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Lzzy Hale on 2013 Plans for Halestorm: 'There's No End In Sight to the Touring'
Halestorm Break Out AC/DC, Judas Priest, Guns N' Roses + Skid Row Covers in Philadelphia
In announcing their 'An Evening With…' concerts, Halestorm promised that fans would get a chance to see different sides of the band. On Thursday night (Dec. 27) in Philadelphia, the band got a chance to prove it, incorporating cover songs from AC/DC, Judas Priest, Guns N' Roses, Skid Row and more into their set.
Halestorm's Lzzy Hale Talks Latex Pants, Christmas Presents + More
Lzzy Hale on 2012 Rock Goddess of the Year Competition: 'We're All Voting for Each Other'
With the release of their very successful second studio album 'The Strange Case Of...,' Halestorm have had one hell of a year, including a recent Grammy nomination, nonstop touring and plans for a new covers EP. Not to mention, the band received multiple nominations in our very own 2012 Loudwire Music Awards.
Halestorm Consider Recording New EP of Covers, Ask Fans for Suggestions
Fresh off their first Grammy nomination (for best hard rock/metal performance), Halestorm are thinking of recording another EP of cover songs. They released 'Reanimate: The Covers EP' in 2011.
2013 Grammy Nominees for Best Hard Rock / Metal Performance: Anthrax, Halestorm, Iron Maiden, Lamb of God, Marilyn Manson + Megadeth
While hard rock and metal bands were snubbed in most of the categories for the 2013 Grammy Awards that were announced tonight (Dec. 5), the one category devoted to those genres features a diverse range of nominees.
Halestorm to Showcase Two Different Sides at 'An Evening With…' Holiday Shows
Halestorm are currently wowing audiences across the country on their headlining tour with In This Moment and Eve to Adam, but once the holidays arrive they have something special for their East Coast fans. The group has announced three "An Evening With…" performances that will showcase two distinctly different sides to the band.
Halestorm, In This Moment + Eve to Adam Deliver Blistering Performances in Los Angeles
While most bands are winding down their 2012 touring, there's still one hard-rocking bill going that's definitely worth the price of admission, as Halestorm, In This Moment, and Eve to Adam are making their way across the country and bringing attitude, theatrics, and just a good 'ol fashioned rock show to audiences on a nightly basis. Their travels took them to the Los Angeles House of Blues in West Hollywood Wednesday night (Nov. 13), and the crowd was thoroughly rocked by the end of the night.
Halestorm Rock Warner Sound for 'The Live Room' Performance
For those music fans that woke up with a Halloween hangover, Halestorm are offering up a handful of everlasting treats in the form of videos of their recent live performance for 'The Live Room.' The band took over the Warner Sound studio yesterday in New York City for their high energy set.


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Welcome to BWW TV World's new daily ON THIS DAY series celebrating series premieres and special events that took place on this day in television history!
On November 26, 1989, the television series MTV UNPLUGGED, featuring raw, acoustical performances by a wide range of artists made its broadcast premiere. The premiere episode featured a lineup including the English pop group Squeeze. The episode also featured performances by the relatively unknown singer-songwriter Syd Straw, Cars guitarist Elliot Easton and singer-songwriter Jules Shear, who went on to act as host in the first season of the series.
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International passenger traffic rose 1.1% during the month to 658,000 passengers, says Chile's civil aviation authority JAC. Chilean carrier LAN had a 52% share of the international passenger traffic market, up 8% year-on-year.
Brazil's TAM almost doubled its market share on international flights to 7.1% with 46,600 passengers, placing it as the second carrier in market share after LAN. TAM and LAN closed on a merger last year to become LATAM.
Chile's Sky Airline and Panama's Copa Airlines were in third and fourth place respectively in international market share.
LATAM says TAM's market share of international passenger traffic to Chile had increased due to new routes and frequencies added by the airline on routes between Brazil and Chile. It launched a non-stop flight between Rio de Janeiro Galeao and Santiago on 25 November 2012, complementing LAN's non-stop service on the route.
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Respondents note options & variety, as well as City Creek Center, for reasons to visit downtown.
Salt Lake City (October 26, 2012) – A state-wide survey of downtown Salt Lake City shows positive perceptions among Utahns, as well as an increased connection with the capital city. The data compares results from studies conducted in each of the past four years.
The research overwhelmingly pointed to a large choice in options and a variety of experiences, which can only be found downtown, as the driving force for visitation to the Central Business District. Dining remains the primary motive for visiting the city center, as well as shopping, nightlife and religious activities.
City Creek Center's opening in March spurred a renewed interest in visitation to downtown. The new outdoor mall was many residents' initial reason to visit downtown. Additionally, 45% of City Creek diners and shoppers went on to discover new business outside the City Creek boundary, creating a "spill-over" effect of new patronage.
When asked if their perceptions of downtown had improved in the past 12 months, over 60% noted an improvement. A majority of those surveyed also felt a stronger connection to downtown – an important ownership to their capital city.
Parking was highlighted as the main deterrent for a visit downtown, although 60% did agree parking is more available than a year ago, as well as becoming more convenient within that time frame. A majority of respondents have experience with the cities new meters – one of many changes to the parking program downtown. The Downtown Alliance has partnered with the Salt Lake City on an education outreach program to explain the new changes to parking, as well as implementing strategies for a more positive parking process.
Light House Research conducted the telephone poll of over 400 Utahns in coordination with downtown-based Richter 7 who donated services to help direct and compile the research. The poll was conducted in August and September of 2012, and has a 4.89 margin of error. The annual benchmarking poll was initiated in 2009 to measure regional attitudes about Salt Lake City's downtown.
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Convergent evolution of [D-Leucine1] microcystin-LR in taxonomically disparate cyanobacteria
1 Department of Food and Environmental Sciences, Division of Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Viikki Biocenter (Viikinkaari 9), P.O. Box 56, Helsinki, FIN-00014, Finland
2 Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Viikki Biocenter (Viikinkaari 1), P.O. Box 65, Helsinki, FIN-00014, Finland
3 Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture, University of São Paulo, Avenida Centenário 303, Piracicaba, SP, 13400-970, Brazil
4 Unidade de Pesquisas em Cianobactérias, Federal University of Rio Grande, Av. Itália km 8 - Caixa Postal 474, Rio Grande, RS, 96.201-900, Brazil
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2013, 13:86 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-13-86Published: 19 April 2013
Many important toxins and antibiotics are produced by non-ribosomal biosynthetic pathways. Microcystins are a chemically diverse family of potent peptide toxins and the end-products of a hybrid NRPS and PKS secondary metabolic pathway. They are produced by a variety of cyanobacteria and are responsible for the poisoning of humans as well as the deaths of wild and domestic animals around the world. The chemical diversity of the microcystin family is attributed to a number of genetic events that have resulted in the diversification of the pathway for microcystin assembly.
Here, we show that independent evolutionary events affecting the substrate specificity of the microcystin biosynthetic pathway have resulted in convergence on a rare [D-Leu1] microcystin-LR chemical variant. We detected this rare microcystin variant from strains of the distantly related genera Microcystis, Nostoc, and Phormidium. Phylogenetic analysis performed using sequences of the catalytic domains within the mcy gene cluster demonstrated a clear recombination pattern in the adenylation domain phylogenetic tree. We found evidence for conversion of the gene encoding the McyA2 adenylation domain in strains of the genera Nostoc and Phormidium. However, point mutations affecting the substrate-binding sequence motifs of the McyA2 adenylation domain were associated with the change in substrate specificity in two strains of Microcystis. In addition to the main [D-Leu1] microcystin-LR variant, these two strains produced a new microcystin that was identified as [Met1] microcystin-LR.
Phylogenetic analysis demonstrated that both point mutations and gene conversion result in functional mcy gene clusters that produce the same rare [D-Leu1] variant of microcystin in strains of the genera Microcystis, Nostoc, and Phormidium. Engineering pathways to produce recombinant non-ribosomal peptides could provide new natural products or increase the activity of known compounds. Our results suggest that the replacement of entire adenylation domains could be a more successful strategy to obtain higher specificity in the modification of the non-ribosomal peptides than point mutations.


