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City firm calls for £10bn house building programme
Financial firm Tullett Prebon has urged the government to put £4 billion of capital investment into getting local authorities and housing associations to build more homes.
The interdealer broker has published a report arguing a national house building programme is 'one of the very few viable policy options available to the government' to kick-start the ailing economy.
The paper, written by Tullett Prebon's global head of research Dr Tim Morgan, cites a recent report from think tank Policy Exchange that argued the government should encourage landlords to sell off the most expensive social housing to create a £6 billion house building fund. The broker says £4 billion of capital investment should be added to this to create £10 billion of annual funding.
It says the investment should be undertaken through local authorities and housing associations 'not through public private gimmicks like PFI' and the private sector should be involved as contractors to build the homes.
'Longer term, a house building programme will pay for itself, both through enhanced economic growth (and hence higher revenues) and through a reduced housing benefit burden,' the report states.
'Nearer term, the divestment of the highest-cost social housing, and additional levies on second homes, can make significant contributions to defraying the cost.'
It notes house building is primarily a domestic industry, meaning there would be widespread economic benefits of increased work.
The broker also argues the government should 'reform and streamline' the planning system to ensure local opposition cannot prevent a house building-led economic recovery.
The government is expected to announce a revised strategy to boost house building next month, but this is unlikely to include any significant capital investment. Instead it is likely to focus on changes to planning rules and using government guarantees to reduce the cost of borrowing for housing associations.
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Some good ideas - why-ever did nobody ever think of a mass social house building programme as a) a route out of recession, b) a means to reduce the housing shortage, and c) how to make housing affordable again.
Meanwhile the government is expected to make more announcements about their strategy, revised or otherwise - so no change there then, unless the government drops the deadweight Shapps and instead brings in a Housing Minister who actually understands and believes in housing.i would have thought say ten companies like TP could find the wherewithall to make this happen. that would be a novelty private companies bailing out private companies to the common good while making a fair return long term.
as far as a housing minister with housing knowledge or even interest goes - does such an animal exist ??OOh Chris, do I detect the teeniest note of Sarcasm - or possibly irony in your tone? I do like the bit about not using PFI in their report- everyone and their dog has known this is a rip-off, frankly if they want to save money off the NHS budget my first choice would be to Compulsorily acquire all the PFI contracts and re-finice then through the Gilts market, thus at one stroke saving Billions and, AND putting out of business some of the worst bottom-feeding low life scum in the City. and outcome devoutly to be desired!
With the coming re-shuffle this would get the new housing minister off with a bang, whilst Shapps goes on to save the planet by becoming minister for Airport expansion, thereby guaranteeing that no additional runways will ever be built and Britain will thus achieve its C02 emission reduction target.
Perhaps David Cameron is secretly in thrall to the lovely Caroline Lucas and longs, like a good public schoolboy, for a touch of the cane?? or was he post Corporal Punishment?Possibly Harry, possibly.
Careful though, one man's bottom feeding low life scum is another party's financial backer - or would that be a double bonus!
?Post Corporal Punishment? - would that be the mail-order variety?
Absolutely re PFI - who the hell is backing this when every Chancellor when in opposition has labled them correctly as a financial disaster and an expense we cannot afford - for instance Osborne is well on track to exceed the PFI totals of both his predecessors put together, yet apparently is commited to not using them!Are these the same experts who trotted out with cheque books waving to support Osborne's rolling out of Plan A - they could at least have the good manners to apologise before calling for it's demise.
and in other news, a document leaked to the Guardian reveals 'sobering' Treasury plan to cut welfare budgets by another £10b.
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SRAM's Red components took the road cycling world by storm when it was unveiled a couple years ago: The first sub 2000 gram group; the first group with standard ceramic bearings in bottom bracket and derailleur pulleys and the ultimate expression of SRAM's DoubleTap shift feature.
Kyle summed up his thoughts about SRAM Red rather succinctly:
"Ever since I've owned a road bike, it's been Campy and nothing but Campy. Why? Because it was the best – or so I thought until this season. I'll admit, I've "made the leap" BIG TIME. The best way to describe my experience with Red is "beautiful simplicity". Not overly complex in design, very tight springs, and a pop that instills confidence with every shift. As a sprinter, my favorite feature is the ability to grip the paddle and shift in full flight – no hesitation, no loss of speed, and no worry about dumping your cassette. It is, bar none, the best performing, maintenance-free group I've ever used."
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When word was passed down late last year that new team rigs would be fit with SRAM Red I was intensely ambivalent. That is, I had heard Red described by recreational weekend warriors and devoted racing friends alike with superlatives and eyes glinting in mischievous disbelief. Like many of them, I was coming off of a high level of fidelity to Shimano's Dura-Ace. My partiality was born of season after season of light weight, precise, reliable, (and most importantly for me) easily serviceable road group. Despite hearing time after time that Red was far and away the better road group I was still incredulous. Here are some of my initial impressions after a few weeks of use:
When comparing products such as Dura-Ace and Red the subtleties are where the important differences lie. One of my concerns was that having the downshifting area reduced from the entirety of the Shimano lever to the comparatively small Red DoubleTap lever, I would misshift frequently when riding cross eyed either up a climb or in the drops and be forced to modify my hand position to compensate.
Thankfully, this seemingly insignificant phobia turned out to be just that, insignificant. After a ride or two and subsequent adjusting and micro adjusting, the Red hoods allowed for comfortable hand position and easy up-shifting while both in the drops and on the hoods. I attribute this primarily to the shape and length of the hoods which feel even more nature to my Shimano conditioned hands than the DA.
However, I would like to see decreased throw to actuate the up-shift. In a strict ease-of-up-shift competition SRAM Red loses to Shimano Dura-Ace (though not by much). But this is compensated for by a superior up-shift (and we all now going harder is more virtuous than going easier. It's nice to have a component manufacture shadow that sentiment).
It has always been my contention that a racer should know his equipment backwards and forwards. Because of this I typically do all, or most of my installation and repair work and have a higher than normal appreciation for little subtle pieces of engineering. On this front Red did not disappoint. Two things that caused me to nod in silent approval were 1- the rear derailleur cable routing INTO the derailleur itself (the cable routes towards the back allowing to achieve higher tension while installing a cable than with the DA) 2- easily accessible tension adjusters on the brake calipers.
Installation was seamless once I discovered that shift cables route from the INSIDE of the hood (never build up a new bike in a dark room 4-5 beers deep). In respect to ease of installation I found the SRAM Red group to be even easier than installing Shimano Dura-Ace. At first blush SRAM Red appears to be every bit as easy to service as well, should the need arise.
Ultimately, I'm going to have to give the SRAM Red group an enthusiastic nod of approval. All of my misgivings proved to be ill-founded (save the cable holding, which is a dying dream either way) and when considering weight and dollar bills, SRAM wins out easily over Dura-Ace.


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Stories of Hope - Heart Failure
Spotlight on Heart Failure
On December 8, 2011 the CIRM governing board heard a Spotlight on Heart Failure featuring reseachers, clinicians and a patient speaking about their hope for stem cell research. These are their stories.
Fred Lesikar
Menifee, CA
It was grandpa to the rescue when Fred Lesikar's granddaughter tried to put on a pair of jeans several sizes too small. The toddler was stuck. She could not pull them up, and she could not pull them off. Lesikar, then 59, stood on the cuffs of the jeans and began to lift her out of the pants.
But it hurt. Pain radiated across his back and around his chest. It ran through his biceps and up under his chin.
He should have called 911. He will tell you that now. Instead, he asked his stepdaughter to drive him to the hospital.
Help came too late to save his heart from permanent damage. He returned home much diminished. Walking around the block felt like a marathon, and he was losing the race.
Today, everything is different. "I'm in better shape than I've been in in years," he says. Some months after his attack, he enrolled in a clinical trial, in which researchers harvested a bit of tissue from his heart, coaxed stem cells from the tissue to grow, and put the cells back into his heart again. The results? Lesikar's heart is functioning better and the scar left from his heart attack appears to be reduced.
