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Updated 3:12pm Tuesday 21st January 2014 in News By Bill Tanner, Reporter
HEREFORD faces charging for on-street parking as Herefordshire Council moves to manage traffic flow through the city centre.
The charging option will go out to shoppers and traders as a consultation exercise next month, with findings put to the council's review of on-street parking in the city.
That review is examining a range of options with detailed proposals due in the summer.
Councillor Philip Price, Cabinet Member for Infrastructure said the review would look at the number of street parking spaces and where they are, how current restrictions control parking and whether they are appropriate.
"We need to understand how and what changes might better control traffic flow into and around the city centre to reduce congestion whilst supporting businesses and residents," he said.
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3:46pm Tue 21 Jan 14
silentbull2 says...
One day soon Hereford will look like greater London with theses ugly metal things scattered all around the city
Money comes first though eh
4:04pm Tue 21 Jan 14
bobby47 says...
5:01pm Tue 21 Jan 14
TwoWheelsGood says...
Do they not know this already? of course they do. It's a smoke screen, wordy waffle to try and detract from the fact that they have no ideas other than tax, tax and then tax some more the motorist coming into town to do business or to shop. This will be the final nail in the coffin for the small independents.
Do as bobby47 says - stop, leave us be, we're done with your endless job creation and politicking. It's madness.
5:06pm Tue 21 Jan 14
B the B says...
Do you want to pay to park in broad street? "Oh yes please" not
5:18pm Tue 21 Jan 14
The Russian 1 says...
8:20pm Tue 21 Jan 14
ed dunin says...
11:14pm Tue 21 Jan 14
RogerLFC says...
ed dunin wrote:This is being dressed up as 'traffic management' to benefit the Community ... Obviously nothing to do with exploring more avenues to attract cash through the parking!
The owner of Hat Trick writes a letter suggesting extending the time for parking on St Owens Street to help footfall in town and bring in trade for the independant traders and the Council think" What a good idea... and we'll charge them for it!!!" They seem to be doing their best to turn Hereford into a ghost town.
11:45pm Tue 21 Jan 14
TwoWheelsGood says...
8:27am Wed 22 Jan 14
WYSIATI says...
If there's no money actually raised then it's a scandal that benefits only the companies that get any contracts.
Let's have the figures, and then we can put that against what people want and what impacts are on business.
10:48am Wed 22 Jan 14
Mr.Herefordian says...
11:26am Wed 22 Jan 14
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DaveGlo says...
1:17pm Thu 23 Jan 14
OrchardSnuffler says...
Tumbleweed Hereford, killed by its own greedy councillors...
Oh no, I forgot, it will thrive across the way at the new Temple of Mammon shopping centre, where I expect there'll be more parking charges to keep people away, and fascinating shops which can only be found, er, in every other town in Britain (sigh!)
5:21pm Thu 23 Jan 14
jarvis 2 says...
5:42pm Thu 23 Jan 14
The Russian 1 says...
7:52pm Thu 23 Jan 14
littlewhitebull says...
£500 a day to employ a person to oversee vast cuts to the council's budget means that car parking charges must increase to pay for this new job.
So when we were told that high salaries must be paid to attract the right people to Herefordshire - the council got it wrong? If the present staff are so good, why the need to employ someone at £500 a day? A great many people in this county don't earn that a week!
8:53pm Thu 23 Jan 14
silashayes says...
11:55pm Thu 23 Jan 14
RogerLFC says...
WYSIATI wrote:Any on street parking charges would surely be enforced by the existing Council Traffic Attendants. They have to walk along those streets anyway. The poll on the HT website is currently showing 83% against charges so that seems a pretty clear message to the Council. I have a feeling that charges will come in tho. Like on my street up Aylestone. I have not seen one single student or commuter park on it in 20 years but that didn't stop the Council making it 'resident only' so they can sell permits that raise cash for them but actually solves a problem that doesn't exist!
What we need is a really clear analysis of exactly what would be raised - I fear that the costs of putting in meters, paying private sector companies to go around, manage these, issue tickets and the rest soaks up most of any charges that are made.
If there's no money actually raised then it's a scandal that benefits only the companies that get any contracts.
Let's have the figures, and then we can put that against what people want and what impacts are on business.
11:51am Fri 24 Jan 14
Fran says...
12:19pm Fri 24 Jan 14
saidflo says...
Cash strapped council decides to spend (waste) loads of money (again) on car parking charges Consultation.
Please someone, organise a training session for this council cabinet on budget management and creative thinking!! That will be money well spent.
12:19pm Fri 24 Jan 14
saidflo says...
Cash strapped council decides to spend (waste) loads of money (again) on car parking charges Consultation.
Please someone, organise a training session for this council cabinet on budget management and creative thinking!! That will be money well spent.
1:59pm Fri 24 Jan 14
denon says...
7:40pm Sat 25 Jan 14
RogerLFC says...
denon wrote:I lived in Ludlow for 12 years & I remember the times before those horrendous meters arrived ... it was a lot better. I like Ludlow a lot but if I go now it's on the train. If anyone wants to go by car I'd advise parking on Livesey Road. A short walk into town but less than 10 minutes ...
Gosh on street parking meters...... Hereford emulates ludlow....will go down hill just like ludlow....Im being sarcastic ...You Herefordians who write on here are a winging nasty lot ....Thank goodness the great majority are tolerant thoroughly nice people.
2:25pm Sun 26 Jan 14
megilleland says...
A standard 100 bay TopDeck car park can be erected in under five days on top of existing ground floor car parks. And while some of the car parks are installed on a temporary basis, most are purchased as permanent solutions. TopDeck car parks are designed for fast installation - and removal
It would be a good idea to use modular construction as no foundations are required and if you could put the solar roofing on top of a second floor this would be a constructive and imaginative use of space.
