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Associate Minister of Natural Gas and Electricity Dale Nally provided, in Edmonton on Thursday, July 9, 2020, details on a new petrochemical program to support Alberta’s economic diversification and recovery.
A new 10-year grant program will attract a wave of investment to the province’s petrochemical sector, diversifying the economy and getting Albertans back to work.
The Alberta Petrochemicals Incentive Program, part of Alberta’s Recovery Plan, will bring multi-billion dollar investments to petrochemical projects throughout Alberta, helping to strengthen and diversify the province’s economy and create new jobs for Albertans.
The current global health crisis has highlighted the importance of petrochemical manufacturing around the world. Petrochemical facilities make the building blocks required for everyday consumer and professional items like medical equipment, computers and cellphones, personal protective equipment like rubber gloves and masks, car seats and tires, and fertilizer for agriculture and home gardening.
Alberta is already among Canada’s largest hubs for petrochemicals manufacturing, and with global demand for petrochemicals expected to continue to increase, there is a significant opportunity for Albertans and the province to expand this sector. For example, Alberta’s Industrial Heartland Association estimates there could be a further $30 billion of private-sector investment in the province’s petrochemical sector by 2030.
“While Alberta is already a Canadian leader in petrochemicals manufacturing, the sky is the limit for this sector’s benefits to our province. Over the last 10 years, petrochemical investment in the United States reached $250 billion, more than 10 times what was invested in Canada. With our affordable 300-year supply of natural gas, technically skilled and educated workforce, and respected innovation and research sectors, Alberta is ready to seize the opportunity to become a global destination for petrochemical manufacturing, benefiting all Albertans.” said Dale Nally, Associate Minister of Natural Gas and Electricity.
Compared to previous government petrochemical programs, the Alberta Petrochemicals Incentive Program will cut red tape and increase certainty and flexibility for investors, attracting more financial investment into Alberta’s petrochemicals sector. Key features include:
A 10-year program period during which eligible projects must be built and operational.
Adopting an open and transparent funding process, whereby every project that meets the program’s criteria will receive funding once built and operational. Government will no longer pick winners and losers through a private evaluation process.
Grants – instead of royalty credits – to be issued to companies after eligible projects are operational. In the current economic climate, grants are the most effective way to attract investment. Grants allow companies to better account for the full value of the incentive provided when calculating their project’s return on investment.
Making the funds available throughout the program’s duration once the facilities are in service, in order to align with typical business investment cycles.
“The Alberta Petrochemicals Incentive Program will have a significant impact on enhancing the competitiveness of Alberta when attracting large-scale, value-add investments, relative to other global jurisdictions. This program, coupled with the other tremendous competitive advantages that Alberta’s Industrial Heartland has to offer, including world-leading carbon capture and storage infrastructure, will stimulate job-creating economic activity that will benefit all Albertans and all Canadians.” said Mark Plamondon, executive director, Alberta’s Industrial Heartland Association.
"Alberta is leading the way on economic recovery. The Alberta Petrochemicals Incentive Program shows that the province understands how to win global-scale chemistry sector investments. In this time of uncertainty, these actions signal confidence in Alberta’s future prosperity and will attract investors to the province.” said Bob Masterson, president and CEO, Chemistry Industry Association of Canada.
"Resource Diversification Council member companies commend the Government of Alberta for its bold action introducing a broad-ranging jobs creation program that is intended to attract significant new investment to the Alberta economy, including in the petrochemical sector. Government support is critical to level the playing field with other economic competitors that are aggressively courting investment, especially during these challenging times. Other jurisdictions are doing all that they can to attract investment and the RDC is encouraged to see Alberta sharpen its competitive focus to bring long-term benefit to Albertans.” said David Chappell, board chair, Resource Diversification Council.
Government will work with industry over the summer to finalize the program guidelines. More details about eligibility, process, governance and reporting requirements will be available when the program is officially launched in early fall.
Alberta’s government is helping create thousands of good jobs for Albertans by building schools, roads and other core infrastructure that benefits Albertans and communities. It will further diversify our economy by helping sectors grow and succeed and return investment to our province by ensuring we have the most competitive tax environment in Canada.
(photography by Chris Schwarz/Government of Alberta)
The Carlyle, A Rosewood Hotel
35 East 76th Street (Madison Avenue at 76th Street),
New York, NY 10021
The Carlyle's design was described as a "diversified setback style," which provides private terraces for some guest rooms and suites.
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Named for British essayist Thomas Carlyle, the 35-story hotel, designed by the architectural firm of Bien & Prince, was completed in 1930. Moses Ginsberg, a millionaire construction magnate, built the Carlyle Hotel.
A newspaper account of the time described the design as a "diversified setback style," which provides private terraces for some guest rooms and suites. The Carlyle dominates the Upper East Side skyline over which it presides.
The Carlyle was planned as a hotel and as a group of individual residences, some large, other small assembled under one roof. Bien & Prince also designed the apartment house 140 E. 40 St.
The strong Art Deco influence, introduced by the hotel's first decorator Dorothy Draper, has been maintained, from the black and white marbled lobby to Art Deco motifs of the hotel's specialty suites. In 2002, interior designer Thierry Despont restored Bemelmans Bar and the Lobby while the Café Carlyle, restored by Scott Salvator, and the Banquet Space, were renovated by Matthew White and Frank Webb, in 2007.
According to Wikipedia the hotel went into receivership in 1931 and was sold to the Lyleson Corporation in 1932. In 1948, the Carlyle was purchased by New York businessman Robert Whittle Downing who began to transform it from a respectable address to a "downright fashionable" one, frequented by elegant Europeans.
President John F. Kennedy owned an apartment on the 34th floor for ten years. The hotel's Café Carlyle hosted jazz performer Bobby Short from 1968-2004 and Woody Allen and his jazz band have played regularly.
Bought by Maritz, Wolff & Company 2001 for $130 million, the Carlyle is a cooperative with 180 rental rooms and suites and 60 privately owned residences.
