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Estimation and prediction of credit risk based on rating transition systems. Shao, Li, Li arxiv.org/abs/1607.00448 #q-fin
if somebody knows, can you please tell me what painting this portion is from? I thought it looked like Hieronymus Bosch--having that large-scale "Where's Wari?" look about it--but then I scanned through an online gallery, and couldn't find its like. help?
EDIT: okay, so it reminded me of Bosch, but it is in fact Brueghel the Elder--an artist with a more pessimistic style (but not *much* more pessimistic, in my estimation)
The same module used for all those Easy Modular Stars is again modified to accommodate 11 modules. Only one fold for the angle is different and I am surprised that the estimation of the angle for assembling 11 modules is quite accurate. This variation #2 features a "Pinwheel" motif in the centre of the star. The back of the assembled model is different from the front but common for all the variations. Eleven 7.5cm square Kami are used for folding the modules.
The angle for this 11-Piece version is an estimation made between the creases for the 10-Piece module and the 12-Piece module. As more modules are added, the centre hole of the model becomes larger and when expanded, becomes more like a ring than a pinwheel. The photos show the model in the closed and expanded form. The modules are folded from 7.5cm squares Japanese Duo-coloured papers. Many thanks to Andrey Hechuev's 8-Piece New-Found Hope Star which has inspired me to come up with this Expandable Pinwheel Series.
Abebe Mengistu presents on groundwater recharge estimation for Lake Haramaya watershed using groundwater balance approach. International Congress: Water 2011 Integrated water resources management in tropical and subtropical dry-lands. Mekelle, Ethiopia 19-26 September 2011 (photo credit: ILRI/Apollo Habtamu).
HobbitCon 3, 04.04.2015 Maritim Hotel Bonn, J. Brophy, A. Brown, J. Bell; at "The Hobbit", Pic (C) Jens Fechter
Taken over a distance of about 40 Meters (estimation) from the Gallery.
Picture (C) Jens Fechter. Please don't use without permission!
Deputy Secretary of Defense Pat Shanahan meets with the Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation team Aug. 9, 2017, at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. CAPE’s mission is to provide the Department of Defense with timely, insightful and unbiased analysis on resource allocation and cost estimation problems. (DOD photo by Air Force Tech. Sgt. Brigitte N. Brantley)
This is a fairly regular rant from me. I love seeing a girl in corsets, and don't get me wrong, a teeny weeny waist is a delight to behold, but not as important as the shape it imparts to her body. One estimation of the ideal waist size is (boobs + hips) / 4. A girl with bodacious curves and a 22" waist is more attractive to me than a stick insect with a 16" waist.
Super Sunday X-Mas Bash, Central Studios Utrecht, 26-12-2010. Showcasing my set from Super Sunday X-Mas Bash here!
In deze set een selectie van de beste foto's van de totale shoot van 325 foto's. Staat je foto hier niet tussen? Je vindt je foto zeker terug in de set @ Dancegids.nl (www.dancegids.nl/). Wanneer je je foto niet terugvindt op Dancegids.nl, dan is die buiten de selectie gevallen, helaas! Better luck next time :)
Line-up: partyflock.nl/party/189286:Super_Sunday_X_Mas_Bash.html
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Size: 13,4 x 8 x 2,8cm / weight:
Density:
Usage: with oil can be tried with water / Grit Size Estimation: above 4k-10k (depends on usage)
Turkey Oil Stone or former known as "Pierre Du Levant", "Pierre Du L'est", "Turkois Stone" or "Turkey Stone". In Germany these Stones were also known as Levantiner or Levantischer Schleifstein.
A very hard Dolomit (from Hardness Novaculite like) stone, smells like sulphur when lapped. Different inclusions, looks like it has many different cracks inside the stone.
A Stone which is known as beeing a bevel setter and mid-range Stone, some of these Stones are finishers....so these properties have to be checked out and cannot be determined by their look.