The study that helped Lesikar is one that led up to a $5 million disease team award from CIRM to fund the next generation therapy.
"It's given me a new life," Lesikar says. "The process, from the patient's point of view, is an easy, painless miracle, and I'm very thankful."


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It has been applied to priests since at least the mid-80s. I'm not sure that there's a reliable psych test for pedophilia, though, and I would worry about the risk of false positives.
@Heather - RE: "made to believe that praying and baking bread all day would eliminate his sexual desires" - I'm guessing they never saw the movie, "American Pie" --
Honestly, I think some of those monks could have written American Pie - the man on man version.
I heard they used boysenberry for the pie scene.
Sometimes, awful is what we do best --
Actually, I suppose you could call it, awe-ful!
@Angela - As you say, catholics believe god is jesus, jesus is god, and they also have a ghost in there.
They cannot change the laws - A pope, because he is chosen by god, and talks to god, can change anything he likes, and does so, when it suits.
Popes who were married -
As kOrsan says, they can twist shit until it fits their agenda.
The pope should be drinking poison, and patting snakes, if he really wants to prove his faith in god. That is in the bible.
And once again, in case you missed it,Jesus DID NOT SAY love the person but hate the act - St,. Augustine of Hippo said it, albeit re-interpreted, Cum dilectione hominum et odio vitiorum - 534-430
John VIII (872 - 882): John was paranoid, though perhaps with good reason, and his entire papacy was characterized by various political plots and intrigue. When he feared that people were plotting to overthrow him, he had a number of powerful bishops and other officials excommunicated. This ensured that they moved against him and a relative was convinced to slip poison in his drink. When he didn't die fast enough, members of his own entourage beat him to death.
See, he did drink poison, but not intentionally. No mention of snakes.
So popes should behave irrationally in order to prove their faith is rational? An interesting theory.
Might I suggest that your arguments would be stronger if you avoided all the false straw men? The pope is chosen by a group of 120 men, not by God, and no one believes otherwise. The pope does not talk to God, other than to pray like any other human can. The pope cannot change anything he likes, that would be silly.
Straw men arguments are comforting and can get you nods and back-slaps within monocultural belief groups like the one that exists here, but they really are a very lazy approach which can result in considerable error. One need only look at the anti-climate-change "literature" to see the same technique used frequently.
So popes should behave irrationally in order to prove their faith is rational?
She said "to prove his faith in god." Nowhere was she talking about him proving the rationality of his faith. That's inherently not possible.
The pope is chosen by a group of 120 men, not by God
What? How long have you been sitting on this information?!
The pope cannot change anything he likes, that would be silly.
Yeah, your religion never does anything silly, or change its mind. I mean the earth being flat, the universe revolving around earth, denying evolution, and Limbo were just flukes.
My religion does all kinds of silly things. It's not a person, though, so it has no mind to change.
Catholicism never denied evolution to my knowledge. Do you have a citation on that? I'd be curious. I think you're confusing us with the fundamentalists.
Copernicus of course was a Catholic priest, and now our pope is a former chemistry teacher.
And now your pope is an openly bigoted homophobe who sticks his nose in uteri it doesn't belong :)
Are you proud of this?
@Sam Redmon
It's bad enough that you throw around shit like this:
"There was no evidence to support he had anything to do with it, but these accusations don't come from nowhere."
...but then to accuse others with
"start throwing around offensive accusations like that you commit a fallacy known as Circumstantial ad Hominen"
What's Latin for double standard?
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If I bought the Sigma 18-200mm F3.5-6.3 DC Macro OS HSM SLR Lens for Nikon for my D7000, the feasibility of using this lens on a Nikon D750 when I can afford to upgrade.
Sigma 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 DC OS HSM review
The Sigma 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 DC OS HSM is the latest in the company's long line of superzooms, which stretches back to the early 1990s and a series of 28-200mm (and later 28-300mm) lenses for 35mm SLRs. In fact Sigma was the first company to produce a superzoom for the burgeoning budget DSLR market, with its 18-125mm D3.5-5.6 DC of August 2004, followed shortly after by an 18-200mm F3.5-6.3 DC in February 2005. However the big problem with long, slow zooms is image blur due to camera shake, and in March 2007 Sigma duly announced this new version of the 18-200mm with the addition of 'Optical Stabilization' (OS) technology for Canon, Nikon and its own SD range of DSLRs (Sony and Pentax users, of course, benefit from sensor-shift image stabilization of all lenses). In somewhat curious fashion, the Nikon mount version also sports an ultrasonic-type 'HyperSonic Motor' (giving rise to the HSM tag,) while the Canon and Sigma mount models use a conventional micro-motor for focusing.
Like all superzooms the Sigma 18-200mm OS features a complex optical design, in this case 18 elements in 13 groups including one Super-Low Dispersion (SLD) glass element, and no fewer than three aspherical elements to combat aberrations. A minimum focus distance of 0.45m through the entire range adds to the lens's all-round versatility. The optical stabilization system detects when the camera is panning and automatically switches to operating in one axis only, useful for shooting moving subjects such as sports.
This lens competes directly in the 'stabilized superzoom' market with the Nikon 18-200mm F3.5-5.6G AF-S VR DX, Canon EF-S 18-200mm F3.5-5.6 IS, and Tamron 18-270mm F3.5-6.3 Di-II VC, all of which which we've reviewed over the past year. Its main advantage at the moment is that it is considerably cheaper than any of these other lenses, making it much the most affordable option for users looking to supplement their collection with a general-purpose travel lens. But in this case, does cheaper also mean inferior, or has Sigma delivered quality on a budget?
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18mm (27mm equivalent) | 200mm (300mm equivalent) |
Sigma 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 DC OS HSM specifications
Street price | • $400 (US) • £280 (UK) |
Date introduced | March 2007 |
Maximum format size | APS-C/DX |
Focal length | 18-200mm |
35mm equivalent focal length |
• 27-300mm (1.5x DX) • 29-320mm (1.6x APS-C) • 31-340mm (1.7x Foveon APS-C) |
Diagonal Angle of view (APS-C) | 74º - 8º |
Maximum aperture | F3.5-6.3 |
Minimum aperture | F22-40 |
Lens Construction | • 18 elements / 13 groups • 1 SLD glass element • 3 aspherical elements |
Number of diaphragm blades | 7, rounded |
Minimum focus | 0.45m |
Maximum magnification | 0.26x |
AF motor type | • Micro-type Hypersonic Motor (Nikon mount) • DC Micro Motor (Canon & Sigma mounts) |
Focus method | Internal |
Image stabilization | • Yes • Automatic panning detection |
Filter thread | • 72mm • Does not rotate on focus |
Supplied accessories* | Front and rear caps Petal-type Hood |
Weight | 600 g (21.2 oz) |
Dimensions | 79 mm diameter x 98 mm length (3.1 x 3.9 in) |
Lens Mount | Canon, Nikon, Sigma |
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But is she taking this most eligible bachelor off the market anytime soon? Petite Brigitte sees no immediate cause for panic.
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Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 768658, 7 pages
Research Article
Energy Efficiency of a Greenhouse for the Conservation of Forestry Biodiversity
1DAFNE, University of Tuscia, Via San Camillo de Lellis s.n.c., 01100 Viterbo, Italy
2CIRDER, University of Tuscia, Via Cavour 23, 01028 Orte, Italy
Received 21 August 2012; Accepted 1 November 2012
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Copyright © 2013 Alvaro Marucci et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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First off, I use this as a foundation in the 'brightener' color. I can see why some said not the best as a concealer if you're looking for heavier coverage. For concealer, I am now using NYX in a wand. (have to review at some point), Did try the rewind foundation but like this color better for my fair skin tone. At first didn't thin much of the applicator but now love it. Use Smashbox primer but am going to try the MB Rewind. Off to Ulta w/ coupon...