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Lincoln County, Tennessee Sheriff's deputies roped off a mobile home in Flintville, Tennessee on L Mitchell Road where they are investigating the murder of a person found inside.
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This is the season for communities to come together and celebrate the holidays! Saturday night Chipola College in Marianna hosted an event that did just that, three churches shared the gift of music.
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Katie Ledecky proved Thursday night that she doesn't need an Olympic or world championship pool to set records in. The 17-year-old from Bethesda can do it anytime, anywhere.
The reigning queen of distance swimming began her summer meet schedule by breaking her own world record in the 1,500-meter freestyle by two seconds at the Woodlands Swim Team Senior Invitational Meet in Shenandoah, Tex. — a summer tuneup meet her coach, Bruce Gemmell, added to the schedule because it was convenient.
"I wasn't really expecting it," said Ledecky, a two-time All-Met Swimmer of the Year. "I had that feeling where I thought I could go really fast, but I really didn't think I was going to go anywhere close to the world record."
A senior in the fall at Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart, she finished in a time of 15 minutes 34.23 seconds, beating the old mark of 15:36.53. She did it coming down from altitude after spending 18 days at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs with Gemmell and her Nation's Capital Swim Club teammates.
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Garry Battle's biggest adjustment when he was released from prison in 2003 was not finding a job or learning to surf the Internet. It was seeing his friends and family members hooked on crack cocaine.
"Crack wasn't like that when I left," said Battle, who was convicted of second-degree murder and served 17 years. "Young women prostituting themselves. That hurt me most, seeing my family members on drugs."
Battle was a featured speaker at an ex-offenders' conference Saturday at the Building Together Ministries Neighborhood Center and Hope Charter School at 1119 N. Blount Street. About 100 ex-cons, community support groups and activists attended the forum aimed at building better futures.
The all-day event was billed as the first conference held for and by ex-offenders. It was the brainchild of Marsha Gibbs of Step Out Ministries in Raleigh and Dennis Gaddy, an inmate at the Wake Correctional Center. Gaddy helped to start the Community Success Initiative which seeks to develop leadership and resources in low-income areas while on work release with the Good Work nonprofit in Durham.
Gaddy has worked at the non-profit for the past three years as a leadership trainer and personnel coach.
"You always hear about these conferences being held by people who haven't been to prison trying to give solutions," said Gaddy, who is also working toward ex-offender status. The warm, easygoing organizer will be released from prison June 20 after serving a five-year prison sentence for what he described as "unwise financial choices."
Gaddy said while serving time, he, Battle and others often talked about hosting a conference like Saturday's. "Who better than us would know the solutions?" Gaddy asked.
Gaddy pointed to Battle, who now supervises a Raleigh scaffolding yard, as an example. Battle, who spoke at the conference, is a homeowner with a two-car garage and plans to marry in September.
Another speaker, evangelist Gloria McCauley of Burlington, served about three years in prison after being convicted of embezzlement and possession of cocaine. She founded and directs God Did It Recovery House For Women. She operates two transitional houses for women with a third one set to open in Manteo for women and children.
Ex-offenders trying to readjust to society are often hit with harsh realities when they return to the streets. They may have difficulty finding a job or have unrealistic expectations. Many feel thrown away or forgotten.
"Persistence, but first of all the Lord," McCauley answered when asked how she made the transition from prison into the mainstream.
"Why not share some success stories?" Gaddy asked. "You always hear about the negative stuff, but we had some stories here today that would blow peoples' minds."
Those at Saturday's conference all said family, church and community support are necessary for recently released ex-cons.
Topics at the conference included the disproportionate number of African-Americans in prison.
"You remember those campaigns to stop teenage pregnancy years ago?" Battle asked. "The kids I saw coming to prison were the products of those pregnancies. Now the mom is 36 and the kid is 16. Mom is at [Raleigh nightclubs]. What does the kid do? He gets into trouble."
For the Rev. D. L. McCoy, the need to heed the words of the old African parable, "It takes a village to raise a child," has never been greater.
"I'm tired of seeing my people getting locked up," said McCoy, pastor of the Pleasant Hill United Church of Christ off Lake Wheeler Road. "[Prison] is modern day slavery."
McCoy said every sector of the black community, particularly the church, needs to engage the issue. "They are building mega- churches in our neighborhood and they aren't doing nothing," said McCoy, who lives off Sanderford Road.
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The New England Patriots host the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday in a repeat of the 2012 AFC title game, which ended in missed Ravens field goal and a Patriots Super Bowl trip. The two teams met again earlier this season in Baltimore, with the home team narrowly grabbing a 31-30 after the Patriots missed a field goal. All signs point to another classic game between the two teams.
The Patriots had little trouble with the Texans last Sunday to advance. New England jumped out to a big second-half lead, and hung on down the stretch. They can thank the Ravens for having a home game in Foxboro, as Baltimore took down the AFC's top seed last Saturday.
That game took two overtimes, as Baltimore eventually prevailed following a late Peyton Manning interception. The Ravens are the only team in NFL history to have a winning road playoff record (with a minimum of 10 games played). Something will have to give, as the Patriots also possess the league's best home postseason mark.
Game Date/Time
Sunday, Jan. 20, 6:30 p.m. ET
Gillette Stadium, Foxboro, Mass.
TV Schedule
Boston: WBZ 4
Baltimore: WJZ 13
International broadcasts
Sky Sports in the UK.
Watch Online
Verizon subscribers can watch games live with the NFL Mobile app (subscription required).
NFL Game Pass offers live online broadcasts to users outside the USA.
