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ISIS Using Kamikaze Drones in Iraq
The Pentagon has confirmed at least three such attacks.
Friends of YPG YPJ
The Pentagon has confirmed at least three attacks by the Islamic State (ISIS) using drones as explosives in kamikaze-style tactics.
The tactic was suspected as early as 2015, when a Facebook page for "Friends of the YPG YPJ," a Kurdish defense force fighting ISIS in the Syrian Civil War, posted a picture of destroyed drones with the title "YPG Shoots Down 2 ISIS Drones." ISIS has now used the tactic against the Iraqi Army.
Without the massive budget for constructing drones available to the American military, ISIS relies on commercial drones like the popular DJI Phantom for its attacks. With 28 minutes of flying time and the capability to hit speeds up to 44 mph, the most advanced Phantom could be easily turned into a quick-use remote-controlled bomb. Popular Mechanics has reached out to DJI for comment.
UPDATE: "As far as we've been able to determine, says Adam Lisberg, communications director for DJI in North America, "the drone used in this fatal attack was NOT made by DJI." The company has also released a general press statement noting that it is "ready to provide whatever technical assistance we can to those investigating this and other attacks" and "makes consumer drones for creative and peaceful purposes."
Only one of the drone attacks has caused casualties, but others have shown capable of landing at a checkpoint and destroying buildings. Other attacks not involving drones directly have been able to act with extreme precision, suggesting drones are also being used by ISIS in their more traditional form of espionage.
While US-Iraqi coalition forces have destroyed whatever capabilities ISIS had in these particular instances, drones-as-bombs is a tactic with rising popularity worldwide. Nations have taken to the tactic with greater sophistication than ISIS, with South Korea building a kamikaze drone capable of tracking North Korean missiles through mountain ranges. Israel's Harop drone is "essentially an unmanned missile plane," and has been sold to India, Azerbaijan and Germany. The United States has its own version of kamikaze drone, and its a matter of debate if Iran has also begun using the tactic.
Which all leads to the question of how this has caught the American military by surprise. "We should have been ready for this," said P. W. Singer, a specialist on robotic weaponry, to the New York Times, "and we weren't."
Source: The New York Times
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Indian Point cleanup estimate 'unrealistic,' A.G. says
Federal regulators and Entergy are ignoring lessons from the Fukushima disaster in Japan and relying on "entirely unr...
Indian Point cleanup estimate 'unrealistic,' A.G. says Federal regulators and Entergy are ignoring lessons from the Fukushima disaster in Japan and relying on "entirely unr... Check out this story on poughkeepsiejournal.com: http://lohud.us/1fwNbBh
Michael Risinit Published 4:20 p.m. ET Feb. 28, 2014 | Updated 10:15 p.m. ET March 1, 2014
The Indian Point nuclear power plant in Buchanan, as seen from across the Hudson River in Tomkins Cove Aug. 27, 2013.(Photo: Peter Carr/The Journal News)
Federal regulators and Entergy are ignoring lessons from the Fukushima disaster in Japan and relying on "entirely unrealistic and unreasonable" assumptions about what would happen if there was a severe accident at the Indian Point nuclear power plant, according to the state attorney general.
Those include determining the region could be decontaminated within 90 days, which, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office said, would require 1.5 million workers. It also said the cleanup's price tag in a worst-case scenario could top $1 trillion, seven times more than Entergy has estimated.
Schneiderman's office is asking the heads of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to review or reverse the approval of what his office said was a flawed evaluation.
"A severe accident at Indian Point could have a devastating impact on the (state), its citizens, communities, reservoirs, and natural resources. It is imperative, therefore, that the ... analysis accurately reflect the costs of such an accident," wrote Kathryn M. DeLuca and John J. Sipos, assistant state attorneys general.
In November, three federal administrative judges said Entergy's calculations were sufficient and the NRC's approval of its method was reasonable. The issue was among several the state raised in 2012 as part of the review of Indian Point's license renewal application. The judges are part of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, an independent arm of the NRC. They will ultimately recommend to the commission whether Indian Point should continue running for another 20 years.
Entergy and the NRC said the calculations are accurate and complied with federal regulations.
"We are pleased that the NRC's Atomic Safety and Licensing Board previously determined that Entergy conducted the appropriate analysis for accident mitigation using models that are utilized by the entire industry and approved by the NRC," company spokesman Jerry Nappi said.
But Schneiderman's office faulted the estimates because they involve a standard formula based on a nuclear plant in rural Virginia. The 50-mile emergency zone around Indian Point in Buchanan is much different, the assistant state attorneys general wrote.
NRC spokesman Neil Sheehan said the five-member commission has no deadline to rule on the state's appeal. Additional hearings on new issues related to Indian Point's license renewal could be held later this year or in 2015.
One of Indian Point's 40-year operating licenses expired in September and the other expires next year. The reactors can keep running until the NRC rules on Entergy's renewal application.
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News Jul 8, 2019
EU: Poultry production set to rise further
Poultry production in the European Union will rise by a further 2.5% this year thanks to good demand and high prices.
And price levels will also favour import growth for the second half of the year by around 5%, according to the European Commission’s “Short-Term Outlook for EU Agricultural Markets in 2019 and 2020”.
By the end of the year, EU imports are expected to grow by more than 5%, driven by high EU prices. Photo: Cavna
The latest Commission figures show production still rising but at a lower level than last year when there was a surge of nearly 5% growth. EU poultry meat production grew by 2% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2019 and, for the full year, the Commission expects this to rise to 2.5%. This will be supported by high prices, with the strongest growth once again in eastern EU nations.
Broiler prices substantially higher
Broiler prices started this year with levels below the 5 year average, but from April they have been substantially higher.
Consumer consumption is expected to continue on its rising trend – up by around 0.6kg/capita to 25.4kg. And if the high producer prices of pigmeat are transferred to retail prices, this will likely shift additional consumption to poultry, the Commission argues.
Also read: Gradually improving market conditions for global poultry
Exports and imports on the rise
Commenting on the first half of the year, the Commission said there had been a strong export performance in the first 4 months, which had seen a 13% rise year-on-year.
Around 40% of the growth had been due to increasing shipments to South Africa, despite the safeguard measure in place in the form of a $35 duty on bone-in cuts. However, these shipments are still well down on the record 2016 exports.
Exports to the 2 main destinations of EU poultry also grew significantly - Ghana saw a 12% rise and now takes an 11% share of the EU export market, while there was a 16% rise in exports to the Philippines (10% share). Vietnam saw exports double.
ASF effect
Given the African Swine Fever situation in China, exports have also risen there by 2% but so far Poland is the only EU country to benefit having regained market access in November 2018. For the full year, EU poultry exports are anticipated to grow by 3%.
Imports also grew strongly in the first 4 months (+14%), driven by rising shipments from the 2 main EU partners – Thailand (+11%) and Brazil (+23%).
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Imports from Brazil are still well below 2017 levels due to the ongoing sanitary restrictions in place. However, its exports of frozen poultry are rising, sometimes out of existing quotas, thanks to high EU breast prices.
In April, Ukraine reached a record levels in its exports to the EU under the liberalised tariff line for “other cuts”. However, a provisional agreement has been reached with Ukraine on a ceiling of 50,000 tonnes on imports under this tariff line.
By the end of the year, EU imports are expected to grow by more than 5%, driven by high EU prices.
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Shop Home / Fiction / LGBT / Gay / American Fallout (None)
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SKU: 9781939650429 Categories: Fiction, Gay, LGBT, Literary
Author: Wicks, Brandon
Publisher: Santa Fe Writer's Project
Media: Book
For Avery Cullins–library archivist, former teenage runaway, and gay man from a small Southern town–“family” means a live-in boyfriend and a surly turtle. But when his father, a renowned nuclear physicist, commits suicide, Avery’s decade-long estrangement from his mother, now hobbled following a stroke, comes to a skidding halt. With his boyfriend’s help, Avery takes custody of his mother and the trio heads cross country in a rented U-Haul, back to an apartment in Cleveland and an uncertain future. Their journey soon becomes a pilgrimage into the past when Avery begins sifting through his mother’s mementos. What emerges is a story of family, love, and loss as his parents made a home, lost a child, and tested the boundaries of marital love in the 1970s. Meanwhile, in today’s uncertain social landscape, Avery must confront his own struggle with a mother who doesn’t recognize him and a lover who seeks to claim him for his own.
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You are here: Home / Politics / Govt / Catholics push governor to sign abortion bill
Catholics push governor to sign abortion bill
April 5, 2000 By admin
The Iowa Catholic Conference and other “pro-life” groups today staged a news conference to publicly call on Governor Vilsack to sign the bill which requires a 24-hour waiting period for abortions. The bill, which Vilsack has indicated he’ll veto, also calls on clinics to give women seeking an abortion information about adoption and keeping the child. Iowa Catholic Conference executive director Dr. Thomas Feld says they believe the waiting period in many cases, will give women the opportunity to seek an alternative if they chose to do so. And he says it will let them make a truly well informed choice for this most-difficult decision.Catholics across the state have been urged by their church to lobby Vilsack, who is a Catholic, on the bill. Feld, however, does not go so far as to say Vilsack should be denied the sacraments of his church if he vetoes the billHe says Catholics do not have to abide by church policy in all of their public decisions. He says if Catholics make a well-informed decision, it will most likely follow the church’s teaching.Iowa Family Policy Center president Chuck Hurley says Vilsack, who was adopted as a child, should find his own past a compelling reason to sign the bill. Hurley asked, “How many future governors are aborted because women don’t have all the information they need to make this life-changing decision?”Wendy Armstrong is the state prayer chapter coordinator for the Concerned Women of America. She says they feel God’s word should be the first and final authority in making the decision. She says the bill would save the lives of countless babies.
Filed Under: Politics / Govt, Religion Tagged With: Abortion, Legislature, Tom Vilsack
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Reflecciones: SEN: ‘Seeds of Solidarity’ altogether vanishes
April 26, 2015 March 9, 2019 salmonrojo
Photo: Photos By Jerry Lara / San Antonio Express-News
BEFORE: “Seeds of Solidarity,” located on a building at 1711 Guadalupe Street, featured a towering image of poet Raul R. Salinas and other significant figures from the Latino community, including labor leader Emma Tenayuca and activist Rosie Castro.
“Seeds of Solidarity,” a mural created in 2005 by artists Mary Agnes Rodriguez and Jose Cosme for San Anto Cultural Arts, was whitewashed over the weekend. Located on a building at 1711 Guadalupe Street, it featured a towering image of poet Raul R. Salinas and other significant figures from the Latino community, including labor leader Emma Tenayuca and activist Rosie Castro. The site formerly housed Hope Action Care, a nonprofit that provided health education and other services. Christian P. Rios bought the vacant building about a year ago with the intention of opening an arcade. After failing to reach a compromise with San Anto about altering the mural, which prominently featured the name of the former occupant and had fallen into disrepair, Rios opted to paint over the piece, a decision that led to a heated debate on social media. Rios has commissioned an artist to paint a new work. He plans to open the arcade early next year.
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U.S. reaffirms pact to defend PH in case of West Philippine Sea attack
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iTunes Store opens in PH, 11 Asian countries
Fans of Original Pilipino Music (OPM) can now purchase and download songs for their iPhone, iPad, iPod, and Mac computers from the store
Rappler.com
Published 10:21 AM, June 27, 2012
Updated 10:45 AM, June 27, 2012
MANILA, Philippines - The Apple iTunes Store expands its reach in Asia as it officially launches in 12 countries, including the Philippines, opening its music and movies catalogue to millions of customers.
Apple officially launched iTunes stores for Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, and the Philippines, where customers can choose from more than 20 million songs for purchase and download, the company said in a statement Wednesday, June 27.
The Store features both international and local artists, from Adele to Jay Chou to Angeline Quinto.
Fans of Original Pilipino Music (OPM) can now purchase and download songs for their iPhone, iPad, iPod, and Mac computers from the store.
Aside from music, the iTunes store is also making available for rent or purchase movies from major studios.
Prior to this, customers in the said countries could buy and download applications for their Apple products via the App Store only.
"All music on the iTunes Store comes in iTunes Plus®, Apple’s DRM-free format with high-quality 256 kbps AAC encoding for audio virtually indistinguishable from the original recordings," Apple said.
China, its fastest growing market, was absent from the list, however.
Japan was the first Asian country to have access to the iTunes Store. In December, 17 Latin American countries also started having access to the iTunes Store. - Rappler.com
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Spring 2018 Flying Starts: Tomi Adeyemi
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The first time Tomi Adeyemi wrote herself into a story, she was six. Obsessed with The Parent Trap, The Saddle Club, and a Bollywood movie called Khabi Khushi Khabi Gham, she sat down at the keyboard and churned out a 30-page adventure starring horseback-riding, sari-clad twins—both of whom were named Tomi.
Somewhere along the way, however, her characters stopped resembling their creator. “I had processed that black girls couldn’t be in books,” Adeyemi observes, “and we couldn’t have adventures—especially magical adventures.”
An ugly backlash to the casting of black actors in the Hunger Games film adaptations changed Adeyemi’s perspective. “To see real hatred brought into a completely fictional setting just for the existence of black characters in a story—it’s heartbreaking,” she says. “It also made me really angry.”
Adeyemi vowed to publish a novel featuring a black protagonist, but her initial effort—a self-described love letter to Harry Potter—took years to write and failed to earn her representation. As she dug deeper into the genre, she soon realized why: “Fantasy authors have really elevated and added to the craft,” she says. “We’re in a whole new realm.”
Perhaps the best evidence of how far YA fantasy has come is Adeyemi’s own phenomenally successful debut. First in a planned trilogy, Children of Blood and Bone (Holt) chronicles 17-year-old Zélie Adebola’s battle to restore magic to the realm of the Orïsha and liberate its people from the tyrannical rule of King Saran.
Adeyemi’s first exposure to the Orïsha—deities belonging to the Yoruban people of southwest Nigeria—came courtesy of a museum gift shop in Brazil. “It was life-changing,” she recalls. “And it was so affirming to see my blackness celebrated in such a sacred and powerful way.”
Eight months later, Adeyemi became captivated by a picture of a black girl with luminescent green hair. She daydreamed about the sorts of adventures the girl might undertake—adventures set in a world inspired by the Orïsha. Adeyemi asked her boyfriend which she should tackle first: her burgeoning fantasy or something relating to the Black Lives Matter movement. He replied, “I think they might be the same story.”
Adeyemi was certain the concept would be perfect for Pitch Wars, but applications were due in 70 days. In May 2016, she traded a full-time marketing career for a part-time teaching gig and got to work. When her submission was accepted, she quit teaching, moved in with her boyfriend, and started writing full-time.
Through Pitch Wars, Adeyemi found agents Hillary Jacobson and Alexandra Machinist of ICM Partners. Though Jacobson and Machinist weren’t the only agents to express interest, they were the first to tell Adeyemi that the manuscript needed major changes, and their vision for the novel convinced Adeyemi to sign with them.
Three drafts later, Children of Blood and Bone went out to publishers. The book ultimately sold to Tiffany Liao at Henry Holt in a seven-figure preempt, but Adeyemi’s work was far from done. She and Liao toiled for 11 months, adding 200 pages to the manuscript. “Everything was different. Parts were ripped out in the middle and rewritten and rewritten again. Character arcs were changed. The world of the book was changed so many times with more research and sensitivity reads.”
The effort paid off: Children of Blood and Bone received five starred reviews and debuted at #1 on the New York Times YA hardcover bestseller list.
Adeyemi is determined to never again be absent from her own fiction. “Everywhere I turn, every single corner of this world has someone that I can see myself in,” she says. She wants readers who look like her to realize that they’re “worthy of the epic adventure, that they’re worthy of being the hero.” She adds, “I hope even looking at me behind the story lets them know that whatever they want to do, no matter how impossible it might seem, that they can do it.”
A version of this article appeared in the 07/02/2018 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: Tomi Adeyemi
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DR Congo says latest virus outbreak under control
Health authorities in Kinshasa declared the Ebola virus under control five weeks after the latest outbreak left 89 people dead in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
The health ministry announced the outbreak on August 1 in North Kivu province and on Thursday revealed that it had spread to Butembo, a city of a million people.
But Health Minister Dr Oly Ilunga Kalenga said: "Since August 13, there have been practically no more cases, we can say that the situation has been brought under control at the epicentre (of Mabalako)."
The latest outbreak of the virus is 10th to strike DR Congo since 1976, when the disease was first identified and named after a river in the country's north.
"To date, we have 129 cases (31 probable and 98 confirmed), 89 deaths and 33 patients cured," Dr Oly Ilunga said.
Fears that the disease might spread further had been expressed Thursday after news of two deaths in Butembo, a commercial hub and popular transit point for neighbouring Uganda.
A woman and one of the medical staff who had been treating her died ini the city.
"Even at Butembo, the situation is not critical," the minister told a news conference also attended by Congolese professor and leading Ebola researcher Professor Jean-Jacques Muyembe, who urged people to report any sign of the disease.
"The Ebola virus is circulating here and in Africa in general ... we must be vigilant," Muyembe said.
Complicating the battle against the spread of the disease is the fact it is afflicting an area of Congo wracked by insecurity owing to the presence of armed groups.
Even so, Dr Oly Ilunga said teams treating sufferers had enjoyed army and police backing as well as support from the UN mission Monusco.
The previous outbreak of Ebola, which left 33 people dead in the northwestern province of Equateur, was decreed over on July 24
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Back to the Promised Land
“You can talk about forced displacement or voluntary displacement, but if you move because your neighbors or family members were killed, is that really voluntary?” - Ledy
Gloria, in Caracolón, calls it “obligatory displacement” when she tells her story with the flattened emotion of 21 years of distance.
“In 1997 we were living in a different place. In November there were the massacres, with about 400 victims.
We had to leave with just what we had.
They burned our houses.
Nos obligaron displazar.”
They obligated us to displace.
Gloria’s community was caught between two armed groups in 1997. After the massacres and the obligatory - somehow “forced” is still not strong enough a word - displacement, people lived for four year in shelters in Dabeiba. During that time of poor conditions and little work, the community members organized themselves to put pressure on the government to give them a new place to live. They formed committees to govern their community’s health, labor, and memory - passing down memories from oldest to youngest of what they lost, and how.
The small piece of land that the Colombian government finally deigned to offer is much too small. 150 people are living and farming on just 250 hectares (a little more than 600 acres - less than 1 square mile). In contrast, Gloria remembers how they lived before, on the land to which they dream of returning:
“Everyone had enough, enough land that you could be one or two hours on horse or by foot from your neighbor. You were self-sufficient, with everything that you needed grown without chemicals, all organic, with agricultural and aquacultural production. You would go down once a month, maybe, to buy salt.”
What may seem to you like a pleasant fantasy of pastoral life is the essence, lo esencial, Gloria says, of who she is as a campesino. It is Gloria’s reality, and one she will not give up. “For this, we are insisting that we be allowed to return to our own land.”
In our conversation at Caracolón, Germán Zárate of the Iglesia Presbiteriana de Colombia begins by saying, “When you return to the Promised Land…” and there are smiles and laughter in the circle where we sit. The Promised Land is both memory and prophecy for the community of Caracolón, one they are determined to claim.
Reaching the Promised Land will require the clearing of military barriers and landmines that now block access to Gloria’s land, and the decommissioning or other provision for a hydroelectric dam that is currently taking advantage of her land’s wealth of water. Despite the challenges, Gloria and the other members of Caracolón are strong in their determination. Sitting near the monument that their Memory Committee installed on their temporary territory, the one that records the names of those killed in the 1997 massacre, they are clear about the goal.
“It’s my best dream,” one of Gloria’s compañeras says, “I dream of walking back, walking back on the same road by which we left.”
Gloria and the families of Caracolón who hold tight to the Promised Land are calling on us to put pressure on our own government and the Colombian government to ensure the completion of the details of the 2016 Peace Accords, which promised that displaced people would be returned to their lands.
May there arrive a Moses to part the landmines, and a Joshua to blow a trumpet to knock down the hydroelectric dam built on stolen lands, and may we all answer the call to pressure both our governments to hold true to their covenant to build a new road home.
Author, Alison Wood
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Hannibal Season 2 casts Katharine Isabelle
American Mary and Ginger Snaps star Katharine Isabelle joins Hannibal Season 2
By Jonathan Hatfull 21-01-14 7,299
Katharine Isabelle in American Mary
Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal Season Two has cast Ginger Snaps and American Mary star Katharine Isabelle as a patient of Hannibal Lecter’s and a potential love interest for one of its characters.
TVLine reports that Isabelle will play Margot, a “potential romantic interest for Will [Graham] (she is, after all, a lesbian) who also happens to be a patient of the Carnivorous One. Described as beautiful and compelling, Margot has suffered years of abuse at the hands of her serial-killer twin brother.”
Isabelle will recur in the show for at least four episodes to make life interesting for Mads Mikkelsen’s Hannibal Lecter and Hugh Dancy’s Will Graham, according to the site, which means she’ll have a significantly longer life-span than most of its guest stars.
Hannibal Season Two begins on 28 February in the US. No UK airdate has been announced. You can buy Hannibal Season One on Blu-ray for £24.99 at Amazon.co.uk.
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When officers caught up, the man appeared to want to fight them, Trim said. One officer fired a Taser, but the stun gun didn’t penetrate the man’s jacket, he said.
The man ran away again, then turned around and took an aggressive stance, Trim said. The same officer deployed his Taser once more. This time it was effective and temporarily incapacited the man, he said.
“He was taken to the ground,” Trim said. “When officers were trying to handcuff him, he physically resisted their efforts, and a struggle took place.”
The man was eventually handcuffed and officers requested that a device that securely wraps up a resistant suspect be brought to the scene. Before it arrived, officers noticed the man was unresponsive, Trim said. They tried to revive him and called for an ambulance, but he was pronounced dead at the hospital.
The three drivers involved in the collision suffered minor to moderate injuries, Trim said.
Trim said the coroner would determine if the driver was under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
An investigation will be conducted by the Elk Grove Police Department’s Investigation Bureau, which is standard practice for any officer-involved in-custody death, according to Trim.
The officers in the incident were not injured during the struggle. They will be placed on paid administrative leave in accordance with department policy.
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Smart grid test bed accelerates clean energy vision
News15 Oct 2018by SmartCitiesWorld news team
The energy company is building and testing three smart grids that will provide 20,000 customers with control over their carbon footprint
Substations in Portland (above), Hillsboro and Milwaukie will have smart grid technology
Portland General Electric (PGE) has proposed plans for an ‘ambitious’ smart grid test bed to help accelerate the US state of Oregon’s vision of a clean energy future.
According to the energy firm, the project, which is slated to begin next year, will integrate smart grid technology on a scale never before attempted in the US. PGE intends partnering with customers to help decarbonise the grid.
Energy efficiency and more customer control
PGE is building and testing three smart grids within its service area that will enable more than 20,000 customers to take advantage of special demand-response signals and incentives for using smart home technologies, giving them greater energy efficiency opportunities and increased control over their energy use and carbon footprint.
The entire service area will benefit as PGE integrates even more renewable energy resources into its power supply without compromising grid safety, security and reliability.
“Partnership and collaboration with Portland General Electric is a critical part of our efforts to combat climate change and to make our electricity grid and neighbourhoods more resilient, livable and efficient,” said Ted Wheeler, mayor of Portland.
“The city of Portland is excited to learn about smart grid implementation alongside PGE in this important pilot programme.”
"This first-of-its-kind project will leapfrog over other smart grid efforts, enabling PGE to gain and share learnings that will aid the entire industry”
PGE claims it will make this a “seamless experience” for customers by helping them automate their smart devices, such as thermostats, water heaters, electric vehicle chargers and batteries, to work in concert with PGE as it operates the grid.
During times when demand for electricity is especially high in the region, customers will be able to decide on an event-by-event basis if they want to participate in reducing their overall energy consumption.
It is anticipated the test bed will accelerate the development of distributed resources, which include customer-hosted renewables like rooftop solar, flexible resources like batteries, thermostats and water heaters, and electric vehicle charging. The project will rely on PGE’s unique ability to partner with customers.
Smart grid tech for three cities
To accomplish this, PGE will leverage advanced communications capabilities and distribution system upgrades in three Oregon cities: Hillsboro, Portland and Milwaukie. Three feeders and substations in these cities will also be equipped with other smart grid technologies such as new remote controls that increase system reliability and enhanced safety and cyber security.
The 30-month project aims to achieve at least two-thirds participation by eligible customers; typical uptake of demand-response programmes nationally is reportedly less than 7 per cent.
“PGE is committed to delivering a clean energy future, and we’re leaning in to our long history of industry leadership to get there,” added Maria Pope, president and CEO, PGE.
“Together with customers we’re making the future a reality with innovative projects like our smart grid test bed. This first-of-its-kind project will leapfrog over other smart grid efforts, enabling PGE to gain and share learnings that will aid the entire industry.”
“The PGE smart grid test bed represents a leap forward in the relationship between customers and their energy providers,” continued Jon Wellinghoff, former chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and CEO of Grid Policy.
“By providing customers with more control over their energy consumption and carbon footprint with the latest in control technology, PGE is on a path to building a model that energy providers everywhere can learn from and replicate.”
The project was conceived and is being overseen by energy regulators in Oregon. To accelerate the concept, PGE developed the pilot with guidance from the Rocky Mountain Institute, one of the nation’s top sustainability consultants.
The project is being steered by an advisory committee of local and national subject matter experts from the public and private sectors.
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With our first two phases already sold out, we're excited to continue building our new Cotswold inspired 2, 3 & 4 bedroom homes with an elegant modern twist, here on the edge of Witney.
You're buying more than just a new home at Windrush Place – you're joining a wonderful new community. Surrounded by superb open space, including play and exercise areas, charming allotments and a proposed new primary school, it's not hard to see why this wonderful development has already proven so popular.
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There is plenty of choice for food and drink locally with the family run Horseshoes pub serving locally sourced food in central Witney. The Meze Lounge and restaurant is an authentic Mediterranean dining experience using traditional Mediterranean ingredients and spices for those looking to try exciting new foods. Less than a 10 minute drive away is The Fleece, a bright gastropub with seasonal menus, stripped wood flooring & chic rooms in a Georgian building that overlooks the expanse of Witney’s beautiful Church Green. It has twice been voted one of the top twenty pubs in the UK.
Whilst there's a wealth of things to see and do on your doorstep, you can reach Oxford – a cultural and historical magnet for visitors from the local area and around the world – in less than 40 minutes by car. Windrush Place is surrounded by local places of interest and excellent sights to visit and enjoy.
The picture-postcard village of Minster Lovell, just a couple of miles away, is a perfect example of a Cotswold stone village with local country inns and gastro pubs, and there are hundreds of similar destinations ideal for a cycle ride or family outing.
Blenheim Palace, a magnificent house and garden, birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill, is well worth a visit, and there are lots of other houses, gardens and country parks, as well as woodland walks in the Forest of Wychwood and in Charlbury.
Twenty minutes drive from Windrush Place, Oxford has a wealth of attractions. World class museums, art galleries and historic buildings, in and around the colleges of the University, are a timeless joy to discover. Top quality arts and entertainment are all available in abundance, while the River Thames flows through the centre, offering bankside walks and meadows, and boat trips too. You can enjoy a serious day of shopping in Oxford too, or you could branch out only 22 miles away from Windrush Place to Bicester Village, one of the country’s largest designer shopping destinations.
Families with children will enjoy the Cotswold Wildlife Park and Gardens, or the Cogges Manor Farm Museum in Witney, offering demonstrations, tours and animal feeding - perfect for little ones.
Living on the outskirts of the town means Windrush Place enjoys the best of both worlds. With plenty of green, open spaces on your doorstep and the beautiful countryside nearby, you are also within walking distance of the local shops and other amenities. With dozens of local sports clubs, neighbourhood interest groups, community activities and even a town band, Witney is a great place to have on your doorstep.
Witney has two modern shopping centres with a good range of shops. Marriotts Walk offers Marks & Spencer, Debenhams and Dorothy Perkins to name a few, while the Woolgate Shopping Centre, with its 800 space car park, is home to stores including Next, H&M and Waitrose.
There are schools, doctors' and dentists' surgeries close to home, plus essential amenities such as banks, a post office and a library. The Windrush Witney Leisure centre has a gym, 25-metre swimming pool, sports courts and a cycling studio.
There are schools for all ages, from nursery pre-schools to further education colleges and universities, all within a short drive.
Witney has five community primary schools, the closest being Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School and West Witney Primary School. Others are Madley Brook, Queens Dyke, and Tower Hill Primary Schools.
There are three county secondary schools, including the Henry Box Comprehensive School, which takes its name from a local boy who, like Dick Whittington, went to London to seek his fortune and returned to found the school in 1662. Other secondary’s are Wood Green School and Springfield School – a state school for pupils aged 2 to 16 with severe learning difficulties.
Independent schools include Cokethorpe School, for boys and girls 4 - 18, about 3.5 miles away.
Older students will find Abingdon & Witney College at the local Witney campus, officially Oxfordshire's most successful college and in the top 10% nationwide.
And of course Oxford University is one of the world's most famous and prestigious centres of education, research and academic excellence.
Windrush Place is extremely well connected for commuting, shopping and exploring the wider area.
Windrush Place is close to the main A40 road, which runs between London and Birmingham and forms the southern by-pass for Witney. With Oxford 15 miles to the west and Cheltenham 30 miles to the east, both are within easy reach. The M40 motorway is around 20 miles away, so journeys to London (70 miles) and Birmingham (86 miles) can both take as little as an hour and a half.
By train, Oxford Station is about a twenty minute drive away, with excellent local services and regular trains to London (Paddington 59 mins) and Birmingham (New Street 63 mins).
Witney is well placed for commuting throughout the region to towns such as Bicester (22 miles), Banbury (25 miles), Cirencester (25 miles) and Swindon (25 miles).
The nearest airport is Heathrow (59 miles) and Birmingham Airport is 73 miles away.
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Despite money and effort, homelessness in SF as bad as ever
Heather Knight June 26, 2017 Updated: Sep. 7, 2017 1:24 p.m.
Marc Jacoban, a member of the S.F. Public Works homeless cleanup crew, power washes the sidewalk next to a row of tents.
Photo: Leah Millis, The Chronicle
On the face of it, San Francisco’s homeless problem should have improved dramatically over the past year.
After all, last summer Mayor Ed Lee formed the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing to focus on the city’s most perplexing problem.
The city spent $275 million on homelessness and supportive housing in the fiscal year that ends Friday, up from $241 million the year before. Starting Saturday, that annual spending is projected to hit an eye-popping $305 million.
Public Works cleanup crews were busier than ever, picking up more than 679 tons of trash from homeless tent camps since June 1, 2016, and collecting more than 100,000 used syringes from the camps in that time span.
But, despite all the money and effort, reality on the streets hasn’t improved. In many ways, homelessness in San Francisco is as bad as ever.
Just-released numbers from January’s homeless count, conducted every two years as a requirement to receive federal funds, show a very slight decrease. The drop is attributed to fewer families and youths among the homeless, while the number of single adults living on the street — the most visible — has risen.
The waiting list for nighttime shelter beds also has risen, from not even 900 last year to about 1,100 now.
Residents’ complaints to the city’s 311 line about tent encampments, needles and human feces are way up. In 2016, people made 22,608 complaints to 311 about encampments — a fivefold increase from the previous year.
But the biggest indicator is merely walking around the city, where it’s obvious the misery continues.
“It’s worse — that’s my observation,” Supervisor Jeff Sheehy said.
He and his 12-year-old daughter frequently ride BART downtown from their Glen Park home on weekends to shop and explore. They used to get off at the Powell Street Station, but his daughter now refuses to set foot there. They get off a stop later, at Montgomery, and backtrack on foot instead.
“The Powell Street BART Station is basically a homeless shelter, and not a well-maintained one,” Sheehy said. “There are homeless people sprawled all over the place, sometimes shooting up, sometimes with clothes not completely covering their backsides. Some people have seen people masturbating. There’s the smell, the dirt.
“The needles, the human waste, the garbage,” he continued. “I just don’t understand why we think it’s OK.”
The mayor tries to strike a balance between assuring residents it’s not OK and maintaining full faith in the staffers he has charged with improving the problem.
Lee is “more optimistic today than I ever have been” that San Francisco is finally on track to make a big dent in homelessness, and said his final 2½ years in office will be dedicated to improving the situation on the streets.
“We will have degrees of relief,” he said.
Denise Ward is one of the first residents to move off the streets and into the newly opened Navigation Center in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood.
Photo: Michael Macor, The Chronicle
But tension between departments at City Hall seems to have bogged down the response. The new homeless department focuses on long-term solutions, while Public Works crews grow frustrated that they’re cleaning the same camps again and again.
And as people on the street remain stubbornly in place, they grow older and sicker. That means help is that much harder to provide, said Jennifer Friedenbach, director of the Coalition on Homelessness.
“Seeing who is walking into soup kitchens and who we’re seeing when we do outreach, they’re barely hanging on,” she said. “Like they’re recently released from the hospital with colostomy bags. There are people with cancer on the streets, severe diabetes, heart disease, a lot of really severe mental illness combined with addictive disorders.
“We don’t have a lot of exits out for people, and people are trapped on the streets,” she said.
Clearly, the destitution is awful for people who are living on the streets. And it’s troubling for the people who see it in their doorways. In such a liberal and wealthy city — the 2017-18 city budget is a record $10 billion — why improvement always seems out of reach remains a frustrating question.
Jeff Kositsky, the director of the year-old Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, is certainly trying hard to answer that question and create solutions. There have been victories. The single Navigation Center in the Mission District that was open when Kositsky’s office was formed has now been replicated in the Civic Center area and in Dogpatch. Three more are scheduled to open by early next year. Together, they will offer nearly 500 new beds.
A new team to clean up tent camps has cleared 11 since September, moving methodically to ensure those living in the camps trust the team and agree to move inside. Kositsky said two of the camps have sprung back up — along Shotwell Street between 14th and 17th streets and also at 19th and Folsom streets — but nine have remained clear. He said 70 percent of the people living in those camps have moved inside.
“Thirty percent wandered off, but that’s a lot better than 100 percent,” Kositksy said. “When you just go move people, that’s what they do.”
Kositsky’s department has created a coordinated entry system that is just getting started. It seeks to help homeless people obtain housing and services based on their age, health, time on the streets and other needs, rather than plugging people into a waiting list based only on when they sought help. This is made possible by using one new data system shared among city agencies and nonprofits to smooth the process of connecting the homeless with services.
Brian Borland shaves in front of his tent in a homeless encampment at Utah and 15th streets in San Francisco. Borland has been living on the streets since he arrived from Washington state about a year ago.
Photo: Paul Chinn, The Chronicle
His department has also engaged the private sector, winning a $100 million commitment from the Tipping Point Community nonprofit to end chronic homelessness and starting a $30 million public-private partnership to end family homelessness.
Despite those achievements, the picture on the streets remains dire. The slow pace of change isn’t helped by a laborious city hiring process that means the homelessness department — which has been up and running since August — still isn’t fully staffed. And that staff is spread across at least six buildings, which makes it hard to run a unified department. That won’t change for at least nine months.
With round glasses and a suit jacket, Kositsky looks like a professor and talks like one too, using phrases such as “strategic framework” and “smart intentionality.” He’s working on a long-term plan to address homelessness and believes focusing on the big picture will pay dividends in the long run. He says the next biennial homeless count, in 2019, will really show results.
For many San Franciscans and City Hall functionaries, two more years is too much time.
There has been tension in recent months between the long-term planner, Kositsky, and the city’s fix-it-guy, Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru, whose job is to clean the streets and camps.
“We feel like we’re a maid service,” Nuru said. “We clean, we come back. We clean, we come back. The real question is, ‘Are we getting anywhere?’ We don’t want to just continue going around in circles.”
Donning a baseball cap and rolled-up shirtsleeves during a recent interview in his office, Nuru looked like the hands-on fixer reflected in his Twitter handle, @MrCleanSF. Nuru said the mayor’s administration has done a great job opening Navigation Centers and finding new supportive housing. The Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing has opened 303 units of permanent supportive housing in the past year.
But, Nuru said, the time needs to come when people are no longer allowed to sleep on the streets, and the city stops looking the other way when homeless campers inject drugs, cook over open flames, block sidewalks and streets, run bicycle chop shops and break into cars.
“They’re the types who really decrease the quality of life that people expect,” Nuru said. “We’ve got to take them on. ... I am very frustrated, and I have been having closed-door meetings with my team and with other agencies, and we’re going to put a stop to this.”
Nuru wasn’t specific about how he’s going to do that, but he said the tent camp issue has grown notably worse since the Super Bowl in February 2016. A possible reason for that, he said, is the football extravaganza caused advocates for homeless people to fear that those on the streets would be pushed aside permanently, so they began handing out free tents. So now some parts of the city are filled with REI tents — and destitution.
Nuru said that he meets with the mayor often and that when the tensions between him and Kositsky became public, the mayor tried to reassure him.
“He has asked me to try and embrace my colleagues and not get frustrated,” Nuru said. “It just hurts me to see a beautiful city like this.”
1of8Markael Rayvon hauls his belongings after the homeless encampment he was living in at 14th and Mission streets was taken down so a Public Works crew could clean up and disinfect the sidewalk.Photo: Paul Chinn, The Chronicle
2of8A Public Works crew removes trash from a homeless encampment at 14th and Mission streets in San Francisco.Photo: Paul Chinn, The Chronicle
3of8A Public Works crew waits for residents of a homeless encampment to clear out before cleaning and disinfecting the sidewalk at 14th and Mission streets in San Francisco.Photo: Paul Chinn, The Chronicle
4of8Jayson Lindsey, 41, starts a replication painting next to his tent as Robert Milton (rear left), a Public Works supervisor, makes his way back toward other tents along the sidewalk during a routine cleanup of a homeless encampment.Photo: Leah Millis, The Chronicle
5of8Markael Rayvon gathers his belongings after the homeless encampment he was living in was taken down at 14th and Mission streets before a Public Works crew can clean up and disinfect the sidewalk.Photo: Paul Chinn, The Chronicle
6of8Robert Milton, a supervisor of the S.F. Public Works homeless cleanup crew, pours eco-friendly cleaning fluid on a urine-saturated curb during a routine homeless encampment cleaning.Photo: Leah Millis, The Chronicle
8of8A staff member at the newly opened Navigation Center in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco.Photo: Michael Macor, The Chronicle
Lee said both men are doing important work that reflects the city’s commitment to “the short- and long-term care of individuals on the streets.” He added that he agrees with Nuru that lawbreaking in the camps can’t be ignored.
“I think we have historically given the Police Department mixed messages,” he said. “Some politicians will say, ‘Yeah, I want those activities to stop,’ and some say, ‘Why would you criminalize the homeless?’ The police are kind of stopped in their tracks.”
Lee said he is adding police officers to the teams that clear homeless camps and is funding new efforts such as harm reduction centers where injection drug users can receive services and supplies, and more beds in the emergency psychiatric ward at San Francisco General Hospital.
“This will take time,” Lee said of improving the city’s streets. “But now I have some answers. We’re breaking it down into biteable sizes.”
Kositsky said he, too, understands the frustrations of Nuru and neighbors who are sick of seeing swelling tent encampments on their blocks. Solving it, though, takes time, he said.
Asked to grade his department’s performance in its first year, Kositsky said he and his staff earn an A for moving in the right direction.
“In terms of the pace at which we’re doing it? I would say a B-minus,” he said. “I certainly wish things were going faster, but they’re going at a steady pace.”
Kositsky said one of the hardest parts of his job is that his successes are hidden away. Once that homeless panhandler is moved inside, you never think of him again. But if that tent encampment is on your block day after day, frustration mounts.
“Our successes are invisible, and our failures to resolve a problem are very evident,” he said.
To the residents of San Francisco who see tent camps on their corners and step over syringes every day, they’re very evident indeed.
Heather Knight is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: hknight@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @hknightsf
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Heather Knight is a columnist working out of City Hall and covering everything from politics to homelessness to family flight and the quirks of living in one of the most fascinating cities in the world. She believes in holding politicians accountable for their decisions or, often, lack thereof – and telling the stories of real people and their struggles.
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BBC Sherlock
Martin Freeman News
By Carol the Dabbler, October 2, 2014 in Cast & Crew
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Favorite series 1 episode: The Great Game
Favourite Series 2 Episode: The Reichenbach Fall
Favourite Series 3 Episode: The Empty Hearse
Favourite series 4 episode: The Lying Detective
I forgot about driving miss daisy. That could work. I'm not sure about Red from Shawshank. How would that work as a skit?
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The Crack in the Lens
Favourite Series 2 Episode: A Scandal In Belgravia
Favourite Series 3 Episode: His Last Vow
Actually, I thought I was saying Morgan Freeman doesn't have range..... :P
(and I must now slap myself for saying that, as Morgan Freeman is brilliant ...... )
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Favourite Series 3 Episode: The Sign of Three
Favourite series 4 episode: The Abominable Bride
I'll have to see how the preview commercials are that week as the host & band are usually in a few and those can be awkwardly funny.
Here's what appears to be a whole bunch of them, conveniently assembled on one video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvNQu6JNvKE&feature=player_detailpage
Is it bad that I knew what the last clip was referencing before Martin said what it was (and I don't watch that show)?
Here are a couple more promos for tomorrow night's show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=uGd-7ivmy0M
Saw on the lineup that Martin is supposed to be on Jimmy Fallon (The Tonight Show) tonight...a little less than 3 hours from now for those of us on the east half of the country.
Thanks for that, I'll watch!
Oh, hey, thanks!
It's times like this that I wish Indiana was back in the Central Time Zone, so I could watch Tonight at 10:30 instead of having to stay up another hour.
Hunt down Martin's section on Fallon. The first part is hilarious.
Yeah, they could've made much better use of Martin Freeman's time than that ring-toss game at the end.
Note to West-Coast viewers: Once the ring-toss segment is over, Freeman is gone for the evening. The following guest is also interesting, though.
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I really hope it will appear online soon.
Here's the whole thing, which will hopefully stay put:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-koINXSvSA&feature=player_detailpage
And if that fails, here's a nice chunk, with Freeman talking about NOT being in the Harry Potter films:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcmXOTDZamI&feature=player_detailpage
And here's another chunk (the antler ring-toss -- not the best part, frankly):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=UUjD_DYVqLM
Query: Is that last one working for anyone?
(Warning: This may actually belong on the Rant Thread.)
Added next day: Please take the following with a grain of salt. I was up past my bedtime when I posted it! So please watch the episode (see links in subsequent posts) when you get a chance, and judge it for yourself.
Aw, Jeez -- that was awful!!! I knew SNL wasn't what it used to be, but what a waste of talent -- all the actors', but especially Martin Freeman's. The poor guy comes all the way from London for that?!
I don't know whether to be irritated or grateful that a huge chuck of the nominal 90 minutes consisted of commercials (most of which were far more entertaining than the show). Judging by the complete-episode videos available on this page (where tonight's episode will presumably be posted soon), it averages about 60 minutes of show, leaving about 1/3 of the time slot for ads.
A few of the skits did have a good premise. My favorite was the Hobbit / Office crossover, with some pretty inventive character substitutions. Several of Freeman's other shows and movies were also mentioned, including Fargo and a 1998 episode of Picking Up the Pieces (which I'd be interested in seeing, since Amanda Abbington was one of the regulars). But nary a hint of Sherlock. Probably just as well.
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I noticed no mention of Sherlock as well, but perhaps it was just that embarrassment of riches. The Wedding skit what was that? It wasn't funny it was just strange. The Office/Hobbit one was good though I enjoyed that.
The wedding skit appeared to be their attempt to pair Freeman with someone as opposite to him as possible (in which they basically succeeded, I guess, though we weren't told much about the character he was playing), plus a take on what would happen if people actually did speak up when the wedding officiant says do you know any reason why these two should not get married. Not a bad premise for a skit, really, but the follow-through didn't strike me as particularly funny.
Maybe I just wasn't in a "funny" mood? I wouldn't mind seeing the Office/Hobbit skit again.
Here's the Hobbit / Office sketch -- not an official NBC post, so could disappear at any time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-zhCo8EM4E&feature=player_detailpage
The NBC website now has the entire episode (64 minutes). It'll be available there till the end of February.
