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William F. Shughart Discusses the Import-Export Bank on The Gary Nolan Show
Recorded: Wednesday, July 9, 2014
Sr. Fellow William F. Shughart II appeared on The Gary Nolan radio show to discuss the Export-Import bank. In a recent syndicated Op-Ed, Shughart wrote that the Export-Import bank distorts prices and it interferes with the free flow of international commerce.
Experts: William F. Shughart IIType: RadioIssues: Banking and Finance, Business, Economic Policy, Labor and Employment, Trade
The Roots of Government Failure: An Interview
Recorded: Wednesday, November 30, 2011
William Shughart interviews Economist Randy T. Simmons, author of Beyond Politics: The Roots of Government Failure.
Experts: William F. Shughart II, Randy T SimmonsType: Independent Institute TVIssues: Democracy, Economic History and Development (U.S.), Public Choice Theory
William F. Shughart Interviewed on Budget & Tax News Podcast
Recorded: Friday, December 24, 2010
Senior Fellow William F. Shughart discusses financial developments at General Motors and Chrysler, the real issues at stake in the TARP debate, and how Obamas bailouts are negatively affecting the limping economy.
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Eminent Domain: Abuse of Government Power?
Recorded: Tuesday, January 31, 2006
In June 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Kelo v. New London that local governments may force property owners to sell out and to make way for private economic development, even if the property is not blighted. In response, many states have passed legislation and proposed amendments to their state constitutions to block this unprecedented government assault on the rights of property owners.
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The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives from Ancient Times to the Mid-Twentieth Century
Joyce Harvey, Marilyn Ogilvie
Taylor & Francis, Jul 27, 2000 - History - 1500 pages
Edited by two renowned experts on women in science, this milestone work combines 'fact-fronted' fast access to biographical details with fascinating accounts of nearly 3000 scientists' lives, works and accomplishments around the globe.
The Biographical Dictionary presents authoritative scholarship in an absorbing, highly readable format, and will be an essential resource for information on women's history, individual scientists or science history. Includes A-Z entries, with indexes and suggestions for further reading.
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How to Use All-Natural Sugar Alternatives in Baking
By mahir | May 27, 2011
If you're looking to expand your sweet tooth and give a new twist to your recipes, look no further than adding agave, maple syrup, Stevia or honey. Each one adds its own distinct flavor and can replace sugar in your baked goods. However, replacing them equally will make your cakes and other baked goods turn out differently as they have different textual qualities. Here is a handy guide to keep in mind when using sugar alternatives in baked desserts. Read More


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With a few bars of that wicked good stuff in my hot little hands, I left the shop. Both my mind and my heart were racing a little bit. I knew just what I was going to make for my terrine entry – a torrone semifreddo!
Now, delicious as this would be on its own, I also felt that I needed to have another layer on my terrine, for a contrast of color and texture. This second layer should also contain some kind of nuts, and should preferably be Italian in nature. Well, I had two jars of Nutella sitting in my Bermuda Triangle of a pantry, so I decided to break out one and make a chocolate – hazelnut semifreddo too. I mean, what could be more quintessentially Italian than Nutella? I decided to call my creation Torronutella Semifreddo Terrine. Pretty catchy, huh? Believe me, it sounds a lot more aristocratic than it really is!
Essentially, what I did was make both recipes independently and freeze them together to form the terrine. I prepared the torrone semifreddo first and let it freeze up overnight. The next day, I made the chocolate-hazelnut version, spread it over the frozen torrone layer and froze it again. I wasn't able to find hazelnuts anywhere, so I used roasted pistachio nuts instead. Crushed pistachios are commonly used in all kinds of Italian pastries, so I felt okay with that.
In order to ensure pain-free unmolding, I lined the mold with plastic wrap that hung over the sides. That way, I could just lift the terrine out in one sinfully sweet, chunky, creamy hunk of frozen heaven. I dressed the terrine up with a little chocolate sauce for the pictures, but it really didn't need it. Both of the layers harmonized beautifully together and it was marvelous on its own!
- 6 ounces hard Italian torrone, with almonds
- 6 eggs
- 6 tablespoons sugar
- 2 cups heavy whipping cream
- 1 tablespoon dark rum
- A pinch of salt1/2 cup carmelized almonds (1/2 cup sliced almonds and 2 tbsp. sugar)
- Line a a freezable loaf pan with a long sheet of plastic wrap, making sure that it hangs over the sides at least 3 inches. Set aside.
- In a small saute pan, add almonds and 2 tbsp. sugar. Saute over high heat until sugar starts to caramelize and the almonds are toasted. Spread out in the bottom of the terrine mold. Set aside.
- Use a sturdy chopping knife to cut the nougat into small pieces, then grind it to a granular consistency in the food processor.
