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Highest exporter of rice in world11/25/2023 ![]() ![]() How India balances its domestic needs and its exports of rice could prove the difference between food security and hunger for millions of people around the world, they said. The value of the country’s rice exports in May rose by more than 10 percent compared with a year earlier, driven in large part by those fears, said analysts. India too, experts said, is expected to witness both increased yields and greater consumption – unlike with wheat, where the recent harvest was significantly worse than predicted.īut the ban on wheat exports has left international food markets preparing the possibility of similar restrictions by India. The US Department of Agriculture estimates that both the production and demand for rice will touch new records globally this year. Now, the food staple for more than half the planet could help India redeem itself after New Delhi’s ban on wheat exports last month sent shockwaves through the world at a time when the war in Ukraine has set off a global food crisis. China, which started importing rice from India only a few years ago, now counts the South Asian nation as its single biggest supplier. By far the world’s largest exporter of the cereal, India is the single biggest source of rice both for wealthy Middle Eastern countries like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and for developing nations in West Africa like Ghana, Benin and Togo. It isn’t just Akwai’s family that comes together over Indian rice. “Because we’re all eating Indian rice, it feels like we’re sharing a meal, even though we’re so far apart,” the 23-year-old postgraduate student of commerce said. Bengaluru, India – When Bengaluru-based Ghanaian student Desmond Akwai misses his family in Accra, he gets on a video call with them over a meal, and they eat the exact same rice dish on both sides. ![]() Mtg forgotten realms commanders11/25/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The comparatively high costs of the dragon creature cards can be absorbed well by the high mana count in the deck, further support is provided by the Dragonmaster Outcast, the Dragonspeaker Shaman or the Dragonlord’s Servant. Shivan Hellkite allows with its activated ability to inflict damage on Vrondiss to generate dragon spirit tokens. If this card is used later in the game, when several dragons (tokens) have already found their way into the game and are destroyed or targeted, good damage can be generated. The Regent, on the other hand, offers for a relatively low mana cost (2RR) the ability to inflict three points of damage to a player as soon as a dragon becomes the target of an opponent’s spell or ability. If you look at D&D lore, the Skyline Despot is reminiscent of some of the first dragons, which have the reputation of being able to create their own kind. In combination with Klauth, the Despot can be a very strong combo-card, but the cost of this card, 5RR, can be a deterrent if you don’t cast it from a mana ability. It doubles the damage dealt to a player or a permanent. The second one is similar to Furnace of Rath, but unlike it, it does not target your own creatures. Anger‘s ability gives haste if the player controls Mountains and the incarnation creature is in his graveyard. A first look at the red cards reveals two reprints from older editions, including Anger and Gratuitous Violence.īoth provide the player with a good base for high damage and fast-moving attacks. The composition of the two mana colours red and green makes sense for an aggressively conceived and built deck. The distribution of cards in the deck is divided into 40 lands, which can be a large number for commander decks, nine artifact cards, eight enchantment cards, 17 sorceries and instant spells, and 26 creatures, which ultimately complete the deck. It should be noted that it is a nice Easteregg for the lore of the deck to include a barbarian who is widely known in the Forgotten Realms for slaying a white dragon and stealing its hoard. Thus, Wulfgar fits into many green-red decks that are aggressive and rely on effects triggered by and in combat phases. ![]() His ability is a strong support for the rest of the deck and its play style – no matter if Wulfgar is played as commander or regular creature – because every triggered Ability of a permanent, which is triggered by attacking creatures, is effected another time. The third commander possibility is Wulfgar of Icewind Dale, a legendary barbarian penned by R. Combined with Skyship Stalker or Scourge of Valkas, this ability has deadly potential. ![]() In a deck named after dragons, a large mana pool provides the basis for strengthening your board and generating high attack power. This cost seems very high, but it is compensated by his ability.