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In 2011 I visited Chattanooga, one of ICF's Top 7 Intelligent Communities for an ICF site visit. Frankly, I had visited Chattanooga a couple of decades earlier and wasn't impressed then, but today I was blown away. The winds of change had been kind to Chattanooga. But the new kinds of speeds being discussed in Chattanooga today are daunting by any measure.
Across the shining boardroom table, Harold DePriest, the President and CEO of the Chattanooga-owned Electric Power Board (EPB) beamed as he told me the history of the EPB and their decision to be North America's first Gigabit City. Propped by a stimulus grant of $111 million from the Department of Energy to accelerate the project, EPB began formulating plans for a Smart Grid network more than a decade ago. According to Mr. DePriest, Chattanooga's Smart Grid runs on a 100% fiber optic network, upon which EPB were able to add two-way communications up and down the grid not only at the smart meter but also to each of their 170,000 home and business premises. "Our three main goals for the $300 million investment in the network were to modernize our electric power infrastructure, generate the revenue for it to pay for itself and then most importantly to be a catalyst for economic development."
Mr. DePriest proudly positions Chattanooga as the grandfather of Gigabit networks since its deployment was in 2009, well before others. City fathers saw the city-owned network more than just the city's smart power grid saving $100 million each year from power interruptions. Mr. DePriest and other civic leaders saw it as a springboard to Chattanooga's future able to attract and retain talent and investment in new tech companies, promoting economic growth. To build on this, Chattanooga rebranded itself as "Gig City," and to gain acceptance and develop new end-user applications it hosts an annual Gigafest.
Across the globe Japan, Korea, UK and others are now deploying efforts to become true Gigabit cities in the likes of Chattanooga. Asian cities and even whole nations are planning to be fully Gig-enabled. China is positioning itself to launch Gigabit speeds in key urban areas by 2020 and US Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski has raised the innovation and job-creation bar by calling for US cities in 50 States to be Gig-enabled by 2015.
But what is so big about Gigabit Ethernet speeds anyways? Well for those not strapped into your seatbelts, it is hundreds of times faster than you currently surf over the Internet. 1 Gigabit equals 1,024 Mbps versus your father's "fast Ethernet" at 100 Mbps, which most people never experience anyways. It's more likely you might experience 10 Mbps over a shared coaxial cable or less, such as 2 or 3 Mbps in less expensive service offerings.
Mr. DePriest knows that his system is able to attract talent and investment to their community. The bar has been raised and before cities and countries know it, those without will be left behind. Another line has been drawn in the sand. Cities around the world already know this. Koreans enjoy affordable ultra-fast Internet speeds that allow them to download movies in an instant; watch high-definition television and do countless operations at a time in their homes while their fellow countrymen at work are able to work in real time with large datasets to solve industrial, biotechnical and business questions daily that would take 200 times longer elsewhere. According to Lee Suk-Chae, chairman of Korea Telecom, "in the future we will see a data deluge - data will explode all over the network". Cities and countries will have to prepare for it now. Seattle Chief Technology Officer Erin Devoto said Seattle's gigabit network "is critical to our economic growth." Likewise Kansas City Mayor Joe Reardon says that US cities are now recognizing the value of high-speed fiber-to-the-home connectivity as essential infrastructure. "Much like we think of curbs and sidewalks and sewers - the kind of backbone that cities install in order to create positive economic and community development." The importance of this new line in the sand has not been lost on corporations either. On March 30, 2011, after more than 1,100 communities applied to be the first recipient of the high-speed technology, Google announced their Google Fiber network rollout in Kansas City with plans for Austin, Texas, and Provo, Utah thereafter.
With lightening Internet speeds Chattanooga and over a dozen cities in North America now have a great advantage over other communities although some will say that the costs to play are not yet affordable for the average user. But what will people be willing to pay in order to be able to download an encyclopedia in a blink of an eye and high definition movies in the time to boil water for a cup of tea? At speeds of 2 mbps, the latter would normally take 30 hours to download. With 3D images being introduced through Super HD, high speeds will be in demand. And with communities building networks to analyze big data for its municipal infrastructure, there will be pressure to make these networks more accessible and affordable to everyone in the community. If time is money, the level of community-wide impatience to get to this higher level of speed will surely become a factor. Koreans are already enjoying these advantages at affordable prices ($27 per month). With increased demand and use, it is likely that these higher speeds in North America will also someday be deemed affordable. Google announced in July 2012, that its Google Fiber network at 1 Gbps would be priced at $70 per month. But in Chattanooga the price is currently at $350 for 1 Gigabit. Chattanooga blogger Jim Yarbrough complained that "while it's great to have gigabit internet service in Chattanooga, I wonder just how much of a competitive edge it gives us. If Mr. DePriest is anticipating throngs of cyberpreneurs tripping over themselves to locate here, I hope he doesn't turn blue from holding his breath." In response, Ken Hayes, one of my hosts during my visit to Chattanooga wrote:
Others will argue, why bother with a Gigabit debate when there currently is virtually no audience for these speeds given today's applications, for which 12-14 Mbps are adequate. But fiber companies and application developers are seriously looking at it as a game changer. As passionate as this debate can get now, it will in a very few years become commonplace, especially if the price can drop to meet demand. While breath-taking fast Gigabit enabled networks are available to educational institutions, and large businesses, and even governments, home use is the next frontier. For instance Santa Monica's 10 Gigabit network is not available for general public use as its dedicated exclusively for business use. However, the reality is that since 1999 many Local Area Networks have been able to run Gigabit Ethernet and are in place now to service hundreds of millions of people, but very few gigabit applications exist. I have been told that it's ironic that Gigabit optical transceivers are actually more economical than 100 Meg transceivers which would add to the argument to deploy Gigabit whenever new fiber-optic networks are installed. However current computers and routers aren't built to sustain Gig-enabled transfers and until affordable end-to-end Gigabit-enabled applications are commonplace, this chicken or egg debate will continue. But this will not hold back early adopter cities seeking the competitive edge to attract foreign direct investment and to develop, attract and keep the talent that these cities need in a highly knowledge based global economy. Many are betting on Gigabit-enabled environments as the game changer for the coming decade.So what's your Gig? Cities around the world are lining up to follow in the footsteps of Gigabit-enabled Intelligent Communities like Chattanooga, Seoul, Hong Kong, Toronto, Vancouver and Bristol, Virginia. In North America we are seeing cities like Seattle; Kansas City; Lafayette, Louisiana; East Lansing, Michigan; Morristown Tennessee; Burlington Vermont; Springfield, Illinois; Fresno, California; Omaha; Minneapolis; Tullahoma, Tennessee, Cedar Falls, Iowa; Chicago; San Francisco; Austin, Texas; San Leandro, California; Provo, Utah; Lawrence, Kansas; Wilson, North Carolina; Melrose, Minnesota; and Rural Central Missouri deploying or positioning themselves for heart-pounding speeds at 1024 Mbps.Hold on to your hats, the speeds in your city will only get faster.
"...Of your soul I make you captain. Most blessed among men. Move on. You will never hear from me again." – Dante, The Divine Comedy
The Finger Lakes Region, New York State (USA) - As the Summer begins to slowly give way to smells of Autumn in this part of North America, where native tribes once believed a Great Creator had pressed his hands into the earth and created eight of the most placid lakes on the continent, I am back in my hometown. This is a place where the four seasons and nature mark transitions which pace the rhythms of life and, as such, its local economy. Quarterly earnings reported here are tomatoes on the vine and soon, more seriously, wheat and apples. They have a smell that only can come when the plants are located a few steps away. The garlic and basil, eggplants and eggs all attract the eye of the region's growing class of chefs. The vegetables and fruits in the Finger Lakes would play well in Paris, New York or Stockholm. They played like a Verdi opera once, long ago, in the kitchens of female immigrants from Reggio Calabria and Bari who settled there as their husbands found work.
That music stopped and today neither the old railroad or the new one, broadband, is much top-of-mind. Aging demographics and decidedly non-entrepreneurial attitudes still prevail. While teenagers pore over their phones, they are not smartphones. iPads are rare. This is not to say there are none, or that people with ambition and hope have fled. It is not so. In fact, some say, more and more people are taking up here than in times past. Not more than in those times after the railroad stopped needing Italian and Irish immigrants to build and then maintain the first 'superhighway," or when dozens and dozens of private sector employers skipped out for better, cheaper and certainly faster climates.
