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The elevator ascends. John Sharp, a city councilman who represents south Kansas City, is changing floors at City Hall, moving from one meeting to another.
Sharp and his colleagues on the City Council spent 90 minutes at the first meeting arguing about ambulances. One faction of the council wants the fire department to take over the emergency service. Sharp sides with the others, who think the city should continue to use MAST. The discussion produces tension, partly because the city's firefighters are represented by a powerful union that likes to make public officials squirm.
In addition to that drama, Sharp is coping with the sudden disappearance of a $1 billion project from his district.
Earlier in the day, Sharp, Mayor Mark Funkhouser and others met with Cliff Illig, one of the owners of the Kansas City Wizards, the area's professional soccer team. City officials called the meeting to learn what might be salvaged from a deal they thought they had sealed with Illig and his partners.
In 2007, the Wizards committed to building a stadium on the site of the old Bannister Mall. City Hall, in turn, pledged millions of dollars to help build the stadium and surrounding shops, offices and hotel rooms.
It was an ambitious proposal with a lot of moving parts. And as Sharp and others learned last week, it could vanish in an instant.
On Wednesday, September 9, the front page of The Kansas City Star carried the surprise announcement that the Wizards were now planning to build a stadium in Kansas City, Kansas. By dinnertime, representatives of the Wizards and the Unified Government of Wyandotte County had reached an agreement.
Sharp felt betrayed. He lives close to the Bannister Mall site. When the shopping center went into decline, the demoralization reached his front porch. "This is my neighborhood," he says.
Previous revitalization promises had failed, and the Wizards' project looked like certain salvation.
The meeting with Illig, a co-founder of the Cerner Corporation, took place in Funkhouser's office. The mayor poured Illig a glass of ice water.
City officials did not enter the mayor's office from a position of strength. The 2007 agreement with the Wizards had pushed the needle toward reckless. The Finance Department's model indicated that the city stood to lose $41 million when all the pennies were counted.
Yet even at that level of generosity, Kansas City, Missouri, could not match what was being dangled on the other side of the state line.
In Funkhouser's office, Illig told the city leaders that he and his partners remained committed to redeveloping the Bannister site, and building new offices there for the fast-growing Cerner.
"That's what we were told," Sharp says.
Did he believe it?
"That's what we were told."
The elevator makes its climb. Sharp refuses to play the what-if game.
"We offered them everything we had," he says, his voice barely audible above the ambient noise in the elevator car.
To be sure, the Wizards' decision to pull out of south Kansas City is traumatic. But the city's public officials seem poised to learn all the wrong lessons from the experience.
Economic-development boosters in Kansas City, Missouri, complain that their counterparts in Kansas write blank checks to prospective developers. There is some truth to this. The Unified Government authorized $305 million in bonds to assist the construction of the Kansas Speedway and the Village West shopping area.
But it's not as if Kansas City, Missouri, lacks powerful tools. Greg LeRoy, the author of Jobs Scam, a book about corporate subsidies and tax dodges, calls the incentives in Missouri "scandalous."
Kansas City leaders feel hurt and jealous. These emotions obscure the systemic problems that exist in the city's pursuit of developers' dollars, a pursuit that often brings to mind a dog chasing a car.
With the Bannister project, elected and appointed officials turned their backs on the possibility of a different project — one that would have remade the disheveled community into a place worth caring about but would have forced city officials to think about development in new and different ways. Letting pants fall to ankles, they instead took the Wizards' deal because it was the easiest one to comprehend.
A stadium specifically designed for spectators to watch the world's most popular game is, of course, preferable to a dead mall. But the Wizards' leap across the state line might actually have saved Kansas City, Missouri, from subsidizing just a newer, shinier version of the same old problem.
"You want to see Lou's folly?"
Lou Austin, a lawyer and longtime resident of south Kansas City, refers to an ATM machine. Several years ago, he installed the cash dispenser outside the retail office building that his parents built. What's left of the ATM is a slab of concrete. Austin removed the machine after someone bombed it in a failed attempt to abscond with its contents.
Austin had spent $50,000 on the ATM, anticipating an influx of visitors to Bannister Road, which his family's building fronts. The source of his excitement? In 2000, representatives of Bass Pro Shops, the outdoor retailer, were considering Bannister Mall as a possible location for a new store.
By the time the deal fell through, the entire experience could have been called Chuck Eddy's folly. For then-councilman Eddy and other City Hall leaders, it turned out to be a lesson in the danger of hoping that a corporate glamour tenant would miraculously save Bannister Mall.
Economic-development officials in Kansas City put together an incentive package worth $31 million in an attempt to convince Bass Pro of Bannister Mall's merits. The shopping center, which opened in 1980, needed the boost.