Įach time Klauth attacks, the player controlling him may add X mana to his mana pool in any colour combination, where X is the total power of the attacking creatures. For seven mana, 5RG, you can put this dragon, equipped with haste and flying, into play. The mechanics of this legendary creature head in a completely different direction than those of Vrondiss. The second possible commander is a legendary dragon, Klauth, Unrivaled Ancient. Thus, the Commander can be played both passively-defensively and actively-aggressively. Once a die is rolled, Vrondiss inflicts a point of damage on himself, this triggers his main ability to put a 5/4 green-red Dragon Spirit token into play each time he is dealt damage with the addition of “When this creature deals damage, sacrifice it.” is put into play. Vrondiss ability is based on self-inflicting damage and is also linked to dice. This commander is based on a mechanic that is more focused in the Dungeons&Dragons edition, the rolling of a die. The main commander of the “dragon-themed” deck is Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients, a green-red dragon barbarian (3RG). Also, again included is a life point counter, ranging from 0 to 40. The light effect on the scales is designed in the colours that the respective commander possesses. A draconic scale armour covers the front and back of the deck box, matching the Dungeons and Dragons theme. If you take a first look at the packaging of the respective set, the first thing that catches your eye is the unusual design. The four decks are called Planar Portal, Dungeons of Death, Draconic Rage and Aura of Courage. Two of these decks, which have already been released, will be examined in the following article. In the course of the big Magic the Gathering spoiler for the Adventures in the Forgotten Realms-edition, the first cards for four Commander decks were presented in advance. ![]() 3 laws of motion11/24/2023 ![]() ![]() What Newton didn't understand up to that point, and would spend the next two decades studying, was how those laws of motion related to the Earth, Moon and Sun – a concept he called "gravity." For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.The relationship between acceleration and applied force is F=ma.An object will remain in a state of inertia unless acted upon by force.He also developed the concept of infinite-series calculus, the kind of scary math studied today by engineering and statistics scholars.īy 1666, Newton had even laid the blueprints for his three laws of motion, still recited by physics students everywhere: It was during this fruitful time that Newton, with the help of a crystal prism, became the first to discover that white light is made up a spectrum of colors. When the black plague closed Cambridge University, where he was a student, for two years starting in 1665, he spent the long months locked up at home studying complex mathematics, physics and optics. Isaac Newton was born in 1642, the year of Galileo's death, and from a young age showed interest in formal education - not a given in that era - rather than farming. There is probably only a bit of truth to the apple legend, historians say, but Newton was already in the midst of some very important discoveries before that alleged fruit incident at Cambridge University. Upon getting bumped on the head by a falling apple, Newton airily dreams up the laws of gravity and the rest, as they say, is history. Planet orbiting the Sun in an orbit with e=0.The common image of Isaac Newton is that of a white-haired scientist crouched at the base of a tree. Planet orbiting the Sun in an orbit with e=0.2 Planet orbiting the Sun in an orbit with e=0.5 Planet orbiting the Sun in a circular orbit (e=0.0) A diameter would cut the orbit into equal parts, but the plane through the Sun parallel to the equator of the Earth cuts the orbit into two parts with areas in a 186 to 179 ratio, so the eccentricity of the orbit of the Earth is approximatelyĮ ≈ π 4 186 − 179 186 + 179 ≈ 0.015, Orbits of planets with varying eccentricities. The eccentricity of the orbit of the Earth makes the time from the March equinox to the September equinox, around 186 days, unequal to the time from the September equinox to the March equinox, around 179 days. Neither the linear speed nor the angular speed of the planet in the orbit is constant, but the area speed (closely linked historically with the concept of angular momentum) is constant.The Sun is not at the center but at a focal point of the elliptical orbit.The planetary orbit is not a circle with epicycles, but an ellipse. ![]() Introducing physical explanations for movement in space beyond just geometry, Kepler correctly defined the orbit of planets as follows: : 53–54
Refund voucher aer lingus11/24/2023 ![]() Of course, this trend towards dealing with customer relations through anonymous web interfaces rather than by personal contact ignores the fact that there are still many people who – for reasons of age or otherwise – are not comfortable with computers and its very remote and rigid customer service model. The statement continues by advising that refund requests should be submitted to the airline’s customer relations team through a web form on its website. If they had simply stated the above, point, ends, no one could be confused. It says something about how convoluted and legal the wording of terms and conditions can be that you, as a customer, could have been confused by the wording of the refund policy in whatever email was initially sent out to you. In a statement, the airline said: “Aer Lingus customers with bookings that have been impacted by a schedule change of over two hours, are entitled to a full refund.” They didn’t address the wording of the conditions around their refund policy but, to be fair, they came back very quickly with an assurance that you would get your money back. If true, as you pointed out in your letter this would have been deeply unfair, not least as those travelling business class were more likely frequent fliers than their economy class counterparts and more likely to have the chance to use vouchers. You say the paperwork relating to refunds suggested this was available only to customers with premium tickets and not to those who had booked economy. You note that you received a succession of emails, the first alerting you to changes in the flight schedule and subsequent ones offering you the options of rebooking, accepting more vouchers or taking a cash refund. I haven’t seen the paperwork that you received. As you say, you now have a substantial amount of money tied up in Aer Lingus flights as you had to pay for this second set of tickets before the vouchers arrived for the first, cancelled trip. And, in your case, with two significant vouchers already in hand, the last thing you wanted was more of the same. The idea that consumer rights might exist only in the absence of a crisis would have been a poor precedent for the European Union to set.