It seems to be that there is now a newer sourced stone which is named "Cretan Hone" which origin is in creece, which was a Part of the Ottoman Empire, so this Stone is also qualified as beeing a "Turkish Oil Stone", Check the Thread on Coticule.be
Identifiers:
1) very hard Dolomit stone (Novaculite like)
2) very dark black more going into brownish when light can shine thru
3) looks like it has serveral broken cracks inside which is found on several Novaculite types
4) smells like sulphur when slurry is arrised or the stone is lapped
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Razorandstone (R&S): "Turkish Oil Stone"
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Razorandstone (R&S): "Cretan Hone"
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Straightrazorplace.com (SRP): "Oil Stone Turkey"
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Coticule.be: "Cretan Oil Stone"
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Available Literature in German: (Some of them might be available over Google Books)
[1] Hartmann, Carl
Conversations Lexikon der Berg-, Hütten- & Salzwerkskunde, 1841 (Page 131)
[2] Rüst, Dr. W.A. - Die Mechanische Technologie, 1838 (§214, Page 240/241)
Another piece of my photo gear currently for sale on eBay. I have a huge collection of stuff and the time has come to reduce so this is another item offered for sale (reluctantly). Many have already been sold :( to good homes :). This piece of kit is used to calculate exposure by means of estimation. See www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Johnson-Standard-Exposure-Calculator-/....
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX9V, available window light.
A board highlighting information about various rural projects undertaken under the MGNREGS.
The Barefoot Technicians Programme (BFT) Programme was conceptualized in 2014 to supervise and monitor rural infrastructure works carried out under the MGNREGS. It sought to solve the lack of adequate manpower required to measure work and make wage payments under the MGNREGS by working with individuals from the local communities.
A BFT is a class 10 qualified adult, identified among the local MGNREGS workers or from active households. Once identified, they are trained in basic civil engineering subjects such as taking measurements of works, construction technology, estimation of works and watershed concepts among others. The training lasts three months, with training materials provided by the ILO in coordination with the Ministry of Rural Development (MORD) and the train costs covered by the Central Government. On successful completion of training and certification, candidates are designated as BFTs in their respective Gram Panchayats.
The BFT Programme has opened up opportunities for skilled, decent work in rural communities giving horizontal and vertical mobility to rural young women and men while also contributing to the creation of durable and good quality works under the MGNREGS.
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I saw this church and thought that I need to shoot it. Almost regret that today as I accidentally dropped my 24-105 f4 L on the road... still waiting for an estimation of the repair cost...
Ednath Ventorin hunted The Blood Beast. Not because he wanted to; in fact, he hated his life. He was in pain every single of the few remaining days he had left.
It all started a couple months ago. He was a farmer... a simple man compared to you or I, with a simple wife and two simple daughters.
And then there was Verrin. His youngest son was most decidedly not simple, in fact he tended to complicate things. Verrin spent his time in the city, an unhealthy amount of time according to his family's estimation, and he ran with the wrong crowds.
He soon grew angry and cold, and he seldom finished his chores, and when Ednath informed his son that he was not to go to town any more, much less at night... well even the Finney family down the lane heard their fight out behind the silo. What the Finneys didn't witness was Verrin lift up the thresher over his head, with the intention to crush his father.
Ednath looked up at his son in fear, he had seen The Blood Beast before in someone, but he never expected it would hit his own line, much less infecting his only son!
Verrin stared down, and suddenly a look came into him through his inhuman rage. His eyes flashed with fear... or was it shame? Before the great clatter of the thresher hitting the ground had reached the Finney's farm, Verrin had literally evaporated into the night sky.
Ednath stared into the stars where his son... no... not his son anymore he forced himself to realize... another cursed Blood Beast had stood only seconds ago. He waited for another moment as the shock lifted from him. He took no time to wonder how it had happened, which woman or man it had been in town that had brought the curse into HIS family. He pulled himself up and began running.
He ran past the barn, past the old tomato patch, past the chicken shack, paused at the back door of his home long enough to tell his wife Sira to hide with the girls in the basement, not to come out until the sky was blue again. Then he continued running, but this time it was via his horse's steady gallop down the lane into town.
When he arrived in town, Ednath pulled out his only weapon, an old spark-sword left over from his time in the Royal Airship Force, back before he learned the benefits of living simple. He knew the sword wasn't charged up and so was nearly useless against The Blood Beast, and so he slowly ran it across his pinky finger. As it cut through his flesh, the blade began to ring with an unearthly tone and glow with a pinkish light. He winced after a moment and pulled away the blade from his now grey and shriveled finger.
"That's enough to get started..." he muttered to the spark-sword and loped off toward the curio shop.