Distribution Map
Radio Schedule
Sirius 86, 92
Patriots: WBZ 98.5 FM
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New Hampshire
3.48/5 rDev -11.9%
Poured into a goblet. Born on date 8/26/12. Color was a very dark dark opaque brown, with a nice 1 finger creamy light brown head. Head thinned out fairly fast, but left a thin layer with plenty of lacing. Aroma was very slightly sweet. Subtle chocolate notes, but very faint, with a bit of brunt vanilla. Flavor started off sweet, than developed a bit of tang, with some earthiness that hung around in the mouth. Mellowed out a bit over time which made it more enjoyable. Felt ok in the mouth. Definitely hung around for a while, coated nicely, but left a slightly strange feel at the back of the throat. Definitely showed potential, but perhaps needs a bit more time to mellow out.
08-26-2013 22:05:29 | More by mountdew1
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North Carolina
4.18/5 rDev +5.8%
Pours nearly jet black except for a tinge of ruby when held right up to the light,a creamy beige head atop that left a broken ring of lace behind.Vanilla and more vanilla in the nose,some dark roast comes into play as well as some chocolate but the vanilla wins out.It's roasted on the palate but I love the vanilla warming flavors,it's not overly sweet with a nice somewhat drying earthy finish.This beer is underrated in my opinion,it's warming with a nice vanilla flavor that isn't overly done,a great beer.
03-31-2013 22:38:14 | More by oberon
3.75/5 rDev -5.1%
07-25-2013 23:27:39 | More by IronCity1822
3.25/5 rDev -17.7%
07-12-2014 00:19:30 | More by DanGeo
4/5 rDev +1.3%
08-01-2013 00:00:16 | More by Tiernan
3.5/5 rDev -11.4%
03-16-2013 21:53:14 | More by woodchipper
4/5 rDev +1.3%
02-27-2013 23:59:43 | More by Bitzer
3.5/5 rDev -11.4%
09-10-2013 03:08:26 | More by SuomiHobbit
3.75/5 rDev -5.1%
02-10-2014 04:25:51 | More by Ben7773
3.85/5 rDev -2.5%
Batch #1
500ml bottle poured into a mug.
This beer was a very dark brown, nearly black color. A hint of red when held up to a light.
Medium-sized tan head and a little bit of lace.
Strong roasted malt aroma up front, followed by some sweet chocolate. A little bit of vanilla tucked in there.
Tasted like espresso with a shot of chocolate. I think I lost the vanilla.
A bit on the thin side.
Nice enough.
03-13-2011 13:10:05 | More by lordofthewiens
4.35/5 rDev +10.1%
Purchased on recent trip to PHL. 056312 G stamped on side of label I think- the "6" is smudged. Could be a 0 or 8.
Poured murkey yeasty brown into my Deschutes tulip. Minimal head very thin layer of small bubbles cling to edge. Nothing much else.
Aroma very pleasant. Smooth softness of vanilla foretells the taste which is again smooth, velvety, full of vanilla notes.
Warm nice feeling lingers.
A very enjoyable stout. Too bad I brought back only one.
08-28-2012 00:25:37 | More by NWer
New York
4/5 rDev +1.3%
07-27-2014 22:46:13 | More by coxxx616
4/5 rDev +1.3%
04-06-2013 23:55:07 | More by warnerry
4/5 rDev +1.3%
04-05-2012 03:07:31 | More by Callmecoon
4.28/5 rDev +8.4%
The head is very full forms more then 2 finger very thick and tan. The beer is dark and only on the pour could you see the dark amber color. The head hugs the glass very nice one of the best heads I've seen in a bottle
Big nose on this beer it whafted to my nose while I was pouring it. There is a lot of aromas coffee with roasted malts and a mellow vanilla that works perfect together
To start this is a dry stout not an imperial or big stout wit that said this is a great beer. The beer starts slightly sweet. A roasted nutty flavor enters. The nutty coffee taste is very pleasent. A slight hop enters with a very hint of vanilla in the aftertaste. Its a big dry finish.
For a stout this great I'm astonished how they were able to have the taste and aroma differ but have it go together
02-11-2011 00:16:48 | More by bishopdc0
4.05/5 rDev +2.5%
Pours a nice opaque black with some tan head and a nice medium collar. Good lacing out of this one. Aroma is really deep roasted malt, some faint coffee, and earthy too. Taste is where the vanilla comes out. Vanilla up front, char and roasted malt in the middle, then fades into a sweet dark caramel. Nice thick body and low carbonation. Very good but the whole time I felt there was just something off-putting.
02-05-2014 06:37:05 | More by mverity
New Hampshire
4.25/5 rDev +7.6%
07-20-2013 22:11:55 | More by JakerLou
4/5 rDev +1.3%
01-19-2014 01:58:46 | More by Guinnsslvr
3.5/5 rDev -11.4%
10-15-2012 22:28:21 | More by mctizzz
3.9/5 rDev -1.3%
Appearance: dark brown in color, hazy, minimal head, medium carbonation, sediment
Smell: roasted malt, dark chocolate, and vanilla
Taste: big roasted malt and coffee start giving way to toasted malt and vanilla
Mouthfeel: medium heavy body, medium carbonation, sweet with roasty bitterness
Overall: A good stout where the vanilla is pronounced but never overly dominating. The flavors combine well here. I would get this again, but would not rush out to do so.
02-04-2013 15:20:29 | More by tigg924
4/5 rDev +1.3%
09-18-2013 00:45:06 | More by GreenMountainBoy
4.78/5 rDev +21%
Poured from a bottle into a pint glass.
Appearance: Black, no light through this one, about three fingers of thick beige head, heavy lacing on the glass.
Smell: Roasted malts with coffee, vanilla, and maybe some chocolate.
Mouthfeel/Taste: Thick, but smooth. Alcohol is up front with raosted malts, vanilla, and coffee. Leaving a roasted coffee bean after taste.
Overall: Once again Maine Brewing has done it!!! Another excellent brew that I will continue to enjoy!