But something good may be happening. One can feel it. A peppermint festival draws large crowds. It reminds people that there was once an entrepreneurial spirit here. It may subtly reinforce for them too that sentiment is no substitute for what really occurred during real "peppermint days," when 90% of the land in the county was devoted to peppermint harvesting and the mint oil brought to nearby factories emerged into a dominant global industry. Today peppermint is leveraged for cultural dollars. Culture is capital. Advocacy is also appearing. A reporter from the Finger Lakes Times came to my mother's front porch and interviewed me about my work. Her editors knew that the "local boy" had left home long ago and not returned. Now they want to bring the fruits of his work back to a familiar place. Home. Like the next door neighbors, the reporter was curious to know what the "rest of the world" is up to. The trait of insularity, which is suspect of anything made too far south of Route 14 or too West of 31, much less Taichung, Stratford and Stockholm, is giving way to a type of rural cosmopolitanism that only the Internet and the urge to recapture the rhythm of the seasons can deliver.
But wounds from missing the first salvos of the "Broadband Economy" are obvious. An otherwise sunny and hot July was punctuated by the hard-edges that jut out when a place is not future-proof. My mother, a robust 89, was hospitalized with a medical emergency. Her stay in the local hospital revealed to me, painfully, what the people in Intelligent Communities from Dublin, Ohio (which has a paperless hospital) to Taichung know well. Broadband networks and healthcare are as interlocked as the farmer and his peppermint were long ago. The communications system in the hospital was so bad that my mother, admitted for diverticulitis, was served foods with seeds for two days because no electronic charts communicated to the dietary department that they were a no-no. Simple stuff can kill you. In this case, mercifully, it did not. Otherwise, a lot of those Calabrian recipes would have vanished to Heaven. But people move to places that are connected in all ways. Connectivity equals rural health. This is the rural imperative.
In an upcoming blog and in an article for Mayors & Cities, my colleagues John Jung and Robert Bell, will write about the power of broadband when it is harnessed to innovation. Both make compelling cases for municipal networks and detail examples of successes, and the type of deal-making architecture that aligned need, pricing and social goals. What is essential now is that the pie be taken from the sky on this stuff, and put on the table. As Robert said in a recent interview on Gigabit Nation, "We are not talking about whether or not broadband is valuable. We are talking about who is going to pay for it."
We know the price when the railroad and the boy leave town, never to return. Fortunately, both are inclined to return. As this warm season of rest and trial ends, let us harvest more fiber and return the villages to those who love them.
In 2018, a Dutch city will take its annual turn as Europe's Cutural Capital. Eindhoven, which Forbes recently named the world's most inventive city, is interested and asked nearby Tillburg University to find out whether being a Cultural Capital and creating a yearlong program of events was worth the cost and effort.
According to the Tillburg study, the answer is yes. Past Cultural Capitals, from Stockholm to Genoa, invested an average of Euro 38 million, while the total economic impact from visitor spending was more than Euro 70 million. Front-runners, like Liverpool, managed to gain Euro 1 billion in total economic output from a Euro 200 million public and private investment. But then, not every community is the birthplace of the Beatles.
Two years before Forbes lauded Eindhoven's inventiveness, ICF had already named the Eindhoven Region the 2011 Intelligent Community of the Year. One reason was the region's innovative use of culture to support its economic growth. Both the city and the region are known for high-tech manufacturing, from automotive systems and solar power to the machines that make silicon chips. That economic success depends on Eindhoven's ability to educate, attract and retain highly skilled workers.
So Eindhoven hosts an annual 12-day festival called STRP, which attracts 225,000 visitors and features music, film, live performances, interactive art and robotics. Another festival, called GLOW, celebrates the region's history as the birthplace of Phillips and its lighting division. For 10 days, the city center becomes an open-air museum of design in light, projected on buildings and sidewalks, much of it interactive, for the delight of 65,000 visitors.
Taichung is known as the Mechanical Kingdom for the success of its precision manufacturing sector. But Industrial Age success is not enough to ensure a prosperous future and, starting more than a decade ago, Taichung set out to make a name for itself as a cultural center. It founded the Da Dun Fine Arts Competition, which has since attracted 12,500 artists from around the world and drawn headliners including Luciano Pavarotti, Jose Carreras, Yo-Yo Ma and Lady Gaga. In 2001, residents took part in just 4 cultural events per year on average; by 2009, they were attending 35. The strategy seems to be working: in a coup for the city, Ang Lee decided to film Life of Pi there.
Drive into our 2012 Intelligent Community of the Year and you will pass a welcome sign announcing that you are entering the City of Arts & Innovation. Despite a development strategy focused on the latest technologies, the city of Riverside, California, USA sees value in celebrating its artistic heritage. Why? America's capital of West Coast culture, Los Angeles, is only 60 miles to the west, and Riverside has labored hard and successfully to be much more than a distant bedroom community for LA.
The arts give us pleasure, gift us with insight and transform how we see the world. The leaders of Intelligent Communities know how much more they can do: shape the way the community sees itself and contribute directly to its prosperity.
Tallinn has been a Top 7 Intelligent Community five times. From an ICF perspective it is clearly an ICT superstar. It is a community that has had strong local and national leadership and has taken advantage of the technology that is available to it and makes no bones about using it. Some would even say that it has achieved this success through political will.
I have had the opportunity to visit Tallinn several times. Tallinn is without a doubt a high-velocity intelligent community that has taken exciting, but calculated risks to create a city that its citizens can be very proud of. As my hosts explained, the citizens of Tallinn benefit from the enlightenment of their government leaders. Tallinn rose out from under the iron curtain in 1991 and in many cases had to learn how to become entrepreneurial, take risks and learn to become an intelligent community. As a city and region, it has had a long history of conquests with many different governments coming into power and building and running most aspects of it. Today it's still very much that way. As my hosts would say, "in our culture, government provides for more than 80% of the way things are done and then, the rest of our activities are provided by the private sector."
Although Tallinn has much government support and influence in nearly everything that gets done in the community, the city has a wonderful feel and sense about itself. It is not oppressed and uninviting. In fact, there is much to do, from spectacular medieval tourism, to international-level entertainment and interesting and highly rated restaurants. The exceptional heritage of the medieval community is UNESCO protected.
In a meeting with Tallinn's Mayor, Edgar Savisaar and his City Secretary, Toomas Sepp, they explained that through political will, free mobility for its citizens on all buses, trams and shuttles was launched in January 2013 (yes, that is right, free transit for every Tallinn citizen!). This program was designed to encourage an increase in environmentally-friendly transit, lower car dependency and to increase registration of citizens, thereby helping to increase the local tax-rolls. This action has already paid for itself by an increase of tens of thousands new citizens registered for the free transit passes. The city also has an extensive e-platform where many civic and other e-services are provided. Free wireless access seems to be everywhere in the city.
The country saw a major boom in the mid-2000's when significant Scandinavian investment came to Estonia. But the financial crisis that followed in 2008 was very difficult for Tallinn with thousands of companies going bankrupt and thousands of low-skilled workers becoming unemployed. Today, despite efforts to keep their talent, especially skilled workers, doctors and those in service industries, many have moved to Scandinavia and elsewhere to seek employment. My hosts lament that in Finland these workers are attracted by salaries and benefits three times that which Estonia offers. They recognize that more needs to be done and in a hurry to stem the tide of skilled workers leaving the country.
During a private meeting with the Estonian President, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, we discussed Estonia's excellence in cyber security and the global respect that counties have for Estonia's security experience. He also told me that while the Estonian government support will continue in its expertise in cyber security, they must now also focus on education, developing skilled workers, and more importantly finding ways to retain their talent as well as promote and encourage entrepreneurialism, especially research-based entrepreneurialism.