Enclosed regional shopping centers have short life spans — a study found that 19 percent of the malls in America are dead or dying. Fears about crime had hastened Bannister Mall's inevitable decline. Bannister Mall's reputation was such that the Economic Development Corporation, a city-funded agency, hired a statistician to show Bass Pro that the Bannister area was no more dangerous than other parts of the metro.
But the incentive package and the crime data fell short. The deal collapsed when the mall's owner, an investment company, got antsy about its $30 million commitment to the Bass Pro-anchored renovation.
Austin's ATM was worthless. "I took a bath," he says.
Around the time of the Bass Pro courtship, Austin and other property owners in the area had begun to think about ways they could improve the area's fortunes without having to rely on the whims of mall owners and chain stores.
There was a time when south Kansas City was considered desirable. But its ranch-home subdivisions, typical of those built in the 1960s, have aged poorly. Public schools that used to operate in split shifts to accommodate new families are now seen as a reason to settle elsewhere.
Looking for expertise, Austin met with longtime Kansas City developer Hugh Zimmer. Zimmer told Austin that he needed a plan.
Austin, who at 61 carries little of the flab that men tend to accumulate with age, knew what he didn't want in the plan: the big, beige box stores that composed Bannister Mall and its satellite strip centers.
Austin decided that the future was in New Urbanism.
New Urbanism is essentially a repudiation of postwar suburban sprawl. Its promoters believe in walkable neighborhoods. The movement encourages cities and developers to stop thinking that work, school, worship, leisure and home life belong in segregated areas, accessible only by car.
New Urbanism had entered the mainstream by the time Austin was trying to piece together the bigger picture. In 1995, Newsweek had run a cover story, "15 Ways to Fix the Suburbs," outlining the virtues of corner stores and skinny streets.
Austin needed a pulpit from which to advance his ideas. Working with the Economic Development Corporation and his representatives on the City Council, he structured a community-improvement district. Property owners within a CID agree to a special tax on their properties or sales, then spend the extra money on infrastructure and services beyond what cities can provide.
The Bannister Road CID took the name 3-Trails Village — a celebration of the Santa Fe, California and Oregon trails used by pioneers. The trails were a nice hook and a way to obtain grants. Federal highway-beautification money helped place metal sculptures of buffalo and cowboys on the grassy area between the mall and Interstate 435. "The [CID] board wanted to rebrand the area," Austin says.
A new brand was necessary. Austin, who would become the chair of the CID, says south Kansas City had formed its identity around Bannister Mall, and it was a false identity. At its core, a shopping center is a means of making money. Even in good times, a mall should never define a neighborhood.
Bass Pro, then, was really just another mask for south Kansas City to wear. "We can't admit who we are," Austin says. "We chase dreams."
Austin wanted something that was more substantive.
In 2003, Gary Sage, a senior vice president at the Economic Development Corporation, stressed to Austin the importance of developing a master plan. In a letter, Sage wrote that a master plan could provide a "framework for leveraging ... development opportunities into maximum benefits for the area, surrounding neighborhoods and the city as a whole."
Austin took Sage's words to heart — only to watch city leaders ignore his efforts.
Since its inception, Major League Soccer has struggled to capture the attention of American sports fans. Accounts of games tend to appear in the rear of sports sections. Its TV presence is minimal.
The league has had better luck socializing its costs. Several teams play in publicly funded stadiums.
Major League Soccer clubs have had success with their stadium drives by attaching their desires to youth soccer. In three cities, new soccer stadiums were bundled with youth fields and other "participation assets" in an effort to make the projects seem more worthwhile to the public.
When he put the Wizards up for sale in 2004, Lamar Hunt instructed potential buyers in Kansas City to lock in a stadium deal. Hunt had watched the Wizards get swallowed up in cavernous Arrowhead Stadium. (The Wizards' current home is CommunityAmerica Ballpark, a baseball stadium at Village West.)
OnGoal LLC, the Wizards' current ownership syndicate, bought the team from Hunt in 2006. The principals include Illig and Neal Patterson, the chairman of the board at Cerner, a provider of health-care information technology. Cerner's value is more than $5 billion.
At the same time that OnGoal was negotiating to buy the Wizards, officials in Johnson County were putting together a proposal to build a $75 million soccer park in south Overland Park. OnGoal let it be known that it wanted to build a stadium at that site (revenue source: to be determined) if voters in Johnson County approved the plan.
Johnson County voters gave the idea a resounding "no" on November 7, 2006. The following week, it was reported that OnGoal was considering Bannister Mall, among other sites.
OnGoal made its interest in south Kansas City official in April 2007. In cooperation with LANE4 Property Group Inc., OnGoal applied for tax-increment financing, a program administered by the Economic Development Corporation.
TIF allows developers to capture a portion of the taxes that their projects create. A powerful tool, TIF was designed to lure developers to distressed or blighted areas. In Kansas City, though, developers have used it to build shopping malls and condominiums in the city's wealthier precincts.