02-28-2013 19:57:25 | More by Cavanaghty
Yukon (Canada)
4/5 rDev +1.3%
05-01-2013 06:39:39 | More by jaminjohnson
4/5 rDev +1.3%
06-04-2012 06:25:33 | More by standardcherry
New Jersey
4.5/5 rDev +13.9%
09-10-2013 01:14:26 | More by ImFlyerThanYou
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They say on St. Patrick's Day, everybody is Irish.
But at a Sunday party in West Toledo, everybody really was Irish.
It was the Ancient Order of Hibernians 20th annual St. Paddy's Day party.
The worldwide organization strives to keep the Irish culture alive.
The Toledo chapter has about 150 members.
The word 'Hibernian' comes from Julius Caesar's name for Ireland.
"It's just a touch of one's self. Where you came from and why we are a people. A unity thing that's nice to know," said Hibernian member Tom McCabe.
The party is a family-friendly event.
Kids are encouraged to dance their version of an Irish jig.
There's beer served but nobody gets out of line.
Cook Tony Gale served up 250 pounds of corned beef.
He's got a special Irish recipe.
"For me, I like to cook it for two hours, take it out, let it stand for an hour so we can cut it without shredding and falling apart. Let it stand, stay soft and moist and fire it up for the day of the event," said Mr. Gale.
And this is no blarney.
Folks at the event are proud to be Irish.
"I guess because you got to have fun once in awhile," said William O'Shea.
"Well, actually, the Irish built this country. If it wasn't for the Irish, the British would still be running it," said Maurice Buckley.
And as the Ancient Order of Hibernians like to say, if you're lucky enough to be Irish, then you're lucky enough.
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PENDLETON, Ind. — The Pendleton Heights volleyball team opened up sectional play Tuesday night at New Castle with a four-set (25-19, 25-17, 16-25, 25-20) victory against Connersville.
Pendleton Heights defeated Connersville in three close sets just a few weeks ago, and Tuesday's match was just as competitive.
Pendleton Heights came out firing early in the first set, building a 6-1 lead behind points by Carly Wilson and Quincey Gary. Connersville cut the lead to 7-4, but the Arabians pulled away again to go up 21-10 on a kill by Elane Stephenson.
Connersville was able to swing momentum back its way and pulled to within five twice at 23-18 and 24-19 before Wilson ended the set with a kill. The first set win gave Pendleton Heights a chance to settle down.
"It was extremely important (to win the set)," Pendleton Heights coach Stefanie Ammirata said. "It's one of those nights that the girls, especially seniors, you don't want their Tuesday night to be their last night. You want to give them three more practices and a shot to do something on Saturday."
The Arabians once again started strong start in Set 2, as left-handed serving senior Delilah Wright was on serve for nine straight points to take a 9-0 lead. Connersville finally got on the board after a return by Ashley King went out of bounds.
The Spartans cut the lead to 10-6 but could get no closer as Pendleton Heights led by at least five points the rest of the way to win 25-17.
Connersville showed fight early in Set 3, taking its first lead of the match. But Pendleton Heights stormed back from a 3-1 deficit to take a 6-3 lead.
Connersville scored 10 of the next 12 points to take a 13-8 lead and never trailed again. The Spartans found dead spots in the Pendleton Heights defense, and the Arabians seemed to lose the steam that carried them through the first two sets. Connersville took the set 25-16 on a kill by Brittany Gabbard.


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Meijer is co-hosting the job application event from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Illinois Department of Employment Security facility, 407 N. Franklin St.
Meijer is continuing to conduct interviews to complete hiring for more than 300 positions in all departments, from clerks and cake decorators to customer service, cashiers, receiving and meat cutters, for its new Danville store.
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Where is the future of concert design headed? A good place to look might be Matchbox Twenty's current Mad Season tour, with lighting designed by Marc Brickman. At times, the show screams straightforward post-20th-century rock and roll, only to take a 180° turn and hint at a proper English drawing room, or even a Moroccan casbah.
Brickman, a veteran of high-profile tours with Pink Floyd and Paul McCartney, worked with Matchbox Twenty's lead singer Rob Thomas on an Imax film, All Access, which the musician participated in with Carlos Santana last year. When it came time for the band to go out on tour last fall, Michael Lippman, the band's manager, asked specifically for Brickman. The initial run covered college markets and Australia, where the band has a large fan base. "We decided to start the tour off without any mechanical parts to the production," notes Brickman. The system for the first two legs of the tour consisted of a plethora of Vari*Lite® gear, including VL4s™, VL6Bs™, and VL5s™. "We also had a three-dimensional roll drop system for the first part of the tour, which worked all right," the LD says.
After the Christmas holiday, it was time for Matchbox Twenty to hit the major markets, which resulted in a redesign of the tour. The earlier leg featured 10 vertically hung truss stalks, a favorite of drummer Paul Doucette. "He told me that he liked the stalks, but he also liked the idea of the stalks coming down to the floor," Brickman reports. The LD, who has done tracking systems with McCartney and Nine Inch Nails in the past, suggested the idea to lighting director/programmer Ben Richards. "I wanted to keep the same look we had during the earlier part of the tour, but I also wanted to double up the number of pods we had, as well as make them move up and down."
Richards, a native of Canada, immediately knew where to go to transform the moving pod concept into something workable. "When Marc told me he wanted to make the pods move, I thought of some friends of mine who I've known for many, many years in Quebec City, who are distributors of ChainMaster Vario-Lift motors from Germany," Richards says. Brickman was also familiar with the products. "I had seen the motors at LDI, and thought they were pretty amazing."