The curio shop door slammed open an hour later, Ednath nearly falling into the room, his clothed tattered, his face covered in bloody scratches. The shop keep started and looked up at the man with a now brightly glowing green sword that shot off small shoots of energy around it.
"I need you to sell me a Parasitic Respite Pendant. Please, tell me you have one!" Ednath growled.
The shop keep turned around and grabbed a broom, "I had one a couple days ago..." the keep said as he began sweeping, "I sold it."
Ednath narrowed his eyes at the keep in suspicion, "Well, tell me who you sold it to, I will offer them everything I have!"
"Won't help you." the keep turned and smirked at him, "I sold it to a lady who dimension smuggles... there's no way to contact her."
Ednath stared at the corpulent man as he swept. He could tell the keep was trying to hold back a smirk. "How could you do that!?" the farmer yelled indignantly, "Its illegal to allow curative items to leave the citystate, much less the damned planet!"
"Why would I want a Parasitic Respite in my shop?" the keep broke out in the smile he was holding back and took a defiant step nearer to Ednath and his sword.
"I've had The Blood Beast in me for months and I've never felt better!" The store keep bellowed as he pulled the long black blade out of the secret hiding spot in his broom and lunged at Ednath.
Their battle lasted into the bright morning light.
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Army Sgt. 1st Class Adam James, right, C Company, 2nd Battalion, 29th Infantry Regiment (U.S. Army Sniper School), Fort Benning, Ga., gives M110 Semi-Automatic Sniper System instructions to Army Spc. Andrew Vrooman, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion (Airborne), 501st Infantry Regiment, during qualifications at Grezelka Range, June 25, 2013.
This is a fairly regular rant from me. I love seeing a girl in corsets, and don't get me wrong, a teeny weeny waist is a delight to behold, but not as important as the shape it imparts to her body. One estimation of the ideal waist size is (boobs + hips) / 4. A girl with bodacious curves and a 22" waist is more attractive to me than a stick insect with a 16" waist.
Flanking the center stone are trapezoidal shaped diamonds. I had to pull out the book o' formulas of weight estimation to do this one.
Army Sgt. Brady Spencer, assigned to A Company, 3rd Battalion (Airborne), 509th Infantry Regiment of the 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, a native of Orting, Wash., lines up his shot during the final day of M110 Semi-Automatic Sniper System (SASS) qualifications at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson's Grezelka Range, July 10, 2013. The brigade's soldiers are attending the U.S. Army Mobile Sniper School, a five-week course with graded marksmanship on the M24 Sniper System, M110 SASS, and the M107 .50-Caliber Long Range Sniper Rifle. Students are also trained and graded in range estimation, target detection, stalking techniques, and written exams. Upon successful completion, all students will receive a diploma and those soldiers holding an infantry and/or special forces military occupational specialty will receive a B4 additional skill identifier. (U.S. Air Force photo/Justin Connaher)
I regard courage as the supreme human virtue, and this lovely and remarkable young woman has it. This is Miss Angie, a dance instructor at the Fred Astaire studio in Chandler, Arizona, whom I met several weeks ago when I signed up for lessons, which at first were for me and later included my wife. Angie quickly earned both my affection and respect, and her stature, in my estimation, only continues to grow. I believe in angels, both the supernatural and mortal varieties, and she has become the latest one to bless and enrich my life.
Angie is only 26 years old, but has battled some major health problems during the course of her young life. She told me when I enrolled in the course that she had undergone a serious bout of clinical depression, during which she gained about 65 pounds and moved in with her father, where she intended to just sort of give up on life. Someone persuaded her to take up dancing once again, which she did, and she credits it withsaving her life. Angie has also had two heart attacks, including a massive one which occurred during a public event and nearly gained the upper hand.
I'm sure Angie had moments when she indulged in self-pity, which most of us do at one time or another. (I certainly have.) But she never made that a permanent part of her life. She is blessed with a vibrant and outgoing personality, and talent galore, all of which she has used to enrich the lives of other people -- obviously including myself. She told me last weekend that she wants to have children someday, and does what she must to ensure that she will be around for them.
I hope this and the other two pictures of Angie that I am posting today will get a lot of views, less for whatever technical or artistic merit they might have than for the story which accompanies the images. I commend her example to one and all, as one who refused to be defeated by life, but instead picked herself up and embraced it. And my, how she did embrace it!
