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IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Following its successful debut last year, the Orange County Great Park will once again proudly host Great Night! Family New Year's Eve, the biggest family-friendly New Year's Eve party in Irvine. Families and anyone interested in celebrating the New Year with an evening filled with live music and dancing, great food and fun for all ages in a festive, alcohol-free environment are encouraged to attend.
Great Night! kicks off at 5 p.m. on Monday, December 31 and culminates with a countdown and celebration of New Year's Eve 2013 on East Coast time at 9 p.m. As the clock strikes 9 p.m., the Great Park rings in the New Year with an explosion of streamers, party hats and noise makers. Admission is free, and parking is $10.
"We are excited to once again offer families a fun, exciting and safe way to celebrate New Year's at the Great Park," said Beth Krom, Chair of the Orange County Great Park. "This unique celebration allows parents to ring in the New Year with their children and make it home in time to attend other parties."
Southland Mega Groove, a popular 5-piece band with versatile vocalists that played at last year's first-ever Great Night! event, will once again rock the night away with songs from across the decades. Hangar 244 will be transformed into a Disco Lounge featuring DJ music and dancing. Local community groups will also be on hand to perform throughout the evening.
Great Night! will feature carnival-style games, a scavenger hunt, military vehicle displays, arts and crafts activities for children, street entertainers and a new outdoor recreation game area. Families can enjoy carousel rides, art exhibitions at the Palm Court Arts Complex, as well as dine on delicious food available from more than a dozen gourmet food trucks and food stations. Visitors can also send New Year's Eve photos to friends and family and post them on Facebook from special high-tech photo booths on site.
Last year's Great Night! Family New Year's Eve attracted approximately 10,000 visitors and similar attendance is expected for this year's celebration.
The Orange County Great Park is located at Sand Canyon and Marine Way, and can easily be reached by the 5 or 405 freeways. For more information, visit, please visit www.ocgp.org or call 866-829-3829.
About the Great Park
Hundreds of thousands of visitors from all over Southern California enjoy the Orange County Great Park's array of recreational and educational opportunities and participate in shared experiences, including panoramic views from the iconic Great Park Balloon that rises 400 feet in the air. Other Great Park features include the Carousel, Farm + Food Lab, Kids Rock Playground, Walkable Historical Timeline, Palm Court Arts Complex, North Lawn recreation area and historic Hangar 244. In addition to free sports clinics, gardening workshops, weekly Farmers Market and other community events, the Great Park hosts an annual series of special events that provide unique experiences for the entire family, including the Growing the Park: Anniversary Celebration, Great Park Pumpkin Harvest, Great Night! Family New Year's Eve, and the Flights & Sounds Summer Festival. With its approximate 1,300-acre master plan, the Great Park is the centerpiece of the redevelopment of the publicly-owned portion of the 4,700-acre former Marine Corps Air Station El Toro. For more information, please visit www.ocgp.org.
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Photos of the week
A woman with an umbrella jumps over a hole on a highway road, damaged by an earthquake in Chiang Rai, in northern Thailand May 6, 2014. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
A protestor demonstrates against the kidnapping of more than 200 school girls by Islamist militants in Nigeria, outside the Nigerian Embassy in London May 9, 2014. REUTERS/Olivia Harris
Debris rises in what Free Syrian Army fighters and Islamic rebels said was an operation to strike Al-Sahaba checkpoint, which is considered a gateway to Al-Dayf valley, and remove forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad in Maarat Al-Nouman, Idlib province May 5, 2014. REUTERS/Rasem Ghareeb
Russian servicemen walk in formation as they take part in a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade during a snowfall in central Moscow, May 7, 2014. Russia celebrates victory over Nazi Germany on May 9. REUTERS/Artur Bainozarov
Venezuela's national guard reacts after a petrol bomb was thrown by anti-government students at them during clashes at Metropolitan University in Caracas, May 7, 2014. REUTERS/Christian Veron
An Afghan woman cries after she lost her family in a landslide at the Argo district in Badakhshan province May 4, 2014.REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail
Two number plates are seen next to the body of a Ukrainian policeman outside the police headquarters after an Ukrainian forces attempt to drive out pro-Russian militants in Mariupol May 9, 2014. REUTERS/Marko Djurica
A donkey carrying sacks of coal walks through the narrow tunnels of a coal mine, in Choa Saidan Shah in Punjab province, Pakistan April 29, 2014. Local coal miners use donkeys to transport coal from the depths of the mines to the surface. The donkeys make around 20 trips per day carrying sacks weighing about 20 kg (44 lbs) each. The work is dangerous with the constant risk of cave-ins. The miners say they do what they can to care...