- Separate the eggs, keeping only four of the whites. Pour the yolks into a mixing bowl, adding all the sugar. Whip them until they form a foamy mass.
- In another bowl, preferably a chilled steel one, whip the cream until it forms stiff peaks.
- Add the whipped cream, the rum, and the ground nougat to the beaten egg yolks, mixing well to distribute all the ingredients uniformly.
- In a clean bowl, whip the four reserved egg whites together with a pinch of salt until they also form stiff peaks. Fold them gently into the egg yolk, cream, and nougat batter.
- Pour the mixture into the mold, cover with the overhang of plastic wrap and place it in the freezer for at least 8 hours or overnight.
For the Chocolate-Hazelnut Semifreddo:
- 4 large eggs
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 jar Nutella, divided
- 1 cup heavy cream, whipped to soft peaks
- 1 tbsp hazelnut liqueur (I used Frangelico)
- 1/2 cup roasted pistachio nuts, coarsely chopped
- Heat Nutella in the microwave for about 10-15 seconds to soften it up. Set aside.
- Place eggs and sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer. Place mixing bowl over a pot of simmering water and whisk until the eggs are warm, about 2 minutes.
- Place the bowl in mixer stand. Using the whisk attachment, whip the eggs on high speed until pale and tripled in volume, about 5 minutes.
- Add two thirds of the Nutella and mix on low speed until blended. Gently fold in whipped cream and chopped hazelnuts.
- Scrape mixture into into the mold and spread evenly over the torrone layer. Spoon remaining third of the Nutella lengthwise down center of the mold letting it sink into semifreddo.
- Cover top of pan with plastic wrap and freeze for at least 8 hours or overnight.
- To serve, lift the terrine out of the mold using the plastic wrap overhang. If the terrine sticks, place the mold on a dish towel soaked in very hot water for a minute or two. This should soften the terrine a bit and make it easier to unmold.
- Cut the semifreddo into 1 inch slices and serve on dessert plates with the garnish of your choice.
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Clocking Off is the final mission given to Luis by Armando in GTA IV episode The Ballad of Gay Tony.
The mission begins where you see a cutscene showing Luis' Mom is sweeping in front of her house. She argues about Luis not to be like his dad. First you will be driving Armando's Cavalcade to a location near the bridge in Bohan. When you get there you will see a shipping of heroin loaded to the Cavalcade. Then a rival gang shows up and attacks you. Once you beat them, follow Armando to a garage in Northwood then the mission ends with your results.
Mission objectives
In order to complete the mission the player must:
- Get in the car with Armando and Henrique
- Go to the pier
- Follow Henrique down to the pier
- A rival gang is attempting to steal the shipment. Take them out
- Get in the car
- Escort the shipment back to the lockup
100% Objectives
Complete the mission in 5:00
Take less than 40% Damage
Kill 20 enemies via headshot
Have 55% accuracy
Video Walkthrough
- There's an unique black Reefer seen in this mission, but it can't be obtained.
- An also unique black Sanchez can be found between two shipment crates and can be obtained but you will fail the mission.
- Strangely, the Irish Mob does not appear with their gang car, Oracle, but instead the gang variant of Patriot.
- The garage that you end up putting the goods in has the same interior as a Pay'n'Spray garage.
- It is best to do this during the daytime, as you will not be able be able see the enemies or even shoot them in the dark, putting you, Henrique, and Armando at a disadvantage.


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Birth Name: Patrick Stewart
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Born: 07/13/1940
Birth Place: Mirfield, England, GB
Born on July 13, 1940 in Mirfield, West Yorkshire, England, Stewart was raised by his father, Alfred, a Regimental Sergeant Major in the British Army who served with the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, and his mother, Gladys, a textile worker. Having performed in town pageants at a young age, Stewart was encouraged by his grade school English teacher, Cecil Dormand, to read and perform Shakespeare. When he was 12, he was recruited by Dormand to join a residential drama course, even though he had to lie about his age - the minimum was 14 - while later learning that his teacher paid for the course when his parents could not. It was at this course that Stewart met former actress and Peggy... Continue Bio >>
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I was never that into soft luggage until I got my first set of Cortechs, High quality bag that functions the way you think it should. Its almost like the engineers ride too. Tons of straps and mounting points make this bag ideal for running with side bags or for running solo and strapping another bag to the top. Good zippers, thick material, quality bag.Read All Reviews
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Sawk first in The Club Battle Hearts of Fury, Emolga Versus Sawk! where it was used to battle Iris's Emolga in the second round of the Don Battle Tornament battling. It was shown to be a skillful Pokémon with advanced martial arts using those abilities to deflect Emolga's Attract. But when Emolga's ability, Static, was activated Sawk started to paralyze and then Emolga used the move Volt Switch made Sawk unable to continue the battle.
