GLS has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a 20% stake in the Greek parcel carrier ACS Postal Services. In addition to the initial investment, GLS has secured an option to acquire the remaining 80% of ACS's share capital within two years.

 DHL eCommerce UK has made two new appointments to its management team, drawing on experience from the retail industry to further align DHL’s services to the evolving eCommerce market.

Palletline, UK palletised freight distribution network Palletline has strengthened its executive board with the appointment of Bali Bandha as Group Chief Financial Officer as part of its ambitious expansion plans.

GLS and SF, China's largest integrated logistics service provider, are excited to announce a bilateral network partnership.

Independent parcel carrier, Yodel, has partnered with InPost, to provide final mile delivery services. Yodel will be handling hundreds of thousands of parcels through the InPost ‘Locker-to-Door’ service.

New figures published by the postal regulator, ComReg, reveals income for the seven main providers of parcel delivery services in Ireland including An Post, UPS and DHL in 2023 was down €7.7 million on the previous year.

Posten Bring has rapidly rolled out Europe's longest network of parcel lockers, with 6,000 self-service parcel lockers at 2,000 locations across Norway.

Asendia USA has announced significant improvements to its operational capabilities with the expansion of its Chicago area facility.

Estonian last mile delivery start-up, Parcelsea is piloting a new innovative concept- Community Lockers, together with Omniva, Estonian national post company.

Co-op’s parcel locker partnership with InPost is set to pick-up pace this year with a threefold increase in its parcel lockers located at the convenience retailer’s stores.

parcelLab, a global provider of post-purchase experience software, has announced the launch of "Trending Late AI," a new feature powered by artificial intelligence (AI)

DHL has published  the 7th edition of the DHL Logistics Trend Radar, a biennial report that highlights the foremost social, business, and technological trends impacting the industry.

The Universal Postal Union (UPU) has selected Hurricane Commerce’s unique Kona API to help power global trade for postal operators.

Bettermile, a Berlin-based provider of last-mile delivery software-as-a-service (SaaS), today announced the findings of its latest study, The State of Last Mile Tracking in the USA.

Data Stack Evolution: Legacy Challenges and AI Innovation, a global report which included a survey of 775 manufacturing and supply chain IT decision-makers, found that almost three in five (58%) said their data leadership and IT teams work in silo.

The Government issued a traffic notice for the Bermuda Bicycle Association BRCC Road Race scheduled on Sunday [Sept 29]. A Government spokesperson said, “The Bermuda Bicycle Association BRCC Road Race will occur on Sunday, 29 September 2024, between 7:30 am and 9:30 a.m. Motorists are advised to be aware of the race routes and the […]

The 2024 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Tour is underway in Nicaragua, with Bermuda players in action. Megan Hands and Kayley Hamilton went 1 & 2 in Women’s Pool A action, while Braedon Cooke and Connor Somerville went 0 & 3 on the opening day in men’s pool C. Hands and Hamilton took on Katherine Quesada and Eugenia Ramírez […]

The 2024 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Tour continued in Nicaragua with Bermuda’s teams in action. Bermuda pair, Megan Hands and Kayley Hamilton lost their classification match to Kianny Araya and Aliza Aguilar from Costa Rica, and Braedon Cooke and Connor Somerville also lost their classification match to Jesario Ebanks and Stephen Watson from the Cayman Islands. Related […]

The 2024 NORCECA beach volleyball tour in Nicaragua came to an end. Megan Hands and Kayley Hamilton finished in 12th place in the women’s division after falling 21-8, 21-10 to Martiza Zuniga and Danna Aguilar from Guatemala, while Braedon Cooke and Connor Somerville finished 15th in the men’s division. Related Stories Results: Spike Fest Volleyball Tournament […]

The Bermuda Volleyball Association announced its participation in two NORCECA Beach Volleyball Tour stops in Punta Cana, with teams competing in senior and U23 events in October 2024. A spokesperson said, “As the international beach volleyball 2024 calendar continues, the Bermuda Volleyball Association [BVA] is proud to announce its participation in two of the upcoming […]

The Bermuda Commercial Bowling League launched its season at Warwick Bowl with a slate of opening week matchups. Spare Parts secured a 3-1 victory over Too Legit To Split, while Who Gives A Split mirrored that result against the Secret Weapons. The Bailey’s Bay Strikers also notched a 3-1 win, defeating Butt & Vallis. Women’s […]

Zymo Research Corporation (Zymo Research), a leader in innovative life science solutions, announced today that it has filed claims in the United District Court for the Central District of California against Qiagen GmbH (Qiagen) alleging that Qiagen has engaged in antitrust violations and improperly interfered with Zymo Research's contractual relations.