Residents arrive on foot to inspect their homes in the al-Hamdeya neighborhood, after the cessation of fighting between rebels and forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, in Homs city May 9, 2014. REUTERS/Khaled al-Hariri
An injured pro-Russian armed man is helped out of a car by a medical staff at a hospital at the town of Slaviansk, eastern Ukraine, May 5, 2014. REUTERS/Baz Ratner
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry kicks a soccer ball around during an airplane refueling stop at Sal Island, Cape Verde, en route to Washington, DC, May 5, 2014. REUTERS/Saul Loeb/Pool
A young Buddhist monk flexes his muscles during morning prayers at Thikse Monastery in Ladakh, Indian-Administered Kashmir, May 7, 2014. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood
Scottish country dancer Mairie McGillivray,16, dances on the beach at Bridgend as she poses for a photograph on the Hebridean island of Islay, March 11, 2014. REUTERS/Paul Hackett
A Buddhist monk walks in front of a Buddha statue damaged in the earthquake at the Udomwaree temple in Chiang Rai, in northern Thailand May 6, 2014. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
A paramilitary policeman crawls under fire obstacles during a drill at a military base in Chaohu, Anhui province, China May 5, 2014. REUTERS/China Daily
A surfer holding her board wades through the surf as clouds above are lit by the setting sun at Mollymook Beach on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia May 8, 2014. REUTERS/David Gray
Jordan Oliver (L) wrestles Boris Novachkov of Bulgaria during the Beat the Streets international wrestling competition at Times Square in New York May 7, 2014. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
A lone house is seen at a construction site of an urban transformation project in Fikirtepe, a neighborhood in Istanbul, Turkey May 7, 2014. The house belongs to a family who has refused to give its approval for the demolishment of the building, bringing the transformation project to a standstill. The owner of the house has demanded a new contract with further guarantees before signing an agreement with the construction firm behind...
Rex Chan, 5, receives make up before taking part in a Bun Festival parade at Hong Kong's Cheung Chau island May 6, 2014. The festival celebrates the islanders' deliverance from famine many centuries ago and is meant to placate ghosts and restless spirits. REUTERS/Bobby Yip
Venezuelan artist Cristobal Ochoa (R) and his performance partner Jean-Paul Fowler promote the Artist Open Houses part of the Brighton Festival with street art performance "Los conos de madre" ("mother's cones"), on the seafront in Brighton, England May 6, 2014. Artists open their homes during the annual Brighton Festival, now in its 48th year, every weekend during May. Ochoa will be performing at two arts houses in Hove and other...


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The great Ed Parsons giving Reuter's the skinny on maps now and the future (the fine line between useful and creepy).
Category Archives: GIS_Software
Lego, Australia, and Build with Chrome
There's a good 124 (ish) reasons I love this site – Building with Chrome and Lego. The most important are because it's Lego and a Map. The basic premise is you can grab a plot of land and 'build' your lego construct virtually on that plot of land. It can be a house or an abstract sculpture or pretty much anything you can envision in Lego (except those weird Lego Bonicle things my nephew lovs so much). It is also great to see Google really pushing the envelope of what's possible with Chrome and HTML 5. More 'food for thought' is a great thing for near future HTML 5 work that anyone involved in web stuff is going to have to embrace. My only real problem with the site is that even though it is tied to space, it is a space most people won't know. The constructs are unlikely to represent Australian in any meaningful way. But hey, you can't have everything!
Now if Lego would just move the experiment a tad South East and render all their Lord of The Rings Lego, we could recreate the movies in Lego on the map. Maybe that's just too much awesome for one app
Watch Dogs – Hacking the virtual city
Every year, the gaming industry teases us with the latest and greatest in new games and technology at shows around the world. One of the biggest shows, E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) recently gave us a couple of previews that really wowed. The first, Watch Dogs, is by major game studio Ubisoft, and explores the implications of controlling all aspects of city functions, sensor networks, and even monitoring the inhabitants' personal technology footprint through a single operating system, a "City OS", and what would happen if someone had the skills to hack that system. The short preview of the game from E3 showcases stunning graphics and real-time movement, and shows that not only can the gaming world be a great source of inspiration and technology for geospatial applications of 3D and real-time modeling, but the stories played out in games can also explore the questions that arise from implementing this technology. Take a look at the preview here:
Google Maps press event video
I am just beginning to watch the video from today's press event at Mountain View, and while it apparently ends with a few announcements it begins with a great history of Google Earth/Maps going all the way back to SGI and Keyhole to the process of building (and filling) Google Maps. Take a look to see the history, uses, and future of Googles approach to geo.
U.K. and the summer of GIS
The U.K. is experiencing a summer of GIS with several overlapping large and unique events taking place that use geospatial tools for planning, management, analysis and public outreach. Like many instances of GIS integration for event planning, it might seem as if it happened overnight but in fact took more than five and in some cases ten years of planning and cooperation between many different organizations and agencies.
Olympic Torch and the 2012 Olympics
According to Public Service UK, The National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) Learning Strategy Department has trained all 250,000 police officers and staff in the UK to use geospatial tools for safety operations for the London Olympics and Paralympics. This would be a big enough job, if the London Olympics only took place in London. However, the Olympic Torch Relay travels within an hour of 95% of people in the UK. The training was available through a GIS e-learning module and provides maps and plans of venues and locations for use in operational planning, briefings and deployments.
Transportation is another big area of concern for the upcoming Olympics. The interactive map website, Get Ahead of the Games, is a collaboration between the Mayor of London, National Rail, Department for Transport, Highways Agency, and Transport for London to make planning and travel easier during the Olympics and Paralympics. It includes travel by public transport, National Rail, road and river services.
The Ordnance Survey has documented the creation of the 2012 Olympics siteusing detailed ariel imagery from 2001 through to 2010. The planning and construction of the London 2012 Games was funded by the National Lottery, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the Mayor of London and the London Development Agency. They presented about the "Learning Legacy: Lessons Learned from the London 2012 Games construction project". A web-based GIS viewer and spatial visualization tool was created to all contractors to access and share information. Over 2 million individual pieces of data were created and are part of the infrastructure planning and continued venue management.