Here's the wedding skit (again, subject to possible removal):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Cbwr37tHu24
After rewatching both of those skits, I think I judged them too harshly last night -- understandable, due to the late hour, but perhaps I should have delayed posting anything till I'd slept on it. Sorry! The Office / Hobbit skit really is funny, especially if you're already familiar with both productions, and the wedding skit is kinda cute. Not sure I'd care to rewatch any of the rest, but at least that's ten or twelve good minutes out of the 64.
Sorry, but I agreed with your first assessment ... a waste of both MF's time and mine. But I didn't expect anything different, SNL has been awful for years. I thought it was actually better than the last time I watched it, which must've been about fifteen years ago.
I did like Martin's bit in one of the skits just because his smile was so infectious.
I agree on Freeman's smile(s), particularly when he perfectly recaptures Tim's benevolently embarrassed smiles from The Office.
That Hobbit / Office sketch seems to have tickled just about everyone. If the above links don't work for you, you can also find the video on the web sites of Entertainment Weekly, Variety, or Rolling Stone, to name just a few.
It must have hit a sweet spot with a lot of people, it's one of the links on the Bing "hot topics". I smiled at it a few times, but the only actual laugh for me was the very last bit. Like most SNL skits, I thought the premise was better than the jokes. But then, I find very little humor in most TV comedy these days. I'm not sure if that's more of a reflection on me or the shows ....
PS -- I thought the Colbert interview with Smaug was funnier -- but not by much. But the CGI was terrific.
The Hobbit/Office one made me chuckle, it was pretty good. The wedding one... not so much. And that antler ring toss seemed to have been as embarassing to be in as it was to watch.
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I also noticed the very deliberate non-mention of Sherlock. What the heck? He lists the things he's known for and omits Sherlock? That had to be intentional but why?
As to the actual show, it was okay. I didn't find the Hobbit/Office thing funny but then I was only passingly familiar with both. I thought the wedding sketch was kind of creepy.
I thought he was really cute on the morning show segment as that handyman they kept showing on camera to the point it became awkward. Also thought he was cute in the "Sump'n Claus" sketch lol. He looked really weird as that red=headed saxophonist, a skit I thought was particularly random. And the lever / assembly line sketch was actually kind of funny.
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Man who made almost £500,000 in Premier League TV scam ordered to pay back just £2,500
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Big Pink Dress fundraiser gets through wardrobe malfunction at Sunderland 10k with a little help from his friends
Charity champion Colin Burgin-Plews was back on the running track this weekend, just two weeks after taking on the London Marathon.
By Debra Fox
Monday, 13 May, 2019, 11:11
Colin Burgin-Plews wearing his St Benedict's Hospice dress to take part in Sunderland 10k.
Colin, known largely by his alter ego Big Pink Dress, is renowned for donning epic outfits in honour of great causes - and it was no different in Sunderland on Sunday.
The fantastic fundraiser was doing his bit for St Benedict's Hospice at this weekend's Sunderland 10k race, heading out on the city's streets in a yellow and blue frock, adorned with sunflowers, to raise money for the charity.
But disaster struck on the 10k course when his trousers started to slip underneath his costume skirt.
Big Pink Dress charity champion fights illness to take on London Marathon
Writing on his Twitter account @bigpinkdressgnr, Colin said: "When the your mates go above and beyond in the Sunderland 10k.
"My trousers fell to my knees and @CrsHetherington came to the rescue."
A wave from Colin as he gets ready for action in the Sunderland 10k.
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Despite the slip-up, Colin, from South Shields, enjoyed a fantastic race day and said he had hoped to raise close to £1,000.
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He also joined in with the city's first-ever Sunderland 5k on Saturday night, which took runners over the new Northern Spire bridge.
Posting on Twitter, he revealed he completed the course in 29 minutes and 29 seconds.
At the end of last month, Colin raised more than £3,000 for chosen charity Breast Cancer Now by racing 26.2 miles through London as part of the city's annual marathon.
His spectacular costume weighed two stone, and he finished the course in six hours and 45 minutes.
You can find out more about Colin's adventures on his Twitter page here.
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Afghan and Pakistani presidents in Britain for talks
Feb 4, 2013, 10:05 am SGT
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LONDON(AFP) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari are set to hold key talks on Monday with British Prime Minister David Cameron on the Afghan peace process.
The summit at Mr Cameron's Chequers country retreat near London is aimed at boosting cooperation between Afghanistan and Pakistan, amid growing fears that a civil war could erupt when international troops leave Afghanistan next year.
"This trilateral process sends a very clear message to the Taleban - now is the time for everyone to participate in a peaceful political process in Afghanistan," a British government spokeswoman said.
Support from Pakistan, which backed Afghanistan's 1996-2001 Taleban regime, is seen as crucial to peace after Nato troops depart - but relations between the neighbours remain uneasy despite some recent improvements.
Both Kabul and Washington have regularly accused Pakistan of helping to destabilise Afghanistan.
But Afghan peace negotiators have welcomed Pakistan's release of dozens of Taleban prisoners in recent months, a move they believe could help bring militants to the negotiating table.
Mr Cameron hosted a private dinner for Mr Karzai and Mr Zardari at Chequers on Sunday evening, ahead of Monday's in-depth talks between the leaders and their officials.
These are the third trilateral talks in a year following meetings in Kabul in July and New York last September - but they are the first in which Pakistani and Afghan army and intelligence chiefs will also take part.
In an interview with Britain's Guardian newspaper and ITV television station released late Sunday, Mr Karzai said the biggest threat to peace in Afghanistan was not the Taleban, but meddling from foreign powers.
"Peace will only come when the external elements involved in creating instability and fighting, or lawlessness in Afghanistan, are involved in talks," he said, without naming any particular country.
The president also suggested Western troops had been "fighting in the wrong place" in Afghanistan, saying security in the southern Helmand province was better before British troops arrived there.
A statement released by his office said the talks in Britain would be "focused on ways to accelerate peace process in Afghanistan and further strengthen cooperations between Afghanistan and Pakistan in the fight against terrorism and extremism".
Mr Karzai is also due to meet the heir to the British throne Prince Charles during his three-day trip to Britain, which began on Saturday.
Britain still has around 9,000 troops in Afghanistan ahead of a scheduled withdrawal in 2014.
Afghan soldiers and police are taking on responsibility for battling Taleban militants from the 100,000 Nato troops due to depart by the end of next year.
But more than 60 foreign soldiers were killed in 2012 in "insider attacks" by members of Afghanistan's security forces, which have bred mistrust and threatened to derail the training process.
Afghan forces are also increasingly being targeted by Taleban bombers as they take on a greater security role.
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Miss Iceland quits beauty pageant after being ‘told she's too fat’
Anna Pollitt
An Icelandic beauty queen has quit the pageant circuit after claiming she was branded "too fat" to win any more contests.
Miss Iceland 2015 Arna Ýr Jónsdóttir, says she was sent a message by the owner of the Miss Grand International beauty contest in Las Vegas advising her to “stop eating breakfast, eat just salad for lunch and drink water every evening until the contest.”
The 20-year-old, who is an accomplished gymnast and former member of the Icelandic national athletics team, says she was also told her shoulders are too "broad".
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Jónsdóttir, who is now returning home to Iceland and says she will no longer take part in beauty contests, posted her "goodbye" letter to the pageant's owner on Instagram, beginning the handwritten note: “I am a very strong woman, but sometimes my strength isn't enough.”
Organisers allegedly made the comments four days before the competition.
Your staff told me that I had to lose weight for the finals because I have too much fat on me and also too big shoulders. They told me to lose weight and you would like me more.
- Arna Ýr Jónsdóttir
Jónsdóttir claims that the advice to lose weight came from reps for the owner of the pageant, Thai TV star Nawat Itsaragrisil, with the message "he likes you and wants you to do well in this contest."
“If the owner of the contest really wants me to lose weight and doesn’t like me the way I am, then he doesn’t deserve to have me in the top 10,” she tells the Iceland Monitor.
“Yes, my shoulders are a bit broader than the other girls’ but that is because I was a member of the Icelandic national athletics team and I am proud of that,” she tells the news site.
Read more: “London is the most fat-shaming place I've ever been”
On Tuesday Jónsdóttir posted a picture of herself in casual sportswear with the caption, "I guess I like my sporty badass look more than my perfect beauty look."
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"Niscayah was an ideal acquisition"
Stanley Black & Decker today has a 3.2 billion dollar security division with global presence. The last year's 1.2 billion dollar acquisition of Niscayah has added business in high level security verticals like banking. Detektor met up with Stanley Black & Decker's European President for security, Massimo Grassi, to discuss the integration. "Niscayah has been a dream for us for a long time. It was an ideal acquisition for us to become a pan European player", he says.
Stanley Black & Decker acquired Niscayah in September 2011. A few months earlier, Securitas made a bid for Niscayah. The payment was in Securitas shares and when the banks and stock markets began to sway shares fell and suddenly the Securitas bid was not worth as much anymore. Stanley Black & Decker made a significantly higher bid than Securitas and Niscayah became part of the American company.
By starting to look at customer needs in the larger geography and combine customers with similar needs across major markets, the company now wants to develop, sell and deliver new offerings. Niscayah will work more with standardisation, become more centralised and develop offerings for small and medium-sized customers.
On September 12, one year after the acquisition, Niscayah changed the brand name to Stanley Security Solutions. The new brand will be introduced in all 14 countries around Europe. According to Massimo Grassi, Niscayah has a good image in the European security market place, while the Stanley brand is not so well known yet. He says: "Globally Stanley is perceived as a good, reliable company while Niscayah is perceived as a very technically skilled company. Our task is to merge the attributes of the brands and give a unique value proposition to our customers."
In 2007, the Stanley Black & Decker turnover was 4 billion dollars. Today it is more than 11.5 billion. The company has three divisions: Construction and DIY, Industrial and Security. Security constitutes for about 30 per cent of the total sales.
"We started with a 100 million dollar business a few years ago. Through acquisitions we today have a 3.2 billion dollar security division with global presence. It is a nice growth story", says Massimo Grassi.
"We have a nice track record in developing our presence. The other aspect is diversifying by going from just tools, moving to other platforms for growth and particularly security."
You joined the company in 2007 and in September last year you took on the role of President for security solutions in Europe.
"Yes. I am a builder and I like to build things. That is why I think this opportunity with Niscayah is an extraordinary opportunity; to really build a pan European leader in security. We want to leverage Niscayah presence in all countries in Europe. The Niscayah expertise together with the added value we have at Stanley, this was a compelling acquisition for us."
How is the integration going?
"The integration is going as well as it could. We are very satisfied. The biggest surprise so far is that there have been no surprises. Stanley Black & Decker and Niscayah complement each other very well in terms of segments. Niscayah have a very good level of expertise in high level verticals like banking and distribution while Stanley in France and the UK have very good value propositions for small and medium enterprises and retail. The objective now is to make all this available in different countries and try to pick the best of each country in terms of value propositions and processes and make it available for everybody. For us, everything we do starts and ends with customer satisfaction."
What is most important when integrating a company?
"For us, integrating a company is one of our key fields of expertise. We have completed several of them. The last one, Black & Decker, was a complete success. However, there are several key factors to learn. It is important that there is clarity in terms of leadership. Niscayah has been a much decentralised company while at Stanley, we have many centralised processes. One of the challenges as president for this organisation was to make sure there was a match between these big cultural differences. We had a very intense first period with integration meetings.
The ideas and the objectives are very clear. There are no compromises in terms of where we need to go."
Why is standardisation of business offerings so important?
"The product portfolio must be similar in every country; otherwise we will not be able to position ourselves to successfully serve international key accounts. Also, we will achieve more leverage if we buy the same camera everywhere in Europe. Instead of investing 10 million, we can invest 20 million and the supplier will give us a better price. This is another interesting aspect of standardisation and consolidation."
What is the difference between Stanley Black & Decker in USA and in Europe?
"Our strategy is quite similar. The difference is that in North America, we have a combination of electronic security and mechanical security. In Europe we basically only have electronic security."
Where will you be experiencing the best growth in the future, in the US or in Europe?
"In the short term, probably in the US. Spain is one of our major markets and the situation there is difficult, just as in Italy. 2012 is really not a brilliant year for southern Europe, but I am extremely confident that this company has a great future in Europe as well. The economy will recover one day."
Where in Europe are you experiencing the best growth?
"We are happy that the Nordics are doing a good job. I do not think we are losing market share in southern Europe, but the market is slowing down a bit. So, mainly northern Europe."
What about Eastern Europe?
"We do not have much business there. We are planning to go there, but not now. First we would like to create conditions to make our customers happy and complete a very solid integration."
Before acquiring Niscayah you had offices in France, the UK and Belgium. Which are your three largest markets in Europe today?
"They are France, Sweden and Spain. France is the largest market."
What is your biggest challenge?
"I believe it is to stay focused on the core business. I am not worried. With Niscayah we have not only acquired a strong franchise in Europe, but also a fantastic set of talent. I am very confident of the future; the challenge is probably to remain focused on our objectives without being distracted by other opportunities that we may find."
Talking about opportunities... will you acquire more security companies?
"We would love to - growth is our focus, but not necessarily right now. Acquisitions depend on opportunities. Tomorrow we may have another important opportunity and then we will consider it very seriously. Security is definitely one of the most important platforms for Stanley Black & Decker and we are definitely interested in acquisitive growth. It may happen in a month or in a year, but today my main objective is to successfully complete the integration of Niscayah into Stanley Black & Decker."
How big do you see Stanley Black & Decker's security division in five years time?
"I believe that security will have an over proportional growth within Stanley in terms of percentage. I would not be surprised if we double our size from 3.2 billion to 5 or 6 billion. Strategically, doubling our size is something that is realistic within 5 years. Security is one of the growth platforms."
Stanley Black & Decker security milestones
2005 Stanley acquired Security Group, Inc. which was composed of
Sargent & Greenleaf, Inc., a medium and high security locks manufacturer, and Safemasters, a North American provider of physical security installation, maintenance and repair services.
2006 Stanley acquired Sonitrol and Xmark Corporation.
2009 Stanley announced a merger with Black & Decker. It was completed on March 12, 2010 and the size of the company almost doubled.
2011 On September 9, the acquisition of Niscayah was finalised.
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Keepers promised new protected predator advice
The Scottish Government has announced the launch of a new working group to aid applications from keepers wishing to control protected predators, such as buzzards and sparrowhawks.
The move follows the Scottish Governments recent admission that it overlooked issuing specific guidelines for protecting gamebirds when it published its original guidance in May. The group will include the Scottish Government, Scottish Natural Heritage, BASC and the Scottish Gamekeepers Association (SGA).
A spokesman for the Scottish Government said: We intend to produce comprehensive guidelines for the lethal control of predatory birds to protect pheasant poults. However, lethal control will continue to be considered as a last resort used only where all other alternatives have failed.
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Recalled Box Fans Could Catch on Fire
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Box fans that were sold nationwide are being recalled because they could cause a fire, according to news reports.
Lasko Products Inc. is recalling 4.8 million box fans because of a faulty fan motor that could cause a fire, the company announced Thursday.
Lasko said the fire issue has been reported in several models of the Lasko and Galaxy box fans. The box fans were sold at major retail stores nationwide for $12 to $25.
Thankfully, no reports of personal injuries have been reported in connection to the recall, so far. There has been, however, seven reported fires caused by the failure of the fan motors, according to news reports.
The faulty design lies in an electrical failure in the fan motor, according to news reports.
Consumers who think they may have one of the recalled fans should check the bottom of the metal frame of their fan to determine if their fan is among those recalled. On the Lasko brand fans look for model numbers 3720, 3723 or 3733. On the bottom of Galaxy brand fans with model number 4733, look for the date “2002-03” or “2003-04,” according to news reports.
As a North Charleston personal injury lawyer, I advise anyone with this fan to stop using it immediately and unplug it. Contact Lasko to receive a free fused plug safety adapter at (877) 445-1314 or visit the company website at laskoproducts.com. If you or a loved one has been injured by a recalled product, contact a personal injury lawyer in North Charleston.
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Sea Savvy - From wildlife to city life along the ICW
ICW SPECIAL PART II -- The Intracoastal Waterway offers a variety of sights and sounds throughSouth Carolina and Georgia
This is the second of a special three-part series on transiting the Intracoastal Waterway from Mile Zero in Norfolk, Va., to Key West. Soundings technical editor Tom Neale and his wife, Mel, have made the journey for 21 years (42 full trips), the last six aboard their Gulfstar 53 motorsailer. This second installment takes you to through South Carolina and Georgia. It is not to be used for navigation. Always consult the latest charts and guides, and use prudent seamanship. Click below to read Part I or Part III.
PART I -- Making your way down the ICW
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We begin this leg of our ICW voyage down the South Carolina coast just north of the Little River. It’s going to be a trip of amazing variety.
We pass first the Little River inlet. We can’t see the ocean, but we know it’s there as the small river swiftly flows through the dunes. We also know that we’re approaching the Myrtle Beach resort area. We begin to see marinas and expect to see resort surroundings. But as the Little River swing bridge closes behind us, we’re enclosed in a strange world resembling no resort. Old timers call it “The Rock Pile.”
Blasted out with dynamite, this was the last part of the ICW to be completed. The passage narrows; trees loom overhead. Who would think there would be all this jagged rock lining the channel’s edge after the marsh and forest we’ve seen? Straying from the middle can crash a keel or gnarl a prop. When the water is low you can see how far the rocks reach toward the middle. Turtles sun themselves, fish jump, and sunlight plays on the water. It’s spooky but beautiful.
Hague Marina — (843) 293-2141, www.haguemarina.com — just to the south of the stretch, specializes in repairing running gear for those who wander just slightly away from the middle. We call a “securitee” on VHF channels 13 and 16 to help avoid an overtaking situation or meeting another vessel head-on: “This is the motorsailer Chez Nous getting ready to enter the Rock Pile southbound checking for any concerned traffic. Standing by on 16 and 13.” (On a trip through in 1985, a ferry boat answered, coming our way.)
Finally the narrow cut broadens, and civilization reappears. It indeed is Myrtle Beach, with huge houses, golf courses and marina developments. We reach Barefoot Landing, a huge resort mall bordering the ICW. You can tie up there and go shopping, or enjoy many restaurants. A marina is under construction. But we continue on because tonight we want to anchor far back in time — in the Pleistocene age.
Waccamaw and WinyahBay
Some years ago, I watched one quiet evening at dusk as a guy on a Canadian sailboat anchored just up the creek from me. He threw a line over for some bottom fishing — perhaps dinner. He reeled in and cast again into the smooth, dark water. With a cataclysmic splash, something huge erupted from the water where the lure went in. It was an alligator, with the same thing in mind. The large ripples spread and dissipated into the cypress knees. Night fell in the deep swamp of the WaccamawRiver. Eerie jungle noises drifted from the dark.
There’s a widely accepted method of safely over- taking in the ICW where the channel is narrow and there are steep channel walls. An overtaking boat may not be able to pass very far from the overtaken boat without risking damage to prop or underbody. And because of bottom configuration and vessel proximity, what would normally be a safe speed may result in a wake that can cause personal injury and property damage. Usually both boats need to travel near the middle of the channel because of shoals, stumps, rocks and other hazards along the sides. The overtaking boat calls the boat that he or she wishes to overtake on the VHF and asks for a passing. (Sound signal is permissible under the Rules, but VHF is usually preferable in these circumstances.) Usually the vessel being overtaken acknowledges, and both agree to the maneuver. The overtaken vessel moves over (usually to its starboard) to make more room, slows down to minimum steerage speed, and maintains that speed and course. The overtaking vessel also slows and proceeds around on the agreed side (usually the port side of the overtaken vessel) and at the slowest speed necessary to enable it to get past. Under most circumstances, because the overtaken vessel has slowed to minimum speed, the overtaking vessel’s speed won’t cause much, if any, wake. (Were the overtaken vessel to maintain speed or only slow down slightly, the overtaking vessel, in order to pass, would have to use enough speed to throw a potentially dangerous wake.) VHF contact is maintained during the process so that coordinated course changes can be made if an obstacle or change of direction in the channel or another boat appears ahead. Careful attention is important. When the overtaking vessel has passed and it’s safe to do so, the overtaken vessel turns into its wake and falls in behind so that the overtaking vessel can safely speed up and resume its journey. Follow the Inland Rules of the Road, which include the concept of the exercise of prudent seamanship. Circumstances may indicate another practice. For example, there obviously would be less need for this maneuver if the overtaking boat were a 12-foot skiff.
This swamp grows on us suddenly as the ICW exits its dredged cut and morphs into the channels of the river. The Waccamaw winds through low ground and deep forest of cypress and moss, the gnarly knees dipping into the reddish brown water. The stain already growing on our bow becomes deeper. (We’ll clean it later when we get to the clear waters of South Florida.) Fallen trees jut out from the shore. Sometimes they break loose and float downstream. Civilization occasionally peeks through the wilderness at places like Osprey Marina — (843) 215-5353, www.ospreymarina.com — Wacca Wache Marina — (843) 651-2994 or (800) 395-6694, www.wwmarina.com — and Bucksport Marina, known for its sausage, (843) 397-5566. Eventually the river broadens as it picks up its flow to the sea. It opens into WinyahBay, and we see Georgetown to starboard. An anchorage (mostly poor holding in loose mud), marinas, shops and restaurants, a 220-acre historic district, and unbeatable Southern hospitality have attracted cruisers for many years. A Coast Guard station serves the area.
The tide is with us in WinyahBay, and we race downstream. On other trips we’ve used the deep inlet of the bay to escape out into the ocean to head north to the Cape Fear River or south down to Charleston. The loneliness of this remote inlet is both overwhelming and strangely exciting. The ebbing tide pushing us, we’ve been able to shoot out with 3 extra knots of speed in our displacement-hull boat. Long rock jetties protect this inlet, as is the case with many others. They are unforgiving if we hit them.
Memories of Hugo
Today, we make a sharp turn to starboard, leaving WinyahBay and entering another narrow cut, the EsthervilleMinimCreekCanal. We become immersed in a feature of the ICW that we’ll experience again and again through northern Florida: boundless regions of open marsh. We’ve had tastes of marsh thus far, but nothing like this vast sea of tall grass, with only occasional clumps of trees claiming the few islands of firm ground.
The ICW jumps from river to winding river through short, dredged cuts. We sweep out of these cuts into the rivers, following the twists and turns of the channel, and then duck back into another that will take us to yet another river — all as we work our way south. Many of the rivers have good anchorages with lowland protection, and unlimited vistas of wilderness. They remember the past with such names as South Santee, North Edisto, Ashepoo, Dawhoo, Cooper, Bull and Coosaw. They also give us access to South Carolina ocean resort areas, such as EdistoBeach, Kiawah, FollyIsland and Seabrook.
Hurricane Hugo ravaged this part of South Carolina in 1989. We passed down the coast shortly after it hit. Stands of pines were sheered off 10 to 20 feet above the ground, as though a giant with a tall lawn mower had cut them like grass. The wind snapped them off like that because the lower parts were under water. The BenSawyerBridge, just north of Charleston, was set spinning and wound up lopsided and partially “dumped” in the ICW. The floating docks of an entire marina on the east side of the ICW near Charleston were lifted over their pilings — boats and all — and deposited in the marsh on the western side of the ICW.
Television news covered the devastation of Charleston; it didn’t cover the far worse devastation of the tiny, ancient shrimping village of McClellanville to the north. When the water rose there, the people climbed to attics and rooftops and held on. After the storm, when Charleston and other areas were being rescued by the National Guard and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the people of McClellanville climbed into their shrimp boats, then up in the trees, to retrieve food and water. They got gasoline pumps going, which had been deep under sea water, and pumped the salt from their wells. They survived, all by themselves.
A day or so later, a few hiked out the road for hours until they finally found a telephone that worked. They called their senator, Fritz Hollins, to get word to friends and family elsewhere in the world that they were still around. You seldom hear these stories on the news, but when you spend some time traveling the ICW, you’re a part of them.
We tie up with the shrimp boats at Leland Marine — (843) 887-3641 — go ashore, and stroll beneath ancient trees. A live oak up the road near the church spreads out so broadly that you don’t have to climb it. You can walk up. We buy shrimp still wiggling, and get to know some special folks.
The marsh, sand flats, and shallow bays of CapeRomain reach far out into the Atlantic offshore of McClellanville. From the ocean you hardly see the cape, it’s so low. From the ICW you sense the quiet, unblemished ancientness of this protected wildlife preserve. If we’re careful as to depths and shoals, we can anchor in places such as Awendaw Creek and become a part of it. (Shrimp boats run the creeks night and day, so be careful.)
From wilderness to culture
A whole ’nother world waits less than 40 miles to the south. Past the FrancisMarionNational Forest, the marsh and dunes to port begin to sport huge houses. That, and more bars on the cell phone are two sure signs that we’re getting to high civilization. And “high” it is: It’s Charleston, the capital of the lowcountry and one of several cultural centers of the South.
Charleston is a great place to visit, and we plan to stay at least a couple of days. Old homes, historic locales such as The Market, and an exceptional assortment of restaurants and shops make this one of the more attractive cities on the Intracoastal. As we exit the dredged channel and round into CharlestonHarbor, we see FortSumter to port. The first shots were fired here in that 19th-century unpleasantness between the North and the South.
Our favorite marina is the Charleston City Marina — (843) 723-5098, www.thecitymarina.com. Privately operated, it’s a huge network of floating docks out over the AshleyRiver. The marina, as do some others, will give us a ride to various parts of the city. Other marinas in the city include the Harborage at Ashley Marina, just up the AshleyRiver — (843) 722-1996, www.ashleymarina.com — and Charleston Harbor Resort and
Marina, at Patriot’s Point across the CooperRiver — (843) 856-9996, www.charlestonharbormarina.com.
Tides in the ICW range from none to more than 8 feet. The following May 2005 spring tide heights give will you a good idea: Winyah Bay, 5.6 feet; southern South Carolina and Georgia, 8.9 feet; Fernandina Beach, Fla., 7.7 feet. During high tide or high water from storms, marsh and low land may be covered, and strict adherence to aids to navigation and charts is even more critical. Often the channel doesn’t go from aid to aid. It will round to avoid shoals jutting out between the aids. During low tides, some of the cuts may be too shallow for the boat. We use half tide and rising to go through questionable areas. Any time we anchor, we check the stage of the tide: 10 feet of water at high tide may be 2 feet at low tide. We consider our swing so that as the tide and winds change we won’t snag a shoal off to the side. We circle before anchoring to be sure we know the breadth of the deep water. In places where there is no tide, such as the sounds of North Carolina, prolonged winds may “pile” the water up at one end, making it deeper or shallower.
Some anchor in the river off the Charleston City Marina. We’ve found the holding to be fairly good, and a few years ago moorings were established. They were then discontinued, leaving, I assume, more obstructions on the bottom to ensnare an anchor.
Satiated with fine food and culture, we escape Charleston through the notorious Wappoo Creek and Elliott Cut. At its southern end, the narrow Elliott Cut channel funnels a current that sometimes approaches 5 knots. The Wappoo Creek bascule bridge (33 feet reported vertical clearance when closed) bottlenecks boat traffic near the northern end with scheduled openings, and single-screw vessels often have a difficult time holding position waiting with a fair tide.
Soon we clear the cut, and we’re back out in open country. Farms, fields, marsh, and rolling yards with big houses surround the wide rivers, cuts and creeks. Many anchorages with good holding invite us to slow down, stop early, and enjoy. It’s like this through much of the ICW, all the way down to northern Florida. But that’s just a little background for what’s to come.
BarrierIslands
South of Charleston we begin to notice another fascinating phenomenon. It’s subtle at first, but by the time we reach lower South Carolina and move into Georgia, it’ll be very obvious. Barrier islands, one after another, form the coast that separates us from the ocean. Some are so large that they seem to be mainland, while others are but small strips. We pass behind these as we look out inlets at both ends. All are relatively low, formed by waves, dunes and the cut of the currents.
Lady’s Island, huge with forest, marsh and communities, lays to port as we sweep up the CoosawRiver. We duck behind it into Brickyard Creek, which takes us into the BeaufortRiver and the city of Beaufort. (It’s pronounced “BYOO-fort,” while Beaufort, N.C., is pronounced “BOH-fort.”) We see fine Southern homes, high green banks, huge live oaks, and places from history — like the John Mark Verdier House (circa 1790), which the Marquis de Lafayette visited when he returned to this continent after the American Revolution. Filming for the movie “Prince of Tides” and others was done here.
Among the area marinas are the Downtown Marina, in the heart of the restaurant and historic area (has courtesy car) — (843) 524-4422 — Port Royal Landing Marina, a bit to the south (has courtesy cars) with nearby groceries, pharmacy, hardware and other supplies — (800) 326-7678, www.portroyallandingmarina.com — and Lady’s Island Marina, across the river — (843) 522-0430, www.ladysislandmarina.com.
Our next stop is at the barrier island of Hilton Head, a renowned resort with beaches, restaurants, world-class golf, tennis and other leisure activities. The ICW passes through broad Calibogue Sound, west of the island. The waters of most of the sounds in South Carolina and Georgia are full of swirling brown mud from the marshes. Calibogue, with its entrance into Tybee Roads to its south, floods with clearer ocean water during incoming tides.
Inlets and trips offshore There are enough good inlets to allow most boats to take day trips out in the Atlantic when conditions are good, coming in well before dusk to anchor in or stay at a marina. Going offshore doesn’t necessarily save miles. Count miles from the ICW to the sea buoy and back again when you’re considering offshore jaunts. When calculating distances, be consistent with either statute or nautical miles. Some inlets are deep, stable, and well maintained and marked. They’re used for large commercial traffic. Examples include Beaufort Inlet, Cape Fear River, Winyah Bay, Charleston, Port Royal Sound, Savannah River, St. Simon’s Sound, St. Mary’s River, St. John’s River, Fort Pierce, Cape Canaveral, Lake Worth, Port Everglades (Fort Lauderdale), and Government Cut (Miami). Some are relatively shallow but are improved with jetties and/or dredging, and stable and deep enough to be regularly used by commercial fishing boats and larger pleasure boats in good conditions. These include Masonboro, Little River, and St. Augustine. Others, such as some of the sounds in Georgia, are seldom if ever dredged and much more likely to have shoaling and aids to navigation off station or far apart. Many other inlets are virtually impassible except by small boats operated with great skill and local knowledge. Know your inlet before you use it. Consult an updated chart. Any inlet can be dangerous in adverse conditions. Training and experience running inlets is critical. It can be very dangerous to use an inlet without good light or with an onshore swell or sea. Sometimes a far storm will cause huge waves to break in an inlet, even though the weather on-scene is calm. Tide running out an inlet against onshore waves will make them much higher, sometimes dangerously so. When you plan to exit an inlet, remember that you must come in later, also in good conditions. Currents in inlets aren’t only important as to waves; they can substantially add to or detract from the speed of displacement-hull vessels.
We’re tempted to go out into the ocean to head south for a while. In good weather this, and Port Royal Sound to the north, are strategically located inlets for many boats to make a day run and safely get back inside before nightfall. Tybee Roads is the mouth of the Savannah River, which divides South Carolina from Georgia. But Georgia will be just as beautiful a few days later. We can’t pass Hilton Head without stopping.
There are several nice marinas here; our favorite is HarbourTown, a waterway tradition for more than 30 years — (843) 671-2704, www.harbourtown.com. The marina is distinguished by the red and white striped lighthouse, a Hilton Head landmark. Its floating docks are in an enclosed basin, and a new 270-foot floating face dock makes megayacht tie-ups easy. Restaurants, shops and homes surround the basin, as do the famous Harbour Town Golf Links and the Racquet Club. Other marinas include Shelter Cove Marina — (843) 842-7001 or (866) 400-7894, www.sheltercovehiltonhead.com — and Skull Creek Marina — (843) 681-8436 or (800) 237-8436, www.theskullcreekmarina.com.
The Savannah River cuts the narrow ICW channel, bearing unwieldy container ships making their way to and from the seaport. They often call “securitee” as they approach the ICW crossing because they can’t stop or turn to avoid careless boaters.
Immediately after this breathtaking interruption, the ICW re-enters marsh that quickly opens to the town of Thunderbolt. Approaching Thunderbolt, we pass the famous BonaventureCemetery, its old tombstones and trees crowding the shore of the WilmingtonRiver. The remains of author Conrad Aiken and lyricist/songwriter Johnny Mercer lie here. To the south, the MoonRiver reminds us of his well-known lyrics.
Rather than go up the Savannah River, we choose to visit Savannah from this quiet suburb, only a short taxi ride away from the city. Also a cultural center of the South, Savannah was founded in 1733 and has contributed much to modern tastes, as well as history. Scenes from the movies “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,” “Forrest Gump,” and “The Legend of Bagger Vance” were filmed here. Several good marinas include Thunderbolt Marine — (912) 356-3875, www.thunderboltmarine.us — and Bahia Bleu Marina — (912) 354-2283, www.bahiableumarina.com.
After a few days’ visit we head south again, gradually leaving high civilization behind. Pleasant reminders such as the small town of Isle of Hope with its marina — (912) 354-8187, www.isleofhopemarina.com — and an occasional marina nestled back in a creek soon yield to the haunting remoteness of coastal Georgia.
Our world becomes one vast marsh crisscrossed with creeks and rivers, some of which we take, some of which we carefully pass by. Names such as Ogeechee, Bear, Julienton, Old Tea Kettle, Little Mud, Mackay, and Little Satilla add cadence to the quietness of the marshes. The Florida Passage, a narrow cut through mud and grass, reminds us of where we’re going. Hell Gate, splitting Raccoon Key and Little Don Island, reminds us of how careful we need to be in some areas.
At high tide we see across the flooded marsh to forest far beyond. At low tide we’re 8 to 9 feet down, gliding between muddy channel walls, barely able to see over the tops of the swaying grasses around us. It’s a land of shrimp boats and local fishermen, birds and gators, and wind rustle. Deep anchorages with good holding wait around the bends of creeks. When we stop here at night we see the stars like we can in few other places on the East Coast because there are few land lights to compete. And we’ll have more than 100 miles of this world to travel at our leisure.
Florida on the horizon
When we begin to feel like we’re forever lost in marsh, the river or creek opens into a sound with broad waters plagued by mud flats and sand bars, but deep enough in the right places. St. Catherines, Sapelo, Doboy, Altamaha, Buttermilk, St. Simons, Jekyll and St. Andrew each give variety to our days. The water of these sounds slides out over the shallows into the ocean, elusive channels winding through the bars to meet the swell. A few of these give safe passage out; most require intimate local knowledge, but all are beautiful. In St.AndrewSound the ICW channel rounds out into ocean waters. If the sea is running, breakers crash on shoals all around us — yet another place requiring great caution but giving the sea’s constant promise of great adventure to come.
In South Carolina and Georgia increased tidal range brings increased current flow. Many long stretches with a strong side-setting current are marked with ranges. Most range markers are red with a white stripe; some are lit but many are not. In a few places there are no red or green aids, just a series of ranges to follow around the bends. The major inlets and rivers, for example Winyah Bay and Charleston Harbor, have numerous well-lit ranges sized for large ships to follow. Ranges are sometimes hard to line up. Some are front ranges that we steer directly toward; others are behind us and require looking aft to line up the range while also looking forward. When the two markers (or lights at night) are aligned one directly above the other, we then steer to keep them that way until we’ve completed the leg for which they were intended.
Much of this land of marsh is really barrier island, with sand dunes built up from the storms of the centuries. Like most of this coast, these islands have a history rife with pirates and warring conquerors, but each is unique. We anchor in Walburg Creek behind St. Catherines and listen to perhaps the strangest night sounds on the Eastern Seaboard.
Ashore is a center for the protection of endangered species. When we stopped here three years ago we heard what sounded like exotic birds, monkeys and other creatures we couldn’t begin to identify. St. Simons and Jekyll offer very different experiences. On St. Simons we visit the ruins of FortFrederica, built in 1736 by Gen. James Oglethorpe. You can anchor off the fort if you very carefully follow the FredericaRiver.
JekyllIsland, purchased by Georgia in 1947, is mostly undeveloped but sports the former estates of such millionaires as the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers. We can visit the estates if we want to forego the pleasure of being aboard our boat to see how these less-fortunate lived. If we need a town fix after all the marsh, we can head up to Brunswick with its very protected marina.
Next we wind behind CumberlandIsland, the southernmost in Georgia. A nuclear submarine, speeding up Cumberland Sound to King’s Bay Submarine Base, provides a striking contrast to the island, much of which is a wilderness preserve. A dock at the park ranger station lands the ferry (no bridges to this island) and gives us an easy place to land our dinghy. The holding is moderately good if we work at it, and we leave the boat at anchor to explore.
Trails take us back into the woods, where we see armadillos, wild turkeys, deer — always wondering what we’re not seeing in the dense foliage. Around a half-mile across the island the path opens to dunes and beach. On some days we’re alone on miles of beach, save for the herds of skittish wild horses scampering across the dune. At the right times, we see the tracks of huge sea turtles that labored ashore at night to lay eggs. At the southern end of the island, we visit the decaying ruins of the great Dungeness mansion, once home to the Carnegies. Many years past it was the scene of gala events, with ladies and gentlemen strutting about in high fashion. Now it hosts quietly grazing horses and strutting wild turkeys.
This is an island where we stay a few days. But soon we’re tugged by the call of our voyage. From that southern shore, past the old DungenessCemetery, we look across Cumberland Sound and see Florida.
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Superyacht delivery tests captain and crew
Engine trouble amid a Red Sea storm lands vessel in a Middle Eastern military zone
The International Superyacht Society, at its annual awards gala held this year at the Miami International Boat Show (Feb. 16 to 20), presented its Distinguished Crew Award to the skipper and crew of a 155-foot Trinity motoryacht who, members say, displayed “exceptional professionalism and efficiency under extraordinary circumstances.”
Capt. Sandra Yawn and the crew of the White Star “endured a harrowing series of events” while delivering the boat to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates in November 2004, Gary Groenewold, vice president of award sponsor Westrec Marinas southern region, said during the ceremony.
The award, in its fifth year, is presented to a captain and crew who exemplify expertise and professionalism in the super and megayacht industry, the society says.
“When I heard [Groenewold] tell the story, it really sank in and impacted me,” says Yawn, who is 41, and spoke with Soundings from Spain. “When you’re living it you just do what you have to do. The crew was magnificent. Hearing it, though, realizing that that’s what we went through, shook me up a little bit.”
As Yawn and her crew pushed White Star through the Suez canal and into the Red Sea, a storm kicked up, the boat’s hydraulics failed and one of the engines failed, Groenewold explained. Yawn decided to steer the boat toward an island off Yemen, near Saudi Arabia. They apparently pulled into a military zone because they found themselves surrounded by Yemeni gunboats.
“Needless to say, on a multimillion-dollar yacht, they kind of stood out,” Groenewold said.
“We didn’t know we were heading into a military zone,” explains Yawn, who is from Fort Lauderdale. “Once we realized it, all the women on board, myself included, went down below and didn’t show our faces. Mark Wood, one of our security officers, acted as captain and dealt with the Arabs. It was a strange experience.”
Five days later, the boat’s engineer had fixed the engine and the crew set off again for Dubai, Groenewold explained. Less than an hour later the second engineer noticed flames coming from the exhaust when a fireball ripped through the engine room. Within minutes the experienced crew was able to extinguish the fire, although the engine room was destroyed.
Yawn kept her cool, Groenewold said, and contacted the crew of a passing U.S. Navy warship for help. The Navy ship steamed to where White Star was left drifting, boarded the ship and towed it ashore for repairs.
“They say you are only as good as the people under you,” Groenewold said. “The crew on this vessel report that the captain remained cool and collected throughout their ordeal and never panicked. The leadership exuded by the captain reverberated through the crew and provided quiet confidence in their professionalism as a team, and courage under fire during their hellacious series of events.”
During the ceremony members also presented the society’s first Presidents Award to Jane Buffington, of Fraser Yachts, for her “exceptional service to the society and to the yacht industry.”www.superyachtsociety.com
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Businesses in Southbank
A fresh spin on Greek dining
Since opening in April last year, ENA Greek Street Food has proven to be a major success in Southbank.
Located at mid-level Southgate overlooking the Yarra River, the Greek restaurant has provided a quality, relaxed dining option fit for both Southbank’s vibrant culinary culture as well as the fast paced lunchtime crowd.
Established by Melbourne’s Funky Food Group, the concept was the brainchild of the group’s Greek director George Pezaros, who boasts a long and successful career in the hospitality sector.
While he’s been responsible for establishing more than 250 stores, including the Degani and George’s Gourmet Deli chains, Living Room, Hot Pepper and many more, he had always wanted to open a Greek restaurant.
According to Funky Food Group co-owner Eleanor Barratt, George had waited years for the perfect site and Southbank had always been one of his favourite places in Melbourne.
“Southbank has always been one of our favourite places to eat,” she said. “We are amongst so many famous and wonderful restaurants and bars.”
“We feel privileged to be operating alongside them. The atmosphere and vibe in the dynamic Southbank dining precinct cannot be compared to anything else in the world.”
Having only launched Funky Food Group in October 2015, ENA adds to the group’s impressive list of ventures, which already includes three Espresso Bar International stores, seven Billy Group restaurants and a gelateria.
Translating to number one in Greek, ENA is an evolution of simple, fresh and flavoursome ingredients that brings the theatre of an authentic street food environment to a modern setting.
“ENA, our Greek ‘street food’ concept is atmospheric with charcoal grilled seafood and meats with ‘theatre’,” Eleanor said. “This is a proven performer at Southbank.”
The menu offers a variety of delicious sharing plates, mains, salads and desserts, and includes all the signatures one can expect to find in Greece from spanakopita and moussaka to mouth watering seafood and souvlaki.
And using a majority of locally sourced Victorian produce, meat and seafood in all of its dishes, Eleanor said the business prided itself on going the extra mile to provide quality and authentic Greek food.
“Our point of difference can best be described as ‘retro’,” she said. “By that, we mean we have gone back to the traditional ways of cooking good quality, simple Greek food.”
“This is difficult and at times, a challenging way of producing large volumes of high quality traditional food consistently. But we have put the time and effort into perfecting this and this is our point of difference.”
With the venue continuing to go from strength to strength, Eleanor said the overwhelming feedback from its customers continued to illustrate that ENA was a perfect fit for Southbank.
“The response has been fantastic,” she said. “Customers love that all our staff are Greek. They love the theatre of the open kitchen and the Greek banter between the chefs. Don’t mistake the rowdy nature between the chefs communicating in their own language. It is basically organized chaos that works very, very well.” “They also love that we are the best value for money restaurant in Southbank without having to compromise on the freshness and quality of the products that we use.”
For more information visit enagreekstreetfood.com.au
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Children’s camp means any land with permanent buildings, tents or other structures established or maintained as living quarters where both food and lodging or the facilities thereof are provided for minors, operated continuously on a 24-hour basis for a period of five days or more each year for religious, recreational or vacation purposes, either free of charge or for a fee, but does not include any camps owned or leased for individual or family use, penal or correctional purposes, or places operated for the education, care or treatment of children.
Annually or before May 1, every person operating or seeking to operate a children’s camp must make application in writing to the Southern Nevada Health District for a permit to conduct a children’s camp.
The application shall be in such form and shall contain such information as the board of health finds necessary to determine that the children’s camp will be built, operated and maintained in accordance with the standards prescribed by Nevada Revised Statutes 444.220 to 444.320, inclusive.
When a person operates or is seeking to operate more than one children’s camp, a separate application shall be made, and permit obtained, for each camp.
Location, layout, drainage, and refuse disposal:
Every children’s camp shall be located on well drained ground (not prone to flooding) near an adequate safe water supply.
The general layout of a children’s camp shall be planned to lessen fire, accident and disease hazards.
In every children’s camp all kitchen, toilet, bath and other drainage shall be disposed of in such manner as to prevent fly and mosquito breeding and the pollution of any water or food supply.
A reasonable number of watertight metal garbage containers with lids shall be provided.
Primitive Camp Kitchens (NRS 444.270 and NRS/NAC 446) – Equipment and area used:
The area must be level and clear of debris;
Overhead protection must be provided over the food-handling and preparation area;
Cooking equipment must be capable of cooking potentially hazardous foods to at least 165° F.
Refrigeration equipment in such camps shall be available with provisions for preserving perishable foods at a temperature of not over 50° F.
Refrigeration equipment in such camps shall be available with provisions for preserving potentially-hazardous foods at 45° F if not kept longer than 72 hours (must be 40° F if kept longer than 72 hours).