The Vario-Lift motors are the essential players in the Mad Season tour. Manufactured by ChainMaster of Eilenburg, Germany, they are distributed in North America by Show Distribution of Quebec City. "These motors are like Spinal Tap," Brickman smiles. "They go to 11." This is the first time the Vario-Lift motors have been out on a major concert tour, and Brickman is definitely a fan. "What's amazing about them is that they're variable speed. They can go as fast as 90' (27m) a minute and, as they're going down, they can hit the next cue — and can start going up again without stopping. There's no jolt when they stop," he notes. "A normal chain motor runs at 16' (5m) a minute."
The Vario-Lifts went through rigorous testing well before the tour. "Show Distribution president Jacques Tanguay and his crew put them through the wringer in the past year. He used them on shows here and there and worked hand-in-hand with the Germans to make the motors more reliable," explains Richards. The extra work by Show Distribution definitely worked to the advantage of everyone involved. "All of the tracking systems I've usually used are custom-made," comments Brickman. "It's very rare that you can find equipment that moves that isn't custom-made, and to find something off the shelf that actually works is fabulous." Adds Richards, "They've been working wonderfully since day one."
Brickman's plot for the current outing is heavily dependent on the 14 pods the Vario-Lifts control. Originally, the pods, each of which consist of four Vari*Lite "VL8s" (industry slang for the VL2416s™), one VL7™, a Kino Flo unit, and an ETC Source Four PAR with a Wybron Coloram color changer (the latter two suggested by production manager Chris Kansy), were positioned according to the location of the roll drops as well as the previous location of the truss stalks. "We basically needed to have holes for the roll drops," Richards says.
But with the redesign of the show, the trim height measured in at 40' (12m), which wasn't workable for the roll drops. "We eventually decided to abandon the roll drops on this part of the tour because our trim height was a lot higher, and the roll drops just weren't working properly," explains Brickman. Currently, there are five pods upstage, three midstage, and three on each side of the stage. "The pods actually ended up in the most logical areas because you get your sides, your rears, and you even get some directly above the band," notes Richards.
Another Teleprojector, from Cameleon in France, was added to the one carried on the first leg. "I've been using these projectors since 1988 with McCartney," Brickman explains. "I really love them — they're the brightest, I think, in the world." When the projection, which is content-driven rather than simply IMAG, is featured, the midstage and upstage pods are moved to their highest trim heights, while the side pods illuminate the band, rather like theatrical shin kickers.
Audiences have no idea what kind of visual punch they're going to get once Matchbox Twenty goes onstage. The pods are idle for the first two acts and the lighting rig looks normal enough to the untrained eye. "Marc and I pretty much decided to start the show subtly," explains Richards. "Because the system has been idle, during the band's first song, one pod comes down, and it's kind of cool, because the audience members look at each other like, 'Is this normal?'" After the first song, when one pod is dramatically lowered during a guitar solo, the movement of the pods becomes more apparent and sets the tone for the entire show. "Slowly but surely, we get more energetic behavior from the whole system, to the point at the end of the show where everything is just going nuts," Richards says.
Color is an integral part of the show, since, along with the pod movement, it defines the tone. "For me, it does become almost like a painting," Brickman says. "This show was really about big landscapes of color." From subtle ambers to painfully bright whites to incredibly saturated reds, the show covers the spectrum. "When it comes to doing a show with Marc Brickman, Bastard Amber is going to be the anchor color," reports Richards. "By playing to that, you can go on from there and use lavenders and all kinds of shades of blue."
Overall, the show strikes a nice balance between songs that feature color-mixing as well as single-color songs. "I love to be able to lock myself into only a few colors at a time per song," says Richards. "I call it the double color theory — you do two colors, then maybe you'll throw in a third from a spotlight. Then, after a while, you just say, 'OK, hold on. This song, this is my red song.' And you just lock yourself into one color."
The show also has a total of 11 spotlights — four in the house and seven on the truss. "The followspots are, of course, the key lights for each member of the band," Brickman notes. "Each band member is always illuminated by a spotlight, and around them, there's an incredible amount of color that is layered to create shape and depth." The spotlights are loaded with traditional theatrical standbys: Bastard Amber (Lee 162), Medium Amber (Lee HT020), Medium Pink (Lee HT036), Deep Lavender (Lee 170), Dark Steel Blue (Lee 174), and Light Red (Lee 182). "Because we have such a high trim height, we added a truss spot. I shuffle around when I'm calling the spots, since the pods are sometimes in the way of the truss spots," explains Richards. "I don't mind the upstage light on Rob, the singer, going through a pod, but nothing looks worse than a spot going through the front of a pod to get the drummer," he adds.
Although the plot of the show is different from the first two legs of the tour, many of the cues stayed the same. "The biggest challenge for me on this show was not starting from scratch," admits Richards. "I figured the key to success on this new run was to implement as much as possible of what we did on the old system." Richards had his work cut out for him during rehearsals. "I spent a week at VLPS Los Angeles pretty much copying the cues from the VL4s and the VL6Bs into the console for the VL8s and VL7s, since there's no way of importing the cues from the old instruments into the new lights. Marc and I still made some major changes to most of the songs, but the foundation of the cues from the first leg of the tour was still there."
Richards' Vari*Lite Virtuoso™ console also controls the movement of the pods. "We used the capabilities of the Vario-Lift system to receive triggers from the Virtuoso. It gives Tom Cusimano, our motion control man, the opportunity to observe how the computer system and the motors are performing during the show — that way, he can hit the panic button that stops everything if there's a problem," he says. Controlling the motors through the Virtuoso console has worked out well. "I really don't have to worry about them during the show. The motor cues just happen automatically, based on how I programmed them within the lighting cues."
The current leg of the Mad Season tour concluded in early May, and the band is expected to do sheds in the summer. Brickman is happy with the way it turned out. "I like it — I think it's a really good, entertaining show, and it's nice to see something new."