I had visited several years before and during my first visit was honoured to have dinner with one of the founders of Skype. We discussed his next venture having sold Skype to Microsoft. Everyone I met in Tallinn seemed to be, or wanted to be, a serial entrepreneur. The Skype story was what everyone in Estonia talked about and wanted to emulate – to be the next Skype success story. This can be possible if the same political will is directed to creating an environment, an ecosystem that will nurture creativity, innovational and entrepreneurialism. It seems that this is on its way. For instance, the city's free wireless services and extensive high-speed broadband throughout the municipality is now being augmented by the Broadband Alliance's "EstWin" initiative that will extend broadband throughout Estonia; a significant contribution to digital inclusion for all Estonians. Tallinn and its educational and business partners have launched multiple incubators targeting medical and biotech, mechatronics, ICT and creative services, including Europe's first gaming accelerator. In addition, its Ülemiste City industrial estate has expanded to house 250 companies, making it the Baltic's biggest knowledge-based development. Incubators are growing to support innovation and creative industries; there is a sense that supporting start-ups will attract and retain local and foreign talent to nurture much needed diversity across scientific, industrial and commercial sectors. As advocates, the sense of the Intelligent Community movement penetrates much of the government and institutional sectors.
Tallinn's leaders seem keen to do the right thing and are looking at innovative ways to evolve and sustain their community as an Intelligent Community. And they are embarking on a new attitude toward creating an environment supportive of entrepreneurialism to see it through. While Enterprise Estonia is funded primarily by government funds, it supports entrepreneurs enthusiastically. The community is actively looking to help support the next Skype to evolve out of Tallinn's many start-ups. For instance "Garage48", a small band of highly entrepreneurial and networked folks in Tallinn has evolved to encourage entrepreneurialism through networking and sharing of ideas. However, they lack the funds to assist companies directly. While fledgling, they have a great sense of spirit and enthusiasm and attract many new start-ups to their new facilities for networking events. Their motto "Screw it; Let's do it" speaks for itself.
In seeking new ways to stop the brain drain and reverse the tide toward achieving a new brain gain, Tallinn and Estonia's leadership will need to develop policies, programs and strong initiatives to encourage retention of their talent. This is not an Estonian problem alone. Globally, companies, universities and cities are seeking to attract and retain the best and brightest of their talent. Competition is fierce. New ideas are emerging to evolve entrepreneurial ecosystems to encourage growth. For instance, understanding and benefitting from talent mobility may become the next big idea. It is a challenge that Tallinn and Estonia are facing today; but with political will, they will no doubt find a route on their next journey.
Before my tenth birthday I had nailed a perfect jump shot over the arms of the mayor of Detroit.
The current Mayor of Detroit, USA, Dave Bing, has been in the news often these days. It is not the way he wanted to re-enter the spotlight. He is experiencing something he never imagined in his city. Detroit, as people worldwide know, has become the epicenter of a crisis and the focus of a debate that was long ago settled by those of us in the Intelligent Community movement. Its declaration of bankruptcy, while painful to witness, is ultimately a non-event to most observers. It is the last chapter of a post-Industrial Age saga whose end was written long ago. Stories like the one in Michigan, as we know, have had multiple endings. Not all are as sad as this giant's tale, where the number of industrial jobs has fallen from 300,000 in 1962 to a mere 27,000 last week, and it takes nearly an hour for a first responder to arrive after a 911 call. Many have an opposite end. There are stories of rebirth. Chattanooga comes first to mind. Eindhoven in the Netherlands and Sunderland, England also have a fine story to tell the world. Their stories are told by ICF and are studied by others.
The modern tales of urban rise and fall, or in Detroit's case of falling further, have been written by hundreds of authors around the world. These authors are people who understand what is at the end of the assembly line for the next generation of workers who are scandalously undereducated, poorly-served by a corrupt and visionless political class and who hold onto illusions and balance sheets woven without the benefit of reality. As Nobel recipient Paul Krugman rather cold-heartedly wrote yesterday, "Decline happens." It is true. But it is not inevitable. Nor is it a crime. It is a shame. Cities like Detroit have one common characteristic. None seem to factor in to their calculation that the only truth of life worth remembering is that everything is impermanent except change itself. Most of us learn that lesson way too late, having been led to believe that it just ain't so. It is. Only the enlightened embrace it as core to their lives and factor it in to the management of their cities and towns.
However my Dave Bing story is of another kind. Of another Summer day. It is a childhood memory of a happier era in both of our lives. My story is a tale of what we used to call "endless summer." When, as George Gershwin wrote, "the livin' was easy." It takes place in another part of the world which was touched, as was Detroit, by a similar illusion of permanence. On one summer afternoon, however, illusions were fine and hung in the moist air of an Upstate New York village. For a nine-year old kid it felt just fine.
That Summer the current mayor of Detroit was not a beleaguered, usurped politician. He was, like the glittering city of Detroit, the essence of grace, power and success. Mr. Bing is even today known for his long, distinguished career as a professional basketball player. The mayor had game. The mayor could thump hoops. Big time. He was a point guard with a sweet jump shot. So sweet that he was elected to the National Basketball Association's all-star team many times. He is in the league's Hall of Fame today and after his career in sports went on to become a success at business, a good father and eventually a politician. Detroit was his home.
Lyons, New York was mine. While Mayor Bing was rising to great heights as a premier athlete, I was an elementary school point guard with not much game. But like him I had a pretty good jump shot, great ambition and a kid's illusions. Mr. Bing was my idol. He was someone I admired from afar. His ability to spring ramrod straight into the air, release a basketball from his long fingers with perfect rotation and land softly as the ball swished through a basket, were the images in my head every time I practiced my jumpshot – which I did for hours and hours each day.
One afternoon, in a convergence only the Great Spirit could direct, he came to my little hometown in the Finger Lakes region to play a pickup game of basketball! At the time he was a college player, a star at nearby Syracuse University. He was in my village thanks to his university roommate, who also was a pretty good basketball player and lived in Lyons. This would be college Hall of Fame basketball coach Jim Boeheim. Jimmy is the second-most successful coach in American college basketball history, and has two Olympic gold medals as the USA Men's assistant coach to his credit. There is a sign acknowledging that Lyons is his hometown. You can see it, in bright orange, as you drive from Route 14 south into the village, where you also pass the cemetery where his father and mine are buried. They were close friends. It was a close community.
Word went out that Bing was playing in town at an outdoor basketball court that a local town justice had built for his son. Viral marketing in those days resulted in a lot of kids rushing up Foster Street in their Converse sneakers to see The Man and his jump shot. It was a phenomenal thing to see! What made it more phenomenal was that he challenged guys to play him one-on-one. I am not sure how it ultimately went down, but somehow the little runt who lived on Maple Street, who was always talking (me), got a chance to face him. I am here to testify that the giant was gentle.
I started to "trash talk" him I am sure. Given the fact that I was a popular little guy on the street and there to humor the big guys, it was my role. Bing missed his shot, on purpose. It was my turn. I took the ball and I stared him down, as he is staring down Detroit's woes. My heart beat fast. As I had seen him do on TV, I faked right, moved left and after a single bounce arched the ball toward the rim. All I remember is his outstretched hand, obviously being held back. It still looked like a 40-foot tree. If he had wanted, he could have slapped my shot three counties east. But of course he did not. I have no idea if the rest of this is true, because I had a sort of blackout. But I was told that the ball swished through the hoop and that Dave Bing lost the only game of the afternoon against the future co-captain of the Lyons High School basketball team, and co-founder of ICF.
Some stories are made to teach. This is one of them. Bing was a role model who lived up to the essence of one that day. My confidence was lifted for life. Thanks, Dave (and Jimmy).
Now it is time for us to give him a shot at a bigger, more important goal. Those of us leading ICF and the movement, especially the mayors of our Intelligent Communities, can reach out our hands to Mayor Dave and to Detroit and show him how he can rewrite his story.