Edit: Just bought a new one and so much drier! Settling into lines and wrinkles. Plus, they added a tape to clear plsstic cover that is so difficult to remove; at least for my hands. Had to use a knife! Two lippies now..
Age: 25-29
Skin: Combination, Medium, Warm
Hair: Brown, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Brown
Love this concealer. It's so creamy and nice. I like the ball idea but feel it's kind of unsanitary because it can get kind of messy. honestly i don't use the ball after a while because of all that concealer gunk on it makes me feel uncomfortable dabbing it under my eyes so i just roll the ball on my hand and then apply the product with a brush to my undereye circles. It's very creamy and i love how the blends easily into my skin. Great drugstore product - not cheap for DS but when it goes on sale, i will of course buy. The ball idea is kind of fun but i prefer something cleaner.
Age: 30-35
Skin: Combination, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Blond, Other, Other
Eyes: Green
Thought it was going to do wonders, but was thin and creased easily under my eye. Yuck! Yuck!
Age: 30-35
Skin: Sensitive, Fair, Warm
Hair: Brunette, Straight, Medium
Eyes: Brown
I had heard some good things about the concealer, so I decided to give it a shot, despite my reservations about the packaging... I have deep, dark circles. Not only is my undereye area somewhat sunken in, I look like I have 2 black eyes at all times. Sleep, diet and products don't help whatsoever. I have pictures of myself as a toddler with these circles; it's always been a problem. So basically, I don't expect any product to completely cover them. This product does do a decent job reflecting light away from my eyes, though it doesn't mask the bluish color of my circles. I have to layer this over heavier, more camouflaging concealers to get the effect I need.
It's not really moisturizing, but it's not drying either. It sinks in quickly and doesn't smudge my mascara when I blink, so that's another plus. As for the color, I bought it in Fair, which is a bit too light for me, but still wearable (I'm about NC20 now). Like most people, I'd rather have a concealer be a shade too light than too dark.
The only con, and it is a HUGE con, is the packaging. You turn the bottle to click and it dispenses some product into the round sponge tip. Makeup sponges are notoriously dirty and germy. I've used this about 10 times and tube is still totally full of product... but the sponge is already DISGUSTING. Also, the sponge is glued into the applicator, but it started tearing off. So I will be applying this and the sponge pops off and I scratch my eye with the plastic underneath. Maybelline really needs to put this in squeeze tube, or at least a regular tube with a doe-foot applicator. The product is decent, but the packaging is so gross. I probably will not rebuy for that reason.
Age: 25-29
Skin: Normal, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Red, Other, Other
Eyes: Green
Okay, I don't really need anymore concealer, but considering all of the amazing things I have heard about this product, I had to go out buy it and try it. Wowow I'm
Glad I did. I bought the brightener and used it as a concealer as I have very light pink skin, the fair looked too tan for me. The color, perfect, it's the only concealer that is actually 1-2 shades lighter than my NW20 skin, which is hard to find. The consistency, O-M-G, it's so smooth, it glides along my skin so easily, and its silky, so it doesn't leave that cakey look, nor does it settle into fine lines and creases. I first used this without a setting powder to test the longevity and creasing of the product. It didn't crease, it lasted, and it didn't ruin my mascara, which most concealers do without setting powder. It left me looking wide awake, it was thin n creamy, n lasted the whole day without setting. I def give this a big thumbs up. I don't really love the sponge applicator, but it's worth the crappy packaging for an amazing product. I love love love this. It's light enough for young skin, and light enough for older skin so it doesn't settle into creases. I highly recommend to everyone
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Cool
Hair: Black, Straight, Medium
Eyes: Brown
i use the Brightener which is a pink-toned concealer/brightener. it works great on my undereye circles and i blend it out over my cheeks to give my face a nice glow.
Age: 19-24
Skin: Oily, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Red, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
this cover all the blemishes and dark circle that i have and last all day without re-touch. The sponge is very soft. i love that it can use as a highlighter to diferent parts of your face like nose, under eyes and my cheeks.its a little bit expensive for a drugstore concealer like $7.99
Age: 36-43
Skin: Acne-prone, Medium, Neutral
Hair: Other, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Blue
I really like this concealer. I have the neutralizer and the brightener shades. Neutralizer is best for concealing redness around my nose (rosacea). It can pull a bit too yellow if I use a lot on my dark circles. Brightener is great all over eyelids when really sleep deprived, and dark circles when I am super pale in winter, but it is really light and really pink, so sparing application is best. Used together, they are perfect for dark circles. Next time they have B1G1 somewhere I am going to try an another shade, since using 2 concealers is time intensive for me.
Age: 44-55
Skin: Dry, Medium, Cool
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
I purchased the Neutralizer and Highlighter shades of this product. I was a bit skeptical as drugstore items do not have testers. But I figured for $6 each, was worth a try. I wanted an under eye product to deal with just some light circles and odd shadowing. I absolutely love these! The Maybelline Neutralizer worked amazingly well. I then used a $5 Rimmel concealer (love that-see my review on that product) and then the Maybelline Highlighter. Perfect under eye! I will say however I wish they had just done a squeeze tube-the spongey applicator is just weird. I spread the products with a small concealer brush. I am impressed! For reference I am NW25. What folks need to realize is a skin tone concealer alone will not eliminate darkness. You need to correct the coloring first (with the peachy-ish Neutralizer), then bring it back to skin tone with concealer. Finally, the Highlighter (pinkish shade) "lightens" the area to minimize dark shadows. The Highlighter can also be used elsewhere on the face (ie cupid's bow). Just be careful with the Highlighter-a little goes a long way.
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Ryan Walsh - acorrding to brother Liam - is calculated, not satisfied unless he does everything by the book.
Chris Lakey
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Liam Walsh's world title challenge preparations will take a back seat – if only for a short while – tonight when he takes up his position in the corner as brothers Ryan and Michael take the boxing spotlight.
It's Ryan who is top of the bill at the Norfolk Showground this time, with a British Masters super-featherweight fight against Scotsman Ronnie Clark. Michael's turn was in September, when he beat George Gachechiladze to win the International Masters super-bantamweight belt.
It is, says twin Liam, the least Ryan deserves. Ask Liam to run the rule over his brothers and there are two very different answers.
Michael is explosive, unpredictable, the sort of fighter who will have the crowd on its feet roaring its approval and might possibly have the boxing purists growling.
But he is an entertainer. Last time out he was on the canvas before roaring back to dump Gachechiladze on his backside twice. There was no second round.
Ryan is an altogether different beast: calculated, not satisfied unless he does everything by the book.
His destruction of Mikheil Gogebashvili was over inside a round, three jack-hammer punches sending him down each time. It took his record to 14 straights wins and Liam is convinced his skills haven't yet been appreciated by a wider audience.
"Ryan is ready for the best, he is up there with the best," says Liam.
"He is just waiting for the time to prove it and when his time does come people will be shocked with Ryan. He has gone well under the radar.
"Sometimes some of his fights haven't been the most entertaining in the world, but that's because they have been one-sided, because he is that good a boxer.
"Sometimes it looks a boring fight because he has outboxed the other fighter and that's that and people want to see blood and guts like Michael. Michael's style will get you so far and Ryan's will get you so far, and Ryan will get to the top, definitely. He just needs the break and when he gets it you will see Ryan is the dark horse out of us lot, definitely. He is technically the best out of the three of us. He just needs a break and everyone will see what Ryan is about a very good fighter."
While Ryan was winning last time, Michael, fully kitted out except for gloves, was at ringside just minutes before he stepped through the ropes to take his own record to nine wins out of nine fights, none of which has gone to the final bell. "He won't miss it," says Liam. "I think I would have watched it from the back of the room, but he has to be close he does it his way, but that's Michael all over."
The Farmy Army wouldn't have it any other way: Michael Walsh is his own show. "I don't really know what to say," says Liam, with a smile.