On July 29, 2011 Maritz, Wolff sold the Carlyle to the family of Hong Kong billionaire Cheng Yu-tung along with Rosewood Little Dix Bay Resort in Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands; Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek and Rosewood Crescent Hotels both located in Dallas, TX; and the Rosewood Inn of the Anasazi in Santa Fe, NM. The five hotel portfolio was sold for about $570 million.
Rosewood will continue to manage the five hotels under a long-term agreement with the new owner.
The Chengs also own the Beverly Wilshire, a Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles, and had a former interest in the Four Seasons Hotel New York and Regent Hotel Hong Kong. In a related 2011 transaction the Cheng's New World Hospitality hotel management company acquired Rosewood Hotel Management Company for $229.5 million.
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What do museums of contemporary art stand for today? The last two decades has seen an unimaginable diversification of the museum as a place for exhibiting art and telling history, producing innovative education models, promoting international collaborations, forming alternative archives, and facilitating new productions.
This conference aims to tackle key questions around the museum as an institutional entity and contemporary art as an art historical category. Speakers will provide an overview of developments across the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Particular attention will be paid to the construction of historical narratives (or their abandonment) through collection displays, the role of research in relation to contemporary art, the alternative models that are already having an impact, and their relationship to more traditional museum infrastructures.
Presented by the Ph.D. Program in Art History at the CUNY Graduate Center, Independent Curators International, and the New Museum.
Schedule
Thursday, March 10 | 7–9 p.m. | New Museum
7:15 p.m. "Exhibition Machines"
A conversation with artist Paul Chan and Philippe Vergne, Director, Dia Art Foundation, New York.
Friday, March 11 | 10 a.m.–6 p.m. | CUNY Graduate Center
10:15 a.m. "Revisiting The Late Capitalist Museum"
A panel discussion with Bruce Altshuler, Director, Program in Museum Studies, New York University; Manuel Borja-Villel, Director, Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid; and Beatriz Colomina, Professor, Department of Architecture, Princeton University.
Chaired by Johanna Burton, Director, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies.
12 p.m. "Sources of the Contemporary Museum"
A conversation with Carlos Basualdo, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Curator at MAXXI, Rome, and Pamela M. Lee, Professor, Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University.
2:30 p.m. "The Artist's Perspective"
A conversation with artist Dara Birnbaum and Ute Meta Bauer, Associate Professor and Director, Visual Arts Program, MIT.
3:40 p.m. "Contemporanizing History/Historicizing the Contemporary"
A panel discussion with Okwui Enwezor, Director, Haus der Kunst, Munich; Annie Fletcher, Curator, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven; Massimiliano Gioni, Associate Director and Director of Exhibitions, New Museum, New York; and Terry Smith, Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory, University of Pittsburgh.
Chaired by Claire Bishop, Associate Professor of Art History, CUNY Graduate Center.
Saturday, March 12 | 12–6 p.m. | New Museum
12:15 p.m. "Extending Infrastructures, Part I: Platforms & Networks"
A panel discussion with Zdenka Badovinac, Director, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana; Anthony Huberman, Distinguished Lecturer, Hunter College and Director, The Artist's Institute, New York; Maria Lind, Director, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm; and Lu Jie, Director and Chief Curator, Long March Project, Beijing.
Chaired by Kate Fowle, Director, Independent Curators International, New York.
2:30 p.m. "Extending Infrastructures, Part II: Bricks & Mortar"
A panel discussion with Richard Armstrong, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation; curator and artist Gabi Ngcobo, Johannesburg; and Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, Director, Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York and Caracas.
Chaired by Eungie Joo, Director and Curator of Education and Public Programs, New Museum.
4:45 p.m. "What does the museum stand for now?"
Responses by Katy Siegel, Professor, Department of Art, Hunter College and Dominic Willsdon, Curator of Education and Public Programs, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Sunday, March 13 | 2–6 p.m. | New Museum
2 p.m. "Graduate Students Respond"
A graduate student symposium co-chaired by Claire Bishop, Kate Fowle, and Martin Grossmann, Professor, School of Art and Communications, University of São Paulo.
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
Independent Curators International
New Museum
235 Bowery
New York, NY 10002
Lost Einsteins: Diversifying Innovation
Amy Brachio, Global Deputy Vice-Chair, EY, USA. Kevin Frey, Chief Executive Officer, Generation Unlimited, UNICEF, Generation Unlimited, USA. Tomas Lamanauskas, Deputy Secretary-General-elect, International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Geneva
Maria Leptin, President, European Research Council, Belgium. Magdalena Skipper, Editor-in-Chief, Nature, United Kingdom
Tuesday 2 May 2023
14.45 - 15.30
Stakeholder Dialogue
World Economic Forum Headquarters, Eiger
Copyright: World Economic Forum/Jean-Luc Auboeuf
The Growth Summit: Jobs and Opportunity for All 2023 in Geneva, Switzerland
Merchant St, Rangoon
Founded by Scotsman Alexander Scott in 1855 as a general merchant, Messrs A Scott & Co diversified into banking, and were Civil Service agents, shipping and forwarding agents, were agents for insurance companies, importers of wines & spirits, general merchandise as well as being an exporter of Burmese cheroots. Cheroots are the Burmese version of cigars and this Scots-owned company exported principally to Scotland.
Like many of the British trading houses in Rangoon, the mercantile world dominated by Scotsmen. In his 1923 book "Into the East: notes on Burma & Malaya", author Richard Curle notes that "Rangoon society is essentially Scottish, and the clan-element in its blood assures to any fellow-countryman a comprehensive welcome." Allistair MacMillan's incomparable guidebook and directory "Seaports of the Far East" (1923) refers to "Rangoon being a 'suburb' of Glasgow commercially".
Of the 8 members of the Rangoon Chamber of Commerce in 1910, 5 were Scotsmen (FD Stewart, AR Finlay of Messrs JA Begbie & Co, JA Polson of the Irrawaddy Flotilla Co, J Wood of Messrs Bulloch Bros Ltd & JY Munro).