Following the example of other MLS owners, OnGoal proposed more than a soccer stadium. The plan also included 12 "tournament style" soccer fields, a hotel, retail stores and office space.
OnGoal and LANE4 put the project's value at $943 million. They wanted TIF to cover $267 million. Aaron March, a lawyer with a reassuring mien, told the TIF Commission that the development represented Bannister Mall's "salvation."
Even critics of the use of TIF in Kansas City had to admit that the plan had merit. Bannister Mall was genuinely blighted. Soccer proposed a cure.
Of course, soccer's viability as a spectator sport in the United States remains a work in progress.
As LANE4 prepared the Wizards' proposal, English superstar David Beckham joined the Los Angeles Galaxy, an MLS team. League officials hoped that Beckham's stateside arrival would captivate celebrity watchers as well as sports fans who resist Major League Soccer because they know the best players are in Europe, competing in the Champions League.
Alas, Beckham's heavily promoted Galaxy debut did not land with the desired impact. A recently published book called The Beckham Experiment notes that the ESPN2 audience for Beckham's first game was smaller than the one that had tuned in to watch a women's softball game the previous month.
While Kansas City's economic-development whizzes had been bending over for Beckham, they missed another opportunity — an opportunity that looked as if it had solid financial backing and forward-thinking planning. Had locals not been so myopic in their focus on the stadium as savior, they might have remembered the lessons of Bass Pro.
In a space rented cheaply from Austin, the office of the 3-Trails Village CID succeeds in transmitting the idea that stagecoaches used to drive over what is now 93rd Street. Cattle skulls hang from the walls. A checkerboard waits for players to grab a stool. Some of the American flags reflect the gradual nature in which states joined the union. "This is our sales room," Austin says.
The CID board meets in a room furnished with church pews. Austin believes the pews increase the dignity of the discussions that take place. "When you raise the bar, you affect human behavior," he says.
One behavior that the CID has tried to influence is the manner in which cars and trucks use 87th Street.
In 2003, the CID hired a transportation engineer, Michael Wallwork, who specializes in roundabouts. Advocates of New Urbanism like roundabouts, which calm traffic and create visual interest. Wallwork proposed four roundabouts for 87th Street in an effort to transform the road "into a beautiful, appealing, public space that will spark redevelopment interest," according to his feasibility study. Wallwork also suggested ideas for improving Bannister Road, which he called "unattractive" and "designed solely to move vehicles."
The 3-Trails Village board also invited professional and student landscape architects to reimagine Bannister Mall and its surrounding acreage. Austin liked the plans that showed houses and apartments where empty stores and parking lots stood. "You gotta have people living on the dirt," he says.
Rethinking Bannister Mall was not simply an academic exercise. In cities such as Lakewood, Colorado, and Boca Raton, Florida, dead malls have been converted into graceful districts with a mix of uses. Robert Gibbs, a Michigan-based retail urban planner in the New Urbanism school, told Austin that Bannister Mall had the right bones — primarily land and access — for that sort of redevelopment.
Through Gibbs, Austin met a possible investor for such a turnaround here.
In the fall of 2007, Gibbs helped arrange a visit by two senior executives at J.P. Morgan and the managing partner of GreenHawk Partners, a North Carolina real-estate development company.
The J.P. Morgan executives managed the bank's Urban Renaissance Property Fund. The fund managers sought investments in developments that adhered to "green" certification standards, pedestrian-friendly design and proximity to commuter rail lines, according to a letter that one of the executives, Lewis Jones, sent to Austin.
On his visit, Jones wanted to meet officials from Kansas City Southern. The railroad's main line forms the eastern border of the 3-Trails Village CID.
A Kansas City Southern spokeswoman confirms that the company's vice president for corporate affairs, Warren Erdman, met with Austin and others to discuss the possibility of commuter rail service, which transit advocates in Kansas City have promoted for years.
The spokeswoman, Doniele Kane, says Erdman expressed the railroad's "willingness to consider such an idea," while also explaining that the track required substantial improvements in order to handle commuters as well as freight, and that the money would have to have come from a public source.
That year, gas prices surpassed $3 a gallon. Austin says the J.P. Morgan executives were looking to invest in developments that could survive in a world of reduced automobile travel.
The bankers held four meetings in Kansas City that were attended by various stakeholders, including the public.
A private meeting was arranged between representatives from J.P. Morgan and LANE4 Property Group, OnGoal's development partner.
The Wizards and LANE4 had already outlined their vision for the site several months before J.P. Morgan took an interest. It was green only in the sense that it contained sports fields.
Aspects of LANE4's plans for Bannister Mall look pretty similar to what was at the site 20 years ago. Where the shopping center once stood — demolition began earlier this year — the drawings call for big-box and specialty stores, surrounded by acres of ample parking. The streets are engineered to facilitate speedy access to and from the soccer stadium.