As a footnote, I took this series of pictures at the dance studio after Sheila and I had a lesson with Angie. (She is teaching a group class here.) I wanted something that would capture her personality and joie de vivre, and I believe I had some success with that. I'm sure Angie would pose for me, but she is so busy all the time that I have never had the opportunity to ask her to do so.
Batman vs superman first weekend is biggest ever in super hero genere and exceeded estimations.Although crirtics hated this movie fans are satisfied with this movie.As of now it collected 170.1 million in North America and an additional $254 million in simultaneous release overseas, and became...
in my estimation the best gifts are those that come straight from the dairy,
have been aged for five to fifteen years, and are complete with your name!
i'm just saying, receiving this block of cheese, it about made my week.
and yup, that's about all it takes with me.
Army Spc. Aaron Bowers, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion (Airborne), 501st Infantry Regiment, seats a magazine into his M110 Semi-Automatic Sniper System during qualifications at Grezelka Range, June 25, 2013. Part of the five-week U.S. Army Mobile Sniper School training, Bowers was also trained and graded in range estimation, target detection, stalking techniques, and written exams.
Sale Retromobile 2016 by Artcurial Motorcars
5 Février 2016
Estimation € 1.200.000 - 1.500.000
Sold for € 1.072.800
Chassis Number: 1120110
Engine Number: 1120110
Salon Retromobile 2016
Paris Expo - Porte de Versailles
Paris - France
Februari 2016
ADAZI, Latvia, May 24, 2011 – Latvian sniper teams practice range estimation and target acquisition under the watchful eyes of their U.S. mentors – Staff Sgt. Michael Childers of Charlie Company, 2-121st Infantry, and Staff Sgt. Benjamin Serapion, a Squad leader with Bravo Company, 1-121st Infantry. The Latvian Snipers honed their marksmanship skills with their Dragonov rifles and practiced stalking techniques as part of joint U.S./Latvian training for Operation Summer Shield.
Photo by William Carraway
HHC, 2-121st Infantry
Georgia Army National Guard
Date: Friday June 3rd 2011
What we'll see: Sugaring for Moths - nightime trip for Moths, Frogs, and Toads
Places we will visit: My backyard, Silver Ridge, and Cattus Island, we will have permission for entry.
Meet up place and time: We will all meet up at my house in Toms River at 8pm. My house is right off exit 81 on the Parkway, i'll give you directions.
Ending time: Plan on getting some sleep during the day as this is going to be a late night. Whenever you need to leave is the ending time ;-)
Organizer: Shawn Wainwright
This meet up will be canceled if: Extremely windy or Rain. If canceled the date will be June 4th 2011
We all know how to attract Butterflies, but how do we attract moths? I'll tell you how with a little info too:
It is a surprise to many people to learn that there are at least five times as many kinds of moths in the world as there are butterflies. By most estimations butterfly species number about 20,000. But there are at least 165,000 distinct types of moths — and perhaps twice that number, according to some entomologists.
We see more butterflies more often because we and the butterflies are diurnal — we operate on a daytime schedule and rest at night. Most moths, on the other hand, are strictly night fliers and hide during the day, disguised as bird droppings, dead leaves, lichens or tree bark.
So we catch, collect and photograph butterflies, and even cultivate special gardens to attract and nourish them. Meanwhile, the far more numerous and diverse moths, like most of nature’s nocturnal beings, get little attention from slumber-prone wildlife watchers.
That’s too bad, for few insect families boast as many lovely members. There is the delicate pale-green Luna, the pastel-hued rosy maple moth, the owl-eye spotted Io, the spectacular tawny-winged Polyphemus. There are the huge sphinxes, the brown- or silver-spotted tigers, the tree-bark-camouflaged underwings.
Because moths are furtive and often inconspicuous, getting a close look calls for a little trickery. A light (or better yet, a black light) with a sheet draped in front of it and over the ground below will attract a variety of interesting moths. Set the light trap in the darkest possible place.