Furthermore, the 1910 Rangoon Trades Association which represented the interests of the colonial businessmen included representatives from Messrs Whiteaway Laidlaw & Co, Messrs Misquith & Co, Messrs Macfie & Co and Messrs Scott & Co - all fine Scottish trading companies. Required reading is Alister McCrae's 'Scots in Burma' wich also gives an account of the author's work for the 'Flotilla' in the 1930s.
FWRY 100 westbound crossing a trestle over the west fork of Sespe Creek ~ [Fillmore] Ventura County, CA
Locomotive History: Former CNW F7(A) # 100 was originally delivered to the C&NW as their # 4068A in March of 1949. She was rebuilt as a commuter engine in 1959 and renumbered to 409 before becoming Chicago RTA # 409 in 1978 and then Metra in 1983. Later, she went to Rails Diversified, and then to Winchseter & Western, and then to Maryland Midland as their number 100. Short Line Enterprises [the owner of Fillmore & Western] acquired her from them.
Trestle History: Built in 1902 to replace the previous bridge, and part of the original Southern Pacific main line between San Francisco and Los Angeles.
85 West 1st Ave, Vancouver, BC.
Historic Place:
The historic place, a familiar local landmark, is the large, red, wood industrial building at 85 West 1st Avenue, Vancouver, built in or around 1930 and located on city-owned landin South East False Creek.
Heritage Value:
The Vancouver Salt Company Building has heritage value for representing the secondary food-processing industry and the diversification of the local economy to meet the needs of the fishery; for its architectural and structural qualities; as a rare intact survivor of the industrial buildings that once dominated South East False Creek (SEFC); and as a neighbourhood landmark. SEFC was, through much of the twentieth century, a beehive of industrial activity. Most industries located here for access to water, rail, and road transportation. Heavy industrial uses, such as sawmills and steel fabrication, prevailed. The subject site was used from the early 1900s for gravel storage.
The Vancouver Salt Co. operation was important technologically for the means of
extraction, for using False Creek to transport goods, for its contributions to other
industries, and for the way in which ownership changes illustrate patterns of international trade and corporate acquisition. Unrefined salt was shipped to Vancouver from the San Francisco Bay Area, where it had been recovered from brine by solar evaporation. This unusual technique was traditional to the Bay Area, originating with the Ohlone Indians and continued by the Spanish missionaries. The Vancouver-bound salt was extracted by the Leslie Salt Refining Co. of Newark, California (acquired in 1978 by Cargill Inc.), which owned the Vancouver Salt Co. The operation changed to Arden Vancouver Salt Co. Ltd. in 1970 and was later acquired by Domtar Ltd. By the late 1980s the building was used for paper recycling: first by Belkin Paper Stock Ltd. and then by Paperboard Industries. Raw salt was unloaded at Burrard Inlet and brought by scow to False Creek, where the Vancouver Salt Co. ‘semi-refined’ it by washing, drying, grinding, and sifting it into a coarse product fit for human consumption. The original market was as a preservative for the fishery, particularly the area’s Asian-Canadian fish-packers. Subsequent uses included other kinds of food-packing, tanneries, cold-storage plants, and highway ice removal. By 1950 rail and then trucks replaced boats for receiving and shipping the salt, reflecting changes brought about by the development of wheeled transport.
The building has heritage value as a pragmatic and attractive response to the needs of the salt operation and the site. It was built about 1930, squeezed between two lumber operations and mostly on a City-owned water lot, with only the southwest corner situated above the historic high water line. The original structure, a block about 90 by 145 feet, is supported on piles. A complex roof truss system directs the loads onto columns in the lateral walls and down the centre, creating a large open space. A raised monitor roof has a clerestory to admit light and air. The expansion of the building to the north in 1954-55 (Wright Engineers Ltd.) speaks to the growing demand for salt and the evolving refinery technology. New equipment was accommodated in part by building a roof over the existing 35-foot-deep apron at the rear, the former loading dock. The gable-roofed eastern portion held four large brine tanks, and the shed-roofed western part became a dry storage shed. A new hopper and conveyor were installed by the 1st Avenue loading dock, since the raw salt now arrived by truck. The conveyor may have necessitated raising the roof, which would date the tall silo-like cap at the front to this time. Minor alterations were made in 1970 for the Arden Vancouver Salt Co. Ltd. (Richard E. Cole, Engineer). The replacement of the salt-processing machinery with paper-shredding equipment in 1987 reflects the growing importance of the recycling industry. Belkin Paper Stock Ltd. also clad the sides with galvanized steel and cut new doors in the north elevation (De Guriby Ltd., Engineers, and Amundson Construction Co. Ltd). The building stands empty today, displaying physical evidence of its evolution and its uses.
Character-defining Elements:
- Broad building with a medium-sloped roof and gable at the front (south)
- Monitor roof, with a clerestory containing a row of 15-pane windows and cedar
ventilation louvres
- Taller, silo-like, gable-roofed feature at front of monitor
- Small-paned windows on the front elevation
- Loading dock at the front, protected from the weather by a shed roof
- Wood stud walls, covered externally with diagonal sheathing and horizontal
finished siding
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- Large, open interior space, interrupted only by a row of columns down the centre
- Elaborate roof truss and knee braces, composed of wood members with metal
fastenings and hardware
- Two salt hoppers along the side wall (inside the building)
- Profile of main gable and monitor roof seen from the rear (north)
- Location on the axis of Manitoba Street
- Wetland beneath building
- City of Vancouver
Megha Kohli, Executive Chef and Head of Operations, Lavaash by Saby, India speaking during the Session "Diversifying the P(a)late" at the India Economic Summit 2019 in New Delhi, India, Copyright by World Economic Forum / Benedikt von Loebell
The Burj Khalifa is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. With a total height of 829.8 m (2,722 ft, just over half a mile) and a roof height (excluding antenna, but including a 244 m spire[2]) of 828 m (2,717 ft), the Burj Khalifa has been the tallest structure and building in the world. The building was opened in 2010 as part of a new development called Downtown Dubai. It is designed to be the centrepiece of large-scale, mixed-use development. The decision to construct the building is based on the government's decision to diversify from an oil-based economy, and for Dubai to gain international recognition.
