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Billesdon Brook’s win in a 7f Nursery at Glorious Goodwood a month earlier had been even less straightforward. Come the final 2f, she was not only surrounded by a wall of horses, she was also bumped, barged and squeezed as Levey desperately tried to engineer an opening. Soemhow, she recovered and when a gap finally mat... |
Richard Hannon’s daughter of Champs Elysees was winning off a mark of only 87 that day, so Guineas aspirations were furthest from his thoughts. But O’Brien knew what he had seen was something special -- and not just because of the rule of thumb that demands we follow any of his juveniles who win first time out on a Gra... |
Whether or not he was 100 per cent ready for Saturday’s Classic was a moot point in the build-up to the race. O’Brien revealed Saxon Warrior had developed physically into “a monster of a horse”, so it’s a measure of his training talents that he was able to harness that growth while still instilling enough work into him... |
The jury is still out considering the merits of the race. It could be argued that the close proximity of 50/1 rag TIP TWO WIN in second devalues the form. But my view beforehand that it looked a solid Guineas on paper was franked by the visual evidence. I would certainly expect the fourth, ELARQAM, the fifth, ROARING L... |
Mark Johnston’s son of Frankel probably lacked experience at the highest level and will benefit from a step-up in trip. Considering he fretted in the stalls and was a bit keen early, he ran a blinder, running on again after briefly getting tapped for toe at a key moment in the race. |
John Gosden’s grey came on substantially for his seasonal debut in the Craven Stakes, finishing much closer to the favourite, MASAR, than he did that day. He has to be a good horse, having given Saxon Warrior plenty to think about in the Racing Post Trophy at Doncaster last autumn. |
The pre-race case for the winner’s stablemate, Gustav Klimt, was not difficult to make beforehand. Coincidentally, like Saxon Warrior and Billeson Brook, he had also pulled a rabbit out of the hat when a remarkable winner at Group Two level last summer, and he had impressed last month on his first run since. As a resul... |
So, what about the winner? What kind of heights did he scale, and can he scale in the future? Unsurprisingly, in this era of exaggeration, his victory tempted some over-the-top, Samcro-like verdicts. I even read one correspondent likening him to Dancing Brave! |
I felt Saxon Warrior’s display was a good one, but not a spectacular one. The fascination with him relates to his potential, which is tied in with his physique and his pedigree. He won Saturday’s race with the striking turn of foot he displayed to surge to the front from The Bushes around the 2f pole. Once in front, he... |
He is a colt clearly at home at 1m, but Donnacha feels his optimum trip will be 10f, while his pedigree screams 12f and the Derby. Maybe all distances will come alike and he fulfils his future potential to such an extent that he could yet be mentioned in the same sentence as Dancing Brave. |
He’s certainly almost guaranteed to come on for Saturday’s run, given his huge frame. I thought that, for a horse his size, he looked as straight as he could do for his first engagement of what is sure to be a long season. Ironically, though, it could be his sheer bulk and shape that compromise his chances at Epsom, ra... |
Epsom was also foremost in my mind after Sunday’s 1,000 Guineas. Primarily because steps up in trip will surely benefit the three chief protagonists who chased home the winner, LAURENS, HAPPILY and WILD ILLUSION. |
All are admirable, likeable fillies, particularly the latter, but none are milers, which drags down the form. The contest was already devalued by the absence of O’Brien’s potential superstar, CLEMMIE, while the very fact that Billesdon Brook went into it off a mark of just 99 and had previously been beaten by five of h... |
Not that I begrudge the filly’s enthusiastic owners, Pall Mall Partners, their deserved success. And her genuine turn of foot might well prove me wrong as the campaign unfurls. But not even Hannon expected it, and certainly the punters didn’t. She was the biggest priced winner of the race in its long history, and the b... |
At least Billesdon Brook’s upset proved once again that nothing is certain in the world of racing. Apart from, of course, the supremacy of one Aidan O’Brien. |
HORSES TO FOLLOW FROM THE GUINEAS MEETING -- Curiosity (Hugo Palmer), Elarqam (Mark Johnston), Graffiti Master (John Gosden), Highbrow (David Simcock), Key Victory (Charlie Appleby), Laurens (Karl Burke), Lah Ti Dar (John Gosden), Old Persian (Charlie Appleby), Roaring Lion (John Gosden), Saxon Warrior (Aidan O’Brien),... |
Considerable cloudiness. Low 62F. Winds S at 10 to 15 mph.. |
Considerable cloudiness. Low 62F. Winds S at 10 to 15 mph. |
Capt. John Wierman of Goose Creek with a 20-pound permit he caught March 22 in the Florida Keys using live shrimp. Photo by Jeannie Wierman. |