A new study highlights how some marine life could face extinction over the next century, if human-induced global warming worsens.

Очередной пиздец с домашним провайдером,
он внезапно заблокировал весь траффик по 53-му порту,
включая траффик ко своим собственным DNS-серверам,
думаю, что по ошибке.

Однако андроид-девайсы, и многие линуксы,
а наверное и винда с маками тоже, по дефолту
получают DNS через dns over tls, Бразилия страна
расслабленная, в общем до утра никто ничего
чинить точно не станет.

В итоге мне пришлось весь вечер курить маны со
смартфона и спешно чинить систему. В генту сие оказалось
весьма просто; записываю для памяти.

(а) надо откомпилировать emerge -av getdns с опцией stubby

(б) запустить его,
/etc/init.d/stubby start
ну и на будущее
rc-update add stubby

(в) убить у dhcpcd, dhclient, ну или что у вас там ходит,
возможность переписывать resolv.conf, причем
оперативно, пока они его не успели снова переписать:
echo "nameserver 127.0.0.1" > /etc/resolv.conf; chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf
последняя команда дает файлу аттрибут "immutable", он снимается через
chattr -i /etc/resolv.conf

В общем, сей stubby внезапно установился
из коробки и сам работает, большая редкость для
программ такого сорта; он запускает на 127.0.0.1
локальный DNS-сервак, который разбрасывает DNS-запросы
через https пачке публичных DNS-серверов, типа Гугла,
Cloudfare и всего такого.

Провайдеры тут время от времени начинают глушить
некоторые сервера, в основном пиратские трекеры,
но поскольку они наивные и цензурной практики
у них совершенно нет, то действуют они только
через блокировку DNS; раньше это лечилось через
echo "nameserver 8.8.8.8" > /etc/resolv.conf
ну и в итоге они, видимо, решили этот метод
немного побороть.

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You’ve seen a one man band, but how about a complete symphony orchestra?

Ben Morfitt, a composer from England, recently created in a music video of one of his new, original songs, in which he plays every instrument while also acting as conductor.

The piece was written for a new cartoon he created called “Pegul,” which he describes in the video’s caption.

You could say he is a man of many talents.

Watch the video above, and you can check out more of his music on SoundCloud.

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Donald Trump’s policies risk making the US dollar a source of global instability Expert comment LToremark 13 November 2024

Although Trump favours a weaker exchange rate, his policies are likely to have the opposite effect. The risk is that the US dollar could become too strong, which is bad news for the global economy.

President-elect Donald Trump has a dollar problem. In recent months he has shown a clear preference for a weaker exchange rate to support the competitiveness of US exports and help reduce the US trade deficit. And yet, as the market has sensed since the US election, the much more likely outcome is that his policies end up strengthening the greenback. The risk is that the US dollar – which is expensive already – becomes more obviously overvalued, and this could increase the risk of global financial instability. 

The dollar has been on a rollercoaster ride in the past few decades. From 2002 until 2011, for example, the dollar weakened by around 30 per cent in inflation-adjusted, trade-weighted terms, according to BIS data. Yet in the years since 2011, the dollar has strengthened and is now at a more appreciated level than at any time since 1985.

What shapes this rollercoaster, broadly speaking, is the global balance of economic vitality: when the US economy gains momentum relative to the rest of the world, the dollar tends to strengthen; and vice versa. 

After China joined the WTO in 2001, the balance of economic vitality shifted decisively away from the US, in favour of China and other emerging economies. This was the decade of the commodity boom: the longest, biggest peacetime increase in commodity prices in nearly 200 years during which a sustained surge in China’s economy supported GDP growth across the developing world. The dollar weakened as a result.

But after 2011, a combination of factors – including the eurozone crisis and its aftermath, together with the sagging of the Chinese economy – tipped the balance of economic vitality back in favour of the US. The dollar strengthened once again.

And since both the European and Chinese economies remain very fragile, the balance of economic vitality seems likely to keep favouring the US dollar.

Two more considerations also point to a stronger US dollar under a second Trump administration.