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On yesterday's Fashion Police episode where Giuliana Rancic, Kelly Osbourne, Kathy Griffin and the like dished on their loved and loathed looks for the 2015 Oscars Red Carpet, Giuliana made a dig at teenage sensation Zendaya Coleman for her red carpet hairstyle of choice: faux locs.
"I feel like she smells like patchouli oil ... or maybe weed." -Giuliana Rancic on Monday's E! Fashion Police
Zendaya took to social media to blast Rancic for the prejudice comment that left fans and FP viewers on edge.
Giuliana quickly responded with an apology that seemed well...you be the judge:
Dear @Zendaya, I'm sorry I offended you and others. I was referring to a bohemian chic look. Had NOTHING to do with race and NEVER would!!!— Giuliana Rancic (@GiulianaRancic) February 24, 2015
Although regretful for the remarks, it's possible Rancic didn't realize the weight of her comments, until co-host Kelly Osbourne threatened to quit the Fashion Police if Rancic didn't apologize for her "racist" comments.
On tonight's episode, Rancic gave yet another apology for her comments:
Zendaya made valuable mention of the cultural significance of her hairstyle and touched on the constant battles people of color face with textured hair being accepted into "mainstream" culture. It is only now that curls, afros, braids, and twists are being seen as acceptable within the workplace, but our natural battles are far from won. Regardless, Zendaya's comments shine a major light on the issues surrounding diversity in the workplace.
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Right when South Africa was set to have its own YouTube video of Members of Parliament coming to blows and the police treating elected leaders like violent protestors, calm was restored. Almost. GREG NICOLSON looks at the charges that were laid after Thursday's parliamentary protest by the Economic Freedom Fighters.
There was a moment on Thursday when violence seemed certain. Members of the National Assembly left the chamber. Only the EFF was left, protesting, chanting, demanding President Jacob Zuma "pay back the money". Fighter Mbuyiseni Ndlozi stretched his legs. The feed from Parliament was cut and the microphones turned off. Riot police were amassing at the doors of democracy. The might of the state was finally about to reckon with the ANC's former wunderkind Julius Malema and his band of Fighters. Then, in an instant, MPs shuffled back to their seats. The session was officially adjourned and the situation resolved.
In the end, the "violence" was minor, but charges have been laid. The EFF marched out of the National Assembly with police on site. In the commotion, emotions high, ANC Youth League national task team member Braam Hanekom says he was assaulted by the very EFF MPs who had decided...