Adam Liquori, Capt. Jimmy Johnson and Jordan Stewart with a double hookup of wahoo they caught March 24 at the ledge despite losing their hydraulic steering. Photo by Bob Watts. |
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With more small satellites filling our skies, Italian startup Leaf Space thinks its network of ground stations can help introduce new, more economic services. |
Leaf Space is building a network of 20 ground stations around the globe to pave the way for a range of new, more affordable satellite-based services. |
Images of our cities on services such as Google Maps are outstanding. But sometimes they aren't that current because it can take years to update them all. That's one of the reasons why Google spent $500m in 2014 to acquire SkyBox Imaging, a California-based private-sector satellite maker, to help it refresh its maps mo... |
Unlike Google, most of the firms in the so-called earth-imaging sector don't have the financial muscle to solve problems just by buying another company. However, they can now count on an Italian startup whose ambition is to drastically reduce the price of sending information from space down to earth. |
The company in question, Leaf Space wants to help firms that operate so-called microsatellites, that is, satellites weighing less than 100kg (220lb), which are becoming increasingly common in our skies, to communicate with them more often and at a fraction of current costs. |
For that purpose the company, which was founded in 2014 by four engineering students from the Politecnico of Milan, is building a network of 20 ground stations around the globe, the first in the world of its type. The infrastructure, the founders think, will pave the way for a crop of new satellite-based services. |
The tiny European state of Luxembourg has bold ambitions when it comes to its place in future asteroid-mining operations. |
"With such a network in place, companies in the earth-imaging business could, for example, monitor an area that was hit by a natural disaster several times a day. In five to 10 years, we could also foresee real-time satellite mapping of specific locations," Jonata Puglia, CEO and co-founder of Leaf Space, tells ZDNet. |
GPS radio occultation, a technique using the exchange of signal between a GPS and a low-earth orbit satellite to obtain a real-time measure of the state of the atmosphere, is another application that could get a boost from the startup's idea. |
Leaf Space, which is based in Milan, is betting on a trend that is making the population of objects orbiting our planet more diverse. |
Until relatively recently, the only satellites sent into space were behemoths the size of a car, weighing several tonnes. But in the past few years they've been joined by smaller machines that cost up to 100 times less. |
According to SpaceWorks Enterprises, there are already around 250 micro- or nanosatellites in orbit, a figure that will increase to more than 2,000 in 2020. The size of the related market will grow to $2.52bn, from $889.8m in 2015, says MarketsAndMarkets. |
As a result of this miniaturization process, a field traditionally dominated by big government-owned corporations has now made room for medium and relatively small enterprises. |
These new firms are trying to make profits by operating the new generation of satellites on behalf of customers that range from companies interested in earth imaging to pharmaceuticals doing experiments in conditions of microgravity. |
It is these new operators' still unfulfilled needs that Leaf Space wants to address. |
"Although the micro- and nanosatellites market is booming, the offer of related services is still lagging behind. And that creates inefficiencies," Puglia says. |
Right now, for instance, a microsatellite operator faces a few sub-optimal choices when it comes to staying in touch with its space systems. Typically, it can either build a low-performance antenna or it can loan a high-performance one from a traditional satellite operator. |
"In both cases the costs are significant and the returns underwhelming as, depending on where on earth the antenna is placed and where the satellite is orbiting, the communication might be not so frequent," Puglia explains. |
With Leaf Spaces' network in place, microsatellites operators will be able to offer their customers a more constant line of communication with the systems in space in both directions at a convenient price. |
By next spring, when the first four ground stations of the network will have been deployed in Italy, Lithuania, Spain, and Ireland, the company says it will be able to guarantee its customers up to six download-upload cycles a day for up to four microsatellites. |
Google Earth and Maps now offer sharper images of the world, thanks to fresh data from NASA's newest Landsat satellite. |
The startup, which last summer received €1m ($1.06m) in venture capital funding, has a dual commercial offer in mind: a monthly subscription fee with a guaranteed numbers of daily downloads and uploads, and a model where the customer pays for the amount of data it actually uses. |