Search LightingDimensions.com for an archived story, 1998 vintage, about Matchbox Twenty (then 20).MATCHBOX TWENTY MAD SEASON TOUR 2001
Tour Vendors
VLPS Los Angeles
Vario-Lift motors provided by Show Distribution Group Inc., Quebec City, Quebec
Lighting Designer
Marc Brickman
Lighting Director & Programmer
Ben Richards
Production Manager
Chris Kansy
Stage Manager
Andy O'Millianowski
Lighting Crew Chief
Scott Norden
Vari*Lite Technicians
Ronald Beal, Joe Chardukian, Mark Villa
Motion Control Programmer/Rigger
Tom Cusimano
Mike Gomez
Projectionist/Soft Goods
Pete Roberts
Lighting Equipment
|Vari*Lite VL2416s
|Vari*Lite VL7s
|Vari*Lite VL5s
|Diversitronics strobes
|Lycian Starklite 1200 spots with truss chairs
|Kino Flo fluorescent panels
|Altman DWE 8-lights
|ETC Source Four PARs
|Wybron Colorams
|10' sections 20.5"x20.5" A-type truss grid
|8' sections 20.5"x20.5" A-type truss grid
|4' sections 20.5"x20.5" A-type box truss
|4' sections 20.5"x20.5" A-type truss grid
|20"x20" A-type corner blocks grid
|10' sections light-duty box truss traveler and side leg trusses
|Vari*Lite Virtuoso consoles
|Clear-Com intercom system
|Reel EFX DF-50 hazers
|Reel EFX high-powered fans
|Cameleon 6k Teleprojectors
|ChainMaster Vario-Lift motors
|Lee Filters gel
|RTS Systems intercom system


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Villa Aloni is situated in Maza, a small village in the Kruonerida municipality, in the region of Apokoronas in the county of Chania, in Western Crete.Maza is a small village in the foothills of the mountains, with about 100 permanent inhabitants. The village is about 37 km from the town of Chania, 35km from Rethymno and about 40 km from Chania airpor.
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MT. VERNON — In observance of Alcohol Awareness Month, a local organization is conducting an alcohol awareness fair next month.
Mission Possible Coalition, the organization that is dedicated to decreasing substance use among youth in the community, will conduct the fair from 3 to 7 p.m. April 23 at the Rolland W. Lewis Community Building.
"We're going to have informational booths set up for treatment, and awareness as far as buzz driving and drunk driving, and the contributing factors," said Robin Dodd, assistant director of Mission Possible Coalition. "We're looking for parents to hook up to services to help our kids stay on track. We'll provide information to parents that they didn't have before."
The fair is targeting youth between fifth through 12th grades.
While this will be the first alcohol awareness fair, Dodd said the group feels it is needed.
"April is Alcohol Awareness Month, and the coalition is working to reduce underage drinking as well as working to promote parental involvement and healthy lifestyles. That is what prompted the coalition to provide the information to the community," Dodd said.
Dodd said the Mission Possible Coalition's campaigns have made a positive effect on the community through the years.
"We are working to reduce underage drinking at 10th and 12th grade, but we are also addressing sixth and eighth, because we know that's the onset for experimentation," she said recently. "We are working on parents talking to kids about not using alcohol or other drugs, and we're working on our social norms campaign."
The coalition works with local high school SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions) groups or prevention teams to target the school or area's specific issues, Dodd added. In addition to the coalition's campaigns, it also partners with local law enforcement to provide four sobriety checkpoints per year, as well as compliance checks at local establishments.
Dodd said she is looking for a good crowd at the alcohol awareness fair.
"We would like to see a good 50 to 100 parents. Since this is the first time we're doing it, it's hard to predict. This is a different type of event, and will provide several activities for the children," she said.
For more information on the fair you may contact Dodd or Mission Possible Coordinator Celeste Robinson.


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How Much Gold Is There In The World ?
Gold has always held a special allure and fascination in peoples minds. Perhaps it is the color, weight, or the fact that over time it has come to symbolize an elemental resource for value and wealth. Whatever the reason, I wanted to see if there were any estimates as to the total amount of gold we humans have laid out hands on.
After a small bit of research on the World Gold Council website, I saw an estimate which pegged the total amount of mined gold from ancient times to the present, calculated at 158,000 tonnes.
A big number but one that is a bit hard to get your mind around. What does on tonne of gold look like. Lets do a little math.
If the estimates are correct and there has been 158,000 tones of gold recovered from "Mother Earth" (assuming 24 K purity) then that would translate into 5,079,817,925 troy oz. of the precious metal. However unless you are Bill Gates or one of the other billionaires on the planet, I still have a hard time grasping what over 5 billion ounces of gold would look like. Back to the calculator.
If a cubic centimeter of 24K gold equals 19.3 grams, then a cubic meter of gold would weight 19.3 tonnes. Likewise all the gold ever mined would amount to 8,187 cubic meters. That still doesn't mean anything to me.
I have to put that into perspective and visualize what that much gold would look like. So , if all the gold in the world would fit into a 20.15 meter cube, or 66 feet 1.3 inches square, that would kind of be the size of a small office building. Now that I can understand.
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You know, I always wondered where these ridiculously small numbered estimates of planetary gold come from. Now I know. If you have trouble imagining the small bit of gold in the world claimed by such a disreputable organization as the World Gold Council, you're going to have a serious problem when it gets to the real figure. Just this last week liens were claimed against the Federal Reserve for 2.4 billion metric tonnes owed to the American people as principle. I won't even get into the 2.2 billion metric tonnes claimed in interest, and where the claimants think that's coming from.