The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) East Africa is working with the Kenya Agriculture Research Institute (KARI) and the Ministry of Agriculture to empower farmers to manage climate risk through a combination of crop diversification and improved practices. They are introducing sorghum, pigeon peas, cowpeas, green grams and sweet potatoes to supplement the traditional maize, cassava and bean staples. More than 250 households are using improved agronomic practices and KARI has started on-farm multiplication of an improved cassava variety (MH95/0183) that resists mosaic virus. Photos: K. Trautmann. Read more about Climate Smart Practices in East Africa.
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On 10 November, UNDP officials visited a project that now aims to diversify Benin's agriculture at the national level, turning smallholders into entrepreneurs across the country.
The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) East Africa is working with the Kenya Agriculture Research Institute (KARI) and the Ministry of Agriculture to empower farmers to manage climate risk through a combination of crop diversification and improved practices. They are introducing sorghum, pigeon peas, cowpeas, green grams and sweet potatoes to supplement the traditional maize, cassava and bean staples. More than 250 households are using improved agronomic practices and KARI has started on-farm multiplication of an improved cassava variety (MH95/0183) that resists mosaic virus. Photos: K. Trautmann. Read more about Climate Smart Practices in East Africa.
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The Burj Khalifa is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. With a total height of 829.8 m (2,722 ft, just over half a mile) and a roof height (excluding antenna, but including a 244 m spire[2]) of 828 m (2,717 ft), the Burj Khalifa has been the tallest structure and building in the world. The building was opened in 2010 as part of a new development called Downtown Dubai. It is designed to be the centrepiece of large-scale, mixed-use development. The decision to construct the building is based on the government's decision to diversify from an oil-based economy, and for Dubai to gain international recognition.
Panelists Tao Zhang, IMF Deputy Managing Director, Yanqing Yang, Abraham Tekeste, Luis Fernando Mejia, Mame Khary Diene and Min Zhu during the IMF seminar Achieving Economic Diversification in Low Income Countries at the 2018 IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings on Friday, April 20 in Washington, D.C. Ryan Rayburn/IMF Photo
FWRY 100 westbound crossing Seventh St ~ [Fillmore] Ventura County, CA
History: Former CNW F7(A) # 100 was originally delivered to the C&NW as their # 4068A in March of 1949. She was rebuilt as a commuter engine in 1959 and renumbered to 409 before becoming Chicago RTA # 409 in 1978 and then Metra in 1983. Later, she went to Rails Diversified, and then to Winchseter & Western, and then to Maryland Midland as their number 100. Short Line Enterprises [the owner of Fillmore & Western] acquired her from them.
The Burj Khalifa is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. With a total height of 829.8 m (2,722 ft, just over half a mile) and a roof height (excluding antenna, but including a 244 m spire[2]) of 828 m (2,717 ft), the Burj Khalifa has been the tallest structure and building in the world. The building was opened in 2010 as part of a new development called Downtown Dubai. It is designed to be the centrepiece of large-scale, mixed-use development. The decision to construct the building is based on the government's decision to diversify from an oil-based economy, and for Dubai to gain international recognition.
German company NSU was founded in 1873, initially manufacturing knitting machines. The company diversified into bicycles in 1880, and motorcycles in 1901. The first NSU automobile debuted in 1905.
Motorcycle production resumed after WWII, followed by the new Prinz automobile in 1957. The Prinz was a small rear-engine car, powered by a 583 cc twin-cylinder producing 20 hp (15 kW)
The Sport Prinz was a 2-seater sports coupe variant. It was designed by Franco Scaglione at Bertone studios in Turin. 20,831 were manufactured between 1958 and 1968. The first 250 bodies were built by Bertone in Turin. The rest were built in Heilbronn at Karrosseriewerke Drauz which was later bought by NSU.
The Sport Prinz was initially powered by the 583 cc (35.6 cu in) Prinz 50 straight-twin engine but a maximum speed of 160 km/h (99 mph) was nevertheless claimed. From late 1962 a 598 cc (36.5 cu in) engine was fitted.
The NSU Spider was a Wankel rotary powered two-seater roadster based on the Sport Prinz platform.
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Diversified livelihoods such as beekeeping can help improve the income of rural communities. Apart from producing honey to sell to market, beekeeping helps promote conservation of the natural environment, which many poor communities depend on for food and energy
UNDP’s Climate Change Adaptation Project (CCAP) is committed to helping vulnerable rural families increase their incomes.
As part of the livelihood component, the project provided four beehives, beekeeping tools and jars for honey, including a 12-day training that gave beneficiaries the necessary skills to maintain their beekeeping business.
© UNDP Afghanistan / S. Omer Sadaat / 2018
Text story:
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For Karima, one of the happiest moments of her life was when she earned her first thousand Afghani (US$ 15), when she sold a kilo of honey made from her own bee-keeping business. It may seem like a small amount, but for Karima, it was life changing!
Karima is a housewife and a mother of four. Her husband could barely feed the family from the work he could get, so Karima’s contribution to the household income was significant.
She has seen a lot in her life. She still remembers the agony and frustration when they had no money and their son was sick. As tears well in her eyes, she relates, “We were not able to buy him medicine. We couldn’t do anything but cry and wait for him to either die or recover by himself.”
Her husband, Khalil, who was very fond of honey, tried his hand at beekeeping before, but because he didn’t know how to maintain his beehives, his bees all died.
But, Karima and Khalil did not give up. They decided to seek help from the Directorate of Agriculture in Herat city.
UNDP’s Climate Change Adaptation Project (CCAP) is committed to helping vulnerable rural families increase their incomes.
As part of the livelihood component, the project provided four beehives, beekeeping tools and jars for honey, and, crucially, a 12-day training that gave beneficiaries
A tliapia in prime condition at The Fish Company, Scampton, Lincolnshire.
