wasn't happening. But it was. It couldn't be, but it could be.
Pippin's world had ended. He didn't care about Frodo and Sam, and the ring.
All he cared about was the tiny body, down so far on the battlefield.
The end had come. The miles became infinite.
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| Sarah Halzack |
WASHINGTON (WP-BLOOM) – The online grocery-delivery business seems to get more crowded – and more competitive – by the minute. Tech giants Google and Amazon.com are offering it in some major cities, and so are upstarts such as Instacart, Postmates and FreshDirect. These newcomers are battling with more established businesses such as Peapod, which has been delivering groceries for more than 20 years, and services from companies such as Wal-Mart that allow customers to place orders online and pick them up at a nearby store.
It's a business that everyone seems to want in on, even though new data shows it's awfully hard to do profitably.
In some ways, the enthusiasm makes sense – According to a report from IBISWorld, a market research firm, online grocery sales grew at an annual rate of 14.1 per cent from 2009 through 2013 and are expected to grow at a rate of 9.6 per cent from 2014 through 2018.
But a closer look at the report reveals the major challenges these companies will face as they try to make these fledgling businesses viable. IBIS World estimates that the online grocery business collectively brought in $10.9 billion in sales in 2014. Profit, it estimates, was just $927.1 million, or 8.5 per cent of total revenue. By 2018, the researchers project that profit margins will slip to 6.9 per cent of sales. In part, that's because these operators will continue to contend with the high distribution costs associated with getting perishable items to customers.
The report also predicts that big players, particularly AmazonFresh, will play a role in compressing margins for the whole industry. Amazon has often sought to vanquish its competitors by undercutting them on price, and the report suggests that the company might use that tactic in the grocery business, dropping their prices as low as possible and, in doing so, pressuring their competitors to make similar price cuts. (Jeffrey P Bezos, the founder and chief executive of Amazon, owns The Washington Post.)
Even though it's a tough business model right now, report author and industry analyst Will McKitterick says companies of all stripes think they can't afford not to take a chance on it.
"For larger companies, it's definitely a process to build the infrastructure, develop the delivery networks," McKitterick said. "All of that takes a lot of time, and if they miss the boat now, then they're going to be in a pretty bad position" later if throngs of consumers take to online grocery shopping. For all the speculation about how potentially disruptive these businesses are, IBISWorld's report reveals that they so far have a low penetration in the overall grocery market. Online grocery sales were only 1.9 per cent of total grocery sales last year, by 2018, even given the rapid growth researchers anticipate, online sales are still expected to equal only 2.9 per cent of grocery sales.
In the broader retail industry, online purchases account for seven per cent of sales, which suggests that shoppers have been less willing to go digital with their grocery-shopping routines than other shopping routines. The report says that may have to do with shoppers' concern about quality and freshness of produce and meat, something that would not be a factor in buying apparel, electronics and other goods.
It may be that online grocery shopping hasn't been widely adopted in part because the services are available only in major cities; some shoppers that might want to buy online but don't have the option. But experts say it is difficult to imagine a profitable scenario in which grocery-delivery service is available outside dense urban areas, meaning the customer base is always going to be somewhat limited.
The extent of their challenge in luring customers is evident in the mix of products they're selling. For online grocers, about 30 per cent of sales come from nonfood items, such as cleaning supplies and beauty products. At bricks-and-mortar grocery stores, the share of sales from nonfood items is much lower, just 14 per cent. This suggests that even when people are using online grocery services, they're not using them for the fresh products that make these grocers distinct from, say, a traditional retailer, such as Target, that could simply send you some paper towels or toothpaste via FedEx or United Parcel Service.


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Kyle: ScratchingMature
I curled up on the bed once Damien left. I knew I shouldn't have told him. I should've kept it to myself. Burnt the money. Put it in a savings account. Fucking given it back to the bastard. I fought back a wave of nausea and wrapped myself in the comforter, breathing in Damien's scent. I was so exhausted. I hadn't slept since the thing with Graham. I was starving but I couldn't bring myself to eat. I'd just throw it up anyway. I was slipping into how I'd been all that time ago when Danny left me, before me and Damien got together. I couldn't afford to lose him. He meant everything to me.