Dry storage for foods must be elevated off the ground and vermin-proofed.
Provision must be made for a hand-washing station (see Temporary Events Do’s & Don’ts)
Provision must be made for adequate washing, rinsing and chemically sanitizing reusable cookware and tableware.
Permanent Camp Kitchens must comply with structural requirements for food establishments (see Food Service Establishment Plan Review Requirements for Equipment & Facilities)
Each such camp shall be provided with a water supply of sufficient quantity of a safe, sanitary quality, meeting the minimum standards of the board of health of the appropriate health district or county.
Cross-connections or backflow with contaminated water supplies or other possible sources of contamination are prohibited in such camps.
Toilets and disposal systems or portable facilities for temporarily holding sewage:
Every children’s camp must have suitable toilets and disposal systems or portable facilities for temporarily holding sewage that is treated with chemicals which conform to the provisions of the Uniform Plumbing Code of the International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials, as adopted by the local jurisdiction, and all applicable administrative regulations which pertain to the disposal of sewage.
A children’s camp must provide one toilet or portable facility for every 15 persons or fraction thereof in the camp population.
Installation of permanent septic systems requires a separate permitting process – call (702) 383-1271.
Permanent Structures:
All buildings used for occupancy by a children’s camp must meet all applicable local, state, and federal laws, regulations and codes pertaining to life, health, safety, and fire; building, plumbing, electrical and mechanical engineering, and be furnished within occupancy limits.
Minimum Recommendations for Cabins:
Suitable and separate beds or cots should be provided for each child. Where single beds are used, at least 40 square feet of floor space should be provided for each child. Where double deck bunks are used, at least 30 square feet of open floor space per child is recommended. Triple deck bunks are not acceptable.
Every sleeping space should contain at least 96 cubic feet of air space for each occupant (a sleeping space 4 feet wide x 3 feet high [bunk] x 8 feet long);
Where double deck bunks are used, ceiling height should be at least 8 feet from the floor. At least 3 feet of clear space should be allowed between each set of double bunks.
Where beds or bunks are used, non-permeable, cleanable mattresses and/or mattress covers should be provided.
Every sleeping room should have one or more windows. All windows should be fitted with screening of at least 16 mesh.
All doors and outside openings in living and sleeping quarters should be secured with screens not less than 16 mesh. All screen doors should be equipped with self-closing devices.
When a camp is operated during a season and in a climate requiring artificial heating and/or cooling, all living quarters should be adequately heated and/or cooled in such a way as to ensure the comfort and safety of the occupants.
Buildings should be rodent-proofed.
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BIHAR TURNAROUND Leadership Matters
Following the change in the leadership in Indian state of Bihar, one can see major economic transformation happening in that Indian state<br>DEBESH ADHIKARI
Aug. 23, 2011, 5:45 p.m. Published in Magazine Issue: Vol. : 05 No.-05 Aug. 19-2011 (Bhadra 02,2068)<br>
Bihar, the poorest state in India, where social inequality, poverty, corruption, crime, colonial political scandals and all imaginable negative factors had taken tolls since ages, has seen a dramatic turnaround in the state affairs over the last six years. From being on the verge of a fiasco, the condition of the state has been reinvigorated. Bihar now is begging headlines for all the right reasons.
“Between 1990-2005, Bihar was in a serious hole, caste-based political scandals ruled the state, under Lalu Prasad Yadav things got worse, but in the last 6 years, things have changed,” said Blair Glencorse, specialist, Institute for State Effectiveness, who is doing a study on the transformation of Bihar.
Causes for development
The key reason for the transformation of Bihar has been the leadership. Although the preceding chief minister, Lalu Prasad Yadav, did not set the bars too high, the works done by Nitish is laudable. When Nitish Kumar was elected the Chief Minister of Bihar in 2005, the state was in an insurmountable condition, but, Nitish changed the fortune of Bihar.
The government made panoptic investments in infrastructure, made education top priority and raised education budget to 25%. Government improved health facilities, primary cares and provided other basic facilities that people in Bihar never experienced before. Women are provided various rights and nearly half of the Bihar decision making personnel are now women.
Nitish-led government was able to spend 93% of their budget in key areas. “There is a catalytic effect between spending money and development,” said Blair. Bihar today has one the highest economic growth rates in India. Numbers are slowly turning in favor of Bihar.
During the last 6 years, the security of the state has been upgraded. Nitish publicly supported the police after they made high-profile arrests of criminals including MPs and MLAs from his own party. He put thousands of criminals in jail and offered jobs to criminals involved in less serious crimes and brought them into public service, offering more money than they were earning. He hired ex-soldiers, introduced fast track courts and improved the overall security of the state.
Nitish diminished the trend of over-centralized state powers, and decentralized powers to working officials. He updated archaic rules and established cabinet meetings as a weekly event. He ended the widespread patronage system and picked bureaucrats and public servants for their competence. He gave emphasis to anti-corruption and made systems automated and simplified to reduce corruption.
Changing attitude
People have started feeling the changes. Residents of Bihar who were working away from the state are slowly returning to their native land. People once filled with pessimism and hopelessness are now living with the belief that optimism in life is possible.
Six years back, due to lack of security, people in the rural areas barely used to go out after sunset and people living in the city areas weren’t able to enjoy extravagance like luxurious cars as it would have attracted the unwanted attention of the extortion groups. But today the condition has changed. “People in the rural areas feel technically safe and don’t hesitate to go out after sunset and people in the city areas are enjoying luxuries,” said Blair.
Premature claims
Although the achievements of Bihar in the last six years are remarkable, there are still loads of works left to do. “Land reform is a key issue and is a too difficult issue based on current dynamics of state,” said Blair.
Water management is a key challenge since 38 districts of Bihar were flooded recently and the 2008 flood was one of the most disastrous floods in the history of Bihar. Bihar hasn’t created any new source of energy for 25 years and still relies heavily on coal based energy. “Deep rooted energy scarcity poses challenges in growth,” Blair said.
There are still no major industries in Bihar and around 80-85% population of Bihar is dependent on agriculture. Although Bihar has amazingly fertile land, a state cannot develop solely on agriculture. The population of impoverished people is still very high.
Corruption might have gone down compared to the past but still it is not fully abolished. “It’s not that Bihar has no corruption, crime or other issues, but those have gone down dramatically and people are feeling the impact,” said Blair. But overall Bihar is transforming into a better place than it was a few years back.
Nepal benefits and lessons
Bihar shares an open border with Nepal. “Transformation of Bihar has opened new opportunities for Nepal and Nepal should not delay in creating economic symbiosis with Bihar,” Blair said. The political leaders of Nepal need to learn from Nitish. People in Bihar have trust in their leader and they fully believe in his commitments and his words, same cannot be said about the political leaders in Nepal. Blair advised Nepali government to enhance their public image by gaining trust of the people and an increased government capacity to boost public spending.
Nepal and Bihar can work together in hydropower projects as both the places have energy deficiency, said Blair. “Nepal can capitalize on around 100 million population of Bihar by taking the advantage of open border and due to the current transformation of Bihar,” he added.
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Breckenridge Ski Resort opens 52nd season with 82 acres of terrain
Sports | October 21, 2015
Joe Moylan
jmoylan@summitdaily.com
First chair of the 2013-2014 season at Breckenridge.
junruh@gobreck.com | Summit Daily News
Students were truant, jibbers were jibbing and the Bavarian cream-stuffed éclairs were flying Friday, Nov. 8, as throngs of snow riders flocked to Breckenridge Ski Resort for opening day.
The annual event does more than just kick-start the season. It’s a celebration, a right of passage that has the supernatural ability to coax ear-to-ear grins among friends, family, strangers and even some of Breck’s longest-tenured residents … and by all accounts Friday’s opener was nothing short of epic.
Professional snowboarder Chad Otterstrom celebrated his 18th opening day Friday. Although there has been ample opportunity to log his first turns of the season, with the recent openings of Loveland Ski Area, Arapahoe Basin Ski Area and Keystone Resort, Otterstrom said he annually saves himself for Breckenridge’s opening day.
“As a Summit County local, I don’t ride until Breck opens,” he said. “I’m sure it’s different for other people, but I live in town and there’s just something special about Breck. It’s not winter until I load my first chair on Peak 8.”
Thousands of locals and Denver commuters joined Otterstrom to carve up three runs spread over 82 acres on Peak 8, but for the local pro and many other freestylers, it was the upper portion of Park Lane terrain park that kept the lift lines busy until late in the afternoon.
“There was nothing but smiles over there,” Otterstrom said. “Turns are fun, but you can only do that for so long before you get bored. The park keeps you there all day and I swear Breck keeps stepping it up each year. This was honestly the best first day ever.”
Although Otterstrom’s winter clock begins with the opener at Breckenridge, Front Range skiers David, Carrie and John made the drive to participate in their third opening day celebration of the season. The three friends weathered lift lines at A-Basin and Keystone before carrying on the tradition Friday at Breckenridge.
Like many youngsters on the slopes, David, Carrie and John played hooky to enjoy the sunshine and a fresh set of turns. For John, it was his first time exploring the early spoils of Peak 8.
“When you live in Denver and Boulder and you wake up in the morning knowing you have an hour and a half drive to get to the slopes, it’s easy to feel like you should be responsible and go to work,” John said. “Then you get here on a day like today and it’s all worth it.”
Friday marked the beginning of Breckenridge’s 52nd season. In honor of Veterans Day weekend, Master Sgt. Richard Gibbons of the Colorado Air National Guard — a recipient of the Bronze Star and a veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom — joined local scavenger hunt winners for the first chair of the season.
“This morning’s festivities were a fantastic culmination of all the events that took place during Breck Opening Week,” said Kieran Cain, Breckenridge Ski Resort’s marketing director, in a news release. “The ability for us to share the excitement and pageantry of the opening of the season at Breck with our guests and make them part of the celebration is always rewarding, and becomes even more special at the start of such an historic year as this one.”
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For the fifth year, Biloxi will start the season’s celebrations on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. It all begins at 5 p.m. at the Biloxi Visitors Center, 10150 Beach Blvd., followed by a parade to the nearby Mardi Gras Museum, 119 Rue Magnolia.
“The Biloxi Visitors Center is where we began the holiday season, with the lighting of the decorations at the Biloxi Lighthouse,” Visitors Center Manager Bill Raymond said, “and this will be where we also will end the holiday season as we usher in the Carnival season.”
This year, the krewes of Neptune and Les Cavaliers join the Gulf Coast Carnival Association, the City of Biloxi and the Biloxi Mardi Gras Museum as sponsors.
Dancers at the Gulf Coast Carnival Association parade
At 6 p.m., the reigning leaders of Carnival — King d’Iberville 2017 Kent Nicaud and Queen Ixolib 2017 Molly Atherton — will be presented to extinguish the Christmas lights at the Biloxi Lighthouse, which is right in front of the Visitors Center. The entourage then boards a Carnival float and moves the party to the Mardi Gras Museum. There, at 6:30, festive lights will signal the beginning of Carnival season. This year, the number of floats involved increases to three and possibly four. Live music at the Museum will be provided by Coast band Blackwater Brass.
Like Carnival itself (and Ash Wednesday), Twelfth Night has its origins in the Christian faith, representing the arrival of the three wise men who visited the infant Jesus. The three wise men, or Maji, had followed a star indicating His birth.
This year, Fat Tuesday will be on Feb. 13. Mardi Gras (French for Fat Tuesday) is always 45 days before Easter, which can fall on any Sunday between March 23 and April 25. Easter Sunday in 2018 will be April 1.
Ocean Springs Elks Mardi Gras parade kicks off the 2017 Carnival season in South Mississippi as a continuation of one family tradition and a new experience for others.
Tammy Smith: 228-896-2130, @Simmiefran1
This year’s Twelfth Night celebration is Friday, Jan. 5, starting at the Biloxi Visitors Center TIM ISBELL SUN HERALD FILE
This year’s Twelfth Night celebration is Friday, Jan. 5, starting at the Biloxi Visitors Center JOHN FITZHUGH
This year’s Twelfth Night celebration is Friday, Jan. 5, starting at the Biloxi Visitors Center. AMANDA McCOY SUN HERALD FILE
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It’s a ‘party’ in Biloxi for the 2018 Gulf Coast Pride Day
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In-limbo Moffat to bring up century in NZ
By Aaron Noonan, V8 Sleuth
Reaching his 100th Virgin Australia Supercars Championship round start at Pukekohe this weekend is the last thing on James Moffat’s mind.
The Garry Rogers Motorsport driver will bring up the milestone in the penultimate event of the 2017 season, the ITM Auckland SuperSprint in New Zealand.
However Moffat continues to explore options for next season, when GRM is expected to promote youngster James Golding into the #34 Holden.
“It’s pretty unlikely that I’ll remain at GRM full-time next year,” Moffat told Supercars.com.
“At the moment a milestone like 100 rounds really doesn’t mean much, though I’m pretty focused on finishing off the year as strongly as we can, especially after the Gold Coast, which was a pretty rough one for us.”
Moffat’s PIRTEK Enduro Cup campaign slowed after finishing seventh in the Wilson Security Sandown 500.
He crashed out at Bathurst while running strongly and crashed on the Gold Coast in practice before finishing 18th and 19th with Richard Muscat in the 300km races.
The second-generation driver now sits 17th in the championship heading into the Kiwi round, with his previous-best finish 16th in 2014 with Nissan Motorsport.
Moffat made his Supercars Championship debut as Steve Richards’ co-driver at Ford Performance Racing in the 2010 L&H 500 at Phillip Island, while racing in the Dunlop Super2 Series.
He became a full-time driver in 2011 with Dick Johnson Racing, spending two seasons with the Queensland-based squad before moving on to three years with Nissan Motorsport.
That was highlighted by his first Supercars win at Winton in 2013, first pole position at Queensland Raceway in ’14 and first Bathurst podium result later that season.
He joined GRM in 2016, its last season with Volvos before reverting to Holdens this year.
Moffat is the second driver in as many events to reach his 100th championship round after Supercheap Auto Racing endurance pilot Steve Owen reached the milestone at the Vodafone Gold Coast 600.
Moffat will contest his 101st championship round in Newcastle, drawing him level with his father Allan in the record books, the Hall of Famer having competed in 101 championship rounds covering 1965 to ’89.
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Main Page The Picture House / Gaumont
140 Sauchiehall Street
Opened in December 1910, seating around 1,084, in a new auditorium constructed behind the retained facade of a warehouse. The interior was decorated by Guthrie & Wells, the famous Glasgow interior decorators.
Reconstructed in 1925 to seat 1,600. Renamed Gaumont in 1947, and the interior was modernised in 1960.
Photos above courtesy of www.mawgrim.co.uk
It closed and was demolished in January 1972, although the facade has been retained once more as part of the Savoy Centre shopping development.
Listed, Grade B
The archive shot below shows patrons queuing for a showing of Spartacus:
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Co-Owner Clips: Tony Morse
On February 6th at our annual company meeting, Brewery Founder and Brewmaster, Bill Cherry announced to us, the employees, that we had just become partners in ownership of the company. Switchback is officially the first 100% employee-owned brewery in all of New England via an ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan). We could not be any more excited because this means the company will be Vermont-owned forever. It is now up to us, the employees, to carry on with the company's mission to consistently produce quality beer and keep the brewery locally-owned and operated.
So now that we are employee-owned, we are taking this opportunity to dive into the stories of all of our co-owners. We will be delving into each of our worlds and exploring the people that make Switchback, Switchback. Every single employee plays a strong part in our company culture, mission and values.
Next up? Tony Morse.
Head Brewer and one of the OG crew members here at Switchback. Tony was the brewery’s third hire, way back in 2006, making him one of our longest standing employees. Like a surprisingly large amount of us, Tony didn’t let a lack of professional brewing experience deter him from pursuing a career in the industry. Before turning his passion for beer into a reality, he acquired a degree in middle-level education, which does not go unused here at Switchback. Tony is the go-to teacher at the brewery. We can always count on him to explain the intricacies of brewing in ways us normal people can understand.
All of this is great, but Tony’s real claim to fame is being the proud father of our beloved Slow-Fermented Brown. It is widely known among Tony’s co-workers and friends that his all-time favorite beer is Genesee Cream Ale. When he suggested that we brew our own version of a Cream Ale everyone laughed except for Brewery Founder Bill who could see that Tony was actually on to something. The result was our Slow-Fermented Brown Ale; an ale brewed at cooler temperatures like a lager, giving it a gentle creaminess and a crazy smooth finish. A Switchback cult favorite to this day! Co-Owner Clips: Tony Morse
We caught up with Tony on his turf (in the big brewhouse) to find out more about him and his thoughts on going employee-owned.
Where did you grow up? I’m a Marine brat so I grew up all over the place; Massachusetts, Tennessee, Hawaii, Mauritania Africa, Luxembourg Europe, and California to name a few. All of that before the age of 13, then moved to Vermont and ended up attending the same High school both of my parents did; Harwood Union High School (for the locals). I’ve been here ever since.
Favorite hobbies and does this inspire parts of your job? I love to play golf and am currently obsessing over fermenting veggies. I feel like golf helps me focus on problem solving because I rarely have an easy time getting the ball in the cup. Different vegetable fermentations help to inspire me and most of all, feed me.
Favorite music to listen to while brewing and why? NOFX or Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies, because they are awesome. Every once in a while I’ll throw on some Deathklok to shake things up.
What’s the story behind how you came to work at Switchback? As soon as I was “legal” I started home brewing. It was love at first sip of awful, flat, warm, oxidized, and infected bottle that didn’t explode. But I made it, it was mine! While waiting tables I got wind through the grape vine that Switchback was looking to hire someone with brewing experience. I had nothing to lose so I brought in a resume, met with Bill, and 2 weeks later I had a part time job scrubbing the outsides of kegs. As the company grew so did I. 11 years later I’m head brewer and a co-owner of a fantastic brewery. I was 23 when this Co-Owner Clips: Tony Morseall started.
Proudest brewing moment? Winning the brewery Chili Cook-off!!! Honestly, I don’t think I’ve ever been prouder than the moment we found out that Bill would never sell the company and that he was entrusting the fate of the brewery to us, the employees. I’ll admit I was so proud I got teary eyed.
How have you seen Switchback change/grow over the years after working here for so long? The size and scale of the company has increased dramatically. What in my mind has changed the most is how we do things. Each process has changed, or evolved, over time for the better. With each new set of hands involved in the process have come improvements that we could never have imagined. That’s one of the best things about this place; we take everyone’s input into consideration. If an idea has merit, we will try it. If that idea makes the process easier or faster without compromising any of our standards we will make that the new way we do things.
Where do you see Switchback going in the future? The sky is the limit. I see us expanding territories, developing new products, and overall becoming better at what we do. We can do anything.
Cheers Tony! Thanks for all that you do.
Co-Owner Clips, Employee-Owned, ESOP, Tony MorseAmy Lieblein August 9, 2017 Co-Owner Clips, Employee-owned, ESOP
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Our Catalog History Arctic & Antarctica
Alone on the Ice
Free Shipping Included! Alone on the Ice by Blackstone Audiobooks at Spring Brook Audio. Hurry! Limited time offer. Offer valid only while supplies last. On January 17, 1913, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was alone and near starvationand one hundred miles from base camp. On February 8, he staggered back to base, his features unrecognizably skeletal. This thrilling account of his journey establishes Mawson as one of historys greatest polar explorers.
On January 17, 1913, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was alone and near starvationand one hundred miles from base camp. On February 8, he staggered back to base, his features unrecognizably skeletal. This thrilling account of his journey establishes Mawson as one of historys greatest polar explorers..
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This acclaimed dual biography charts both British Robert Scott's and Norwegian Roald Amundsen's race to the South Pole during 1911-12. Bizarrely, Scott died in his quest and became a tragic hero, whereas Amundsen, the victor, was largely forgotten. Reassessing the two explorers and their methods of exploration, the book examines the driving ambitions of the era, recounts the race in detail, and explores the flaws of and differences between the two men. Tim Pigott-Smith evokes all the power and
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One dead, nine injured after six-vehicle wreck near San Marcos
Andrew McLemore
Jul 6, 2014 at 12:01 AM Sep 26, 2018 at 8:27 PM
One man is dead and another is under investigation for intoxication manslaughter after a six-vehicle wreck on Texas 80 just east of San Marcos that left nine people injured Friday, police said.
Christopher Bauman, a 25-year-old Woodlands resident, was traveling with three other passengers in a Nissan Altima preparing to turn left onto County Road 101 from Texas 80 when the driver of a Dodge Neon failed to stop and struck them from behind, sending the car into oncoming traffic, police said.
A car and a truck collided with the Nissan, which then struck a Department of Public Safety vehicle and sent debris hurtling toward the sixth vehicle involved in the wreck, police said.
Bauman was taken to the Central Texas Medical Center in San Marcos, where doctors pronounced him dead at 1:49 p.m. Friday, police said.
Of the nine people sent to the hospital, all have been treated and released except for Jeremy Deanfield, 22, and Chad Calkins, 29. Both were in the car with Bauman and remain in serious condition at Brackenridge Hospital, police said.
The San Marcos Fire Department, the South Hays Fire Department, the Hays and Caldwell County sheriff’s offices, and at least a dozen DPS troopers responded to the accident, police said.
Leontiy Oleg, the 20-year-old Kyle resident who may be responsible for the crash, is under investigation for intoxication manslaughter, police said. Oleg also was taken by STAR Flight to Brackenridge, but was treated and released, police said.
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Trump puts spotlight back on Interstate 4 region as America's preeminent political battleground
Zac Anderson Political Editor @zacjanderson
The region stretching from Daytona Beach to the communities ringing Tampa Bay has been described as the ultimate battleground in the ultimate battleground state.
When Air Force One touches down Tuesday in Orlando for the official kickoff of President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign it will put the national spotlight back on Florida and particularly the Interstate 4 corridor, maybe the hardest fought political ground in America.
The region stretching from Daytona Beach to the communities ringing Tampa Bay has been described as the ultimate battleground in the ultimate battleground state, an area rife with swing voters who can tip the scales in national elections.
The Orlando and Tampa media markets — which combined make up the political boundaries of the I-4 region — were number two and three respectively for total advertising spending during the 2016 presidential campaign, according to an analysis by Kantar Media.
The candidates spent $97 million combined in the region, a sign that both viewed the I-4 corridor as critical to winning Florida and the presidency.
Trump’s decision to formally kickoff his campaign in the heart of the I-4 country is just another example of how central the region is to any presidential campaign.
“The fact that he’s coming to Orlando is a huge statement” about the importance of Florida and the I-4 region, said state Sen. Joe Gruters, who also serves as the Florida GOP chair. “He’s going to the I-4 corridor, which we all know from other cycles how important it is.”
And it could be especially critical for this particular president in this particular election cycle.
The president’s supporters hope that I-4 voters can help keep Florida red and act as bulwark if he loses other key battleground states such as Michigan, Wisconsin or Pennsylvania that he carried by narrower margins than Florida in 2016, and which may be tougher reaches for him in 2020.
Trump has reasons to be hopeful about Florida, even as Democrats pledge a furious effort here to spoil his reelection bid.
Unlike, say, Michigan — a state Trump won by less than a quarter of a percentage point that went on to elect a Democrat for governor in 2018, and where the president’s approval rating has consistently been underwater — Florida gave Trump a comparatively strong margin of victory (1.2 percentage points) and has continued to offer him encouraging signs, electing a Republican governor in 2018 and delivering higher approval ratings than most other swing states.
Favorable terrain
Florida is fertile ground for Trump in 2020 and the 19 counties in the Tampa and Orlando media markets are essential to his strategy for winning the state again.
GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney carried the I-4 counties by 56,575 votes and lost Florida to President Barack Obama. If Trump had won the region by the same number of votes he, too, would have lost Florida.
Instead, Trump racked up a 247,118-vote margin of victory in the I-4 corridor on his way to winning the state by 112,911 votes.
Trump’s success in the region mirrored his winning formula statewide and nationally. He won big in GOP-leaning, heavily white, rural and suburban communities, pushing up the GOP votes totals in these areas enough to counter Hillary Clinton’s strength in more diverse urban communities.
Clinton won Orange County and Hillsborough County — which are anchored by the cities of Orlando and Tampa and are both majority minority counties — by larger margins than Obama in 2012.
But Trump won almost every other county in the region and dramatically improved on Romney’s margins.
“What is remarkable is how Trump ran up the score in these markets,” Steve Schale, a Democratic strategist who ran Obama’s Florida campaign in 2008, wrote in a recent blog post.
Schale noted that “in 14 counties within the I-4 markets, Trump set the modern era Republican presidential percentage margin of victory.”
The I-4 corridor has a plethora of white working class voters who have proven especially receptive to Trump’s brand of politics. The counties that move the furthest to Trump in 2016 compared to Romney’s performance in 2012 were some of the whitest.
Citrus County north of Tampa is 88 percent white, which is the highest percentage of white residents in the I-4 region. The county went for Romney by 22 percentage points but Trump carried it by 41 points, the second biggest swing toward the GOP among I-4 counties.
Trump also flipped Pinellas County, which is 74 percent white, from blue to red. The Tampa Bay area county went for Obama by 25,846 votes in 2012 but Trump carried it by 5,500 votes.
Romney won Volusia County — which is 72 percent white and includes Daytona Beach — by just 2,742 votes but Trump carried the county by 33,916.
Trump’s appeal to blue collar white voters often is attributed to his aggressive approach to illegal immigration and his protectionist trade proposals, two issues he has maintained an unwavering focus on during his presidency.
Diversifying electorate
But parts of the I-4 region have become more diverse, complicating Trump’s reelection strategy. Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in 2017, sending another big wave of islanders to the Orlando region, where Democrats are working to engage them in the political process.
“We’re working really hard; we’re working on voter registration right now,” said Volusia County Democratic Party Chair Jewel Dickson.
Volusia proved to be a bellwether of Trump’s strength in 2016, but Dickson said Democrats are energized to push back and prove that the last election was a “fluke.”
Over on the other end of I-4 in Pinellas County, Democrats also are working to prevent a repeat of Trump’s strong 2016 performance. Part of their strategy is expanding the electorate, including registering ex-felons who are now eligible to vote under Amendment 4.
The voter canvassing program in Pinellas County is getting help from a group out of Seattle that has sent waves of volunteers.
“It’s a pretty massive effort and I can’t wait to see the numbers,” said Meryl Blackman, the Pinellas County Democratic Party’s voter services chair.
But Democrats also need an economic message that appeals to blue collar voters. Sarasota County Democratic state committeeman Kevin Griffith said the party must reach out to the millions of voters who voted for Obama and then went to Trump.
“They are white. They are working class. They are concentrated mostly in the Midwest but many of those Midwesterners retire to our area,” Griffith said.
Others have come down to find work. They are concentrated in places such as North Port, a working class city in Sarasota County, which sits on the southwestern edge of the I-4 region.
A trio of heavily white North Port precincts in lower income parts of town that Obama carried in 2012 flipped to Trump in 2016, helping Trump increase his margin of victory in Sarasota County by 60 percent compared to Romney.
In the tribal nature of today’s politics, many of these voters may find Trump’s attitude and aggressiveness appealing, Griffith said.
“But you know what they like better? When their wages go up,” he said, arguing that GOP economic policies have not resulted in better living standards for many.
Republicans are eager to have that economic debate, though. They point to the strong economy under Trump as one of the main reasons to give him a second term.
“The economy is booming here on the I-4 corridor you can just feel it,” said Polk County GOP Chair J.C. Martin. “It’s like night and day from four years ago.”
Martin has volunteered for GOP presidential candidates since he was 9. He worked on former President Ronald Reagan’s campaign.
Many Republicans have a high regard for Reagan but Trump is on another level, Martin said. People have been clamoring to volunteer for his campaign and the election is still 17 months away.
“This is by far the most energized I’ve seen the Republican Party towards getting a president reelected,” Martin said, adding: “People are enormously connected to this president… it’s just amazing.”
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Ryanair: In-flight mobile phone calls possible within weeks
You know the drill. When you get on a plane, it’s all “Seatbacks up!”, “
Stow your tray tables!”, “The exits are here, here, and here!”, and “For the love of god, turn your phone off!”. Well, perhaps not any longer. Ryanair have outfitted ten of their planes with the capability to allow you to make in-flight phone calls.
Flying in the face of existing logic that says that the slightest text will send your plane dropping like a stone and crashing in a huge fireball, Ryanair reckon that they’ve managed to make a mobile phone mast small enough not to interfere with the plane’s important not-crashing-and-burning systems.
Ryanair’s deputy chief executive, Howard Millar, says that charges won’t be sky-high, they’ll be roughly equivalent to international roaming charges. “I believe the main demand will be for texting,” Mr Millar said. “We are also looking at selling mobile phone top ups.”
The facility is already available on a few other airlines, such as Emirates, all of whom decided a while back to wing it and see if they could persuade the European Aviation Safety Agency to allow them this functionality.
In my opinion it’s plane plain to see that unless the charges take a nose-dive from their current two-quid-a-minute price point, then it’s unlikely that people are going to want to use this functionality in anything but the most urgent circumstances.
Ryanair (via the Telegraph)
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S T Underwood says:
25th September 2008 at 11:01 am
This may seem like a good idea until someone suggests that a mobile phone could be a bomb and bans all phones on planes, just in case of a terorist threat…
To be honest unless your a busines passenger, it’s quite peaceful on planes with no phones beeping or ringing…
We managed for all these years without problems, why change it now?
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Must do better why uk telecoms lag behind
Must do better: why UK telecoms lag behind
By: Dave Millett
Lord Adonis recently launched a consultation into the UK's telecoms infrastructure, describing it as "deplorable".
Unfortunately, he is right. It is dreadful and if we're to compete in Europe and beyond it needs a radical overhaul. The worrying thing is that Lord Adonis advises the Government on these infrastructure issues - so that must raise questions about his effectiveness at influencing key decisions.
Certainly, the Government and the regulator Ofcom have continuously bottled it when it comes to taking the tough decisions the UK needs with regards to telecoms.
For example, why do they not force the UK mobile networks to allow users to roam free within the UK where one network offers no coverage but others do, as you can in the rest of the EU? This was proposed a number of years ago but the Government backed down in the face of opposition from the networks. The cost to the Government - absolutely nothing. Yet the UK ranks 54th in the world for 4G coverage.
Similarly, why is the mobile wholesale market not as open as the landline market? This would improve competition, which in turn would drive up quality and reduce prices. Successive Governments have focused on selling licences as a means of raising money rather than improving coverage. Why have licences not been revoked as they have on the rail network?
Ofcom has repeatedly shied away from splitting off Openreach and continues to dance to BT's tune about investment in FTTP - yet this is the reason we are at the bottom of the European league tables. Our coverage of less than 2% is deplorable when measured against 45% in Latvia and 85% in South Korea. We have just seen the announcement from Vodafone creating a partnership with City Fibre to roll out FTTP to five million premises but it will take until 2020 before services are available.
Equally worrying is that none of the political parties, at the recent general election, had anything radical to say about improving the UK's telecoms and broadband infrastructure. They were all singularly unambitious, unlike Japan and South Korea who have plans for rolling out 5G in 2020 - five years ahead of the UK.
A radical suggestion
So here is a radical idea for Lord Adonis and the Government: scrap HS2 and invest the billions of pounds in our technical infrastructure. The great communications advance of Victorian times is not relevant for the modern digital age. Why waste money on it? With decent communications infrastructure, people would travel less and they could work from home or locally. They could build businesses local to communities and use video to converse with people around the country and the world. You do not have to be in London to achieve that and getting there 20 minutes quicker adds nothing as most business travellers already work on the move.
In short, treat the cause of the problem not the symptom. Better infrastructure would benefit the whole country. Creating a communications infrastructure worthy of the country with the fifth largest GDP in the world will provide much better returns than investing in a transport system that benefits a few and will take years to implement and be out of date by the time it arrives.
Sponsored post. Copyright © 2017 Dave Millett, independent telecoms brokerage Equinox.
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Principal researchers Steven McIntosh, Bryan Berger and Christopher Kiely, along with a team of chemical engineering, bioengineering and material science students present this novel approach for the reproducible biosynthesis of extracellular, water-soluble QDs in Green Chemistry. This is the first example of engineers harnessing nature's unique ability to achieve cost effective and scalable manufacturing of QDs using a bacterial process.
Using an engineered strain of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia to control particle size, the team biosynthesized QDs using bacteria and cadmium sulfide to provide a route to low-cost, scalable and green synthesis of CdS nanocrystals with extrinsic crystallite size control in the quantum confinement range. The solution yields extracellular, water-soluble quantum dots from low-cost precursors at ambient temperatures and pressure. The result is CdS semiconductor nanocrystals with associated size-dependent band gap and photoluminescent properties.
This biosynthetic approach provides a viable pathway to realize the promise of green biomanufacturing of these materials.
"Biosynthetic QDs will enable the development of an environmentally-friendly, bio-inspired process unlike current approaches that rely on high temperatures, pressures, toxic solvents and expensive precursors," Berger says. "We have developed a unique, 'green' approach that substantially reduces both cost and environmental impact."
Quantum dots, which have use in diverse applications such as medical imaging, lighting, display technologies, solar cells, photocatalysts, renewable energy and optoelectronics, are typically expensive and complicated to manufacture. In particular, current chemical synthesis methods use high temperatures and toxic solvents, which make environmental remediation expensive and challenging.
This newly described process allows for the manufacturing of quantum dots using an environmentally benign process and at a fraction of the cost. Whereas in conventional production techniques QDs currently cost $1,000 to $10,000 per gram, the biomanufacturing technique cuts that cost to about $1 to $10 per gram. The substantial reduction in cost potentially enables large-scale production of QDs viable for use in commercial applications.
"We estimate yields on the order of grams per liter from batch cultures under optimized conditions, and are able to reproduce a wide size range of CdS QDs," said Steven McIntosh.
The Lehigh research group is also investigating, through the NSF's EFRI division, the expansion of this work to include a wide range of other functional materials. Functional materials are those with controlled composition, size and structure to facilitate desired interactions with light, electrical or magnetic fields or chemical environment to provide unique functionality in a wide range of applications from energy to medicine.
McIntosh said, "While biosynthesis of structural materials is relatively well established, harnessing nature to create functional inorganic materials will provide a pathway to a future environmentally friendly biomanufacturing based economy. We believe that this work is the first step on this path."
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See Instagram as a visual moodboard for your brand, says gallery director Joe Kennedy Credit: ANDREW HARRER/BLOOMBERG FINANCE LP
Anna Isaac
28 July 2016 • 4:00pm
Instagram boasts more than 500 million users, making the Facebook-owned social platform a marketing must-have for small businesses that want to engage customers and increase brand awareness.
Fiona Burrage’s clothing design business, Nor-Folk, started on Instagram. Ms Burrage, a graphic designer and child product marketer, observed the effect of influencers on the platform.
She was determined to see where she could get to by testing her designs on her Instagram followers. “I posted some pictures of T-shirts that I’d designed and asked people to tag suggestions of shops in which they’d like to see the products.” Now, 18 months later, Nor-Folk’s childrenswear line has been so successful that the company has more than 60 stockists.
“Instagram still plays a huge part in our marketing,” Ms Burrage explains. She tries to reply to every comment received on the platform, ensuring to engage with her followers as much as possible – asking questions and answering theirs.
View Instagram as a visual moodboard for your brand. Remember that you’re creating a visual identity for your company Joe Kennedy, Unit
But she’s also cautious. As the high-quality, desaturated photos of Nor-Folk’s Instagram feed are such a vital part of the brand, Ms Burrage decided to set up a second, community-focused account rather than share all her followers’ images on the @Nor-Folk tag. The two accounts allow her to have a defined and clear look on one feed, while also engaging followers by sharing their images on the other.
“I set up a second account because people’s styles differ so much and I wanted to keep my feed quite consistent,” she explains. “I will share other people’s pictures, but they have to be really clear.”
This determination to keep a defined sense of brand, even down to the quality of photo filters, is an approach that Joe Kennedy, director of contemporary art gallery and successful start-up, Unit London, agrees is essential for businesses. “View instagram as a visual moodboard for your brand. Before you start thinking about how you can use the platform to broadcast product information and push sales, remember that you’re creating a visual identity for your company,” he says.
If you’re creating an Instagram identity and building your brand online, then what you share on your feed is vital. Mr Kennedy argues: “It’s important that the content that you share consistently speaks to your core brand values. Find an aesthetic and identity that defines your brand and stick to it.”
Unit’s aesthetic is reflective of its ethos as a gallery. “We believe in the celebration of artists and showcasing the most amazing art to the widest possible audience,” says Mr Kennedy. “Creating drama and theatre around our artworks while keeping a slightly mysterious and enigmatic persona is what our followers have come to expect from us. It’s what defines our brand.”
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Some users of the platform take this to extremes. Rather than concern himself simply with individual posts, hip-hop artist A$AP Rocky creates images from combined Instagram posts. As Joe Wade, managing director at creative content agency Don’t Panic says: “He thinks about how the collage page of his profile will look as a whole – how each post interacts with the next.”
While Mr Wade acknowledges Rocky is not a small business, organisations can learn from the manner in which his profile reflects his taste. “Make sure the way you style your profile as a whole reflects your business: what you’re called, what your bio says and each piece of content you post,” he says.
When it comes to the basics, Andrew Gibson, head of strategy at agency Creature, has some specifics. “The best way to amass thousands of followers on Instagram seems to be to hashtag [#] everything you post to within an inch of its life.” But Mr Gibson is clear that techniques that are familiar to most users on the platform are unlikely, on their own, to make a significant impact.
“More often than not, the Instagram posts that really capture attention – and press – are the ones that break the traditional format, such as [Sandra] Ballentine’s W magazine. The format of Instagram is relatively rigid, but there are plenty of ways to play with it if you approach it with what‘s possible rather than what‘s expected,” says Mr Gibson.
Don't spend money on a pro photographer. Spend money on the idea Joe Wade, Don’t Panic
He believes one of the most effective ways to stand out is to keep an eye on any new plug-ins developed on the platform (iTunes and Google Play being obvious places to look). “There are countless plug-ins being constantly released, whether by Instagram itself, such as Boomerang looped videos, or by external developers, such as Epicgram, which allows you to put a classical music filter on your photos. Being first, or at least early, to use these can really give small businesses a head start.”
Businesses who feel daunted by the professional quality of the photos shown on Instragram needn’t be put off, argues Mr Wade: “Don't spend money on a pro photographer. Spend money on the idea… what you really want is something that‘s going to break through all the selfies and ‘Instafoods’ and really grab people’s attention.”
But he’s wary when it comes to buying ad space on the platform. “Making use of the different ad formats such as Carousel can work for a direct sell, but users will still see this as a sponsored post. It's not original or personal and it doesn't encourage any engagement.
“Vice found a way around this by using Boomerangs [short videos] to promote Viceland instead of using ‘nice’ photos. Thinking of an innovative way to use the platform from your own channel is far more effective [than bought ad space] in the long run,” says Mr Wade.
Sipsmith, an independent gin distillery, has made the most of the video potential Instagram now offers and thoroughly recommends it to others. James Mills, the company’s “digital wizard” believes the 15-second limit imposed on Instagram videos forces users to be creative, which is essential if you want to catch a browser’s eye.
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“Like any Instagram content, your videos should always be extremely visually striking,” he says. “You have less than a second to catch someone’s eye as they’re scrolling down their feed.”
Mr Mills cites a stop-motion video as a good example of how they’ve tapped into visual storytelling. “Rather than just list the tasting notes of the gin, we showed them flying into the bottle set to a dramatic background song. This helped us convey the spiciness of the gin in a more memorable and fun way than we could have with a traditional photo post.”
While it may be time-consuming and may require some investment on a top-end camera, Ms Burrage and others are firm in the belief that Instagram can be a highly cost-effective tool for small businesses who are looking to market digitally.
“It’s not an overnight success,” says Ms Burrage. “I’m not going to pretend Instagram is easy; a lot of work goes into each post, but I’ve never had to pay for any advertising or PR.”
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Are universities such as Oxford biased towards class or race?
The long-perceived elitism of universities such as Oxford mean we need to reframe the widening access discussions to talk about economic backgrounds, not just race, argues Roshan Doug
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A senior lecturer in my department – a white, working-class woman – was telling me about her daughter who was applying to Ucas a few years ago. When she suggested Oxbridge, her daughter replied, “It’s not for the likes of us, Mum.” Her mother was sad and disheartened that even as a university academic, her child didn’t feel that her family had accrued sufficient “cultural capital” to enter elite universities such as Oxford.
I recalled this the other week.
Unlike David Lammy, I don’t know whether Oxford is injudiciously selective in its recruitment and admissions procedures, nor, unlike Toby Young, am I convinced that it’s doing enough to widen participation from all sections of the community.
Similarly, I have no idea if making way for a notional number of students from minority groups (white, working-class included) is tokenistic, nor do I know what recruitment figures bandied about by critics are acceptable in culturally and socially diverse 21st-century Britain.
But I do know that something isn’t quite right when our internationally renowned institutions don’t reflect the world in which we live – both in terms of ideas and people.
In regard to Oxford, for instance, eight out of 29 colleges admitted fewer than three black or Asian students in the past three years. Even if you turn this figure on its head – meaning that at least 21 of its 29 colleges admitted more than three black or Asian students – it doesn’t quite alleviate our concerns about institutionalised discrimination. According to Oxford’s own website, 3,200 places were offered to students in 2016. If, on average, 10 places are offered to black and Asian students in the 21 colleges with currently more than three students from these groups, that accounts for 210 places. I don’t know if this is an acceptable figure or not.
However, Lammy’s argument about Oxford’s prejudice against black and Asian students hints at the emotive and rather dated subject of race politics. Invariably, therefore, the construction of such a discourse is going to draw us into an ideological battlefield and repetition of arguments. For most commentators, the lines are clearly demarcated in the spirit of our education policy that many people including my colleague, David Gillborn (professor of critical race studies at the University of Birmingham) have conceded is tacitly racist. To argue – as Oxford does – that insufficient numbers of black or Asian students apply, or achieve the grades, is ostensibly racial stereotyping and not very helpful.
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Instead, I think that the question is about class and economics.
Sociologists argue that although class prejudice filters into all sections of our community, it is more prevalent in institutions that are considered bastions of privilege – law, the judiciary, the stock market, banking, the Civil Service, and journalism and media. These are pillars that uphold standards and the structures of our society. They administer law and finance and disseminate information, while their intake is monitored by the custodians of power.
Moreover, we assume that everyone succumbs to the allure of snobbery and history that Oxbridge exudes. But do all students from minority groups want to enter such institutions that have, for instance, historically perpetuated the racial oppression of millions of people, or that have ignored the plight of the white, working class or justified the mass looting of raw materials from other countries? For hundreds of years, places such as Oxford have exercised exclusion, leaving minority groups disenfranchised from power, influence and privilege.
Entrance to any university breeds a certain thinking about class and elitism – and none more so than the universities of Cambridge and Oxford.
In fact, it could be argued that control over who enters education is crucial because it is in education that policy is tried and tested before it is publicly aired. But education, with roots that are entrenched in colonial history, is also the means of control of our people.
During the British Raj, for example, it was Lord Macaulay in the mid-19th century who famously argued for a particular kind of education to manage India. He stated that through education, the British must create a class of interpreters between them and the millions they governed – a class of people Indian in blood and colour, but English in their tastes, opinions, morals, intellect and knowledge. And who were these teachers who would go out and deliver this project of cultural transformation? Public-school educated Oxbridge graduates who understood the importance of the role of the Empire in feeding the motherland. And such Macaulay-esque tendencies were also evident in the period of the triangular slave trade, during which, of course, Britain benefited enormously.
To some extent, this imperialism through education is still the ethos of schools such as Eton and Harrow and it’s still the ethos of universities such as Oxford. They are old-fashioned in terms of their membership and archaic physical structures, as if they are somehow a barometer of excellence or quality.
So, I don’t think that the topic is framed correctly. It’s not about whether Oxford is racist in its recruitment and admissions strategies – for that’s neither here nor there. The real question is why students from minority groups – especially black communities – don’t feel that Oxford is for them. To me, both Lammy and Young are wrong. Essentially, Oxford hasn’t got rid of its imperial past and its association with elitism. It’s not so much a question of race, but class and economics. Is there any wonder that some people – such as my colleague’s daughter – don’t feel that such universities are for them?
Roshan Doug is a researcher in education at the University of Birmingham.