Of course, the youth soccer fields and the office buildings would have added dimensions that Bannister Mall lacked even in its glory years.
At the same time, LANE4 was not assembling a development to rival the Country Club Plaza — or even Zona Rosa. The retail and office components in LANE4's plan existed largely to create a tax increment to pay for the construction of the soccer stadium.
"The driver," Austin says, "has always been, 'We want a stadium.'"
It became evident to Austin that the Wizards/LANE4 team and J.P. Morgan would not be able to align forces.
J.P. Morgan's ideas about redevelopment fit with all the planning that 3-Trails Village had done. J.P. Morgan's pledge to invest in sustainable design squared with public officials' stated intentions to make Kansas City a greener place.
The soccer-oriented plan, however, had been the first to lay claim to the site — and make political friends. Sharp has received $1,000 in campaign contributions from OnGoal as well as LANE4, according to campaign-finance disclosures.
And though the visit from and meetings with J.P. Morgan representatives indicated that the investor had a strong interest in Kansas City, discussions never progressed to the point of a financial commitment.
Meanwhile, the Wizards were prepared to throw around a little Cerner money. "You can't turn that down," Councilwoman Cathy Jolly tells The Pitch, in an effort to describe the bird-in-hand nature of the soccer plan.
Owen Buckley, the president of LANE4, says the Wizards group spent $30 million acquiring and preparing the ground around Bannister Mall before the team turned to Kansas City, Kansas.
Still, Austin is annoyed. He feels that 3-Trails Village followed the Economic Development Corporation's every instruction, only to be discarded at the first bounce of a hypothetical soccer ball.
"It was like we never even existed," he says.
Soccer's future in south Kansas City dimmed when investment banks began to choke on the bad bets they had made on goofy home loans.
In December 2007, the same month that the City Council approved the incentives for the Wizards' project, Bear Stearns announced that it had lost $854 million in just three months. It was as an early signal that Wall Street was headed for trouble.
"Our world really started changing," Buckley says. Credit markets seized up. Buckley says his team spent much of 2008 scrambling to keep things together. At one point, LANE4 asked the city to back the TIF bonds. City officials declined.
The Wizards, in the meantime, were anxious for work to begin on their stadium.
"They're a restless group, as you've seen," Buckley says. "They want a stadium yesterday."
The owners of Nebraska Furniture Mart at Village West made an overture to the Wizards in April of this year, Buckley says. The appeal of Kansas City, Kansas, quickly became apparent.
The furniture store offered the Wizards land on which they could build their stadium. Accepting the offer meant that the Wizards wouldn't have to fuss with lining up sales- and earnings-tax-producing tenants at the Bannister site. Stores at Village West were already added established and were producing the tax revenue that the Wizards need to back their stadium bonds.
Team officials hope to open a new facility in 2011.
"What's important to us and really to our fans is making sure we're in a soccer stadium and in a soccer stadium as soon as possible," Wizards President Robb Heineman tells The Pitch.
Heineman and Buckley say they still believe in the Bannister area. Of course, they now own 200 acres out there. Optimism came with the deed.
"We're going to make sure something wonderful happens out there," Heineman says. "We owe it to the community; we owe it to ourselves. But at the end of the day, we owed it to our fans to make sure we're in a soccer stadium, and that's the move we made."
Austin says he doesn't fault the Wizards for pursuing their interest. He does wish the CID had been more effective in getting them to think more about a plan that included the stadium but was not built around it. "We didn't do that," he says. "It's inexcusable."
Now, once again, the Bannister site is open to development ideas.
Is there a chance that J.P. Morgan execs might come back for another walk around the grounds?
"Investors are always looking for opportunities," Austin says. The vagueness of his reply suggests that investment bankers will not be sitting in church pews anytime in the near future.
Economic-development "leaders" in Kansas City, meanwhile, are recommencing their efforts to save the Bannister site. Maybe this time they'll look for a solution instead of a miracle.
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Salem teen in custody after his mother is assaulted
According to police, Thomas George was taken into custody on Cluff Crossing Road in the later hours of the morning.
Salem High School and Pinkerton Academy in Derry were both put on lockdown as a precaution this morning as police searched for George. George had been a student at Pinkerton but is not cuirrently enrolled there, according to a school official.
Police were looking for a green Kia Sephia which was found in Derry. Police suspect George stole another car, which he left at Rockingham Park, before heading toward Cluff Crossing Road on foot.
During the search, police asked for the public's help, and Deputy Chief Shawn Patten stated George was armed with a knife and hammer and considered dangerous.
A spokesman at Pinkerton Academy said George attended the school for the last three years. He isn't presently enrolled as he withdrew last year, said Chip Underhill, Pinkerton's executive director of public affairs.
Pinkerton went into lockdown at 8:55 a.m. , when it was learned George had fled Salem after the alleged incident and was headed for Derry.