But sugaring for moths is a more traditional (and, I think, enjoyable) method — and one that doesn’t tether you to an electric outlet. In moth-watcher language, “sugar” is a bait or attractant, a gooey home-brewed mixture of assorted sweet and fermented ingredients for which night fliers have a fondness. There are all sorts of sugar recipes — indeed, part of the fun of sugaring is experimenting with your own concoctions. Here is a classic, proven formula:
3 to 6 overripe bananas
½ to 1 cup molasses, corn syrup, honey or sugar
1 to 2 cups orange juice or other fruit juice
1 or 2 bottles stale beer
1 to 2 ounces rum
Mash or blend the bananas first, then stir in the sugary ingredients. Add the liquids last, a little at a time, until the mixture is about as thick as house paint. If it becomes too thin, just add another banana or two. Finally, put the mixture in a jar or bowl, cover it and leave it to ferment in the sun for a few hours.
Remember that this is just a basic recipe, open to all sorts of improvisation. Some cooks don’t include alcoholic ingredients, and instead add apple cider vinegar to the brew. Others swear by certain liquors (my local moths prefer Ron Bacardi) or kinds of juices that mimic those of local fruit trees (cherry and apple juices are popular). In any case, the objective is to produce a highly aromatic, cloyingly sweet and somewhat potent goo.
Now you’re ready to go “sugaring.” The best nights for attracting moths are cloudy, warm and still. In late afternoon or early evening, before sunset, go out and paint an 8-inch-square (or so) patch of sugar on tree trunks or other objects — fence posts, rocks, whatever — in promising moth territory. Usually, the best places are in open woods or in edge habitat, where trees or bushes meet a clearing of some sort: a lawn, a meadow, a driveway. Be aware, however, that moth sugar can leave a stain.on’t paint it on prized yard trees or other conspicuous landscape elements.
Several hours later, in the darkest part of the night, go back with a flashlight to check your “traps.” With luck, you should see at least one or two moths on each patch of sugar. Mind you, not all sugaring expeditions are successful — perhaps the weather or the site you picked isn’t right, or maybe your latest sugar recipe is a dud. But more often than not, you will be treated to a close-up look at some astonishingly beautiful and interesting creatures. Many moth species that are attracted to sugar are especially big and beautiful.
Perhaps because they’re too busy sipping — or, if you’ve served them a cocktail, because they’re a tad besotted — moths at a sugaring site tend to stay put when you approach. They are easily caught — but I prefer simply to study them where they are, using my flashlight and a field guide for on-the-spot identification. (If your flashlight’s too bright, put some red cellophane or tissue paper over the lens, or just hold your hand over it, to keep the light from disturbing the moths.)
Incidentally, a variety of other interesting insects, beetles especially, also are attracted to moth sugar. Don’t miss your opportunity to get a close look at these visitors, too.
Travel - Pics on the Move. Alphen aan den Rijn - Hengelo vv., 19-07-2011
Check ook eens ook mijn YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/user/dutchpartypics en mijn eigen showgallery: www.dutchphotogallery.net/ (online soon, estimation: End 2011).
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Foto's in high res nabestellen? Leuk voor gebruik voor allerlei creatieve doeleinden. Denk aan een speciaal kado voor een speciaal iemand (bijvoorbeeld je geliefde), zoals het afdrukken van jouw/jullie foto op Canvas, Mokken, Muismat etc. Wat je je maar kunt voorstellen! Maar ook een kwalitatieve afdruk op een printer thuis of bij een fotozaak kan natuurlijk met je nabestelling. Voor maar 2,50 Euro stuur ik je de high res. foto(s) toe. Geef het betreffende fotonummer(s) door, of stuur mij de link van de betreffende foto(s) op Dancegids.nl, wanneer die hier op Flickr er niet tussen staat. Stuur deze info (fotonummer(s) en/of link) naar: dutchpartypics@yahoo.com/k.punt@telfort.nl. Alvast hartelijk dank! Hope 2 Cya @ the dancefloor next party!