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#1 Submitted by M.S. Williams on July 9, 2018 - 11:48am
The data in this article are completely wrong and give a very misleading impression of Oxford's ethnic make-up. In the most recent year for which we have data, Oxford admitted 446 BAME students out of a total of 2490 UK admissions, i.e. 17.9% of the total (the author suggests 210 out of 3200, i.e. 6.5%). In terms of college breakdown, over the past three years no Oxford college admitted fewer than 25 BAME students (the author states that nine colleges admitted fewer than 3). It appears the author has read a statistic about black students of African/Carribean heritage, interpreted it as referring to all BAME students, and then done his own back-of-the-envelope extrapolations, rather than looking up the correct figures which are openly available on the University's website. This is not to argue that there isn't a problem, but it is incumbent on the University's critics to get their facts at least roughly right.
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Criminals Access Three's Upgrade Systems, Compromise Over 130,000 Accounts
by Lucian Armasu November 18, 2016 at 10:50 AM - Source: Three Media Centre
A Three store in Banbury, England
The UK ISP, Three, announced that criminals used employee logins to access its phone upgrade system. They used this access to steal phones that were supposed to be sent as upgrades to customers, and personal information from more than 133,000 thousand accounts was compromised in the process.
Three Unauthorized Access
According to an official statement by Three's CEO, David Dyson, 133,827 customer accounts were compromised. He also revealed that the following information about those accounts may have been leaked:
"Our investigation of the upgrade system shows that for 107,102 customers, the following information could have been obtained:
Whether they are a handset or SIM only customer, contract start and end date, handset type, Three account number, how long they’ve been with Three, whether the bill is paid by cash or card, billing date and name.
For a further 26,725 customers the following information could have been obtained:
Name, address, date of birth, gender, handset type, contract start and end date, whether they are a handset or SIM only customer, telephone number, email address, previous address, marital status, employment status, Three account number and phone number and how long they’ve been with Three. "
Dyson noted that no bank details, passwords, pin numbers, payment information, or credit-slash-debit card information are stored on the upgrade system in question, so the criminals never had access to it. Three's CEO also believes that their main intention may not have been to simply steal information, but to use that information to fraudulently acquire high-end smartphones.
The company has noticed a wave of thefts in the past month that it thinks may be connected to the unauthorized access. So far, 400 high-end smartphones have been stolen in multiple burglaries. Three has also noticed that eight devices have been illegally obtained through the upgrade activity.
The company has been collaborating with the police, and it looks like three suspects have already been arrested. Dyson added that all of the affected customers will be contacted and that security will be increased for their accounts.
EU Companies To Become More Liable For Data Breaches
Last year, another one of the UK’s ISPs, TalkTalk, was given a record fine of £400,000 because it allowed simple vulnerabilities in its webpages to exist, which were then used by malicious hackers to steal the information of 157,000 accounts.
Although it was a record fine for ISP data breaches, ISPs and other companies could end up paying much more--up to four percent of revenue--if they allow simple data data breaches to happen once the European Union’s General Data Protection regulation goes into effect in 2018. By then, the UK may already be out of the EU as a result of the recently-passed referendum to exit the union. UK companies will still have to follow these new rules, however, if they continue to operate in the EU after the "Brexit" is complete.
Companies might also start to realize that their employees may become bigger targets as they increase the security of their systems. Instead of attacking the systems directly, criminals could try to gain access through the employees’ security credentials. The more access is given to those credentials, the more targeted they will be. Sometimes, the employees themselves may go rogue and steal information for their own purposes, too.
Google seems to have had the right idea with its BeyondCorp security infrastructure. BeyondCorp aims to limit employees as much as possible to only the services and tools that they are supposed to access. Google will also treat its internal network as the internet, which means devices won’t easily be trusted and all traffic will be encrypted.
Data breaches often occur because gaining access to sensitive information is easy once attackers have gotten past a company's firewalls. Companies will have to rethink, just as Google did, how much trust they put into their employees and internal devices to improve their response to future attacks.
In a statement to Tom's Hardware, Greg Hanson, the vice president of the Informatica data management consulting firm, seems to agree that companies must further restrict access to sensitive data and protect it wherever it may be located:
“The Three data breach highlights the urgency with which companies must address the state of their data security. All data must be protected, wherever it is stored and whatever form it takes. In this case the attackers gained access with a valid login - a clear indication that companies must expand their definition of sensitive data if they are to safeguard this kind of key information.
“Companies must move away from a damage-control mindset to a deep understanding of their sensitive information, so that they can implement data-centric security and protect it wherever it moves in the organisation. Unless companies understand exactly where their valuable assets originate, proliferate and reside, it is extremely likely that they will lose control of that data. And as the Three breach proves, companies must even prepare for an attack from the inside.”
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N16 Pan Asian Restaurant/Takeaway near Stroud Green
Tootoomoo offer a wide selection of pan Asian food inspired by a range of cuisines from across Eastern Asia.
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We deliver all your favourite dishes you’d expect to find from a Chinese takeaway, but also offer a huge range of authentic Thai, Malaysian, Vietnamese and Japanese dishes to create your perfect pan Asian fusion, for collection and delivery to Stroud Green from our takeaway-only outlet in Highgate, Tootoomoo To Go.
As a pan Asian takeaway and restaurant group, we deliver fresh, pan Asian food direct to Stroud Green. Our flagship restaurant in Crouch End is less than a two mile drive and takes approximately 10 minutes when travelling on the W7 bus.
Since opening its doors in late 2012, our Crouch End restaurant and takeaway is now firmly established within the local community as one of the area’s best eateries. The success of the Crouch End restaurant has led to further expansion of Tootoomoo, with restaurants/takeaways opening in other surrounding areas (Islington, Highgate and Whetstone) meaning that more people across North London are able to enjoy a fresh pan Asian experience.
Join us and relish in our range of dishes influenced by the cuisines of Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, China, Korea and Japan - all available under one roof.
Our Highgate takeaway delivers fresh Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai, Malaysian and Chinese food to the following areas: N8 N4 N2 N6 N10 N19 N22 7
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If you’d rather dine in, the nearest Tootoomoo restaurant to Stroud Green is in Crouch End:
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The restaurant is just off Crouch End Broadway (N8) and a short walk from Crouch Hill Overground station. The W7 bus runs between Stroud Green and Crouch End and takes approximately 10 minutes.
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Jaromir Jagr and the Sands of Time
By Toronto Mike January 29, 2018 @ 5:45 PM Sports 26 comments
Jaromir Jagr has cleared waivers and has been lent by the Calgary Flames to the HC Kladno in the Czech league. With Jagr's NHL career seemingly over, something has become true for the first time in my life...
I am now older than every player in the NHL, NBA, NFL and MLB. Heck, you can throw MLS and the CFL in for good measure. I've never been able to make this claim before, and going forward it will forever be true.
No matter how old I felt, I could always point to Jagr and say "he's older than me, and he's still playing in the NHL". It's the end of an era.
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Canadians to Reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Hits 49
By Toronto Mike January 29, 2018 @ 1:42 PM Music, O Canada 30 comments
With a hat tip to @1236 it seems Drake has another number one hit on his hands with God's Plan. God's Plan had a record on-demand streaming total in its first week, propelling the single to the #1 spot.
Here's the complete list of 49 songs performed by a Canadian citizen to top the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
It's Love-Love-Love by Guy Lombardo
Cry by Johnnie Ray and The Four Lads
Sh-Boom by The Crew-Cuts
Diana by Paul Anka
Lonely Boy by Paul Anka
Theme from A Summer Place by Percy Faith
Ringo by Lorne Greene
American Woman / No Sugar Tonight by The Guess Who
Heart of Gold by Neil Young
Seasons in the Sun by Terry Jacks
Sundown by Gordon Lightfoot
(You're) Having My Baby by Paul Anka and Odia Coates
Rock Me Gently by Andy Kim
You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet by Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Hot Child In The City by Nick Gilder
You Needed Me by Anne Murray
Heaven by Bryan Adams
When I'm With You by Sheriff
Black Velvet by Alannah Myles
(Everything I Do) I Do It for You by Bryan Adams
Informer by Snow
All for Love by Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart and Sting
The Power of Love by Céline Dion
Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman? by Bryan Adams
Because You Loved Me by Céline Dion
My Heart Will Go On by Céline Dion
One Week by Barenaked Ladies
I'm Your Angel by R. Kelly and Céline Dion
How You Remind Me by Nickelback
Bad Day by Daniel Powter
Promiscuous by Nelly Furtado featuring Timbaland
Say It Right by Nelly Furtado
Give It to Me by Timbaland featuring Nelly Furtado and Justin Timberlake
Girlfriend by Avril Lavigne
What's My Name? by Rihanna featuring Drake
Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen
Blurred Lines by Robin Thicke featuring T.I. and Pharrell
Rude by MAGIC!
Can't Feel My Face by The Weeknd
What Do You Mean? by Justin Bieber
The Hills by The Weeknd
Sorry by Justin Bieber
Love Yourself by Justin Bieber
Work by Rihanna Featuring Drake
One Dance by Drake Featuring WizKid & Kyla
Starboy by The Weeknd featuring Daft Punk
I'm the One by DJ Khaled featuring Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper, and Lil Wayne
Despacito by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Bieber
God's Plan by Drake
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Mort Walker, Dead at 94
By Toronto Mike January 28, 2018 @ 8:56 AM In Memoriam 4 comments
Mort Walker was 94. He was the comic strip writer best known for creating the newspaper comic strips Beetle Bailey in 1950 and Hi and Lois in 1954.
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By Toronto Mike January 26, 2018 @ 8:08 AM Open Mikes 81 comments
Welcome to this week's Open Mike. I'm Mike and I'll be your master of ceremonies for the day.
Feel free to use this space to vent, rant, share a story and/or ask a question of the hivemind.
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Toronto Mike'd Podcast Episode 303: Diana Swain
By Toronto Mike January 23, 2018 @ 1:27 PM Podcasting, Toronto Mike'd Podcast 18 comments
In this 303rd episode, Mike chats with CBC News' Senior Investigative journalist Diana Swain about competing for Miss Canada, co-anchoring with her estranged father in Winnipeg, filling in for Peter Mansbridge on The National and her new show, The Investigators with Diana Swain. This episode is exactly 1:47:36.
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Dave Hodge's Top 100 Songs of All-Time
By Toronto Mike January 22, 2018 @ 10:53 AM Lists, Music 20 comments
Last week, I had one of those surreal moments that you can't believe is actually happening. Legendary sports broadcaster Dave Hodge visited my home and spent a couple of hours with me in my basement while he shared his 100 favourite songs of all-time. Yes, this actually happened, and I recorded the whole thing.
If you haven't heard that 302nd episode of Toronto Mike'd, I strongly urge you to click over and listen before you read the chart below. Not only does Dave list his top 100, but we play his top 10 and he shares tremendous stories as to why he loves the song. There's even a fun game built in where he gives us the first line of the song so we can guess it. As I said, it was wonderfully surreal.
That was so good I made a Spotify playlist of every track they had available. (Sorry, no Tara Lightfoot!)https://t.co/QyTL7bbCdN
— RockGolf (@rock_golf) January 20, 2018
Tyler, a big fan of these Kick Out the Jams! episodes, maintains a Google spreadsheet with everyone's top 10, and he meticuously assembled a list of Dave's top 100. Dave, however, had already emailed me his list, but by the time I told Tyler it was too late. Tyler did go the extra step of recording the release year and country, so I think him for that detail in the chart below.
Number Song Artist Year Country
100 The Bells of Rhymney Chris Hillman 2017 USA
99 Willin' Little Feat 1971 USA
98 Sultans Of Swing Dire Straits 1978 UK
97 Laying Down to Perish Alan Doyle 2015 Canada
96 From A Soon-To-Be Ghost Town Fruit Bats 2016 USA
95 To Live is to Fly Townes van Zandt 1971 USA
94 Strawberry Blonde Ron Sexsmith 1997 Canada
93 Keep the Car Running Arcade Fire 2007 Canada
92 What's the Frequency, Kenneth? R.E.M. 1994 USA
91 I'm Going To Stay That Way LeE HARVeY OsMOND 2008 Canada
90 Pride (in the Name of Love) U2 1984 Ireland
89 Tournament of Hearts The Weakerthans 2007 Canada
88 The House That Heaven Built Japandroids 2012 Canada
87 Don't Be Cruel Elvis Presley 1956 USA
86 American Pie Don McLean 1971 USA
85 High and Dry Frankie Lee 2015 USA
84 Teen Angst Cracker 1992 USA
83 Taxi Harry Chapin 1972 USA
82 Radio Girl Doug Paisley 2014 Canada
81 Runnin' Down a Dream Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 1989 USA
80 Four Strong Winds Ian and Sylvia 1963 Canada
79 Pretzel Logic Steely Dan 1974 USA
78 All the Young Dudes Mott the Hoople 1972 UK
77 Outfit Jason Isbell 2012 USA
76 Beds Are Burning Midnight Oil 1987 Australia
75 Beginnings Chicago Transit Authority 1969 USA
74 Hallelujah Jeff Buckley 1994 USA
73 Werewolves of London Warren Zevon 1969 USA
72 Wild Horses Rolling Stones 1971 UK
71 16 Days Whiskeytown 1997 USA
70 I Can't Help Myself The Four Tops 1965 USA
69 Fortunate Son Credence Clearwater Revival 1969 USA
68 Lovers In a Dangerous Time Bruce Cockburn 1984 Canada
67 Live By the Song Blackie and the Rodeo Kings 2016 Canada
66 Scenes From an Italian Restaurant Billy Joel 1977 USA
65 I'm Shipping Up To Boston Dropkick Murphys 2005 USA
64 Archie, Marry Me Alvvays 2014 Canada
63 Urge For Going Tom Rush 1968 USA
62 Blue River Eric Andersen 1972 USA
61 Inside Out Crash Vegas 1989 Canada
60 Run On the Banks The Stanfields 2013 Canada
59 Plus Ones Okkervil River 2007 USA
58 Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks The National 2010 USA
57 Shout Bama Lama The Detroit Cobras 2001 USA
56 Pride and Joy Stevie Ray Vaughan 1983 USA
55 Everybody's Talkin' Fred Neil 1966 USA
54 Sleeping in Toronto Jim Bryson 2003 Canada
53 Cause Cheap Is How I Feel Cowboy Junkies 1990 Canada
52 Lovercall Danko Jones 2002 Canada
51 Chickamauga Uncle Tupelo 1993 USA
50 Tear Stained Eye Son Volt 1995 USA
49 Jolene Jeremy Fisher 2007 Canada
48 Sweet Home Alabama Lynyrd Skynyrd 1974 USA
47 My Girl The Temptations 1965 USA
46 Spirits The Strumbellas 2016 Canada
45 Frankie's Gun The Felice Brothers 2007 USA
44 Back to Me Kathleen Edwards 2005 Canada
43 Oh My Sweet Carolina Ryan Adams 2000 USA
42 Depreston Courtney Barnett 2015 Australia
41 Escarpment Blues Sarah Harmer 2005 Canada
40 Fire and Rain James Taylor 1970 USA
39 When I Write My Master's Thesis John K. Samson 2012 Canada
38 Continental Breakfast Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile 2017 Australia/USA
37 Dancehall Domine The New Pornographers 2014 Canada
36 Hindsight The Long Winters 2006 USA
35 Bad to the Bone George Thorogood & The Destroyers 1982 USA
34 Two Angels The Jayhawks 1989 USA
33 Monster Hospital Metric 2005 Canada
32 Keep Your Hands To Yourself Georgia Satellites 1986 USA
31 Danko/Manuel Drive-by Truckers 2004 USA
30 Crazy Mary Pearl Jam 1993 USA
29 Down With the Shine Avett Brothers 2012 USA
28 Bridge to Nowhere Sam Roberts 2006 Canada
27 Wine Lips Lydia Loveless 2014 USA
26 Heroes David Bowie 1977 UK
25 Tall Tall Shadow Basia Bulat 2013 Canada
24 Without Again Elliott Brood 2008 Canada
23 Crescent City Lucinda Williams 1988 USA
22 No Hurry Terra Lightfoot 2015 Canada
21 Your Little Hoodrat Friend The Hold Steady 2005 USA
20 Hero Family of the Year 2012 USA
19 Cathy Skinny Lister 2014 UK
18 Pretty Pimpin' Kurt Vile 2015 USA
17 Red Eyes The War on Drugs 2014 USA
16 Try Blue Rodeo 1987 Canada
15 Born to Run Bruce Springsteen 1975 USA
14 Guitar Town Steve Earle 1986 USA
13 Come Summertime Justin Rutledge 2006 Canada
12 One Guitar Willie Nile 2010 USA
11 Powderfinger Neil Young 1979 Canada
10 Norwegian Wood The Beatles 1965 UK
9 I Still Believe Frank Turner 2011 UK
8 Don't Think Twice It's All Right Bob Dylan 1963 USA
7 Ahead By a Century The Tragically Hip 1996 Canada
6 Come to Light Arkells 2014 Canada
5 Sundown Gordon Lightfoot 1974 Canada
4 America Simon and Garfunkel 1968 USA
3 Jesus, Etc. Wilco 2002 USA
2 Through & Through & Through Joel Plaskett 2009 Canada
1 Changes Phil Ochs 1968 USA
This was Dave Hodge's second visit, and we're already planning his third. He's going to return to present songs 101-200. I can't wait.
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My Experience with PayTM Canada
By Toronto Mike January 22, 2018 @ 10:05 AM Android Apps 19 comments
When PayTM Canada reached out to me with interest in sponsoring my podcast, I had never heard of them. They seemed like great people, and had an office in Toronto, but if I was going to promote their bill payment app, I needed to actually use it myself. Yes, I eat my own dog food. I drink Great Lakes Beer, I ate Chefs Plate, and if I ever move again, I'll be calling PropertyintheSix.com.
Downloading the app from paytm.ca was as simple as it sounds (I use the Android version) and in no time I had created an account. The next test was to pay an actual bill.
To pay a bill, you need to connect a credit card or bank account. I'm a big fan of using my MasterCard as often as possible because I collect points I redeem at my local No Frills, so I connected that card. Then, I paid an $84 Toronto Hydro bill.
Because PayTM Canada had created a promocode for me (torontomike) I used that promocode for this payment and was gifted $10 from PayTM. So I was able to pay an $84 with only $74 coming out of my account. You can use this promocode as well if you like the idea of getting free money. This code has since expired, so use referral code PTM7841106 when you sign up to get 5,000 Paytm points.
This first test was a complete success, and started paying all of my bills via my PayTM Canada app by using my MasterCard. You can even do this for services that don't typically accept credit card payment. But then, it came time to pay my MasterCard bill.
That's when I connected my bank account. That was slick, so I was able to pay that off within the PayTM app. Keep in mind, there's no service charge or convenience charge here, and there are lots of cashback incentives where PayTM gives you money for using their app. This month, for example, they're giving 2% cashback for any bill payment, for any amount and using any payment method.
Oh yes, and there's cashback when you buy gift cards and handy bill payment reminders... essentially, they've managed to make paying bills rather convenient, fun and rewarding.
I managed to test their support as well. I initially thought my promocode was supposed to be entered in the "referral code" part when I first installed the app, but that wouldn't take, so I opened a ticket and was promptly helped.
Yes, they're a sponsor, but all of the above actually happened. If you have any questions, fire away... and you can email me if that's easier for you.
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Red Fisher, Dead at 91
By Toronto Mike January 19, 2018 @ 4:21 PM In Memoriam 3 comments
Red Fisher was 91. He was the sports journalist who covered the Montreal Canadiens for 58 years at the Montreal Star and Montreal Gazette.
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Toronto Mike'd Podcast Episode 302: Dave Hodge Kicks Out the Jams!
By Toronto Mike January 18, 2018 @ 2:22 PM Kick Out the Jams!, Podcasting, Toronto Mike'd Podcast 25 comments
In this 302nd episode, Dave Hodge names his 100 favourite songs of all-time. This episode is exactly 1:46:36.
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Toronto Mike'd Podcast Episode 301: Gare Joyce Kicks Out the Jams!
In this 301st episode, Mike chats with Sportsnet's Gare Joyce chat about his career as a sportswriter, novelist and stand-up comic before they play and discuss his ten favourite songs. This episode is exactly 1:46:50.
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Dolores O'Riordan, Dead at 46
By Toronto Mike January 15, 2018 @ 12:41 PM In Memoriam 9 comments
Dolores O'Riordan was 46. She was lead singer of the band The Cranberries best known for their hits "Dreams", "Linger", "Zombie", "Ode to My Family" and "Salvation".
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Keith Jackson, Dead at 89
By Toronto Mike January 13, 2018 @ 11:22 AM In Memoriam 3 comments
Keith Jackson was 89. He was the legendary college football announcer whose iconic "Whoa Nellie" catchphrase was a regular part of Saturdays for years.
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Toronto Mike'd Podcast Episode 300
In this 300th episode, Mike tells a story and shares clips from listeners like you. This episode is exactly 48:44.
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Toronto Mike'd Podcast Episode 299: Matt Gurney
By Toronto Mike January 10, 2018 @ 2:50 PM Podcasting, Radio, Toronto Mike'd Podcast 29 comments
In this 299th episode, Mike chats with Global News Radio 640 Toronto morning show co-host Matt Gurney about his years at the National Post, working with Supriya Dwivedi at 640, recent changes at the station and millennials. Matt also ranks the Star Wars movies and discusses his favourite song of all-time. This episode is exactly 2:18:22.
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Donnelly Rhodes, Dead at 80
By Toronto Mike January 9, 2018 @ 3:52 PM In Memoriam 12 comments
Donnelly Rhodes was 80. He was the actor best known for his roles as Sgt Nick Raitt on Sidestreet and Grant "Doc" Roberts on Danger Bay. He was also Dutch Leitner on Soap and Doctor Cottle on Battlestar Galactica.
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Things I've Learned On My Way to 300 Podcast Episodes
By Toronto Mike January 6, 2018 @ 12:10 PM Podcasting 6 comments
Last week, I borrowed an e-book from the library. It was called "Podcasting for Dummies" and had been recently updated, so I wanted to check in and see if I could learn a thing or two. As it turns out, having digitally produced podcasts for over a decade and having rolled my own for over five years has taught me an awful lot.
As with most things in life, you learn the most from trial and error. Throw yourself into it, get your hands dirty, and figure it out. In 2006, when I helped Humble and Fred put their first podcast episode online, there were no great resources out there. You read what you could find and dove in. By the end of the day, you were a much wiser man than when you awoke that morning.
I'm about to record the 300th episode of Toronto Mike'd. There are actually 10 episodes of Your Blog Sucks sitting in the XML feed that aren't canon, so I'm technically about to record my 309th episode, but that detail isn't important. If you're interested in starting your own podcast, here's what is important.
Content May Be King, But if it Sounds Like Shit, Nobody Will Listen
I am a big substance over style guy, but when it comes to audio, how it sounds is vital. People won't listen to a poorly recorded podcast. You can record an MP3 with a $15 USB mic, but that doesn't mean you should.
I took a "go big or go home" approach to the audio, which is ironically located in the basement of my home. With consultation by Andrew Stoakley, I purchased a Mackie professional mixer and three RØDE Procaster microphones. These mics aren't cheap. In total, I spent $1600 for the mixer, microphones, stands, headphones and cables. I've since added three boom swing arms bringing the total cost of recording hardware to well north of $2000, and this does not include the laptop!
I managed to get my hands on an old Macbook which is where I do the recording and play the musical elements on a soundboard. The soundboard was $50 and I've had to replace the Macbook's hard drive, but otherwise I've kept this particular expense in check. You should be able to run the mixer through any functional laptop, regardless of the operating system.
Good News! Audio Software is Powerful and Free!
Once your studio is set up and connected to a laptop (or desktop!), you need audio recording software. This software is where you do the actual recording, editing, processing and MP3 creation. I have great news on this front. The best software for this purpose is completely free and available for all operating systems. I highly recommend Audacity.
I didn't start out using Audacity, but at some point I made the switch and I'm very glad I did. Audacity just works and the price is right. It's a podcaster's best friend.
I Choose Not to Edit
The aforementioned "Podcasting for Dummies" I read last week had a big section on editing with examples of when you'd want to edit your podcast. I can honestly say after 300+ episodes I've never edited a word for any of those reasons.
To borrow an antiquated expression, I record "live to tape". It all unfolds as you hear it. I bring in the audio elements in real-time, fading as it happens via the mixer. Once a guest or two has kindly asked me to remove something they said because they felt it might compromise their severance, and once a journalist asked me to remove a section because it violated a judge's publication ban, and if specifics were uttered, like a phone number or specific home address, I might remove that, but that's it. Otherwise, I trim the dead air at the beginning and the end and my editing is complete.
I'm not saying you shouldn't edit your content, merely that I've chosen not to edit my content. The "live to tape" approach is more fun and saves me time I don't really have.
What's In a Bit Rate?
Once the episode is recorded, I export it to MP3 via Audacity. There are many options here, and I've tried a multitude of them when it comes to bit rate. For a while, I was heavily favouring quality instead of file size, but I've since compromised a bit and settled on 160kbps. When it comes to the bit rate that makes sense for you, trial and error is the only way to go. It will all come down to a compromise you can live with between quality and size.
ID3 Metadata Tags
Many will subscribe, many will play directly from the site, but others will choose to download the MP3 file and play it locally or on their mobile device. For those people, your MP3's ID3 metadata tags are important. And by important I mean it will be annoying as hell if you don't add them when you export the audio to MP3.
I like to add as much detail here as possible, including updating the episode name to include the episode number. When it comes to ID3 metadata tags, the best practice I recommend is "the more, the merrier". There are dozens of ways to listen to your podcast and you never know which method a listener prefers.
To the Cloud With Your MP3
Once you've generated an MP3 file, you need to get it from your computer to a publicly accessible web server. My episodes are hosted by a local company called ts2 but there are plenty of options. What you need depends on a few factors:
the size of your files
the popularity of your podcast
At the end of this long entry, you'll learn how I can hold your hand. Getting the file from your local computer to your web server is easy. I use a free FTP client called Filezilla.
Some will call it RSS, and that's cool, but it's really an XML document that will serve as the heartbeat of your podcast syndication. It's what separates audio from a podcast. An MP3 file doesn't become a podcast until you add a valid XML file.
When you submit your podcast to aggregators like Apple Podcasts or Google Play Music, they will be most interested in the url for your XML file. When you update that XML file, it alerts subscribers that you have a new episode available. This is where you share such detail as:
episode length
publication date and time
MP3 size
MP3 url
podcast name
podcast author
XML is very strict with little to no forgiveness for even the slightest error. Just yesterday I typed in 2017 instead of 2018 and broke the whole thing. In my humble opinion, this is most intimidating part of the podcast chain, but if you know the rules and follow them, it doesn't need to be scary. Heck, I've updated my XML file over 300 times and it remains perfectly valid. You can see it now at https://www.torontomike.com/torontomiked.xml. If I can do it, you can do it.
Of course, I have made mistakes, so here are a few tips I've learned along the way.
Do not publish your new XML file until the MP3 has finished uploading
Before you publish, eyeball your code - it's better to catch your typos and errors before it's uploaded to the web
When in doubt about XML protocol, Google it
Again, don't let XML frighten you. There are services you can buy that will auto-create one, but you lose a great deal of control going that route and it's much less fun. I highly recommend you write and maintain your own XML file, and again, I'm an expert who can help.
Your Podcast Needs a Home on the Web
With your XML submitted to Apple and Google and Stitcher and the other popular podcast aggregators, subscribers will be able to find your podcast. I'm here to tell you a big podcasting secret. Many will listen without ever subscribing to your feed!
Your podcast needs a home on the web that you maintain and control. For my podcast, that's https://www.torontomike.com/podcast/. I post every episode there, complete with an HTML5 audio player so people can click play and hear the episode. This is also convenient for those who prefer to download the MP3. It's your podcast's home on the web that you control and it's where you can link people, regardless of how they consume their podcasts.
Awareness is the Toughest Part
Many podcasters are broadcasters you know from radio and/or television, or writers you've read in the paper or magazines. In other words, they're already famous. For these people, awareness is a great deal easier.
But what about the rest of us? If you're not already famous from radio, television or elsewhere, how do you make people aware you have a podcast so they can check it out? This is very difficult, especially if you don't have a marketing budget.
I promote my podcast on my blog and via Twitter. Of course, that's merely speaking to your existing audience and doesn't do much to grow the base. In my experience, there's only one way to vastly increase download numbers and increase awareness that you have a podcast worthy of sampling. You have to create good content and stick with it for years. People love to tell their friends and family about the great indie podcast they've discovered.
On that note, let's close with the most important detail of all...
Content Really Is King
Your podcast can sound great and be around for years with new episodes posted every week, but if it sucks, nobody will want to listen. Considering a listener has to truly want to listen in order to hear a podcast, the content is more than key. It really is king.
The good news is you don't have to hit a home run your first at bat, so long as you continually improve. Hopefully, if it's compelling content, you'll find your voice by episode 100 and will be truly grooving by episode 200. Keep learning, keep improving, and keep at it. Listen to your episodes critically and work at improving the quality every time you press record.
If you're interested in starting a podcast, either for yourself or a corporate podcast, tell me about it. I'd like to help. I've broken so many eggs you can feast on omelettes until you're stuffed.
Thanks for giving Toronto Mike'd a spin. If you've yet to take the plunge, you can cherry pick an episode here. Happy podcasting!
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Jerry Van Dyke, Dead at 86
By Toronto Mike January 6, 2018 @ 11:22 AM In Memoriam 3 comments
Jerry Van Dyke was 86. He was the actor best known for his appearances on his older brother's sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show and as Luther Van Dam on Coach.
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Toronto Mike'd Podcast Episode 298: Elliott Price
By Toronto Mike January 5, 2018 @ 1:15 PM Podcasting, Radio, Toronto Mike'd Podcast 4 comments
In this 298th episode, Mike chats with Fan 590 morning show co-host Elliott Price about calling Expos games, working in Montreal sports radio, rolling his own and getting the call to move to Toronto. This episode is exactly 2:00:18.
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DeMar DeRozan Scored 52 Points in a Game and I Was Not There
By Toronto Mike January 2, 2018 @ 9:28 AM Toronto Raptors 14 comments
DeMar DeRozan had a hell of a game last night against the Milwaukee Bucks. When it was all said and done, he had 52 points, a new Raptors record.
It's worth noting I watched on television and did not attend this game. That's a key detail because I was in attendance for both Vince Carter's 51 point game in 2000 and Terrence Ross's 51 point game in 2014. That coincidence led to some interesting math.
If (at the time of Terrence Ross's 51)
- Probability of 50+ points Raptors = 2/1,600
- I'd gone to 12 games out of the 1,600
- And everything is independent (not necessarily true but probably good enough)
Then out of 1,000,000 simulations of 12 games, then probability
- 0/12 games with 50+ is 98.50%
- 1/12 game with 50+ is 1.50%
- 2/12 games with 50+ is 0.0045% (ie. if 1,000,000 people independently went to 12 games, only 45 would see both 50+ games)
So, there was a 0.0045% chance of that happening. Although now that DeRozan has the new record, I suppose none of it matters.
Although DeRozan did require overtime to set the record...
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Castles and Wine Make the French Countryside the Most Exquisite Place to Take a Road Trip
I can assure you that the entirety of North America lacks this level of, well, magic.
Château de Chambord.
“You do not have chateau in America?” a young French innkeeper asks as she escorts my fiancé and me onto the grounds of La Ballue, a petite (for a mansion) restored chateau nestled between Brittany and Normandy. The innkeeper seems shocked that the country that produced the Beyoncé, the Kardashians, and endless industry heirs of the world can be without such historic, opulent splendor.
But alas, after two days of driving through the Loire Valley, a hub of the two greatest human creations, wine and castles and ogling the Disney-esque historic homes, I can assure you that the entirety of North America lacks this level of, well, magic. You can call the obscene homes built by industry moguls (watch “Queen of Versailles” on Netflix) whatever you want, but they’re not chateaus. And beyond California’s Hearst Castle (a baby, at 99-years-young), Asheville’s Biltmore Estate (a lavish recreation of Europe’s true chateaus), and the Medieval Times restaurants strewn throughout major cities, the U.S. is verifiably castle-free.
France, however, is littered with chateaus, built as country retreats for royalty and their extended family. And while some of the centuries-old chateaus did crumble with the French monarchy — while in France I was told the sad story of an unemployed middle aged Parisian who can’t afford to upkeep his family’s chateau — many remain preserved for tourists to visit or even sleep and dine in.
Château d'Amboise.
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On the farmland-surrounded highways, instead of advertising chain restaurants, billboards illustrate the nearest castles to visit. Enchanting names like Château d'Azay-le-Rideau, Château d'Amboise, and Château de Beauregard encourage you to take a mini detour more than flashy golden arches ever could.
A two-day mini-trip from Paris would be long enough to dip into the Loire Valley’s rich heritage of opulent castles and fantastic wine, but if you really want to French it up, slowly progress through the sleepy towns, eating hours-long Michelin-starred meals (or equally slow, cheaper options at pizzerias and neighborhood joints in the small villages), swishing wine in tasting rooms, and strolling through dozens of castles.
Plus, the excellent wine harvested, fermented and bottled in the valley is available on the cheap at restaurants in the entire region, who pride themselves on creating cuisine that pairs with the elegant varietals that make the region world famous. Most castles have picnic areas, so you can pop a bottle and eat baguettes, cheese, and charcuterie on a blanket under the shadow of a castle’s towers.
There is an interactive Loire Valley Wine Map as well as a route of major Chateaux to help you plan driving a tour of the region, but as you gear up for a castle and wine-fueled wine trip, be sure to add these highlights to your itinerary.
Domaine du Closel.
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For a castle and wine duo, head to Domaine du Closel, a family-owned vineyard and chateau dating back to 1495. A rich heritage of female winemakers running the centuries-old business adds a unique history to this property in the heart of Savennieres, which offers the Grand Cru grapes of the region. Self-guided tours of the estate and gardens cost 4€, May through October, and are free the rest of the year. Guided tours are available in the summer and wine tastings are offered year-round.
If you’re into sparkling wine, stop into Ackerman Cellars, which dates back to 1811 and offers guided cellar tours as well as tastings. A full-on museum experience certainly feels more touristy than say, dropping into a petite maison in the countryside, but at least opening hours and guaranteed and you can delve into some in-depth facts about the Loire Valley’s winemaking history.
Appease those who may prefer a more geologically-minded vacation by heading into Les Caves De Pere Auguste, where white, rose, red and sparkling wines can be tasted in rustic troglodyte caves. Tastings are 3€, the cost of which is deducted from the purchase of two bottles, which can also be shipped back to the states, should you not want to carry all that wine around.
Château de Chenonceau.
One of the most iconic castles of the Loire Valley, Château de Chenonceau straddles a tributary of the Loire River, making the reflections of its white stone exterior and dramatic turrets even more extraordinary. Several gardens surrounding the Renaissance building, as well as a picnic area and upscale restaurants, L’Orangerie, make the expansive property easy to spend an entire day in, though highlights can be seen in a few hours. Pre-download Cenonceau’s app for self-guided tours and other practical information. Tickets to tour the property are purchased on site, and wine tastings inside the Chateau’s 16th-century vaulted wine cellar are available to walk-ins.
Straight out of a fairy tale, Château de Chambord is the most Disney-like castle in the Loire Valley and is said to have inspired the palace in “Beauty and the Beast.” Those fearing a visit to Versailles due to the crowds may prefer this opulent mansion, which has its own pre-revolutionary lavish touches by Louis XIV (like gold-adorned sleeping quarters for when he visited the country estate, plus a stable for 1200 horses on the property). Over 400 rooms, nearly 300 larger-than-life fireplaces and a double-helix staircase characterize Chambord, which is surrounded by lush gardens and a protective moat.
Château de Villandry.
The last Renaissance castle to be built in the Loire Valley, don’t let Château de Villandry’s younger sibling status deter you. Open year-round and known for its incredible gardens (both decorative and functional, for the kitchen), this former country retreat is one of France’s most-visited castles. Rooms are restored and fully furnished with 18th- and 19th-century relics and artwork, making it easy to envision yourself living in this luxe estate — why not?
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Casa Fleur
Castello Sforzesco
Casa Campanini
Turin Arcade
Rooftop Test Track
The iconic Fiat Factory with rooftop test track
The Art Nouveau buildings of Turin
The Art Nouveau buildings of Milan
Two talks from Art Nouveau expert, Prof Anne Anderson
Lovely 5-star Grand Hotel Sitea in central Turin
The Art Nouveau movement, known as Liberty in Italy, was embraced by several Torinese architects and this elegant city became the Liberty capital of Italy. Nearby Milan embraced the style in nearly equal measure and we explore its legacy in both cities on this superb new tour in the company of renowned Art Nouveau expert, Prof Anne Anderson. The brief flourishing came in the first decade of the 20th century with a host of lovely buildings by architects Pietro Fenoglio, Giovanni Gribodo and others, including the renowned La Fleuri apartment block.
06 - March - 2020 £ 1199.00 Travel Info Book Now booking-journey/#/start/ANT/06 March 2020/
Departing: 06th March 2020 at 09:30
Returning: 09th March 2020 at 19:20
Day 1: Fly from London Gatwick to Turin.
On arrival transfer to the hotel. Time permitting, Anne will lead an orientation walk of the city centre with time for a drink perhaps at the glorious Caffe Baratti & Milano (at own expense. Evening lecture, ‘Art Nouveau Style Liberty in Turin’ and dinner with wine at a local restaurant.
Day 2: Full day in Turin.
Morning visit to the 8 Gallery Lingotto Torino (which used to be the old Fiat Factory) and visit the rooftop race track. Continue on to the old Fiat Factory and Headquarters to view the external architectureof the building, before a walking tour of the Nizza area to see the Art Nouveau houses, such as Palazzinna Menzio (now the Hotel Eden). Afternoon visit to the GAM Museum followed by a walking tour of the Art Nouveau houses of the Crocetta area. Evening lecture, ‘Art Nouveau Style Liberty in Milan‘ and dinner with wine at a local restaurant.
Day 3: Full day in Milan.
Travel by train to Milan. On arrival, we will embark on a walking tour of some of the city’s Art Nouveau houses and buildings, designed by leading architects of the day such as Giuseppe Borioli and Ernesto Piravanno and others. Highlights include the Casa Ferrario with its superb wrought iron balconies by Alessandro Mazzucotelli. Travel back to Turin by train with evening free.
Day 4: Walking tour of Turin and home.
Morning walking tour of the Cit Turin area, home to a dozen important Art Nouveau houses. Afternoon transfer to the airport for return flight to London Gatwick.
Return flights from London Gatwick to Turin
Three nights’ bed and breakfast at the five-star Grand Hotel Sitea, Turin, based on shared occupancy of a twin/double room
Welcome reception and two dinners with wine at a local restaurant
Two lectures at the hotel
Transfers, tours and entrance fees
Prof. Anne Anderson, local guides and tour manager throughout
Grand Hotel Sitea
Traditional five-star hotel dating back to 1925, located in the heart of Turin, just behind Piazza San Carlo. The hotel boasts sumptuous public areas, Michelin-starred restaurant, Bistrot “Carlo & Camillo,” the “American” bar and very comfortable bedrooms with all modern amenities.
Hotel Sitea Website
Although I rang your office to inform them that I was now on a Gluten Free diet, this information was not given to the Lecturer/Tour Manager. Both restaurants were very accommodating but it would have been helpful for all if this information had been passed on. It would have been a more balanced tour if there had been more visiting interiors and/or museums as the tour was mostly outdoor walking so we were thankful that we had good weather.
Review by Feely who travelled 29-March-2019
We are very sorry that you had a problem with your dietary request but we have checked all the rooming lists sent to the hotel and tour manager and it is clearly stated on them.
Disappointed that the price for new customers was reduced just before we were due to make the final payment - this left a nasty impression
Review by Zatz who travelled 29-March-2019
I am very sorry for the price reduction, which we do very rarely but it is to ensure the tour can get a minimum number to operate and therefore not disappoint those already booked. It also means you have a lot less travellers on the tour as a result.
As usual, a very good tour, Ann is amazing!
Review by Anonymous who travelled 29-March-2019
Day 2 which was spent looking at Art Nouveau in Turin proved to be a tiring day as we were out from 9am to 6pm and mainly on our feet apart from coffee and lunch breaks. The pace was more relaxed on all the other days. Good to be in a small and convivial group and to have Anne Anderson's expertise. Local guides charming.
Group numbered 12 people only...which made the trip very enjoyable. Hotel was 5star and excellent.Has set the bar for future TE tours.Please note. The Milan day trip did not do justice to Milan.Time would have been better spent in Turin. We found this trip quite exhausting thus the extra day in Turin would have been appreciated. The two local guides,Stefano in Turin and Lavania in Milan were very good and certainly added value. Anne was at her usual best and lead and managed the group...she is a real asset to your business. We have reservations regarding the merits of these short tours.Maybe an extra day would/should be considered. Future tour destinations.With Art N in mind..Trieste should be introduced pronto..so at least you will beat the opposition!!!
Review by Davies who travelled 29-March-2019
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Home » Theater Reviews » You Gotta Get a Gimmick: King Lear
Cort Theatre
Jane Cox
Jane Houdyshell
John Douglas Thompson
Michael Arden
Miriam Buether
Russell Harvard
Sam Gold
Sean Carvajal
You Gotta Get a Gimmick: King Lear
The Playbill calls this hoary classic William Shakespeare’s King Lear, as if we needed to be reminded who wrote it. And, perhaps we do, since this latest entry in the modern dress-revival sweepstakes could just as well be called Sam Gold’s King Lear, in honor of Gold’s gimmick-burdened production.
The smartest gimmick any director can create when reviving Shakespeare is (regardless of the period chosen) to stage it (heaven forfend!) so that it actually creates the illusion of real people in recognizable—even if symbolically so—surroundings. Instead, as here, we get distracting casting, knives and pistols for swords, camo gear and rifles for military scenes, sets that are neither interiors or exteriors and tell us nothing of where the action is taking place, and a full panoply of decisions that, while often clever, are more likely to shine a light on the director than the play.
As the song says, “Kid, you gotta get a gimmick if you want to get ahead.” Productions like this one are like a stripper making her tassels twirl in opposite directions.
Gold’s King Lear, of course, is built around the great Glenda Jackson as the monarch. I’ve loved Jackson since I saw her on Broadway in 1965 as Charlotte Corday in Peter Brook’s magnificent staging of Marat/Sade, and fully supported her recent Tony win in Three Tall Women. But, let’s be honest. Regardless of the fact that other women have played Lear, and that Jackson is surprisingly sturdy for an 82-year-old (many fine male actors of that age haven’t got her stamina), she’s still a frail-looking presence who, regardless of how incisively she speaks Lear’s words, has nothing in the least bit manly about her, and can do little to create even a soupçon of illusion.
Jayne Houdyshell, Glenda Jackson
She’s “King” Lear here, not “Queen” Lear, with no concession to her gender. (Ditto Jane Houdyshell’s Gloucester). At the end, when Lear traditionally carries the dead Cordelia (Ruth Wilson) in his arms (provided she’s not too large), this production skips the business. Wilson, in fact, slender as she is, looks more capable of carrying Lear than vice-versa.
And, for all the microscopically precise intonations and readings Jackson gives the lines, accompanied by enough rolling r’s to build a railroad, her Lear is, from the start, a sneeringly dyspeptic leader, with a streak of sarcasm but little of the royal magnanimity that would make a rough hewn, loyal servant like Kent (John Douglas Thompson) follow him so slavishly. Only late in the play, when Lear goes mad and appears in rags with a crown of wildflowers, does the softened, chastised character begin to affect us. Unfortunately, Lear now seems more an octogenarian Ophelia than an antiquated Lear.
Miriam Buether’s set is a sleek, box-like, gold-plated, three-walled, meeting room with long tables and a reflective ceiling with recessed lighting that serves for both indoor and outdoor scenes. It makes little sense (a bare, wooden stage would have been better) but Jane Cox’s multi-colored lighting does all it can to invest it with variety. Supplementing it is a gold curtain for the storm scene; when it rises, it discloses the same room, now looking like a hurricane swept through and turned its tables, chairs, and accessories into a consumerist junkpile.