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Can Samsung Overtake Apple in 2013?
I was in London having a hearty English breakfast on the first free morning I had after attending the Internet World and the Big Data Show a couple of weeks ago, when I suddenly overheard that Samsung's profits increased 41.5 percent in the first quarter of this year. The voice came from the television I was ignoring in a failed attempt to enjoy my free morning without thinking about technology-related matters.
Cup of tea in hand, all my attention switched from my lovely English breakfast to the news report. My working mood had been activated; I was ready to know what was going on with the big South Korean manufacturer's sales.
I have to admit that Samsung's news took me a little by surprise. I know, it shouldn't. Some of the reports I have seen lately coming from China have pointed at a strong Samsung, with high and steady sales. Maybe my surprise was based on the fact that it's hard to not see Apple rising high, as it used to be just a few years back -- more precisely, before Steve Jobs' death. Some days before Samsung's profit rise, Apple reported its first profit decline in more than a decade, and indicated no major releases until the fall. Should we admit that there is, in fact, "a before and after" Apple's iconic CEO?
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In a bowl, whisk together brown sugar, chili powder, paprika, salt, pepper, and cayenne and rub onto both sides of racks. Let ribs stand, meaty sides up, at room temperature, 1 hour.
Preheat oven to 325°. Cover pan tightly with foil and bake ribs 1 1/2 hours.
Make sauce while ribs bake: Cook onion in oil in a 3-4-quart heavy pot over medium-low heat, covered, stirring occasionally, until tender, 10-15 minutes. Add garlic and cook, stirring, 1 minute. Add remaining ingredients including 1/3 cup brown sugar and simmer, uncovered, stirring occasionally, 15 minutes. Cool sauce slightly and purée in a food processor. Set aside 1 cup sauce for serving.
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Some of my colleagues have been accusing me of wanton sadism simply because yesterday I sent Forbes reporter Jon Bruner to Romania on five hours notice just to stress test laptop computers. To set the record straight: 1) I don't enjoy pulling wings off of butterflies and 2) I chose Bucharest simply because it was the farthest I could send Jon for the least amount of money. The fact that Romania has an average January temperature in the mid-20s, the lowest per capita income in the European Union and is the home to both Dracula and Copsa Mica, one of the most polluted cities in the world, never entered into my thinking.
It gets even better (or worse, if you are Jon Bruner). It turns out that Bucharest is also infested with something in the neighborhood of 100,000 semi-starving, feral dogs. These aren't the "nice puppy" sort of homeless hounds that can be bought off with a spare milk bone or two (See: "Stray Dog Kills Japanese Man in Romanian Capital"). They are a serious enough problem that the U.S. State Department lists stray dogs as a "Special Circumstance" on its official Romanian travel page.
When I spoke to Jon earlier, he had just gotten to his hotel, a modern Marriott just across the street from the Palace of the Parliament, which is apparently the second largest office building in the world after the Pentagon. He seemed in good spirits, having gotten over that nasty vomiting attack on the leg between JFK and Brussels, and was heading downtown to get a bite. I didn't bring up the dogs.
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The word impossible gets added to game titles a fair bit nowadays, usually hinting at a higher than normal level of difficulty. Problem is that most of the time it really isn't the case. Recently however I found a game that really did (and still does!) live up to its title: The Impossible Game. It ain't just a fluke dude, and I think its dev, FlukeDude, would back me up. Read on to see how it's possible to be impossible yet still possibly be the best!
Platform games have always been a staple of my gaming diet. I much prefer playing a Super Mario Bros. or a Mega Man than a Call Of Duty or Resident Evil. I was quite intrigued when I read somewhere that Stickbound was a "casual platformer", and suddenly I wanted to give it a try. Guess I should have read the iTunes description instead. Stickbound is not a bad game, but it's really just a "go for as long as you can" game with stick propulsion as a gimmick. Once the gimmick wears off, unfortunately, there are much more engaging entries in this genre to play.
One of the reasons I wanted an iPod Touch was because I got to play this adorable little game on my brother-in-law's iPhone – you shoot penguins out of a catapult and try to hit as many polar bears as you can. I love polar bears in general, and in this game these bears were delightfully big, burly and totally huggable. That game, Crazy Penguin Catapult, was one of the first ones I bought as soon as I had my own iPod Touch.
Crazy Penguin Party will be instantly familiar to anyone who has ever tried Crazy Penguin Catapult. You have the same hardy penguins going head to head with pot-bellied polar bears – only this time, there's a lot more going on. Feel free to discuss this review of Crazy Penguin Party in our forums.
In a world that seems to be increasingly bleak and pessimistic, it's good – no, it's imperative to have games that are simple, pointless fun. StickMan Rocks fills that void with considerable charm. Rock climbing has a new champion, and we'll call him Stickman.
Today is a wonderful day. Along with Last Front: Europe, Age of Tribes has dropped to FREE! Age of Tribes, a line-drawing adventure, is a ticklish blend of Lemmings and Flight Control which puts you in the role of a tribal leader who must lead your followers to safety against scary odds and dangerous terrain. At 199 pennies cheaper than its usual price, now is a great time to click the iTunes link:
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I've never been a real big fan of physics based games, especially when they involve setting up all kinds of contraptions and gizmos to do things. On the other hand, ones that involve manipulating several balls of different types to get them to certain places tend to intrigue me on occasion. One such puzzle game, and one of my favorite puzzle games on the Pocket PC, was Obulis. I think I've found another such game in Collider for the iPhone. The concept is simple, but some of the puzzles can be fiendishly challenging. At the same time you're not weighed down with 50 different options on each level. That's my kind of puzzle game.
BABEL Rising, a game that has captivated the attention of the recently interviewed Frédéric Aloé from Coladia, has just been updated with two new game modes available via in-app purchases and has been set FREE for a day in collaboration with the FreeAppADay.com project. Grab it below or check the screens and description after the gap.
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3D Rollercoaster Rush New York, as well as having a terribly long name, is a terribly good game. And I'm a poet… etc, etc. Anyway, it's one of those games that is difficult to classify in terms of genre, but I'd say it's a casual arcade type of game. Basically, it's your job to guide a rollercoaster along a number of tracks suspended high above New York City. Except, as you'd expect, it's not quite that simple. There are ups, downs, loop-the-loops, tunnels, sections of missing track and much more! You must get your coaster and its passengers from one end of the track to the other safely, but with maximum thrills and excitement.
We previously had a quick sneak peek at Gameprom's 'The Pinball', a collection of 3 pinball games set to make its appearance on the iPad. First up though is the OS X version, which has just been released for the Mac and now available as a free download. That's right, The Pinball is free, though it only includes the Wild West Pinball table (still a pretty sweet deal if you own a Mac). To unlock Jungle Style Pinball and The Deep Pinball, they'll set you back $2.99 each. The part where it gets interesting though is how you play the game. Gameprom has also released the free Pinball Utility for the iPhone and iPod Touch that allows you to purchase the extra tables AND control all aspects of the game.
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The brick-breaking genre of game has been around for years… before I was born, in fact. Nevertheless, it remains a decent, if not overly exciting way to pass the time. The gameplay can't be beaten for simplicity, but there are so many genres of casual game these days that the old classics have got to be something special to keep up. Unfortunately, 3D Break Breaker Revolution 2 isn't. It's just a standard brick-breaking game with no revolutionary features. Feel free to discuss this review of 3D Brick Breaker Revolution 2 in our forums.