© Dutchpartypics | Korsjan Punt 2010. Powered by Nikon D50/D80/D3000 DSLR; Lenses @ fl. range 10 - 300 mm: Nikon D AF 50 mm, f 1.8; Nikon AF-S 18 - 55 mm, f 3.5 - 5.6; Nikon AF-S 18 - 105 mm VR, f: 3.5 - 5.6; Nikon AF-S 55 - 200 mm VR, f 4.0 - 5.6; Nikon D AF 70 - 300 mm, f 4.0 - 5.6; Tamron SP XR DiII 17 - 50 mm, f 2.8; Tamron XR Di 28 - 75 mm, f: 2.8; Sigma Super Wide II 24 mm, f 2.8; Sigma EX DC-HSM 10 - 20 mm, f 4.0 - 5.6 and Sigma EX DC Macro 105 mm, f 2.8. Flash: Nikon Speedlight SB600 (Nikon D80) | Sunpak PZ42X (Nikon D3000) | Sunpak PF30X (Nikon D50), all including Stofen omnibounce. Compact: Nikon Coolpix L110 and Panasonic Lumix FX500. Flash Full HD Video: Kodak Zi8.
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By my estimation, Kerosene Creek is one of the most pleasant places on the planet. I measured the stream temperature at 105.7 degrees F. The waterfall is about nine feet high and the pool about four feet deep. The atmosphere near the stream has a faint smell of petroleum but that isn't the source of the smell. The stream drains a thermal area. It is a very popular place and damn difficult to take a photo of the falls without 20 people in there. My photographic window was very short. For more information: trampingtracks.co.nz/track_kerosene_creek.html
Its about the community-thoughts, what canon tends to do. please do your vote - in about 7 days we'll see, how precise our estimation was.
Vote Here - dl.phreekz.de/DSLR/
Voting ended with cr3.
Presentation 02.03.2012 @09:30h (german time)
Object: Mars | Diameter=14.92" | Magnitude=-1.42
Date, Time and Location: 05 | 04 | 14 @ 00:17:13 GMT | Mansfield, England
Conditions: Seeing: Starting 4/5, dropping rapidly to 2/5 | Clouds | High Haze | Temperature 6-7c | Occasional Mild Gusts | Suburban Light Pollution
Equipment: Meade LX90 8" SCT | Meade 2x Shorty Barlow | ASI120mc [5.200ms | 50 Gain | 50 Gamma | 60s Duration]
Software: PIPP [Planetary Mode | Quality Estimation: 2000 Frames] |AutoStakkert |Registax [RGB Align | ] | Photoshop [Smart Sharpen | High Pass | Curves | Vibrance | Contrast]
Distributed Estimation and Inference with Statistical Guarantees. Battey, Fan, Liu, Lu, Zhu arxiv.org/abs/1509.05457 #stat
2 April 2001 - 2 April 2011
10 YEARS THALYS
Today it is exactly 10 years ago I started to work as a Train Manager for Thalys. Some facts and estimations: More than 1800 working days on board of the Thalys, travelled more than 1,2 milion kilometers (30 times around our planet Earth), bringing around 1 milion passengers to their destination, checked more than 600,000... tickets. And 367 overnights (most of them in Paris, but also in Marseille and the French Alpes).
Eversion by Alastair Reynolds (science fiction - 2022-08-24 - review #0952)
Alastair Reynolds novel "Eversion" [2022] is, in my estimation, ultimately not an entirely enjoyable reading experience. It sounds like I am damning with faint praise, well in fact I am. Reynolds grabbed this readers attention with a riveting opening section concerning a doctor posted on a sailing ship who writes weird fiction to pass the time and his interactions with a decidedly strange crew. The doctor surreptitiously snorts opium laced snuff as he deals with reoccurring nightmares and a mysterious voyage seeking an alien fortress in icy Norwegian waters. This section of the novel was exceptional; unfortunately, the rest of the story does not live up to its beginnings. As the time frame shifts and the plot which just plods along from this point on, my interest in the story waned. I get the impression this was a much shorter story idea that was inflated to novel length.
Certainly, I've read most of his novels - that the reason I read this book. After all, even marginal Reynolds is worth reading!
Lahore, April 4, 2017 – The Embassy of the United States of America is showcasing its long-standing support for Pakistan’s agriculture sector with a pavilion at the Dawn Food and Agri Expo. The U.S. Pavilion highlights projects assisting Pakistani farmers to modernize the agriculture sector, strengthen value chains and improve market access while ensuring long term sustainability of agricultural production. The two-day exhibition in Lahore, inaugurated today at the Expo Center in Johar Town, is open to the public.