No matter where the action is set—those who don’t know the plot will surely be confused—a quartet of formally dressed musicians (two violins, a viola, and a cellist) take up changeable positions to play original music by Philip Glass. Meanwhile, Gold is busy piling up directorial jeux, some reminding us of what sexual fools these mortals are.
Ruth Wilson, Glenda Jackson, John Douglas Thompson
For example, we get to see the naked legs of Lear’s wicked daughter, Goneril (Elizabeth Marvel) spring up among the detritus as Gloucester’s evil son, Edmund (Sean Carvajal), vigorously plows her, after which she puts on her panties, reaches into them to retrieve a taste of honey, and places her anointed finger on Edmund’s lusty lips. Nor is the other wicked sister, Regan (Aisling O’Sullivan), a slutty slouch, as witness her grabbing Edmund’s hand and placing it inside her pants for quickie gratification.
This is a three-and-a-half-hour production in which the Duke of Cornwall (Russell Harvard) is a deaf man in kilts, his lines (except for a few imprecations) both voiced and signed by an aide (Michael Arden); one in which Edmund’s maligned brother, Edgar (Pedro Pascal), breaks into Spanish during one of his Poor Tom scenes; and one in which Cordelia need not be carried on because it’s apparently easier to open flaps in the ceiling so her slim, black-garbed corpse, with a rope around her neck, can be flown in for Lear to embrace once she’s safely on the ground.
These and other intrusions make it difficult to appraise performances that must compete, often by overacting, with so much “creative” excess. In general, the acting is solid and clearly-spoken. Wilson’s Cordelia is no wispy sentimentalist; her reluctance to cater to Lear’s inquiry about which daughter loves him best reveals a chip on her shoulder that makes you wonder why he’d even bother asking. She doubles as the Fool, and gives him a superior interpretation, making him a memorably Chaplinesque Cockney in a performance both feeling and funny.
At the end, as the deaths and gimmicks pile up around King Lear, it’s impossible not to view the proceedings as a showcase for anything but the play. It’s a parody, in fact, of what happens when a Shakespeare director pulls all the stops out, till they call the cops out.
William Shakespeare’s King Lear. Through July 7 at the Cort Theatre (138 W. 48th Street, between Sixth and Seventh Avenues). Three and a half hours, one intermission. www.kinglearonbroadway.com
Photos: Brigitte Lacombe
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The silly debate about socialism
Published September 10. 2018 12:01AM | Updated September 10. 2018 9:16AM
Froma Harrop
What's with all this socialism business? A handful of lefty candidates are calling themselves socialists without a single radical socialistic item on their promise lists. They seem to have little idea of what socialism is. And most of the conservatives talking back to them don't seem to know, either.
Simply put, socialism is a system whereby the state owns the means of production. In capitalism, the means of production are privately owned. Would someone kindly tell us which companies Bernie Sanders would nationalize?
"Spreading the wealth" is not socialism. Sweden and other Scandinavian countries that Sanders habitually holds up as models to emulate are capitalistic powerhouses. They're not taking the means of production away from the private owners. They're just taxing wealth and using the proceeds to fund their plush social safety nets.
Most of our retirees would throw a revolution if someone threatened their Medicare benefits. But many have no problem accusing others wanting subsidized health care of committing crimes against capitalism. And yes, Medicare is a taxpayer subsidy, a redistribution of wealth. Payroll taxes and premiums account for only about half its spending. Over 40 percent comes from general revenues, mainly income taxes.
But everyone can rest assured that Medicare is not socialized medicine. The doctors and hospitals work for themselves. Medicare is socialized insurance.
The right likes to mock the left's calls for "free stuff," such as free college education, free health care and so forth. My main objection to "free stuff" is calling it "free." Someone is paying for it.
It does not follow, however, that such proposals as helping students attend a community college or trade school would be a bad thing. Our society decided long ago that education through the 12th grade is a public good. Towns and cities don't directly bill parents for the third grade. With good jobs requiring ever more complex skills, it makes sense to fold at least some post-high-school training into the category of basic education.
Arguments over big government vs. small government are pretty meaningless. We have what's called a mixed economy − a system combining private and public enterprise. We ask the government to provide the socially desired goods and services that the private sector won't.
A privately run company would not deliver a letter to a farmhouse a quarter-mile from the road for the same amount (currently 49 cents) it charges in the city. In 1896, Congress required that what is now the U.S. Postal Service do just that.
Coming full circle back to health care, before Medicare, many older Americans faced unnecessary death and suffering for lack of medical care. For private insurers, covering people with expensive conditions or sure to develop them − at premiums ordinary people could afford − was not deemed a sound business model.
Thus, Medicare was created in 1965, though not before the American Medical Association condemned it as "creeping socialism." By the way, "Medicare for all" would be no more socialistic than Medicare only for those 65 or older.
I do wish the free market of ideas would better patrol itself. Socialism is not currently on the American political menu. Let us all stop pretending − self-proclaimed socialists and their critics alike − that it is.
Froma Harrop's column is distrbuted by Creators Syndicate.
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The Destruction Of Civilization
How It Is Being Done
And What You Can Do About It
TITLES AND HEADINGS
Laws Of Politics
LIBERTY For All Men
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34. WHY YOU NEED TO OWN GUNS
THE PURPOSE OF OWNING GUNS
The primary purpose of allowing the common man to own guns is to make it easy for the common man to kill people working for the government. It also helps in case of invasion. Defense against street crime is only a secondary purpose. Evil men want to take guns away from the common people so it will be easier to enslave them. It makes them helpless against government tyranny and against invasion.
When they come to take you away, wouldn’t you like to have a gun so you can shoot a few of them? That is the purpose of the Second Amendment.
The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, in full, says: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”.
Gun Owners of America – http://gunowners.org/ – is, according to Ron Paul, “the only no-compromise gun lobby in Washington”.
THE FOUNDING FATHERS LOVED THEIR GUNS
GEORGE WASHINGTON said, "A free people ought . . . to be armed . . . .".
THOMAS JEFFERSON said, “What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. . . . The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”.
THOMAS JEFFERSON said, "No Free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.".
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN said, "The thoughtful reader may wonder, why wasn't Jefferson's proposal of ‘No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms’ adopted by the Virginia legislature? They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.".
SAMUEL ADAMS said, “The Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress . . . to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.”.
GEORGE MASON said, ". . . to disarm the people – that was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.".
JAMES MADISON said, “[The Constitution preserves] the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation [where] the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”.
NOAH WEBSTER said, “Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe.”.
THOMAS PAINE said, "The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms like laws discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside . . . Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them . . . .".
PATRICK HENRY said, “The great object is that every man be armed. . . . Everyone who is able may have a gun.”.
PATRICK HENRY said, "Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?".
PATRICK HENRY said, "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.".
Other quotes about guns from the American Founding Fathers can be found at: http://www.madisonbrigade.com/library.htm
HITLER said, “The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty. So let's not have any native militia or native police.”.
CHUCK BALDWIN: CHRISTIANS SHOULD KEEP THEIR GUNS
Pastor Chuck Baldwin has written an eloquent article denouncing gun control at: http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin734.htm He states bluntly, “the future of freedom and liberty . . . hang in the balance.”.
He and his son Timothy Baldwin have written a book, “To Keep Or Not To Keep – Why Christians Should Not Give Up Their Guns”. http://keepyourarms.com/
EDWIN VIEIRA: GUN CONTROL IS TREASON
Edwin Vieira has written a 26 page article titled “Dare Call It Treason”. He says, “. . . ‘gun control’, rightly understood, constitutes nothing less than ‘Treason’, in the strict constitutional sense of ‘levying War against the [United States]’.”.
http://www.shastadefense.com/Dare-Call-It-Treason-21.pdf
He says, “No one with intelligence sufficient to parrot the standard propaganda in favor of ‘gun control’ can simultaneously be so dim-witted as not to be held personally accountable – intellectually, morally, politically, and legally – for reading and understanding the historical record of modern times: namely, that aspiring usurpers and tyrants always disarm the people as the indispensable step towards oppressing them; and that once the people are rendered helpless through disarmament, and confronted by a psychopathic political class claiming unlimited “governmental” powers, they inevitably become the victims of slavery and mass murder.”.
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The Associated Press is reporting that Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen has drafted an executive action that would end the Trump administration’s policy of separating immigrant families caught crossing the border.
Nielsen was at the White House today, where Donald Trump also told reporters that he would be “signing something” on immigration soon, AP reports, citing two anonymous sources “familiar with Nielsen’s thinking.” The New York Times is also reporting that the executive order will end the policy.
While Trump himself didn’t make clear the specifics of what he would be signing, he did add, “We want to keep families together.”
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While many were shocked about the policy and the conditions of the children’s shelters—photos and reports showed hundreds of children in cages, wrapped in solar blankets that looked like tinfoil—Trump’s supporters appeared delighted. Republicans largely approved of the policy. It was so energizing to the base that Trump aides intended to carry the country’s deeply divisive immigration battle forward to this year’s midterm elections, according to Politico.
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MALLEABLE MALIBU -- Olympic has-been, athlete Bruce Jenner has become obsessed with wearing women's undergarments, which have led to rumors, allegedly spread by his wife Kris (note the masculine name of his bitter half), that the former track-and-field star may be considering a sex-change operation.
According to the best friends of Kendall and Kylie, the couple's daughters, Dear Old Dad may be about to become Mommy Dearest II.
"He'd grown his hair long," one of the girls' friends gushed.
"And he gets his nails done more often than Kendall and Kylie," another bosom buddy declared.
If the rumors about Jenner are true, he's had more done than that - a LOT more.
Stories about Malibu, where he makes his home, insist that Jenner has had facial reconstructive surgery, has had his Adam's apple shaved, takes female hormones, and has had implants installed in both his breasts and buttocks.
"Bruce is becoming quite a lovely lady," Jenner's hairdresser maintained. "He's prettier than Kris, now."
Jenner's favorite, among ladies' unmentionables, is Spanx, body-slimming underwear that ladies don to slim and smooth their tummies. Allegedly, Jenner prefers the Haute Contour, which includes a lace thong in pink and other "feminine colors that will make your man blush."
Jenner is reportedly not bothered by the rumors of his desire to be a woman. "I love women," he said, "and, unless your name happens to be Clint Eastwood or Arnold Schwarzenegger, you'd still be only half the man I am even if I were to become a woman."
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Setting her life as an example, Mahadevi Varma paved a path for hundreds of women coming after her. In 1979, she was made a fellow at Sahitya Akademi, becoming the first woman to be given this distinction. Her collection of poems, Yama received Gyanpeeth award in 1982. She was granted Padma Vibhushan in 1988.
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Mahadevi Varma. (Photo: Pratham Kailasiya/Wikimedia commons)
For any literature enthusiast, reading “Neelkanth” in Class 7 was a delight. Mahadevi Varma, one of the most well-known Hindi poets, knew how to make a simple story seem interesting.
Through her writings, she became a simple storyteller who would paint a canvas of the story that would come alive before one’s eyes. All through the school life, she remained just that, a storyteller with a knack for using ordinary words that expose extraordinary emotions.
Mahadevi Varma was born on March 26, 1907, on a Holi in Faarukhabad. At a time when girls were trained to be only a wife and a mother, Mahadevi Varma not only completed her education but also served as a teacher and headmistress of an institute.
Though born into a liberal family, Varma was married off at a tender age of 9 but stayed with her family until she completed her education. Her mother was fluent in Sanskrit and her father was a professor of English, giving Varma a great exposure to Indian and western ideologies.
It was her friend Subhadra Kumari Chauhan who discovered Varma’s hidden stack of poems one day. Encouraged by her to write and showcase her work, Verma started writing poems with Chauhan. In her memoir, ‘Mere Bachpan Ke Din’, she writes: “While others used to play outside, me and Subhadra used to sit on a tree and let our creative thoughts flow together…She used to write in Khariboli, and soon I also started to write in Khariboli…this way, we used to write one or two poems a day.”
Along with Chauhan, she is credited for breaking the male monopoly in Hindi poetry. Many observers have claimed Mahadevi Varma, also known as the ‘modern Mira’, could have received the Nobel Prize for poetry had her work been translated.
Varma is known as one of the four major poets of Chhayavaad (era of neo-romanticism in Hindi literature), along with Suryakant Tripathi Nirala, Sumitranandan Pant and Jaishankar Prasad.
It is a shame, however, that her poet persona has always overshadowed her feminist profile. Through her prose writings, she has vehemently attacked and questioned the way society treated women.
In ‘Chand’, a women’s magazine, she has published essays that tackle the issues faced by women. In these essays, she despite asking for women emancipation, also analyses the reason for women being denied freedom. Eleven of these essays were later published as “Shrinkhala ki Kadiyan”.
In “Ateet Ke Chalchitra”, she has penned the stories of a number of people who she met during her life. It is a biographical sketch where every story is dedicated to the life of an unsung hero.
Using her gift of writing unforgettable characters, Varma has boldly asked questions of widow remarriage, out-of-wedlock pregnancy, bigamy, child marriage. She is extremely critical of the certainty enjoyed by men and torment faced by women. At the same time, she is aggressive about women standing against women.
She is extremely aware of the shackles, ‘Bandini’ is the word she uses to describe herself. She constantly seeks freedom. There is a sense of mysticism in her poems, that often leads to a comparison with Meerabai.
Setting her life as an example, Mahadevi Varma paved a path for hundreds of women coming after her. She was awarded Padma Bhushan in 1956. In 1979, she was made a fellow at Sahitya Akademi, becoming the first woman to be given this distinction. Her collection of poems, Yama received Gyanpeeth award in 1982. She was granted Padma Vibhushan in 1988.
A feminist in days when women had no connection with the outside world, Mahadevi Varma tirelessly fought for women emancipation. Through her prose, poetry and profession, she served the mission of gender equality all her life.
It is her 31st death anniversary today. No longer with us, her ideas and views continue to make her immortal. A poet, a prose writer, an activist and most of all a dreamer, Mahadevi Varma continues to inspire with her writings.
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May 1st, 2009 | 15 Comments
Plan would require the city to construct new downtown tunnel
Ottawa, Canada’s capital, already has one of North America’s largest bus rapid transit networks, with a series of transitways leading into the city center, where buses run in dedicated lanes along city streets. The first sections of the line opened in 1983, and now the system has a high ridership for a bus system in a city of 800,000: 240,000 daily riders. Ottawa also has an 8 km diesel multiple unit light rail system with five stops called the O-Train that has a daily ridership of 10,000, though the service doesn’t reach downtown. The O-Train opened as a demonstration line in 2001. Now the city is actively working to build a downtown light rail tunnel that would eventually be connected to a train network serving the entire region.
The city’s leadership has never been entirely comfortable with the busway system they built so successfully beginning in the 1980s. Rather, over the past decade, there have been a number of proposals to build a light rail system running through the city and, in some places, replacing the bus rapid lines. Building light rail in Ottawa is cheaper than elsewhere because the right-of-way already exists. But that progress has been repeatedly stymied by bad planning – such as an idea in 2006 to run light rail on the existing and overcrowded surface streets – and by lack of political will.
Last fall the city announced its long-term transit plan, whose basic principle is the replacement of the city’s busways with light rail transit lines extending through downtown, and then east, west, and south, with a spur to the airport. The O-Train would be converted to electric operation and integrated into the broader system, allowing direct access downtown for people along that line. New busways would be built connecting the light rail corridors.
Yesterday, the city revealed its preferred alignment for the downtown section of the light rail line (shown in the map at top). The first phase of the new transit system will run 13 km east-west along the existing transit way from Blair to Tunney’s Pasture, with a 3 km diversion into a tunnel through downtown. There will be a connection at Bayview to the O-Train, with preparations made for a future electric conversion of that line. The entire system will be designed for future 6-car trainsets to handle the line’s expected high ridership.
The tunnel itself will significantly improve the state of downtown’s Albert and Slater Streets, which are currently so completely overcrowded with bus traffic that there’s no capacity to increase services on the transitways, which are expected to have to meet twice the passenger demand by 2030. The rail tunnel allows effective separation from traffic, lower pollution counts because of electric operation, and faster speeds because of complete separation from traffic and quicker acceleration.
Some business groups have griped about the route of the tunnel, because it’s slightly different from that taken by buses today and therefore may reduce demand at retail outlets that had been designed and positioned with transit riders in mind. The city, however, claims that its route is designed to maximize ride quality because it doesn’t have the tight curves that bus routes currently take and that rail vehicles aren’t able to handle as easily.
The initial line will cost a total of $830 million, funded by non-yet-committed local, provincial, and federal sources, with the vast majority being spent on the $600 million tunnel. Construction could begin in 2012, with completion in 2016 or ’17.
Though the larger plan, with LRT corridors throughout Ottawa, will function effectively in a city with a high transit mode share, there will be some problems during the initial implementation phases. The first line’s construction will probably require the diversion of bus lines along the transitway and as a result slow down the commutes of hundreds of thousands of riders for several years. In addition, once the light rail line is finished, riders on the O-Train and buses will have to transfer to light rail to get downtown. This will make the Tunney’s Pasture and Blair stations at each end of the line potentially overcrowded, and make the life of those not living on the LRT line more difficult because of their lack of one-seat access that they current have.
If the city is serious about implementing its larger transit proposals, though, these problems will be ephemeral, with the vast majority of the city eventually benefiting from rail service.
Images above: Downtown alignment of planned Ottawa light rail tunnel, from City of Ottawa; Long-range Ottawa Transit Plan, from City of Ottawa
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1 May 2009 at 08:39 · Reply
I’ve always wondered, what would stop this and similar projects from constructing the rails in a way much like streetcar rails where they are embedded in the pavement? If built correctly, they could handle both LRT and BRT, on the rails and pavement, respectively.
Denis Agar
This is actually a fantastic blog – I only found out about it recently and it covers projects (like this one) in exactly the way I like – all the useful specs, the political backstories, and the broader implications. I grew up in Ottawa and reading your entry was way more enlightening than the local media.
To John Russell: Maybe it has something to do with the comfort of the ride for bus users? Or congestion? But I’d very much like to know the answer to that question too – seems like a no brainer in this case.
Also, perhaps they can get in on the TTC’s big new Streetcar purchase for some bulk discounts?
Leo Petr
@John: A bus tunnel would have to be considerably wider, as buses are usually human-driven rather than guided or automated. Also, running non-electric buses in a tunnel raises ventilation issues.
Wider, well ventilated tunnels are of course possible, but they cost more.
Also, if your system is running near capacity, you only would only want high capacity, performant vehicles in your bottleneck — and that tunnel will be the bottleneck of the system.
Oh, and platforms are much easier to build in an accessible way when vehicle floors are all at the same level. This tends to encourage a single technology, if not a single vehicle vendor.
Hey Leo – In the case of Ottawa, there would be no need for buses to run through the tunnel. I think John is referring to the sections of the new light rail project that will be running along the old dedicated bus rapid transitway, which could perhaps be shared. Also, as for platform heights – the current platforms are only as high as a normal curb, because the buses are mostly used in mixed traffic anyway. If the LRTs purchased were low-floor, then there would be no platform conflict.
John –
I think you make a good point – we’ve seen other bus tunnels, like Seattle’s, that are able to handle both. But as far as I know all of the buses that run in that tunnel are electric trolley buses, so the ventilation issue isn’t one.
In terms of sharing other parts of the right-of-way, I think that would be very hard to do and significantly lower speeds, because it would mess up the signaling system (that allows trains to run closely to run another without running into one another). So in all likelihood, this will be a rail-only operation. I also get the impression that the city simply wants people to transfer onto trains if they want to go downtown.
Denis –
I believe that the technology is a bit different between the streetcars in Toronto and the light rail in Ottawa; the latter will be designed to run at much quicker speeds, and have higher boarding levels, so I don’t think they could fit on the same contract.
Edmund Carlson
Yonah –
The technology is exacly the same, only the application is different. Everything from Ottawa indicates low floor platforms (keep in mind that also means existing platforms are usable and curbside loading stays possible) as in Toronto, and while the design speeds are higher in Ottawa the new Toronto vehicles have a maximum speed of about 80km/h.
In general I agree with Denis and Leo, shared bus tunnels are technically possible, but a lot more expensive and don’t have any real advantage.
The new TTC vehicles (if they are ever going to get funding) are to be built for TTC gauge, not standard rail gauge, for compatibility with TTC’s existing facilities and slightly wider cars, so they wouldn’t fit on the O-Train tracks for instance. Apart from that though, I don’t think changing the top speed would be such a big thing, surely there are ways to swap in different motors and gearboxes, provided the power system is adequately designed.
Lessee. Much of the system is above-ground but in separated ROW. The downtown core is underground. Sounds like pre-metro to me, and I love it.
I’m afraid Canada, like the US, will be needing public works to boost employment for a few years yet to come. This will be a wonderful asset to the country. I hope they will fund the project and build it asap.
I spent more than a week in Ottawa at a convention+vacation a few years back. It’s a beautiful capital and an increasingly cosmopolitan city. It deserves a metro — or at least a pre-metro.
Non-electric buses can go through tunnels. I personally saw this happen in the Seattle bus tunnel several times in the early 2000s, though it’s not the regular practice.
The best practice solution for protecting customers from the ventilation issues in this case is to create a glass wall separating the platform from the bus roadway, with doors in the wall that open only when a bus is there. For more on that see my post on King George Station in Brisbane, here:
http://www.humantransit.org/2009/04/brisbanes-new-downtown-subway.html
Vehicle gauge is something that can be changed. For Toronto’s Transit City plan (as opposed to our legacy downtown network, which has tighter curves and steeper grades), TTC will likely be buying standard vehicles and regauging them.
Matt Fisher
15 June 2009 at 13:22 · Reply
As an Ottawan, I still think more busways are not a good idea. Besides, it only aims to convert part of the Transitway, which supposedly is “train like”. It just can’t be. And bus tunnels would not be a very good idea.
Jarrett at HumanTransit.org
18 November 2009 at 16:27 · Reply
This will make the Tunney’s Pasture and Blair stations at each end of the line potentially overcrowded, and make the life of those not living on the LRT line more difficult because of their lack of one-seat access that they current have.
Severing the direct services from outer services won’t necessarily make these commuters’ lives more difficult, not if it’s done properly with increased local frequency compensating for the new forced interchange.
But it will make them mad for at least a year or so.
6 August 2017 at 15:02 · Reply
hi guys!In the case of Ottawa, there would be no need for buses to run through the tunnel. I think John is referring to the sections of the new light rail project that will be running along the old dedicated bus rapid transit way, which could perhaps be shared. Also, as for platform heights – the current platforms are only as high as a normal curb, because the buses are mostly used in mixed traffic anyway. If the LrTs purchased were low-floor, then there would be no platform conflict.
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Twitchy Frank winning at Caulfield (Image: Racing Photos)
Trinder's Twitchy mare earns G1 swansong
James Tzaferis@Jtzaf
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The All-Star Mile-winning combination of Adam Trinder and Anthony Darmanin again orchestrated a successful Melbourne raid when Twitchy Frank led all the way to win Saturday's $150,000 VOBIS Gold Distaff (1400m).
And the Stakes-winning mare, who will retire to the breeding barn at season's end, is a chance to back up in Saturday's Group 1 Sangster Stakes (1200m) in Adelaide according to her trainer.
While he acknowledged that the Morphettville feature will be a huge step up in class, Trinder said the daughter of Choisir had earned a Group 1 swansong after two feature race wins and two placings from only four starts in his care.
"It's been a little bit of an on-the-job learning experience, she arrived to us in January and she raced four days later in the Bow Mistress," Trinder said.
"We were fortunate enough to win the Vamos Stakes with her a few weeks after that and now we've had a little bit of time to breathe.
"This Super VOBIS race came up with a big flashing light because of the prizemoney and it came up with only a field of seven so it just worked out a fantastic result.
"She holds an entry for the Sangster on Saturday in Adelaide which may be a possibility, although I probably would've liked to see her a bit sharper today to really head in that direction.
"We might just give her a really quiet week off the pony and have a throw at the stumps in a Group 1."
WATCH: Twitchy Frank's win
And Trinder reported that his stable star, Mystic Journey, is set to return to work in the coming days ahead of her spring campaign.
While he confirmed that The All-Star Mile winner will be nominated for the Caulfield Cup, Melbourne Cup and the inaugural Golden Eagle in Sydney, Trinder said his top priority remained a tilt at the Cox Plate (2040m) in October.
"She's back on Monday," he said.
"She's really good, she's had six weeks out now and she let down really quickly in herself.
"Realistically, she could've been back in a fortnight ago, she's just started to look a bit bored and agitated in herself but just timing of things I wanted to give her the full six weeks.
"We're hoping to kick off here in the Bletchingly, still as a three-year-old filly at the back end of July and then into the Memsie, which will tell the story for the spring.
"We'll assess as to whether our first mindset is the Cox Plate or revise and look at a Golden Eagle in Sydney.
"There's the Golden Eagle which has got a lot of money attached to it but I'm really keen to see her at a mile-and-a-quarter."
WATCH: Hear from Trinder
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Spherion-backed 'Temp Life' Re-Staffs For New Season
By Marc Hustvedt
The Temp Life has kind of flown under the radar in terms of branded web series successes, but ever since it first convinced a blue-chip sponsor to back the web comedy back in mid 2006, it has trekked on steadily delivering for both its audience (over 1 million views) and its sponsor.
At first glance it portends to be quite possibly another blah-blah office comedy, but the concept is actually pretty novel, given the show’s sponsor, real-life recruiting and staffing company Spherion. Take a comical look at small off-brand temp agencies, well known to job-hopping New Yorkers, and show what could happen if you don’t end up with one of the big boys like Spherion. The fictional agency, Commodity Staffing, carves out its niche as the dredges of temp jobs—think changing crusty urinal cakes and 24/7 lifecasting of a stuck-up socialite.
So far the series has produced episodes off and on, with a total of 17 released through three seasons. Production values are arguably modest, and at this point are considerably dated in terms of newer web series. Creator Wilson Cleveland, who’s firm CJP Digital produced the series, wore most of the hats early on, serving as writer, producer and even star, playing the bungling office boss Nick “Trouble” Chiapetta. But for this newest batch of six episodes, he tells us they are stepping it up and bringing on some names we recognize from the web series scene.
Streamy-nominated writer Yuri Baranovsky (Break a Leg) has been hired to write the new episodes and The Hayley Project’s creators Andrew Park and Jato Smith will be at the helm. There’s even word that Hayley Project star Rachel Risen (also Streamy-nominated) will guest star in the new season.
“Creatively and aesthetically I’m hoping to produce a product that can stand alongside all the great Web shows Im a fan of like Dorm Life, PINK and The Guild that have come out since we started Temp Life three years ago,” said Cleveland. “I find Yuri to be a very smart, talented comedy writer,” he added when asked about the new talent. “I finally met him in person and hung out at The Streamys and we’ve gotten along ever since. I hired Andy and Jato because I’m a HUGE Hayley Project fan. Andy is a New York guy like me and we share a love for all things Buffy. These guys funded and produced a tight 35 episode series that to me, looked like a movie or TV show. I respect the hell out of that and all the other indie producers who do the same thing because they love doing it.”
Funding for the new season comes from part of a new mid-five figure upfront deal from Spherion, which is also a client of CJP. While still relatively small in the entertainment world, it’s expected that the new talent behind the camera will punch up the show. The new season will go into production next month with an anticipated release in mid November.
“Spherion has been a huge supporter of the show from day-one,” said Cleveland. “We were very lucky to have a progressive client sponsor who shared our belief that branded Web series and other digital entertainment would play an important role in the marketing communications mix. They use Temp Life as the unique brand differentiator we created it to be.”
At least half of the sponsor budget will be directed at marketing the show online through various means like Google AdWords and traditional PR, something often overlooked or unused by web series. Previous campaigns to push the series included a Spherion ad deal with Monster.com that used episodes of the show inside video ad units on Monster’s site. The series is also now part of For Your Imagination’s Axis of Comedy which was announced last year as a confab of like-minded scripted comedy series.
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Jenny Is Living The “Turnkey” Franchise Business Dream
Jenny, Jenny, Jenny. How could you?
I know you wanted to be your own boss. I understand. Owning what you do rocks.
I know you were excited to own and operate a “Turnkey” franchise business. That word makes it sound easy to be a franchise owner.
I know you wanted to live your dream. I know you wanted to own a thriving local business that served other small business owners. But, Jenny…
You allowed yourself to be sucked in. You proved to be easy prey for professional, highly-paid marketers.
I’ll bet you didn’t even have serious conversations with franchisees…the folks who already wrote a check to the franchisor.
Jenny.
Is Jenny Is Living The “Turnkey” Franchise Business Dream?
Sean Kelly, a 20+ year franchise marketing veteran-a guy who helped launched several franchise brands…just wrote an interesting article about the new owner of a printing franchise, of the store-front variety. Thanks for writing it, Sean. It’s an important article for would-be franchise owners who think that all they’ll have to do is pay the franchise fee, and open for business. You know…turn the key.
It’s a good lesson on the power of words…in this case, one word.
A word that Jenny took a little too literally.
From Sean’s FranBest.com website:
Jenny is the poster child for franchise failure. Despite the fact
that she owns a small business in one of the most fiercely competitive
segments of the service industry (printing), she seems content to just
wait for fate to decide whether her business will succeed or fail.
Instead of posting a photo that shows that she’s an energetic
professional eager for your business, Jenny displays herself slumped
lazily on her couch.
Instead of making sales calls, attending Chamber of Commerce
networking events, or putting on seminars, Jenny prefers to wait in her
shop “for a sudden onslaught of customers.”
Read the rest. What do you think? Who’s at fault here?
Jenny photo courtesy of Kevin Ryder, Flickr
The Franchise King says
Thank you for chiming in. I think it all starts at the top. The franchisor awarded a franchise to the wrong person.
Interventionist. Large word. Not for this King.
I had enough problems pronouncing “incentivise” during yesterday’s Franchise today radio show.
The Franchise King®
Joel Libava
Anita Campbell says
Good kick-in-the-pants kind of sentiment.
Sadly, this problem is not limited to franchisees.
I’ve seen business owners similarly “slouching” (physically or mentally) in their places of business. Or saying completely inappropriate things on social sites like Twitter and Facebook.
Too bad — they are their own worst enemies when it comes to business success.
Anita,
Thank you for commenting. I love when you stop by:)
As usual, you’re right. I have seen it happen in non-franchise businesses also.
As for the inappropriate things that are sometime said on on the social media sites….I guess we are adults, and are responsible for our own actions.
The Franchise King
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Rereading
From Prussia with love
In real life Effi Briest would have suffered less, argues Giles MacDonogh, as he rereads Theodor Fontane's masterpiece
Giles MacDonogh
Fri 1 Aug 2003 20.27 EDT First published on Fri 1 Aug 2003 20.27 EDT
Effi Briest (1895) is the greatest work of Prussian realism and certainly one of the best tragic novels of the 19th century. The story is simple enough and hardly unique: Geert von Innstetten, an ambitious nobleman and civil servant on the brink of middle age, makes an uncontroversial marriage to Effi von Briest, the 17-year-old daughter of a former flame. Innstetten takes her back to the town in Pomerania from which he runs the local administration. A daughter, Annie, is born, but Innstetten is keen to get on, and leaves his young wife on her own where she falls prey to a womaniser, Major von Crampas.
Effi never loves Crampas, and Innstetten is none the wiser. He is transferred to Berlin and the affair is forgotten until he discovers a packet of Crampas's letters to his wife. He challenges Crampas to a duel and kills him. Innstetten takes charge of his daughter and banishes his wife. Effi's health declines in her despair. Reconciled to her parents, she dies.
Theodor Fontane based the story on a case he had read about in the newspapers: Armand Léon von Ardenne had killed Emil Hartwich, a local magistrate who had been sleeping with the former's wife, Elisabeth von Plotho, whose family had been Slavic princes even before the Christians came to Brandenburg.
When I first picked up Effi Briest more than a dozen years ago I was interested in its description of Prussian manners at a time when the local nobles or Junkers were coming to terms with the new German Reich. Fontane was the supreme apologist for Prussian values and his heroes - and villains - are often drawn from the ranks of its modest but warlike squirearchy. Innstetten is another Prussian type: the altruistic bureaucrat. As an old lady from Hamburg once told me: "We hated the Prussians, but such a thing as a corrupt official would have been unthinkable then."
It is not just the nobility that Fontane portrays. Kessin is Swinemünde, where Fontane himself grew up, and the novelist presents an affectionate tableau of provincial life in a Prussian seaside town. The old apothecary, Gieshübler, is a portrait of Fontane's father.
Of course I was struck then - indeed moved to tears - by Effi's fate. Effi is simply too young, while Innstetten is too old, too busy ("I have no choice, I am in government service") and too trusting. Once he learns of the affair he is also too unbending. When Effi succeeds in seeing her daughter she is heartbroken to find she has become her father's girl. For the first and last time Effi curses them all, but in the end she is too much a part of the system herself: his code of honour is also hers, and it was she who broke the rules.
Rereading the novel I was even more struck by how cleverly Fontane presents this view. There is really no way out for Innstetten or Effi. Both blindly follow their destinies. Innstetten finds the letters through an unfortunate accident. Had he kept quiet he might have been able to forget the affair, which had ended six years before. He confesses that he loves his wife, and had no cause to suspect her. However, by confiding in his colleague Wüllersdorf he has started the process of making her infidelity public and laying himself open to ridicule. Wüllersdorf argues vainly for a statute of limitations: surely there is a time after which a duel is no longer necessary? Innstetten disagrees: "A tyrannical social something or other" dictates his course of action. "One is not just a solitary person but part of a whole." Innstetten has only one path - "Es muss sein". He must kill the seducer or die himself.
Effi herself had not wanted to yield to the cynical Crampas. A ghost, a Chinese servant who may or may not have died as a result of an illicit affair, appears at her moments of fear, egging her on to seek solace in the other; a metaphor for lust?
Innstetten is sympathetic. He is not a hypocrite. Fontane says he is "kind and good, but certainly no lover". In his final conversation with Wüllersdorf he is shown to be a man who can see no way out. He is a slave to his career; but the honours he receives bring him no happiness at all in a life of utter loneliness.
Prussian noble society also decides Effi's fate: she is not fit to bring up a child. She comes to accept the verdict as she prepares for death. At her side she has a faithful servant and fellow sinner, Roswitha - significantly a Thuringian Catholic - and a dog, Rollo, who is destined to pine away on her grave. Her parents have softened. They have begun to blame themselves: was she not just too young?
Fontane has been called the Prussian Zola, but the comparison is unhelpful. There is no thesis to his novels, such as that which imbues Zola's history of the Rougon-Macquart family, and almost all the figures are notable for their humanity. Even Crampas is not a stock villain: he reads Heine, produces plays and accepts his death with equanimity.
It is a measure of Fontane's artistry that he convinces us that neither Innstetten nor Effi has any choice. A real Effi Briest would have suffered less. Effi is offered the chance to go to Menton, but refuses. The French riviera must have been full of fallen society ladies in exile, whiling away their time with lovers and whist parties.
A few years ago I spent a night at Kyritz in Brandenburg and accidentally ran into a gathering of Plothos that included Elisabeth von Plotho's great nephew. He had known her well. She died in 1952 on Lake Constance, having outlived the creator of Effi Briest by more than half a century. After her disgrace she had become a nurse. The old man was rather proud of her.
· Giles MacDonogh's most recent book is The Last Kaiser.
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Kanye West Spending Thanksgiving In Hospital: Will Kim Kardashian Be With Him?
by pauldailly at November 23, 2016 9:13 pm .
Kanye West is set to spend Thanksgiving in hospital after being admitted just a few days ago for what some are describing as a "psychotic breakdown."
We know a lot of you probably knew it was only a matter of time before something like that happened.
His behavior is genuinely all over the place. You never really know which celebrity he's going to take issue with next. It must be exhausting for his friends and loved ones.
Perhaps his most iconic moment was the time the 39-year-old ruined Taylor Swift's acceptance speech at the MTV VMAs, saying Beyonce deserved to win the award.
That was definitely a low blow, and it seems like he still has some serious beef with Taylor Swift. Heck, the guy seems to have beef with everyone.
Trying to keep track of his feuds is no easy task.
Alas, he is in hospital and will probably be getting the help he needs. His wife, Kim Kardashian rushed to his side as soon as she heard what went down with him.
Per Us Weekly, Kanye will definitely be spending Thanksgiving in the hospital.
“Kanye will be in the hospital for Thanksgiving and isn’t leaving,” an insider revealed, adding that his wife “has barely left his side.”
“Kim has been very concerned and supportive,” the source adds.
“Seeing Kanye like this is scary for her.”
We can only imagine how scary it has been for Kim.
I mean, she was held at gunpoint in Paris just weeks ago and has been keeping a low profile ever since.
This was most likely one of the things that tipped Kanye over the edge.
Being away on tour would have meant he would have been apart from his wife and children.
It would have been difficult for him to just continue on with the tour with the stress piling up.
The best thing about all of this is that he is getting the help he needs.
There's every possibility that West could disappear from the spotlight as part of his recovery.
It won't be easy trying to recover with a bunch of cameras following him around.
What do you think about all of this?
Sound off below!
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Georgetown University alum Jeff Stefanis (MSB ’13) was selected for Forbes’ 2016 “30 Under 30” list in manufacturing and industry for his entrepreneurial achievements, published Jan. 4. Stefanis was recognized for his work as the co-founder and CEO of Riide, a company that facilitates the use of lightweight electric bicycles[Read More…]
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An Autumn-Themed, Vintage-Inspired Wedding at Mayowood Stone Barn in Rochester, Minnesota
Nicole Mills-Novoa (32 and a designer) and Randy Orvis (31 and an information security analyst) met on St. Patrick’s Day, dated for two years and knew they were meant to be. Randy proposed on Thanksgiving at a romantic spot on his parents’ property, while standing on a bridge over a creek. Over the next year, they planned and saved money for their wedding day, “working with friends and family to bring the celebration to fruition,” Nicole says. The couple wanted a harvest-themed fall wedding, and since Halloween was the only available date at Mayowood Stone Barn in Rochester, Minnesota, they were “over the moon with possibility.” As a designer, Nicole pulled inspiration from photographs to create a palette, draw from the bright and bold color of fall leaves, added candlelight for a romantic touch and peppered the celebration with “Halloween touches,” including an extensive candy buffet, an illuminated flower crown, romantic and mysterious portraits and a masquerade ball. Unconventional ceremony music included covers by Nina Simone and Cat Power. Readings were from I Ching (ancient Chinese classics), E.E. Cummings, novelist Louis de Bernieres and the Song of Solomon 9:6-7. The couple wrote and read their own vows. “It was so meaningful and delightfully personal,” Nicole says. “We are so proud of how perfectly our ceremony represented who we are and who we intend to be.” Her advice to other couples? "Let your wedding celebrate the life you choose to live,” Nicole says. —Chrissy Sorenson
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Phuket residents vote against U-turn flyover
PHUKET: Local residents have voted not to have a U-turn flyover built over Thepkrasattri Rd in Koh Kaew. The feedback was gained at a public meeting held at Phuket Rajabhat University on Friday (Jan 11).
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Sunday 13 January 2019, 01:14PM
The people present at the meeting voted to have ground-level U-turns in Koh Kaew. Photo: PR Dept
Phuket Highways Office Deputy Chief Pichak Sornchana. Photo: PR Dept
The support for ground-level U-turns was recorded at the public meeting. Photo: PR Dept
At the meeting, organised by the Highways Department, attendees were presented with two options for providing U-turns near the Baan Yee Teng Intersection on Thepkrasattri Rd, just south of the Heroines Monument.
The U-turns are considered much-needed in alleviating traffic jams in the area and are part of a project that aims to install U-turn flyovers over Thepkrasattri Rd both in Koh Kaew and in Mu Dok Kaew just north of Thalang Town. (See story here.)
The options presented at the public meeting on Friday were for residents in Koh Kaew to either: 1) have two flyovers built to act as U-turns; or 2) have U-turns on the ground.
The attendees voted their support for the latter, saying that ground-level U-turns would be cheaper and that not having the U-turn flyovers would look better for the area.
Present at the meeting was Thalang District Chief Adul Chuthong, who explained to those present, including local residents, that the meeting, that it was important to gain feedback – and approval – for the project as it affected people living in the area.
“It is important because construction of this project will be close to the ancient sites and places important in history,” he added.
The meeting was the second such public meeting to be held as part of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the project. EIAs are required by law for all major projects affecting communities.
The previous EIA had to be discarded as it did not raise the fact to the public that the proposed U-turn flyovers at Koh Kaew were to be built near sites of historical value.
One of the sites is Ban Phraya Wichit Songkram, located some 800 metres south of the Heroines Monument. Registered as a National Heritage Site in 1985, the location features the stone wall remains of the formal residence of former Governor of Phuket Phraya Wichit Songkram (That Rattanadilok Na Phuket). The house was built and fortified in response to the ‘Ang Yi’ Chinese miners rebellion in 1876. (See details here and here.)
The other site of historical value is the Thalang National Museum itself, located only some 280m directly southeast of the Heroines Monument in Soi Lak Mueang 1, and operated by the Ministry of Fine Arts. (See here.)
“Only after starting this project have we learned that the two sites are within one kilometre of the flyover. We didn’t realise this until local people filed their complaint. So we are compiling a fresh EIA, as required by law,” Phuket Highways Office Chief Somwang Lohanut explained to The Phuket News in November last year. (See story here.)
At the meeting on Friday, Phuket Highways Office Deputy Chief Pichak Sornchana presented the plans drawn up by Consultants of Technology Co Ltd and City Plan Professional Co Ltd – both hired to conduct the EIA appraisal for the flyovers.
The Koh Kaew flyovers were to be one lane each and about four to six metres wide, with a 1.5m emergency lane and half-metres wide shoulder on the right side of the lane.
Other measurements given for the flyovers were much more precise. The flyover reversing traffic flow from southbound to northbound was to 315.282m long and the “mirror-flyover” for people heading northbound wanting to U-turn to head southbound was to be 299.292m long.
To make the flyovers possible and extra 10m of land on both sides of the road needed to be appropriated, expanding the full width of Thepkrasattri Rd at that point from 40m to 60m, Mr Pichak noted.
However, the plans for the ground-level U-turns required much more land to be appropriated, he explained.
Building the flyovers would require the road area to be widened to 30m either side of the road’s “centre axis”. Creating ground-level U-turns will need the full road width to be expanded to 35m either side.
In total, the ground-level U-turns will need 10.7 rai of land beside the road to be acquired, he said.
“This is so the U-turn lanes can be big enough to allow large vehicles, even semi-trailers, to make U-turns in a fully separated U-turn lane so that motorists can make U-turns safely and uninterrupted, without causing any delays to traffic passing by,” Mr Pichak said.
After the options were explained, the opinions, feedback and suggestions from those present were recorded and are to be included in the EIA to be submitted for the project, Mr Pichak noted.
Galong | 14 January 2019 - 10:19:34
The objection is probably that it is more difficult to cut in line on a fly-over U-turn than the existing U-turns. The driving manners at U-turns are atrocious, to put it politely!
Kurt | 14 January 2019 - 10:11:00
Drive from Phuket town to airport and back. Experience the danger and inconvenience of ground-level-U-turns due to heavy and increasing amount of traffic. Nicely designed fly-over U-turns can fit in and contribute to smooth and less polluting traffic. Look at busses, making a U-turn now, they need 3-4 lanes to do so, blocking/holding up the traffic streams unneeded. Road traffic specialists?
Rorri_2 | 14 January 2019 - 05:55:56
First, I admit not having travelled every country, but why are there so many "U" turns, and so many being dangerously placed, on Phuket.
CaptainJack69 | 13 January 2019 - 21:31:24
Are those width figures designed to incorporate the mythical light-railway going down the middle of the road? Or is that going to somehow skip this intersection? Maybe they forgot about it?
So long as they design it so people can't block it while they wait to attempt to illegally turn right across 2 lanes of speeding traffic just to shave 5 minutes of their journey, (like they do now turning into Soi Haan Falang behind the temple).
Fascinated | 13 January 2019 - 13:24:29
Ahh- on reading the story it would appear the local 'objection' to the flyovers is less about aesthetics and more about being able to sell more land at inflated prices. The u-turns clearly won't be cheaper with more land required but it's not like people here to want to feather their own nest is it! One supposes ungly elevated u-turns would have a negative impact on property values...