The Queens Diamond Jubilee
The Olympics aren't the only event that has had an impact on geospatial awareness in the U.K. this summer. The National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) also had to prepare for The Queens Diamond Jubilee, along with routine events such as Wimbledon Tennis, Notting Hill Carnival, and football. According to a presentation entitled "Securing the 2012 Olympics: A Milestone in the UK Policing Improvement Programme" geospatial planning and integrated situational awareness has been happening behind the scenes for years before being implemented in time for the U.K.'s summer of GIS.
ESRI UK have created interactive map of the over 41,000 Queen's Diamond Jubilee Beacons being lit on Monday, June 4th, throughout the United Kingdom, Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, along with Commonwealth and UK territories overseas. The beacon chain itself has been used for communication and celebration for hundreds of years making it a very old form of geospatial communication.
Trimble to acquire SketchUp and 3D Warehouse
I am floored! We talk all the time about the use of SketchUp in building out virtual worlds and have just taken for granted that it was tied in to Google's draw for Earth and Maps. Apparently that was not such a given.
Trimble will be adding SketchUp and the 3D Warehouse to its growing pantheon of applications. There are of course short and long term questions from a users perspective regarding the availability of the free version, the licensing costs for the Pro version, the terms of use/copyright rights for 3D Warehouse content, and of course the direction of the software in the future. On the other hand, I am excited about the potential for a tool with the easy to use UI of SketchUp with a better/tighter coupling with GIS applications. Or, how about the ability to use data from existing Trimble hardware and software to streamline model generation.
The SketchUp acquisition is just the most recent in a line of notable acquisitions that include eCognition for Remote Sensing and PeopleNet for logistics, as well as others that link to SketchUp's potential such as BIM and StruCAD.
These software trends have been on top of Trimble's growing GNSS and a related hardware offerings.
Zombie Survival Map
Zombies are cool. Period. That's a non-debatable, empirical fact of current pop culture. Like any good citizen, it helps to know what to do in the case of a zombie outbreak. Lucky for us all, one of the more geographic minded of us has released the Zombie Survival Map. The map shows location where zombies are likely to exist in red (in other words, population centers) and places that are likely to be zombie free in black/grey. On top of that, the map overlays locations for supplies such as food, shelter, hospitals, and oddly liquor stores. Although the map is obviously kinda silly (never mind the Zombie Outbreak Response Vehicle I have on my truck), it does highly some important base information for any sort of widespread emergency response issues. Similar things are being done by state and local governments to help detail routes for evacuation and emergency response. The map hopes to incorporate user generated data and some point, which will make it even more useful in the case of a natural or man made emergency…. or if the zombies ever do rise up and attack…. whichever
The Lightsquared Saga Continues
Lightsquared is not prepared to go gently into the night. They have hired Theodore Olson (among others) to help argue their case. Olson is most famous for having successfully argued for Bush in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court case that settled the 2000 US Presidential election. In other words, Lightsquared brought out the big guns. Olson argues that government encouraged Lightsquared to invest in a startup technology then slammed the door in their face when final approval was sought. I'm not enough of a legal expert to know if Olson's argument holds water, but it is rather telling a relatively famous attorney would take up the case.
As I've said in nearly every post in this ongoing saga…. we'll keep you abreast of the situation as news becomes available.
Affordable Virtual Reality?
A big part of my research for about a decade now has been exploring the development of immersive virtual landscapes, and how evolving technologies continue to make impressive strides toward creating compelling and believable virtual worlds. One of the issues that has always been at the forefront is the cost of virtual reality hardware, whether it was early attempts at head-mounted displays or immersive rooms, such as CAVE environments. These technologies can give you amazing simulations, but most users can't afford to buy the hardware, let alone have the space to set up multi-walled immersive environments. Now, virtual reality technology is increasingly moving toward a consumer experience, with 3D TV's, smartphone VR and augmented reality apps, and interface devices like Microsoft's Kinect and even Sony's Playstation VITA with Augmented Reality (AR) capabilities.
Here's a cool project that I had to share as well. Earlier this month, USC researchers participating in the Off-the-Shelf Virtual Reality Workshop, held in conjunction with IEEE Virtual Reality 2012 and organized by the Mixed Reality lab at USC, debuted FOV2GO, a portable fold-out smartphone viewer for iPhone and Android (sadly no Windows Phone love) that turns the screen into a 3-D virtual reality system. The viewer is made of cardboard and is easily assembled to look like an old-school ViewMaster, and you insert your smartphone into the FOV2GO and look through the eyepieces for a stereo 3D effect. To create your own 3D virtual environments to explore, there are downloadable software tools that are part of the project as well. I'd really like to use the FOV2GO in my class, so I'll have to find out if they'll be available in larger numbers.
This short YouTube video illustrates the FOV2GO in action:
Panoramic View of Angel Falls, Venezuela
We've featured AirPano before on the site, but a set they've put up just took my breath away. They have a wonderful 360 degree air panoramic of Angel Falls in Venezuela. You can see these falls from the base on up to the top of the waterfall. The waterfall drops water nearly a half a mile to the ground. It's just amazing. I really liked being able to start at the bast of the fall and virtually travel up via helicopter to the top. If you're really interested in some of the details of the shoot, the link also has a bit of a pholoblog of the shoot and the area.
