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“He said he enjoyed the music and he was obviously enjoying his time in Keswick and you could tell from his speech that he liked coming here”. |
“It’s just been a really happy morning. It’s been fantastic”, she added. |
The children involved said it was one of the most memorable days of their lives, telling Heart: “It’s was really fun and a good experience to do”. |
“When we’re older we can tell everyone that we met Prince Charles – and it was good to miss school”, another youngster laughed. |
You can see photos of Prince Charles' visit on the Heart North Lancashire and Cumbria Facebook page, here. |
Windows allies Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Fujitsu will be the first to implement and sell hosted clouds running Microsoft's Azure outside of Redmond data centers. |
The trio will implement the Windows Azure Platform Appliance, announced by Microsoft Monday, in their own data centers and for sale with services to customers. |
The Windows Azure Platform Appliance comprises Microsoft's Azure compute fabric and its Azure SQL storage mechanism and was unveiled as a way for service providers and customers of Microsoft to implement their own versions of Microsoft's cloud. |
Until now, Microsoft has said only it would provide Azure and nobody else would be allowed to host or deliver its cloud. |
That changed under Project Talisker, revealed here, as growing evidence has shown the bulk of money in cloud for tech companies is to be made by letting customers build and run their own, private services. |
Microsoft was pushing Dell, HP, and Fujitsu hard at its annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), where it announced the news, as proof of its full-blooded commitment to platforms in the sky and Azure's credibility. |
The company's tag-line for the WPC is Microsoft's "all in" on cloud computing. |
But Monday's news shows the work is experimental and designed to find out how a Windows Azure Platform Appliance might be built, deployed, licensed, and sold as for all the talk of deployments there's no actual products yet beyond Microsoft's existing Windows Azure and SQL Azure fabric. |
In announcing the appliance on Monday, Microsoft's server and tools group president Bob Muglia told partners that the company will pre-validate the hardware used in Appliances – a model followed on data warehouse appliances to ensure configurations are reliable and perform well. |
Dell and HP plan limited production release versions of the appliance for use in their data centers in the next year that will serve their own customers – which will make the pair Azure service providers. HP's using its networking, ProLiant servers, and its Performance Optimized Datacenters (PODs). |
Dell gave no hardware details, but its servers are behind Bing, while the company is going to offer services such as migration of applications to the Azure cloud. Appliances for sale to customers from both companies will follow at a date not given. |
Fujitsu said it will train 5,000 Azure specialists and run appliances internally by the end of 2010 starting in Japan and serve up cloud services – also making Fujitsu an Azure service provider. |
Big plans, but the Windows Azure Platform Appliance's fundamentals – like form factor, licensing or price – are unknown, making this a leap of faith with Microsoft pulling on its server buddy's strings. "It's in the work over the coming months,' vice president of server and cloud platform marketing Bob Kelly told The R... |
Kelly's title is new, after his infrastructure marketing group was re-christened server and cloud platform marketing under the massive S&T re-organization to make money from cloud without cannibalizing revenue from the Windows Server biz. |
Kelly, in charge of Azure marketing and business development, did make it clear the Azure appliance won't be your classic little blade-style device that slots into some corner of your data center. This will be a clustered server approach. |
"It will not be a one-server appliance. It's more than one server," Kelly said. |
Also, service providers won't be allowed to customize the Azure compute and storage fabric according to Kelly who said this would mean customers couldn't take advantage of built-in features for scalability and multi-tenancy. The Appliance will run the full Windows Azure and SQL Azure code. |
Kelly didn't say how Microsoft would stop people customizing their private Azure clouds but made it sound like customizations would break Microsoft's ability to automatically update customers' instances of Azure. |
In twenty five years, when someone is writing another history of the Colts, they'll write about the big games and watershed moments. Chances are, they won't remember to include a 30-17 victory over the Texans to move to 5-2. |
What a mistake that will be. |
The South has caught up to Indy. |
All these things were foolishness 24 hours ago, and they remain foolishness now. The difference is that after a remarkable performance from the Indy pass rush and Peyton and the Seven Guys No One Outside of the 317 Has Ever Heard Of, everyone can agree that this is still a top tier team in the AFC. With a season, a div... |