Farmers Andrew Buckley and John Warden, accompanied by Dr Adrian Hartley, have diversified into producing Tilapia for the UK market - these tropical fish are already extremely popular in the US, Mexico and Egypt.
© Richard Faulks. Countryside November 2011.
French collector card by Chocolat Poulain, Blois, series 42, no. 21. Photo: Walt Disney Productions. Caption: Cinema Father Christmas. Walt Disney won his first Oscar in 1932.
On 16 October 1923, Walt Disney (1901-1966) and his brother Roy O. Disney founded the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio. Later the studio operated under The Walt Disney Studio and Walt Disney Productions. The company established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into live-action film production, television, and theme parks. But it all started with Mickey Mouse, who Disney created in 1928 and is still Disney's signature mascot and emblem.
Walt Disney was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1901. His father, Elias Disney, was an Irish-Canadian. His mother, Flora Call Disney, was of German-American descent. Walt was one of five children, four boys and a girl and was raised on a farm near Marceline, Missouri. He early became interested in drawing, selling his first sketches to neighbours when he was only seven years old. At McKinley High School in Chicago, Walt divided his attention between drawing and photography, contributing both to the school paper. At night he attended the Academy of Fine Arts. During the fall of 1918, Disney attempted to enlist for military service. Rejected because he was only 16 years of age, Walt joined the Red Cross and was sent overseas, where he spent a year driving an ambulance and chauffeuring Red Cross officials. His ambulance was covered from stem to stern, not with stock camouflage, but with drawings and cartoons. After the war, Walt returned to Kansas City, where he began his career as an advertising cartoonist. Here, in 1920, he created and marketed his first original animated cartoons, and later perfected a new method for combining live-action and animation. In early 1923, animator Walt Disney created a short film entitled Alice's Wonderland, which featured child actress Virginia Davis interacting with animated characters. After the bankruptcy in 1923 of his previous firm, Laugh-O-Gram Studio, Disney moved to Hollywood to join his brother, Roy O. Disney. Film distributor Margaret J. Winkler of M.J. Winkler Productions contacted Disney with plans to distribute a series of Alice Comedies purchased for $1,500 per reel with Disney as a production partner. Walt and Roy Disney formed the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio that same year. More animated films followed after Alice. In January 1926, with the completion of the Disney studio on Hyperion Street, the Disney Brothers Studio's name was changed to the Walt Disney Studio. Hundreds of Alice Comedies were produced between 1923 and 1927 before they lost popularity. After the demise of the Alice Comedies, Disney developed an all-cartoon series starring his first original character, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, which Winkler Pictures distributed through Universal Pictures. The distributor owned Oswald, so Disney only made a few hundred dollars. From 1927 on, Disney completed 26 Oswald shorts before losing the contract in February 1928, due to a legal loophole, when Winkler's husband Charles Mintz took over their distribution company. After failing to take over the Disney Studio, Mintz hired away four of Disney's primary animators (the exception being Ub Iwerks) to start another animation studio, Snappy Comedies. In 1928, to recover from the loss of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Disney came up with the idea of a mouse character named Mortimer while on a train headed to California, drawing up a few simple drawings. The mouse was later renamed Mickey Mouse and starred in several Disney-produced films. Ub Iwerks refined Disney's initial design of Mickey Mouse. Disney's first sound film Steamboat Willie (Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks, 1928), a cartoon starring Mickey, was released in 1928 through Pat Powers' distribution company. It was the first Mickey Mouse sound cartoon released, but the third to be created, behind Plane Crazy (Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks, 1928), and The Gallopin' Gaucho (Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks, 1928). Steamboat Willie, with Walt as the voice of Mickey, was an immediate smash hit, and its initial success was attributed not just to Mickey's appeal as a character, but to the fact that it was the first cartoon to feature synchronised sound. Disney's Plane Crazy and The Gallopin' Gaucho were then retrofitted with synchronised soundtracks and re-released successfully in 1929. Disney continued to produce cartoons with Mickey Mouse and friends, including Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, Pluto, and plenty more. He began the Silly Symphony series, a cartoon series that didn't have a continuous character, with Columbia Pictures signing on as Symphonies distributor in August 1929. In September 1929, theatre manager Harry Woodin requested permission to start a Mickey Mouse Club which Walt approved. In November, test comic strips were sent to King Features, who requested additional samples to show to the publisher, William Randolph Hearst. On 30 December, King Features signed its first newspaper, New York Mirror, to publish the Mickey Mouse comic strip with Walt's permission. In 1932, Disney signed an exclusive contract with Technicolor (through the end of 1935) to produce cartoons in colour. The first, Flowers and Trees (Burt Gillett, 1932), was also the first cartoon to win an Oscar. Another cartoon, Three Little Pigs (Burt Gillett, 1933), was so popular it was often billed above the feature films it accompanied. Disney released cartoons through Powers' Celebrity Pictures (1928–1930), Columbia Pictures (1930–1932), and United Artists (1932–1937). The popularity of the Mickey Mouse series allowed Disney to plan for his first feature-length animation. Criticasters called it "Disney's Folly".