Īs it happens, and as Conor reported, the Government then introduced new rules to make vouchers more attractive with the promise they would come with a Government-backed guarantee.īut you are still entitled to a cash refund and you don’t need to rely on any loophole to secure it. That didn't work out for the Government or the industry as the Commission, fortunately, said no. But these have come under pressure during the coronavirus crisis as airlines understandably struggle with cashflow.Īs my colleague Conor Pope has reported, the Government even lobbied the European Commission to allow consumer rights to be watered down so that airlines and travel companies would be allowed to offer credit notes instead of the cash refunds to which travellers are legally entitled. There are strong consumer protections in place for people whose air travel plans are disrupted. Now these flights, too, have been disrupted. Who was to know back when you booked these September flights that day-to-day living would still be quite so restricted at this time. With people desperate to get some sort of break after the lockdown, there was always a likelihood that ticket prices – like staycation accommodation rates – could jump sharply as demand soared. In the meantime, with September looking like a suitably long way away, you decided to book again, not least because you were concerned that once everyone got their vouchers, there could be a rush on rebooking which could push up the price of tickets. You accepted vouchers on that occasion but, as many people who had booked flights discovered, these took an awful long time to arrive. On the first occasion, flying was clearly impossible as the lockdown meant any leisure travel was barred and most flights were grounded. ![]() Matchbox cars11/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Instant starter collection for younger kids and perfect for party giveaways. The classic Matchbox 50 Car Pack is the perfect gift for kids 3 years and older and collectors of all ages Multiple themes with realistic details for igniting storytelling and adventures. 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We are one of the UKs top vintage Matchbox dealers, with a large selection of rare and hard to find vintage and contemporary Matchbox model cars and toys available to buy online. Assorted pack contains a random assortment of cool, detailed die-cast Matchbox cars. The Collectors Series debuted in 2021 across all retailers. TRUCK - SET ASSORTMENT 8 PIECES - 2X GARBAGE KING XL - SCALA FIRE ENGINE - 3X GMC 3500 - 2X C8500 TRIMMING. ![]() Death road to canada malicious house11/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Other code used French, Symantec said, suggesting the attackers may be attempting to make it more difficult to identify them. ![]() Symantec did not name Russia in its report but noted that the attackers used code strings that were in Russian. The group, also known as Energetic Bear or Koala, was widely believed by security experts to be tied to the Russian government. Lee called the connection to Dragonfly "loose." Dragonfly was previously active from around to 2011 to 2014, when it appeared to go dormant after several cyber firms published research exposing its attacks. critical infrastructure security firm Dragos Inc, who read the report. While concerning, the attacks were "far from the level of being able to turn off the lights, so there's no alarmism needed," said Robert M. However, other researchers cast some doubt on the findings. ![]() That level of access meant that motivation was "the only step left" preventing "sabotage of the power grid," Chien said. He said dozens of companies had been targeted and that a handful of them, including in the United States, had been compromised on the operational level. Chien said he believed that alert likely referenced the same campaign Symantec has been tracking. government warned industrial firms about a hacking campaign targeting the nuclear and energy sectors, saying in an alert seen by Reuters that hackers sent phishing emails to harvest credentials in order to gain access to targeted networks. The research adds to concerns that industrial firms, including power providers and other utilities, are susceptible to cyber attacks that could be leveraged for destructive purposes in the event of a major geopolitical conflict. The cyber attacks, which began in late 2015 but increased in frequency in April of this year, are probably the work of a foreign government and bear the hallmarks of a hacking group known as Dragonfly, Eric Chien, a cyber security researcher at Symantec, said in an interview. Malicious email campaigns have been used to gain entry into organizations in the United States, Turkey and Switzerland, and likely other countries well, Symantec said in a report published on