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Nassau to Cozumel Flights
Nassau and Cozumel airports and terminals
Airports in Nassau , BS
Nassau International Airport (NAS)
Distance from City Center: 8.5 miles
Airports in Cozumel , MX
Cozumel International Airport (CZM)
Distance from City Center: 0.6 miles
Cheap flights from Nassau to Cozumel
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Nassau Airport Information
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Airport Parking Information
Short-term parking is $2 for the first two hours and $2 for each additional 20 minutes, with a maximum daily rate of $30. Long-term parking is $3 for the first hour and each subsequent hour, with a maximum daily rate of $10.
Transportation to the Airport
Public transportation options include taxis and buses, while car rentals also are available. The average taxi rate to the airport from downtown is about $27. Taxi rates are not metered; they are determined by the zone from which you are traveling. Car rental prices vary. Orbitz.com can compare the rates of each car company when you purchase your airline tickets, letting you choose the one that fits your needs.
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The airport has several dining and snack options available, including the Bahama Dutch Oven, Bootleggers Bar, Dunkin' Donuts, Heineken Lounge and Duty Free, Kafe Kalik, and Quiznos. These restaurants offer a wide variety of menu items to enjoy before your flight.
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Avoid traffic jams and long walks by using public transportation. There are many different options available after you land, including rental cars, shuttle buses, hotel shuttles, and cabs. If you want to take a shuttle bus, don't forget to purchase your tickets in advance from the Arrivals Hall. Visitors also have the option to rent a vehicle from Avis or Executive, but many tourists find it easier to walk or use public transportation. Orbitz.com can help you compare all of the transportation options in Cozumel and find one that meets your budget.
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Our shop will be closed next week after Easter from April 22-26. We are a small owner run business and need to take breaks every now and then. We will re-open on Tuesday, April 29 and will resume our regular business hours of Tues-Fri 10am-5pm and Saturdays 10am-2pm.
We have fallen into the annual routine of always closing about the same times each year. Here are the dates we are closed for 2014. 1. The week following Valentine's Day: 2/15-2/22 2. The third week in April: 4/22-4/26 3. The first week of November: 11/4-11/8 4. The week between Christmas and the New Year: 12/26-1/3
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Nuclear, Cyber Threats Increase
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Communist China has been expanding its nuclear forces – increasing the threat to the United States – deploying new missiles and submarines, as well as other systems. The systems could place the United States at greater risk.
According to a report by the Washington Free Beacon, the annual review of Communist China's nuclear arsenal by the U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission, a congressionally-established committee, outlined just how much China's nuclear forces have expanded.
Tu-95s Orbit Island
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Two Russian Tu-95 bombers circled the island of Guam, the westernmost U.S. territory in the Pacific and a key forward base earlier this week. The operation came just over 21 months after a similar operation took place.
Australia's Potent Frigate
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When the Royal Australian Navy faced off against a Russian convoy that included the Slava-class missile cruiser Varyag, two frigates were on the front lines. But what exactly were these frigates?
To get the answer, one has to go back to the 1980s and 1990s. The Australians were looking to replace the aging River-class frigates they had in service. New Zealand also was in the market for a replacement for their old Leander-class frigates. The two countries decided to go in together – not only to reduce costs, but to make their navies more interoperable.
Secretary of Defense Gates Claims Obama Micromanaged
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Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates revealed that he instructed commanders to be very blunt in dealing with White House micromanagement from the Obama Administration.
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The Marine Corps celebrates its 239th Birthday today. In honor of that, we at SOF are posting the Birthday Message that then-Commandant John A, Lejeune (pictured) sent out in 1921:
Report Details How Soviets Would Have Attacked American Carriers
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A paper from the Naval War College by a former Soviet naval officer has revealed how the Soviets planned to target American aircraft carriers. This look carried some surprising revelations, particularly about the hybrid of influences from Axis powers in World War II.
In the paper, Maksim Y. Tokarev wrote due to an inability to match American carriers "for both economic and political reasons, the Soviet Navy had to create some system that could at least deter the U.S. Navy carrier task forces from conducting strikes against the naval, military, and civilian infrastructure and installations on the Kola and Kamchatka Peninsulas, Sakhalin Island, and the shoreline around the city of Vladivostok."
Marine Scores Back-to-Back Possibles
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Perfection is hard to obtain when on the shooting range. However, one Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant has managed to achieve perfect scores on the range twice in less than three months.
Il-78 "Midas" Tankers Seen In Cairo
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Egypt's closer alignment with Russia has become stronger in recent months.
Could the CGNs Have Helped?
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In the mid-to-late 1990s, the United States Navy discarded nine nuclear-powered guided-missile cruisers. USS Long Beach (CGN 9), USS Bainbridge (CGN 25), USS Truxtun (CGN 35), the California-class cruisers, and the Virginia-class cruisers were all retired and scrapped.
2001 Promise for Subs at Risk
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The Obama Administration may be prioritizing a military exchange program with the ChiComs over a promise to help Taiwan modernize its submarine force. The decision could leave the Republic of China vulnerable to the ChiComs.
17 Criminal Referrals Declined
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At least 17 criminal referrals to the Justice Department made by the Inspector General at the Department of Veterans Affairs have been rejected by the Justice Department. Instead, administrative action is the course of action that is being recommended.
Report Points Finger at Sequestration Cuts
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Think that defense cuts don't get troops killed? You might want to re-think those conclusions in light of the investigation stemming from the worst blue-on-blue incident in Operation Enduring Freedom, when a B-1B Lancer dropped bombs on a friendly position.
According to a report by the Washington Times, the deaths of five Soldiers in a 9 June "friendly fire" incident were caused by an inability of the Special Forces unit to properly train prior to deploying to Afghanistan due to "sequestration" – automatic spending cuts that hit the defense budget and entitlement spending. Special Forces units usually try to train for at least three weeks in terrain in the United States that resembles that in Afghanistan, but the Operational Detachment Alphas had those training deployments cancelled and had to make do with training at Fort Campbell in Kentucky.
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Best burger in D.C.?
My friend and I have been recently inspired to find the best burger in D.C., so lay it on me!
The post rated the Burger at Michel Richard's Central as the best burger in DC.
I've had it. Very good
re: CoconutMilk
+1. I recommend going at off-peak hours though as it can get very crowded.
re: CoconutMilk
I have been twice now and continually crave it for weekday lunches. This is a great burger at a great price, with wonderful artisan cheeses and a large selection of toppings. A lot of people are saying that it is "prime beef" (including this month's Washingtonian, who stated, "...the burger wars are over" for the second time), but on the sign in the restaurant it says nothing about prime beef, it states "select beef". I did not bother to ask, as the burger was so damn good it didn't really matter anyway.