Walt Disney decided to push the boundaries of animation further. He began production of his first feature-length animated film in 1934. Taking three years to complete, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (William Cottrell, David Hand, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce, Ben Sharpsteen, 1937), premiered in December 1937 and by 1939 became the highest-grossing film of that time. Snow White was released through RKO Radio Pictures, which had assumed distribution of Disney's product in July 1937, after United Artists attempted to attain future television rights to the Disney shorts. Using the profits from Snow White, Disney financed the construction of a new 51-acre (210,000 m2) studio complex in Burbank, California. The new Walt Disney Studios, in which the company is headquartered to this day, was completed and open for business by the end of 1939. The studio continued releasing animated shorts and features, such as Pinocchio (Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen, a.o., 1940), Fantasia (James Algar, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen, a.o., 1940), Dumbo (Ben Sharpsteen, a.o., 1941), and Bambi (David Hand, 1942). After World War II began, box office profits declined. When the United States entered the war after the attack on Pearl Harbor, many of Disney's animators were drafted into the armed forces. The U.S. and Canadian governments commissioned the studio to produce training and propaganda films. By 1942, 90% of its 550 employees were working on war-related films. Films such as the feature Victory Through Air Power (Perce Pearce, a.o., 1943) and the short Education for Death (Clyde Geronimi, 1943) were meant to increase public support for the war effort. Even the studio's characters joined the effort, as Donald Duck appeared in several comical propaganda shorts, including the Academy Award-winning Der Fuehrer's Face (Jack Kinney, 1943). With limited staff and little operating capital during and after the war, Disney's feature films during much of the 1940s were 'package films', or collections of shorts, such as The Three Caballeros (Norman Ferguson, a.o., 1944) and Melody Time (Jack Kinney, Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson, 1948), which performed poorly at the box office. At the same time, the studio began producing live-action films and documentaries. Song of the South (Harve Foster, Wilfred Jackson, 1946) and So Dear to My Heart (Harold D. Schuster, Hamilton Luske, 1948) featured animated segments, while the True-Life Adventures series, which included such films as Seal Island (James Algar, 1948) and The Vanishing Prairie (James Algar, 1954), were also popular. Eight of the films in the series won Academy Awards. The release of Cinderella (Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson, 1950) proved that feature-length animation could still succeed in the marketplace. Other releases of the period included Alice in Wonderland (Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, 1951) and Peter Pan (Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, 1953), both in production before the war began, and Disney's first all-live action feature, Treasure Island (Byron Haskin, 1950). Disney ended its distribution contract with RKO in 1953, forming its distribution arm, Buena Vista Distribution. In December 1950, Walt Disney Productions and the Coca-Cola Company teamed up for Disney's first venture into television, the NBC television network special An Hour in Wonderland. In October 1954, the ABC network launched Disney's first regular television series.
In 1954, Walt Disney used his Disneyland series to unveil what would become Disneyland, an idea conceived out of a desire for a place where parents and children could both have fun at the same time. In 1955, Disney opened Disneyland to the general public. After a shaky start, Disneyland continued to grow and attract visitors from across the country and around the world. In 1965, a second Disney theme park, Disney World', was announced, outside of Orlando, Florida. Disney continued to focus its talents on television throughout the 1950s. Its weekday afternoon children's television program The Mickey Mouse Club (1955) was a great success, as was the Davy Crockett miniseries, starring Fess Parker and broadcast on the Disneyland anthology show. Two years later, Zorro (1957) would prove just as popular, running for two seasons on ABC. Disney's film studios stayed busy as well, averaging five or six releases per year during this period. While the production of shorts slowed significantly during the 1950s and 1960s, the studio released many popular animated features, like Lady and the Tramp (Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, 1955), Sleeping Beauty (Clyde Geronimi, a.o., 1959) and One Hundred and One Dalmatians (Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, 1961), which introduced a new xerography process to transfer the drawings to animation cels. Disney's live-action releases were spread across several genres, including the historical fiction film Johnny Tremain (Robert Stevenson, 1957), the children's book adaptation Pollyanna (David Swift, 1960) starring Hayley Mills, and the modern-day comedy The Shaggy Dog (Charles Barton, 1959), with Fred MacMurray. Disney's most successful film of the 1960s was a musical adaptation of Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, 1964), which mixed live-action with animation. It is considered by many to be Walt Disney's magnum opus. Mary Poppins became one of the all-time highest-grossing films and received five Academy Awards, including Best Actress for Julie Andrews and Best Song for Robert B. Sherman & Richard M. Sherman for 'Chim Chim Cher-ee'. In 1966, Walt Disney died of complications relating to lung cancer. His brother Roy Disney took over as chairman, CEO, and president of the company. In 1925, Walt Disney married one of his first employees, Lillian Bounds. They had two daughters — Diane, married to Ron Miller, former president and chief executive officer of Walt Disney Productions, and Sharon Disney Lund, formerly a member of Disney’s Board of Directors.
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Austrian armaments manufacturer Steyr diversified into automobile production in 1915 and introduced the streamlined 120. The six-cylinder, 1385cc side-valve engine was replaced in 1937 with an overhead-valve 2260cc engine, and the 220 was born. The sleek, aerodynamic body was available in four body styles: five-passenger limousine, five-passenger cabriolet, and two different specially-bodied cabriolets, both by Gläser Coachworks of Dresden, Germany. The two-passenger roadster is very rare, with only six ever made; only two have survived. With 55hp and a four-speed transmission, all the 220s would have been considered high-performance cars in their day. A Steyr 220 was also involved in one of the few successful escapes from the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. Three Polish political prisoners and a Ukrainian mechanic managed to steal a few Nazi staff uniforms from the laundry room, as well as the camp commandant’s Steyr 220. Armed and disguised as Nazi officers, they drove up to the main gate, which didn’t immediately open. One of the prisoners happened to be dressed as an SS officer, and, although terrified, summoned the courage to bark a command at the guards. The guards proceeded to open the barrier, and the four men drove straight out of the camp, never to be recaptured.
As seen at the 2021 Greenwich Concours d'Elegance, Greenwich, CT.
85 West 1st Ave, Vancouver, BC.
Historic Place:
The historic place, a familiar local landmark, is the large, red, wood industrial building at 85 West 1st Avenue, Vancouver, built in or around 1930 and located on city-owned land in South East False Creek.
Heritage Value:
The Vancouver Salt Company Building has heritage value for representing the secondary food-processing industry and the diversification of the local economy to meet the needs of the fishery; for its architectural and structural qualities; as a rare intact survivor of the industrial buildings that once dominated South East False Creek (SEFC); and as a neighbourhood landmark. SEFC was, through much of the twentieth century, a beehive of industrial activity. Most industries located here for access to water, rail, and road transportation. Heavy industrial uses, such as sawmills and steel fabrication, prevailed. The subject site was used from the early 1900s for gravel storage.