"It was announced, this was not a drill," Underhill said.
The high school was scheduled to hold a lockdown drill sometime this week, Underhill said. The lockdown ended 20 minutes later, Underhill said.
"We were extremely pleased by how the students and teacher responded to this actual event," Underhill said. "They locked the doors and stayed quiet."
Underhill said that he was sure some of the students were upset by the actual lockdown and will be discussing the incident.
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SALEM - Police are looking for an 18-year-old man in connection with an attempted murder Thursday morning on Cluff Crossing Road.
Investigators said Thomas George fled the area in a green Kia Sophia with New Hampshire registration 317 1993 or 341 1012. The car has a U.S. Air Force sticker on the rear window.
Police considered George to be dangerous and believe he is armed with a knife and hammer.
Call 911 if you see him or the car.
Salem High School was put in a "precautionary lockdown" only Thursday morning because George has ties to the school, police said. Several police officers were assigned to the school to provide added security.
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With a fresh, default install of Ubuntu Karmic I get a copy of Grub 1.97~beta4. It has a load of memtest and kernal choices, I don't need em, but nor do I care that they are there. The problem is, that this install unlike other installs of the same version I have done, doesnt have a countdown before using the default. It just sits there forevermore, until you pick one.
I've worked out that the old /boot/grub/menu.lst has gone in favour of /etc/default/grub. Below is what the file contains:
# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'
# Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux
# Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entrys
The only difference with this install to all my previous ones that have the coundown is that it is virtual (hosted with VMWare on Windows XP) - would this make any difference? I can't imagine it would but maybe I'm missing something...
Or of course I might just be being daft with the config file above.
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Meet me at St. Louis, MO
By Litz Go
26 Jun 2012
This photos speak louder that words. Another successful meet up with friends from JPG.
Our Phoenix, Arizona meet up held in November 2011 is not over yet, but the plan to meet again, this time in St. Louis is already on the works. Shirley Valencia, Melissa Valencia and Diana Anderson already volunteer to make this happen.
Then came April, 2012 and we met at St Louis, MO. These are photos and you could see how we enjoyed each other...very, very much!
Fantastic hosts, wonderful places. It was another event to remember and cherish! The places we visited are awesome. Lots of fun, friendship renewed.
The next meet up in Virginia is already in the planning stage. I hope with this images, everyone will be encourage to join us and experience how fun it is to be with fellow jpgers.
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Wonderful story & pix!
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We did have a blast but then again, we always do. I can't wait to go to Virginia!
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Fun essay. Love it. Hoping to make it to the next meetup. For sure my votes.
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Escape from the scorching summer with the compact Symphony Ninja Air Cooler. With a powerful air throw, this cooler helps to keep the temperatures pleasant during the hot summers.
The Symphony Ninja personal air cooler is designed for residential use, especially for spot cooling. It can be used in living rooms, bed rooms, terraces, or gardens. The cooler can be used both indoor and outdoors. This room air cooler comes with a plastic blower with 13.2 cm diameter for air circulation.
This room air cooler comes with 17 litres water tank capacity. However, it does not have an ice chamber. The cooler is further equipped with a water level indicator and an overflow hole. The overflow hole, which is located at the back of the cooler, indicates when the water tank is full.
The Symphony Ninja air cooler has a powerful air throw distance up to 29 ft. with auto swing. The cooler achieves cooling coverage area up to 100 sq.ft. Moreover, the air cooler has 3 speed control - high, medium and low.
The Symphony Ninja comes comes with dura-pump technology for increased durability of the pump. The cooler comes with a honeycomb cooling pad for efficient cooling through heat absorption. The air cooler is also equipped with a mosquito net/ dust filter to keep away dust and mosquitoes and keep the air around clean and healthy.
This Symphony air cooler works on inverter power. It is equipped with auto louver movement for uniform distribution of cool air. Besides this, this air cooler comes with multi-directional castor wheels for easy maneuverability. Also, the cooler has a drain plug at the back to remove the residual water from the cooler.
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|Water Tank Capacity
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|100 sq. ft.