The Washingtonian also noted that Richard is opening a burger joint in the near future so maybe Landrum will have some competition, but at the moment it doesn't seem like there is any.
re: sekelmaan
I had a burger last night at Ray's Hell Burger and it really was delicious. I did get it Au Poivre and it was really peppery. The peppercorn crust is quite thick and takes an enjoyment of pepper. Next time, I wouldn't get that on it because it overpowered the great taste of the meat. Also, the burger (10 oz) is HUGE and there is no need to get mac and cheese or another side. Last night, I had a mac and cheese craving and it was really good so i don't mind but i wouldn't get it again. My suggestion is similar to what I have seen from others on these boards... keep it simple. the sherry sauteed mushrooms and grilled onions are really good but they add their own flavors. The Heck sauce is very good but adds its own flavor. The garlic is good but also with its own distinctive flavor. If you keep it simple to enjoy uncluttered tastes, it may be about the best burger you have ever had!
re: daves_32
Get the foie gras topping.
So, flame away, but i stand by the burger at Charlie Palmers as the best in the city. Always perfectly cooked, with your choice of fancy cheese, on a buttery brioche-type bun. the fries there are also fantastic.
The burger at Saint Ex is pretty damn good. Also decent, though not quite as good was Good Stuff Eatery.
re: MacG467
I also really like 5 Guys for a true fast food burger. It's better then other burgers I've tried recently...although I have yet to taste Ray's.
re: Elyssa
5 Guys is still hit-or-miss. I've had a 50/50 success rate. The Old Town store is consistently good; the Howard U is consistently bad; the Navy Yard store is somewhere in between although, getting the fries out of the bag ASAP does cut down on the sogginess factor.
Sign of the Whale's Ahab burger (bacon, blue cheese, mushroom gravy) is bulletproof; I've been having them for years and they're ALWAYS cooked to order. $7 with fries included and half price on mondays. Best burger deal downtown.
re: monkeyrotica
I mostly go to the Dupont Circle 5 Guys and have found the burgers consistently good.
re: inbox_blues
For $15, I'd expect an awsome burger.
Sunshine Burger @ The Sunshine Market off Georgia Avenue near Tridelphia Resevoir in Sunshine Maryland. Although you will be eating on circa 1960 laminate tables in a gas station/ bait store/ convienence store, the burgers are unbelievable. Even Martha Stewart sent her crew there for burgers when she was in the area. Crummy but pretty pretty good!
re: dining with doc
Is this the place up near the crossroads of Georgia Avenue and New Hampshire Ave? The burgers are great, kind of like the old lunch counter variety cooked on the same grill with all the breakfast bacon and sausage. Definitely a throwback of several decades.
re: flavrmeistr
yes you got the right place. wear a bib!
I can tell you I wasn't overly impressed with BGR in Bethesda. Highly, highly reviewed ... while the patty was tasty it wasn't a $8 burger. I also haven't been overly impressed with Blacks in Bethesda ... another highly reviewed burger. Again, tasty but too "high end" for me and not worth the money.
Quit messing with a burger. Gimme a Five Guys or even a 1/3 pound Cheeburger.
The sweet potato fries are to die for though. Steer clear of the grilled cheese ... it ain't grilled ... it's just cheese on a potato roll.
re: caboosesw
I lOVE BGR (Burger Joint) in Bethesda!
re: caboosesw
Just had my first burger at Bethesda's BGR -- very, very good -- and will be curious to compare to Ray's when we head over there this weekend. Yes, the sweet potato fries were delicious -- w/ just a little vinegar and ketchup.
re: aoakes4
BGR doesn't hold a candle to Ray's Hell Burger... just sayin
re: MarcDC
AOKES- Glad you liked BGR Joint in Bethesda, too. I do not know what burger you ordered, but I have been very pleased w/ the bacon cheese burger & Greek burger.
And, yes, aren't the sweet potato fries good?!
re: chicken kabob
I thought the fries were frozen out of a bag as they tasted awful. They confirmed, "frozen out of a bag". I thought... poor.
The veggie burger was just ok there at the Burger Joint in Bethesda. I said to myself as I left... never again would I go there due to the lame fries and the mediocre veggie burger. I've had great veggie burgers at other restaurants, this wasn't that great. Not bad, just not great.
For the prices they charge you'd think they'd hand cut their own fries like ... 5 guys!
re: MarcDC
Just tried Ray's, MarcDC -- truly great. My son and I went over this afternoon, and the wait in a long line was worth it. I went very light on toppings so that I could savor the beef. Could not believe how juicy the burger was -- look forward to going back.
re: aoakes4
I dearly love a good burger... I've been trying to work my way through a few places I've been reading about, here and elsewhere.
For fast food-type burgers, I love Z Burger (Tenleytown) and Five Guys (Dupont Circle and H St.). I'd give Z Burger the nod because they also serve wonderful double-chocolate shakes. I think their burgers are a shade better as well.
In the gourmet burger category (which I would define as a burger you can get cooked the way you prefer it to be cooked), my favorite so far, hands down, no close competition, is Ray's Hell Burger. I've only been once, but I've been dreaming about it ever since. Last time I got too many toppings -- I would especially avoid the mushrooms next time - they were good, but distracted from the taste of the burger itself, which is sublime. I got the mac and cheese, which I wouldn't get again (too soupy for me) and I got a root beer float, which was good, but too heavy to have with a 10 oz. burger. Next time I'll get my burger simple, with chips but only if I'm super hungry and a diet soda. The bun could be a bit better, but it's still the best burger in the area of those I've tried so far.
I went to The Burger Joint in Bethesda today for a cheeseburger and double chocolate shake, which set me back about $14, which I thought was rather high. The burger was good, but not $8 worth of good. The shake was very good, but at $5, too pricey. I totally agree with MarcDC above, "BGR doesn't hold a candle to Ray's".
I've had the Palena burger once. Good, but it didn't knock my socks off. What DID though was the fry plate, especially the fried lemons.
I've had the Sign of the Whale's burger. Good, but not good enough to cause my return, especially since it's next door to Malaysia Kopitiam, which always sucks me in when I'm around there.
The Good Stuff Eatery was OK, but rather disappointing. The burger was very small, and just OK. The D-Lechable Leche shake was sickeningly sweet.
Still on my list is the burger at Michel Richard's Central.
For me it's a lot about location, too. I find myself near Z Burger, 5 Guys, and the The Burger Joint pretty often. For Ray's a special trip is necessary, but it's a trip I'm happy to make!
I also really like Ray's Hellburger. More like a steak burger and great cheeses!
I may be in the minority on here with this, but I really like Chadwick's burgers. They have a great charbroiled taste and the buns are squishy. They also have a 1/2 price burger night on Mondays.
Matchbox mini-burgers are also on my list.
re: deangold
Yes to Matchbox mini burgers.....true goodness between a bun!
Ray's and Central for your prime, cooked-to-order, beef.
Ray's is just good old fashioned beef. I assume they use trimmings from their steak joint for the beef.