The Vancouver Salt Co. operation was important technologically for the means of
extraction, for using False Creek to transport goods, for its contributions to other
industries, and for the way in which ownership changes illustrate patterns of international trade and corporate acquisition. Unrefined salt was shipped to Vancouver from the San Francisco Bay Area, where it had been recovered from brine by solar evaporation. This unusual technique was traditional to the Bay Area, originating with the Ohlone Indians and continued by the Spanish missionaries. The Vancouver-bound salt was extracted by the Leslie Salt Refining Co. of Newark, California (acquired in 1978 by Cargill Inc.), which owned the Vancouver Salt Co. The operation changed to Arden Vancouver Salt Co. Ltd. in 1970 and was later acquired by Domtar Ltd. By the late 1980s the building was used for paper recycling: first by Belkin Paper Stock Ltd. and then by Paperboard Industries. Raw salt was unloaded at Burrard Inlet and brought by scow to False Creek, where the Vancouver Salt Co. ‘semi-refined’ it by washing, drying, grinding, and sifting it into a coarse product fit for human consumption. The original market was as a preservative for the fishery, particularly the area’s Asian-Canadian fish-packers. Subsequent uses included other kinds of food-packing, tanneries, cold-storage plants, and highway ice removal. By 1950 rail and then trucks replaced boats for receiving and shipping the salt, reflecting changes brought about by the development of wheeled transport.
The building has heritage value as a pragmatic and attractive response to the needs of the salt operation and the site. It was built about 1930, squeezed between two lumber operations and mostly on a City-owned water lot, with only the southwest corner situated above the historic high water line. The original structure, a block about 90 by 145 feet, is supported on piles. A complex roof truss system directs the loads onto columns in the lateral walls and down the centre, creating a large open space. A raised monitor roof has a clerestory to admit light and air. The expansion of the building to the north in 1954-55 (Wright Engineers Ltd.) speaks to the growing demand for salt and the evolving refinery technology. New equipment was accommodated in part by building a roof over the existing 35-foot-deep apron at the rear, the former loading dock. The gable-roofed eastern portion held four large brine tanks, and the shed-roofed western part became a dry storage shed. A new hopper and conveyor were installed by the 1st Avenue loading dock, since the raw salt now arrived by truck. The conveyor may have necessitated raising the roof, which would date the tall silo-like cap at the front to this time. Minor alterations were made in 1970 for the Arden Vancouver Salt Co. Ltd. (Richard E. Cole, Engineer). The replacement of the salt-processing machinery with paper-shredding equipment in 1987 reflects the growing importance of the recycling industry. Belkin Paper Stock Ltd. also clad the sides with galvanized steel and cut new doors in the north elevation (De Guriby Ltd., Engineers, and Amundson Construction Co. Ltd). The building stands empty today, displaying physical evidence of its evolution and its uses.
Character-defining Elements:
- Broad building with a medium-sloped roof and gable at the front (south)
- Monitor roof, with a clerestory containing a row of 15-pane windows and cedar
ventilation louvres
- Taller, silo-like, gable-roofed feature at front of monitor
- Small-paned windows on the front elevation
- Loading dock at the front, protected from the weather by a shed roof
- Wood stud walls, covered externally with diagonal sheathing and horizontal
finished siding
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- Large, open interior space, interrupted only by a row of columns down the centre
- Elaborate roof truss and knee braces, composed of wood members with metal
fastenings and hardware
- Two salt hoppers along the side wall (inside the building)
- Profile of main gable and monitor roof seen from the rear (north)
- Location on the axis of Manitoba Street
- Wetland beneath building
- City of Vancouver
Panelists Tao Zhang, IMF Deputy Managing Director, Yanqing Yang, Abraham Tekeste, Luis Fernando Mejia, Mame Khary Diene and Min Zhu during the IMF seminar Achieving Economic Diversification in Low Income Countries at the 2018 IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings on Friday, April 20 in Washington, D.C. Ryan Rayburn/IMF Photo
Panelists Tao Zhang, IMF Deputy Managing Director, Yanqing Yang, Abraham Tekeste, Luis Fernando Mejia, Mame Khary Diene and Min Zhu during the IMF seminar Achieving Economic Diversification in Low Income Countries at the 2018 IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings on Friday, April 20 in Washington, D.C. Ryan Rayburn/IMF Photo
The take away counter at Bankers, Brighton.
As with most fish and chip shops they have diversified into Chicken, Squid and Vegetarian options.
I was building an automation testing framework for HP storage group yesterday. A diversification use of paper and digital technology made my cubicle at Hewlett-Packard a durable and productive workstation. Papers were used in a great variety of ways. Project details and specifications were printed on letter-size paper, with important keywords highlighted with pink marker. Employee’s emergency and safety procedure were also printed on regular letter paper and mounted on the fabric wall inside cubicle. Besides, stacks of paper were organized by categories using the black partition rack on the upper-righter corner of cubicle. Moreover, paper notebook was in front of me on the desk for rapid note-referencing and record-keeping. On the other hand, the two extended HP2035 desktop screen, with resolution 1600X1200, exemplified the power of digital technology in this multi-tasking and information-intensive working environment. Various applications and files can be opened on separate windows for easy user access. In the image, a black Command Prompt and a WordPad log-file were on the left screen, while a Python integrated development environment (IDE) was shown on the right screen. By aligning the three programs distinctively on the two screens, I was able to modify the code, run the program, and view the log-file seamlessly without any delay or change of desktop arrangement. In summary, this image shows how diversified use of paper and technology empowers my working environment to become more reliable, interactive, and multi-functional. ---Charles Wang
Panelists Tao Zhang, IMF Deputy Managing Director, Yanqing Yang, Abraham Tekeste, Luis Fernando Mejia, Mame Khary Diene and Min Zhu during the IMF seminar Achieving Economic Diversification in Low Income Countries at the 2018 IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings on Friday, April 20 in Washington, D.C. Ryan Rayburn/IMF Photo
Panelists Tao Zhang, IMF Deputy Managing Director, Yanqing Yang, Abraham Tekeste, Luis Fernando Mejia, Mame Khary Diene and Min Zhu during the IMF seminar Achieving Economic Diversification in Low Income Countries at the 2018 IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings on Friday, April 20 in Washington, D.C. Ryan Rayburn/IMF Photo
Panelists Tao Zhang, IMF Deputy Managing Director, Yanqing Yang, Abraham Tekeste, Luis Fernando Mejia, Mame Khary Diene and Min Zhu during the IMF seminar Achieving Economic Diversification in Low Income Countries at the 2018 IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings on Friday, April 20 in Washington, D.C. Ryan Rayburn/IMF Photo
Panelists Tao Zhang, IMF Deputy Managing Director, Yanqing Yang, Abraham Tekeste, Luis Fernando Mejia, Mame Khary Diene and Min Zhu during the IMF seminar Achieving Economic Diversification in Low Income Countries at the 2018 IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings on Friday, April 20 in Washington, D.C. Ryan Rayburn/IMF Photo
Minister of Jobs, Economy and Innovation Doug Schweitzer discussed, during a news conference from Exergy Solutions in Calgary on Thursday, September 17, 2020, Alberta’s plan to drive diversification, investment and growth to the province.