“The United States, in partnership with the Pakistan government and the private sector, has provided approximately $777 million since 2009 to fund projects that support economic growth and agriculture, including the Government of Pakistan’s efforts to reform and modernize the agricultural sector,” stated Mission Director John Groarke at the Agri Expo inaugural session. Also at the session, the Punjab Agriculture Minister, Muhammad Naeem Akhtar thanked the U.S. government for its continued support of Pakistan’s agriculture sector.
The Expo’s U.S. Pavilion features a number of agricultural assistance programs supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that help build Pakistan’s export capacity, especially in the areas of small and medium sized agribusinesses and agricultural producers.
Supporting economic growth and agricultural development is a top U.S. priority in Pakistan. USAID agriculture projects help increase employment and incomes for producers, processors, and vendors of agricultural products. To boost Pakistan’s agricultural productivity, USAID has introduced advanced farming technologies, built additional irrigation infrastructure, and introduced improved water management practices. USAID also assists agribusinesses in Pakistan to increase their access to financing and more lucrative export markets. These programs focus on the private sector’s agriculture investments in Pakistan. Over the past six years, USAID projects have increased exports by $76 million, increased sales by $170 million, and leveraged over $72 million in private sector investments.
USDA has partnered with the Government of Pakistan, U.S. land grant universities, and international partners to increase agricultural productivity in Pakistan, build institutional capacity to regulate animal and plant health, and food safety issues more effectively, and strengthen institutional research capabilities and U.S.-Pakistani scientific collaboration.
USDA programs also promote the adoption of new agricultural practices and technologies, and foster collaboration in dairy production, animal disease control, aquaculture, cotton diseases, crop estimation forecasting, watershed management and high efficiency irrigation technologies, improvement of soil fertility, and wheat diseases.
Pakistan’s agriculture sector has enormous potential, and the Dawn Food and Agri Expo provides an opportunity for Expo visitors to see and hear about the United States Government’s support to Pakistan’s agriculture sector.
Lahore, April 4, 2017 – The Embassy of the United States of America is showcasing its long-standing support for Pakistan’s agriculture sector with a pavilion at the Dawn Food and Agri Expo. The U.S. Pavilion highlights projects assisting Pakistani farmers to modernize the agriculture sector, strengthen value chains and improve market access while ensuring long term sustainability of agricultural production. The two-day exhibition in Lahore, inaugurated today at the Expo Center in Johar Town, is open to the public.
“The United States, in partnership with the Pakistan government and the private sector, has provided approximately $777 million since 2009 to fund projects that support economic growth and agriculture, including the Government of Pakistan’s efforts to reform and modernize the agricultural sector,” stated Mission Director John Groarke at the Agri Expo inaugural session. Also at the session, the Punjab Agriculture Minister, Muhammad Naeem Akhtar thanked the U.S. government for its continued support of Pakistan’s agriculture sector.
The Expo’s U.S. Pavilion features a number of agricultural assistance programs supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that help build Pakistan’s export capacity, especially in the areas of small and medium sized agribusinesses and agricultural producers.
Supporting economic growth and agricultural development is a top U.S. priority in Pakistan. USAID agriculture projects help increase employment and incomes for producers, processors, and vendors of agricultural products. To boost Pakistan’s agricultural productivity, USAID has introduced advanced farming technologies, built additional irrigation infrastructure, and introduced improved water management practices. USAID also assists agribusinesses in Pakistan to increase their access to financing and more lucrative export markets. These programs focus on the private sector’s agriculture investments in Pakistan. Over the past six years, USAID projects have increased exports by $76 million, increased sales by $170 million, and leveraged over $72 million in private sector investments.
USDA has partnered with the Government of Pakistan, U.S. land grant universities, and international partners to increase agricultural productivity in Pakistan, build institutional capacity to regulate animal and plant health, and food safety issues more effectively, and strengthen institutional research capabilities and U.S.-Pakistani scientific collaboration.
USDA programs also promote the adoption of new agricultural practices and technologies, and foster collaboration in dairy production, animal disease control, aquaculture, cotton diseases, crop estimation forecasting, watershed management and high efficiency irrigation technologies, improvement of soil fertility, and wheat diseases.
Pakistan’s agriculture sector has enormous potential, and the Dawn Food and Agri Expo provides an opportunity for Expo visitors to see and hear about the United States Government’s support to Pakistan’s agriculture sector.