I'd risked some lunch. But Damien didn't come back. And more than a few hours later, it resurfaced. I'd been stupid to even think Damien would come back. Why would he want to be with someone like me? Someone as worthless and disgusting as me. I slumped over the edge of the toilet, scratching viciously at my arm. My skin was already raw when I started and soon enough there was a slow trickle of blood running down my arm. I didn't care. I deserved it. I scratched even harder when it stopped hurting.
"Kyle?" I heard Damien ask.
I kept scratching, forcing more blood out of my arm. He stopped me but I kept trying to scratch my arm. Why was he here taunting me? I deserved everything shit thing I got but it hurt too much having him here. It would've hurt less if he'd just stayed away. Or at least waited til I was at work before he came to clear out his stuff. I wouldn't be surprised if he told me to leave. It was no less than I deserved, living in a motel like the whore I was.
"What're you doing?" he asked, sounding horrified.
I felt myself start to cry. Damien... Please, just go. Don't pretend to be concerned about me. I tried to go back to scratching again but he still wouldn't let me.
"Kyle, please"
I shut my eyes and he hugged me kind of tight.
I didn't hug back, too busy feeling sick at the contact. Please, just go. You're killing me. He didn't, though. He just kept hugging me. I tried to wriggle free and he let go, looking kind of sad about it. He rubbed my back as I threw up again. It was a challenge even bringing anything up, my stomach was that empty. I coughed as I tried to force something up. He disappeared, eventually coming back with a glass of water. I'd started scratching again the second he left the room, making my arm start bleeding again.
"Kyle, honey, please stop it" he said, getting a hold on my wrists.
"Get off me" I said, almost crying.
He let go of me, looking hurt and I scratched the fuck out of my arm. He bit his lip, wrapping a towel around my arm as I started bleeding even more. I whined, ignoring his silent plea for me to stop. I leant against the wall, not saying anything. Maybe if I stayed quiet enough he'd leave and stop torturing me like this.
"I shouldn't have walked out on you like that. I'm so sorry"
"I don't deserve you" I mumbled.
"Don't say that" he said, a little horrified.
"Why not? It's true"
"What makes you think that?" he asked, almost crying.
I buried my head in my hands. Isn't it obvious?
I shook my head slightly.
"I'm disgusting"
"No you're not"
"I am"
He shook his head.
"I am! I'm a disgusting, worthless excuse for a human being"
"You're not" he said, still about to cry.
Of course I'm not. That's why I can't seem to keep a relationship going. That's why I slept with a guy for money.
Damien shuffled over to me, hesitating for some reason. I hugged my knees to my chest.
"You're not to me" he said quietly, "you're the best thing that's ever happened to me"
I still didn't believe him and he cuddled me a little.
"I'm sorry I fucked off earlier. I shouldn't have. I'm sorry"
I was too busy hating myself to say anything.
"I love you"
"No you don't" I said quietly. So quietly I wasn't even sure if he heard me.
He sniffled. "Hmm?"
"How could anyone love someone like me?"
"How could anyone not love you?" he asked, trying not to burst into tears.
"Well I don't find it very easy to not love you" he said quietly.
I didn't react. Why should I? He was lying to me. I could think of a thousand reasons for someone not to love me. He cuddled me a little more, trying to cry as quietly as he could. Don't waste your tears on someone like me, gorgeous. I winced slightly as I chewed on my lip, determined to make myself bleed.
"You'll make your lip bleed" he whispered.
"Don't care"
He kept crying and I carried on chewing my lip, ignoring the thing trickle of blood that ran over my lip. He wiped it away and I kept on chewing. I shut my eyes as he cried more. He buried his head in my neck, mumbling a few times that he loved me. I didn't react. I couldn't react. I just wanted to curl up and scratch at my arm again.


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Montreal Canadiens goalie Mike Condon grew up in Massachusetts, so he still can't help but support the NFL's New England Patriots.
With his team set to take part at the 2016 Bridgestone Winter Classic at Gillette Stadium on Friday, Condon plans to rock a customized mask, paying tribute to Patriots head coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady.
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"I grew up 30 minutes from the stadium, so we were a huge Patriots family and my dad used to work security details for the Pats, so I spent a lot of time at Gillette Stadium," Condon told NHL.com.
Dave Gunnarsson, of DaveArt Studios, painted the mask for Condon that features drawing of the two central figures of the Patriots' organization as well as Belichick's famous "Do Your Job" motto.