Central is more of an haute de cuisine burger. My only complaint is that you're forced to eat a lot of it with a fork because the juices (maybe my fault because I order it rare) soak through the bottom bun.
Honorable Mention: Chef Geoff's and Smith & Wollinsky's.
Five Guys for quality well-done fast food.
re: jodik
I went to Elevation Burger this past weekend with Fiance and his brother and we all agreed it was awful.
The burgers are tiny, they remind me of a McDonald's burger in all realtiy with the squishy bun, small patty, american cheese and iceburg lettuce. The portions in general were tiny for the price. Fries were definitely only one order for the $2.39 or more maybe? The best thing there that we had was a milkshake. In all honestly it tasted amazingly like McDonald's to me, although I haven't been to McDonald's in years, I imagine they are very similar still.
I just don't get why people would pay so much for a lousy burger that is so small and tasteless? You can't even request a temperature or a cheese. Five Guys burgers are much better and much less expensive. Elevation doesn't even come anywhere close to the sit down places like Rays my all time favorite, Cheeburger Cheeburger, Big Buns or etc, which really make it seem like a rip off portion and taste wise.
If you want to know what a real beef burger is supposed to taste like go to Ray's.
re: DanielK
It's not new, and it's (an incredibly well-run) chain, but Houston's on Rockville Pike, and its relative the Woodmont Grill in Bethesda, make one consistent perfectly-cooked and juicy burger after another. At something like $13 with fries or another side dish, it definitely falls into the gourmet category though.
I'm a Hell Burger fan, too, but Houston's is right up there with them. My best Houston's burger has been far better than my worst Hell Burger.
re: bobovespa
Don't go to Houston's on Rockville Pike though... Closed for good! The Woodmont Grill's veggie burger isn't that great, but their regular burger is good. My wife got gristle in hers once though and will never order one again there.
re: hill food
I'd use my health insurance more...
re: hill food
Or Krystals. Or Little Tavern. Sometimes you just want a bag of doughy little buns, grilled onions, and thin square patties. There's only so much seared ahi tuna and brioche you can take.
re: monkeyrotica
Or In'n'Out, which is my all-time favorite chain burger and the main reason I can't move to California. Sometimes, though, a McDonald's hamburger hits the spot. Not a cheeseburger or a Big Mac or any of that other stuff. Just the plain old original with fries and a coke.
re: flavrmeistr
Trapped in the snow at a mall, I tried Roys Bacon Double Cheeseburger. Not bad at all; nice beefy flavor and you can load up on toppings at the fixins bar. With a holster of fries, it really hit the spot.
re: monkeyrotica
The longer I wait for the plow, the better it sounds.


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Commenting on the success of the Wedding Fair, Rebecca Cardozo, Venue Director, said: "Wedding Week has been another great success for Glow, Bluewater. Not only did Clarion produce a fantastic, high quality experience, but Glow's integration with Bluewater created additional appeal. Brides came with their entire families and close friends, with the men in the group able to enjoy a great day out whilst their partners planned the perfect day.
"The success of Wedding Fair also highlights how we and Clarion have worked together to create such a success, including a highly effective marketing campaign in the mall, along with social media initiatives and our MyBluewater programme that attracted guests specifically to Glow for the show."
Matt Miller, Clarion Portfolio Director, added: "We are delighted exhibitors were so impressed by the quality and volume of audience we had at the fair; and equally pleased visitors felt the event was such a worthwhile day out.
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Author and scholar David Kertzer will discuss the relationship between Pope Pius XI and Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini in the 1920s and 30s -- and how it changed the world -- during a lecture at 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 7, in the Lisa Bonchek Adams Auditorium at Franklin & Marshall College.
Kertzer, the Paul Dupee university professor of social science, and anthropology professor, at Brown University, will focus his talk on his research of Vatican archival records, which were the basis for a new book, "The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe."
Pius XI has an important place in history, and Kertzer's research adds new perspective to the story, noted Scott Lerner, F&M's Arthur and Katherine Shadek Professor of Humanities and French and Italian, and the one of the event organizers.
Until he became pope in 1922, "a succession of popes declared themselves to be 'prisoners of the Vatican,' refusing to acknowledge the authority of Italy over papal territories, including Rome," Lerner said.
"Mussolini made peace with the church, under Pius XI, profoundly changing the character of Italian politics, culture and memory."
Pius XI and Mussolini forged a relationship that changed the course of 20th-century history, asserts Kertzer, who challenges the conventional history of this period, in which "a heroic church does battle with the Fascist regime."
In most respects, the two figures could not have been more different, Kertzer said. "One was scholarly and devout, the other thuggish and profane. Yet Pius XI and 'Il Duce' had many things in common. They shared a distrust of democracy and a visceral hatred of Communism."
Pius XI had, in fact, played a critical role in making Mussolini's dictatorship possible and then keeping him in power.
"In exchange for Vatican support, Mussolini restored many of the privileges the church had lost and gave in to the Pope's demands that the police enforce Catholic morality," Kertzer said.
The Central Pennsylvania Consortium and F&M's Department of Italian are the principal sponsors of the lecture, which will be followed by a reception in the Great Room of Ware College House.


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Savita Kundra's "Ek Akeli Aurat" was a sensitive portrayal of a woman struggling to survive in a macho world
Recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in literature, Dario Fo's two plays — "Accidental Death of an Anarchist" and "Can't Pay? Won't Pay!" – are widely performed on the Delhi stage by different directors with varying success and continue to attract a large number of audience because of their exposure of anti-people policies of the establishment through the elements of satire, farce and comedy. One of the greatest Italian actors, playwrights and political campaigners, he wants to uphold the dignity of the oppressed through his plays. His play "A Woman Alone", which he wrote in collaboration with Rame, presented by Sehar at Akshara Theatre this past week, is probably seen for the first time in Delhi. A solo piece, it offers a challenging role for an actor to bring alive various facets of a complex character and evoke moods ranging from pathos to anguish and tragic to comic. Sehar's production is aptly designed and admirably performed by a talented actor and these two aspects are able to hold our interest throughout the show.
Translated into Hindi as "Ek Akeli Aurat" by well-known theatre practitioner Himanshu B. Joshi, the play depicts the sufferings of a woman in a macho world. She is locked in her flat by her jealous, cruel and mentally sick husband. She has to confront three men who are crazy and possessive. Her brother-in-law in plaster is bed-ridden and sex starved. She has to protect herself from an aggressive young man passionately in love with her. Their affair starts during one of the tuition classes (he teaches her) in her flat. Once, her husband catches her red-handed in a compromising position with the young man. Beaten mercilessly, she is now kept locked in the flat. The husband keeps on heaving filthy abuses on her for her adulterous act. Her mad young lover continues to make frantic efforts to break open the lock of the front door. She continues to make pleas by climbing up on the portable stair kept in the room not to create scene and leave her in peace. This makes him all the more determined and aggressive to enter the room by force.