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"Death By Sexy," by Eagles of Death Metal

If you're going to focus on just one thing, you might as well be good at it, and Eagles of Death Metal oblige: No one plays scuzzy, oversexed garage rock the way Jesse Hughes and Joshua Homme do.

The duo's musical range is limited (intentionally, one suspects), but Eagles of Death Metal's second album improves on the lecherous-dirtbag formula the pair introduced on 2004's "Peace Love Death Metal." Hughes, a rookie on the first album, has grown more adept at crooning greasy lyrics about his suitability for sexual encounters on guitar-driven tunes like "I Want You So Hard (Boy's Bad News)" and "I Like To Move in the Night." Homme, whose day job is singing and playing guitar for Queens of the Stone Age, shows marked improvement on the drums, in that he's learned to actually play them.

None of it -- not the band name, not the album title, not even the songs -- is meant to be taken seriously, and that's half the fun. "Death By Sexy" is loaded with rock for the sake of rocking out, and the buzzing breakneck guitars and flippant hedonism make it sound like a pretty good way to go.

 "White Trash With Money," by Toby Keith

Toby Keith's fifth album of new material in six years, "White Trash With Money," is in many ways his mildest, though it has sufficient tongue-in-cheek attitude to spark the irreverence that remains his most noteworthy calling card.

Keith co-wrote every song, and he stays close to past form with the loose, mildly rebellious country rock anthem "Get Drunk and Be Somebody." He tempers his barroom braggadocio with self-awareness, too, owning up to his own fallibility as he eases through the relaxed vibe of "Note to Self" or sways through the fiddle-and-dobro trimming of "Can't Buy You Money."

Keith loses the personality that drives his best material when he goes for straightforward tunes such as the pedal steel guitar-dappled "Too Far This Time" and the almost oddly earnest "Crash Here Tonight." He leaves a much more lasting impression with the gleefully deadpan rumbling country of the wingman's ode "Runnin' Block."

— Thomas Kintner

 "Peregrine," by The Appleseed Cast

Like a grisly crime scene deep in the woods, the latest album from the Appleseed Cast is all about bloodstains and shocking revelations, the remnants of a rustic family struggle gone horribly awry.

At least that's what the lyrics suggest: an Old Testament-style drama in which the narrator's brother, Silas, turns his knife on his sister.

Such subject matter might give a band license to scream its collective throat raw and turn its guitars into jet engines, but the Kansas quartet has thankfully taken a more novel, delicate approach, mixing traditional song craft with modern effects.

Throughout "Peregrine," it's as if the ghost of "Disintegration"-era Cure is haunting the "Perfect Blue Buildings" of the first Counting Crows record, with squalls of noodling, melodic guitar washing over dark Americana moods.

The finale, "The Clock and the Storm," one of several instrumentals, offers what might actually be a happy ending, as order — marked by the tick-tock of straight-on drums and soothing guitars — makes an unexpected return. Equally unexpected is the fun that can be had getting lost in the preceding hour's turmoil.