"When Michael fights, you see me coming into the ring with him, I am half laughing, smiling, because I'm thinking, 'anything could happen here, literally anything'. He is entertaining and he is good to watch. Nothing would shock me and he lays it all on the line, he comes to knock the other man out and in the process he leaves himself open to be knocked down."
Mervyn Turner, of Shamrock Boxing Promotions, is fulfilling his promise to come back to Norwich to give local fighters a stage and as well as the Walsh brothers and former Commonwealth heavyweight champion Sam Sexton, the promising Nathan Dale is back, looking for his seventh win on the trot as a professional. The popular Scott Moises fights and there is a debut for Norwich-based lightweight Joe Payne, from Beccles. Chatteris' Jordan Gill and Bobby George, from Luton, also feature, but Norwich light-heavyweight Danny McIntosh has pulled out.
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I don't think you should ban cops from using tasers. What's the statistics on how many lives it's saved through it's use (instead of a gun) You have to give law enforcement something to subdue a potential criminal with. The use of tasers I would suspect, has saved many more lives than it took.
I am not condoning the right to use it (or any other weapon) when someone is running, unarmed,
and not threatening deadly force.
I'm simply stating that the use of it across the country has saved more lives than it took, and allowed Police to take into custody people that may have harmed themselves, others, or the cops themselves.


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Scoops Café
63 Shipping Place
Scoops Café is welcoming and comfortable, thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Lee, the owners. Hershey's ice cream and milkshakes can be consumed before or after enjoying breakfast platters, deli sandwiches, coffee and much more.
Hours of Operation:
Monday – Saturday 6:30am – 7:00pm
Asian Diner - 69 Shipping Place - 410.288.9889
Chinese cuisine in a comfortable atmosphere. A great place for business meetings, family get togethers, catering services or takeout. Lunch buffet, $6.50, served Monday – Friday.
Hours of Operation:
Monday – Thursday 11am- 10pm
Friday & Saturday 11am -11pm
Sunday 12pm – 10pm
Big Boyz Pizza & Subs
3 Shipping Place - 410 285-5800
subs, gyros, pizza, including a cheesesteak that some say is better than you know who's!
Subway Restaurant
19 Shipping Place
Serving breakfast, lunch,
dinner & catering.
Hours of Operation:
Monday - Friday 7:30am-10:00pm,
Saturday 8am-8pm, Sunday 9am-9pm
Dundalk Community Center: Y Aquatic Center, Recreation Center, Meeting Rooms - Dunmanway and Trading Place
Fully Renovated and LEED certified as Dundalk's first green building!
Swimming classes run by the YMCA.
Monday-Friday 5:30am - 10:00pm
Saturday 7:00am - 7:00pm
Sunday 9:00am - 7:00pm
Summer Hours: M-F 10:30 a.m. - 8 p.m.
School Year Hours: M-F 3 - 8 p.m.
Police Athletic League Center for Youth:
10 Dunmanway, Baltimore, MD 21222
Phone: 410-887-7229 or 7230
Fax: 410-887-7230
Also at Dunmanway and Trading Place: Young at Heart Senior Club, computer lab, meeting rooms, basketball court.
Dundalk-Patapsco Neck Historical Society - 4 Center Place - 410.284.2331
Volunteer-run museum and archives. Programs and events throughout the year. Research by appointment. You could easily make a day of it looking into the history of your neighborhood as the docents regale you with stories. Or check out the Flea Market, the Art Show, the Holiday Train Garden, or any of the monthly historical lectures.
Hours of Operation:
Monday-Friday 10am-5pm
Saturday 10am-2pm
Pinland Bowling Lanes - 10 North Dundalk Avenue - 410.285.0135
Duckpin bowling, a Baltimore and Maryland tradition! Housed in one of the oldest non-residential buildings in the area, built in 1920, where originally there was a car dealership and garage.
Hours of Operation:
Monday-Wednesday 9am-1pm + 5pm-10:30pm
Thursday 5-11pm
Friday 3pm-12 midnight
Saturday 12 noon-11pm
Rocking Horse Antiques - 111 St. Helena Avenue - 410.285.0280
A true curiousity shop. Hours by appointment.
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75 Shipping Place - 410.282.1873
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Dundalk's weekly hometown newspaper for over 40 years.
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Dundalk Liquors - 12 N. Dundalk Ave - 410 282-3334
Check out their selection of beer, wine, and liquors for your next party!
Family Dollar - 1 Shipping Place - 410 282-0667
Inexpensive items for the home in the historic former Strand movie theater across from Veterans Park. Some grocery items.
Genesis Grocery/Tienda Latina - 20 N. Dundalk Avenue - 410 288-2567
Variety. Produce, latin ingredients, spices, and general staples and convenience items. Dollar finds for the home.
M&T Bank - 39 Shipping Place - 410.284.8801
Walk-up 24-hour ATM.
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Nettmix Custom Vapes - 15 Center Place - 410 282-8200
www.nettmixcustomvapes.com - Flavored electronic cigarettes.
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Rite Aid Drugstore - 29-31 Shipping Place - 410.282.0020
Get photos developed, stock up on toiletries, makeup, and household items, and get your prescription filled with the friendly pharmacists at the back of the store.
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Store, 7 days a week, 8am-10pm
Pharmacy, Monday-Friday 9am-9pm, Saturday 9am-6pm, Sunday 10am-6pm
Turk's Dry Cleaners - 18 North Dundalk Avenue - 410.288.3211
U.S. Post Office - 44 Shipping Place - 410.284.4326
Mail a letter or a package, send documents overnight, and sign up for a P.O. Box here. Last mail collection: weekdays at 5pm, Saturdays at 2pm.
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Dr. Albert Shoumer, D.P.M. has over twenty-five years providing podiatry, foot care. Board Certifications: American Board Podiatric Surgery, College of foot and ankle surgery. A member of the Maryland Podiatric Medical Association
Dr. Shoumer with his medical assistants Elaine Keotdzejeski and Laura Schuelhe provide a very friendly, family oriented foot care center. The staff prides themselves with being attuned to the circumstances and needs of their patients.
Allstate Insurance - 7a Shipping Place - 410 284-7770
Avara's Academy of Hair Design
16 N. Dundalk Ave. - 410 285-7820 www.avarahairacademy.com
Get your haircut or styled, get a classic straight razor shave, for a great price from friendly students and award-winning instructors at this Dundalk institution. Check out their wall of fame for some great history.
Tuesday-Friday 9am-8pm
Saturday 8:30am-4:30pm
Azman Eye Care Specialists - 7 Center Place - 410.285.3900
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Doctor Irwin Azman, O.D. has been providing leading edge eye care with kindness, courtesy, and compassion in Dundalk for over 32 years. Recognized by Baltimore Magazine as "Top Doctors" in their field; specializing in personalized eye care, specialties in contact lenses and dry eye. Members of the Maryland Optometric Association and The American Optometric Association; Doctors Irwin Azman, Thomas Azman and Dr. Michelle Mumford enjoy helping people in particular helping patients to see with healthy eyes.
"Our team is like family, and we all work together to provide the best care possible for each and every patient."
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Dundalk Cosmetic & Family Dental Center, DDS - 5 Shipping Place - 410.285.6380
Friendly, gentle care for your teeth. Convenient location.
Center Place Child Care, Inc. - 5 Center Place - 410.288.2700
Childcare provided for children ages 2 to 5 for working parents. Owner: Joann Price Director: Pepi Rix
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Childcare Vouchers Accepted
Nationwide Insurance - 9 North Dundalk Avenue - 410.284.8730
The McJilton Agency has been located on Dundalk Avenue for the past 60 years providing insurance services for Baltimore County and City as well as the surrounding counties. It is an established agency comprised of dedicated insurance professionals.
Family-owned and run by Dick and Gloria McJilton.
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State Farm Insurance - 3 Center Place - 410.288.1300, 410.288.1302 fax
"Our mission is to help people manage the risks of everyday life, recover from the unexpected and realize their dreams," explains Agent Stephanie Jameson.