It appeared again Climbing the Tower of Success! where it was used by stephan in the wishing bell festival amnd won.
Stephan later used his sawk in the firts battle of the clubsplosion agaisnt Edmund's Seismitoad. It proved to be a challenge at first since it was raining, and Sawk's attacks didn't land any damage due to the fact that Seimitoad has the ability Swift Swim making him fast enough to dodge and take attacks. But Sawk managed to pull the battle by using low sweep on seismitoad, which didn't do anything at first, but later hurt Seismitoad giving Sawk a chance to power up with Bulk Up, boosting its attacks and defense, and land Close Combat as the final hit defeating Seismitoad advancing to the second round.
Sawk is a skillful Pokémon with advanced martial arts. It is shown to very strong strong bettling rarely losing to opponents.
Known Moves
|Close Combat +
|The Club Battle Hearts of Fury, Emolga Versus Sawk!
|Bulk Up +
|The Club Battle Hearts of Fury, Emolga Versus Sawk!
|Double Kick
|The Club Battle Hearts of Fury, Emolga Versus Sawk!
|Low Sweep +
|Climbing the Tower of Success!
|Karate Chop +
|The Clubsplosion Begins!
|+ indicates this Pokémon used this move recently.*
- indicates this Pokémon normally can't use this move.
Episode Appearances
|BW043: The Club Battle Hearts of Fury, Emolga Versus Sawk!
|BW071: Climbing the Tower of Success!
|BW072: The Clubsplosion Begins!
|BW073: Searching for the Clubultimate!
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The standard medical methods currently used to treat irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) are of some help to the majority of people with the disorder. However, up to half of IBS sufferers are dissatisfied with the results of standard medical management, and many continue to have frequent symptoms after seeing doctors about them. In recent years, other alternatives have been sought to help these individuals. There has been growing interest in the possibility of using the mind to soothe the symptoms of IBS. This article includes a description of hypnosis for IBS and how to select a hypnotherapist.Topics: Brain-Gut, CAM, Complementary & Alternative Treatments, Hypnosis, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
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If conventional medical therapies prove unsuccessful or have unwanted side effects, many people choose to pursue complementary or alternative therapies (CAM). Complementary therapies are done in addition to traditional medical treatments, and alternative therapies are done instead of medical treatments. Many CAM modalities exist and they can be roughly grouped into several categories including herbal/dietary, somatic therapies (such as acupuncture or massage), mind-body therapies (such as hypnosis or meditation), and movement or breathing exercises (such as yoga or tai chi). In this review we will discuss each of these categories, focusing on those that have been studied most rigorously.Topics: CAM, Complementary & Alternative Treatments, Diet, Foods, Dyspepsia, pain in upper abdomen or chest, Hypnosis, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
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Unfortunately, the word "hypnosis" often conjures up a whole variety of frequently quite negative connotations even within the medical profession. Many equate the phenomenon with the mind being taken over by the hypnotist and with loss of control by the recipient, which needless to say, is completely erroneous. As a consequence of this, the whole subject is surrounded by a cloud of mystery, which regrettably is often encouraged by those who practice the technique. Reviewed 2009.Topics: Brain-Gut, CAM, Complementary & Alternative Treatments, Dyspepsia, pain in upper abdomen or chest, Hypnosis, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
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Its all in the articles of association if you would care to read them.
Thank for that. I prefer not to read the articles of the Illegal Disection of RL association. I knew I could rely on you for the information. It would seem to be a problem if the holding club refused to relinquish their shares. Seems a little illegal to me.


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Who wins the Strikeforce heavyweight grand prix, which kicks off its semifinal round tonight in Cincinnati?
That's the question we asked in our latest MMAjunkie.com/"Inside MMA" poll.
While notables Josh Barnett, Antonio Silva, Sergei Kharitonov and Daniel Cormier comprise the final four, it's a two-horse race among this week's group of voters.
And not surprisingly, the top-two vote-getters are on opposite sides of the bracket.
Thousands of votes were cast, and Barnett (43 percent) and Silva (35 percent) clearly outpaced their respective opponents, Kharitonov (12 percent) and Cormier (10 percent). The quartet co-headlines tonight's event, which has been flying under the radar following one of the busiest news cycles in recent MMA history.
Barnett and Silva's favorite status is reflect in the odds for tonight's fight, which airs on Showtime from U.S. Bank Arena. Oddsmakers have tapped Barnett an approximate -325 (76.5 percent) favorite over Kharitonov, and Silva is a comfortable -160 (61.5 percent) over Cormier.