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Guest Review - - On Lavender Lane
On Lavender Lane
By JoAnn Ross
Publisher: Signet
Celebrity chef Madeline Durand is in Omaha in the middle of a cooking demonstration when a sex video of her husband with his heiress lover goes viral. While her heart is not exactly broken since there has been evidence for some time that her marriage was in trouble, evidence she has struggled to deny, Madeline is humiliated. After a brief exchange with her husband Maxime, a pragmatic, ambitious Frenchman who offers no excuses and asks no pardon for his behavior, Madeline leaves New York behind and retreats to Shelter Bay, Oregon, and Lavender Hill Farm where her grandmother brought up the young Maddy after her parents were killed.
Lucas Chaffee, a former Navy SEAL medic, has returned to Shelter Bay to bury his father at sea in a place that had served as a summer sanctuary for father and son during some rough times. Lucas and Duncan Chaffee, a renowned architect, had plans to go into business together after Lucas left the Navy and Duncan retired. They were going to restore houses up and down the West coast. Lucas has his state contractor’s license and is set to go when his father’s death puts an end to that dream. Sofia DeLuca, who befriended the Chaffee father and son when Lucas was a young teen, knowing Lucas is at loose ends, asks his help in remodeling Lavender Hill Farm to include a restaurant. If Sofia, who has little faith that her granddaughter’s marriage to Maxime will prove lasting, harbors hopes that Lucas and Maddy, who were once in love, will get together, she’s not telling.
Lucas broke Maddy’s heart ten years ago. She’s never forgotten the wonder of first love, the pain of its end, or the man responsible for both. The last thing she wants as she tries to decide where she’s going with her career and her personal life is Lucas Chaffee around confusing her, and she lets him know in graphic terms what she thinks of him. Lucas knows it won’t be easy to win Maddy’s heart again, but he’s determined enough to tell the truth about what broke them up, grovel as much as necessary, and announce from the get go that he has marriage in mind. Rebuilding a friendship and reigniting an attraction prove easier than Lucas thought, but even love might not be enough to persuade Maddy to risk marriage again.
On Lavender Lane is the third in Ross’s Shelter Bay series, following One Summer and The Homecoming. Shelter Bay has become one of my favorite fictional small towns. The series has many of the qualities that made me fall in love with Robyn Carr’s Virgin River books: a town that seems real and likeable, recurring secondary characters who ground the community, and tough ex-military heroes with tender hearts. Since reunion romances are my favorites, I loved the premise of this one. Since Maxime is such a super jerk, I wasn’t even bothered by the fact that Maddy is involved with Lucas before she is technically a free woman. I was especially pleased that before she thinks of building a life with Lucas, Maddy discovers who she is and how she has allowed Maxime to turn her into Madeline, a person quite different from chef and the woman Maddy wanted to become. I loved Lucas—his determination, his charm, his willingness to do whatever he needed to do to prove himself to Maddy—and I loved Scout, Lucas’s PTSD-suffering dog. Most of the secondary characters add interest to the story without distracting from the central relationship. I enjoyed seeing the couples from earlier books and characters whose stories I hope to hear more of in future books.
All that kept On Lavender Lane from being a five-star read for me was the subplot. Interesting and important on its own merits, it just never seemed to fit into the main plot smoothly. I felt as if it jerked me out of the story in which I was most invested, and the tie-in with Maddy and Lucas’s story seemed forced, thinly developed, and unnecessary. Despite this complaint, I enjoyed the book and recommend it to fans of small-town romances. The opening sentence alone is enough to make me glad I read the book: “Madeline Durand was braising short ribs in an Omaha department store when her husband’s sex video went viral.”
On Lavender Lane can be read as a standalone, but I recommend all three books. As for me, I’m ready for Book 4, Moonshell Beach, scheduled for release in July.
Labels: 4 Star Review, Contemporary, Guest Review, Janga, JoAnn Ross, On Lavender Lane
Laurie G January 18, 2012 at 6:39 AM
I've enjoyed Joann Ross's books since the 1980's. It's amazing how much the internet has evolved and changed our everyday lives. It really would be humiliating to have something embarassing go viral!
marybelle January 18, 2012 at 7:54 AM
Such a pretty cover for one. I have not read any JoAnn Ross books.
PJ January 18, 2012 at 9:09 AM
Thanks, Janga! I discovered JoAnn Ross in 2003 with the publication of Out of the Blue, the first book in her Stewart Sisters trilogy and have been a fan ever since.
I enjoyed One Summer a lot and am looking forward to catching up with the next two books in the series, The Homecoming and On Lavender Lane. They're both on my tbr, patiently waiting for me to find some time! :)
Connie January 18, 2012 at 11:08 AM
JoAnn Ross rocks! I'm adding Lavender Lane to my wish list!
Janga January 18, 2012 at 11:44 AM
The Callahan Brothers trilogy is my favorite of Ross's series, but I'm loving the Shelter Bay nooks.
I have been wanting to read this book. I love Joann's books so must get this one.
hrdwrkdmom aka Dianna January 18, 2012 at 1:17 PM
I have never read any of her work but I can see that situation will have to be remedied.
I enjoy small town romances. Theere is just something special about the relationships and atmosphere in them. The towns become "characters" themselves in these stories. I have not ye started this series, but I will be reading it.
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NEP's Screenworks Provides 'Massive' Display for NASCAR at Talladega
Included custom 80-foot-wide LED tower
posted by Deborah D. McAdams
CORONA, CALIF.—NEP’s Screenworks said it provided an unprecedented display solution for the International Speedway Corp. during the Camping World Truck Series and Sprint Series NASCAR Races at the Talladega Superspeedway in mid-October. Their large-scale solution included three 46-foot-wide LED screens on custom 64-foot-high towers and one 80-foot-wide LED screen on a custom 88-foot-high tower. These screens, constructed over five days on-site, greatly enhanced the experience for the tens of thousands of fans at the Superspeedway for the races.
“In over 20 years creating display solutions to enhance the live viewing experience at race tracks around the country, this is by far the biggest we have done yet. We have been working with the International Speedway Corporation since 1996, so we were really excited to have the opportunity to create such a unique, massive solution for them,” said director of Race Operations and Special Projects for Screenworks, Sam Artinger.
The scale of the LED screens was so large that they required a crew of 17 people to construct utilizing four 53-foot tractor-trailers of scaffolding, four 53-foot tractor-trailers of LED panels, eight generators, 28 two-ton chain hoists and over 638,000 pounds of concrete ballast. The main, 80-foot wide screen was created from Screenworks’ X12mm LED panels and the additional three screens utilized Screenworks X10mm LED panels. Combined, these four screens displayed a dazzling 5.1 million pixels. Event Scaffold Resources provided the custom towers.
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Storm Surge History
The Pensacola Bay area was inhabited by Native Americans for thousands of years and was the site of the first multi-year European settlement (Spanish), beginning in 1559. Modern-day Pensacola has a population of approximately 52,000 people (2010 Census), but the Pensacola Metropolitan Area contains 461,000. Pensacola is well known as the home of Naval aviation, as the area contains the first U.S. Naval Air Station, the National Naval Aviation Museum and the Blue Angels, acrobatic planes that fly in formation at air shows. Five flags have flown over the city, those of Spain, France, Great Britain, United States of America and Confederate States of America. Pensacola Beach is a popular coastal resort located on a nearby barrier island.
U-Surge provides high water marks from 59 hurricanes and tropical storms at Pensacola since 1890. Hurricane Frederic (1979) generated the highest storm tide on record, as the water level reached 12 ft above the Annually-Adjusted MSL (AAMSL). Hurricane Ivan's (2004) 11.41-ft storm tide reached second place; this destructive flood event remains fresh in the local memory. Two major floods in the early 1900s impacted Pensacola- an unnamed hurricane in 1906 generated a storm tide 10 ft and the Great Miami Hurricane of 1926 redeveloped in the Gulf and pushed a 9.41-ft storm tide at Pensacola. These four hurricanes generated water levels substantially higher than other events on record and they all occurred in September.
Most Severe Surges
This histogram provides the maximum water levels of the 59 recorded storm tide events at Pensacola since 1890. The events are ordered from the highest water level (Rank = 1) to lowest (Rank = 59). These events are not placed in chronological order. All data are detrended to remove the influence of relative sea level rise, so they represent water levels above an Annually-Adjusted Mean Sea Level (AAMSL).
This time series provides maximum water levels from 59 recorded storm tide events at Pensacola since 1890. These events are ordered chronologically from oldest (left) to newest (right). The numerous low-magnitude events in recent decades are influenced by both climate and data availability. All data are converted to NAVD88 datum, however, the data are intentionally not detrended, so the influence of relative sea level rise is included. SLR trend taken from NOAA tide gauge at Pensacola.
Graph of the four most severe storm surge events at Pensacola, as well as the amount of water (6.50 feet) needed for a 2019 storm to reach FEMA's BFE, considering the annual Mean Sea Level (MSL).
Statistics/ Return Period
Return Period Graph
Extreme Water Levels
Storm tide return levels graph for Pensacola. This graph uses a log-linear regression plot based on observed data from 1890-2018 (129 years). The graph uses the Weiboll Plotting Position Formula, whereby the probability of an extreme event occurring is Rank/ (n+1), where "n" is the number of years in the data record. These data have been detrended to remove the influence of sea level rise and all data are plotted relative to Annually Adjusted Mean Sea Level (AAMSL). The regression line represents the line of best fit and indicates return levels (y-axis) for various return periods (x-axis).
Storm Tide Level
(Feet above AAMSL)
500-year
Extreme water levels above Annually-Adjusted Mean Sea Level (AAMSL) with long-term sea level rise removed. The correct way to interpret these levels is as follows: Based on a log-linear regression of observed data from 1890-2018, storm tide levels at Pensacola should equal or exceed 9.37 ft every 100 years, on average, above the annually-adjusted MSL. According to the regression equation, the 1906 Hurricane's 9.97-ft storm tide was a 135-year event and Hurricane Ivan's (2004) 9.71-foot storm tide was a 118-year event.
Sea Level Rise and Future Extreme Water Levels
Past SLR Graph
Future SLR Graph
Future SLR Table
Future Extreme Water Levels
Future Extreme Water Levels Graph
Long-term SLR graph for Pensacola, Florida. The long-term rate of SLR is 0.76 feet/century.
Source: https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?stnid=8779770.
Graph of SLR scenarios for Pensacola, Florida, from NOAA et al. (2017). The CorpsClimate web-tool developed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers provided this graph. Data revised July 18, 2017. Available on the Web at: http://corpsclimate.us/ccaceslcurves.cfm.
Table of SLR scenarios for Pensacola, Florida, from CorpsClimate web-tool developed by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Data from this table revised July 18, 2017. Available on the Web at: http://corpsclimate.us/ccaceslcurves.cfm.
100-Year Flood
Intermediate SLR
Intermediate-High SLR
This table provides future 100-year water levels above NAVD88 datum. These numbers are calculated by adding four values: 1) The 100-year storm tide listed in the Statistics/ Return Period section- measured in feet above AAMSL; 2) An adjustment from MSL to NAVD88, which involved adding 0.30 ft to all water levels for Pensacola; 3) A conversion from water levels in 1992 (the mean year of the Present Epoch for Pensacola tide gauge data) to 2000, based on a long-term SLR rate of 0.76 ft/ century, which meant adding 0.06 ft; 4) Sea-Level rise projections from NOAA (2017), shown in the Future SLR Graph and Table above.
Extreme water level predictions for the 100-year coastal flood event at Pensacola. All of these projected values pertain to water levels for the "100-year storm" (1% annual chance) in the future. This analysis assumes stationarity in the flood level above the Annually Adjusted Mean Sea Level (AAMSL), so the increase in values are completely due to sea-level rise. According to this graph, there is a 1% chance that water levels will equal or exceed 12.19 feet in the year 2060, according to the intermediate-high SLR projection. These values do not account for wave action in velocity zones.
NOAA Tide Gauge
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Tide Gauge Site: Pensacola, FL 8729840
Operation: National Ocean Service (NOS)
Coordinates: Lat: 30.4033 Lon: -87.2117
6-Min Water Level Data
November 19, 1996 - September 16, 2004
January 5, 2005 - Present
Hourly Water Level Data
March 9, 1951 - September 16, 2004
The NOS tide gauge at Pensacola provides verified hourly data since 1923 and verified 6-min data since 1996.
Pensacola's 59 high water marks come from a small geographic area near the city's waterfront. This tightly-clustered area provides a highly homogenous dataset that come from the same sample population. The data come from within a 2-mile data-selection circle centered on the coordinates: Lat: 30.4078 N, Lon: -87.2153 W.
Missing Data
We have identified five hurricanes/ tropical storms since 1900 that may have generated storm tides exceeding 4 ft (1.22 m) near Pensacola, but a literature review does not yet provide data. These maps are provided by Unisys Corporation
Unnamed (1901)
Storm Surge Multimedia
Note: All of these pics/ video were taken from Pensacola area
Hurricane Nate (2017)
Nice storm surge video at Pensacola. At 51 seconds into the video do you see evidence of a nice rip current pushing offshore? Look for elongated area of white water perpendicular to the coast. Any coastal experts want to confirm this?
Hurricane Isaac (2012)
Hurricane Katrina (2005)
Hurricane Ivan (2004)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_uzqfhwc4k&t=196s. Excellent storm surge footage at several places in this video. The footage at 2:45 is amazing...shot from a parking garage in the dark. This video was the first to teach me what storm surge really looks like...I remember that I was surprised to see the waves were so low-magnitude/ high-frequency. Excellent work, Mike!
Hurricane Brett (1999)
Frederic (1979)
Librarians at Pensacola Library sent this image
Great Miami Hurricane (1926)
Link: http://www.hurricanecity.com/images/4-1926%20hurricane.jpg
Unnamed (1906)
Pensacola Harbor in 1906. Link: https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/38376
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Gordon Duff, Senior Editor
Former Los Alamos National Laboratory nuclear physicist Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni was sentenced to five years in prison after offering to help develop a nuclear weapon for Venezuela. Photograph: Heather Clark/AP
By Gordon Duff and Jeff Smith with Ian Greenhalgh
Veterans Today, in cooperation with Los Alamos scientists, reported the story first — the real story — not the carefully-crafted coverup orchestrated among the FBI, the Department of Energy and the media.
Read the Guardian story, and then scroll down for the real role of Sandia Labs.
From the Guardian UK
Los Alamos scientist Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni jailed for five years after offering to build nuclear weapons for Venezuela and design a bomb targeted for New York City, in exchange for “money and power” — according to secret FBI recordings released Wednesday.
In the recordings, Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni tells an agent posing as a Venezuelan official that the bombs would prevent the United States from invading the oil-rich nation, and brags to his wife that the passing of secrets would make him wealthy.
“I’m going to be the boss with money and power,” the naturalized US citizen from Argentina is heard saying. “I’m not an American anymore. This is it.”
Mascheroni said his New York bomb wouldn’t kill anyone but would disable the city’s electrical system and help Venezuela become a nuclear superpower. It was not known how realistic his New York bombing idea was.
But he suggested that once Venezuela obtained a bomb, the country should explode it “to let the world know what we’ve got,” according to the recordings.
The recordings were played Wednesday in US District Court in Albuquerque before a federal judge sentenced Mascheroni, 79, to five years in prison followed by three years of supervised release as part of a plea agreement.
Mascheroni and his wife, Marjorie Roxby Mascheroni, pleaded guilty in 2013 to offering to help develop a nuclear weapon for Venezuela through dealings with an undercover FBI agent posing as a representative of the South American country.
The US government did not allege Venezuela sought US secrets.
His wife received a year and a day in prison for conspiring with her husband to sell nuclear secrets.
Despite the evidence and the plea agreement, federal prosecutor Fred Federici said Pedro Mascheroni refused to admit he did anything wrong and has tried to argue that he was the victim of the federal government trying to trap him after being critical of US nuclear policy.
“He was no true hero,” Federici said. “He was simply a man who betrayed his country.”
Speaking to a judge, Mascheroni was defiant and said that if his case had gone to trial, a federal jury would have acquitted him. He said the information he passed onto the agent was already available online or simply was made up.
“I was basically selling used cars,” Mascheroni said during a long tirade in federal court that had to be interrupted by US District Judge William P. Johnson.
“What I was selling was completely science fiction.”
Before his indictment, Mascheroni was under investigation for about a year. The FBI had seized computers, letters, photographs, books and cellphones from the couple’s Los Alamos home.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Mascheroni said he believed the US government was wrongly targeting him as a spy and denied the accusations. The scientist said he approached Venezuela after the United States rejected his theories that a hydrogen-fluoride laser could produce nuclear energy.
Mascheroni worked in the nuclear weapons design division at the Los Alamos lab from 1979 until he was laid off in 1988. His wife, a technical writer, worked there between 1981 and 2010.
Taking America off the Grid
…by Ian Greenhalgh
Cheney has been around a long time — maybe too long
Trying to predict future events is an often unrewarding pursuit fraught with dangers, rarely are predictions fully accurate, more often, they are spectacularly wide of the mark; for this reason, speculation rarely benefits anyone.
However, with Dick Cheney’s chilling warning/threat of a ‘far deadlier nuclear 9/11’ in mind, we couldn’t resist indulging in a little speculation as to the possible target of this future attack.
Of course, we aren’t the only ones who have considered the issue of likely targets for a ‘terrorist’ attack.
In 2007 , the U.S. Department of Homeland Security commissioned a report by the National Research Council into the vulnerability of the U.S. Power grid to terrorist attack. However the D.H.S. decided at that time that the report would be classified in its entirety. After a formal request from the Research Council for an updated security classification review, the report was cleared for public release in Fall 2012.
The report makes it clear that the U.S. Power grid is highly vulnerable to attack. There are 30 substations in the U.S. that play a critical role in the nation’s grid operations; the report said that if any nine of them were taken offline, the U.S. power grid could suffer coast-to-coast blackouts lasting 18 months or more and costing the nation billions of dollars to repair.
You can read the full report entitled ‘Terrorism and the Electric Power Delivery System’ here.
With this disturbing scenario in mind, we asked the same brave folks at Sandia Labs who chose to release the astounding news about the nuclear weapons used on 9/11 if they had any insight into the possibilities of such an attack. The result was the release to us of more highly-classified information every bit as astounding and chilling as the 9/11 nuclear data.
Q: Have case studies been carried out that examine the possibilities for an attack on the US power grid?
A: Many studies have been done on EMP damage to the US power grid.
Only a very high altitude air burst above 1 megaton would work. Requires a ICBM to work. Russia or China only and a first strike use only.
All other smaller burst would be tactical in effect only. Can be done by terrorists.
There are two types of attacks.
The first is for long term damage, and the second is to produce temporary outages in targeted cities only. Such an attack would only require a low-yield weapon detonated below 30,000 feet in a jet, or a ground burst from a carrier van in order to take out a power plant, dam, or transformer switching yard.
Unless you are directly below the blast, air bursts only blow fuses and damage power and phone lines. This damage can easily be repaired in a few days or weeks, much like after a hurricane or tornado hits. Its effects are short term and short-ranged.
Long term damage can happen to infrastructure, and is more permanent. You have to replace the transformers and power plant equipment. It can take up to several years just to replace a power plant ETC. These parts are custom built, and they are not kept in stock.
Q. Is there a type of nuclear weapon that is optimized to create the largest possible EMP? Would this be the type of weapon best suited to destroying electrical and electronic infrastructure such as the US power grid?
A. There are three types of EMP attacks possible. The one everyone knows about is the high altitude EMP burst. It is horizontal in polarity, and it is designed to knock out power lines, power transformers, phone lines, AM and shortwave radios. It mainly works on long line power cables that are above ground and running parallel to the earth’s surface. It is detonated at high altitude, usually above 45,000 feet, and it is a line-of-sight weapon, with a maximum range of 300 to 600 miles, depending on burst height. The major damage is limited to an area just below the fireball’s burst location.
Its EMP effect very rapidly decreases in strength with range. It will also knock out the ionosphere for up to several hours making long range AM band and HF communications difficult or impossible. This is intended for knocking out command and control structures. Frequencies above 30 to 60 MHz are poorly affected. 75% of the pulse is well below 30 MHz in frequency, with the majority of the pulses being between 15 and 300 KHz in range.
In any EMP blast, any wire that is less than 10 feet long will absorb very little EMP energy. So it will not disable your car unless you are directly below or near the blast. Cell phones, TV, and FM radios are pretty much immune from this kind of attack due to the very short wavelengths involved.
B. The surface burst EMP effect is vertical in polarity, and it is very short-ranged, with the majority of the energy being shot straight up in to the atmosphere. It can act as a directed energy weapon when the burst is confined into a channeled metal wave guide, such as on 911. When confined in such a structure, it will use any conductive metal as an energy conduit to transfer the electromagnetic energy into.
In the surface burst mode, the electromagnetic pulse does not radiate, as in the high altitude burst mode. Most of the energy is trapped in the induction and near field zones of the blast. Its effect is usually less than 3 miles, and the energy is usually centered well below 3 MHz in frequency. Half the energy produced will be in a magnetic form and not in an electromagnetic form, i.e. as in a radio wave.
This magnetic pulse is very good for enhancing the thermal effects of the weapon by very rapidly heating up and melting very thick metal objects such as car engine blocks and steel beams. The effect is very similar as to how an induction cooker works.
C. The underground burst is the 3rd mode of EMP weapons. In this mode almost all of the energy produced is absorbed by the earth. Its main function is in going after underground bunkers, structures and rail or oil pipelines. It is usually referred to as a bunker buster. Its main effect is in producing a large magnetic pulse in the ground for destroying or damaging equipment by means of thermal magnetic induction. It produces a magneto-hydrodynamic process as its mode of destruction. It is good for taking out dams, power plants and well-shielded nuclear reactors.
D. In order to effectively use it on the US power grid, [you have to ask] what is your intention. If you only want to temporarily knock out the power and disrupt communications for only a few days to a week or two, then a high altitude air burst would be used. This would be a precursor by a first strike nation only.
More than one 300-kiloton or larger weapon would be needed, unless your only intention was to use it on the east or west coast.
The majority of the damage would be limited to a few hundred miles around the affected area, such as WDC, NYC, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Phoenix, LA or San Francisco. It would have to be detonated above 45,000 feet. This would imply using an ICBM.
The main damage would be in blowing out circuit breakers and producing very large power transits overloading the capacity of the power grid to manage it, effectively tripping safety circuits. This is called “load sloshing”, and it is what took out power to the northeast power grid years ago.
E. A low altitude (under 30,000 feet) nuclear burst under 20 or 30 kiloton in size will be limited to line of sight range. This is usually about 30 to 60 miles max for a low level burst. Damage will be limited to blowing out circuit breakers, transformers, motors and phone lines, with the majority of the effect being within one to six miles from the center of the burst.
F. In a ground burst as used by a terrorist organization, a very small nuke enhanced for EMP use will only be effective for less than a mile or two, as seen on 911. The range is extremely limited, and it is effective only against large fixed infrastructures, such as power plants and transformer switching yards.
By going after unprotected power plants and associated switching yard equipment such as very large transformers the damage can be quite severe.
It can take years to replace equipment like this. Most of it is now only made in Asia and you have to wait years to get replacement generators and transformers made. GE and Westinghouse off-shored this type of manufacturing to Asia years ago. It is the soft underbelly to the US power grid. No spares.
The former head of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, warned about this before leaving office. For a terrorist group, this is the easiest option outside of dropping power lines. Just park a white moving van with a EMP weapon loaded inside of it next to a major transformer sub station. Light the fuse and run.
Q: What do you consider to be the most likely target of the ‘far deadlier’ terrorist attack that Dick Cheney recently warned about?
A: It just means more dead bodies. City size vs 9/11 size. As on 9/11, look for the rats abandoning the ship first. When you see all of the ship’s rats carrying their cheese down the anchor rope, you know something is up.
Clearly, the folks at Sandia have studied the possibility of attack on the power grid in depth; much of their info correlates exactly with the National Research Council report. If the U.S.’ top nuclear weapons laboratory and the academics at the Research Council share the same concerns for the same reason, then we must pay attention.
The most significant part of the Sandia information, in terms of it being a possible scenario for a ‘terrorist’ attack or rather, a false flag that can be blamed on terrorists is this sentence:
For a terrorist group this is the easiest option… Just park a white moving van with a EMP weapon loaded inside it, next to a major transformer substation. Light the fuse and run.
So, if war with Iran or Syria or some other unfortunate target of Zionist aggression is desired, and they chose to repeat the successful 9/11 formula of false flag ‘terrorist’ attack to provide justification, then the US power grid must be considered among the prime targets.
The terrible implications of such an attack are starkly laid out in these sentences:
It can take years to replace equipment like this. Most of it is now only made in Asia and you have to wait years to get replacement generators and transformers made. GE and Westinghouse off-shored this type of manufacturing to Asia years ago. It is the soft underbelly to the US power grid.
Just imagine the damage done by two years without power… Scary thoughts.
Editing: Jim W. Dean
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Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War. He is a disabled veteran and has worked on veterans and POW issues for decades. Gordon is an accredited diplomat and is generally accepted as one of the top global intelligence specialists. He manages the world's largest private intelligence organization and regularly consults with governments challenged by security issues.
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peter February 4, 2015 at 11:56 pm
The guardian article Emma is there to “seed” the narrative to shape the public perception, as you can obviously see. The vt article however provides the “meat” of what are ligitimate concerns of possibilities that could be “in play”. One thing I’ve learned from vt is that due bifurcation, all agencies are in a grey area. With compartmentalisation being a requirement it can leed to some dangerous times if the wrong people are at the top of the command.
It’s very disturbing.
Sorry, legitimate, rather
Ah yes, “unauthorized private terrorism”, as opposed of coarse to the authorised state sponsered kind. organized crime sure likes to hide behind the monoliths of states.
Jack Heart February 2, 2015 at 7:08 pm
To many innocent and impoverished Blacks aim for Coney Island Ave and Avenue J and you should be good Dave…
Martin Maloney February 2, 2015 at 1:40 pm
Trillions for wars for Israel and for the illegal drug trade, and ZERO billions for spares.
We are utterly dependent on the electric grid. If it were to go down, then commerce would become impossible. The US would cease to exist, as a functioning economic entity.
There would be no food; thus at least 100 million of us would starve to death.
Tens of millions of us would freeze to death in the first winter.
At the very least, there should be spare transformers, from the monsters at generating facilities and at substation transformer yards to the smaller ones on utility poles.
ayelyahbenjamin February 2, 2015 at 11:17 am
“….as on 9/11 look for the rats to abandon the ship first. When you see all of the ships rats carrying their cheese down the anchor rope you know something is up”
Codoh February 2, 2015 at 10:50 am
Will see how Obamas “standing up” works out. The events in Paris might have provided some relief and bought some time, but that wont last long.
guitargirl February 2, 2015 at 9:36 am
I have simple solution to prevent all this mayhem: water board Dick Cheney! In the meantime:
Where in the hell is the US Military: General Dempsey what are you waiting for?
wiggins February 2, 2015 at 10:42 am
I recall Jesse Ventura saying ….give me a water board, Dick Cheney, and one hour, and I’ll have him confessing to the SharonTate murders.
Allesandro February 2, 2015 at 9:25 am
Is it now possible to “Beef-Up” the Grid by adding new technologies, power sources, like Lakeville Plasma Generators or new tech that would add redundancies to offset damage to other components?
Can we add new technology (work arounds) tied into older systems to overall upgrade our system and reduce the threat to any one part of the “Grid” thats threatened?
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Design-Forward Chocolate Shops to Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth This Holiday Season
by Daniel Scheffler
BbyB
Photo: Daici Ano / Courtesy of BbyB
Chocolate shops are little places of magic, identifiable by their specific sweet smell and eye-catching gift boxes. While healthy cacao concoctions are on the rise, so too are design-forward chocolate boutiques around the world. Less Willy Wonka, more sleek and serene experience.
Compartés
Photo: Courtesy of Compartés
Of course Kelly Wearstler, with her Compartés collaboration, is setting a whole new bar (pun intended). The brand’s flagship shop recently opened in Los Angeles at Westfield Century City. “Compartés is such an inventive chocolatier and design-driven California brand,” says Wearstler. “I wanted the store to reflect the thoughtfulness and heritage that is infused within every piece of chocolate and truly embody the art of chocolate-making. It’s a modern interpretation of the classic European chocolate shops of the early 1900s.”
The space, in a dusky emerald color, contains materials all rooted in tradition, from the patinaed copper and brass to the ebonized wood, plaster, and leathered marble. And as Wearstler describes it, “Custom artisanal ceramic bowls, hand-blown glass domes, and brass faucets add a layer of unexpected beauty and California magic to the details.”
Photo: Courtesy of Patrick Roger
Meanwhile, across the country and the Atlantic, on Boulevard Saint-Germain in Paris, the chocolate artist Patrick Roger is maintaining his dramatic X-Tu Architect–designed store. As a chocolatier who treats his work as sculptures, there is always something life-size to see in his shop. For Halloween, he made marzipan pumpkins with chocolate touches.
Oriol Balaguerat at La Duquesita in Madrid
Photo: Courtesy of Oriol Balaguerat
A meditative train ride away is the Madrid store of Oriol Balaguer, who worked for former San Pellegrino number one in the world chef Ferran Adrià. Balaguer is a Spanish chocolatier inspired by architects like Richard Serra. He has won many awards, including “Best Dessert in the World,” and his stores are testament to just that. (Online, his “I loooove you” chocolate box makes for a sweet stocking stuffer.)
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Photo: Courtesy of Vosges Haut-Chocolat
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"I had bundled the kids into the car and we were off to the 9 a.m. swimming class. I walked in with the kids and as we walked over to the seats, I became aware of a wet sensation on the back of my dress. I sat down with the kids, helped my son get ready and he jumped into the pool. I then sat quietly and in between waves of panic and shame, tried to think of how to get out of this one! So, I stood up in front of my 11-year-old daughter, and said 'Hey, I think I have blood all over the back of my dress, what can you see?' She of course says 'Yes, it is blood.'
"I quickly sat back down and tried to think of possible ways to get out of this situation. It was then that I realized that my daughter was actually watching me to see what I was going to do, and that how I managed this situation would shape her future beliefs and attitudes about periods. So what did I do? I said to her, 'Okay, I will go to the bathroom and see if I can wash the blood off.' She nodded, I stood up walked past all the other mums (with my big red blood stain) and headed into the women's bathrooms, pulled up my skirt, washed the stain out, wrung my skirt dry and headed back to my seat in my wet skirt.
"Once I sat down we then had a chat about how embarrassed I felt, about the fact that these sorts of things happen to all women, and that it isn't really the end of the world! Even though it may feel like it at the time!" —Cath
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"I had just left therapy with my new boyfriend. We were both really into each other, but had a hard time communicating assertively so I suggested we go see a therapist. I'm 28 and he's 30 and I didn't want to waste any time here. After therapy, he was hungry so we went across the street to grab a bite. I had the period cramps and moodiness, all of it, and I kept telling him it was coming. Welp, after sitting down for about seven minutes, I look down and my favorite white jeans were soaked like I'm talking inner thigh, butt, and vagina area. I think since my legs were crossed it didn't really help. So we finished our meal and I untucked my shirt which was long enough to cover the period incident and we rush to get Shout and throw my white pants in the washer. We are no longer together, but I don't think the period incident was the deal breaker." —Melissa
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Senate road funding boost far short of Whitmer’s plan
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A transportation budget advancing in Michigan’s Legislature would boost road spending, but far short of the $1.9 billion net increase proposed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
A Senate-controlled subcommittee approved the bill Tuesday, with Republicans in support and Democrats opposed.
It does not include revenue from the Democratic governor’s proposed 45-cents-a-gallon fuel tax increase, which has been rejected by GOP lawmakers. The Senate plan would fully implement 2015 road-funding laws a year earlier, so $132 million more is spent in the next fiscal year.
Senate Republicans plan to outline an alternative road-funding plan this summer.
A Democrat on the subcommittee says Republicans are “chicken” and “took the easy way out” despite terrible roads. But the Republican chairman says it would have been irresponsible to include money “we don’t know we’ll have.”
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit in which a former Michigan lawmaker who resigned over a sex scandal accused ex-leaders of the state House of Representatives of conspiring to remove him from office and subject him to criminal charges.
Todd Courser's suit was tossed last week by U.S. District Judge Gordon Quist.
by DAVID EGGERT, Associated Press / Jul 15, 2019
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan prison workers are facing a mental health crisis that includes much higher rates of post-traumatic stress disorder, suicidal thoughts and alcohol abuse than in the general public, according to a study released Monday.
The report, conducted for the state Department of Corrections by Desert Waters Correctional Outreach, found that corrections employees also are more likely to have symptoms related to depression and anxiety. Nearly 140 workers, or 1.1%, are currently and actively planning to kill themselves, said the study, which was based on an anonymous survey of about 3,500, or 29%, of employees who chose to participate.
How to keep your energy bill down amid heat wave
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — With a hot and muggy week on tap, your air conditioner is going to be working overtime.
Consumers Energy says the heat wave will push customers to use their air conditioners 40% more than usual.
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Worcester Theatre
Your independent guide to the best shows in Worcester
OTHER COMEDY & STAND-UP IN WORCESTER
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Peppa Pig Live (Sep 6, 2019)
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Sep 26 - 29, 2019)
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Paw Patrol (Oct 8 - 9, 2019)
Luann de Lesseps (Oct 11, 2019)
Carol Burnett (Oct 17, 2019)
The Play That Goes Wrong (Oct 31 - Nov 3, 2019)
Lewis Black (Dec 8, 2019)
A Christmas Carol (Dec 22, 2019)
A Bronx Tale (Jan 16 - 19, 2020)
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Miss Saigon (May 27 - 31, 2020)
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Kevin James might be best known now as the star of The King of Queens, but his comedy career started well before that as a stand-up on the Long Island comedy scene.
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ABOUT KEVIN JAMES
After being discovered at the 1996 Montreal Comedy Festival, James made the jump to television in 1998, starring in the hit series The King of Queens for nine seasons, finally earning him an Emmy nomination for Best Lead in a Comedy.
Beyond television, James has made huge in-roads into comedy movies including 2006's Hitch opposite Will Smith (who can forget THAT dance scene?!), as well as writing, producing and starring in Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Zookeeper and Here Comes the Boom, keeping his loveable doofus persona alive and kicking for the next generation of comedy lovers.
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Peterbilt's Denton Facility Celebrates 25 Years
December 25, 2015 • by Staff
In 1980, the first truck produced at Peterbilt’s Denton, Texas manufacturing plant – a Model 359 known as “Old No. 1” – came off the assembly line. Thirty-five years later, the facility has produced nearly 500,000 trucks, hosted tens of thousands of customers and set new standards for quality, safety, efficiency and innovation.
“The value Peterbilt’s Denton plant has brought through the years to the company, our employees, customers, dealers and the community is immeasurable,” said Darrin Siver, Peterbilt General Manager and PACCAR Vice President. “The Denton plant is a premier manufacturing facility across any industry and we continue to invest in the tools, processes and people that keep it state-of-the-art.”
When the plant first opened, there were 81 employees working to manufacture 2-1/2 trucks per week. Maximum capacity was expected to be 16 trucks daily. Through continuous improvement and ongoing investment, the plant’s current production capacity is ten times that and the workforce is 2,000 strong.
Since opening, the 455,000 square-foot plant has undergone numerous changes to increase efficiency, capacity, and productivity. The introduction of new models has brought on new tooling and processes, and technology has been introduced to enhance operations. In many instances, Peterbilt was the first truck manufacturer to introduce key technologies, such as a robotic chassis paint system.
“To ensure our industry-leading quality and technological leadership, Peterbilt is constantly innovating throughout all areas of our operations,” said Leon Handt, Peterbilt Assistant General Manager of Operations. “We laid the foundation 35 years ago in Denton to establish advanced manufacturing technologies, and we’ve been building on it ever since, taking it to levels of efficiency, quality and productivity far beyond when the facility was first designed.”
Recent improvements to the plant include robotic cab assembly for the Models 579 and 567 and a Non-Contact Axle Alignment System.
The plant is also undergoing a three-phase expansion project. The first phase created additional east side dock doors and receiving capacity. Phase two will add 17,000 square feet of additional material receiving area on the west side of the facility. Phase three, scheduled for completion in mid-2016, will create an automated storage and retrieval system (AS/RS) on the second level of the building to index painted hoods, cabs and sleepers.
In 2014 the company added the Peterbilt Experience, a 4,300 square-foot exhibit that greets customers when they enter the plant. The Peterbilt Experience includes “Old No. 1;” a 1939 Model 260WD (the oldest complete Peterbilt known to exist); a 1940 Model 334; Peterbilt’s newest Models 579 and 567; cab and sleeper cutaways; the full lineup of PACCAR engines; and videos and interactive displays on topics such as truck innovations, styling processes and manufacturing technologies.
“The Peterbilt Denton plant is one of the strongest selling tools we have,” said Robert Woodall, Peterbilt Assistant General Manager of Sales and Marketing. “Thousands tour the plant every year, and it’s a great way to showcase our product quality, customization and technology. The Peterbilt Experience is a great addition to the facility and gives visitors a unique opportunity to experience Peterbilt’s products and the company’s history.”
One of the most memorable takeaways every visitor leaves with is the feeling of pride and enthusiasm that fills the plant.
“Peterbilt has a highly skilled, very passionate workforce,” said Ron Augustyn, Denton Plant Manager. “It’s a great place to work. Everyone takes tremendous pride in what they do and it really shows.”
Click to the next page to check out Denton Plant Milestones.
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Denton Plant Milestones:
1978 – Facility Groundbreaking
1980 – Plant Opens
1985 – 10,000th Truck Produced
1986 – First Model 379 Produced
1988 – Facility Expansion of Receiving Docks, Warehousing and Test Area
1990 – Training Center Added
1993 – Engineering Lab Construction Completed
1996 – 100,000th Truck Produced
1996 – Styling Studio Opens
1997 – Robotic Integrated Cab & Sleeper Assembly (Models 387 and 587)
2001 – Clear Coat Paint Robotics Installed
2002 – Base Coat Robotics Installed
2004 – Robotic Fuel Tank Welding Added
2006 – Training Center Auditorium Added
2007 – Robotic Chassis Paint Installed
2010 – First PACCAR MX-13 Engine Installed
2012 – Robotic Cab Assembly (Models 579 and 567)
2013 – Non-Contact Axle Alignment Complete
2014 – The Peterbilt Experience Opens
2015 – Loading Dock Expansion
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Thunk - Skipping Stones
Aschar Region
It sleeps uneasy. I don't want to be here when the land wakes up.
Aschar is a land of angry earth and wandering fire, home to many active volcanoes and frequent earthquakes. Its mountains reach to the skies while lava-carved valleys hide secrets in their shadows. No other part of the Surface has as grand or as many mountains as Aschar. Ash and smoke choke the sky while boiling magma cut brilliant wounds of light through the haze. It is here that the Surface vents its most violent fury and spawns its most precious wonders.
Aschar is dominated by mountains, with valleys and plains between sky-piercing peaks. Snow and frost cap many of the mountains, remnants from some distant eon, while columns of smoke rise to the sky across the region. The frequent eruptions have cast a shroud of ash over much of Aschar and the flow of lava have scored deep gashes into rock. Like most of the Surface, Aschar is cold and dry with the magma in volcano or eruptions providing a searing contrast. At any given time, ash drifts through the air, clouds ranging in size from spanning entire valleys to isolated pockets and the smell of ash and sulfur is everywhere.
Most of what have been explored in Aschar lie between those mountains, braving the dangers of volcanic eruption and crushing rock-slides in exchange for shelter from the Blight that sears the plains just beyond its borders. To the south, the mountains begin to shrink and the Shrouded Lands begin.
The many mountains and volcanoes are the heartlands of Aschar. It is a mix of sheltered plains and valleys, jagged mountain chains, and smoldering calderas. Small lakes and ponds dot the landscape, springing from either melting glaciers and snow-capped peaks or underground springs and rivers snake down the slopes rom them. Not all are made of water, with run-off from the volcanoes and sulfur-springs creating colorful lakes of poison. Even when Aschar is at rest, magma boils in great volcanoes or bleeds from mountains in sluggish streams across stone.
The highest mountains in Aschar offer a commanding view of the rest of the region and beyond. It has been the dream of many to use such lofty perches to gaze out into the Shrouded Lands, or towards the stars. Between storms, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, success for such projects have been few and far between.
The Valley-World
"False" is the cruelest thing to attach to "hope". There is no Garden. Only rock, blight, lava and death.
— Sencha, Blight-Trackers
The lands between the mountain range between small plateaus to mile-long plains, caller the Valley-World. Most are craggy and lifeless, regularly scoured clean of life by fire and rockfall. Nomadic beasts travel between different valleys, feeding on the melting rock near lakes of sulfur or hunt the other denizens of the valleys. Some are more fortunate, shielded both from the wrath of the mountains the the Blight beyond. These become home to thriving, hidden worlds of lichen, moss, bush and weed that can come to cover an entire Valley in a rich coat of green and plant life. The Valleys are inaccessible through the Outer Shell and only a journey across the Surface will find them. The Atharkam Region begins in the depths of such a valley, a unexplored and disconnected section of the Outer Shell.
The Heaps
Some valleys are shielded from the wind and with nothing to carry it elsewhere, causing them to drown in volcanic ash. These plains are called Heaps and can be found throughout Aschar. Like any other valley, the Heaps are buried between mountains and span entire plains between them. Some have ash so deep that an explorer could step onto the surface and plunge deep, while others see enough wind to remain ankle high.
Not all Heaps are so utterly shrouded though, and nearly every valley has some corner where the wind does not reach and the ash piles high.
In places, the ash melt into a thick and tar-like sludge that trap animals and explorers alike. Such pits are dangerous hazards even at distance, with the gas from the bubbling ooze enough to poison anyone unfortunate enough to breathe it in.
Life in Aschar is broadly divided in two categories: those who live within the ash and volcanoes, and those who do not. Heat-seeking reptiles cluster around the open veins of magma or burrow into the warm ash, while the peaks make unreachable nests for creatures like the Watchers. Aschar has more flying beasts than perhaps any other part of the Surface and aerial duels between such creatures are a common sight. The more bold among explorers sometimes attempt to steal the eggs from their nest, selling these as a rare delicacy.
The more lush of the valleys hold the greatest concentration of life, the flourishing plant-life supporting a wide variety of animals. Everything from acid-spewing beetle-things to many-armed predators have been seen by explorers, making anything more than a temporary hunting lodge there a dangerous prospect at best.
Fire and Ash
First step into a new world, just beyond the ash. Who wouldn't want to go?
— Sencha
Despite its many dangers, Aschar sees many visitors. Atharkam can only be reached by trekking across the mountains and there are plenty of Kaia eager to make their mark by delving into the unknown. For the less adventurous, Aschar has a wealth of resources to exploit with the most common and perhaps most valuable being the volcanic ash. Sometimes called 'black gold', the ash is one of the best fertilizers available in Araea and farms across the deep will pay handsomely for it.
The valleys have always been a lure to would-be pioneers that seek to settle the Surface, while hunters and prospectors roam the mountains in search of bounty. But Aschar is a dangerous place, and many who go into the mountains never return. So far, only one settlement has weathered the Aschar's fury to set down roots. The ash-harvesting city of Cha'i clings to the polluted corpse of a formerly verdant valley, sending its slaves into the Heaps. What precious few gardens of life that remain are jealously guarded and their bounty enjoyed only by the wealthy. The poor and the working eat ash-rats and hardy mushroom, a stone's throw away from it. Rich or poor, Aschar makes no distinction. The city has already been leveled once and its end may be an inevitability.
The Surface Between scorching deserts and frigid tundras, haunted by radioactive dust storms and the hardy beasts that survive these extremes, the Surface of Araea could charitably be described as "hostile". Even then, the Aschar region is known to be particularly unkind to explorers. Read more about the Surface
Aschar Rain
Were it not for the storms that sweep down the region, many think Aschar may have been buried by now. The frequent eruptions cast titanic clouds of ash across the region, and clumps often rain down further afield. It is common to see an ash-cloud overcast, welcomed as a reprieve from the sun's burning rays for explorers still acclimating from the caverns.
Troubled Earth
Earthquakes are a daily fact in Aschar, with hundreds strong enough to be felt for miles around each season. Some are harmless, others cause devastating rock slides or tear the ground asunder. Ever so often, Aschar is home to an earthquake so powerful that the land is forever changed. Such quakes are ill-omens, and cults seek communion with the things that caused them.