Insurance products offered: Auto, Renters, Home, and Life
Financial services: Mutual Funds and Annuities
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Tuesday and Thursday 9am – 8pm
Caring Hands Adult Medical Day Care - 49-61 Shipping Place - 410.288.7060
Caring Hands has been serving the Dundalk community for over six years. An experienced, diverse, and talented group of caregivers with multilevel of skills enjoys giving back to the community. Member of the Maryland Association of Adult Day Servers and the recipient of the 2006 Health Officers Diamond Award Caring Hands ensure they have the right people in place to provide ongoing and preventative care for handicapped adults through recreational therapy and administration of medications.


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~"* -Stream offline- *"~ Thanks for all the people who came and tuned in for the five or so hours of streaming we did! We got to a high of about 450 viewers, which is great! Thanks to everyone who also followed fluff! He can't stream until midday Friday (Thursday for all you laggers xD) western Australian time (GMT +10), as he has an exam to study for and attend Friday morning. Until then, please spread the word about his stream and hopefully we'll see you on Friday afternoon! Peace and love, friends. <3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ As the title says! A mate who is the current jungler for Team Immunity, has recently started streaming on own3d.tv and I'm here to try and recruit some viewers and potential followers for his stream! xD At the moment, he is streaming randomly most days, but from this Friday onwards he will be streaming 25/8/366 for your viewing pleasure! Stream has nice, watchable quality, sweet tunes and some clutch as ^@*! plays! He also tends to duo with some famous pros such as bigfatlp from time to time, which is a bonus! Any support would be greatly appreciated, as he deserves a lot more viewers than just two-three! Also, if you like the stream, please link it to your fellow bros and also, don't forget to hit the follow button on his own3d.tv profile so you can catch him later! Cheers! http://www.own3d.tv/euphoriak
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i went onto doublelift's stream because i heard he was playing zed but turns out he's just streaming street fighter alrighty then mate eshayz lad lets see how you go put a shrimp on the barbie this arvo
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The New MakerBot Replicator Might Just Change Your World
Take the subway to an otherwise undistinguished part of Third Avenue in Brooklyn. Knock on the door. Wait for some stylishly disheveled young man to open it and let you in. You've arrived at the BotCave—the place where 125 factory workers are creating the future of manufacturing.
The BotCave is home to MakerBot, a company that for nearly four years has been bringing affordable 3-D printers to the masses. But nothing MakerBot has ever built looks like the new printer these workers are currently constructing. The Replicator 2 isn't a kit; it doesn't require a weekend of wrestling with software that makes Linux look easy. Instead, it's driven by a simple desktop application, and it will allow you to turn CAD files into physical things as easily as printing a photo. The entry-level Replicator 2, priced at $2,199, is for generating objects up to 11 by 6 inches in an ecofriendly material; the higher-end Replicator 2X, which costs $2,799, can produce only smaller items, up to 9 by 6 inches, but it has dual heads that let it print more sophisticated objects. With these two machines, MakerBot is putting down a multimillion-dollar wager that 3-D printing has hit its mainstream moment.
Unlike the jerry-built contraptions of the past, the Replicator 2s are sleek, metal, and stylish: MakerBot CEO Bre Pettis likens the design to "Darth Vader driving Knight Rider's KITT car while being airlifted by a Nighthawk spy plane." There is also the lighting. Oh, the lighting. "LEDs are part of our core values as a company," Pettis jokes. The new machine will glow in any hue—"to match the color of your couch," he says, "or like something in the movie Tron."
You've heard of 3-D printers, but you probably don't own one yet. Pettis thinks the Replicator 2 will change that.
Constructed of laser-cut plywood, with their internal workings on full display, previous generations of MakerBots were for tinkerers who were as interested in the machines themselves as they were in what they could make. Like the Homebrew Computer Club, which helped hatch the Apple II in 1977, MakerBot was part of what amounted to a Homebrew Printer Club, a global movement of hobbyists taking an existing industrial technology and trying to bring it within reach of everyone. Nearly 13,000 have been sold since MakerBot was founded in early 2009.
And as with the early personal computers, the enabling technology emerged before people figured out what to use it for. All you could do with those early PCs was program them; only later did spreadsheets, word processing, and videogames emerge (not to mention email and the World Wide Web). Similarly, for many owners of the early 3-D printers, simply experimenting with the devices themselves was reason enough to get one.
As the printers got more reliable, though, attention shifted from the machines to the designs they could print. At my house, the killer app for our MakerBots has been toys: dollhouse furniture, board game pieces, models. Print, paint, play. Free design libraries like MakerBot's own Thingiverse and equivalents from Tinkercad and Autodesk mean that there are premade CAD files available to do just about anything you can imagine. It's simply a matter of downloading them, modifying them if necessary, and sending them to the MakerBot to be printed.
Last year MakerBot raised $10 million from investors, including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, to fund its expansion. It will need all that and more to compete with a host of other emerging low-cost 3-D printers, including Chinese devices and emerging copycat clones. The money is going into R&D, engineering, manufacturing, and a new corporate HQ—everything necessary to take a business that creates kits for hobbyists and scale it into a corporation whose products sell at Target.
This is MakerBot's Macintosh moment. Just as nearly 30 years ago Apple made desktop publishing mainstream, the aim with the Replicator 2 is to take something new to the masses: desktop manufacturing.
A generation ago, people messing around with those original Macs produced some terrible layouts—typically a dog's breakfast of fonts and clip art. But then they got better. When those skills moved on to the web, an entirely new way of publishing was born—and a new industry to go with it. Desktop publishing changed the world.


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Skateboarding has opened many doors in my life which I most likely would have never even seen or heard about if I had decided to move in a different direction with my life – this was the best choice I ever made in my life. Meeting new people, hearing their ideas and learning about their life is a big part of what makes skateboarding never get boring – at least not for me. That's a major part of why I still carry on after – believe it or not – over 30 years of hanging around with skateboards.
I got the chance to interview Önder Özkoç from the Turkish website 'skateboardingturkey.com' (sorry Önder for me taking so long to put this on the site!) and he tells a story that really made me sit back and realize again how easy and good we have it in the western world with all of the media, magazines, skateboard companies, shops and spots where ever we look. A big thanks to Önder for this deeper look into Turkish skateboarding – make sure you visit the site!
How did the idea with the "skateboardingturkey.com" site start and who is working at the site?
Actually, this site was on every skater's mind, thinking that something like this had to be done but could not be fulfilled due to technical and economic reasons. Of course in Turkey the picture changes instantly. You're at the beginning of everything and the audience changes as well. Right now I'm the only active operator. However with the best names of Turkey such as Anıl and Alp, our work keeps getting more professional and beautiful. Besides lots of friends never hesitate to help in our time of need.
The scene in Turkey is relatively unknown for skaters outside of your country. How can one describe the skateboard scene in Turkey? How has it grown in the last 10 years?
Skateboarding has been in Turkey since the 1980's. Since then so many people set their heart on this and many things were achieved but the actual skateboarding audience has advanced so little I can say. One of the reasons for this is being unknown by the rest of the world, also, deficient developments and its distance to culture are mainly reasons for little advancing. Investor's poor budgets for skate organizations and expecting a society to take action without explaining what skateboarding is at first fails this field to move forward.
But Turkey has a chance to make a name for itself internationally with its young, excited, freedom passionate population and amazing skating spots with the right leading. While defining skateboarding in Turkey, I believe that a lot is left unclear. State and private sectors are highly irrelevant with the subject and this situation makes skateboarding remain in the background. Exultingly I can say, things are going for the better everyday. With ADSL connections getting more widespread, interest in skateboarding and other extreme sports has risen much more. Now people can get to learn everything directly from the source, not just from movies or so. This is where we step in and serve people hoping to make up 10 lost years without doing a single thing. We hold the responsibility to be the one and only true source open to anyone who wants to be interested in skateboarding. We got the results in a really short notice of time. At the first month of our establishment, we celebrated GO SKATEBOARDING DAY as SBT (short definition for skateboardingturkey.com) and we are determined to make it a tradition. We tried to reach the public in general by TV interviews, programs and site advertisements. We are preparing for multiple local and national contests and organizations. In short, we are trying to create a future for skateboarding. We hope to turn the loss into an advantage.