And as if this embarrassment and torture were not enough, she needs to attend to her baby who keeps on screaming all the time. Her brother-in-law needs her and shouts at regular intervals. She has to do household chores, adding drudgery to her tormented world from which she has no hope of redemption.
The Akshara Theatre appears suitable for the performance of one actorplay. It has two levels. As soon as the play opens we watch a young woman on the upper level spreading out three large pieces of fabric, each having male figure printed on it. Their shape indicates that the elderly with a pot belly is the husband of the woman, the young and smart figure stands for the one passionately in love with her and the third figure indicates her brother-in-law. And then the performer comes down on the ground level. Gradually, she gives life to the tormented world of her character and the men who has made her life hellish. In tune with the requirement of the solo piece, all the characters remain offstage. The performer is alone on the stage.Directed and performed by Savita Kundra, the fine aspect of the production is that she has imaginatively used all the objects placed on the stage, often raising them to the level of characters. Through her interactions with these objects she creates dramatic situations. She also explores the opportunity of improvisation the play offers to a talented actor. The frequent ringing of telephone bell brings more information about her life and her link with the outside world. This also reinforces her sense of alienation and bitterness caused by her captivity. She uses the portable stair to peep out to converse with her lover. The bucket with water is used to indicate the violence her husband has perpetrated on her. By ensuring the continuity of the action on the stage, the audience are allowed to engage with the production which ends on a shocking note.
A graduate from National School of Drama, Savita Kundra gives a convincing performance, displaying the sensitivity of her art as an actor. However, the primary mood in the production is that of pathos and bitterness. Savita could have exploited the elements of farce and comedy inherent in the play by giving light touch to her conversation with a woman on telephone, who tells her that her husband has made her young daughter pregnant. Similarly, she could have amused the audience while talking to the creditors of her husband through the stair, posing as the maid of the house. However, on the whole the play emerges as a voice expressing concern about the deplorable condition of women in a society dominated by men.
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I wouldn't have known about it either until I saw it on a Saturday Night Live sketch last week. I usually do these cartoons a month in advance but figured it would be forgotten about by then.
Sorry, this reference is too obscure for me, too. I must live under a rock somewhere near Jimmie Robinson. Gangnam, you say? Person, place or thing; animal, mineral or vegetable..
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Sunday, August 24, 2014
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Had a great day at the beach in Saturday afternoon. I don't usually go to Sugar Dock but we had a family outing to attend. I knew both of our dogs would enjoy the trip but I was pretty sure that only Goofball wouldn't wander off so we left Rescue at home to guard the castle.
The kids had a blast and the barbecue from the little Filipino place was righteous, so things were going just fine...until the incident.
Local folks really aren't too keen on the whole "man's best friend" thing when it comes to dogs, so I don't always bring the pups to the beach when it's crowded.
Saturday was kind of overcast so I thought the beach wouldn't be packed and I brought our big ol' black lab.
I'm no dog whisperer but I know she's got dependency issues. That means she never wanders too far off without checking back with me. Knowing that gives me the confidence to bring her out because she won't scare any kids.
Well, Goofy ran all over the beach chasing sticks, swimming with the kids and fetching whatever people threw in the water. Along the way she ingested a bunch of sea water.
Flashback to about five years ago when our big lug head of a chocolate lab, Meatball, was at Obyan Beach for the post-XTERRA barbecue.
She had a great day and gulped down a bunch of sea water, as well. Lucky for us, Meaty found a patch of grass and shot a stream of what can only be described as a brown saltwater mixture of whatever was in her digestive tract onto the ground.
It was awful, but at least nobody else was forced to witness the act. Better yet, nobody was directly or indirectly affected by the evacuation of her bowels.
Fast forward to Saturday, when I casually glanced down the beach and caught Goofy firing a similar stream directly into the water.
Oh, the horror.
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Day Five Is Here!
My legs were awfully sore yesterday but that pain I got from the ol' hip during the last stretch of uphill running is all but gone. I think I'll cool it on the ascents for a while and stick to flat running. Yeah, it's boring but I think it'll let me enjoy more of my free time.
Sticking to the good stuff is getting easier and easier but last night I was hit with a pretty major sugar craving. Knowing that I'm on a plan helped me fight it off.
Five days ago, I would've been munching on some high-calorie, low-nutrition, sugar-packed junk and feeling bad about it in the morning. Instead, I'm a happy guy with another clean day of eating under my belt.
I started off with a very, very green juice that consisted of a slew of locally grown leafy greens, a couple of small apples, a carrot, half of a lemon, and three cucumbers. It made for a vitamin-rich kick-start to my day.
I'll have more of the same this morning. This commitment to my health comes at the perfect time because there are a few food-focused holidays on the way. We've got a Trick-or-Treat session this afternoon, a fiesta over the weekend, and plenty or reasons to party the night away.
We live on an island where there's a very logical reason behind every night out; Because we can!
It's kind of a double-edged sword. We live in a place where we can train in pleasant conditions throughout the year, however, we live in a place that offers amazing sunsets every evening that are nicely complimented by cold beverages.
These days I'm leaning more toward the former.
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You might want to think before posting:
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2. You need to marshall your apostrophes: "Macs", not "mac's"
3. You can't *prove* that God doesn't exist.
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Casting of stones
If you're being picky about logic, premises are true or not, arguments are valid or not
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Back to school for you
If you read the article properly you'd have noticed the word 'independent' in 'Scottish independent Christian school'.
I won't mention your "shouldn't of been" offence either...
Beeb, British Museum face smut issues over saucy pot
Better censor my bookcases
Amongst my books covering Classical antiquity I have a few volumes covering Attic red figure and black figure pottery. Plenty of depictions of man-boy love. And Satyr-human interactions too.
I'm assuming then that reprints of these books won't now be permitted?
Sheffield hospitals pay thousands for dodgy software
FAST performs a valuable function
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Mobe-wielding drivers getting away with it
What about Stroking her Puppies while driving?
I'm sure that wittering on the phone is less hazardous than what I witnessed this morning: lass driving with two puppies on her lap.
Ticket site sorry for pisspoor password wrong
Permission to swear, Sir?
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Discussing the report in a meeting with the account managers was entertaining.
El Reg insults 'millions of Irish Catholics'
I meant "blood", obviously.
What about the Soviet Bloc?
Cos, like, we won the Cold War yet still the commie banner of flug flutters proudly from your past.
You are disrespecting all the millions of people who didn't die fighting.
India eyes man in space by 2016
Re: Excellent
So, they'll be launching satellites to locate exploitative landlords, indentured workers and areas without access to clean water?
Or maybe those inspired young engineers will go and create relevant products: 'iPoo, locates functioning toilet facilities using superior satellite technology'.
Surely clean water and sanitation for the millions who lack it now should be a priority, not participation in this international willy-waving contest.