The first is the exchange rate implications of Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs on imports. When the US imposes tariffs on a trading partner, the foreign exchange market tends to sell that trading partner’s currency, forcing it to weaken to offset the dollar-price increase induced by the tariff. This helps explain why the Chinese renminbi depreciated by some 10 per cent in 2018 after Trump began imposing trade restrictions on China in January of that year. 

More widespread tariffs on a whole range of US trading partners should therefore strengthen the dollar more broadly.

A stronger dollar should also result from the macroeconomic framework Trump seems likely to deliver. He will certainly want to extend his 2017 tax cuts beyond 2025 when they are currently due to expire, so a more sustained loosening of US fiscal policy seems likely. Since boosting the US economy will create inflationary pressure, the market will expect interest rates to end up higher than they might otherwise be. The resulting combination of looser fiscal and tighter monetary policy tends to be a stronger currency.

The dollar probably has a fair amount of room to keep going up, since it is not obviously overvalued just yet. The US current account deficit – the broadest measure of a country’s trade deficit, and a rough but useful measure of financial vulnerability – was a little over 3 per cent of GDP last year. 

This is around half the level it reached in 2006, just before the 2008 global financial crisis, meaning the risks arising from an overvalued dollar may be for the latter part of Trump’s second presidency.

A strengthening dollar is also not great news for the rest of the world economy. A strong dollar tends to depress global trade growth, restrict developing countries’ access to international capital markets, and make it more difficult for countries whose currencies will be weakening to keep inflation under control.

If and when the dollar becomes unsustainably expensive, a further problem will present itself: how to deal with an overvalued currency without risking a lot of financial dislocation.

This problem last occurred in early 1985, when the dollar was universally reckoned to be dangerously dear. At that time the US was able to call on trading partners who depended on the US security umbrella – the UK, Germany, France and Japan – to negotiate the ‘Plaza Accord’, which coordinated a series of interventions in the foreign exchange market that allowed the dollar to decline in a measured way.  

It is virtually unimaginable that something similar could be negotiated today, not least because Chinese policymakers believe that the post-Plaza strengthening of the yen in the late 1980s led to an economic disaster for Japan. Beijing will not play ball.

Without much scope for a negotiated decline in the dollar, more chaotic alternatives seem likely. 

One is that the market decides suddenly that it no longer has an appetite for expensive dollar-denominated assets, and this might lead to a messy adjustment in the foreign exchange market. 

Goal-directed visual attention is a fundamental cognitive process that enables animals to selectively focus on specific regions of the visual field while filtering out irrelevant information. However, given the domain specificity of social behaviors, it remains unclear whether attention to faces versus nonfaces recruits different neurocognitive processes. In this study, we simultaneously recorded activity from temporal and frontal nodes of the attention network while macaques performed a goal-directed visual search task. V4 and inferotemporal (IT) visual category-selective units, selected during cue presentation, discriminated fixations on targets and distractors during the search but were differentially engaged by face and house targets. V4 and IT category-selective units also encoded fixation transitions and search dynamics. Compared with distractors, fixations on targets reduced spike–LFP coherence within the temporal cortex. Importantly, target-induced desynchronization between the temporal and prefrontal cortices was only evident for face targets, suggesting that attention to faces differentially engaged the prefrontal cortex. We further revealed bidirectional theta influence between the temporal and prefrontal cortices using Granger causality, which was again disproportionate for faces. Finally, we showed that the search became more efficient with increasing target-induced desynchronization. Together, our results suggest domain specificity for attending to faces and an intricate interplay between visual attention and social processing neural networks.

When an MDT participant’s family member commits suicide, she becomes puzzled and angry. But with encouragement from others, she recognises God’s compassion.

Dorothea, from Germany, joins the one-year programme with OM Russia, which includes visiting Siberian villages to help churches and sharing the Gospel with locals.

OM, in cooperation with the local church, has sent believers to serve in a village where unreached people groups live. Shortly after, some local people repented and decided to follow Jesus. Now a vibrant church has been started.

A group who started a funeral cooperative but registered it as a church learns what it means to be a real church.

OM teams are supporting Turkish churches as they respond to the changing situation in Turkey.

God uses a bold husband and wife team to be His witness among Somali people everywhere.

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History of how Albanian gypsies came to Greece and their life today.

How OM is partnering with Greek churches to address the growing immigrant and trafficking situation

Believers from different nations and denominations gathered to worship God together in Athens, promoting unity amongst the city’s believers.

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