Do you feel like skateboarding as a "sport" is being more accepted in society, getting more media attention?
Let me say it clearly: an aware society or media that truly knows and feels the spirit of skateboarding can make it interesting for itself. Take a look at the birth of skateboarding, we have taken it this far. As sports, we can think like this: societies away from social life and living in a specific capacity. When we talk about Turkish society, we talk about a transition, from a world ruling empire for centuries, an Islamic country, to the most modern republic. There are still a general cultural structure and beliefs stable in this transition. This makes accepting the difference harder. The situation is the same everywhere in sports, music, social life and anything new. For example, Turkish society is so fond of football that any other kind of sport is like something else. Two football players are totally normal for us but two skateboarders are odd to see on streets.
My personal view is as I know Turkish society I can say whenever skateboarding is perceived as a sport throughout the country and parents give their children a chance to get to know skateboarding without any prejudice, only then skateboarding will have a chance to be approved. Media is the biggest element easing this process. As with football, we are also fanatics of the media tools that convey this sport to us. We live through the media and believe me, just a single program about skateboarding or an ad or a video that has a skater in it leads many people to skating. This is very important.
Which Turkish skaters would you like to mention that have a lot of potential for the future?
As SBT, one of our goals is to create true potentials like Anıl Aba, Alp Aba, Can Uzer, Cenk Kuli, Sercan Uyanık, Mert Kafalı, Burak Kahraman, Tuncay Koçal. These are just a few of the best names and for new names I might say Umut Özer, Buğra Tuncel, Berksoy Durmuşoğlu, Mertkan Dıkıl, Uras Cezer, Ekrem Yalçın and many more. In the following years it would be great to meet with international names. I hope all friends will pull their weight and we will be able to introduce them both to their own country and to the whole world.
How often are contests held in Turkey? Do you have a main organisation running them or is it all independent?
Contests were quite few – there were almost none up to recent years. Since there isn't any organization dealing with this subject, contests are held unorganized. However we have cities that are capable of hosting both local and national plus international activities and Turkey has one of the best climates for skateboarding. We are determined to make the best use of it. We gained much attention with our SBT GAME OF SKATE in Ä°zmir which we held in many cities throughout the year. This is not a one day event, it is like a league which we broadcast these contests on our site. People both get to know the game of skate and it doesn't matter where they can watch a joyful skateboarding contest. It starts in Ä°zmir and takes 2.5 hours, in the future it will also be held in Istanbul, Ankara, Bursa and EskiÅŸehir. We are also planning a daily contest in multiple cities and big festivals at the end of the year. I hope we can send this ideas as news to you Jonathan. (Ed.: You bet you can! Looking foward to these contests!)
What other skateboard sites do skaters in Turkey like to go to keep up with the latest skateboarding news?
As I said many times before like 10 months earlier, there were no actual sites or organizations about skateboarding. Reasons are technical and economic. In addition to that there is this sense of professionalism on what we do. No one has ever done this in Turkey so we are the only professional skateboarding site and institution at the same time. Until now lots of amateur sites and forums were established, even after skateboardingturkey.com, but it's a hard way to walk in Turkey when it comes to skateboarding. Without taking it serious and having enough information about it, it's hard to keep it going in Turkey.
What do you think about the growth of skateboarding with major companies getting more and more involved – is this a good development for skateboarding?
Whatever that's around and what we consider to be popular is related with the investments on that thing. When a company sets a specific sector as a target, the bigger the company, the more development that sector will get. Absolutely I can say that companies interested in skateboarding are a contribution no matter where you are in the world. For example in Turkey, there are only a few companies with low budgets that are interested and related with skateboarding and when the situation is like that, even for small organizations getting support from these companies is considerably difficult. There are two ways to overcome it; first international brands recognize the potential of Turkey, involve and support, second, the support of big companies feeling the popularity and the spirit of skateboarding.
If you wanted to show us 5 spots/parks to skate in Turkey, where would you take us?
İstanbul – Barbaros Meydanı
Ä°stanbul – Eminönü
İzmir – Bostanlı Demokrasi Meydanı
İzmir – Gündoğdu Meydanı
İzmir – Konak
You can see all the parks and spots at "Park&Spot" section. These pages will become international asap.
What are the goals / ideas / plans for skateboardingturkey.com in the future?
Our first goal is skateboarding and to create an awareness in our country. What we do and what we will do is based on this principle. We have many services right now and it's voluntarily carried out. Most important of them is our Live Support and we are preparing for a phone dial support and videos for skateboarding moves. The biggest of them all and maybe the first around the world is our free trainings. It is open for anyone who wants to learn skateboarding in İzmir, every weekend at specific hours. We see new faces every week and they get to have their very first experience on skateboarding. Our plans are on spreading these trainings to 10 more cities and it is about to start. We also have interviews with the best skaters in Turkey. This helps skateboarders to learn new things from the source and see some role models for themselves. We have some bigger projects as well; we aim for a real Turkish Skateboarding Magazine. Actually everything is ready for such a magazine but economic difficulties and not having a specific sector in the country are handicaps. Another thing is award online contests. We care about this issue because this is the biggest material for us to turn skateboarding into a sector and create an aim. Finally, for accomplishing these aims, we need to found economy and legal ground. Ad revenues, getting distributorships of skateboarding brands, increasing shops around the country are other things we want to achieve. In short, we have a lot to do. To make this happen we need both national and international support. Skateboarding should get what it deserves. Thank you for reading this long and boring article. Especially I thank Jonathan for keeping this site alive and everything he does for skateboarding.
I would like to make an interview with skateboarding.com as soon as possible. Thank you for everything, I'll try to give you news as much as I can and we have a organization coming up. It's SBT GAME OF SKATE in IZMIR '09
You can add this contest information on your web site as a news;
Contest name: SBT GAME OF SKATE in IZMIR '09 | TURKEY
Date: 03.29.2009- 05.07.2009
It's local and free.
Sponsors: Darkstar, Enjoi, Jart, Speeddemons, Trugrit, X4tune Extreme Shop
Contest Page: http://www.skateboardingturkey.com/contests.html
Interviews, skateboard, Skateboardingturkey.com, Turkey
I hope skateboarding will grow in Turkey. Turkey is a very nice country and like what onder said I hope more international companies will visit Turkey for events etc… That would be very nice…
I totaly agree with what the other commented people in Europe need to discover Turkey ;D ;D and i think in the future we will have more skaters and better spots.
I think Skateboards Brands realize an investment in Turkey.Skateboarding is increasing in Turkey!
Yes skateboarding is growing up and going to be bigger,and we are working so hard for become to be good places at skateboarding.Everything is going to be better for us.Thanks for this interwiew to Europeskate and Önder.
Skateboarding is growing so fast in Turkey and this interview is so good for us,i have so many skater friend in europe when they came here(Istanbul) skated ,all the guys said same thing " what a spots ! everyone in europe should skate here ! " well.Thanks to Önder and Jonathan for this interview
With this good article we can see the fact that there is a lot to be made in a country like Turkey. I want to thank Onder Ozkoc to his efforts to enhance one of the extreme sports, Skateboard, in Turkey. And thanks to Jonathan for this interview, I wish you success and good luck.
I wish skateboarding will grow more in Turkey.thanks to Önder Özkoç for the grow up the skateboard in Turkey.
Onder you are the chosen one!