West Country pagans tie horses in knots
At least someone's thinking of the children
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IT workers told, 'Put down the biscuits, fat boy'
Actually the US doesn't use the Imperial system of weights and measures since they declared independence before our Weights and Measures Act was passed in 1824. Thus they use the Queen Anne gallon (128 fl oz) rather than the Imperial gallon (160 fl oz), giving them measly pints of beer.
It's a joke, you muppet.
Further explanation for the hard of thinking: A play on 'mano a mano' (i.e. 'hand to hand') with reference to the open-source .net implementation Mono.
Department for Transport pours millions into eTicketing
I for one welcome...
Down here in Devon we have numerous bus companies; in Plymouth there is competition on many routes but the lack of cross-ticketing means that there is no effective choice if you've bought a return or a pass. Out in the country there isn't the competition (i.e. duplication) on routes but there are plenty of connections to be had between buses from different companies.
One ticket to rule them all, I say.
Fanbois Apple buyers howl over crocked iMacs
@Doug Glass: Biological Sat Nav Needed?
"...the word ApplFAN. It implies a certain fruitiness, has a reference to an Application (App) and points to a certain part of the human body's lower posterior...FANny."
Don't know what you've been getting conjugal with, but in my experience the mons veneris and associated structures are found at the front of the female, not the rear.
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Large Hadron Wheelie Bin
We could 'solve' our global waste problem by chucking it through these temporary inter-dimensional holes. CERN: Fly-tipping the universes.
Nikon D3000 digital SLR
Another feature suggestion
How about a cable release socket? It was bad enough back in the Jurassic period when the only option on a Nikon was their expensive electronic release rather than a simple screw-in cable release. Now one has to spend a thousand or more to gain an electronic release socket. On cheaper models the designed solution is the infra-red remote. Bah
Turkish filters block Reg commentards
Wait 'til they join the EU
Then anyone mentioning the Armenian genocide or suggesting that Ataturk was anything less than perfect will be on the receiving end of a European arrest warrant.
And you thought the Anglo-American extradition treaty was dodgy...
Magpies hold funerals for fallen feathered friends
The evidence mounts...
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You had all better be ready to welcome your Corvid overlords.
BT to push fibre to 1.5m more homes and businesses
@Brian Miller 1
Would you care to elaborate on my ignorance?
Why bother with cable?
For rural areas in particular, surely it would be cheaper for BT to install WiMAX-type equipment. With a suitable receiver on each building to connect into the existing domestic phone cabling it could also allow BT to rid themselves of the battalions of telegraph poles cluttering up the place.
Welsh yobs clobbered by cross-dressing cage fighters
Please ban humourless twunts like Carl4
That is all. Thank you.
Honda develops motorised unicycle
The photos are always wrong
The publicity photos of all these kinds of device always show a user who's fit and trim; we all know that the key demographic is idle bunters.
Baroness Scotland fined for failing to follow own law
This wouldn't have happened if we had ID cards.
5 zillion quid to save the Baroness 5 thousand. Bargain.
Highways Agency plans new speed cameras
Did they forget to mention a few camera types?
Like the one which records dull-eyed gimmers pulling out of junctions into oncoming traffic; or the one which records taxis parked in cycle lanes; or the one which records driving-while-stupid offenders.
Thought not.
CSI boffins: You can't ID crims from bitemarks on victims
What's this story got to do with evil cyclists or electric cars?
Italian Job sat nav driver cops £900 fine
Obviously he was distracted...
...by a passing cyclist's lycra-clad, non-road-tax-paying, bulging genitalia..
James Martin apologises for cyclist outrage
@the tedious cyclists-pay-nothing AC dullard
Road maintenance, policing and ambulances are covered by Council Tax, business rates, Income Tax, National Insurance, VAT, Excise Duty and every other impost our beloved leaders dream up. There is no hypothecation.
Also, why is Martin apologising for offence caused? Most of the furore has been at his being a plonker, apparently confessing to dangerous behaviour, which he doesn't condone but still engages in.
A phone in every car gains hard-won GSMA support
What about my bicycle?
If I'm hit by some witless texting driver, I'll be in more urgent need of medical attention than a car driver encased in airbags and several tons of steel. Can I have a GSM-GPS notifier-tracker-nanny installed?
UK population to abandon Midlands
Please don't move to the south west
Particularly if you're retired. We've already been priced out of family homes by your kind; families squeezed into rabbit hutches while retired couples rattle around in four bedroom piles (for when the children visit, which they don't because it takes forever to get here). And then you clog the roads with your Honda Jazz driven at 30 regardless. Our village schools close because there aren't enough children, because families leave the village to find somewhere big enough and affordable enough. Those families remaining can't enlarge their homes because you object to every planning application. And even though you don't go to work you still insist on doing all your shopping on Saturday morning. And cut your grass at weekends with your noisy ride-on mower. And wash your car every week even in the middle of winter where the run-off water freezes on the road and makes me crash my motorcycle. And then you complain about the weather - always raining. Perhaps you should have checked the Met Office's statistics before moving and picked Norfolk instead.
Devon force divulges ANPR towns online
DIY Data Collection?
How about a website where one can log the location of Big Brother's tentacles?
Powered robot suits make debut on Tokyo streets
We are Borg
Resistence is futile!
The more people that use these the more will need the upcoming enhanced artificial heart.
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Mixed feelings
I like the idea of SharePoint. I like the decentralisation of control away from corporate communications departments.
As a developer I like being able to develop just a web part, pop it on the server and then let the users deploy it where they like; I like not having to create a Windows application, package it and then deploy it via Citrix. I don't like developing web parts when the inconsistencies in .net and Visual Studio make me feel dim.
I like the Business Data Catalog(ue) for simplicity of data deployment. I hate the Business Data Catalog(ue) for its fragility and its ability to make me feel stupid and tearful. I hate the lack of usable documentation (no, funnily enough I don't want to make data in the Adventure Works database available to all our thousands of users) and the lack of useful error reporting.
As for resellers being left out, I think that many companies would prefer their data to live on servers they control rather than in the Cloud. This would give the resellers an ongoing income stream maintaining the hosting. As always, resellers will find something to sell, even if that's only a feeling of control.
Please don't eat your horse, EU asks owners
Donkey Risotto
I had donkey risotto at a village festa in Italy. It was over-salted so I couldn't tell you whether it was tasty or not.
Reindeer and elk are tasty.
Gov considers website to teach tech skills
How about teaching the basics first?
The lack of basic reading, writing and numeracy skills is as much a barrier to effective use of the Web as an inability to point and click. Of course, teaching these in any effective way involves more than just advertising and web sites, so don't expect anything soon.
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Display nymous:anonymous ratio
How about displaying a poster's tendency to post anonymously? Some posts ('My employer is evil, though claiming not to be...') I can understand, but others ('WTF?!!!! LOL!!!') I don't see what they might need to hide, save their obvious mental deficiency.