Unfortunately most of us won't have the opportunity to see majestic sites like this in person, so effort
s like the AirPano project can really help us see our amazing world in ways never before possible. Not everything on the site is geographic (the 'being a sandwich' one is kinda quirky), but the vast majority cover sites around the globe. Take some time to explore what they have – I think you'll be blown away by the sites.


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Premises Licence
Premises selling alcohol, providing regulated entertainment and/or providing late night refreshment will need to be licensed under the Licensing Act 2003. Premises licences are issued by Cornwall Council as the local licensing authority.
- Online application
- What is a premises licence for?
- Conditions and criteria
- What is regulated entertainment
- Entertainment activities
- How long is a premises licence valid?
- How much does a premises licence cost?
- The application process
- How long does it take to get your licence?
- What means of redress are available?
- Consumer complaints
- Application forms
- Useful links
Online applications
- Apply online for a provisional statement
- Apply online for a new grant premises licence.
- Please note if you are applying to sell/supply alcohol, you will also need to attach the following consent form to your application: Give online consent to be nominated as a Designated Premises Supervisor
- Apply online to transfer your premises licence
- Please note the current licence holder will need to complete the following consent form, and you will need to attach this to your application: Give online consent to the transfer of a premises licence
- Apply online to vary a premises licence
- Apply online to vary a premises licence to specify a designated premises supervisor Please note you will also need to attach the following consent form to your application: Give online consent to be nominated as a Designated Premises Supervisor
- Notify us of your request to be removed as designated premises supervisor
- Apply online to disapply the mandatory condition requiring a Designated Premises Supervisor
- Notify us online of an interest in premises under section 178 of the Licensing Act 2003
- Submit online an Interim Authority Notice
- Notify us online of a change of name or address
- Apply online for a minor variation to a premises licence
- Pay online for a premises licence annual fee
What is a premises licence for?
A premises licence authorises the premises in question to carry out licensable activities. Almost any business that does one or more of these activities (i.e. sell alcohol, provide entertainment or provide late night refreshment) will need a premises licence. A premises licence application may also be submitted for one off large scale events, for example when an event is likely to attract over 500 people which is outside of the limits set for serving a temporary event notice.
Where the sale of alcohol is one of the activities you carry out at your premises, you will also need at least one personal licence holder. A personal licence holder must be named on the premises licence as the responsible person and is known as the Designated Premises Supervisor (DPS).
Conditions and criteria
Any of the following can apply for a premises licence:
- anyone who uses carries on a business in the premises to which the application relates
- a recognised club
- a charity
- a health service body
- a person who is registered under the Care Standards Act 2000 in relation to an independent hospital
- a chief police officer of a force in England and Wales
- anyone discharging a statutory or function under Her Majesty's prerogative
- the proprietor of an educational institute
- any other permitted person as set out in regulation
View the legislation relating to premises licences.
Applicants must be 18 years of age or older.
What is regulated entertainment?
Regulated entertainment is entertainment provided in the presence of an audience, for the purpose of entertaining that audience.
Entertainment activities include
- The performance of a play
- The exhibition of a film
- An indoor sporting event
- Boxing or wrestling
- A performance of live music
- Any playing of recorded music
- Performance of dance
- Entertainment of a similar description (such as a karaoke)
It also includes the provision of entertainment facilities, that is facilities used for:
- Making music (for example a piano)
- Dancing (for example a dance floor)
- Entertainment of a similar description (karaoke machine)
How long is a premises licence valid?
A premises licence has effect until the licence is revoked, suspended or surrendered. This means it is not time-limited (unless the applicant specifically requests this for example for a music festival).
How much does a premises licence cost?
An application fee is payable on submission and if the licence is granted an annual fee is charged. Fees are based on the rateable value of the premises to be licensed. Certain premises are exempt from paying fees.
Please contact the Licensing Service for more information.
Application process
Applications must be made to Cornwall Council as the local licensing authority where the premises are situated.
New grant applications must be in a specific format and be accompanied by any required fee, an operating schedule, a plan of the premises and a form of consent from the premises supervisor (for applications where the sale of alcohol will be a licensable activity).
An operating schedule will include details of:
- the licensable activities
- the times when the activities will take place
- any other times when the premises will be open to the public
- in the case of applicants who wish to have a limited licence, the period the licence is required for
- information in respect of the premises supervisor
- whether any alcohol that is to be sold is for consumption on or of the premises or both
- the steps proposed to be taken to promote the licensing objectives
- any other required information
Applications can also be made to vary or transfer a licence and vary the licence to specify a new DPS. If representations are received in respect of these applications, the council may have to hold a hearing to determine them. Other applications that can be made are applications for an interim authority notice following the death, incapacity or insolvency of a licence holder or review applications.
How long does it take to get a premises licence?
The time taken depends on each individual application, however the time period normally ranges from a minimum of one month up to three months, however this could be longer.
When an application is submitted, a 28 day statutory consultation period will follow. This allows time for responsible authorities and any individual, body or business who feels that the application could undermine one or more of the licensing objectives to make a representation (i.e. in support of / in objection to) the licence application in line with the four licensing objectives:
- the prevention of crime and disorder
- public safety
- the prevention of public nuisance
- the protection of children from harm
The application must be advertised during the consultation period by way of a notice on the premises and a notice to be published in the local press. We also publish details of current applications online.