The Mother of All Mountains Out of all the mountains, there are none equals the Śikhara. It is the tallest mountain in the known world, and its peak has never been reached. Many legends hold that Śikhara is the source of all the fury of Aschar, of a god-monster trapped within its heart and struggling to get out - each tremor and quake born from the monster's struggle.
Ash-Storm
After especially violent eruptions, the winds across Aschar can pick enough of the falling ash to shroud the land in black. These Ash-Storms are dangerous, with the ash dangerous to breathe and visibility reduced to a mere few feet. Once the winds have settled, parts of Aschar are for a time coated in black. Some think this an omen, and an entire art of divination have emerged to read the ashes.
Some of the Valleys blossom into rich and vibrant ecosystems, the soil made fertile from the volcanic ash. Unlike any other land on the Surface, each is a unique wonder of vegetation and wild life. At least one has been lost to greed and pollution, used to exhaustion by settlers. Only one remaina inhabited by humans - the beasts of Aschar guard their dens ferociously.
Others speak of the Gardens, valleys of peace and tranquility. A promised land, far from Blight and the struggles of below, where life springs unbidden from the ground. Exactly where these Gardens are, no legend can agree on, save for deep in Aschar where no human has yet to thread. Some search, but most think of it as a myth of the most cruel kind. The truth is no more gentle.
Well of Souls
Deep in Aschar, there is a caldera where the lava burn a bright blue in the black of night. The superstitious whisper that it is the glow of souls, lost explorers and dying men alike feeding the fire of Aschar. Orbs of fire have been seen jetting from the flames and out into the night, to fates that can only be guessed at.
At least one cult make their worship at the lip of what they call the Well of Souls and cast their sacrifices into its devouring fire. Others think this is the first flame ever lit in Aschar, in perhaps in Araea, and whisper of the things that can be forged in its heat.
Tobias Linder
I usually love reading your stuff, but something about this article made it feel unusually heavy. I can't put my finger on it however. The quotes are great, and the character feels just slightly salty about the whole thing. Very nice. As always, you make me want to read more about other things everywhere. All these strange beasts and plants. Good stuff.
I haven't had time to revisit this yet, but it's on my to-do list now that WE is over. Have you had any additional insights about what it is that makes it heavy?
Not really. Nothing more than it reads more like a geology encyclopedia than prose. It feels dry and heavy, somehow. I know it's a region description, but it doesn't really feel that interesting to describe rocks. I think the length is the greatest enemy. A regional description is usually something you can get through just fine, but this one keeps going on and on, and I think that is what causes the sense of "is it over yet?"
Which is ironic, since caves are mostly rocks. :D I'll have to give it a serious look, then. Nothing is worse than being boring. Thanks!
I don't mean it as any disrespect. I'm only relaying what I felt reading it. It's quite unusual, as your stuff usually is very engaging.
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WASHINGTON— U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) released the below statement after Vice President Mike Pence cast the deciding vote to break a 50-50 tie in the Senate to confirm Betsy DeVos as U.S. Secretary of Education. Yesterday, Senator Warner spoke on the floor of the U.S. Senate in opposition to the nomination. Video of that speech is available here. Audio is available here.
“The Senate voted today by the most narrow margin in its history to confirm a Secretary of Education who does not demonstrate a firm grasp on even the most basic education policy principles.
“Since Ms. DeVos’ nomination, tens of thousands of my constituents have expressed serious concerns about her focus on charter schools and voucherizing federal education dollars. Educators and parents of students with special needs are rightfully concerned, as am I, about Ms. DeVos’ lack of understanding or even awareness of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
“During her confirmation hearing, she demonstrated a similar lack of awareness of federal education policies related to campus sexual assault and school safety.
“While I did not support Ms. DeVos’ confirmation, I intend to hold her accountable for serving our students’, teachers’, parents’, and school leaders’ best interests, and I look forward to looking for areas of agreement where possible.”
Sen. Warner previously announced he will vote against Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions, Health & Human Services Secretary nominee Tom Price, Treasury Secretary nominee Steve Mnuchin, and OMB Director nominee Mick Mulvaney.
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Outline: A Novel (Outline Trilogy #1) (Paperback)
By Rachel Cusk
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A Finalist for the Folio Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction
One of The New York Times' Top Ten Books of the Year
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Chosen as one of fifteen remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write in the 21st century by the book critics of The New York Times
Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinner. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her neighbor from the plane. The people she encounters speak volubly about themselves: their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and longings. And through these disclosures, a portrait of the narrator is drawn by contrast, a portrait of a woman learning to face a great loss.
Rachel Cusk is the author of Outline, Transit, the memoirs A Life’s Work, The Last Supper, and Aftermath, and several novels: Saving Agnes, winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award; The Temporary; The Country Life, which won a Somerset Maugham Award; The Lucky Ones; In the Fold; Arlington Park; and The Bradshaw Variations. She was chosen as one of Granta’s 2003 Best of Young British Novelists. She lives in London.
“[A] lethally intelligent novel . . . reading Outline mimics the sensation of being underwater, of being separated from other people by a substance denser than air. But there is nothing blurry or muted about Cusk's literary vision or her prose: Spend much time with this novel and you'll become convinced that she is one of the smartest writers alive.” —Heidi Julavits, The New York Times Book Review
“Outline is a poised and cerebral novel that has little in the way of straightforward plot yet is transfixing in its unruffled awareness of the ways we love and leave each other, and of what it means to listen to other people . . . While little happens in Outline, everything seems to happen. You find yourself pulling the novel closer to your face, as if it were a thriller and the hero were dangling over a snake pit.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times
“[Outline] is mesmerizing; it makes a sharp break from the conventional style of Cusk's previous work . . . Outline feels different, its world porous and continuous with ours, though not for the reasons we might expect.” —Elaine Blair, The New Yorker
“[A] quietly radical new novel . . . The result, which recalls Karl Ove Knausgaard in its effort to melt away the comforting artifice of fiction, is a kind of photonegative portrait of a women who resists concessions in life and art.” —Megan O'Grady, Vogue
“There are dozens of observations in Outline unexpected enough to stop you on the page . . . Outline has a terribly charged atmosphere, the kind very few novels achieve.” —Charles Finch, The Chicago Tribune
“[A] remarkably original novel . . . [which] offers a bracing indictment of the sentimentality that surrounds the making of art and artistic identity.” —Emily Rapp, Boston Globe
“[Outline] teems with provoking, fascinating ideas expressed in fine, apothegmatic prose.” —The Wall Street Journal
“Cusk's restrained, almost experimental prose is really not so much a novel as a meditation on identity, illusion, and the erausre of self that can occur during a marriage.” —Isabella Bledenharn, Entertainment Weekly (A-)
“Outline, in the most seemingly effortless way imaginable, winds up being completely captivating: the conversations are autobiographies in miniature, with all the holes, lies and self-deceptions lurking in that wily form . . . As you'd expect in a novel so obsessed with language, Cusk's own writing is a pleasure to read -- unfailingly precise and surprising . . . The ultimate and undeniably cerebral pleasure of Outline is it nudges you into being a more attentive reader and listener, more alert to the cracks in sentences and the messier realities that words can only try to contain.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air
“Intriguing, unsettling.” —People
“Intense, engrossing . . . Outline feels like a significant achievement.” —Meghan O'Rourke, Slate
“Cusk has crafted another captivating vessel for her thoughts on gender, power and storytelling.” —Boris Kachka, New York Magazine
“Interesting and beautifully written . . . The narrator's emotions about her divorce are evinced only by stories about other people's marriages and relationships. The melancholy and dignity of this approach are, by the end, quite profound.” —Marion Wink, Newsday
“A highly sophisticated and deeply affecting look at modern womanhood; but for all its introspection, there's no shortage of wordly, self-deprecating wit, making this read equal parts intellectually challenging and distinctly pleasurable.” —Caroline Goldstein, Bustle
“Cusk spares us from pontification or lofty theorizing, instead couching each conversation in sharp and incisive anecdote. Characters off-stage are palpable, memories unfold with care and precision, and each interlocutor brims with self-reflection . . . Faye's perception, her deft attention, and her exquisite intereference and interpretation make each conversation an arresting and piercing experience for the reader.” —Cecily Sailer, Dallas Morning News
“[An] audacious narrative experiment.” —Valerie Miner, San Francisco Chronicle
“Outline succeeds powerfully. Among other things, it gets a great variety of human beings down on to the page with both immediacy and depth; an elemental pleasure that makes the book as gripping to read as a thriller . . . a stellar accomplishment.” —James Lasdun, The Guardian
“[T]his has to be one of the oddest, most breathtakingly original and unsettling novels I've read in a long time ... [E]very single word is earned, precisely tuned, enthralling. Outline is a triumph of attitude and daring, a masterclass in tone.” —Julie Myerson, The Observer
“Outline. It defies ordinary categorisation. It is about authorial invisibility, it involves writing without showing your face. The narrator is a writer who goes to teach creative writing in Greece and becomes enmeshed in other peoples' narratives which Cusk stitches, with fastidious brilliance, into a single fabric.” —Kate Kellaway, The Guardian
“Winter bouquets should be offered to the clever and stylish Rachel Cusk: her novel Outline is smoothly accomplished, and fascinating both on the surface and in its depths.” —Hilary Mantel, The Guardian's Writers Pick the Best Books of 2014
“[Outline is] a piece of work of great beauty and ambition. Narratives are smoothed, as if by translation and retranslation, into their simplest, barest elements: parents, children, divorces, cakes, dresses, dogs. These elements then build, layer on layer, to form the most complex and exquisitely detailed patterns, swirling and whirling, wheels within wheels.” —Jenny Turner, London Review of Books
“[T]he most compelling part of Outline is its undercurrent of rage . . . [With] polished, analytical language. Cusk's writing is lovely . . . Outline is a smart ascetic exercise.” —Hannah Tennant-Moore, Bookforum
“Each sentence of Cusk's prose is a revelation about the truths that remain unknowable.” —Brigit Katz, Flavorwire
“[A] uniquely graceful and innovative piece of artistic self-possession, which achieves the rare feat of seamlessly amalgamating form and substance.” —Lucy Scholes, The Independent
“Cusk's uncompromising, often brutal intelligence is at full power. So is her technique . . . I can't think of a book that so powerfully resists summary or review . . . Inevitably, the only way to get close to the fascinating and elusive core of Outline is to read it.” —Sophie Elmhirst, Financial Times
“Never less than compelling . . . material that might have been ponderous in other hands is, here, magnetic, thanks to the mystery at the heart of Cusk's book, her exquisite lightness of touch and her glinting wit.” —Stephanie Cross, Daily Mail
“A brilliant, perceptive novel, Outline was serialised in its entirety by the Paris Review, which is probably a lot cooler than making the Man Booker shortlist.” —Paddy Kehoe, RTÉ
“Rachel Cusk breaks all the rules of creative writing . . . [Outline] captivates.” —Arifa Akbar, The Independent
“Outline is an expertly crafted portrait that asks readers to look deeply into the text for discovery. Those who accept that challenge will be rewarded for the effort.” —Booklist (Starred review)
“This brilliant novel from Cusk . . . shuns fictional convention and frills in favor of a solid structure around a seris of dialogues . . . These 10 remarkable conversations, told with immense control, focus a sharp eye on how we discuss family and our lives.” —Publishers Weekly (Starred review)
“A book whose almost dream-like quality has razor-sharp edges.” —Sofka Zinovieff, Spectator
“Cool but compelling, narrow in focus perhaps, but deep in thought.” —Lesley McDowell, The Scotsman
“An utterly engaging examination of human relationships . . . a compelling read that never once flags.” —The Crack
“Described as a 'novel in ten conversations' . . . it turns out to be a clever, fresh device that dispenses with the need for much of a plot and presents instead more of a lush human collage . . . a rich, thoughtful read.” —Carol Midgley, The Times
“Sharply observed . . . everyone the narrator meets has a vivid presence.” —Suzi Feay, Literary Review
“The writing is brilliant . . . Cusk is always cerebral but I've never noticed her drollery before . . . absorbing, thought-provoking.” —Claire Harman, London Evening Standard
“Cusk confounds expectations . . . Outline is full of such wonderful surprises: subtle shifts in power and unexpectedly witty interludes.” —Elena Seymenliyska, The Telegraph
“This book about love, loss, memory, and the lies we tell ourselves and others exudes a contemplative, melancholy atmosphere tempered by Britsh author Cusk's wonderfully astute observations of people and the visual impressions created by her exquisitely strucutred sentences.” —Sally Bissell, Library Journal
“Outline is a quiet, profound book about the problems of living with a sense of purpose.” —Johanna Thomas-Corr, Metro
“A tapestry of different voices, its shape emerging as if by happy accident . . . [Outline] is a clever thought experiment that's far too readable ever to feel like one.” —Lidija Haas, The Independent on Sunday
“Cusk returns to fiction and top form in a novel about the stories we tell ourselves and others . . . rich in human variety and unsentimental empathy.” —Kirkus
“Like the Higgs boson, which appears only when bombarded by electrons, Rachel Cusk's nearly nameless narrator flickers into visibility only through her encounters with a series of amazingly eloquent and fascinating interlocutors. Writing at the highest level and with the greatest technical restraint, Cusk manages to describe the painful realities of women's lives by a process of erasure that is itself responsible for that suffering. This is a novel where form and content meld so perfectly as to collapse into each other. I am so much the better for having read it. As if someone finally told me the truth by telling me everything, and nothing.” —Jeffrey Eugenides, author of The Marriage Plot
“On a flight to Greece where she is going to be teaching a creative writing class, the narrator begins talking to her neighbour. More accurately, initiating a pattern that will be repeated throughout the encounters and ‘conversations' that make up this hypnotic, funny and unsettling novel, he talks at her. Gradually her own identity emerges in response to--is given shape by--what is said to her. As one of her students puts it, the story constitutes a series of events she finds herself involved in, but on which she seems to have ‘absolutely no influence at all.' The irony, of course, is that all of these tales--the author's tale--hold our attention because of Cusk's unerring command of pace and tone.” —Geoff Dyer
“Outline, in outline, tells the story of a British novelist newly arrived in Athens, who has been enlisted to teach a weeklong writing seminar. Upon this provocatively slight premise, Cusk has constructed a restrained, incisive narrative of high stylistic polish and stealthy emotional power. Formally inventive, astringently intellectual, and linguistically assured, Outline poses the question of where stories come from; it shows, with glittering clarity, why they matter.” —Rebecca Mead, author of My Life in Middlemarch
“I opened this book, and read a page, and then a few more pages, and I finished Outline before a day and a half had passed, and I am the slowest reader I know, and I have never felt guilty about not finishing a book. Outline is amazing. It changes the lighting on the charismatic, mad, maddening monologues so beloved in literature; here we are, on the previously invisible other side of it, seeing something brilliant and irremediably true.” —Rivka Galchen, author of American Innovations
“Rachel Cusk's Outline is full of baking light and quiet melancholy and bodies brushing past one another in the heat; it's a subtle and utterly engrossing exploration of the ways we make ourselves known to one another--in stories and anecdotes, through seductions and disputes--and yet remain opaque; how we sketch ourselves as outlines and find these outlines interrogated. Its conversations echo each other deftly, their acute insights gracefully pulling apart the seams of its carefully composed characters to show glimpses of much messier selves within: a series of searing psychic X-rays bleached by coastal light.” —Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams
Publisher: Picador
Publication Date: February 9th, 2016
Series: Outline Trilogy
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PDD has been the topic of a number of other reports. Bank of America reaffirmed a buy rating on shares of Continental in a research report on Wednesday, May 15th. New Street Research raised shares of TIM Participacoes from a neutral rating to a buy rating in a research report on Thursday, June 20th. KeyCorp initiated coverage on shares of Pinduoduo in a research report on Tuesday, April 16th. They set an overweight rating and a $32.00 target price on the stock. Macquarie initiated coverage on shares of Baozun in a research report on Friday, July 5th. They set a buy rating and a $60.00 target price on the stock. Finally, Benchmark initiated coverage on shares of Pinduoduo in a research report on Thursday, June 13th. They set a buy rating and a $28.00 target price on the stock. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, four have assigned a hold rating and ten have assigned a buy rating to the company. The stock has a consensus rating of Buy and a consensus target price of $28.28.
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NASDAQ:PDD opened at $19.14 on Tuesday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.01, a current ratio of 1.90 and a quick ratio of 1.90. The company’s 50-day simple moving average is $20.18. Pinduoduo has a twelve month low of $16.53 and a twelve month high of $31.99. The stock has a market cap of $21.42 billion and a P/E ratio of -9.57.
Pinduoduo (NASDAQ:PDD) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Monday, May 20th. The company reported ($0.24) EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of ($0.28) by $0.04. The business had revenue of $4.55 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $4.11 billion. Pinduoduo had a negative net margin of 73.90% and a negative return on equity of 76.66%. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 228.3% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, sell-side analysts predict that Pinduoduo will post -0.67 EPS for the current year.
Several institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in PDD. FMR LLC lifted its holdings in Pinduoduo by 79.0% in the 1st quarter. FMR LLC now owns 9,991,307 shares of the company’s stock valued at $247,785,000 after acquiring an additional 4,408,544 shares during the last quarter. Greenwoods Asset Management Ltd lifted its holdings in Pinduoduo by 17.7% in the 1st quarter. Greenwoods Asset Management Ltd now owns 4,077,625 shares of the company’s stock valued at $101,125,000 after acquiring an additional 611,976 shares during the last quarter. Krane Funds Advisors LLC lifted its holdings in Pinduoduo by 8.7% in the 1st quarter. Krane Funds Advisors LLC now owns 3,116,352 shares of the company’s stock valued at $77,286,000 after acquiring an additional 249,951 shares during the last quarter. MARSHALL WACE ASIA Ltd lifted its holdings in Pinduoduo by 24,995.7% in the 1st quarter. MARSHALL WACE ASIA Ltd now owns 2,876,721 shares of the company’s stock valued at $71,342,000 after acquiring an additional 2,865,258 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Altimeter Capital Management LP lifted its holdings in Pinduoduo by 2.9% in the 4th quarter. Altimeter Capital Management LP now owns 2,486,288 shares of the company’s stock valued at $55,792,000 after acquiring an additional 70,929 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 10.37% of the company’s stock.
About Pinduoduo
Pinduoduo Inc operates an e-commerce platform in the People's Republic of China. It also operates Pinduoduo, a mobile platform that offers a range of priced merchandise. The company was formerly known as Walnut Street Group Holding Limited and changed its name to Pinduoduo Inc in July 2018. Pinduoduo Inc was founded in 2015 and is based in Shanghai, the People's Republic of China.
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Report: Boston Has Performing Arts Spaces, But Not The Kind Artists Need
July 11, 2017Updated Jul 12, 2017 8:58 AM
Alexa Vazquez
Some of Boston's large theater spaces along Washington Street downtown. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
A new assessment plan spotlights a misalignment between rehearsal and performance spaces artists need and those they have access to in Boston. There isn’t necessarily a lack of performing arts spaces, but a lack of spaces with the appropriate amenities, price tag and location.
The Performing Arts Facilities Assessment Plan was conducted by the Boston Planning and Development Agency, a joint effort between the city and the Technical Development Corporation (TDC). Surveying 190 arts organizations and 45 venue providers, the report is the second step of the city's cultural plan, referred to as Boston Creates, that was released last summer.
One of the imbalances noted is performance spaces for medium-sized audiences. In the chart below, you could see that there are considerably more venues for an audience of 50-199 or 1000+, compared to an audience of 400-999.
The number of performance venues by seating capacity in Boston. (Courtesy TDC)
The draft report, which Mayor Marty Walsh commissioned in 2015, boils down to a clear imbalance: There is excess supply and unmet demand.
The overarching issue that has created this misalignment, according to the report, is the way arts spaces are financed and maintained. Most facilities either can’t afford to cover the costs of hosting artists or do not consider it a main goal. Likewise, artists can’t afford to rent some of these facilities.
The report notes that Boston "has very little governmental ownership of or funding for facilities" with only episodic funding by design, meaning there's not enough consistent capital support to maintain a facility.
Most solutions require early (and lots of) monetary investment, long-term support and a fresh approach to finding public-private partnerships and philanthropic funding sources. Joyce Linehan, Boston's chief of policy and planning, believes one of the best solutions is to work with developers to incorporate performing arts facilities into the designs of future projects.
"This document serves as a really great basis for thinking about how we approach that from a planning perspective, from the beginning, as opposed to building it in as an after thought when it's too late," Linehan says.
A prime example of this is the recently announced expansion plan for the Huntington Avenue Theatre. Developers QMG Huntington are working with the Huntington Theatre Company to expand the usable space surrounding the area for community use.
"The Huntington serves as a great example of the kinds of things we can do if we ask developers and people who are in need of space to work together at the front end of a project," Linehan says.
Another example the report notes is the Seaport Square development. The city is working with its developers to include a variety of spaces that would accommodate artists’ needs including multi-use and live/work spaces.
In addition to working with developers, the plan acknowledges there is space the city maintains that could be better utilized — notably, the Strand Theatre. The large city-owned theater sits in Dorchester and has been the topic of conversation among Boston artists, like Tory Bullock, who want more versatile work space.
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'A Fantastic Woman' Handles Trans Identity With Compassion, But Relentlessly Relies On Suffering
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Daniela Vega as Marina in "A Fantastic Woman." (Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics)
The favorite to win this year’s Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, “A Fantastic Woman” tackles the timely subject of transgender identity with compassion and sensitivity.
Each year, Hollywood seeks to present its best image to the world during the Oscars, and here’s the kind of picture everyone can feel good about getting behind.
Co-written and directed by the up-and-coming Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio --whose 2014 breakthrough hit “Gloria” wowed crowds at Boston area arthouses for weeks on end back — this is a strikingly well-acted portrait of a character most movies would confine to the margins. It’s also pretty stiff and a chore to sit through.
Transgender opera singer Daniela Vega stars as Marina, a Santiago nightclub chanteuse in the process of moving in with her dashing, much older lover, Orlando (played by Francisco Reyes.) He’s recently extricated himself from a messy divorce, and what little we see of this new relationship is tender and sweetly romantic. Alas, late one night Orlando drops dead from an aneurysm, leaving Marina devastated and alone.
From her first interview with a disgusted police officer who rudely insists on calling her “Daniel” (the name on her driver’s license), Lelio’s film establishes its MO. Lelio holds on Vega’s achingly stoic face while subjecting Marina to a stream of bigotry ranging from the everyday insensitive to the shockingly vulgar, alongside a collection of crushing indignities.
One cop suspects she might have knocked off the old man, while another thinks he might have been abusing her. Meanwhile, Orlando’s former family wants Marina nowhere near his funeral, his ex-wife horribly embarrassed by what she calls his “perversion.” They also want his car, apartment and all his possessions back. Hell, they even take the dog.
Francisco Reyes as Orlando and Daniela Vega as Marina. (Courtesy Sony Pictures Classics)
Marina is the kind of role that, up until recently, cisgendered stars like Jared Leto won Academy Awards for playing while we all applauded their “bravery” for putting on a dress at work. Indeed, Daniela Vega wasn’t even originally considered for the part, but rather was working as a consultant on the screenplay with Lelio and co-writer Gonzalo Maza when the filmmakers realized what they had in front of them. She’s a magnificent camera subject, with a sharply angular face offsetting eyes that convey tremendous depths of pain.
In fact, Vega is so very good, it’s impossible to watch “A Fantastic Woman” without wishing she’d been given more to do here than just suffer. Marina wanders through the movie numbed with grief and absorbing abuse, which is compelling on a human level but dramatically monotonous. There aren’t exactly a lot of surprises here.
This gets tricky because I personally know a lot of people who could benefit from watching this film, and hopefully see their own ignorance reflected in the boorish behavior of the supporting cast. But then I doubt those folks would ever go to an arthouse to watch some fancy subtitled movie in the first place. So sophisticated audiences are left to cluck their tongues at the appalling attitudes of these awful characters and applaud Marina’s noble, silent resilience. I guess this can be cathartic for some viewers, but to me, it felt too tidy and one-dimensional.
Daniela Vega as Marina (Courtesy Michelle Bossy/Sony Pictures Classics)
I couldn’t help thinking throughout of “The Florida Project” director Sean Baker’s crassly hilarious Christmas Eve comedy “Tangerine,” which captured the tribulations of two transgender sex workers with rude humor and a bawdy wit. Here was a movie that contained at least as much suffering as “A Fantastic Woman” (probably a lot more) but celebrated the indomitable spirt of its protagonists instead of embalming them in decency.
Rather, the movie this reminded me most of was Jonathan Demme’s extremely well-intentioned and awfully clumsy “Philadelphia.” Nobody talks about that film much anymore, as our culture has (for the most part) moved beyond the ugly AIDS paranoia that drove the drama, and there wasn’t much of a movie there beyond the issues and inevitable awards speeches. The best I can hope for my trans friends is that “A Fantastic Woman” will soon seem just as obsolete.
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Noam Chomsky Warns of ‘Staged Attack’ Two Days Before Syria Bombing
Just two days ago, Amy Goodman at Democracy Now interviewed professor Noam Chomsky for over an hour. Noam Chomsky pointed out that Republican policies are a “con game” with “ordinary guy” talk. He warned that Donald Trump would need to an incident — perhaps a “staged attack” — to “maintain control.” Today, Donald Trump sent missiles into Syria as the result of a chemical attack. Noam Chomsky also chastised Democrats for excessive focus on Russia.
STAGED ATTACK TO MAINTAIN CONTROL
[S]ooner or later this con game is not going to work. People will understand he’s not bringing back jobs. He’s not going to recreate the partly illusory, partly real picture of what life was like in the past, with manufacturing jobs and a functioning society, and you could get ahead, and so on and so forth. He’s not going to create that.
What happens at that point? Something has to be done to maintain control. The obvious technique is scapegoating. So blame it on immigrants, on the Muslims, on somebody. But that can only go so far. The next step would be, as I said, an alleged terrorist attack, which is quite easy. It’s, in fact, almost normal like Condoleezza Rice’s mushroom clouds. That’s easy to construct, alleged attacks. The other possibility is a staged attack of a minor kind…
And this is a very frightened country. For years, this has been probably the most frightened country in the world. It’s also the safest country in the world. It’s very easy to terrify people.
DEMOCRATIC PARTY UNREASONABLE ON RUSSIA ISSUE
Noam Chomsky points out that there are many “dangerous” policies by Donald Trump and the Republicans. Democrats should focus more on those issues rather than escalating tensions with Russia, even though there may have been Russian interference in the elections and Republicans may have been in contact with Russians.
So why are the Democrats focusing on this? In fact, why are they focusing so much attention on the one element of Trump’s programs which is fairly reasonable — the one ray of light in this gloom: trying to reduce tensions with Russia? That’s the tensions on the Russian border are extremely serious. They could escalate to a major terminal war. Efforts to try to reduce them should be welcomed. Just a couple of days ago, the former US ambassador to Russia, Jack Matlock, came out and said he just can’t believe that so much attention is being paid to apparent efforts by the incoming administration to establish connections with Russia. He said, ‘Sure, that’s just what they ought to be doing.’
So, meanwhile, this one topic is the primary focus of concern and critique; while, meanwhile, the policies are proceeding step by step, which are extremely destructive and harmful. So, you know, yeah, maybe the Russians tried to interfere in the election. That’s not a major issue. Maybe the people in the Trump campaign were talking to the Russians. Well, okay, not a major point, certainly less than is being done constantly. And it is a kind of a paradox, I think, that the one issue that seems to inflame the Democratic opposition is the one thing that has some justification and reasonable aspects to it.
Investigations of Russian interference should continue, but tensions should be reduced too.
Watch the full interview. The staged attack part is about 34 minutes in. The critique of Democrats is about 11 minutes in.
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Residents speak out on possible road usage charge
By Cameron Miculka West Hawaii Today cmiculka@westhawaiitoday.com | Wednesday, April 10, 2019, 12:05 a.m.
Goats cross Highway 190 near the Daniel K Inouye Highway turnoff. (Laura Ruminski/West Hawaii Today)
KAILUA-KONA — While some residents say they could see how an idea for a road usage charge could work as a “revenue neutral replacement” for the existing state fuel tax that helps fund state road projects, not all of them are so confident in the state’s ability to manage such a switch.
“I wouldn’t even really have a problem if it goes down the way they ideally want it to,” said Holualoa resident Lylas Moore after Tuesday’s meeting. “But I can’t see how it would function smoothly.”
Moore was one of a little more than a dozen people to attend a community meeting the Hawaii Department of Transportation hosted Tuesday night in Kailua-Kona. Another meeting is scheduled for tonight in Waimea with a third meeting scheduled for the island’s east side next month.
Prior to the meeting, Moore said a road usage charge could unfairly burden Hawaii Island’s drivers.
“It’s rural here,” she said. “Everyone has to drive to work.”
There aren’t yet any concrete plans to change the way drivers are taxed to help fund state road projects, and any final proposal would need to be approved by the state Legislature. Tuesday’s meeting came as the state continues to research the possibility of swapping the fuel tax for a road usage charge and gauge drivers’ taste for the proposal.
“What we’re looking at is just replacement. We’re looking at maintaining what we have, which for me right now would be the best case,” said Donald Smith, Hawaii Department of Transportation district engineer for Hawaii Island, in reference to the funds that make up the largest source of revenue for the agency’s Highways Division. “If I could just not lose any more, it would be cool.”
Currently, drivers pay 16 cents per gallon in addition to federal taxes (18.4 cents/gallon) and county taxes (19 cents/gallon) on gasoline purchases. But as drivers continue choosing more fuel-efficient and alternative fuel vehicles, they’re using less gasoline, meaning they’re paying less in taxes.
The road usage charge is being floated as a revenue neutral swap for the fuel tax.
Given a vehicle that gets 22 miles to the gallon and goes 15,000 miles a year, a driver would pay $109 a year in current state fuel taxes, said Travis Dunn, managing partner at D’Artagnan Consulting, which is helping DOT with the study and demonstration. To keep the potential swap revenue neutral with a net difference of zero dollars, it’s also what a typical driver might pay under a road usage charge.
Drivers of electric vehicles, who don’t pay any fuel taxes, and those who drive very fuel-efficient/hybrid cars would pay more under a road usage charge, while some vehicles, Dunn said, would have drivers actually pay less than they do now in fuel taxes.
Later this year, said Dunn, vehicle owners will start getting customized reports mailed to them detailing how many miles they drove and how much they might pay under a road usage charge. Mileage will be calculated based on odometer readings collected during annual safety checks.
Because it’s a research and demonstration project, no actual fees will be charged, and there’s no need to pay anything for that report.
“The currency of this project is your feedback,” Dunn said. “So all we’re continuing to do here is to provide personalized information about the type of vehicle that you drive and what the impacts would be to your personal situation so that you can judge for yourself and provide feedback to the state about your preferences.”
But some of those in attendance Tuesday night weren’t so confident in the state’s ability to manage such a system, and said so at Tuesday’s meeting.
“The amount of effort for the administration of this program seems really high,” said Waikoloa resident Sara Kobayashi.
She said the numbers seem to make sense as an “even swap” for the fuel tax, but said she had a couple concerns, including the ability of people to pay a lump annual fee instead of paying each time they fill up at the pump.
“Right now, it’s not more money based on your numbers,” she said. “But there’s all kinds of variables here that are kind of scary.”
Scot Urada, project manager with the Hawaii Department of Transportation responded saying her questions and concerns were valid, saying the agency wants to be sure those points — along with every other concern raised throughout the series of meetings — are considered throughout the process.
Mattson Davis said after the meeting that he thinks the road usage charge could work, but emphasized that there’s a much bigger picture to consider when it comes to roads and said there’s a need to look at how all factors on the county, state and federal levels interact as well as how they can all work together.
“I think we should step back,” he said, “because I think that if we make a decision just on fuel to be ‘equal to,’ I think we’re going to be right back at the table looking at weight and back at the table looking at visitors, car rental stuff and all that — and people screaming for bigger, better roads.”
Davis added that he’s confident that those working on the project are being careful and diligent in considering the idea, encouraging them to “widen the scope a little bit, widen their options.”
Tonight’s meeting is scheduled for 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Waimea School STEAM Center.
Another meeting is scheduled for May 9 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the AJA Veterans Hall in Hilo.
An “e-Townhall” is also scheduled for April 18 — with more details to come —during which residents can give input and ask questions.
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UPDATE: JAPAN: Sharp considering even more radical measures to curb losses
By Andrew Everard 2012-08-20T07:15:22Z News
Could cut 10,000 jobs, twice as many as previously planned, and close operations – meanwhile potential investor Hon Hai now wants more control for its money
Sharp's plans to tackle its escalating losses look set to become even more radical, according to weekend reports in the Japanese press. The company is said to be considering doubling the scale of its planned job cuts, which could see more than a sixth of its workforce being lost, and spinning off or selling major parts of its operations.
The moves come as investor Hon Hai Precision, which agreed in March to take a stake of just under 10% in Sharp, now wants to not only reduce the ¥66.9bn (£536m) it was planning to invest, in the light of the massive fall in Sharp's share value in the intervening five months, but also increase its stake to 20%.
This would give the Taiwan-based company, better known as Foxconn and the world's largest consumer electronics manufacturing operation, a much greater say in the way Sharp is run.
Having announced earlier this year that it would cut 5000 jobs globally during the current financial year, Sharp is now thought to be considering the loss of 10,000 of its 57,000 workforce.
Other money-saving plans under consideration include the spinning off of its small LCD panel plant, making displays for smartphones, the sale of its air-conditioner and copier operations, scaling back TV assembly in Japan and, as already reported, the sale of TV plants in China and Mexico to Hon Hai.
It could also sell off one of its solar cell plants, several buildings in the area around Tokyo, and some of its holdings in other companies. It currently owns stakes in camera manufacturer Olympus, lithium-ion battery company Eliiy Power, and Pioneer.
Sharp shares rose over 5% late last week on press reports that Hon Hai wanted to increase its stake, although Friday's closing price of ¥184 was still a long way short of the ¥550 at the time the deal was originally discussed in March. However, Sharp has denied the reports of planned sell-offs and Hon Hai seeking a 20% stake.
Sharp shares closed today at ¥174, amid investor concerns about the company's revenue streams should it sell off so significant a part of its operations.
Posted 15.08.2012
Sharp shares have continued to plummet on the Japanese stock market, following a downgrading by Deustche Securities amidst fears that the company's losses this year could be as much as 60% greater than forecast last week.
The shares hit a 37-year low of ¥169, compared to ¥550 just a few months ago, as the financial institution predicated that losses could be as much as ¥159bn (£1.28bn), rather than the ¥100bn (£809m) Sharp predicted, and downgraded the shares's status from 'hold' to 'sell'.
Goldman Sachs has also suggested Sharp is heading for greater losses this year: it's figure is ¥150bn (£1.21bn) – since announcing its poor quarterly results at the beginning of this month, and increasing its operating loss forecast, the Japanese company has seen almost £950m wiped off its value.
Much of the concern stems from weak demand for LCD TV panels, of which Sharp is Japan's largest remaining manufacturer, due to a worldwide contraction of the market and increased competition from Korea, Taiwan and – increasingly – China.
The concern now is that the falling shares will attract short-selling traders, who 'borrow' shares from holders, sell them, buy them back later at a lower price and return them to the original owner, thus making a profit. Such trading could put even more pressure on Sharp's shares.
The falling share price puts even greater pressure on the deal Sharp is hoping to finalise with Taiwan-based electronics manufacturing giant Hon Hai Precision industries, which in March agreed a planned investment to take a 10% stake in Sharp. At the time, Sharp's shares were at ¥550, and after a period of stalemate it now seems the two companies are endeavouring to renegotiate the deal.
Acknowledging it's renegotiating with Hon Hai, Sharp said last week it's also selling overseas LCD module factories to the Taiwanese company, which already has a stake in its huge Sakai LCD panel plant in Japan.
The factories, in China, Malaysia, Mexico and Poland, are used to install wiring, lighting and other components on LCD panels, and their facilities are already used by Hon Hai as a means of taking up spare capacity.
If Sharp were able to offload the plants it would be able cut its fixed costs and also hopefully raise efficiency. That would help with its current debt, which its bankers are pressuring the company to tackle this year.
An announcement of the renegotiated terms of the Sharp/Hon Hai deal is expected by the end of this month.
Deutsche Securities has also cut the target price of Sharp shares from ¥365 to ¥110, making it clear it feels the current decline is still some way from bottoming out.
An analyst quoted in the Japanese press said 'Sharp appears to be lagging far behind its competitors in terms of its financial conditions and profitability,' adding that 'We predict grim sales of TVs and smaller LCD panels in the second half of the fiscal year.'
Posted 07.08.12
Sharp is in trouble: Japan's largest manufacturer of LCD panels reported record losses for the first quarter of the current financial year, and is forecasting it will find itself in the red to the tune of some £2bn by March next year.
Not surprisingly that has impacted on the company's share price, which has fallen some 60% in the past three months – and that's now threatening a major part of the company's restructuring plans, in the form of a major investment from Taiwanese mega-manufacturer Hon Hai Precision Industry.
Back in March, Sharp announced that Hon Hai – the parent of Foxconn, and the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer – had agreed to take a 9.9% stake in the company, giving it an injection of some ¥67bn (around £550m).
That followed a deal in which Hon Hai invested in the company's huge Sakai LCD TV plant, in order to help it cope with the challenge from manufacturers outside Japan.
Trouble is, the March deal was struck when Sharp shares stood at ¥550 – now they're hovering around the ¥180 mark, Hon Hai is understandably keen to renegotiate the terms of the deal.
The problem faced by Sharp, led by company president Takashi Okuda (right), is a tough one: if it sticks to its original deal for Hon Hai boss Terry Gou to take a 9.9% stake, it will get a much smaller cash injection – less than £200m.
However, were the amount of the investment to remain the same, that would involve Hon Hai gaining a much larger stake in Sharp – something Okuda is clearly determined to avoid.
The 9.9% figure was originally set as a greater than 10% stake would give Hon Hai a much bigger say in the way Sharp is run, including the right to request that the company is dissolved.
So Sharp finds itself at something of a crisis point: does it go for a closer alliance with Hon Hai, which could threaten Japanese control of the company, or go it alone without the help of the Taiwanese company as it stares down the barrel of that ¥250bn loss forecast.
Okuda has said there will be no changes to the conditions of the deal announced in March; Hon Hai – which employs some 1.2m people worldwide and last year has revenues of over $100bn – is clearly keen to increase its stake in, and thus control of, Sharp, and has said a deal has been struck to revise the terms.
This could be one well worth watching: whichever way the deal goes, it could well determine the future for Sharp.
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4x4 Tyre Buyers' Guide
By Tristan Tancredi, 28 Jul 2018 Wheels & Tyres
Want to get dirty? A fresh set of off-road rubber should be atop the shopping list.
BEFORE you crack open a catalogue and pore through an endless stream of aftermarket 4x4 products – bullbars, roof racks, tents, lighting – the very first thing that requires attention before you seek adventure are the four black rings of rubber on each corner of your 4x4.
A decent set of tyres, or, more specifically for the kind of driving we do, off-road tyres, are the first non-negotiable items when it comes to aftermarket support. It is equipment that could leave you high and dry if the tyres are of sub-standard quality or they’re not fit-for-purpose.
“Not all tyres are the same,” said Andrew Collings, marketing manager at Exclusive Tyre Distributors (Cooper, Mickey Thompson tyres). “They may look similar on the outside, but there are so many differences between brands and range.”
Steve Burke, Toyo Tires’ technical manager, added: “Interpretation of the traditional off-road tyre categories can vary widely from brand to brand, but a few key priorities across construction, compound and tread design will be shared across the board.”
Simply put, 4x4 tyres can be broken down into categories – Mud Terrain (M/T), All Terrain (A/T) and Highway Terrain (H/T), and there’s also Light Truck (L/T) construction – each with its own strengths and compromises, depending on the kind of driving you have in store.
“The main difference between Highway Terrain, All Terrain and Mud Terrain tyres is the intended purpose,” said Jon Tamblyn, national technical field services and solutions development manager at Bridgestone Australia. “Each application has different characteristics, so the decision as to which way to go should depend on how you intend on using your 4x4.”
So, before you head down to your closest tyre supplier, figure out what kind of driving you’re likely to do consistently and then make a judgement call. There’s no point picking up a set of muddies if your 4x4 doubles as a work-cum-travel machine – unless, of course, you can be buggered changing tyres whenever you get the chance to chase dirt.
“A good quality off-road tyre really comes down to the type of terrain you intend to tackle,” Tamblyn said. “For the wetter environments prone to mud, you should look for wide grooves and lugs for self-cleaning capabilities. The more aggressive the tread pattern, the more it will bite into the surface.
“For dryer climates it is advised to look toward tyres with narrower grooves to aid in the prevention of the case being punctured, a durable tread pattern with wider blocks, and a harder compound for durability.”
Let’s dig a bit deeper.
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Highway Terrain (H/T)
A Highway Terrain tyre is what you’ll typically find beneath your vehicle when you leave the showroom floor. These tyres, which have a tread pattern similar to those on a passenger car, are best suited to bitumen as they are light in construction and will often be quiet and smooth. They’ll do the job on mild off-road tracks, but you’ll need to look elsewhere if you’re tackling more serious tracks.
“Highway Terrain tyres are developed with comfort (and) ride quality in mind for the everyday motorist who isn’t using their 4x4 or SUV for off-road use,” said Bridgestone’s Jon Tamblyn. “While they still have limited off-road capabilities, particularly on sand, the Highway Terrain is more for those who use their 4x4 as a road warrior.”
Andrew Collings added that tyres designed for the highway will have less void or space between the tread blocks, and that “it will also have visible channels that run around the circumference of the tyre, improving its resistance to aquaplaning”.
He added there is also more siping – small slits across the rubber to improve traction – for improved wet-weather performance, and that “a good quality tyre should have an extended filler in the bead to improve the lateral stability of a tyre, and a variable reinforcing overlay between the steel belts to improve ride comfort”.
It’s about low noise, wear life and ride comfort, according to Toyo’s Steve Burke. “They will usually feature long-wearing compounds in tread patterns stylistically similar to OE tyres with lighter-duty construction when compared to A/Ts or M/Ts.
“While they can be used occasionally in light off-road applications, they will not supply the same traction or puncture resistance as an A/T or an M/T,” he said.
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According to Mick Small, Falken Tyre Australia’s technical service manager, H/T tyres are often misunderstood. “They are perfect for beach trips and very capable performers on dirt roads and fire trails,” he said.
All Terrain (A/T)
If driving habits consist of an equal share of bitumen and off-road terrain, the All-Terrain is right up your alley. As its name suggests, an All-Terrain tyre is the Steve Waugh of tyres – the quintessential all-rounder. More often than not they’re built stronger than a H/T tyre, so they’ll cope better with rocks and ruts, and they’ll have a more open tread pattern.
“All Terrain tyres are often the sweet spot for across-the-board-capabilities,” Tamblyn told us. “While they are not as comfortable or quiet as a Highway Terrain, they offer excellent capabilities in rocky environments, smooth and rough gravel, and on harsh tracks, while still suitable for everyday use.”
So if your week consists of the Hume Highway Monday to Friday, and then the Vic High Country on weekends, tick the A/T tyre box. “The A/T is often a go-to choice for those who want a tougher tyre for getting off the beaten track on weekends, and still being able to use their 4x4 as a family car,” Tamblyn added.
There are sacrifices, however, as an A/T won’t be as smooth-riding or sharp in its performance as a H/T on tar, and won’t be as capable as an M/T when it gets really rough. But the sacrifices are worth its all-round abilities.
“Contrary to popular belief, a true all-terrain tyre should feature a deep, balanced tread pattern that’s intended to tackle any terrain it encounters off-road but that will slightly sacrifice on-road performance as a result,” Steve Burke said.
Mud Terrain (M/T)
Muddies are noticeable by their deep, blocky tread pattern and strong construction. They’ll get you up and over near-impossible rock climbs and muddy slopes that’ll otherwise stump a set of All Terrains – in combination with a well set-up 4x4, of course – but they’ll be harsh and imposing on long stretches of highway due to their construction and tread pattern, and they’ll hike fuel use, too.
“Mud Terrains really come into their element in wet conditions and are designed for superior mud performance, rough gravel and harsh tracks,” said Tamblyn. “For the toughest conditions they are a prime choice, but they are not the most comfortable option on-road because of the noise generated by the rugged and aggressive tread design.”