Turkish skateboarding is growing every day hope more internationals come visit Turkey
I am 14 Iam a skateboarding
I thing ÖNDER ÖZKOÇ is generous thank you
skateboarding is getting bigger and bigger everyday in Turkey… hope we all can see other things like this interwiew which help us to make Turkey known in Europe… this interwiews is a big hope and gift for Turkish skateboarders… Thank you for all the things that you did and you will do… thanks önder and thanks Europeskate…
Thanks to this interwiew from now on all the europe know that Turkey has lots of spot for skate, skaters..
thanks to Önder Özkoç sk8boarding keeps on improving in Turkey.. we hope in the future there will be lots of succesful skaters from turkey.. This is the way of our lifes..
Thanks for this interwiew to Onder Ozkoc(SkateboardingTurkey.Com) and Jonathan(EuropeSkate.Com)
ÖNDER ABİ KRALSIN NERELERE GELMİŞSİN HELAL OLSUN SANA SÜPERSİN SEVİYORUZ SENİ *\O/*
thanks for this intervieuw:)
This Onder guy cannot skate at all. He is not even a skater. He is using the skate community to manupulate skaters in Turkey in order to make money. His intentions are not good. He is fake
Millet bu onder kaykay yapmasını bile bilmiyor. Tek amacı para kazanmak milleti kullanarak. Bu adam güvenmeyin. ciddiyim
Who are you aliozer? have you anything about skateboarding or can u read this thinks? i guess you're a fake people so everybody say the good thinks. And onder didnt write the "i'm professional skaters or i'm a real skateboarder", he written the how we can grow up the skateboard in turkey. I thnk that he have a big skateboard love but you dont.
Go onder ozkoc, i like you=) regards from caroline.
hey everyone…
ım on a vacation here in turkey and i was wondering if theres any skate shops around cuz i need some bearıngs probably Bones…
and if there is a skate park that would be awesome ım ın ıstanbul for now leavıng ın 2 days to ızmır thanks…


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Cobb County, Georgia | ||
Cobb County Courthouse | ||
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Location in the state of Georgia | ||
Georgia's location in the U.S. | ||
Founded | December 2, 1832 | |
Named for | Thomas W. Cobb | |
Seat | Marietta | |
Largest city | Marietta | |
Area | ||
• Total | 345 sq mi (894 km2) | |
• Land | 340 sq mi (881 km2) | |
• Water | 5.0 sq mi (13 km2), 1.4% | |
Population | ||
• (2010) | 688,078 | |
• Density | 2,026/sq mi (782/km²) | |
Congressional districts | 6th, 11th, 13th | |
Time zone | Eastern: UTC-5/-4 | |
Website | www.cobbcounty.org |
Cobb County, Georgia | ||
Cobb County Courthouse | ||
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Location in the state of Georgia | ||
Georgia's location in the U.S. | ||
Founded | December 2, 1832 | |
Named for | Thomas W. Cobb | |
Seat | Marietta | |
Largest city | Marietta | |
Area | ||
• Total | 345 sq mi (894 km2) | |
• Land | 340 sq mi (881 km2) | |
• Water | 5.0 sq mi (13 km2), 1.4% | |
Population | ||
• (2010) | 688,078 | |
• Density | 2,026/sq mi (782/km²) | |
Congressional districts | 6th, 11th, 13th | |
Time zone | Eastern: UTC-5/-4 | |
Website | www.cobbcounty.org |
Cobb County is a suburban county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 688,078,[1] making it the fourth-most populous county in Georgia. Its county seat and largest city is Marietta.[2]
Cobb, along with several adjoining counties, was created on December 3, 1832, by the Georgia General Assembly from the huge Cherokee "county" territory—land northwest of the Chattahoochee River which the state confiscated from the Cherokee Nation and redistributed to settlers via lottery, following the passage of the federal Indian Removal Act.[3] The county was named for Thomas Willis Cobb, a United States representative and senator from Georgia. It is believed that Marietta was named for his wife, Mary.[4]
Cobb County is included in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is situated immediately to the northwest of the city limits of Atlanta.
Its Cumberland District, an edge city, encompasses over 24,000,000 square feet (2,200,000 m2) of office space.
The U.S. Census Bureau ranks Cobb County as the most-educated in the state of Georgia and 12th among all counties in the United States.[5] It has ranked among the top 100 wealthiest counties in the United States.[6]
Cobb County was one of nine Georgia counties carved out of the disputed territory of the Cherokee Nation in 1832.[7] It was the 81st county in Georgia and named for Judge Thomas Willis Cobb, who served as a U.S. Senator, state congressman and Superior Court Judge. It is believed that the county seat of Marietta was named for Judge Cobb's wife, Mary.[8]
The state started acquiring right-of-way for a railroad in 1836. At train began running between Marietta and Marthasville (now Atlanta) in 1845.[9]
In the antebellum era, Marietta was a summer resort for residents of Savannah and Charleston fleeing Yellow Fever.
During the American Civil War, some confederate troops were trained at a camp in Kennesaw.[9]
There were battles of New Hope Church May 25, Pickett's Mill May 27, and Dallas May 28. The Battle of Allatoona Pass on October 28 occurred as Sherman was starting his March through Georgia. Union forces burnt most houses and confiscated or burnt crops.[10]
The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain June 27, 1864, was the site of the only major Confederate victory in General William T. Sherman's invasion of Georgia. Despite the victory, Union forces outflanked the Confederates.
In 1915, Leo Frank, the Jewish supervisor of an Atlanta pencil factory who was convicted of murdering one of his workers, thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan, was kidnapped from his jail cell and brought to Frey's Gin, two miles (3 km) east of Marietta. There he was lynched. The case was widely perceived as a miscarriage of justice.
Cotton farming in the area peaked from the 1890s through the 1920s. Low prices during the Great Depression resulted in the cessation of cotton farming throughout Cobb County.[11] The price of Cotton went from 16 cents a pound in 1920 to 9.5 cents in 1930. This resulted in a Cotton Bust for the county, which had stopped growing the product but was milling it. This bust was in turn, followed by the Great Depression.[9][12][clarification needed] To help combat the bust, the state started work on a road in 1922 that would later become US 41.
In 1942, Bell Aircraft opened a Marietta plant to manufacture B-29 bombers and Marietta Army Airfield was founded. Both were closed after World War II, but reopened during the Korean War, when the air field was acquired by the Air Force, renamed Dobbins AFB, and the plant by Lockheed. During the Korean and Vietnam Wars, Lockheed Marietta was the leading manufacturer of military transport planes, including the C-130 Hercules and the C-5 Galaxy. "In Cobb County and other sprawling Cold War suburbs from Orange County to Norfolk/Hampton Roads, the direct link between federal defense spending and local economic prosperity structured a bipartisan political culture of hawkish conservatism and material self-interest on issues of national security."[13]
When home rule was enacted statewide by amendment to the Georgia state constitution in the early 1960s, Ernest W. Barrett became the first chairman of the new county commission. The county courthouse, built in 1888, was demolished.
In the 1960s and 1970s, Cobb transformed from rural to suburban, as integration spurred white flight from the city of Atlanta, which by 1970 was majority-African-American. Real estate booms drew rural white southerners and Rustbelt transplants, both groups mostly first-generation white-collar. Cobb County was the home of former segregationist and Georgia governor Lester Maddox (1966–71). In 1975, Cobb voters elected John Birch Society leader Larry McDonald to Congress, running in opposition to desegregation busing. A conservative Democrat, McDonald called for investigations into alleged plots by the Rockefellers and the Soviet Union to impose 'socialist-one-world-government' and co-founded the Western Goals Foundation. In 1983, McDonald died aboard Korean airlines flight 007, shot down by a Soviet fighter over restricted airspace.