Liens Filed Against All 12 Federal Reserve Banks
One could dismiss the amounts as wild imaginings, but these folks have filed a legal claim against the Federal Reserve for these amounts. If these amounts were majorly wrong, these fellows would be committing fraud against the Federal Reserve. Not a good thing to do with such figures. I suspect they are smarter than that and know something the World Gold Council doesn't know (or doesn't want us to know). And keep in mind those 2.4 billion metric tonnes are just what the Federal Reserve had at one time. We haven't started discussing how much the rest of the world has had.
Well I was wrong. It isn't in the billions. It's 2.4 million metric tonnes. Still leaves the WTC in the dust, off by a factor of 15.
These numbers are a bunch of crap. These estimates assumes only 10 000 metric tonnes was found in all human civilization before the california gold rush, which is a retarded assumption. You really think all the ancient civilisations together was able to accumulate less gold in thousands of years than americans did in 50 years ?
These estimates are artificcially low to keep gold prices high. Its all a big scam.
Way more gold has been found in "modern" times than was ever found in "ancient" times you fool. Its called technology.
"If a cubic centimeter of 24K gold equals 19.3 grams, then a cubic meter of gold would weight 19.3 tonnes. Likewise all the gold ever mined would amount to 8,187 cubic meters. That still doesn't mean anything to me."
This sound like a primary school exercise, but we learned different maths in school…
Surely "8,187 cubic meters" IS NOT "20.15 meter cube"
I think 8,187 cubic meters is a cube of 2m x 4m x 1m cube… whatever perspective you want to put on it ….
He meant 8187 cubic meters not eight point …
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@palinger how is a cube 2x4x1??? Last I checked a cube was 1x1x1 EQUAL LENGTHS ON ALL 3 SIDES? Square x 3 right?
The cube root of 8k is 20, therefore, a cube is 20m x 20m x 20m….. If a meter is equal to approx 1 yard or 3′ then your cube would become 60′ x 60′ x 60′…….better go back to primary school
He meant 8187 cubic meters not eight point …
Got it?
I can believe it's that low, if you think what people are owed means anything, have you never heard of fractional reserve banking?
Fractional Banking says you can loan $100 for ever dollar you take in… Has nothing to do with Gold mined. Has to do with the lie the Federal reserve is based on… And US taxpayers paid their Deposit… The Federal Reserve doesn't have ANY MONEY invested in the USA… Their goal is to destroy the US Monitary System… for their benefit. If you do not believe me ask why we no longer set our own fiscle policy? we print money not by Congress but by the Federal Reserve which Congress has no Control OVER!!!!
I have a serious question . I'm not a gold savy man and I don't get the reason why from the beginning of time gold has been the basic standard of an economy. We can't eat it or drink it. We aren't able to sustain human life through it alone. Now I'm not being some new age liberal know it all or tryin to be coy. I just mean don't it make more sense for food and water to be more or less what wealth is based on? I don't have the education to articulate this the way I would like but I really am being sincere. Anyone?


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Your Great x 2360 Grandpa was a Neanderthal!
Posted by Paul Mason on October 26, 2010
Is your Dad the descendent of a Neanderthal? Visit our PLoS website to find out more.
Recent evidence has shown that a small percentage of human DNA is Neanderthal. This Neanderthal DNA entered the human gene pool between 80,000 and 50,000 years ago.
While human DNA may contain traces of Neanderthal ancestors, mitochondrial DNA from Neanderthals has not been found in humans. Mitochondrial DNA comes uniquely from your mother. Is it plausible that male Neanderthals were able to mate with female humans, but that the reciprocal cross was unable to occur?
Analyses of the Y chromosome suggest that we share a common male ancestor 59,000 years ago. Could this male ancestor have possibly been Neanderthal?
If our common male ancestor is neanderthal, and considering that the Y chromosome is transmitted uniquely through the paternal line, could it mean that men are more closely related to Neanderthals than women? Have men and women truly come from two different species?
Visit the full post on our PLoS website for the full explanation of this intriguing hypothesis.
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November 6, 2010 at 6:39 am
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November 12, 2010 at 5:07 pm
This is daft. We don't have a single ancestor, we are the product of generations of evolution and we are also the product of both sexes.
"African Eve" is a stupid idea for the same reason.
November 12, 2010 at 10:36 pm
Hi Mellie, It's great to see people engaging with scientific data! This post is just to send our readers through to our PloS website with a whole bunch of thought-provoking questions. As you correctly suggest, the human lineage is not unilineal but somewhere our family trees cross over. It would be intriguing to think that they cross over at the offspring of a Neandertal. I've heard of a study that demonstrated that everyone in France is somehow related to Charlemagne, and other research showing that everyone in Europe has mtDNA related to Genghis Khan. Technically, there was a very slim chance that the Neandertal Y chromosome entered the human gene-pool, but the offspring of a Neandertal-Human cross may have has more success at passing on their genes.
December 16, 2010 at 8:27 pm
Given that the one thing we know about Neanderthal autosomal DNA is that it is more common in ancesteral Eurasians than it is in Africans, presumably the Neanderthal Y-DNA would have to have been the basal individual in the Y-DNA haplogroup CF line (which is distinguished from the DE line by the YAP mutation). This would also mean that the phylogenetic roots of the Y-DNA tree, which includes "Y-DNA Adam" who is the most recent common ancestor of all modern humans, and Y-DNA haplogroups A and B (found mostly in Khoisan and Pygmy populations in Africa) would have to be ancesteral not just to Y-DNA CF and Y-DNA DE, as current phylogenies assume, but also to Neanderthals.
Given that mutation rate estimates put the emergence of Y-DNA A, B, CF and DE haplotypes no later than ca. 70,000 to 100,000 years ago, that Y-DNA Adam dates back presumably to ca. 200,000 years ago or more in Africa, and that Neanderthals date back to ca. 300,000 to 500,000 years ago, even gross errors in calculating ages from the number of Y-DNA mutations (and most of the critics argue that the conventional dates are too old, not too young), the time lines just don't match up. Even at a very, very slow Y-DNA mutation rate, you would expect far more mutations between Neanderthal Y-DNA and any modern human than exists to distinguish any two living modern humans today if admixture took place wihtin the last 100,000 years.