|Air Delivery
|1000 cubic mtr
|Body and Design Features
|Blower/Fan Material
|Castor Wheels
|Auto Louver Movement
|Convenience Features
|Dust Filter
|Other Convenience Features
|Mosquito Net, Auto Louver Movement, Multi-directional Wheels
|Power Features
|Power Requirement
|230 V, 50 Hz
|Power Consumption - Cooling
|Additional Features
|Technology Used
|Dura-pump Technology
|Cooler Location
|Indoor, Outdoor
|Other Features
|Works on Inverter Power, Cooling Area 28 cm. mt., Powerful Air Throw with Auto Swing, High Efficiency Honeycomb Pad
|Width x Height x Depth
|45 cm x 70.1 cm x 28.7 cm
|7 kg
|Blower/Fan Diameter
|13.2 cm
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|1 Year Symphony Warranty
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|Symphony's Liability Under the Warranty will be Limited Only to Motor, Pump, Louvre Motor, PCB's and Fan / Blower and also Restricted to any Such Defects which Occurs Under Conditions of Normal Operations and Proper Use
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The Warranty Does Not Cover Cooling Pads and Outer Plastic Parts, The Warranty Does Not Cover Incorrect Usage of Product in Combination with any other Substance or Product, Used for Commercial Purpose, Defects Developed Due to Faulty Care / Maintenance / Alterations to... Read More
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I have this at home, for a medium-big bedroom this is good enough. It has wheels so that it can be moved around without any trouble. It has capacity of 16 liters which is sufficient for more than one night. I sometimes squeeze in some ice cubes as well for that extra chill. Great portable little thing to have around in a country like ours. The prices are really rising every year, I had bought it last summer under Rs 3000 but this year it has really gone up. A must need in every household. Get this ASAP! Symphony is doing excellent in the cooler section and Flipkart is incomparable.
I ordered this cooler on Saturday morning @ 9AM and amazing Flipkart delivery had it delivered to me @ 11AM on Sunday, which is amazing -- hats off to Flipkart.
Coming to the product, I am not happy with this purchase - I thought it would help me out in beating the scorching heat of Gurgaon, but its totally incapable of doing it. I know its a personal cooler, but if its running for almost 15 hours a day, it should cool up 10x10 room, but it doesn't. Moreover while sleeping I had to place this cooler like only 2ft. away from my face.
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It is not good at all. The pump repaired already twice in a month time, but pump is not replacing. Repair person is not good at all. He came and replace on fan type some thing in pump went back twice. Again I am facing the same problem.
My name is Akhilesh. I have bought i symphony ninja from flipkart on 13th may 2013. After 20 days it started throwing water out from blower. I have logged a complain with complain number ND-AQ-21F14013 on 20th June.
Engineer came to my place on 22nd june. He said that he is not having correct tools for this model & will come back with correct tools & taken copy of bill from me.
He did not came back but I received a message on my phone that my problem is resolved. How come its possible.
I was surprised. Again i have logged a complain with complain number ND-AQ-24F14008 on 24th... (Expand)
I am very disappoint with this product "NINJA" model, plz my personal suggestion plz dont buy it. Bcoz it is so small and cooling is worth, and having small-small problems daily like fan throw water with air...and i am strongly recommend you to not buy this product this waste of money..... I am also ignore the reviews and buy it now I am trying to manage this season and sell in next season not able to buy new product due shortage of money.....


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Aaron Kwittken, Kwittken Company Worldwide CEO, offers advice for Jamie Dimon who will be testifying tomorrow before the Senate Banking Committee.
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The fact is, we must rethink our understanding of business, the organization, and how we lead both, the author says.
The "Squawk on the Street" news team discusses today's market-moving stories; including a look at Italy's fiscal future as yields in that country continue to rise; JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon's testimony before the Senate Banking Committee tomorrow; Michael Kors' earnings beat; and the drop in oil prices amid an OPEC report saying the market is "amply supplied."
Donald Trump, Trump Organization chairman & president, discusses how JPMogan's Jamie Dimon mishandled the firm's trading losses; his plans for the Doral golf resort near Miami; building a major film studio; and the direction of oil prices if President Obama is re-elected.
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JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon will sit on the hot seat before Congress in less than two days and speculation swirls that a downgrade of U.S. banks by Moody's could come any day now, with Ed Groshans, Height Analytics, and Moshe Orenbuch, Credit Suisse.
The former Fed chairman isn't worried by the size of the losses at JPMorgan's chief investment office. His reaction: "So what?"
Jason Goldberg, Barclays analyst, explains why he maintains a "buy" rating on JPMorgan despite its recent trading loss, also offering a look at today's surge in financials.
When a company is among the best in its sector, it becomes harder to detect potential flaws – not because of complacency but because processes and systems appear to be working well.
A small group of shareholder advocates delivered an urgent message to top executives at JPMorgan Chase more than a year ago: the bank's risk controls needed to be improved, the New York Times reports
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The Detroit Lions and Chicago Bears meet Sunday tied atop the NFC North standings with the Green Bay Packers at 5-3 overall this season. The Lions are coming off a bye week following a thrilling one-point victory over the Dallas Cowboys. The Bears are coming off a 27-20 win over the Packers led by backup quarterback Josh McCown on Monday night.
Jay Cutler is back for the Bears this week, which means that the Lions and Bears will face each other at relatively full strength. It should be no surprise, then, that the game is a pick 'em on most sports books.