If representations are made against an application which cannot be resolved through mediation, then the application will be heard by the Council's Licensing Act Sub Committee. The hearing must be carried out within 20 working days from the end of the consultation period.
The Licensing Act Sub Committee will consider the application before them and the representations and evidence it hears. The sub committee can decide to grant the licence as applied for, modify the conditions, exclude a licensable activity from the scope of the licence, refuse to specify a Designated Premises Supervisor (DPS) on the licence or reject the application.
Tacit authorisation applies to premises licence applications only where no objections are received. This means if you have not heard from licensing services after 28 days from submission of the application, you can assume the licence is granted as applied for.
If representations are received from responsible authorities and/or any other persons, then you must wait for the council to determine the application before any licensable activities can take place. Please note that licensing services will always contact you as soon as objections are received.
What means of redress are available?
An appeal process is available to the applicant and those who made representation to an application, if they are not satisfied with the decision of the Licensing Act Sub Committee.
The licensing authority issues a notice of decision to the applicant and anyone who made relevant representations (ie representations that were not deemed frivolous or vexatious). Appeals can be made against new grant, variation and review applications.
Any appeal must be lodged at the local Magistrates' Court within 21 days of the date the applicant was informed of the sub committee's decision.
Consumer complaints
If you have a problem with a premises, we recommend you contact the premises directly to try to resolve the dispute. If this is not successful then licensing services may be able to help or have a look on the Citizens Advice Bureau 'Advice Guide' webpages, or the UK European Consumer Centre if you live outside the UK.
Application forms
You can obtain paper application forms from licensing services or follow this link to download application forms and guidance for submission by post.
Useful links
- Licensing Act 2003
- Department for culture, media and sport
- Institute of Licensing
- British Beer and Pub Association
- British Institute of Innkeeping
- Federation of Licensed Victuallers Associations (FLVA)
- Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR)
- Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematograph and Theatre Union (BECTU)


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Fall Beauty on the Lower Suwannee
Science Camp 2014
On Sunday and Monday, November 2 and 3, members of the Friends of the Lower Suwannee and Cedar Keys National Wildlife Refuges participated in Science Camp hosted by the Seahorse Key Marine Lab.
Although the temperature was chilly, campers warmed up to all the hands on activities with marine organisms led UF's Dr. Gustav Paulay and graduate student Patrick Norby.
Seahorse Key Marine Laboratory Associate Director, Dr. Coleman Sheehy shared the uniqueness of the Big Bend area and his research into the snake and bird insular mutualism at Seahorse Key.
Most Friends spent the night in the lighthouse and enjoyed fish stew cooked by Friends Secretary John McPherson and the delicious coconut cake made by Donna Bushnell, of the Friends Education Team.
Between classes, participants had time to explore the beach, take photographs, and drink in the view from the light station.
Launched in 2013, the two-day adult camp provides for an in-depth learning experience of the research and resources at Seahorse Key and in the Cedar Keys National Wildlife Refuge. Friends members got to be "students" again for a couple of days, while helping to support the Seahorse Key Marine Laboratory's ongoing operations.
Suwannee River Clean -- Stage One
November 1 was the first of the two river cleanup events that the Friends of the Lower Suwannee & Cedar Keys National Wildlife Refuges will participate in this fall. Held in the Town of Suwannee, it was very productive.
Despite howling wind and biting cold, 18 hardy volunteers came out to help Richard Herman and Debbie Meeks cleanup the tail end of the Suwannee river by boat, including the Refuge. They collected 130 lbs and were rewarded with an outstanding smoked chicken lunch provided by Jerry Everett of the Waterfront Market.
This cleanup was part of Current Problems Great Suwannee River Cleanup. As part of the same effort, the Friends are cleaning up on December 6 from Fowlers Bluff.
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WiFi is available in all areas and costs GBP 3 per 24 hours.
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The Hind Hotel is a Grade II listed 17th-century coaching inn in the centre of Wellingborough. With free parking and free Wi-Fi, it is just one mile from Wellingborough Rail Station.
Score from 304 reviews Good
Just off the A45/A46/A509, less than 1.5 miles (2.5 km) from the town centre and just 2 miles (3 km) from Wellingborough railway station, the hotel offers free parking and great-value en suite rooms.
Score from 279 reviews Very good
Premier Inn Northampton Great Billing/A45On the waterfront, with a sun terrace looking out over the marina and Billing Aquadrome, the hotel offers great value, with free parking and spacious, comfortable and modern en suite rooms.
Score from 136 reviews Very good
Holiday Inn Express Kettering CorbyHoliday Inn Express Kettering Corby offers good-value, contemporary accommodation with free breakfast, free Wi-Fi and free parking.
Score from 413 reviews Very good
Clean well equipped room. Friendly staff. Free on site parking.
The walk into town was down a poorly lit path/cycle path.
The staff were all fantastic and it was so clean
bed needs upgrading... to be fair the info in the room says they are working on replacing the beds...when that is done you want be able to fault this inn at all
Very comfy bed with extra pillows. Helpful staff. Handy for a non driving traveller like myself as there were shops right across the road and a Beefeater next door.
The TV had the volume capped at a very low level that I could hardly hear. However, once I complained about it, someone came up and unlocked it so that I could alter the sound. I didn't want sound blasting out, but I did want to hear the programmes! Useful to know that they will unlock it if you ask though.