One also would have to explain why some notable Neanderthal traits with adaptive advantage (e.g. like skin color) didn't survive in the Neanderthal descendants and instead were developed via convergent evolution with different genetic sources.
There are easier way to come up with a society with 1% to 4% Neanderthal DNA in Eurasians, yet no discernable Y-DNA or mtDNA lineages from Neanderthals. First, one infers that Neanderthal/human hybrids were children of infrequent and brief liasons (perhaps during periodic meet ups of human and Neanderthal tribes for trade, and at any rate for periods of less than nine months) or less romantically rapes, rather than sustained relationships, and that the children ended up in the mother's tribe and not the father's as a result. Children of Neanderthal mothers ended up in Neanderthal tribes and their descendants died out with the rest of the Neanderthals. Children of modern human mothers ended up in modern human tribes and their descendants survived to become about 2% of the future Eurasians (they were probably small in number but introduced when the founder population of Eurasians was quite small). Thus, no surviving Neanderthal descendants in modern human populations would be expected to have any Neanderthal mtDNA.
Then, you would have to suppose that men who were half-Neanderthal or one-quarter Neanderthal suffered significant selective disadvantages that were not suffered by women who were half-Neanderthal or one-quarter Neanderthal. Maybe their deficiencies in tool making and hunting style and hunting team work made them poor prospects as husbands, relative to modern humans, for example, or perhaps they lacked the social skills needed to win a modern human mate. But, perhaps hybrid Neanderthal women were considered acceptable as brides and members of the tribe more readily, because expectations of female early modern humans were more attainable for Neanderthal hybrid women. Also, if the Eurasian founding group into which Neanderthal autosomal DNA gets injected is small enough (e.g. 500 women of child bearing age, a total population of about 2,000 people at the time of Neanderthal contact), one can imagine simply random chance coming into play. Maybe there were only five admixture events between Neanderthal men and modern human women and those events produced a disproportionate number of girls, simply as a matter of random chance, leaving only one or two half-Neanderthal men, and those men happened to have no male descendants who lived to reproduce at some point in the first one or two or three generations for reasons that had nothing at all to do with selective advantage. This isn't the most probably outcome, but if the numbers are small enough, it isn't vanishingly improbable and it would fit the facts. Sometime improbable things happen. And, selective advantages of full blooded modern human men v. hybrid modern human men in modern human commmunities could tip the odds of random chance a little even if they were strongly selective enough to make the outcome a foregone conclusion. Indeed, evolution itself depends upon improbable things happening every once and a while.
December 17, 2010 at 8:14 am
Ohwilleke, thank you for your thoughtful reply and great ideas. I am encouraged by the excitement that our post has received. I hope that our readers take the time to think about the various scenarios you propose.
Our post over at PLoS Blogs is more comprehensive and explains the biology behind interspecific hybridity and Haldane's Law in mammals. The post here on our old website is really just to lead people over to the new site at PLoS Blogs.
Although it is exciting to suppose that our common grandfather was the offspring of a Neanderthal-human cross, I agree with you that it is highly unlikely. The most enticing piece of data that we raise in our PLoS Blog post is that there is a substantial amount of nuclear DNA from Neanderthals in the human gene pool (the equivalent contribution of one great-great-great Neanderthal grandparent to any one human), but there is an absence of any mitochondrial DNA from Neanderthals. These observations can be explained by mechanisms of interspeficic fertility. I am currently working on this hypothesis with Professor Roger Short — a specialist in reproductive biology. If there were no biological mechanisms that could explain the phenomena we observe, we would be in a difficult place because we know so little about Neanderthal and human social behaviour of that period, and we have to be careful about the assumptions we make.
The biology behind interbreeding is fairly solid and the presence of Neanderthal nuclear DNA in the absence of mtDNA is a convincing artefact in humans that can be direclty related to known mechanisms of reproductive biology. For example, recent studies show that girls are more likely to survive a stressful pregnancy. Neanderthal births were not easy. Furthermore, if girls were more likely to survive a pregnancy then we would expect more girls than boys in the hybrid population. A lack of Neanderthal mtDNA in the hybrid population leads to the conclusion that the mother was a human, not a Neanderthal.
Do you work in this area? You make some very insightful comments. I particularly liked the suggestion that "Children of Neanderthal mothers ended up in Neanderthal tribes and their descendants died out with the rest of the Neanderthals." These ideas are exciting to think about but we have to be careful about making assumptions about Neanderthal social and cultural behaviour, or even the human socio-cultural behaviour of the time. But if we indulge in our imagination, we could also suppose that if a female Neanderthal was impregnated by a male human, then she may have been forcefully exiled from her group. Could a lone female Neanderthal be accepted by a human group or would she have been shunned? Alternatively, were female Neanderthal and male human liaisons simply uncommon because the robust female Neanderthal successfully resisted the advances of the gracile male human?
Another fascinating hypothesis you propose is that "men who were half-Neanderthal or one-quarter Neanderthal suffered significant selective disadvantages that were not suffered by women who were half-Neanderthal or one-quarter Neanderthal." I don't know why we would "have to suppose" this scenario, and there are probably arguments for the alternative hypothesis. Perhaps we could draw up a post with a list of scenarios…
December 18, 2010 at 1:51 pm
I'm not up with the biology of the situation, but the analysis is cool!
June 13, 2011 at 7:05 pm
"Do you work in this area?"
No. I'm a Denver lawyer.
July 20, 2011 at 8:11 am
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