Met 'studies Chinese bugging tactics' for 2012 games
Possible responses
1. Don't take taxis
2. Learn sign language
3. Learn an obscure, extinct language
4. Avoid London
Gordon 'to sacky' Wacky Jacqui
How appropriate...
...that I first saw this news as I passed Plymouth's giant Orwellian telescreen.
We citizens immediately engaged in a spontaneous two-minute hate of the unperson Smith. Well no, actually we didn't, dissuaded as we were by the presence of a CCTV camera on the screen. Who said CCTV doesn't reduce crime?
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Descartes' dilemma solved
"Transporto ergo sum"
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Wouldn't it be quicker...
...if Yahoo just sent the data to the Archive Team directly? Much like organisations and individuals donating their records to a suitable institution or library.
Not as exciting or newsworthy as the mad download frenzy currently underway though.
Darling banks on offshoring to save UK plc
The civil servants currently employed pay income tax and national insurance in this country, pay VAT and duties on goods they buy in this country from people who pay income tax and national insurance in this country etc etc.
The offshore workers do none of the above.
The civil servants unemployed in the future won't pay income tax, national insurance, VAT and duties to any great extent. They will however require unemployment and other benefits.
The only winners will be Crapita and the other usual outsourcing suspects.
GM, Segway to unveil iPhone-driven
wheelchair e-car
Fatty wagon
Where's the feeding hatch?
Balls saves history lessons from Facebook and Twitter
And here we go again
Every so often a report will declare that children should be taught 'relevant' skills. The government will wait to gauge public reaction before declaring 'only kidding'.
Proponents of this witless pandering to fashion always miss the point that new activities like Twatter and MeSpace are taken up and popularised by people without any relevant training or qualification.
The skills children *need* to be taught are the basic ones: literacy and numeracy. Understanding and critical thinking build on these through science, history, geography, literature, languages, crafts and so on. Music, drama and physical education complete the picture.
Our society and economy needs people who are adaptable, flexible and creative rather than the drones required by the new Statism.
How gov scapegoats systems for man-made errors
I blame the government
1. For insisting on the recording and collation of vast quantities of data about school pupils; this is impractical without a computer-based system.
2. For allowing the creation of ever bigger schools. With 1000 or even 2000 pupils in some secondary schools, 'care' of pupils is impractical without a computer-based system.
3. For loading such a quantity of administration on teachers (see 1. above) that they don't have the time or energy left to get to know their pupils properly.
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Who's moderating now?
I'm watching my peas and queues.
Ministers spending billions on unlawful databases
re. 'Americans Like Their Popguns... '
"If the Nazis had had effective computer databases, the Holocaust would have been double the damage."
You might want to look into the activities of the Dehomag company in Nazi Germany. An IBM franchise, they supplied punched-card machines to the Nazi state, particularly useful in sorting the population by ethnicity.
There's a photo here: http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/9048-1.htm
Voice analysis trial gives wobbly results
3/10 - can do better
Oh dear, even the Guardian managed a more informative article about this snake oil technology:
MPs told PGP 'incompatible' with Parliament network
Parliament no different from government
In failing to use PKI encryption. The GovConnect secure gateway is an example: set up a dedicated network, parallel mailboxes etc, to allow local and central government to communicate. Far more complex than just issuing certificates etc.
Government use of PKI for secure email would kick start more general use of the technology. Might even help to kill spam. Why doesn't the Passport and Identity Service issue digital certificates along with passports?
But then snooping would be so much harder once we're all encrypting our communications.
Wakefield does a Brum with possessive apostrophes
More preparation for the rise of the machines
Council Functionary: "Apostrophes are not generally used in street names as they can lead to problems and confusion when data is transferred electronically for other uses."
Our robot overlords will be able to find and round us up all the more easily with the apostropes removed.
So instead of painting 'V' everywhere, just add punctuation to defeat the machines.
I for one don't welcome...
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Netflix wins first-show TV rights to Disney flicks
Netflix is to become Disney's exclusive pay-television partner from 2016 in a deal that gives it first pick of all of the studio's new films, from future Pixar and Marvel hits to the second and third instalments of the new Star Wars trilogy. Terms of the deal, which only covers the US, were not disclosed, but the Financial Times …
Howard The Duck...
Finally available on Netflix!!!
"Netflix is to become Disney's exclusive pay-television partner from 2016 "
Wow! So no more Disney Channels on Sky, DirceTV or Dish?
which only covers the US
Says it all really. Over here we're stuck with Sky for legal access to recent films.
Re: which only covers the US
or you could just change your DNS to a US DNS server, works great for me on the Xbox with the US netflix running in good ole Blighty
Re: which only covers the US
Try establishing a VPN connection to the US. The both the series of the new BBC version of Sherlock is available on Netflix. Try going through a UK connection without any VPN connection and suddenly thes programs disappear.
I know that the BBC doesn't pay for all right to programs otherwise it would cost far too much, but there is something wrong when British programs made in Britain with British licence fee funds aren't available in Britain but are viewable elsewhere.
Thats a lot of £
£5.99 * 30 million = about £179million a month in revenue
So for this deal they are spending about 8.3% of their Yearly revenue.
"Corps for media distribution really need to stop this exclusive deal crap"
At the min its Netflix or Lovefilm, Ill paying for one, but if its on the other service they should know I'm downloaded it.
If they just made their media available on all services there is greater chance people would pay for it. This business model of exclusive deals is already broken.
It always boils down to short term gain or future longevity?
Said it before
There needs to be legislation to make force movie houses to release their content on FRAND terms. after all, they want every protection known to man for their content so its only fair they release it fairly. This exclusive crap makes my blood boil.
Re: Said it before
Last I know, Disney was not required viewing. Your TV won't break without it. Disney are there to make money.
And how dare they not give content away for next to nothing.
So no it's up to them if they price themselves out of the market.
Re: Said it before
Fair != next to nothing.
Nobody is saying that they shouldn't be able to set the price, just that they shouldn't pick and choose who they sell to.
Re: Said it before
It may not be required viewing but if your only option for TV does not have the rights to show it, yet there is something you really want to see guess what your options are?
Yes your right the options are not legal but it is the only one they are giving some people. Why should I have to maintain a subscription to 5 different services with exclusive content?
And as said above, it's not that they are asking for it to be cheap, just easier and fairer. Service providers should be competing on service not content.
Re: Said it before
Why? They aren't required? Both VM and Sky provide access to each others (albeit mostly one way) content. If you don't like it either pay for it or don't. FRAND is strictly limited to areas where IP is used in standards to prevent abuse, otherwise move to a country that doesn't have a free(ish) market. If you want to watch it that badly pay for it or quit whining. Nobody is going to die because they didn't get to watch a movie.
Re: Said it before
Nobody is going to die because there is no FRAN in IP either. but it is there isn't it? That makes your argument totally inert.
I want to watch it but I also have to pay for it according to you. Guess what? No VM at my place, or decent internet pipes. Or decent reception over the air.