— Kenneth Partridge<
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...but in 12 Angry Men, at two points, some of the jurors leave to -- and have conversations in -- the bathroom! 184.108.40.206 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
Why is this not part of the explaination? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Minard.png
It is public domain so it should be allowed right? 220.127.116.11 03:43, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
I added it to the explaination as it certainly adds to the understadning of the comic. It was already uploaded by someone else. 18.104.22.168 03:50, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
Only flaw is that Saruman died at the wrong time. LordSamanon (talk) 02:03, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
Second flaw is that Sam is going to west, too 126.96.36.199 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
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Overall, Austria scored 7.8, behind Denmark, Finland and Sweden, who all scored 8. The least happy Europeans are Bulgarians, with a score of just 4.8. Austrians gain the most satisfaction from their "personal relationships" – with a high score of 8.5 which is only bettered by Ireland (8.6). They also gain a sense of well-being from their "living environment", with the highest EU-wide score of 8.4. "Green and recreational areas" scored a well-being value of 8.3, as did "accommodation". Austria's lowest scores were for "time use" (7.3) and "financial situation" (7) – a trend echoed across the EU with Bulgaria again coming bottom for financial happiness. The annual median net income for Austrians was calculated as €23,221. The figures were revealed on Monday as part of a closer look at data recorded in 2013 and initially released in March to mark 2015's World Happiness Day. Source: email@example.com – June 2015
This makes it a good time to be buying property in Austria if you have investment from outside the euro zone.
The Chamber of Commerce said it was looking at taking legal steps against the ban in a country famed for its cafe culture and where smoking is above European averages. France, Britain, Italy and some German provinces have introduced similar bans. Cafe owners who go completely smoke-free by July 2016 will get a special one-off bonus to offset costs at least partially. "We are strengthening the protection of non-smokers in Austria, but also take into account the interests of businesses which have already invested in the spatial separation of smokers and non-smokers," APA news agency quoted Conservative Economy Minister Reinhold Mitterlehner as saying. But not everyone was convinced. "Incredible. What are we going to do? You know that Austrians like to smoke when they drink coffee," said Elzin Nicevic, manager of a cafe on Vienna's Ring boulevard. The head of Austria's right-wing Freedom Party, Heinz-Christian Strache, whose party is neck and neck in opinion polls with the two centrist coalition parties, said he would scrap the law should his party win parliamentary elections in 2018. "We don't need enforced joys such as this failure of a law," the heavy smoker said of the bill, which parliament is expected to pass within months. Reuters – 10 April 2015
A slight decline in the number of overnight stays in Austria, which is being attributed to people visiting for a shorter period, as the number of guests increased!. In calendar year 2014 (final results), a total of 131.9 million overnight stays was reported; this means a decline of 728.000 overnight stays (-0.5%) compared to 2013 (132.6 million). The decline was observed both in the number of overnight stays by guests from abroad (96.2 million; -0.7%) and in the number of domestic overnight stays (35.7 million -0.2%). There was an increase by 1.9% (37.6 million) in the number of guests (= arrivals). Arrivals both among Austrian residents and among guests from abroad rose by 1.9% to 12.3 million resp. 25.3 million. The average length of stay declined to 3.5 days compared with the previous year (3.6 days). April 2015
The three least peaceful countries are South Sudan, Afghanistan and Syria. Levels of peace in South Sudan deteriorated the most since 2013, falling 16 places from last year. Trends According to the Global Peace Index, the world global average peace score deteriorated slightly since last year, mainly due to global increases in terrorist activity, the number of conflicts fought and the number of refugees and displaced people. Economic Impact The economic impact of containing and dealing with the consequences of global violence last year was estimated to be US$9.8 trillion. This is equivalent to 11.3% of global GDP – twice the combined GDP of African countries. Risk This years' Global Peace Index includes a new statistical modelling risk tool which identifies countries at risk of descending into violence and unrest in the next two years. The new methodology analyses a data set stretching back to 1996, and compares countries with the performance of states with similar institutional characteristics. The ten countries most likely to deteriorate in peace in the next two years are Zambia, Haiti, Argentina, Chad, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nepal, Burundi, Georgia, Liberia and Qatar. Source: www.friedlnews.com
It is now possible to see the first images of the design for the Eurovision Song Contest stage unveiled in the Austrian capital Vienna which is the home of last year's winner Conchita Wurst. The design of the stage is in the form of an eye and will be created from 1,288 individual pillars. These pillars representing the nations will be lit with LEDs allowing for a variety of lighting effects and designs alongside the floor of the stage itself. An amazing 22-metre-wide and 8.5-metre-tall LED display forms the back of the stage allowing the director, set designers and lighting teams to create a show to remember. Director of television company ORF, who are behind the show's organisation, Kathrin Zechner, explained: "The eye is a symbol for bridge building – to promote respect amongst different cultures, countries and peoples. The realisation of this artistic vision has been achieved by the best in their professions – both nationally and internationally." The show designer Florian Wieder, for example, has worked on international television productions including 16 MTV Award shows, America's and Britain's Got Talent, and a song contest in the German city of Dusseldorf. Besides this, he has had huge national success with programmes on ORF such as Starmaina, Dancing Stars and Helden von Morgen. His stage designs have also been used by huge stars such as Beyonce, Jennifer Lopez and U2. The lighting design is under the control of Al Gurdon who has worked on the half time show for the Super Bowl, Victoria's Secret shows, American Idol and previous Eurovision Song Contests in the Russian capital Moscow and Norwegian capital Oslo. Gurdon said: "The thing I like the most about Eurovision is that you have to be able to produce lots of different looks – you need to put a lot of energy into it but it's really liberating. The audience are expecting something state of the art and the opportunity to produce something like that is fantastic." Gurdon even received an Emmy for his work with Madonna for the Super Bowl and the Winter Olympics. The director of the Eurovision show in Vienna is Kurt Pongratz who is responsible for the conception and visual realisation of the event. Pongratz said: "For any director, it is a huge challenge to be working on the world's biggest TV entertainment event. However, I'm working with Florian Wieder and Al Gurdon who are the absolute best at what they do and I'm thrilled to have them on side." Pongratz was responsible for the staging and storyboard for Conchita Wurst's winning performance in the Danish capital Copenhagen last year. He said: "Really our collective goal is to bring a spectacular and enchanting show to 200 million viewers worldwide in Vienna – the capital of music."
Austrian Times – http://austriantimes.at/news/General_News/2015-01-21/52164/First_Images_Of_Eurovision_Stage
28.1.15 For UK buyers or investors in Austria, the news is all good…the Pound has broken through the 1.30 euro mark, making it much cheaper to buy property in Austria. This means that over the last 3 months UK buyers have gained 10% making their purchase that much cheaper…and in fact the increase in Sterling has effectively given UK buyers their purchase costs. So, will it last..well that depends on the ECB, and any annoucements they make for the euro and quantitive easing, which would lower the value of the Euro. But now is one of the best times to buy.
There was a festival atmosphere as Bundespresident Heinz Fischer opened Vienna's new Hauptbahnhof Friday morning. He was accompanied by Frau Fischer, Vize Kanzler Mitterlehner, Minister Alois Stöger and Vienna Bürgermeister Michael Haüpl. The President of Parliament, Doris Bures was also present. Earlier, ÖBB Boss Christian Kern emphasised that the project had been completed on time – then he pointed to the huge arrivals board and joked that all of the trains were likewise on time ! The new railway station took 7 years to complete at a cost of just over 1 billion Euros. 20,000 workers were employed on the site. There are offices, apartments, as well as a shoping mall with 90 Top Shops. ÖBB expects more than 145.000 passengers to use the station every day. By Ken Cameron Austrian Times
Spectacular images that show how a park becomes a lake each spring complete with underwater trees have been captured by two divers. The snaps were taken at the Gruener See, or Green Lake as it is called in English, located in the southern Austrian province of Styria. During the winter months the lake, located near the town of Tragoss at the foot of the snow-capped Hochschwab mountains, is only around a metre deep and the surrounding area is part of the country park. It is a favourite location for hikers and campers, but all of it vanishes underwater in the spring when the winter snow starts to melt, sending waters flooding down from the nearby mountain range. During the summer, the lake reaches its maximum depth of around 12 metres and trees have adapted to being completely underwater for upwards of a month every year at a time. And as these spectacular images show it creates an eerie landscape, in which the crystal clear waters flooding down from the melting ice and snow still allow the light to filter onto the grass and shrubs below. The photographs are part of the project to highlight Austria's investment in making sure it's rivers, streams and lakes remain crystal clear and unpolluted. They are being shown at a new Under Water World exhibition at the Biology Centre in the southern city of Linz to highlight the country's aquatic beauty spots. Two of Austria's leading underwater photographers, Gerald Kapfer and Harald Hois, also captured some of the plants and animals beneath the underwater lake which can now be seen at the photography exhibition. Exhibition curator Stephan Weigl said: "Many people are surprised that images like these have been captured in Austria rather than in somewhere more exotic like the Maldives but we really do have a beautiful aquatic landscape that is perhaps sometimes overlooked against the backdrop of the country's other natural wonders."
By Matej Klenovský. Translation by Tomáš Buš Austria is in line with the current economic trend in Europe, according to several economic indicators made public in Austria on Friday. Analysis of the results of the indicators show that at the moment, there is a moderate decrease, almost stagnation, in the price levels. Meanwhile, industrial production is slowing down at a significant rate, as it is in many other European countries. The results of the Austrian Industrial Production indicator show that production has decreased in March by 1.8% in comparison with February, the second month in a row where it has dropped. The greatest decrease was recorded in capital goods (-4.5%) and durable goods (-4.7%) whilst the situation in the construction sector has also worsened for the second month in a row. The construction sector, being probably the most cyclical out of all sectors, represents an important part of an economy and its development is exceptionally dependant on the current economic state of a country. As a result, it is often a useful predicting indicator for forecasting a country's economic development. Meanwhile, the Austrian Central Statistical Office also discussed a change in the Production Price Index this Friday, which measures the average change over time in the selling prices of the output from domestic producers. The indicator decreased by 1.2% in comparison with April 2013, although there was no change in comparison with March 2014. A decrease in the energy prices (-3.8%) and intermediate goods (-1.3%) is responsible for these lower prices. On the other hand, the prices of investment goods rose year-on-year by 0.6%; the increase in the price of machinery (+1.5%) and motor vehicles (+1.1%) is responsible for this rise. The greatest decrease within a month was recorded in the price of fats and oils from plants and animals, which sank by 16.2% in April. This significant drop contributed to the fact that the price of consumer goods increased only by 0.2%. Finally, one of the most popular indicators is Bank Austria Manufacturing PMI, which is based on the survey of over 300 industrial companies. The index has for the ninth month in a row now shown expansion (over 50 points). However, the tempo of the growth is consistently decreasing as of the beginning of 2014, when the level of the index was recorded to be over 54 points. The last records show a decrease in the indicator from 51.4 points in April to 50.9 points in May, which has also been the monthly minimum for the past nine months. According to most of the surveyed subjects, the reason behind the lower total results lies in the slowing down of the sub-index New Orders, which is responsible for the lower demand among customers as well as greater competition. A lower interest from the domestic market also plays a significant role in the decrease of the total demand. Meanwhile, the growing demand from abroad has led to a mild rise in exports.
Thousands of holidaymakers from northern England can now waltz away from Manchester on a direct flight to Vienna – the first flight from the country that takes off outside London. The first flight between the northern city and the Austrian capital took off last week on 2 May, just in time for the British May bank holiday. Already 8,000 Brits have bought tickets with airline company operating the route Jet2.com. "Vienna is one of the largest un-served European resorts and it appeals to lots of customers, businesses and travel. It's a great city and I know what is has to offer," said David Neill, the head of Jet2.com planning. People are used to regular city breaks such as Rome or Paris, and we wanted to offer somewhere different. Jet2 are hoping that Vienna's cultural, musical, and cuisine offerings will attract visitors from Manchester and the surrounding regions who want to discover an alternative European city break. Prices begin at 43 GBP (52 EUR) per person, including taxes, and there will be three flights a week on Mondays, Wednesday, and Friday.
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Father Finbarr Stanton, pastor of St. Teresa's Catholic Church, called Pope Benedict XVI's announced resignation a good thing for the congregation, comparing the departure with a U.S. president staying past his capacity to safely serve.
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