Polite cheerful and helpful staff
Good sleep. Clean.
Won't have breakfast again. Crumpets, for example were stale.
Hotel very clean, staff efficient and friendly
My only slight concern was the water pressure from the taps/shower which was on the low side
Friendly, helpful staff. Clean room.
Extra child bed leaves little room between beds on one side
all the things above were great. The staff were fantastic very kind and very helpful.
The bed was very hard and the pillows were not too good
staff. top class.
did not dislike any thing
The staff were really friendly from the receptionist to the cleaning staff. Also the Beefeater was friendly, good value & well run. The room was spotlessly clean & very comfortable. I would recommend it to young & old. Nothing was too much trouble.
Did exactly what we wanted
The staff were very polite and helpful and the room was very clean.
The room was quite warm, for us anyway.
Good value
Toilet looked clean but had a nasty smell. Pan needed deep cleaning
Easy access from the M1, plenty of places to eat and drink nearby. Better price point than many hotels in the area
Room was like a sauna and the hotel know this because there was a fan in the room. However, this was noisy and just blew the hot air around the room! Mattresses were very soft and made for an uncomfortable nights sleep
the bath
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I travel a great deal on business visiting many schools across the country and my choice of stay is always a Premier Inn. It is ideal for what I look for in a business hotel. Clean, comfort, a good nights sleep and the staff have always been extremely helpful.
My only complaint may be that in some Premier Inn's, not all, the television is set too low I have trouble hearing it.
It's clean friendly staff
We booked a quad room .we should have had 2 double beds but we had a double bed plus a single bed for the four of us when we did tell the staff they provided us with another single mattress on the floor. It was a bit awkward for us plus they couldn't give us another room for the four of us .
Convenient, Very Clean, Nice staff Dog and Duck next door. Sheet instead of heavy duvet. Choice of pillows.
Window does not open more that 2 inches. Fan in room only wafted around very hot air, was noisy even on lowest setting so I had to put cotton wool in my ears and the air in the room was so oppressively heavy and humid.I hardly slept at all. It was the worst night I have had in a long time. If you cannot open the windows there should be air conditioning.
Staff friendliness, good location, close to shops and restaurants. Very good value for money.
Ventilation needs to be improved, especially in hot weather.
Very clean, friendly staff, decent pub next door who wrapped up food for us to take to our room as we couldn't leave children sleeping alone.
Bed could have been comfiest, and the room was ridiculously hot even with a fan (the temperature had been above 30 degrees all day). Windows never open enough (true of all Premier Inns) and the room was quite dark even in daylight.
Lovely pillows and fresh towels
Corridor door wasn,t silenced when closing
The usual good standard of comfort you expect from Premier Inns. Rooms are large and quiet, beds comfortable, tea and coffee available and parking free on site. Good full breakfast included made for excellent value.
Low water pressure in our first floor room.
The staff's hospitality is commendable. We arrived early due to the international flight schedule. Although the hotel was fully booked the night before, the front desk staff has checked and worked with the housing keeping manager and arranged a room for us to check-in earlier. It was a tremendous help as we flew in for a training course nearby. Having time to wash up and rest before we went to the class was absolutely helpful. Your staff made a big difference in the overall experience of our stay. Thank you.
Good-sized room, very comfortable bed with extra pillows available. A/C in room. Breakfast was excellent value and good quality.
Help and assistance I received from the receptionist on Tuseday. I suggest Premire use her to train all other staff.
Internet was not free except for first half an hour. I could have that at IBIS for nothing.
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Q: There is very little information on third party iPod syncing software in your reviews or anywhere on your site. Why is that? Surely there are companies that offer significantly better software than iTunes. My biggest resistance to using my iPod touch (and formerly my iPod) are the limitations of having to use iTunes.
- Rick
A: Although there are a number of alternatives to iTunes for iPod management, there are some important things to keep in mind about these applications.
The first and most important consideration is that third-party iPod management tools are not supported in any way by Apple themselves. The wide range of applications that are available to access and manage iPod content often leads people to believe that these are Apple-sanctioned alternatives to iTunes, but the reality is that Apple does not provide any specifications for third-party software applications to manage iPod content. Applications providing this capability have been developed purely by reverse-engineering the iPod file system and synchronization protocols, and not through any information or developer support provided by Apple themselves. Most of these third-party tools do what they claim to do when released, and to date, Apple has not taken steps to completely prevent these tools from working. However, since they are not officially supported, there is always the possibility that new iPod models or even firmware updates to existing models will break compatibility with these applications, and in fact, this has happened a number of times, and will likely continue to happen in the future.
The most recent example of this was the iPod classic and iPod nano (video) models last fall. In this case, Apple made changes to the structure of the iPod database and added a checksum field to help improve the the database integrity when synchronizing with iTunes. The result of this change broke just about every third-party iPod management application available until the developers could examine the new database structure and update their applications accordingly.
The second consideration is that iTunes is designed alongside the iPod itself, and when new iPod features are introduced, a new version of iTunes is simultaneously released to take advantage of these new features. Again, since there is no developer support for third-party iPod management applications, these normally lag far behind iTunes in their support for new iPod features. For instance, there are still many decent and usable iPod management applications available that do not provide support for album artwork, audiobooks, or videos.