I will say it again. Content makers provide content and should not be locked into deals via service providers that should be competing on service.
Re: Said it before
The reasoning for FRAND which you completely overlooked (again) is for companies contributing IP to standards i.e. GSM which other companies are then required to use. Given they have to use the IP they get it at fair rates. Companies trade guaranteed sales (as their IP is used in a standard) for control over pricing. They don't have to, nobody forces them to, it is a choice the company makes. They can simply choose not to include the IP in the standard. You are mandating forcing companies to sell their luxury product to anyone who wants it. It's their product and it is a luxury, they get to choose who they sell it to.
Theres nothing stopping you buying a dvd or watching it at the cinema. Also the deal is for 'first show tv' rights in one country only. So assuming you didn't watch it at the cinema (because you really HAD to see the disney movie but just not that much) and didn't buy the DVD or Bluray either (not looking like you wanted to see it that badly is it) all you are missing is the first showing period. It will be on other channels, just at a later date. Also given this covers the US it doesn't affect you.
Re: Said it before
Oh you are really total stupid or ignorant?
"Nobody is going to die because there is no FRAND in IP either. but it is there isn't "
So next time you call the emergency service for a heart attack victim using your mobile phone, connecting to the Mobile carriers network, which in turn may pass through 2 or 3 other carriers network, received by the operator, typed on a computer,sent over the network to the Ambulance station, who radio the crew, who jump in the ambulance and navigate to the scene to find you giving hearth resuscitation to "Staying Alive" on your cd player, which you learnt of your Digital TV.
Thank goodness there are no devices using FRAND in that little set up.
It can only be good news ...
.. if it eventually gets it out of the hands of Murdoch :)
Too cheap
My issue with Netflix and Lovefilm is the cost - they're both aiming too low. I pay Netflix £6 a month for a limited selection of films and TV - they do have Breaking Bad, but I've bought the boxsets 'cos it's that good... Lovefilm's selection seems to be even worse (I did subscribe to both at one point). If someone pitched a package at around £20-30 a month and offered a much larger range of content - especially new releases, hell - I'd cancel my Usenet subscription.
Re: Too cheap
I agree. I would love to see Netflix and hulu combined and all the networks putting their content in, that would be worth 20 a month easily. They are heading towards fragmentation here, which is fine, they just won't get my money. I cancelled hulu, netflix is still worth the money but only just.
Re: Too cheap
The uk netflix is barely worth £6 tbh, you can watch pretty much all the good stuff on there in a few days. Change your dns servers to usa based ones and see how much us brits are being ripped off content wise. There must be 10 times the amount of content for the same price, including, as another commentator noted, many more BBC series. Just looking at the documentary section is enough to get the blood boiling, I think theres about 15 on the u.k one, and well over 200 on the u.s one.
Luckily, its easy to access the u.s netflix from uk at the moment, but I bet they close the dns loophole soon though (the Android client seems to already detect it and redirect to the shit u.k content).
Then itl be more expense for a proper vpn, I dont think il bother, il just pirate anything I want to watch and these silly media companies get nothing rather than my money and custom.
Oh, and Lovefilm is worse value, complete rip off considering the limited content.
Netflix is to become Disney's exclusive pay-television partner from 2016 in a deal that gives it first pick of all of the studio's new films, from future Pixar and Marvel hits to the second and third instalments of the new Star Wars trilogy.
Terms of the deal, which only covers the US...........
Maybe Disney is waking up?
We subscribe to Netflix, and if Disney won't play, that's fine with me. I'll just watch something else. So Disney wins in the immediate term, but loses in the long run. Maybe they are starting to realize that a buyer's market is emerging here for content?
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Artist: Oliver Jeffers
Oliver Jeffers is a New York based artist who's done a few really beautiful picture books, the lastest is called "Stuck".
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what on earth would take a small bulb like this?
theyre the size of a 22 short!
thats a 22LR in the pic!
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We used those types in lighting panels on the inside of aircraft and simulators.
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Post-light bulbs for aircraft instruments.
May the Force be with you.
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Aircraft instrument lamps. The flange base bulb is used in my plane to light the instruments. #330 if the 14 volt version. 328 is the 28 volt one. The screw type lamps I remember being used to light compasses.
Salome, AZ
PS those do not look like 22 shorts.
Looks like old dashboard light bulbs from older vehicles i've seen before.
maybe a soldering gun? no planes in my dads warehouse.
The indicator lights in the alarm panel on my towboat look very similar.
ah haaa.
those little red dome and green dome kinda panel lights.....
No wonder I couldnt find a dome light for my 57 Ford, you had them all hidden away................
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21 Jun 2012 16:53:13
The European Commission's plan to delay the auctioning of carbon allowances early in phase III of the EU's emissions trading system (ETS) to boost prices is illegal, according to a legal opinion compiled on behalf of Europe's energy intensive industries.
Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard's promise to delay the auctioning of some phase III (2013-2020) allowances, known as "set-aside", could now face a legal challenge from some of Europe's biggest industry players.
Steel, cement, metals and glass are among the sectors that commissioned the legal opinion from German law firm Luther.
The Directive and the market
The Commission is not entitled to interfere with the carbon market through the changes to the auctioning regulation that it proposes, according to lawyer Stefan Altenschmidt of Luther.
"Under the emissions trading directive, the auctioning regulation is only in place to deal with technical details of auctioning. Any other amendment has to be made within the guidelines of the emissions trading directive, and therefore if one tries to increase the carbon price, one will have to amend the entire trading directive," Altenschmidt said over the phone.
The Commission's auction delay proposal is intended as a quick-fix solution to the problem of low carbon prices in Europe. Longer term "structural" reform of the directive itself is also on the cards, but is likely to take two or three years to get through the EU's labyrinthine legislative process (see EDCM 31 May 2012).
The promise of a possible delay and later curb of allowances has already helped to lift prices over recent sessions, ICIS data suggests, with structural reforms promising to boost prices in phase III.
Carbon prices have been bearish amid a large surplus of allowances in the current phase II and lower-than-expected emissions, and thus demand for credits, amid the eurozone's economic crisis.
While the benchmark EU allowance (EUA) December 2012 contract had shed 15% of its value over the course of May, falling from €7.60 per tonne of CO2 equivalent (tCO2e) to €6.45/tCO2e, the contract has appreciated considerably since the EU announcements and over the course of June to date. After closing at €6.30/tCO2e on 1 June 2012, it has risen to as high as €7.55/tCO2e on 19 June, ICIS data shows, marking an increase of 20%. A successful legal challenge is likely to have a bearish impact on prices again.
Legal fineprint
"It's very important for the Commission to know that any attempt to use the auctioning regulation as a tool for raising the carbon price runs a risk of legal challenge either by industry or by member states," the lawyer said.