M/T tyres are designed to find grip when all hope seems lost, and it does this using clever design techniques. “The open tread patterns you see on muddies are designed to dig for traction in loose terrain while self-cleaning as the tyre rotates, with increased tread groove area forming larger, heavier chunks of crud that are more likely to be spun free,” Steve Burke added. “This will then be supported by heavy-duty construction and additional sidewall protection aimed at preventing punctures, especially when a tyre’s exposure to potential stakes is increased by lowering tyre pressures.”
As well as increased fuel use and the drone of fat rubber infiltrating the cabin, the additional weight of the thick sidewalls also means the tyres will be less graceful over bumps and corrugations.
“Compounding this is the tendency for open tread patterns to flex when put under extreme load, something that may only present as slight steering vagueness under normal driving conditions but that can cause inconsistencies in traction when braking or turning sharply,” added Steve Burke.
Light Truck Construction
IF A TYRE is stamped with a L/T (Light Truck) designation (as opposed to Passenger construction) it means the tyre is built stronger to both carry more load and be more durable when off-roading. L/T tyres also have a more aggressive tread pattern, provide increased sidewall protection, improved traction, and are more cut-and-chip resistant.
“Light Truck construction increases load-carrying ability and puncture resistance through the use of heavy-duty materials, often resulting in a thicker, stiffer and heavier tyre than a passenger equivalent,” explained Steve Burke.
The industry experts we spoke to all recommended Light Truck construction for any form of serious off-roading, or for anyone carrying extra weight on their 4x4 via a bullbar, roof rack, etc.
“Don’t compromise on cost because the Passenger constructed tyre is cheaper,” Andrew Collings told us. “As a company who spends a lot of time testing tyres in Australia’s outback, a tyre with a light truck construction is designed to provide the best protection against off-road damage, such as stakes, punctures and tears. Another consideration is that a light truck tyre will carry a load better as they have increased load ratings.”
Jon Tambyn agreed: “With 4x4s continuing to become bigger and heavier from the showroom, a light truck or L/T construction should definitely be a consideration, especially if you plan to add extra bar work, fridges or load-up with supplies and mates when you go 4x4ing.”
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However, opting for a set of L/T construction tyres depends on the shape of the vehicle, the operating conditions of the vehicle, the actual usage of the vehicle, and if the size of tyre is offered in the desired brand/pattern with an L/T option, according to Falken’s Mick Small.
Passenger Construction
While L/T tyres are the recommended choice, Passenger construction tyres can also be of benefit for those who aren’t prone to serious bush-bashing or remote-area travel. “(They) will often have lower load ratings and puncture resistance but will be lighter and more flexible as a result, offering better fuel economy and ride comfort,” said Steve Burke.
“Passenger construction tyres will also ‘bag out’ more easily, allowing a relatively small tyre size to offer a large footprint at reduced inflation pressures when driving on soft surfaces like sand; although, considerably larger light-truck construction tyres will provide even greater flotation due to a physically larger footprint while having the ability to safely operate at even lower pressures.”
Tyre Choice
Things can get overwhelming when choosing rubber for the first time, but there’s a simple trick to remember to make the process a little simpler: “When starting out, the easiest way to compare tyres is remember T.C.C: Tread Design, Carcass Construction and Compound,” Collings said. “It will be across these three categories that products will differ.”
For improved traction and further protection, important features of modern tread designs to look for when browsing for new tyres include flex grooves, mud scoops, release dimples and raised rubber ribs.
Another recent innovation is ‘Micro Gauge Sipes’, which are tiny cuts in tyres designed to suck water up and release on highways to prevent aquaplaning. “This innovation improves the wet traction on-road … because they are Micro, they are thinner … brands that don’t use Micro Gauge Sipes tend to cut and chip more as they provide a leading edge to ‘rip’ on rocks and stones,” Collings explained.
An important aspect to consider in regards to a tyre’s carcass is its tensile strength. For example, Cooper uses Super High Tensile in the steel belts and High Tensile in the body ply cords. Collings added: “For those who are going to be doing a lot more off-road driving, consider a tyre with ‘angle ply’ technology.”
A well-designed sidewall is another integral element that makes up a good-quality tyre. “The design/construction of the sidewall of the tyre plays an important part, with off-road stability on dirt roads and the extra stress/load placed on these tyres in the operating conditions these vehicles are used for,” said Mick Small. “Aggressive upper sidewall biters will aid in traction off-road, whilst also adding extra protection from obstacles when aired down.”
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He continued: “Carcass plies on their own are only one part of sidewall strength and staking durability. Other elements such as turn-up plies and height of plies, sidewall rubber thickness and density also need attention.”
The most important thing to remember is whether the tyre is right for the kind of driving you plan to do. “With an idea of whether the construction will be lightweight or durable enough for your application, you can then look at the tread pattern to see if they’ll be right for the terrain you plan to cover,” Steve Burke explained. “More open tread patterns will self-clean better in the sticky stuff, and more closed patterns will provide better bite on hard surfaces and flotation on soft surfaces.”
Dont' Cheap Out
A great holiday can turn to crap pretty quickly if you’ve cheaped-out on a set of off-road tyres. Buying from a trusted dealer, distributor or brand may cost you a few pennies in the short-term, but the benefits far outweigh the negatives in the long run. Then there are things like warranties and R&D, which you can’t always be sure about when you shop online at a website with a dodgy URL.
“There are numerous horror stories of people left stranded after the seller has disappeared offline and having no way of contacting for a warranty if something should ever go wrong,” Collings said.
Premium tyre companies will use the highest-quality materials, and the tyres will be put through exhaustive R&D and testing before consumer consumption.
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Bridgestone, for example, invests significantly in R&D both internationally and for Australia’s unique conditions. “We have an extensive testing program which sees car, truck and 4x4/SUV tyres regularly being tested on Australian roads,” Tamblyn said.
Toyo Tires is also renowned internationally for its exceptional manufacturing techniques. And, as Steve Burke explained, “While we find that collaborative development on a global scale regularly results in off-road tyres that excel in Australian conditions, we do still conduct testing against localised criteria as part of our Quality Assurance Program (QAP).”
Burke added that while many cheaper manufacturers will cut corners by replicating popular products with cheaper materials, if you’re familiar with navigating the modern age of knock-off products, the real risk for the savvy consumer comes in selecting a retailer.
“The tyre industry is not alone in being plagued with parallel imports, with old or over-stocked products from other markets dumped into Australia while circumventing the official distribution channels that provide consistency of supply, warranty and after-sales support amongst other things,” he said. “This may seem like a bargain, but the old adage ‘you get what you pay for’ yet again rings true here, so it’s worth thinking about the services you may be sacrificing to save a buck.”
Falken’s Mick Small reiterated that point, emphasising that all Falken tyres are tested in Australia before they’re approved for local sale. He added: “The value in buying locally (rather than on the internet) from a recognised tyre retailer, ensures you source a quality tyre, professional installation and after sales service/support.”
Tyres Explained
Like shoes, tyres comes in all widths, sizes, and limits to fulfill any specific range of functions a user needs. The details of which are written out in numerical designations on your tyre sidewalls, which can be confusing. Here are what those numbers mean.
265/65R17 100T
265 = section width (in millimetres)
65 = sidewall aspect ratio (as a percentage of width)
R = tyre construction (in this case, radial)
17 = rim diameter (in inches)
100 = load rating (in this case, 800kg)
T = speed rating (see below, in this case, 190km/h)
SPEED AND LOAD RATINGS
Tyres are assigned a specific speed rating advising the maximum permitted speed of said tyre. For example, a 265/65R17 100T tyre has a speed rating of 190km/h. For safety reasons, it’s recommended to never exceed the max speed rating. And always double-check ratings when purchasing tyres, especially online, as they could invalidate your insurance.
Speed Rating Max Speed
N 140km/h
P 150km/h
Q 160km/h
R 170km/h
S 180km/h
T 190km/h
U 200km/h
H 210km/h
V 240km/h
Tyres are also assigned load ratings, which designates how much weight a tyre is designed to carry when operating at its maximum speed rating and inflated to maximum pressure, as the tyre’s load carrying capacity will decrease with reductions in pressure. For example, a 265/65R17 100T has a load rating of 100, which translates to a maximum permissible load of 800kg. Remember, it’s illegal to install tyres with a lower load index than the vehicle manufacturer’s original tyre.
Index Number Max permissable load
60 250kg
“All tyres come with a load-rating index and a speed-rating index,” said 4X4 Australia’s Fraser Stronach. “What’s important here is that the load rating has to be matched or bettered when replacing an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) tyre while the speed rating can be lower than the OEM tyre. Laws regarding fitting replacement tyres with a lower speed rating vary state by state.
"Although it may seem counter intuitive, tyres with higher speed ratings have thinner sidewalls, which help limit heat build-up when high speeds are maintained over long periods of time. Unfortunately, thin sidewalls are also more prone to being torn open by anything sharp. As a general rule, anything from a H-rated tyre up won’t survive long off-road. Speed ratings down to ‘N’ are generally permissible when replacing the OEM tyres.”
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“Regular wheel alignments and tyre rotations are critical in combatting irregular wear as the leading cause of tyre noise, especially with aggressive off-road tyres that experience increased tread flex as a result of their open tread pattern. Keeping on top of maintenance will extend any tyre’s life, ensuring it performs at its peak for as long as possible,” Steve Burke from Toyo Tires explained.
Website: www.toyotires.com.au
Toyo’s ‘Open Country’ range provides premium performance on- and off-road while featuring industry-leading balance and surprising sealed road characteristics, covering models like the R/T (Rugged Terrain), A/T, A/T II, M/T, H/T, Q/T (Quiet-Terrain) and U/T (Urban-Terrain).
Website: www.bridgestonetyres.com.au
Bridgestone has a Dueler tyre to cover both punters that love to skip in mud and those that rarely escape the concrete jungle. The premium rubber is available in M/T, H/T and A/T construction.
Website: www.mickeythompsontires.com.au
Mickey Thompson has a range of All-Terrain (Mickey All Terrain 38 and Baja Radial ATZ P3) and Mud-Terrain (Deegan 38, Baja Radial MTZ P3 and Baja Radial Claw TTC) tyres. It also stocks competition tyres – Mini Mag, Baja Pro and Claw TTC – if you plan on entering the next Baja 1000.
Website: www.bfgoodrich.com.au
BFGoodrich recently launched its all-new KM3 Mud-Terrain tyre, which features massive tread blocks, “mud-phobic” bars, linear flex zones, enhanced grip on slick surfaces and thicker sidewall rubber. The KM3 joins BFG’s top-selling All-Terrain T/A KO2.
Website: www.falken.com.au
Falken’s range of 4WD tyres available from local dealers includes the Wildpeak HT, Wildpeak AT01, Wildpeak AT02, Wildpeak AT3W and Wildpeak MT. All Falken products sold by authorised Falken retailers are offered with six years manufacturer’s warranty for defects in materials and workmanship from date of consumer sale.
Website: www.coopertires.com.au
Cooper has a variety of premium off-road-focused tyres currently on the market including HT3, Zeon LTZ, A/T3 light-duty, A/T3 heavy-duty, S/T Maxx and STT Pro. Go online to see which suits your driving habits.
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Currently, EU trademarks and designs have effect in the UK because of the UK's membership of the EU. However, the UK's membership of the EU is due to end on 29th March 2019. With a deal yet to be finalised, the UK government has laid out its plans for a 'no deal' scenario.
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Leeds United's Barry Douglas "optimistic" after first outing since injury blow
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Leeds United left-back Barry Douglas says he is "feeling good and optimistic" as he stepped up his return from ruptured knee ligaments on Wednesday evening.
The 29-year-old saw his season end prematurely in April after picking up the issue during the Whites dramatic 3-2 victory over Millwall at Elland Road.
Douglas, though, has been working hard throughout the summer in an attempt to regain full fitness ahead of the new campaign.
The Scot featured for an hour in United's opening friendly of the summer as they ran out 5-0 winners over York City at Bootham Crescent.
A double from Jack Harrison mixed in with goals from Kemar Roofe, Pablo Hernandez and Adam Forshaw handed Leeds a one-sided victory.
The outing, though, brought some much-needed minutes for Marcelo Bielsa's squad with Douglas reaping the benefits more than most following a gruelling rehabilitation process.
"I'm feeling good and optimistic," he revealed.
"It's been a patient rehabilitation process for myself. It's nice to finally get back on the pitch and play. I'm not going to push it too much.
"I know I need to be patient to get to full tilt but it's a step in the right direction and I'm happy to get through it unscathed.
"At the stage I'm at I'm almost back to 100 per cent. It's probably about just irritating it now and again to get that belief and confidence within myself that it is fine.
"Everything else physically I feel good. Again, it's just about getting minutes and getting back to match sharpness."
Asked about how pre-season was taking shape under Bielsa at Thorp Arch, he added: "I think we know what to expect.
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Apartment for sale in Estepona
Magnificent apartment for sale in the heart of the beautiful town of Estepona. It is 71 square metres in size and has 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. It has been fully renovated and has new floors, new kitchen fully fitted with all fantastic brand new electro domestics also the bathrooms have all be changed and modernised. There is a balcony just out from the living room. The building also has an elevator and the area where the flat is located has supermarkets, schools not far away, shops and only a 5 minute walk to the beach.
Area Info: Estepona
Striking Cultural Mix
Quite tangibly Spanish, Estepona is at the same time surprisingly sedate. The approach to Estepona from the east is all dramatic twisty roads, luxurious hotels and sumptuous beach clubs, while its backdrop is highlighted by one of the coast’s tallest and most striking mountains – a crimson red, perfectly conical mound of rock that glimmers in the sunlight at the heart of the Sierra Bermeja and really draws the eye.
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Estepona transformed from historical fishing village and harbour town to "The Garden of the Costa del Sol"
Laidback Contentment
Even if you turn your attentions toward Estepona as you drive past, the distant silhouette of Gibraltar in one direction, or the awe-inspiring sweep of the northern Costa del Sol in the other, instantly grabs your eye. Fronting a wide, sweeping beach that stretches the length of the town, Estepona's charming boulevards, beautiful plazas and inescapably Spanish atmosphere act as a breath of fresh air.
In recent years the municipality has also promoted itself as the “Garden of the Costa del Sol”, transforming the historic centre with a beautification project that has involved adorning walls with murals, planting one million flowers, bedecking streets with hanging flower pots and undertaking a significant pedestrianisation of the streets – as well as opening a stunning Orchidarium.
The town is a former fishing village that has grown organically over centuries, rather than rapidly over decades. As a result, it has a settled air to it: a laidback sense of contentment, a thriving business hub, a fully-functioning industrial network and a major fishing harbour.
Every Sunday morning, throughout the year, the colourful local market takes over the harbour and its surrounding streets and alleys. While the same market can be found in Marbella on Mondays, San Pedro on Thursdays and Nueva Andalucía on Saturday mornings, Estepona is essentially its spiritual home.
For many expats, it is the only time they visit the resort. Sure, they could visit one closer to their home, but there's something about the Estepona version that is so much more alluring. While not quite the tumultuous organised chaos of a Marrakesh market or an Istanbul bazaar, the sights, smells and sounds of Estepona's market make for a highly enjoyable experience – a wonderful assault on the senses.
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Chic beach club and boutique shopping centre
Chilled-Out Modernity
The gleaming promenade offers secure and convenient underground parking, adding a touch of modern-day efficiency to this most chilled-out of Spanish towns. The eastern and western outskirts of the municipality are markedly different. To the east – which is closer to Marbella and the more robust “heart' of the Costa del Sol – there is a surfer-style beach and the chic Laguna Village beach club and shopping centre, as well as the Selwo Aventura animal park; while the more remote western fringe is home to the fishing harbour, tapas bars, flamenco bars, residential towers and (further outside town) golf courses.
Friendly Ambience
The difference is quite striking, yet Estepona is comfortable with both. Convenient, friendly and delivering a great mix of Spanish culture and international influences, Estepona has it all. The central plaza, in the heart of the old town, is perhaps its most appealing attraction, where a strong coffee, a good book and a pair of sunglasses are all you need for a perfect day.
Estepona is home to a good number of late-night clubs and bars. Residents rarely feel the need to travel to Marbella or Puerto Banús for their evening entertainment, which is a testament to the impressive variety on offer in the heart of Estepona. While most establishments are quite Spanish, there are inviting “expat”-style bars complete with snooker tables, karaoke nights and all the trappings of “home”.
Both Spanish and inviting “expat”-style bars
Eating out in Estepona is highly affordable and immensely enjoyable. The town has some of the area's finest fish and seafood restaurants at the harbour, which is also a great spot for an evening stroll and a quiet drink with friends. In the main plaza, patrons of the numerous bodegas, tapas bars and cafés that ring the square converge into one happy and peaceful mass each weekend, lending the town a jovial charm.
Harbour-side with friends... lending Estepona a jovial charm
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The map shows the QDS records, for Zambia only, in our database. The aim is to show the natural distribution of the species, so records where the plants are known, or are suspected, to have been planted are excluded.
IMPORTANT NOTE: the number of records in the system is generally not yet sufficient to show the full distribution of each species.
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Bingham, M.G., Willemen, A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. and Hyde, M.A. (2019). Flora of Zambia: Google maps: Lobelia erinus.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/utilities/google-maps-display-qds.php?species_id=157790, retrieved 16 July 2019
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Kate Middleton steps out in green again with Dolce and Gabbana coat
Yahoo Lifestyle February 21, 2018
Kate greets well-wishers. (PA Images)
Prince William and Kate Middleton met crowds of well-wishers in Sunderland, England today as they visited a new music and arts hub in the city.
The Duchess of Cambridge, who is seven months pregnant with her third baby, wore a dark green Dolce and Gabbana coat for the occasion, paired with suede heels and a matching clutch. It’s the second time in a week Middleton has stepped out in the color; her hunter green Jenny Packham gown at the Baftas bucked the event’s unofficial all-black dress code.
The royal was pictured speaking to the crowds of people who lined the streets to meet her, including two children dressed as police officers.
She also received a bunch of blowers from a delighted young fan.
Two young fans dressed in police officer outfits met the Duchess of Cambridge in Sunderland. (PA Images)
Patriotic crowds line the streets, waiting for a glimpse of the royals. (PA Images)
Prince William was pictured chatting to a 101-year-old resident, Jane, who came to welcome the couple to the city.
The royals visited The Fire Station, a new cultural hub in Sunderland.
They were treated to music, drama, and dance performances from local children during their trip to experience the city’s “vibrant arts scene and engineering talent.”
Local children gives displays of music, dance & drama for The Duke and Duchess.@FireStationSun has an exciting arts programme for young people, including storytelling, street-dance & aerial dancing. pic.twitter.com/1an8GfbFhy
— Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) February 21, 2018
The couple are expecting their third child, a younger sibling for Prince George and Princess Charlotte, in April. Her due date is estimated to be just a few weeks after the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
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Rapid Re-Dollarisation Of The Market Triggered The Fast Re-Introduction Of Zim Dollar: Mthuli Ncube
By admin July 9, 2019 70 No comment
Zimbabwe re-introduced its local currency earlier than scheduled because the market was rapidly re-dollarizing, putting more pressure on the government, finance minister Mthuli Ncube said Monday.
Ncube told a business meeting that the government had to move fast to correct the situation that was becoming untenable.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa had previously said Zimbabwe would re-introduce its currency by year end, after having dumped it in 2009 after it was rendered worthless by a decade of hyperinflation.
“Re-dollarisation required conversion of salaries to U.S. dollars. Given the tight fiscal space and that we do not print U.S. dollars, we would not be able to do that,” Mthuli said.
“That is one of the reasons why we thought we should move faster on the introduction of the Zimbabwe dollar, not that it was not on the cards but we had to move faster,” he said.
In an abrupt move, the finance minister last month banned use of the U.S. dollar and other foreign currencies for domestic transactions, and re-introduced the Zimbabwe dollar as the sole legal tender, effectively ending the multi currency regime that had been in existence since 2009.
The Zimbabwe dollar is currently made up of the electronic RTGS dollars, bond notes and bond coins.
The return of the local currency follows the introduction in February of the foreign currency inter-bank market where the Zimbabwe dollar is expected to trade at market rates.
After debuting at 2.50 to 1 U.S. dollar in February, the local unit is now trading at about 8.5 to the greenback, compared to a black market rate of 9.
Monetary authorities believe the competitive rates on the official market will help to tame the black market whose rates had risen to as high as 16 to 1 U.S. dollar before re-introduction of the local currency on June 24.
The runaway black market rates were fuelling price increases and inflation, leaving most basic commodities beyond the reach of the majority.
But since the ban on use of the green back and introduction of the local currency, prices of most basic commodities have started to go down, bringing some relief to consumers.
However, the nation continues to grapple with severe shortages of fuel, power and medical drugs amid a serious shortage of foreign currency.
Source – Xinhua
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H+K adds Alex Silcox in new Managing Director role
by Magnify Team | June 29, 2017
LONDON – Hill+Knowlton Strategies (H+K) London has appointed Alex Silcox as Managing Director, Integrated Creative Services.
Alex takes on this newly created role to oversee creative integration throughout the agency and with its creative studio, Bisqit. He will also be focusing on developing and broadening H+K’s relationship with Huawei, the Chinese telecoms giant.
Alex has more than 20 years of experience in the communications industry, including 17 years at leading content marketing agency John Brown Media. As Executive Director at John Brown, his remit included brand communications, digital innovation, international development and new business. For the last two years, he has run his own consultancy providing content marketing strategy, editorial and creative counsel to both agencies and clients.
Speaking on his new role, Alex said “It’s an exciting time to be joining H+K. My role is to help pull together the many strands of expertise here, from deep sector experience to content creation, strategy, channel and activation know-how, to offer an holistic, fully integrated solution for our clients.”
Welcoming Alex to the company, Richard Millar, President and CEO of H+K London said “I am delighted that Alex has chosen to join our team of creative strategists here in London. I expect Alex’s knowledge and experience will be a powerful accelerant in our transformation to an ideas-driven business.”
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A rendition of the 140 units affordable housing complex proposed on the canals. Photo: Venice Community Housing.
Venice median project sparks debate.
By Cailley Chella
It’s no secret that parking in Venice is in low supply. That’s why the Venice Neighborhood Council (VNC) is concerned about a new affordable housing project where LADOT parking lot #731 is now
“They say homeless people don’t have cars,” said Ira Koslow, President of the VNC, “So is there really 188 extra parking spots or are they going ‘Well, we really need 400, but we’re only putting in 188 because they don’t drive?’”
LADOT Parking Lot #731 is located by the canals on Venice Boulevard, between North and South Venice Boulevard, between Pacific Avenue and Dell Avenue. That lot is where Venice Community Housing (VCH) has proposed a new, 140-unit affordable housing project that they’re calling the Reese Davidson Community. The project would designate 70 units for formerly homeless people, 35 units for low-income artists and 35 units for other low-income families. The site would also have a community arts center and retail stores as well as at least 188 parking spaces for residents and the public. Parkme.com lists the lot as currently having 177 public parking spaces.
According to an L.A. City Council motion submitted by Councilmember Mike Bonin, back in 2014 Council District 11 submitted a Request for Information (RFI) concerning potential development of current city-owned parking lots in Venice. The RFI discussed increasing the city’s parking capacity with automated lots as well as developing affordable housing on the lots. The motion says that the RFI supported the idea that lot #731 was the best option for the development of public parking in conjunction with affordable housing. Bonin’s Deputy Chief of Staff, David Graham-Caso also said, “A parking study was conducted by the Department of City Planning for the Local Coastal Program update in Venice.” Caso said this study is still in draft form, but that it will serve as a starting point for LADOT. The results of that study have not yet become available for the public.
Councilmember Bonin is asking for more information about the project, but the VNC remains concerned. On Monday, Feb. 25 they submitted a community impact statement detailing the expansive efforts they’ve taken to increase parking in Venice, not decrease.
In January of this year, Bonin again submitted a motion to study the location in conjunction with the need for additional public parking, alternatives to relocating the parking lot and evaluate the costs, benefits and funding sources of a potential new public parking structure. On Monday night, the VNC held a special meeting to approve and submit their community impact statement (CIS) to be attached to Bonin’s motion, which they say, he violated City Charter Section 907 in never requesting it from them in the first place.
The community impact statement details the work the VNC has been doing over the past few decades in trying to study and improve parking in the city. In it, they refer to a number of studies to show that the council is already aware of the parking shortage and they have funds to build more. A “Venice Traffic and Parking Plan” from the 1990s reported the city had a shortage of about 1200 parking spaces. And the 2012 Westside Mobility Plan “Venice In-Lieu Fee Report” says the City has been collecting fees from the Venice Parking Trust Fund, established in 1988, that could be used to finance new parking structures.
The statement also details a request made by the council in 2017 to get an inventory of parking spaces in the city. They say their request was approved and that a study of parking in Venice would be included in an upcoming Venice Coastal Zone Land Use Plan, but that they still haven’t received this information.
Becky Dennison, the Executive Director of Venice Community Housing says the project will actually increase parking options, “We also hope to increase public parking and create additional options for through traffic at the Reese Davidson site, as recommended in the CIS.”
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Cardinal Schönborn: There’s Nothing More Stupendous Than the Family
Says Synod Has Already Met a Main Goal: Affirming a Great ‘Yes’ to Family
October 20, 2015 18:18Salvatore CernuzioSynod of bishops
Cardinal Christoph Schönborn says that the synod of bishops has already reached a principal goal: affirming a great “yes” to the family.
Speaking to ZENIT last week, the Archbishop of Vienna applauded the new methodology chosen by Pope Francis for the synod, despite initial criticism that the changes caused “confusion.”
Instead, says the cardinal, the change is “very, very useful because it involves every one of the participants.”
“There are 13 meetings of small groups, three times more than the preceding Synods. With this method — less Plenaries and more Linguistic Groups — more direct and I would say more fruitful contact is possible for the discussions,” he said.
The cardinal said that after the first days of the synod, the atmosphere was more relaxed.
“The fact is that the subject of the family involves us very much; therefore, there is tension surrounding the questions, surrounding the challenges,” he stressed, adding that it is a “positive” tension because it shows “the care and love that the Church has for this fundamental institution that is the family.”
“What struck me and strikes me day after day is that — despite the different realities, experiences and problems — the testimonies of the whole world all demonstrate the same thing: there is no more stupendous project than the family. It is truly the work of the Creator.”
“The success of marriage and of the family is worth immensely more than all the difficulties and the crises that exist. The desire of marriage and of the family is truly rooted in the whole world,” remarked the Austrian cardinal, affirming that beyond all the results that this Synod can obtain, it has already reached a principal aim: “A great yes of the Church to the family — a great hope that the family will be stronger than all the crises.”
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Crotone, Italia Laurea triennale in Scienze della comunicazione, informazione e marketing (2008) e Laurea specialistica in Editoria e Giornalismo (2010) presso l'Università LUMSA di Roma. Radio Vaticana. Roma Sette. "Ecclesia in Urbe". Ufficio Comunicazioni sociali del Vicariato di Roma. Secondo classificato nella categoria Giovani della II edizione del Premio Giuseppe De Carli per l'informazione religiosa
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An update for Microsoft Extender Technology
Active-TV Ecosystem Developers,
The Issue: Bringing internet-delivered TV-web video to the living room TV requires mastering multiple engineering disciplines and marketing constraints.
Background: Microsoft offers an option for most, but not all, of the pieces needed to form a home entertainment ecosystem.
Behind the scene: Whereas Microsoft is pursuing a Vista-reinforcing digital media strategy, active-TV technology enables a large ecosystem of TVs, PCs and TV-web channels, by offering considerable openness and flexibility in terms of what devices will work well together within the networked ecosystem - including multiple PC operating systems.
A Microsoft supported blog by Chris Lanier, provides more information about Microsoft’s next generation Extender technology: “Microsoft launched there new MCX Partner Site for Pika the other day. Pika is the codename for Media Center Extenders (MCX) v2. “
Following the provided link to the Microsoft’s MCX web site reveals: “Windows Media Center Extender Technology (or "MCX Technology") is platform-independent software that will enable home network connected consumer electronics devices to deliver full, high-definition Media Center experiences.”
Those of you who have been tracking digital media convergence for some time likely remember the first Microsoft Extender device, including its strengths and weaknesses when it was introduced to the market some years ago. Extender technology, now in its second generation (v2) and codenamed Pika, has some similarities, yet important differences, with active-TV technology. Both require the assistance of a networked PC to complete the processing of a TV-web channel; both claim platform-independence for the firmware portion, the portion integrated into the Set-Top Box (STB), TV, or DMA (Digital Media Adapter). It is the significant differences, however, that I will now outline.
First, to what extent is Pika being adopted in the market versus alternative solutions? Recent news from Beijing regarding collaboration between Microsoft and a Chinese TV maker may indicate that the later is considering the use of Pika: "The project focuses on in-home network digital entertainment - how to connect PCs, TVs and the Internet to provide this digital entertainment experience". To be sure, Microsoft Extender technology can be integrated into a TV or STB, but it is noteworthy that so far no European or US developer has introduced such a product. However, there have been announcements from several US and European developers regarding their adding active-TV technology.
The first Media Center Extender device would only operate fully when networked with a Media Center PC, rather than a PC using Windows XP. The Xbox also supports Extender technology but offers reduced functionality when networked with a Windows XP PC. If Extender-enhanced devices were popular they would help drive adoption of the newest premium PC operating systems. However, reduced functionality is not very satisfactory for existing Windows XP users or TV manufacturers that want to sell a networked TV which will work with XP – there are over 100 million licensed XP users. With Pika technology aligned with Vista-based PCs (a small but growing user base) and not the massive Windows XP installed base, the reduced Extender functionality provided to the XP user, may have limited appeal. Of note, Apple-TV (another DMA variant) also operates with a companion networked PC (know as an Extended-PC), but is not ‘keyed’ to a particular version of the Windows operating systems (OS).
In contrast, active-TV technology does not place any restrictions on the version of Windows used by a PC supporting the operation of the networked TV or STB. For this reason, it is easy to see the appeal this flexibility has for the networked TV manufacturer; it allows them to sell a networked TV which accesses internet-delivered TV-web channels to any existing PC owner – not just a subset of new PC owners.
Active-TV technology is also able to support far more TV-web channels than currently accessible through Extender-enabled DMAs. This is because there are lots of ways to build a PC-web page, and equally, many different ways to build a TV-web channel. However the TV-web channels promoted with the Media Center PC, originally known as spotlights, made use of the Windows Media Video (WMV) codec. It is important to underscore that the Extender platforms do not have support for important video codecs such as the popular Adobe Flash (FLV) – however, here is supported for MPEG2.
As a result, a TV-web channel which uses the FLV video codec, such as the recently described YouTube TV-web channel, can not be displayed on an Extender. Adobe Flash Video is likely the most popular video codec in use by video-sharing PC-web sites. Given that a TV-web channel can draw upon the same video database used by the PC-web site, it is much more convenient to use FLV for a TV-web formatted alternative. Active-TV technology works with any video codec and is very flexible in its support for differently formatted TV-web channels.
Microsoft has introduced MCML and WinFX formatting (Media Center Markup Language and WinFX browser apps) for future TV-web channels. Should a TV-web channel developer chose to use these formatting methods they will only be accessible to Extender platforms which have the necessary underlying support – will this mean only a Pika-enabled DMA and a Vista PC? So far, unless an Extender is connected to a PC using the latest version of Windows, there is reduced functionality, such as only supporting basic DLNA operation when used with Windows XP (no TV-web channel access). Slide 4 of Microsoft's WinHec06 presentation indicates that only Vista Premium or Ultimate will support complete Extender functionality. Earlier Windows users can not expect support for “3rd party applications”, which is Microsoft-speak for no TV-web channel access.
Of course, TV-web channel developers may continue to use HTML, Adobe flash and other formatting methods supported by the legacy of browsers used with older PC operating systems. This will likely give them access to the greatest audience, particularly when delivered to the living room TV via active-TV technology.
Lanier’s blog states that Sigma Designs will provide the chip used in the Pika-based Extender v2. ATI provided the chip for the Extender v1. Likely critical to Microsoft’s decision is chip-support for the VC-1 (WMV9) codec. An alternative chip supplier would have been STMicroelectronics – using their ST710x family. Not surprisingly, active-TV technology developers such as Avtrex , Futarque and others, already offer support for Sigma Designs and ST-Micro based TVs and STBs – they also support ATI-based active-TV systems. ATI is a major supplier of chips for the US digital TV market. ST-Micro is major supplier of chips to world-wide TV and Set-Top Box developers. Not to be left out is NXP-based STB developer TeleGent which has also indicated the importance of active-TV technology support. Note that several other STB and TV developers are listed on AMD’s active-TV support page, including: Wyplay, WorldSat, Dream Multimedia and more. Active-TV technology is not owned by any one company, but AMD has been a noticeable user of the technology.
Returning to the recent Beijing news regarding the use of Microsoft technology by a Chinese TV maker, it is not surprising given the developments of leading US and European manufacturers, that their counterparts in China are also evaluating active-TV technology.
Feedback, corrections and comments welcome. Contact me for more information or support with active-TV technology development.
Posted by Daniel Mann at 10:22 AM 6 comments: Links to this post
Labels: AMD, Apple-TV, ATI, Avtrex, DMA, Drem Multimedia, Extended-PC, Extender, Futarque, MCE, MCML, MCX, NXP, Pika, Sigma Designs, STMicroelectronics, WorldSat, Wyplay, xbox, Xbox 360
Growth of TV-web channels
The Issue: How many TV-web channels are available for TV viewing? What standard do they use?
Background: The freedom associated with a PC’s access to PC-web via the internet, has changed our lives. This same freedom will enable TV-web channel developers to bring TV-web to the living room TV
Behind the scene: Anyone can build a TV-web channel, and many major companies already have. With active-TV technology, the growth in TV-web channel development is accelerated, given that it brings to TV-web the same freedoms associated with PC-web access.
I don’t know how many PC-web sites exist, or how many new ones are added to the web every day. Similarly, I don’t know how many TV-web channels [i.e. websites formatted for access at the TV] exist. But like the early days of PC-web, while the number may be relatively low, it is growing rapidly.
I have attached below a list of known TV-web channels or sites. However, such a list quickly falls out of date. I did not include sites from the USA which would have included some interesting examples, such as access to YouTube, Google Video, Veoh, Vmix and more. Also not included are sites from Japan, Korea or Taiwan, whose listings’ would have required additional font support.
As previously described, there are many ways to build or lay out TV-web. When Microsoft introduced the Media Center Edition (MCE) PC, it offered a suggested set of guidelines to show how TV-web, intended for MCE presentation, should look. Although there may be practical reasons for following these guidelines, a TV-web developer can nevertheless build anything they see fit, using any web publishing tools available.
The MCE PC has a means of adding “more programs” to the TV-web channel listings. The name “more-programs” may not be ideal; it is likely left over from the time when TV-web was also known as media applications. Any TV-web channel can be added under the “more programs” channel listings. However, Microsoft selected certain TV-web sites to reside at the top of the TV menu and called them “spotlights”. TV-web channels added to the TV menu via use of “more programs” appear lower down on the TV menu. With the introduction of Vista, Microsoft has instead been calling TV-web channels “on-line media,” rather than MCE “more programs” or “spotlights”.
Like PC-web, once a TV-web channel is offered on the internet, anyone with a capable browser can access it. Using active-TV technology enables any Windows PC to access the site on behalf of a networked TV or Set-Top Box -- there is no need for an MCE PC. A number of TV-web channel suppliers are trying to restrict access to their site to certain geographical locations – such as, for example, the BBC limiting access to the UK. This is generally accomplished via IP address filtering: If the viewer’s IP address is not determined to be located in the correct geographical region, the request for access to the TV-web channel is not granted by the server.
Because Adobe Flash Video (FLV) is very popular with PC-web sites supporting video sharing, it is increasingly used with TV-web channels. Use of FLV was not covered in the MCE TV-web development guidelines. Current active-TV technology supports the distribution of TV-web channels using FLV to devices such as networked TVs and networked STBs located around the home. However, other devices with similar technology, including Media Center Extenders, do not support the use of FLV video. Where these Extenders are similar to active-TV technology is in their support for Windows Media Video (WMV) and MPEG2 video.
Feedback, corrections and comments welcome.
link to list of non-US TV-web channels
Posted by Daniel Mann at 8:12 AM No comments: Links to this post
Labels: Extender, MCE, MCML, Veoh, Vmix, WinHTML
Will YouTube access justify cost of Apple TV ?
The Issue: Apple TV unit volumes are lower than some had expected.
Background: Building a low-cost living room appliance which enables internet video access, remains a challenge. This continues to be the big obstacle preventing many companies expanding into living room video delivery.
Behind the scene: active-TV technology enables low-cost access to internet video in the living room, via enlisting behind-the-scenes support from a networked PC or laptop computer.
In a CNNMoneny.com article, Brent Schlender of Fortune argues that Apple TV is a “dud”. No unit shipment numbers are presented but the lack of promotional advertising is sited as indication of its unacceptability.
Listed as key weaknesses are:
the requirement for an HDTV connection
high price ($299)
inability to order movies from the TV UI
lack of DVD
access to photos from only a single networked computer
A review of Apple-TV, comparing it with active-TV technology, in September 2006, entitled “Apple Takes the Extended-Path”, predicted many of the problems outlined by Schlender’s article. In view of these limitations, it can be assumed that Apple knew support for only widescreen high-def TVs would be limiting and their shipment numbers may consequently be inline with their initial expectations. What is needed to produce greater unit shipments, however, is a lower cost Apple TV and support for popular video - such as a YouTube channel.
Last week at the D conference, Steve Jobs announced that Apple TV would soon include support for YouTube viewing. It was stated that the TV UI will be “embedded into the AppleTV interface”. Also, TV access to YouTube “works off a live Internet connection that does not have to go through the PC”.
Apple TV’s ability to access YouTube video without the aid of a PC, is partly why the device is so expensive. Clearly the inclusion of a DVD player would make Apple TV more attractive, but this would add further cost to an already expensive appliance. I am sure Apple understands all the tradeoffs, but so far has chosen the more expensive path of a device with greater standalone capability.
A BusinessWeek article “What Apple TV costs to Make” by Arik Hesseldahl, estimates a bill-of-materials (BOM) of $237. This results in an untypical low profit margin for an Apple product. The Intel CPU and chipset are estimated at $68. Hesseldahl states “by typical Apple standards, the new set-top video box may as well be a hobby given how unprofitable it is in its current form”.
Long-term analyzers and developers of platforms bringing internet TV to the living room are familiar with the tradeoffs Apple TV faced. In short, it is difficult to build a reliable, low-maintenance and inexpensive box that that can enable flexible and polished access to internet video. Yes, the PC achieves this, but it has little acceptance as a device attached to the living room TV. Microsoft faced the same set of tradeoffs when it architected the Media Center Extender.
There is plenty of interesting video available from YouTube, Veoh, Vmix and many more. What the market needs is an acceptable low-cost hardware platform brining internet video to the living room TV. With over 100M shipments of Sony Playstation 2 (PS2) and a current price of about $130, BroadQ’s active-TV software for the PS2 is likely well positioned to challenge the market for DMA-styled devices – such as Apple TV. Fortunately, the PS2 also plays DVDs and games.
The active-TV technology approach results in very low additional cost at the TV side. This is particular true when active-TV technology is built directly into a networked TV. This is achieved by relying on a networked PC ‘invisibly’ doing all the “heavy lifting” work. The approach produces a different set of tradeoffs for the home user. For those that already own a networked PC or laptop computer, it is likely the least expensive way of bringing YouTube and other internet distributed video to the living room TV. Developers of traditional Set-Top Boxes, now working on enhancements such as network connectivity, or TVs with network connectivity, are using active-TV technology to enable internet video access with very little increase to the TV’s bill-of-materials.
The embedded Apple TV UI for YouTube will likely be of typical Apple quality. With active-TV technology it is easy for anyone to design and build their own YouTube TV interface. Active-TV technology developer MediaMall has recently updated its TV UI for YouTube. See image below.
Similar to early reports describing the Apple TV version, it uses IR remote Triple-Tap Entry to enter text strings when searching for new videos. This will likely be very popular. I also like the alternatively supported approach of selecting favorites from the YouTube PC UI, which then appear in the listings to the left of the screen. This can be done while using a wireless laptop PC in the living room along with a big screen TV showing the YouTube TV UI via active-TV technology support.
Apple TV problems such as the inability to access photos from more than a single networked computer are likely easily fixed. Existing active-TV alternatives already support this feature. The debate over what is appropriate for a TV UI (TV-web) and what should be left to the PC UI (PC-web) will continue, but I don't see keyboards making their way into living room for TV support. Apple is skilled at making these judgments, but the openness of active-TV technology allows anyone to offer their own solution, if they could just figure out what TV-UI users really want. Active-TV technology also works with standard-def or high-def Set-Top Boxes and TVs.
Posted by Daniel Mann at 12:12 PM 3 comments: Links to this post
Labels: Apple-TV, BroadQ, Extender, MediaMall, Playstation, Sony, YouTube
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Kevin Angelo Molato
Kevin Angelo Molato (°1990, Makati, Philippines) makes paintings, sculptures and mixed media artworks. By examining the ambiguity and origination via retakes and variations, Molato tries to increase the dynamic between audience and author by objectifying emotions and investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations.
His paintings isolate the movements of humans and/or objects. By doing so, new sequences are created which reveal an inseparable relationship between motion and sound. By questioning the concept of movement, he finds that movement reveals an inherent awkwardness, a humour that echoes our own vulnerabilities. The artist also considers movement as a metaphor for the ever-seeking man who experiences a continuous loss.
His works are notable for their perfect finish and tactile nature. This is of great importance and bears witness to great craftsmanship. By focusing on techniques and materials, he considers making art a craft which is executed using clear formal rules and which should always refer to social reality.
His works never shows the complete structure. This results in the fact that the artist can easily imagine an own interpretation without being hindered by the historical reality. Kevin Angelo Molato currently lives and works in Rosario, Cavite.
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House committee subpeoneas Michael Flynn, Rick Gates in Russia probe
FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2017 file photo, National Security Adviser Michael Flynn speaks during the daily news briefing at the White House, in Washington. House intelligence committee has issued subpoenas for former national security adviser Michael Flynn and Rick Gates, a former Trump campaign aide. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
The House Intelligence Committee has subpoenaed former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn and former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates as part of its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said Thursday the committee is examining “deep counterintelligence concerns” raised in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report and “requires speaking directly” with Flynn and Gates, who were important witnesses for Mueller’s investigation.
“The American people, and the Congress, deserve to hear directly from these two critical witnesses,” the California Democrat said in a statement.
“We hope these witnesses come to recognize their cooperation as being with the United States, not merely the Department of Justice.”
The subpoena seeks documents and testimony from both men. Letters sent to their lawyers request that records be produced by June 26 and that they testify before the committee on July 10.
Flynn admitted lying to the FBI about his conversations with the Russian ambassador to the United States and awaits sentencing. He was supposed to have been sentenced last December, but midway through the hearing abruptly asked for it to be postponed so that he could continue cooperating with the Justice Department and earn additional credit toward a reduced sentence.
Schiff told reporters Thursday that “there are a whole host of issues that we want the opportunity to discuss.”
“We have not had that opportunity over the past couple of years because of their involvement in their own cases and now potentially … in the cases involving others,” he added.
Schiff told reporters the committee is interested in Flynn’s discussions with former ambassador Sergey Kislyak about sanctions imposed on Russia as well as his involvement in foreign business deals.
Asked if he thought Flynn and Gates would appear, Schiff said, “I would hope that they would consider it valuable as a part of their cooperation, to show the court that they are doing everything that they can to assist the United States government, that they will also assist the Congress.”
Flynn’s attorney, Sidney Powell, said in an email to The Associated Press, “The General is continuing to cooperate with the government,” but she declined to comment on the subpoena. Gates’ lawyer did not immediately return an email message about the subpoena.
Powell, a former federal prosecutor who has been an outspoken critic of Mueller’s investigation, was recently hired by Flynn after he fired his previous lawyers. The change may herald a shift in Flynn’s legal strategy in the final stages of his case.
Gates pleaded guilty to conspiracy and false statement charges related to Ukrainian lobbying and political consulting he did with ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who’s been sentenced to more than seven years in prison.
Associated Press writer Susannah George contributed to this report.
Republished with the permission of the Associated Press.
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