In 1990, Republican Congressmen Newt Gingrich became Representative of a new district centered around Cobb County. In 1994, as Republicans took control of the House of Representatives for the first time in almost fifty years, Gingrich became Speaker of the House, thrusting Cobb County into the national spotlight. In 1993, county commissioners passed a resolution condemning homosexuality and cut off funding for the arts after complaints about a community theater.[14] After protests from gay rights organizations, organizers of the 1996 Summer Olympics pulled events out of Cobb County. The county's inns are nevertheless filled at 100% of capacity for two months during the event.[9]
In the 1990s and 2000s, Cobb's demographics changed. As Atlanta's gentrification reversed decades of white flight, middle-class African-Americans and Russian, Bosnian, Chinese, Indian, Brazilian, Mexican and Central American immigrants moved to older suburbs in South and West Cobb. In 2010, African-American Democrat David Scott was elected to Georgia's 13th congressional district, which included many of those suburbs. Cobb became the first Georgia county to participate in the Immigration and Nationality Act Section 287(g) enabling local law officers to enforce immigration law.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 345 square miles (890 km2), of which 340 square miles (880 km2) is land and 4.0 square miles (10 km2) (1.4%) is water.[15]
The county is divided between two major basins. Most runoff flows into the Chattahoochee River along the southeastern border, directly via Willeo Creek, Sope Creek (Sewell Creek), Rottenwood Creek (Powers Creek), and others. The large Sweetwater Creek is the other major stream, carrying the waters of Noses Creek (Ward Creek, Olley Creek, and Mud Creek), Nickajack Creek, Powder Springs Creek (Rakestraw Creek, Mill Creek) and others into the Chattahoochee. A ridge from Lost Mountain in the west, to Kennesaw Mountain in the north-central, to Sweat Mountain in the extreme northeast, divides the far north-northwest of the county into the Etowah River basin, which includes Lake Allatoona. Noonday Creek (Little Noonday Creek) flows northward into the lake, as does Allatoona Creek, which forms a major arm of the lake. Proctor Creek forms the much older Lake Acworth, which in turn empties directly into Lake Allatoona under the Lake Acworth Drive (Georgia 92) bridge.
There are several high points in Cobb County.
Despite the lack of a grid system of city blocks though the county, all street addresses have their numeric origin at the southwest corner of the town square in Marietta.
Originally in area code 404, the county was moved into area code 770 in 1995, and overlaid by area code 678 in 1998. Prior to 1995, those with phones tied to the Woodstock telephone exchange (prefixes 924, 926, 928, later 516 and 591) could also call the Canton exchange (479, later 445, then 704) as a local call. This became moot, along with other dual-zone exchanges in metro Atlanta, when the exurban exchanges (including Canton) were fully made a part of what was already the world's largest toll-free calling zone. It is a zone spanning 7,162 square miles (18,549 km2),[16] with four active telephone area codes, and local calling extending into portions of two others.
Cobb's FIPS county code is 13067. Because the National Weather Service has not subdivided the county, its WRSAME code is 013067, for receiving targeted weather warnings from NOAA Weather Radio. The county is primarily within the broadcast range of one weather radio station: KEC80, on 162.550 MHz,[17] transmitted to all of metro Atlanta and broadcast from NWSFO Peachtree City. The secondary station is the much newer WWH23 on 162.425 from Buchanan, which also transmits warnings for Cobb but has reception mainly in the western part of the county.[18]
Historical population | |||
Census | Pop. | %± | |
1840 | 7,539 | ||
1850 | 13,843 | 83.6% | |
1860 | 14,242 | 2.9% | |
1870 | 13,814 | −3.0% | |
1880 | 20,748 | 50.2% | |
1890 | 22,286 | 7.4% | |
1900 | 24,664 | 10.7% | |
1910 | 28,397 | 15.1% | |
1920 | 30,437 | 7.2% | |
1930 | 35,408 | 16.3% | |
1940 | 38,272 | 8.1% | |
1950 | 61,830 | 61.6% | |
1960 | 114,174 | 84.7% | |
1970 | 196,793 | 72.4% | |
1980 | 297,718 | 51.3% | |
1990 | 447,745 | 50.4% | |
2000 | 607,751 | 35.7% | |
2010 | 688,078 | 13.2% | |
Est. 2013 | 717,190 | 4.2% | |
As of 2011, there were 697,553 people, 248,303 households, and 169,178 families residing in the county. The population density was 1,998 people per square mile (763/km²). There were 261,659 housing units at an average density of 770 per square mile (301/km²). The racial makeup of the county in 2006 was 56.0% White, 29.6% Black, 0.5% Native American, 4.1% Asian, 0.0% Pacific Islander, 8.8% from other races, and 1.4% from two or more races. 11.1% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
There were 248,303 households out of which 35.80% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.30% were married couples living together, 10.70% had a female householder with no husband present, and 31.20% were non-families. 23.20% of all households were made up of individuals and 4.10% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.71 and the average family size was 3.25.
In the county the population was spread out with 26.10% under the age of 18, 9.00% from 18 to 24, 36.50% from 25 to 44, 21.50% from 45 to 64, and 6.90% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 33 years. For every 100 females there were 98.50 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.90 males.
As of 2007, the median income was $70,472. The per capita income for the county was $32,740. About 6.0% of families and 9.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 9.1% of those under age 18 and 7.8% of those age 65 or over.
Cobb County maintains the Cobb County Public Library System.[25] The libraries provide resources such as books, videos, internet access, printing, and computer classes. The libraries in the CCPLS are:
The Smyrna Public Library is a city-owned library in Smyrna.
Under Georgia's home rule provision, county governments have free rein to legislate on all matters within the county, provided that such legislation does not conflict with state or federal laws or constitutions.
Cobb County is governed by a five-member board of commissioners, which has both legislative and executive authority within the county. The chairman of the board is elected county-wide. The other four commissioners are elected from single-member districts. The board hires a county manager who oversees day-to-day operations of the county's executive departments.
County residents also elect a sheriff, district attorney, probate court judge, clerk of superior court, clerk of the state court, state court solicitor, chief magistrate judge (who then appoints other magistrate court judges), superior court judges, state court judges, tax commissioner, surveyor, and a seven-member board of education. In addition to the county sheriff, the constitutional chief law enforcement officer of the county, Cobb County has a separate police department under the authority of the Board of Commissioners. The sheriff oversees the jail, to which everyone arrested under state law is taken, regardless of the city or other area of the county where it happens, or what police department makes the arrest.
Each city has a separate police department, answerable to its governing council. Marietta, Smyrna, and Austell have separate fire departments, with the Cobb County Fire Department being the authority having jurisdiction over Kennesaw, Acworth, Powder Springs, and unincorporated areas. Cobb 911 covers unincorporated areas and the cities of Marietta and Powder Springs. Kennesaw and Acworth jointly operate a small 911 call center (PSAP) upstairs in Kennesaw city hall, dispatching the police departments in both cities, and forwarding fire calls to Cobb. Austell and Smyrna operate their own separate 911 systems.
The county retails potable water to much of the county, and wholesales it to various cities.[26]
In addition to the 4% statewide sales tax, Cobb County levies an additional 2% for special projects, each 1% subject to separate renewal every few years by countywide referendum (including within its cities). This funds mainly transportation and parks. Cobb levies a 1% tax to lower property taxes, but only for the public school budget, and not the additional 1% HOST homestead exemption for general funds. It has also voted not to pay the extra 1% to join MARTA.
At the beginning of 2006, Cobb County became the last county in the state to raise the tax to 6%, which also doubled the tax on food to 2%. The SPLOST barely passed by a 114 vote margin, or less than one-quarter of a percent, in a September 2005 referendum. The revenue will go to a new county courthouse, expanded jail, various transportation projects, and the purchasing of property for parks and green space.[27] In 2008, the school tax was renewed for a third term, funding the Marietta and Cobb school systems.
The Cobb County School District is Cobb County's largest employer, employing over 15,000 people.[28] Private corporations include:
The Consulate-General of Costa Rica in Atlanta is located in Suite 100 at 1870 The Exchange in an unincorporated section of Cobb County.[34]
The Atlanta Braves have announced that they are building a new stadium in Cobb County to replace Turner Field. It will be built off of the exchange between Interstate 75 and Interstate 285.[35]
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