By the end of the game, the Colts were down to: 5th string running back, 3rd string TE, 5th string WR, 4th string corner, 3rd string safety. They had a backup punter. |
Losing Dallas Clark will have an effect, but there are only two to four utterly indispensable players on this roster. As long as Manning and Freeney are playing, Indy has a chance. I'll put Saturday and Mathis there as well. Those guys are the engine. Everyone else is gasoline. |
This was a big game. This was a clutch performance. No one will remember 30-17 as the building blocks of legend, but at worst it's the mortar holding the house together. Without wins like this, there would never be any playoff games, any Super Bowls, any glory. |
This game was won by the defense. They maintained control of the game and gave the offense time to be patient. Specifically, the pass rush lead by Mathis and Freeney was the culprit. Dwight Freeney has been everywhere the last two weeks. I think he loves prime time too. |
The biggest difference between the defense in week one and last night was Clint Session. He had a horrible game, worst of his career, in week one. Granted he was hurt, but last night he showed what a force he can be when healthy and playing within the confines of the defense. If this is what we are going to get from hi... |
Kelvin Hayden's pick six was the turning point of the night. The game was never closer than 10 points after that. It kept Kubiak (WORST GAME PLAN EVER) from ever being able to go to the run. |
The real difference Clark made was that it seemed like the safeties had more time to react to long passes. Garcon didn't have much room to operate, and a couple of times that Manning tried to hit him long, the safety was there to break it up. This concerns me greatly. |
Blair White looked like a real live punt returner. |
This was a big game for Mike Hart, but before I write him any letters of apology I need to see him do it against a decent defense. Hart looked amazing, no question, but I still don't believe he's the Colts 2nd best back. I don't buy 'running down hill' in general. That works really well if you ... |
Don Brown was clearly playing when he shouldn't have been. He does not look healthy. Don't underestimate the fact that he went out there, ran hard (picked up a key fourth down conversion), and kept Indy from having to play Jarvis James significant snaps. Indy won because they didn't turn the ball over. B... |
What is it about the Texans that is Kryptonite for the offensive line? That was another awful performance pass blocking. The line had been solid since week one, but they were a mess last night. Manning had little time to throw and was hit regularly. Oh, and the penalties. In all the offense scored 23 points on five sco... |
On the balance, Gonzo had a solid night. His spectacular diving grab was incredible. He had a great block on Wayne's touchdown scamper, and the OPI call on him to negate a first down looked to be a bad call. If the WR doesn't touch the defender, it's not interference! Considering this was the most action... |
Manning's throw to Gonzo on that play was incredible. That was a running dart deep downfield. There's nothing wrong with him, thank heavens. I think his 16 picks last year got in his head, and he's playing a lot more conservatively with the ball. He's on pace for four picks on the year. |
That was a horribly officiated ball game. They had two obvious calls overturned. Missed multiple personal fouls and contact in the secondary. Not a strong game from the zebras. |
Huge move by Polian to trade for Tryon. Considering that everyone was worried about secondary depth before the season, I'd say last night's game was proof that Indy is plenty deep there. |
It was great to see a Jerry Hughes sighting. He had pressure on a few plays, including a nice read of a play action bootleg to force an incomplete pass. The personal foul call was bad. |
This was a good win for Coach Caldwell. The team survived the McAfee incident. He went for it on fourth down around mid-field when he should have, and I was supportive of the field goal on fourth and one. The only bad coaching moment was wasting a timeout when the defense expected a punt, but the Texans were going for ... |
I'm not buying Matt Schaub at all any more. The more I see him, the less I like him. |
Angerer was as invisible as Wheeler had been last night. He did get credited with a forced fumble, but I'm guess it was that weird sideline play. Just two tackles. |
I hope this team has enough healthy bodies to play on Sunday. I've been all for stashing Bob Sanders on the inactive list, but the Colts are rapidly coming to a decision point with some of those injured players. You reach a limit where you just have to fill the roster spots. |
February 9, 2019 Violence broke out Saturday as yellow vest protesters kept the pressure on French President Emmanuel Macron's government, for the 13th straight weekend of demonstrations. |
January 24, 2019 "The media are all talking about us, and we actually made the government back down," says one protester at a traffic circle. "We're not about to accept the crumbs Macron has thrown us." |