A government-wide strategy will create jobs and drive investment and diversification in Alberta, while a new consultation will modernize intellectual property in the province.
Alberta’s Investment and Growth Strategy (IGS) is a $75-million initiative led by the Ministry of Jobs, Economy and Innovation. The IGS builds on Alberta’s existing strengths – including energy, tourism and agriculture – as well as emerging sectors like technology in order to create jobs and jump-start Alberta’s economic recovery.
As a key component of preparing Alberta’s economy for the future, Minister of Jobs, Economy and Innovation Doug Schweitzer, Minister of Advanced Education Demetrios Nicolaides, and Minister of Service Alberta Nate Glubish have also announced a consultation with the technology sector to modernize Alberta’s intellectual property laws.
The IGS will help showcase Alberta to the world, and highlight why the province is one of the best places in the world to do business. The strategy highlights key areas of strength that set Alberta apart from other jurisdictions, including the province’s young and educated workforce, strong economic fundamentals and exceptional environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance.
The IGS also outlines a number of sector-specific strategies currently under development by the government and builds on the immediate actions in Alberta’s Recovery Plan to create jobs and diversify the economy.
The strategy also addresses longer-term actions needed to create a stronger and diverse economy so Alberta can adapt to new opportunities that arise as the global economy changes.
Alberta’s government will work with other levels of government, as well as with industry stakeholders, to carry out the actions in the strategy. The IGS also outlines the importance of the Invest Alberta Corporation, which was created this summer to bring high-impact investment to Alberta and to increase investor engagement, both nationally and internationally.
Alberta’s Recovery Plan is a bold, ambitious long-term strategy to build, diversify, and create tens of thousands of jobs now. By building schools, roads and other core infrastructure, we are benefiting our communities. By diversifying our economy and attracting investment with Canada’s most competitive tax environment, we are putting Alberta on a path for a generation of growth. Alberta came together to save lives by flattening the curve and now we must do the same to save livelihoods, grow and thrive.
Also pictured is Billy Rideout, president, Exergy Solutions. (photography by Chris Schwarz/Government of Alberta)
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Lack of adequate infrastructure has been hampering long-term economic growth in Turkey, with the government now focusing on an ambitious infrastructure modernisation programme to correct this.
A similar situation exists in Russia where CEOs see infrastructure as a key bottleneck for the economy.
This discussion brought together major investors in Russia and Turkey for a look at how private capital can be effectively channelled into infrastructure investments in these economies.
Moderator:
Thomas Maier, Managing Director, Infrastructure, EBRD
Panellists include:
Suha Gucsav, CEO, Akfen Holding
Oleg Pankratov, Head of Infrastructure Capital & Project Finance, VTB Capital
Murat Sogancioglu, Director, Infrastructure Investments and Operations, IC Holding
David Olivier Tarac, Deputy CEO, TAV Airports Holding
The Burj Khalifa is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. With a total height of 829.8 m (2,722 ft, just over half a mile) and a roof height (excluding antenna, but including a 244 m spire[2]) of 828 m (2,717 ft), the Burj Khalifa has been the tallest structure and building in the world. The building was opened in 2010 as part of a new development called Downtown Dubai. It is designed to be the centrepiece of large-scale, mixed-use development. The decision to construct the building is based on the government's decision to diversify from an oil-based economy, and for Dubai to gain international recognition.
The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) East Africa is working with the Kenya Agriculture Research Institute (KARI) and the Ministry of Agriculture to empower farmers to manage climate risk through a combination of crop diversification and improved practices. They are introducing sorghum, pigeon peas, cowpeas, green grams and sweet potatoes to supplement the traditional maize, cassava and bean staples. More than 250 households are using improved agronomic practices and KARI has started on-farm multiplication of an improved cassava variety (MH95/0183) that resists mosaic virus. Photos: K. Trautmann. Read more about Climate Smart Practices in East Africa.
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When Holocon Diversified Technologies' Expeditionary Enterprises Division first colonized the Utari System, it brought along its own design in space labor frames. The SLF-Y7 was a top-of-the-line labor frame meant to fulfill a variety of needs.
Part construction frame, part tugboat, The SLF-Y7 was useful for applications in zero gravity shipyards, asteroid mining, and orbital construction. The SLF-Y7 was designed to have a more accommodating interior than most labor frames to facilitate longer hours in the frame for workers. This accompanied with redundancy systems made the frame treasured among laborers.
Its bottom-heavy, ovoid appearance lead to the frame being referred to as "Humpty Dumpty" or "Eggcrate" by the early colonists.
Pictured here, it is conscripted for piracy by the notorious Utari System criminal gang The Yellow Jackets.