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Editorial, US, April 8
"Despite more than two months of haggling since the January 30 election [in Iraq], the religious and ethnic factions in the new national assembly finally chose a government this week. In the end, the voters' simple message was this: We want one Iraq, despite the red lines being drawn among Sunni, Kurd, and Shia ...
"One startling result ... was that this largely Arab nation now has a Kurdish president, Jalal Talabani ... Keeping [a] message of unity won't be easy ... Shia clerics want the constitution to reflect Islamic principles and may seek to suppress the Sunni Ba'athists of the ousted Hussein regime. Kurds want autonomy, control of oil-rich Kirkuk, and their own militias. Sunnis just want to survive as a minority in a Shia-dominated nation."
Wall Street Journal
Editorial, April 7
"The choice of such a prominent Kurd is ... the most significant event so far in Iraq's democratic evolution ... The long delay in forming a government was leading some to doubt whether Iraqis were up to the task. But Mr Talabani's formal selection ... is a welcome sign that ... Iraq's Kurds will lend their talents to the creation of a functional, federal state.
"Mr Talabani is hardly an unfamiliar face. Along with the likes of Ahmed Chalabi, he was an integral part of the opposition movement that united under the banner of the Iraqi National Congress during the later Saddam years. Too often they were misleadingly derided as 'exiles' unfit to lead the country after the war."
Peter W Galbraith
Boston Globe, April 7
"Mr Talabani's personality could not be more different from Saddam Hussein ... While Saddam was insular, paranoid, and ignorant, Mr Talabani is gregarious, widely travelled, and has an appetite for knowledge as large as his legendary love of food. He is a humanist who opposes the death penalty ...
"Mr Talabani's elevation is the product of a deal between the two winners of Iraq's [elections] ... The winners - a Shia religious list that was supported by two-thirds of Iraq's Shias and a Kurdish nationalist slate that won nearly all the votes in the Kurdish north - were able to agree that a Kurd would hold the largely symbolic presidency while a Shia would be the more powerful prime minister. They agreed on a division of cabinet portfolios, but on almost nothing else ...
"The simple reality [is] that the people of Kurdistan do not want to be Iraqi at all. Simultaneous with the official balloting in January, Kurdistan held an informal referendum on the region's status, with 97% choosing independence ... Even if Kurds and Shias can find common ground on a loose federal system, it is hard to see how it will last. The Kurdish people will always want their own state and will use the democratic process to ratchet up their demands."
· Peter W Galbraith is a former US ambassador to Croatia
Guneri Civaoglu
Milliyet, Turkey, April 7
"Mr Talabani is a guarantee against the formation of a Kurdish state in the north of Iraq and Iraq being dissolved. The north being broken away from Iraq and left to [his fellow Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud] Barzani will not suit Mr Talabani's interests. Compared to a half-portion of the Kurdish leadership in northern Iraq, the presidency of Iraq represents a big phase for Mr Talabani. He will want to play the role of a key person for the US, the UK and Israel. And this is not against Turkey's interests."
· Via BBC Monitoring
Washington Post
Editorial, April 7
"The challenges still to be met by Iraq's emerging leadership during the rest of this year are so daunting as to inspire anxiety in any outside observer. A new constitution is due by August; that must be followed by a referendum in which authorities will have to win a majority in at least some Sunni and Kurdish-populated provinces. After that comes another national election for a permanent government.
"To reach this week's accord, Shia and Kurdish leaders put off potentially explosive problems that soon must be defused, like the future of the ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk. They are still at the beginning of their efforts to reach an accommodation with Sunnis and prepare a national army that can turn back the insurgency with less help from the US troops. Failure remains a distinct possibility."
Basim al-Shaykh
Al-Dustur, Iraq, April 7
"Now that Uncle Jalal has been named president of Iraq, the government has no option but to translate slogans into facts, turn words into deeds and work for the benefit of Iraq. The president is now responsible for Iraq in its entirety, rather than one region alone ... It makes no difference whether he is a Kurd, Arab, Turkoman, Muslim, Christian or Yezidi. What is important is that he is Iraqi."
· Via BBC Monitoring
Editorial, Saudi Arabia, April 7
"The new government should handle the current crisis by regarding national expectations as a crucial factor in ending the occupation ... There are many players involved in the Iraqi quagmire, and they only want to shuffle cards and kindle a civil war, which would only hinder the creation of a sovereign and independent national government."
· Via BBC Monitoring