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The Lions opened the week as 3.5-point favorites in Chicago, perhaps due to the uncertainty surrounding Cutler, who sat last week due to a Week 7 groin injury. He has recovered much faster than many expected, however, and will be behind center for the Bears on Sunday.
Good luck trying to figure out who to pick. Both teams have been good bets straight-up with a combined 10-6 record. Neither team has been good against the spread, however. The Lions are 4-4 against the spread this season, while the Bears are just 2-5-1.
The Lions have gotten the better of the Bears against the spread lately, going 6-1 ATS in their last seven outings with Chicago. Straight-up, the Bears have won nine of the last 11 meetings, however. The Bears won three in a row in the series before the Lions' 40-32 win at Detroit in Week 4.
In Chicago, the Bears are 0-4-1 against the spread in their last five games. They are 8-4 straight-up in their last 12 games at Soldier Field, however. Detroit has lost its last five games played in Chicago, although it has done well relative to the spread, going 5-1-1 against in its last seven games.
Betting the over/under may produce better luck. The Bears have gone over six times in eight games this season, while the Lions have gone over five times in eight games. Odds Shark's computer prediction projects a 28-27 Lions victory, which would go over the 52-point total by three points.
The matchups appears to favor points. The Bears boast the NFL's No. 2 scoring offense against the Lion's No. 18 overall defense. On the flip side, the Lions' No. 6-ranked scoring offense could have success against the Bears' No. 29 overall defense.
Sunday's game seems to have been tailor-made to stump bettors. Ultimately, a determination one way or the other may depend on one's confidence in Cutler's health. If the quarterback can play without limitations, Chicago may be the tempting pick given its recent success against Detroit at home. If Cutler is rusty, an upstart Lions team may be the better option.
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GCC consumers increasingly 'gadget weary'
CEO of leading electronics retailer, Jumbo, shares his perspectives on the regional market.
October 3, 2013 12:10 by Steven Bond
After serving Al-Futtaim's Engineering and Technologies Division as group director of electronics, Vishesh Bhatia returned to Jumbo Electronics Company Ltd to take the helm.
He had occupied the role of COO in the early noughties and he is now approaching three decades within electronics distribution. In 2012 he won the 'Indian CEO of the year' award.
Stars of the small screen
Worldwide, PC sales are being annihilated by the soaring sales of smartphones and tablets. IDC predicts more tablets will ship than desktops or laptops combined in Q4 of this year. Overall, more PCs will have been sold in 2013, but the trend indicates a shift towards mobile technology. Bhatia, however, is noticing something different happening in the GCC region.
He says: "Yes, notebooks have declined, but desktop sales have actually increased for us. Manufacturers have been very innovative and I'm not talking about those clunky looking boxes, but very elegant machines that do more than simply give you a big screen. We find there's definitely a market for customers who want these machines for personal or corporate use."
The keyword here for Jumbo is 'corporate'. Jumbo has a very large distribution service, working with partners such as Sony, HP, Acer and others, and continues to grow its enterprise division.
"We do see more enquiries coming our way and the enterprise section is turning positively. We've been doing this for 40 years now and we ain't going nowhere, so we can service our enterprise customers any way they wish," says Bhatia.
Just last week, global consumer electronics firm, Simmtronics, inked a deal with Jumbo for tablet distribution in the GCC region. Rajesh Aiyar, head of Jumbo Electronics' IT Division, says that the alliance with Simmtronics is a benefit to all users, "from the corporate exec to the serious gamer" and believes the deal will strengthen the chain's leadership position.
Bhatia adds: "Overall this business is seeing growth between five and seven per cent, if we can rely on the numbers we get from various agencies. While we see digital cameras and feature phones decline, smartphones and tablets are really growing."
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The next major shift in portable technology is already looming. Samsung, Sony and Apple are currently touting their smartwatches, with a host of mid-tier competitors soon to follow suit, and Google has been teasing us with their Glass gadget for quite some time. But how does the experienced CEO think 'wearables' will fare?
"My own view is that this is the next evolution in technology. It's the next step, but not the last step. For example, the Galaxy Gear and the Sony SmartWatch are innovative, but the next innovations may come sooner than we think. Foldable screens, for example, could be made wearable to allow for a five-inch display on your wrist – or the screen could be completely detachable," says Bhatia.
"Or taking it even further, nano-devices could be injected into your body and monitor your every move. So I predict that wearable technology will be adopted and I think that it's just one step in a much longer journey," he adds.
Having seen trends come and go for three decades, the Jumbo boss is well placed as a techno-soothsayer, particularly when it comes to predicting the Gulf market in particular. Additionally, Gartner predicted last year that consumer IT spending in the Middle East region and Africa would reach $244 billion, with Saudi Arabia, Turkey and South Africa accounting for nearly 35 percent of the revenue.