January 1, 2019 This year alone, some 5,000 migrants have attempted to cross from northern Italy into France, according to local municipalities and aid groups. Some have perished along the way. Many are sent back. |
December 27, 2018 The 12-year-old was alive and conscious when he was rescued on Wednesday, defying bleak statistics for avalanche victims trapped over 15 minutes. "We can call it a miracle," a rescue captain said. |
December 15, 2018 NPR's Scott Simon talks to French journalist Anne Nivat about the political situation in her country, where just a quarter of citizens say they approve the president's job performance. |
December 13, 2018 The suspect had been the target of a massive manhunt since Tuesday's deadly assault on a Christmas shopping market. |
December 12, 2018 On Tuesday evening, a man opened fire on the famous market in Strasbourg, France, killing two people and leaving a third brain-dead. Hundreds of law enforcement officers are searching for the suspect. |
December 11, 2018 Initial reports indicate a suspect had been known to authorities as a security risk. |
December 10, 2018 In a speech on Monday, France's president declared "a state of social and economic emergency," offering some concessions to his critics. Among them, tax relief for the middle class and pensioners. |
December 10, 2018 Much of the movement's popular anger has crystallized around President Emmanuel Macron, seen as arrogant and out of touch. He will make a televised address Monday evening to try to quell the crisis. |
December 4, 2018 "No tax deserves to endanger the unity of the nation," French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe says, putting on hold a new tax that was scheduled to take effect on Jan. 1. |
JUDGING by emails I receive, capital gains tax on the family home is causing a lot of confusion. |
Your residence is free of CGT only if it is held in your personal names or in the name of one of you. If it is held by a family company or trust, there is no CGT exemption. |
Confusion can arise when two properties are owned at the same time, because the tax treatment depends on the order in which they were occupied. |
Case Study: A couple buy a property to live in, and then move out of it to another home, retaining the first one as a rental. It will be free of CGT for the time they lived in it, so they will be liable for CGT only on any increase in value from the date they moved out of it until it is sold. |
Another person buys a property, rents it out and then subsequently moves into it. In this case, the CGT is assessed on a pro rata basis. Suppose they bought the property in 2005 and had it rented till 2009, when they moved in. If it was then sold in 2015 they would have owned it for a total of ten years. As it was rent... |
You can rent out your home and be absent from it for up to six years without losing the CGT exemption, provided you don't claim any other property as your principal residence in that time. However, if you move to another property and retain the first, you do not have to make an immediate choice. |
You buy a home for $450,000 in 2011 and live in it until 2015, when you buy another for $800,000 which you move into. |
At this stage you do not have to nominate which house will be covered with the CGT exemption but you should still obtain a valuation of the first house when moving out of it, just in case you decide not to eventually exempt it. |
Five years later, both houses are worth $900,000. |
You wish to take the profit out of the first house, so sell it tax free under the six year rule. |
This makes a portion of the capital gain made on the second house taxable, on a pro rata basis similar to the case study above where the property was rented out before it was lived in. |
His advice is general in nature and readers should seek their own professional advice before making any financial decisions. Email: noelwhit@gmail.com. |
A high-ranking Chinese delegation has arrived in Washington for crucial talks aimed at ending the trade war between the US and China. But the delegation, led by China’s top economic expert, was blind-sided by formal US charges against Huawei, one of the country’s leading tech firms. |
There was immediate concern that the charges filed against Huawei – two criminal indictments charging theft of intellectual property from a US firm and violating sanctions against Iran – could scupper progress in the trade talks. |
The negotiators have until March 1 to reach an agreement. If that deadline is not met, President Trump has threatened to escalate the trade war by imposing 25% tariffs on $250 billion worth of goods. |
Led by Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, who is President Xi Jinping’s top economic adviser, the Chinese are expected to offer concessions to the US, including promising major purchases of farm products and oil in an effort to redress China’s $500 billion annual trade surplus with the US. |
But Robert Lighthizer, Trump’s trade representative, is pressing Beijing to change the Chinese economy in significant ways, such as by ending the practice of compelling US firms to take on a Chinese partner and provide them with the firm’s intellectual property. The Trump Administration said China had used this practic... |
Before they even got started, the talks were overshadowed by the legal case against Huawei. The Justice department on Monday revealed two criminal indictments against the company, including charges that Huawei stole intellectual property from T-Mobile, the cellphone operator. The other indictment said Huawei skirted US... |
The US also filed formal charges against Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei, who is also the daughter of company founder Ren Zhengfei. She was arrested in Canada in December at the request of the US government, which is seeking her extradition. |
FBI Director Christopher Wray told a news conference that Huawei "relied on dishonest business practices that contradict the economic principles that have allowed American companies and the United States to thrive." |
Huawei has denied the charges against the firm and Meng. At the same time, the Chinese government has expressed outrage at the charges. It said the US was using its power “to smear and crack down on targeted Chinese companies in an attempt to kill their normal and legal business operations." |
Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said in a statement that the United States should withdraw the extradition request for Ms. Meng “to avoid walking farther down a wrong path." |
The moves against Huawei, a star of the Chinese economy, could seriously affect the trade talks. Trump has hinted that he will intervene in the Huawei case if a deal is reached to end the trade war. |
But reaching agreement will not be easy. The Chinese economic model has developed b=over four decades and the government can’t just snap its fingers and change they way the country operates. |
“It is going to be a very long haul to get the changes the U.S. considers to be required because that really would force China to fundamentally alter the way it organizes itself,” Arthur Kroeber, a founding partner at Gavekal Research, told the Atlantic magazine’s Michael Schuman. |
Slobodan Milosevic's coffin was due to go on display today ahead of a private weekend burial in the grounds of his provincial home, a far cry from the state funeral sought by his dwindling band of loyalists. |
The casket arrived from Amsterdam without fanfare aboard a scheduled Yugoslav flight on Wednesday, almost five years after Milosevic was extradited by the reformists who toppled him. |
The vicious Balkan wars he presided over in the 1990s led him finally to The Hague, where he died of a heart attack a few months before a verdict was due in his war crimes trial. Questions persist over exactly what caused his heart to fail. |
It was also unclear whether Milosevic's widow Mira Markovic would attend the funeral. She faces charges of corruption in Serbia during the decade in which her influence and political power made her virtually an equal partner of her husband. |
Neither she, nor her son Marko have arrived from Moscow. |
No one from Serbia's Western-leaning government was at the airport as the coffin was draped in the Serbian flag by officials from his Socialist Party, then covered with red roses. |
A few hundred mourners outside the airport placed wreaths on the hearse as it drove past. Crowds lined highway overpasses for a glimpse of the convoy. |
The respected Belgrade daily Politika quoted pollsters as saying people's emotional reaction might bolster Milosevic's fading party and the ultranationalists, but only briefly. |
"The squabble to claim Milosevic's political heritage has begun ... those on the left as well as those on the extreme right realised his death is a unique opportunity," it said. |
The once-dominant Socialists have invited supporters to view the casket on Saturday outside the old federal parliament in the heart of the city - an area which overflowed with anti-Milosevic protesters in 2000 shouting: "He's finished." |
On Thursday, they prepared to display it in a little-known Socialist-era museum in the leafy suburb of Dedinje, where his official residence was bombed by NATO during its 1999 campaign to force Serbian troops out of the breakaway province of Kosovo. |
In Vienna on Friday there will be another round of UN-backed talks on the province's future, a process widely expected to give Kosovo the independence Milosevic tried to prevent by force. |
Milosevic will be buried on Saturday in the grounds of the family property in Pozarevac, his sleepy hometown 80 km (50 miles) east of Belgrade where the Milosevic clan once ran businesses, including a bakery, disco and a theme park. |
The Socialists, who in their heyday dominated political life in Serbia, now have only 22 seats out of 250 in parliament. |
They and the ultranationalist Radical Party initially sought a state funeral for Milosevic, then something akin to one, hoping to create a martyr to their nationalist cause. A threat to shame the government by burying him in Russia failed. |
Milosevic's popularity plummeted after he was sent to The Hague in 2001. But a core of support persisted for a regime that profited cronies for a decade while ordinary Serbs were bankrupted by war and sanctions. |
On March 12, 2003, an assassin killed Zoran Djindjic, the young reformist prime minister who had Milosevic extradited. |
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