A number of iPod management utilities can be found in our Software Downloads section. Further, some of our articles do discuss some iTunes alternatives for providing functions that iTunes itself does not deliver, such as copying content from your iPod back to your computer, but the reality is that most third-party iPod management applications do not work nearly as well as iTunes does for providing the full range of content management on your iPod.
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Emmis Radio New York/Hot 97 WQHT has issued an official statement confirming its longstanding resident radio personality Mister Cee served his final day after a strong 20-year run on the station.
Hot 97's general manager Alexandra Cameron confirmed personal matters related to Cee ultimately forced the deejay to pack his bags.
"Due to some personal circumstances that have become public, after 20 years of service, Mr Cee has chosen to resign. We feel that this is in the best interest of both HOT 97 and Cee's personal well-being. While we do not endorse the alleged activities, he is clearly facing a personal dilemma that is for him and only him to comment on. We are saddened by his departure; his contributions here at HOT 97 were great and we know him as a friend, a caring individual and significant hip hop advocate. We wish Mr Cee the best and will always consider him a family member of HOT 97. Moments ago, he officially signed off, on the air and will finish out his last show today on September 11, 2013, an already sad day for New York City." – Alexandra Cameron, SVP/General Manager of HOT97 (Statement)
Mister Cee appeared on Hot 97 Wednesday (September 11) afternoon to announce his unexpected exit.
"Today is my last day on Hot 97. Mister Cee, I'm resigning today. It is not a mystery that the past two years I've been through a lot and I've tried to deal with it the best way that I could deal with it and Hot 97 has tried to deal with it the best way they've had to deal with it. But when you're dealing with corporate America and you're dealing with a station you love as much as this station, I don't want to put this station through more than what they've been through I've been thinking of this for a long long time. I've been thinking about this day for a long time, I never want to be in a situation where I get pushed out anywhere. I've been at this station for 20 years since 1993 and if I'm gonna go out let me go out with me saying I'm gonna go out. Allow me to have that and so the station is allowing me to have that today and I appreciate that." (Complex)
Cee's announcement follows new footage surfacing online of him allegedly with a cross-dresser.
This comes shortly after audio of an alleged encounter with Bimbo Winehouse, part-time drag queen made its way online. In the released audio, it's claimed that the two voices you hear are Winehouse and Mister Cee negotiating prices for sexual services. According to Winehouse, he negotiated a few sexual services and kicked her out of the car after he didn't pay. Mister Cee hasn't spoken out about this incident, but it isn't the first or second time he's been busted for soliciting a male prostitute. (Love B Scott)
Earlier this year, Cee's former co-worker DJ Envy talked about how vital it is for him to seek help in light of the multiple prostitution crimes.
"I've known Mister Cee from working at the other spot, very cool individual. He was probably the only person I respected who was cool up there and I don't care what his personal preference is, women or men. That doesn't bother me. What bothers me is him out there soliciting prostitution. Not only because he could catch something, a disease, putting himself in a situation he can't come out of but there's also a lot of crazy people out there. And I would hate for him to lose his life or to be injured by one of these crazy prostitutes or even get injured. And I'm asking anybody — that's his frieds, his true friend — needs to put his arm around him and say, 'Homie, you have a problem.' Take him to therapy, take him to get help because I'm sure if I was in a situation up here — I'm sure my family would help me." ("The Breakfast Club")
MC came clean on his sexuality and Big Apple local busts back in May.
"I am not gay," Cee said in the interview. "Thursday night, Friday morning, I was approached by a female undercover cop. A female, Latino, undercover cop. Not a male cop. The female undercover cop, I have her badge number. So I know who it is. Why did the story first start off on Saturday, because I think everything kind of first jumped off on Saturday with the first story. If you do your diligence and you do your research, the first story that came out, in the Daily News was undercover, female officer. Then, from out of nowhere, it changed into male undercover officer. … I can't answer why it changed from that. But there is enough information out there, available, where one day it said female officer and it changed. … The incidents that happened in the past with me, the three incidents or whatever you want to say, there was one person brung up in those three instances that was a male. You never heard anybody else's name being brought up in any other incident — that male person put out two different videos. One video saying, 'I don't know Mister Cee, I never met him, the only time I ever seen him was when I was locked up in a cell with him. I didn't engage in any sexual activity with him.'" ("Cipha Sounds & Rosenberg Show")
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Group Bernard Tapie Managing Director Laurent Tapie confirmed Tuesday that negotiations to purchase Full Tilt Poker's assets from the Department of Justice have officially ended, a move that could potentially pave the way for PokerStars to purchase the assets of its former competitor.
According to a statement issued by Groupe Bernard Tapie, the drawn-out deal with the DOJ fell through due to "unresolvable" legal complications and failure to agree on player repayment plan. Tapie was supposedly in the final stages of negotiations with the DOJ and preparing to re-launch the embattled poker site in the near future.
"GBT proposed a plan that would have resulted in immediate reinstatement of all ROW (rest of the world) player balances, with a right to withdraw those funds over time, based on the size of the player balance and the extent of the player's playing activity on the re-launched site," GBT said in the statement. "All players would have been permitted complete withdrawal of their balances, regardless of whether they played on the site, by a date certain, and 94.9 percent of ROW players would have been fully repaid on Day 1. DOJ ultimately insisted on full repayment with right of withdrawal within 90 days for all players– a surprise demand made in the 11th hour, after months of good-faith negotiations by GBT."