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However, consumer confidence toward technology dropped to its lowest level since 2009, even through sentiment toward the economy remained stable overall, according to figures released last week by the Consumer Electronics Association. While Gulf countries still appear to have an appetite for the latest and greatest, how well does that reflect in current sales?
"I think we've seen in the past that every time a new device was launched, such as the recent BlackBerry Z10 and Sony's new Xperia devices, consumers were very keen to buy quickly," says Bhatia. "But, really we are noticing a slight customer exhaustion, if I may call it that. There's another term, 'gadget weary', and at the end of the day, even the Android-based devices don't differ that widely in their look and feel.
"Customers are becoming increasingly less likely to part with thousands of dirhams for a device that isn't that different from its predecessors. Some will, but the pace at which this is happening may keep slowing down. That's my own prediction and perhaps wearable technology may alter this trend," he concludes.
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The CCN has now started a Meet Ups group to organize a regular schedule of networking sessions for entrepreneurs and corporate users to learn more about Cloud Computing.
Each session will feature one or more presentations from experts on various Cloud topics that will illustrate the value of the technology.
Cloud Search Portal
The first of these is Efrem Habteselassie, Founder of one of Canada's most exciting Cloud start-ups, Cloud Search Portal.
As the name suggests the venture demonstrates the fundamental value of the Cloud – A hosted version of very powerful software so that you can access it in an on demand, utility manner, harnessing the benefits without having to be troubled with the challenges of installing and managing it all yourself.
In this case the powerful software is Search technology, like that of Google, but in this case based on the Microsoft Sharepoint FAST system.
Social Search, Social Commerce
A great example of the value of this technology is described in an article about Walmart in this month's FAST Company magazine.
Finally (!) setting out to master e-commerce Walmart has begun to embrace the new technologies required to compete with Amazon who has been eating into their core markets online.
The executive team realized they lacked the skills for this domain, and so simply began acquiring start-ups to fill the gap. One, Kosmix, specialized in Site Search and analytics technologies, and was bought because their existing web site search feature didn't work very well at all.
This is the first and essential point. A Search feature on your site can be powered by the built-in version that comes with e-commerce software, or you can use a dedicated version. The difference? One is putting a lawnmower engine into your new Ferrari, the other lowering in an F15 jet engine.
There is a world of difference between Search platforms and what they can do for your online business, as Walmart learned. Like many they took this for granted and used the standard version, but found that when site visitors typed in 'smartphones', they'd be shown links to a couple of cell phone chargers, not the iPhone.
In short it simply didn't work very well, and as this simple example illustrates, this can dramatically impede the ability for the site to perform it's core function: Connect visitors with products they want to buy.
Walmart solved the problem by buying an entire start-up. Kosmix had developed advanced Search technologies for Amazon, and not only could it address this fundamental issue, but also offer a variety of other commerce-driving features.
In this Web 2.0 age the critical theme is "Social Commerce" – The technology can not only index all of that site, but it can also search across social media, analyzing content from Facebook and other sites to determine what your friends and family are interested in, and from this make recommendations for purchases on the Walmart site.
This other FAST Company article, the Walmart Version of Search, provides an excellent detailed review of these technologies in action.
As you can imagine these features make online shopping much easier for consumers and thus drive more sales. Wouldn't it be great to have this for your online venture?
Of course it would and there is the principle benefit of Cloud Computing – You don't have to buy your own start-up for $300m to access it, indeed you don't even have to buy the software or servers. You can now rent the same capability for a fraction of the price.
Making it possible for SMEs to compete on the same terms as Walmart = The value of Cloud Computing.
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Contract awarded for asbestos abatement, demolitionA Buffalo-based demolition company has won a contract to perform asbestos removal and demolition of an office space and retail complex in New York.
The board of the Upstate Empire State Development Corporation is entrusting Ontario Specialty Contracting to tear down the Midtown complex in Rochester, New York. Asbestos abatement at the 8.5 acre site has been underway for several months, according to the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
A spokeswoman for Upstate Empire State Development told the news source that the contract is contingent on the state budget being passed, as Governor David Paterson has halted all new contracts.
The new Midtown Plaza will go up at the demolition site, which lawmakers are hoping will revitalize the area.
?The future of the city of Rochester and the success of Midtown Plaza are linked,? U.S. Senator Charles Schumer told the Rochester Business Journal. ?Investing in Midtown will create jobs for people in Rochester and serve as an anchor for a growing and thriving city and region.?
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Demetrious Johnson will defend his UFC flyweight title against Chris Cariaso as the co-main event of UFC 177 on Aug. 30 at Sleep Train Arena.
In the main event, TJ Dillashaw (11-2) of Angels Camp will defend his bantamweight title against Renan Barao (34-2), the fighter he beat to win the title on May 24 in Las Vegas.
This will be the fifth defense for Johnson (20-2-1), who has held the flyweight title since Sept. 22, 2012. Cariaso (17-5) has won his last three bouts.
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