Giovanni Pandolfi, co-founder of Leaf Space, says his firm expects to use an approach similar to the one used by mobile carriers. |
"To make calls with your smartphone, you have to buy traffic from, or subscribe to, someone owning, or having access to, a cellular network," he says. |
"That's how we think the microsatellites market should work. Right now, instead, it's just as if smartphone owners had to build their own ground station to talk to somebody." |
The company plans to complete the whole network consisting of 20 ground stations by 2018. By then, Leaf Space's founders also hope to have started working on an even more ambitious project: a microsatellites' launcher. |
The goal, they say, is in a few years to be able to be the first firm in the market to have the infrastructure to provide a complete package of microsatellite services: from launching the machine into orbit, to operating them at an affordable price. |
The full cast of Rock 'n' Roll Paradise in action. Photo credit Pete Morris. |
The concert that never was will come to Skegness’ Embassy Theatre next Saturday. |
Rock ‘n’ Roll Paradise takes audiences on a rock and roll ride through the 50s and 60s. |
A talented cast bring to life the spirit of the era. |
Peter Gill captures the energy of Jerry Lee Lewis with hits such as ‘Great Balls Of Fire’ and ‘Breathless’. |
The evening’s compere, the mighty ‘Big Bopper’ entertains with witty banter and stunning versions of ‘Chantilly Lace’ and of course ‘Hello Baby’. |
John-Simon Rawlings, meanwhile, brings all his charisma to the role of JP Richardson. |
Buddy Holly is fondly remembered with Spencer Jordan and the second half opens with a concert within a concert dedicated to Elvis’ later tours, complete with Vegas jump-suits, belts and rings, courtesy of Richard Atkins, all ably supported by the Paradise Band who have worked with many household names throughout their ... |
Tickets cost £21.50, £20.50 for seniors and £10 for children. |
Brooklyn-based exterminator Ed Sheehan said rats would give New Yorkers "standing O's" for our garbage disposal habits. |
Morgan Spurlock is about to change the way every New Yorker looks at a garbage can. |
In his latest documentary, Rats, airing Oct. 22 on the Discovery Channel, the Academy Award-nominated director explores the rat population in New York City and around the world. He also investigates the disease threat rats pose to the human population. |
"I don't think a lot of people know what rats carry around with them," said Spurlock. "I wanted to educate and entertain people with this film." |
Horrify is more like it. |
According to the film—or what Spurlock called his first "horrormentary"—rats have been living in the city for 250 years and can carry 5 million viruses on one foot. |
At one point, the camera hovers over a rat dissection. Tapeworms, maggots and fly larvae live under the dead rodent's skin, as well as other parasitic creatures that are literally carved out of each rat. |
The film's rodent expert, Robert Corrigan from the NYC Rat Academy, leads a class around the city at night to investigate the rat epidemic. |
"I call New York City 'Ratropolis,'" Corrigan tells the group as they approach piles of garbage bags awaiting a morning pickup. "I do so because in many ways it's also Trashopolis." |
The film's subjects imply that there are more than 8 million rats in the city due in large part to garbage. |
"If at six o'clock every night someone came out and gave you food, why would you leave?" Brooklyn-based exterminator Ed Sheehan asks in the film. "Rats are giving us standing O's for our [trash behavior]." |
Spurlock calls the film his first "horrormentary" and explained rats have been living in the city for 250 years and can carry 5 million viruses on one foot. |
John Hoffman, the Discovery Channel's executive vice president of documentaries and specials, said that he hopes the film willl make audiences reconsider their unwanted food. |
"We are putting a buffet out there every night," said Hoffman, a New Yorker. "If we want to take care of this rat problem we need to rethink our food waste." |
In the meantime, the city is trying its best to manage the growing population of rats, said Rick Simeone, director of pest control services for the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, in the film. "Rats can produce eight to 12 in a litter and up to five to six litters a year." |
The Health Department said in a statement to Crain's: "In 2015, Mayor de Blasio invested $2.9 million to expand the City's Pest Control program staff from nine to 50 people, adding exterminators and public health sanitarians, and allowing the agency to make significant strides in controlling rats in neighborhoods aroun... |
The film's horrors threaten to linger long after the screen goes dark, as it makes clear that the rodents are becoming immune to the rodenticides the city uses to combat them. |
Rats, according to Spurlock, was the perfect film not to inject himself into. (The filmmaker made a name for himself by starring in documentaries Super Size Me (2004) and Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden (2008) and the FX series 30 Days (2005-2008). |