The complicated sale of Full Tilt Poker had dragged on since last November when GBT agreed to purchase the forfeited FTP assets from the DOJ for $80 million. In the end, Tapie says the purchase price, along with the substantial amount of cash needed to re-launch FTP, were "too substantial to overcome."
In addition to that shocking news, rumors began swirling Tuesday that PokerStars had swooped in and purchased Full Tilt Poker's assets for $750 million from the DOJ. Following initial rumors started in a TwoPlusTwo thread, ChiliGaming CEO Alex Dreyfus posted via Twitter that $330 million will go toward the repayment of players, while the rest will settle the outstanding charges against PokerStars.
Terms of the deal have not yet been confirmed. PokerNews reached out to the Department of Justice on Tuesday, but a spokesperson declined to comment.
On Tuesday, Groupe Bernard Tapie lawyer Behnam Dayanim sent the following statement to PokerNews:
Groupe Bernard Tapie regrets to announce that, after seven months of intensive work, our efforts to obtain final approval of the United States Department of Justice of the agreement to acquire the assets of Full Tilt Poker have ended without success.
Ultimately, the deal failed due to two major issues.
1. The parties could not agree on a plan for repayment of ROW players. GBT proposed a plan that would have resulted in immediate reinstatement of all ROW player balances, with a right to withdraw those funds over time, based on the size of the player balance and the extent of the player's playing activity on the re-launched site. All players would have been permitted complete withdrawal of their balances, regardless of whether they played on the site, by a date certain, and 94.9% of ROW players would have been fully repaid on day 1. DOJ ultimately insisted on full repayment with right of withdrawal within 90 days for all players– a surprise demand made in the 11th hour, after months of good-faith negotiations by GBT.
2. The legal complications surrounding the deal – specifically, questions surrounding the legality of the forfeiture under non-US laws – also proved unresolvable. All of the key assets of the FTP companies reside outside of the United States. A non-US court well might regard the purported forfeiture as a "fraudulent transaction" and declare it invalid or deem the acquirer of the assets responsible for all of those creditor obligations.
Given the $80 million purchase price, and the substantial amount of cash needed to relaunch FTP, those issues ultimately proved too substantial to overcome.
GBT is very conscious of the hopes it has created — among FTP employees that they will retain their jobs, among FTP players that they will recover their balances, and among the entire poker community that the world's finest poker platform will be relaunched and bring a needed added element of competition to a world market that today is fully dominated by a single operator.
GBT cannot accept the end of those hopes. For that reason, unless a concrete and legally viable solution is found in the very coming days to save the employees and repay the players of FTP, we will move to our own plan of action.
We understand from press reports that the DOJ may have entered into an agreement with PokerStars pursuant to which PokerStars will acquire the FTP assets. If accurate, we can only assume that PokerStars determined that it was willing to accept these legal and financial risks in order to resolve its own legal situation with DOJ.
If a PokerStars acquisition of FTP means that all FTP players will be fully repaid immediately, we are very happy for the players, as their final and full repayment has always been our priority. We only regret that such a deal would signal further consolidation of a poker market already dominated by a single player — an outcome that may raise antitrust concerns and that, in the long run, is probably not good for players and for the whole online poker industry.
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When my northern Maine mama married my southern Kentucky papa, the first thing he did was introduce her to ways to cook food without boiling or creaming it. So I grew up with a very southern diet and my parents were smart enough to introduce us to all sorts of foods and flavors. I especially love ethnic foods with all their spicy goodness... Italian, Indian, Chinese, Thai, Middle Eastern, Greek - you name it and I love it!
When I lived in Zambia, I was fortunate enough to make friends with some Indian ladies who taught me how to make curries. I made them all the time there because the ingredients were easy to get. To this day, when Little Helen visits Zambia, she brings me back curry powder. It is usually hand blended and sold in the Indian grocery stores there and there is nothing like it.
Once I moved back to the USA, for some reason I didn't make curry as often and once I started trying again, I felt like I'd lost my touch. About 18 months ago, I started making Beef Curry as I figured that might be one that Mr. Helen would eat (he loves beef). I kept changing things in the recipe and this past week the curry I made had Mr. Helen saying, "This is it. Perfect." So I thought I'd share the recipe here... it's a nice dish to make around Thanksgiving just to have a break from all the turkey.
If you're scared to try curry, this is so easy because it's done in the crockpot. Also, if you haven't figured it out yet, Beef Curry is pretty much the Indian version of beef stew!
Crockpot Beef Curry
2 pounds of cubed stew beef (usually top round)
1 pound white potatoes, peeled and cut into bite sized pieces
1 14.5 oz. can petite diced tomatoes
1 medium red or white onion, diced
2 T tomato paste
2 T curry powder, hot or mild
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp ground cloves
2 tsp garam masala
1 tsp kosher salt
1 tsp fresh black pepper
Put everything in the crockpot, give it a stir and cook it for 5 hours on high or 10 hours on low! Serve over white or brown rice. Makes 8 servings.
I use mild curry powder because Mr. Helen doesn't like really spicy hot stuff. If you do, use the hot curry powder. You could also add cayenne pepper or chilis to the spice mix.
If you like, you can also add carrots to this curry. I don't because I usually roast my carrots, so that I have them as a side dish for other things I'm cooking during the week. But I ate many a curry with carrots in Zambia. You can also leave the vegetables out completely and just make the beef.
Anyway you make it, this is a warm, delicious, and filling dish!


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