Wednesday. By Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Advanced hackers have targeted United States and European energy companies in a cyber espionage campaign that has in some cases successfully broken into the core systems that control the companies' operations, according to researchers at the security firm Symantec. ![]() Noctuid mouseless11/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Vim and Emacs style movement commands are faster than the mouse in certain contexts, but I'm dubious that's universally true. The pro-mouse argument is, more or less, that the context switch that really costs you time isn't the one involving the mouse, but the one involving remembering and/or finding the keyboard shortcut or function key. ![]() It's very easy on HN to find the pro-keyboard arguments. (2) The stopwatch consistently proves mousing is faster than keyboarding." You decide what to enhance and what to leave behind. Overcome overwhelming odds and fight for your life and the survival of your ship and its crew. Choose your crew: Before each mission, choose up to three officers with special abilities that aid your progress through the missions. We discovered, among other things, two pertinent facts: (1) Test subjects consistently report that keyboarding is faster than mousing. Recruit more crew members along your journey. ![]() They are considered the most controversial family in the superfamily Noctuoidea because many of the clades are constantly changing, along with the other families of the Noctuoidea. "We've done a cool $50 million of R&D on the Apple Human Interface. The Noctuidae, commonly known as owlet moths, cutworms or armyworms, are a family of moths. Early research in human-computer interfaces suggests that this isn't actually the case, though. Active echolocation enables bats to orient and hunt the night sky for insects. moves the mouse leftwards when pressed. noctuid: noun any of a large family (Noctuidae) of medium-sized often dull-colored moths with larvae (such as cutworms and armyworms) that are often destructive agricultural pests. This mod lets you control the mouse via keyboard inputs Listed below are the current keybindings: Mouse Up. I suspect a lot more of it is perception than people imagine: keeping your hands on the keyboard all the time seems like it intuitively must be faster. For those who dont have a mouse or dont want to use a trackpad. ![]() Ea sports ufc 4 voice actors11/24/2023 ![]() The official subreddit for all things MMA gaming. If you are caught doing this, the result is a permanent ban.The official subreddit for all things MMA gaming. ![]() If you want to improve the sub, make a contribution! Reddit is driven by user-submitted content. Stats don't always tell the story, and decisions in MMA are tricky. So as they say, don't leave it to the judges. Self-explanatory, we will have differences but no need to flame. We won't tolerate any threads and posts that just bash the game for no reason. If you think something can be improved, then, by all means, you can mention it but please make sure to add some reasoning to it and of course suggestions. Highlight videos, gifs, and tutorials are highly encouraged If you have any questions about the game please use this search function and make sure the answer isn't already waiting for you There are plenty of FAQ and threads that have been posted multiple times. No x user is lag switching, cheating, etc posts.ĭo not post links to fight streams. If you have any questions, feel free to send one of the mods a message! If you are caught doing this, the result is a permanent ban. Loved UFC 3 so I pre-ordered UFC 4, mostly to play the "improved" career mode. So if you're like me, I can say: wait to see if they patch it, cause its balls right now. ![]() The advertised fighter relationships is hollow- the idea that you can build relationships with other fighters (either as friends or rivals) sounded really good in the trailer, but the reality is it's just a meter on the game. You press a button, the meter increases or decreases. ![]() Honestly feels like it's just there so the devs could tout it as a feature, and put no work into it aside from the barest of minimums It reminds me of those old Facebook/mobile games that featured nothing but increasing bars and nice sounds. The career mode is practically the same as UFC 3, except now you don't get to train to improve your stats. Instead, you have to spar or fight to generate points to spend in improving your fighter. It sounds fun, but the generation of points is ridiculously slow, so you have to spar.a lot, and I mean a lot. (You can skip weeks to generate a meagre amount of points too) That's also your only functional form of training, so you better have a lot of patience for it. Ranked fighters were included no matter what, the rest were chosen by either popularity, recognition, or record/potential. I did no more than 10 fighters per weight class. Remember how you could improve your strikes by learning/training with other fighters in UFC 3? That's gone. Make your top 5 picks for fighters to be added to EA UFC 4. Now you have to throw/land a strike or do a specific move in fights or spars to improve it. Again, it sounds good on paper, but the number of repetitions it takes to go advance from level 2 onwards gets awfully high. Also- this includes ground and clinch transitions, which you cannot start from in sparring. If you want to improve off your back, better hope the AI feels like taking you down, and also you better have a good few hours just spamming ground transitions. If that doesn't sound fun, it's because it isn't.