"From our reading of the ETS directive, there is only one instance that allows the Commission to interfere in the carbon price and that is if the carbon price is too high," he said.
But no legal challenge can be mounted until the Commission brings forward its finalised proposals on auction delays, which is likely to happen next month. Once the proposal is made public, the industries will decide their next move, according to Axel Eggert, director of public affairs at steel association Eurofer.
"There's no decision yet. We have to wait and see what the paper looks like. But in any case for us it was very important to get some more certainty about the legality because we said from the beginning that [set aside] can't be in line with the directive because if you interfere with the market, then it's not a market system any more," Eggert said.
"And Article I of the directive says objective of reducing emissions by 21% should be achieved at the lowest cost," he said.
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The Ozark mountain town of West Plains, Mo., is the kind of town where a person can stand in his front yard and have a comfortable view of his past.
"My mom was actually born about 150 or 200 feet that way and my grandfather's house is I guess 200 yards that way," says Daniel Woodrell, author of Winter's Bone, and most recently, The Maid's Version.
Woodrell's family — on both sides — goes back a long way in West Plains. His father moved away but Woodrell used to visit his grandparents here when he was a kid. After several years away from the region, Woodrell and his wife Katie decided about 20 years ago to move back to settle in his hometown. Both of them are writers, but most of Woodrell's neighbors had never heard of him.
"When we first moved in here we had a neighbor next door for three years," Woodrell says. "One night there was an ice storm and we got to stand around outside talking and I mentioned I was a writer. And he said. 'Oh, that's what you do! My God, I've been wondering … but I'd never ask a man what he did for a living.'"
Woodrell's profile as a writer got a big boost in 2010 when his book Winter's Bone was made into a film starring the then unknown Jennifer Lawrence. It's a tough story about blood ties and the code of silence in the criminal underworld of the Ozarks. It was not the first time, nor the last, that Woodrell has taken readers into the dark corners of this world. Woodrell says for a long time he resisted coming back to the Ozarks to write.
"I just thought, no, I don't see how this is going to work being a writer in the Ozarks," he says with a laugh, "but once I got over that I realized I felt more kind of confidence to the stories I would tell about this region — as well as interest in the stories than I really did anywhere else."
Around town, he occasionally runs into people who resemble the seedy characters he writes in his books. But he says the area feels safe.
"One of the interesting things about the Ozarks is you just about don't have street crime," Woodrell explains. "It's strictly between people who know each other. It really isn't indiscriminate; it's kind of between themselves."
In his latest book The Maid's Version Woodrell moves into more personal territory with the fictional retelling of a tragedy that hit the town hard back in 1928. An explosion and fire at a dance hall left a good portion of the town's young people dead or injured. There was an official investigation but they never pinned down a cause. Rumors were rampant and echoed down the decades.
"There were several gossipy possibilities of some kind of romance involved and a couple of things about people who were having business failures and these kinds of things," says Woodrell. "There were rumors of seeing people running away. All these stories reached me."
Many of the characters and events in The Maid's Version closely follow Woodrell's own family's history. The fictional maid of the title is based on his own grandmother. Here's his description of the maid in his story:
She lived scared and angry, a life full of permanent grievances, sharp animosities and cold memories for all who'd ever crossed us, any of us, ever. Alma DeGeer Dunahew, with her pinched, hostile nature, her dark obsessions and primal need for revenge, was the big red heart of our family, the true heart, the one we keep secret and that sustains us.
Woodrell's grandmother and mother had their own firm ideas of what really happened the night of the fire and some of those opinions made their way into the book. And because the disaster involved almost everyone in town, it gave Woodrell a way to write about the class boundaries that defined life in West Plains.
On the town's main square Woodrell points out the spot where the dance hall once stood. "It was livelier then because everything was centered around the square," he says. "You can see old pictures of a Saturday night on the square and it would have been packed."
Around the corner is an old hardware store that is now an antique mall. The mall is owned by Toney Aid whose family has been living in West Plains since 1885. (Click here to listen to a 2008 interview with Aid on KSMU.) He and Woodrell fall into conversation with the ease of two people who have known each other a long time. Aid, who was born in 1950, says that when he was a teen, the dance hall fire was a "taboo" subject.
"There were a lot of people in town you couldn't mention the explosion in front of," he says. "… You just didn't bring it up because there was too much tragedy, too many unanswered questions, they didn't want to discuss it anymore."
The town's cemetery sits close to the rail road tracks. In Woodrell's book there's a statue in the cemetery that is a memorial to those who died in the fire. When the train goes by, the statue shakes and the people of the town say it is dancing. The real memorial is an oversized tombstone.
"This is the memorial to the unidentified dead," Woodrell says. "Some families lost multiple members all in one swoop."
Woodrell used to play in this cemetery when he visited his grandfather who lived across the street. And the mystery of what really happened that night — whether someone deliberately set off the explosion that killed so many — took hold of his imagination.
"I began to be aware that was — other than the civil war — one of the keystone events in the town history," he says. Early on, he saw the potential for a book, but "I had to learn how to write first," he says, laughing.
The Maid's Versionis the most personal book Woodrell has ever written and now that it is done, he finds himself wondering what other tales of the Ozarks he has to tell.


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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The value of Wisconsin's agricultural land inched up just 1 percent in the last year, well behind farmland value increases in neighboring states.
A U.S. Department of Agriculture survey says the average value of Wisconsin farmland increased to $4,000 an acre. The 1 percent increase compares with a 20 percent jump in in Iowa to $8,400 an acre and a 16.4 percent increase in Illinois to $7,800 an acre.
The survey shows the biggest increase was in North Dakota where the average value of farm real estate jumped more than 36 percent to $1, 690 an acre.
The Journal Sentinel says the survey was conducted the first two weeks of June.
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Green Label has compiled a list of items it wants from Kanye West's forthcoming album.
Kanye West has announced that he is working on a new album.
That news inspired Green-Label.com to craft a list of "10 Things We Want From Kanye West's Next Album."
"Kanye has reinvented the art of dropping an album," the story says, "whether it means changing the game musically or externally in the form of multi-media rollouts."
One item noted is the "Return Of Well-Rounded Kanye."
"We love Kanye for his fearless exploration of sometimes hypocritical or contradictory subject matter since it's one of the things that makes him most fascinating," the Green Label story says. "However, in recent years, Kanye has faltered in balancing the two. A return to moderation in this respect would treat him well.
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NEW YORK (AP) - The stock price of American Airlines parent company AMR Corp. is down 35 percent on concerns that the company could be headed for bankruptcy protection.
The stock was off $1.04, to $1.92 per share. Shares have not closed below $2 since 2003. A major airline trade group says the industry may be headed for a downturn. Many analysts say that American Airlines is in the most vulnerable financial position of major U.S. carriers.
American is paying higher labor and financing costs than other major carriers. It's also the only major airline to lose money this year. American Airlines is the only major airline that has not filed for bankruptcy protection in the last decade
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