"There is a time and place where you want me on camera," Spurlock said. "This movie was scary enough without having my face in it." |
Earlier this month Samsung confirmed that it would be launching the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus at the upcoming Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona. Its latest ‘Samsung Unpacked’ event will take place on Sunday February 25th when the world’s tech press will get official sight of the handsets before it presumably ... |
But what about the public? The latest reports out of South Korea suggest that Samsung’s flagships will make a rapid move from the exhibition floor to the retail floor. |
Olixar reveals the Galaxy S9 via its Screen protector marketing. |
Etnews confirms that pre-orders for the Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus handsets in South Korean will begin less than one week after the MWC jamboree, on Friday, March 2nd. The pre-order window will remain open through Thursday 8th March. There’s no word on when the handsets will actually make their public debut - while the obvi... |
These dates are only for the South Korean market, we’re still waiting to hear about the other markets that will debut the handsets. I’m expecting the US, UK, and a number of EU markets to join South Korean in the first wave. |
The report also suggests that the Galaxy S9 price is going to be slightly higher than the S8. At launch, the 64 GB Galaxy S8 retailed at $875 in South Korea. For the Galaxy S9, Samsung is expected to charge around $900. |
Nokia basically confirmed on Wednesday that next month's press event is actually a launch event for its rumoured Lumia smartphone with a 41-megapixel camera. |
A blog post from Nokia first revealed its 11 July event would have a webcast, but the phone-maker further encouraged fans to tune in with a yellow invitation that exclaimed "41 Million Reasons" in bold, black lettering. |
Could the 41 million stand for the 41-megapixel, Symbian-powered PureView 808 camera sensor that Nokia unveiled at 2012 Mobile World Congress? Well, that is probably more likely than the upcoming Lumia smartphone having 41 million new features. |
Read:FCC approves Nokia RM-877 ahead of 11 July event - is it the EOS? |
Aside from today's indicator straight from Nokia, hints that a new addition to the Nokia Lumia line-up of Windows Phones have consistently popped up in recent months. A Nokia phone with the number RM-877, for instance, quietly moved through the Federal Communications Commission earlier this week. |
The phone sported certain tech specifications that suggested it is likely the Nokia EOS, a circulating codename for Nokia's camera phone. The FCC documents claimed it is just a fraction bigger than the Lumia 925 and comes with a camera grip and charging cover. |
As for Nokia's New York event, where the 41-megapixel Lumia phone will probably unveil, a live broadcast will occur at 11 a.m. EST on conversations.nokia.com. |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) _ Gov. Rick Scott says the Legislature's proposed changes to state pensions don't go far enough and wants to move to a 401K retirement plan for state workers. |
Scott appeared at a news conference on Tuesday for Floridians for Sustainable Pensions. That group is an alliance of the state's business interests. |
The state now fully funds the pension fund and the governor says that is unfair to taxpayers. He wants workers to begin contributing to their retirements like private sector employees. |
State employees may soon be contributing to their pensions for the first time under a bill passed last week by Florida lawmakers amid union opposition. |
The legislation would establish a tiered-system requiring higher paid employees to put a larger percentage of their earnings into their retirement. |
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - The Huntsville Fire Department hustled Thursday to put out smoke and flames in a 12-unit building at Briargreen Apartments, located off South Memorial Parkway. |
The complex is just north of Vermont Road. We understand several people called 911 about 1:30 p.m. to report the fire. |
Firefighters said a dog and cat were killed. Three cats and three dogs were also rescued. Most residents were at work during the fire, but may pets were inside. |
Capt. Frank McKenzie said crews are working to put out hotspots. He said some units have heavier damage than others. |
There's no word yet on what caused the fire. They believe it started in a unit on the second floor. The American Red Cross is on their way to help residents. |
But thanks to the magic of video and the internet, we can take a peek through time and see what scared audiences over 40 years ago. It was the year 1973, and The Exorcist was one of the most controversial horror movies ever made. People were scared out of their minds when this movie hit theaters, passing out during scr... |
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