ģb. Wanted to rename the original QRT from "canned" to "paused" because I've not been told that it's 100% canned yet.If you think that the devs chose that to introduce advance tutorials (striking combos/clinch control) you're wrong. Either way, it’s clear that even in the best case scenario, it’s probably going to be a while before Fight Night makes its comeback- if it does.Ī Fight Night reboot had to be *paused* for it □ Of course, there has been no official word from EA about a Fight Night revival (even though it has been in the rumour mill for a couple of years), while even EA Sports UFC 5 has yet to be officially announced. Whether that means EA Canada will move on to Fight Night once UFC 5 has launched next year remains to be seen. Interestingly, Henderson also reiterated that the Fight Night reboot’s development had to be paused because of the UFC game, and in a follow-up tweet, said that the reboot hasn’t yet been “100%” canned. Responding to that question over on Twitter, Henderson recently stated that EA is currently targeting a summer 2023 launch window for EA Sports UFC 5. ![]() It’s been nearly two years since EA Sports UFC 4launched though, so when can we expect its follow-up to launch. Why? Apparently, to focus on the development of EA Sports UFC 5. In November last year, prominent insider Tom Henderson reported that EA had greenlit a revival of the Fight Night series– but in the very same report, it was stated that developer EA Canada had put that game’s development on hold. ![]() Class actio. laws11/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Specifies that, absent a showing by the moving party of substantial need and good cause (subject to an assessment of whether the burden of the proposed discovery outweighs its likely benefit), a party is not required to provide discovery of four categories of electronically stored information (ESI) as outlined in the legislation. Provides that any party has a nondiscretionary right to interlocutory appeal of class certification. The personal injury bar’s argument against the interlocutory appeal of class action certification orders - that such orders are appealable at the end of a case - fails to take into account the strong incentive that defendants have to settle an unmeritorious case once the class is certified in order to save unnecessary litigation costs. The personal injury bar’s argument against meaningful class action certification standards - that flexible standards make the process more efficient by incorporating all like claims, and more fair by ensuring representation for plaintiffs with claims that would not otherwise be profitable for attorneys - fails to address the hardship imposed by abuse of the device on class members, (who receive pennies, while their lawyers receive millions), defendants, (who are often forced to settle unmeritorious lawsuits), and consumers, (who ultimately bear the burden of class actions through increased costs). April 2020 Press Release “Covid Class Actions Surge – 90% Receive No Benefit”.April 2020 Op-Ed “Class Action Conundrum”. ![]() ATRA also supports legislation that allows the interlocutory (immediate) appeal of class action certification orders. The Court further notes that it is "satisfied that Class Counsel have demonstrated commendable diligence, perseverance and skill in pursuing a challenging piece of litigation and bringing it to a successful conclusion".ATRA supports state legislation that allows only plaintiffs from the forum state who have suffered the same injury with similar claims against similar defendants to be certified as a class. Rochester Financial Limited, 2012 ONSC 911, the Court refers to us as "highly-qualified and reputable counsel" and notes that the action would not have been commenced, let alone resolved, had it not been for our "initiative, tenacity and persistence…in the face of widespread apathy on the part of all Class Members". ![]() the work undertaken was necessary, reasonable and performed with a high level of skill and diligence". "are experienced litigation counsel and specialists in the class action area. Rochester Financial Limited, 2010 O.N.S.C. The Distribution Plan crafted reflects counsel's very considerable experience and provides a cost-efficient manner of distributing proceed of settlement to Class members". "Class Counsel funded the disbursements and inventoried their time. Daya et al (December 7, 2007), in relation to our firm: In addition, we have been recognized by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice as counsel having ".a reputation for integrity of the highest order".Īs stated by the court in Reasons for Decision in Bellaire et al v. "He has retained experienced counsel and - notwithstanding the need to prove and rely upon the laws of other Canadian jurisdictions to a limited extent - I see no reason to doubt that his interests and those of the class will be adequately represented." − q2 and Rentcash (May 10, 2006) in relation to our firm: It is apparent from the evidence and submissions at the fairness hearing that the class members have been well represented." − q1Īs stated by the court in Reasons for Decision in Thompson McCutcheon v. "The Class Counsel in the case at hand is experienced in class proceedings. London Life Insurance Company (October 18, 2001) in relation to our firm: As stated by the court in Reasons for Decision in Directright Cartage Ltd. ![]() AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |