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Abseiling engineers were called to fix the lift, which has now been grounded, and release Mr Greenhalgh. |
Problems with the lift earlier delayed the opening of the tower, which is five years late and £11.1m over budget. |
Mr Greenhalgh said he was "exasperated" and "frustrated" when the lift got stuck. |
"The bottom of my stomach dropped, I didn't want it to happen, I hoped it wouldn't have happened. |
"We thought we'd deployed all the resources we could to make sure it didn't happen. |
"But unfortunately it did, so we're very upset, very, very disappointed and you know, I would say a big sorry to the people of Portsmouth." |
The tower, which cost £35.6m, overlooks Gunwharf Quays and has three public viewing decks and Europe's largest glass floor. |
Council tax-payers in Portsmouth had to foot the £11m-plus overspend. |
Visitors can enjoy views including Nelson's flagship HMS Victory, Portsmouth Naval Base, the Isle of Wight, the Solent, Portsmouth and the Hampshire countryside. |
A spokeswoman for its operators Heritage said: "There was a technical hitch. The lift stopped about 10 metres up for about one and a half hours but the engineers have freed it and it is working again. |
"It hasn't spoiled the day. The queues are moving quickly as people use the internal lift and there are a lot of smiling faces. |
"It is unfortunate but it's not a huge surprise. Lifts need bedding in, they are not entirely reliable." |
The tower was originally intended to open in time for the turn of the Millennium, but was beset by contractual problems and technical hitches. |
Safety concerns over the external glass lift, which operates in addition to an internal one, caused its opening to be further delayed since August. |
The Millennium Commission provided £15m for the project, with £5.8m coming from original contractor Berkeley Homes and another £2.7m of contributions in kind. |
Berkeley Homes later pulled out of the project and building work was carried out by Mowlem, under contract to Portsmouth City Council. |
A Cohasset teenager was cited for speeding Wednesday after he allegedly caused a head-on collision on Forest Avenue in Cohasset. The 68-year-old woman who was driving the other car was taken to a local hospital. |
A Cohasset teenager was cited for speeding Wednesday after he allegedly caused a car accident that sent another driver, a 68-year-old woman, to the hospital. |
The head-on collision occurred at about noon on Forest Avenue. Both drivers are from Cohasset, and both cars were totaled in the accident, police said. |
Witnesses told police that the teen, driving a 1999 BMW, was speeding when he lost control of the car, which crossed the road’s center line and collided with a 2004 Volvo. |
The woman driving the Volvo was transported to South Shore Hospital in Weymouth with non-life-threatening injuries, acting Cohasset Police Chief William Quigley said. |
Police cited the teen for speeding and failure to drive in marked lanes. |
Does luxury travel help the developing world? |
High-end tourism may boost the economy, but there could be an ethical cost. |
June 25, 2015, 1:20 p.m. |
Luxury travel is important to the economy of most countries. High-end tourists are vitally important to the industry in the developing world. Not only are wealthy travelers willing to pay more for quality, they are not as affected by economic ebbs as mainstream tourists. |
At the same time, in places like India, East Africa or the Caribbean, high-end travel can bring back sometimes-uncomfortable memories of a colonial past that local residents and tourists would both like to forget. |
But local travel companies don’t seem too bothered by this. They go out of their way to romanticize the past, offering experiences that were common during colonial times. In India, the Palace on Wheels and the Maharaja Express both offer luxury train trips that hearken back to the time when Great Britain governed India... |
On a practical level, the colonial past might have actually prepared these countries to offer premium travel experiences. They are not starting their industry from scratch, so it was never about developing a luxury travel industry. It was simply about maintaining the high standard that was already in place. |
Any manager of a five-star hotel, no matter where it is located and no matter who owns it, will tell you that the main goal is to give people a kind of vacation fantasy. Waiters, concierges and even bartenders all play a role in guests’ travel dreams. Being able to “play their part,” much like actors would, is part of ... |
The unfailingly polite and always-prepared attendants on the Maharaja Express and the guides and cooks in Tanzania's safari camps understand this dynamic. This is one of the main reasons why these places remain so popular with luxury tourists. |
If you think about it, luxury travel is actually ideal for countries in the so-called developing world. Renovating old buildings or trains and then relying on people and their service skills to bring extra value can grow the high-end travel sector without a huge amount of international investment in new hotel and resor... |
Nature and the environment can also benefit from luxury travel. Perhaps it’s not a very democratic dynamic, but many tourists are simply priced out of the picture. This means fewer people come to a destination, but those who do come are ready and willing to spend as much as several regular tourists. |
Less tourist traffic means that the local nature (and also the local culture) can remain more intact. |
Another ethical qualm that people often level at the luxury tourism sector is that travelers are getting cheap thrills at the expense of the local communities. Critics claim that traveling in developing countries is not about gaining an understanding of a place or even about sightseeing, but about finding a sensation o... |
A few companies make it possible for travelers to actually give back to their chosen destination in various ways. One firm, called Elevate Destinations, has a unique offering. Travelers actually buy two vacations, one for themselves and one for a child in the developing world who will get to enjoy a corresponding exper... |
Some companies are actually using charity as a theme for their luxury travel packages. In places like Africa and Cambodia, guests are pampered in luxury hotels or palatial safari tents. However, their itineraries also include stops by local schools or orphanages or even a few hours helping out on a conservation project... |
People who can afford luxury vacations are in a position to help even if they are not on a charity-themed trip. Classic rocker John Kay, of Steppenwolf fame, paid for a school to be built (and for teachers’ salaries) after a luxury tour to Cambodia made a lasting impression on him. |
Luxury travel will remain an important source of income for developing countries. It’s up to the individual travelers who take these kind of trips to decide what their motivation is and if they want to get involved any further in the country. |
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Code RGV set up a communication hotspot in Rockport to help survivors of the hurricane. |
Rene Ramirez and Drew Lentz left McAllen for Rockport Thursday morning in an RV, but unlike most volunteers heading to the town that faced some of the worst destruction from Hurricane Harvey, they weren’t bringing packages of food and water for residents. |
Their vehicle was loaded with MacBook Pros, routers, phones and hardware needed to restore internet and phone services, which were knocked out Aug. 25 when the Category 4 hurricane made landfall along the Texas Gulf Coast. |
Ramirez and Lentz are the founders of Code RGV, a nonprofit that promotes technology innovation and entrepreneurship in the Rio Grande Valley. They typically offer educational programming but realized their retro-fitted RV — which functions as Code RGV’s Classroom on Wheels — could fill a vital communication gap in a t... |
Rockport, a coastal town of 10,000 located 30 miles northeast of Corpus Christi, was hammered by Harvey’s eyewall, which holds the storm’s strongest winds. |
After initial plans to connect fell through Thursday evening, the team was approached by a representative from Rockport WiFi, who happened to see their tower. He ultimately helped them connect to their network and create a communication hotspot. |
Ramirez and Lentz wanted to create a sense of community around Code RGV’s RV, which they set up at the corner of an H-E-B, right across the street from a donation drop-off point. |
“ It was kind of ground zero for everything,” Lentz said. |
Most people used the resource to plug in their electronics, or just to take a break from the heat. |
The team saw people break down in tears from the return of a cell signal, and a man who was ecstatic to regain access to pictures of his grandchildren he had stored on his cellphone. |
“It can be the smallest things that you don’t think about that makes all the difference in the world,” Lentz said. |
Another woman couldn’t get in touch with anyone in her family until a quick social media post changed that. |
One woman in particular stuck out in his mind. |
Brandy approached the Code RGV team carrying a small bag with everything she was able to save. When Lentz asked her how he could help, she broke down because she had lost her dogs in the storm. |
She stayed at the hotspot for hours, using their phone to try to locate them. |
When Brandy left, Lentz wasn’t sure what would happen. But within a few hours, Brandy returned, dogs in hand. She later was able to find her truck, which was impounded. |
“It’s really humbling,” he said of the overall experience. |
The bulk of the team’s work consisted of providing a way for Rockport residents to apply for Texas Workforce Commission disaster unemployment assistance or Federal Emergency Management Agency relief. They set up an efax account early on after they realizing applicants needed to fax information to FEMA, who Lentz said o... |
National Guard members also used their services to communicate and coordinate with central command, telling the team they hadn’t seen this resource provided after other natural disasters. |
“I’m so glad we were able to hit that niche,” Ramirez said. |
Rio Grande Valley residents were eager to help Code RGV’s efforts, even if they couldn’t make it to Rockport. |
Weslaco’s GCR Tires donated six new tires, with a warranty and roadside assistance for the journey, and individual donations have come flooding in. |
He encourages people to think about ways to give back to Harvey-affected areas using their skill set. |
And that, it turned out, was something most needed. |
Saturday afternoon as the team prepared to head back to McAllen, residents were still approaching the RV’s window to fax information, charge electronics and make one last phone call. |
American consumers have shown about as much appetite for the $1 coin as kids do their spinach. They may not know what's best for them either. Congressional auditors say doing away with dollar bills entirely and replacing them with dollar coins could save taxpayers some $4.4 billion over the next 30 years. |
The Texas Tech soccer team defeated Rice 2-0 in Houston on Sunday. |
Forward Jessica Fuston recorded both goals for the Lady Raiders in the first half. It was the second game of the season in which she has scored twice. |
Senior goal keepr Colleen Pitts recorded her fourth shutout of the season and the seventh of her career. She nos stands alone in fourth place on Tech’s career shutout list and is tied for sixth on the single-season shutout list. |
Tech’s record is now 4-0, the best start in program history. The Lady Raiders have recorded four consecutive shutouts to start the season, also a first in program history. The four shutouts surpass the total number from 2009 (three), which was the most successful season in the previous 10 years. |
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 4, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the world's largest and most trusted cloud delivery platform, today announced that several of its security experts will be presenting at the Black Hat Europe 2017 conference this week in London. Black Hat is the most technical and ... |
On December 7, Akamai's Security Data Analyst, Elad Shuster will discuss "Passive Fingerprinting of HTTP/2 Clients". |
HTTP/2 is the second major version of the HTTP protocol. It changes the way HTTP is transferred "on the wire" by introducing a full binary protocol that is made up of TCP connections, streams, and frames, rather than a plain-text protocol. Such a fundamental change from HTTP/1.x to HTTP/2, means that client-side and se... |
Also on December 7, Akamai's Senior Enterprise Architect Brent Maynard and Solutions Architect Sonia Burney will present "Becoming You: A Glimpse Into Credential Abuse". |
In recent years, security threats have exponentially increased, as have the potential solutions to detect and mitigate credential stuffing. The question often is, where in the workflow to deploy respective detection and mitigation strategies that are risk averse while maintaining efficacy. In this talk, Brent and Sonia... |
Last week, Akamai released its Third Quarter, 2017 State of the Internet / Security Report. The report, using data gathered from the Akamai Intelligent Platform, provides analysis of the current cloud security and threat landscape, as well as insight into the ever-changing landscape of attack trends and tools – deliver... |
As the world's largest and most trusted cloud delivery platform, Akamai makes it easier for its customers to provide the best and most secure digital experiences on any device, anytime, anywhere. Akamai's massively distributed platform is unparalleled in scale with over 200,000 servers across 130 countries, giving cust... |
Editor's Note: All known FieldTurf Duraspine fields (also sold under the brand name Prestige XM) installed in the U.S. as of about July 2011. Listings do not include about 200 field installations missing because of incomplete company records. FieldTurf declined to provide a full listing. |
You're only a couple of software updates away from controlling the new Apple TV with your iPhone or iPad. |
Apple on Tuesday released a series of software updates for iOS and OS X devices. For iOS devices, Apple released iOS 9.2 with bug fixes and overall improvements. For the Apple Watch, Apple released WatchOS 2.1 with support for new languages. |
As for the new Apple TV, TVOS 9.1 with Siri support for Apple Music, but most importantly, the update also adds support for Apple's iOS Remote app. Using the Remote app users can type usernames and passwords using the iOS devices keyboard, instead of being forced to painstakingly enter log-in credentials using the Siri... |
Before you can take control of your TV with your iOS device, you'll need to update the software on your respective devices. |
To update the software on the Apple TV, begin by opening the Settings app. Next, scroll down and select System from the list of options. Under Maintenance, click on Software Updates. Last, select Update Software. Accept and install the update when prompted. |
You can update your iOS device by launching the Settings app, then tapping on General > Software Update. Follow the prompts once the update is found. |
We've already walked through how to update your Apple Watch, but here's a refuses: Open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone, tap on General > Software Update. After the update is found, follow the prompts. Keep in mind you'll need to place your Apple Watch on its charger during the installation process. |
With the software across your devices up to date, you can control your Apple TV using your iOS device or Apple Watch with the Remote app. |
After installing the app, you'll be asked to enable Home Sharing or add a new device to the app. If you already have Home Sharing enabled on your Apple TV, select this option and sign in using the same Apple ID you used on your Apple TV. |
Conversely, you can add an Apple TV that doesn't use the same Home Sharing account using the Add a Device option. On your Apple TV, open the Settings app, then go to Remotes and Devices > Remote App and look for the name of the device you have installed the Remote app on. |
On your iOS device or Apple Watch, launch the Remote app and select "Add a device." (If you've already set up the app, you can also select "Add an iTunes Library" from the app's settings screen.) The app will then give you a four-digit code, which you'll need to enter on your Apple TV. |
Ralph Henning has stood in front of room full of parents of Galesburg High School athletes on several instances this summer, and his opening remarks were always the same. |
It’s a topic worth leading with. |
Ralph Henning has stood in front of a room full of parents of Galesburg High School athletes on several instances this summer, and his opening remarks were always the same. |
In the last year, drug testing has worked itself into the fabric of high school athletics, and it appears the policies held by the schools, the state and the Illinois High School Association are only going to stiffen. |
“(Athletes) might as well get used to it,” Rock Island football coach Vic Boblett said. |
A year ago, the IHSA began testing high school athletes for performance-enhancing drugs, such as steroids, at state finals competitions, and recently schools like Galesburg and AlWood have broadened efforts to personally test their own athletes. |
The government has stepped in, too. Earlier this month, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed into a law legislation that expanded on the measure taken last year by IHSA. The muscled-up law will increase the number of Illinois high school athletes tested to 1,000. It also means a high schooler could be tested during any time ... |
It’s an effort that has drawn wide praise from coaches and athletic directors. |
But it doesn’t come without concern. |
When Galesburg looked into it’s own drug-testing program, concerns about invading children’s privacy were aired. Those are legitimate, Henning said, but he agrees with Boblett that drug testing is not designed to frighten kids from going out for athletics. |
Another concern often heard is, Is this really necessary? |
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