While the grand prix lost some of its luster following Fedor Emelianenko's first-round loss and then-champion Alistair Overeem's eventual withdrawal from tonight's event, the semifinalists likely are fighting for more than a shiny grand-prix championship belt. Strikeforce notables such as Overeem and Cung Le have already moved to the UFC, and light-heavyweight titleholder Dan Henderson and lightweight champ Gilbert Melendez may not be far behind. With persistent rumors that Strikeforce's days may be numbered, the grand-prix winner could make a strong case for being added to the UFC's star-studded heavyweight division.
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MPBN Community Films tells the story of the biathlon and it's popularity in Aroostook County. It's a sport that includes the heart-pounding excitement of nordic ski racing with the quiet, steady calmness needed for target shooting.
Biathlon has taken off in Aroostook County with the construction of two world class biathlon stadiums. Biathlon Comes to the County looks at all sides of the biathlon phenomenon - the impact on the local economy, on The County's youth, on the media and the involvement of hundreds of volunteers who help make world class biathlon events a reality in Aroostook County today.
Biathlon Comes to the County is an overview of what took place during the International Biathlon Union 2006 Youth-Junior World Championships.
Biathlon Comes to the County was pProduced by Brenda N. Jepson of Viking Video Productions.
[Biathlon Comes to the County originally aired on MPBN Community Films March 10, 2010.]
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A young Russell Currier, who grew up in Stockholm, is featured in this film. Russell is now a member of the US Olympic Team and competed in the Olympic Biathon in Sochi on February 8.


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Marty's Wiley/Sybex book, "Killer Facebook Ads," was critically acclaimed. His second Wiley book, "The Complete Social Media Community Manager's Guide: Essential Tools and Tactics for Business Success," was released in January, 2013. He has written extensively for respected Internet marketing publications including SearchEngineWatch, SearchEngineLand, SearchEngineRoundTable & been quoted in others, from AdAge to MediaPost. aimClear Blog was cited as a Technorati Top 10 Small Business Blogs, Cison Top Ten Social Media Blogs & PRWeb's 25 Essential Public Relations Blogs You Should Be Reading. Marty was named the #3 most influential PPC professional.
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Learn to play the most popular traditional West African rhythms on the
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Child's play is the exultation of the possible.
– Martin Buber
Children at play are not playing about.
Their games should be seen as their most serious minded activity.
– Michel de Montaigne
Play is the highest form of research.
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Man is most nearly himself when
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Time is a game played beautifully by children.
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Deep meaning lies often in childish play.
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No matter how dire the situation, how dangerous the environment,
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The true object of all human life is play.
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Whoever wants to understand much must play much.
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The new google earth street view can be good and bad, some reasons that it can be good are if you are going on a trip and you want to get a preview of what your going to see, or if you are wanting to see somthing that your doing a project on. This could be bad because the people constantly have to keep this up-to-date and this could be hard. I think that google earth should make a street view on the Golden Gate Bridge and on the Great Wall of China.
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My favorite type of cheese is Mozzerella on pizza! I somthimes eat cheese sticks, I also eat cheese on my sandwiches, and in cheese quesdillas.
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A good comment is not saying "Good job! :)" because that dosen't help the blogger at all. A good comment is helpful to someone, so a good comment would be somthing like "Your blog is good but I think you shoul explain this better." or "I don't understand this part.". When you leave a comment make sure you actually finish reading the blog, and use key words from the blog(it makes you sound more professinoal). Also if you leave a good comment the person who you left a comment to just might give one back to you! Lastly make sure you are L.A.R.K!
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Let's think of the story of Cinderella. What are the odds that the Prince will actually find Cinderella, the shoe will fit perfectly, and that the Prince and Cinderella will get married after meeting eachother once before? Reality Check. That will NEVER happen or, IF it comes close it still won't turn out right, it will turn out somthing like this:
Cinderella is a maid to her evil step-mother. She gets a beautiful blue dress and a pair of glass slippers from her fairy godmother, and she's off. While she is at the ball she spots the Prince walking tward her and falls "Head Over Heals" for him. It was love at first sight, they had a great night together, but all of a sudden the clocked striked midnight and she was gone. She only left one thing; her glass slipper.
The next day whille Cinderella was scrubbing the floor she heard the doorbell ring. Still feeling sad from the last night she continued working, and didn't answer the door, not knowing she just passed up the opportunity of a lifetime.
The moral of the story is that Fairy Tales DON'T come true even if it is close, but just keep dreaming.


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- Aaron H. , drinking Peet's since n/a 3/3/16
I've hated coffee all my life. If I had it, it was for the caffeine, and it would be cream, and sugar with a hint of coffee basically. Until about three years ago; my coffee obsessed friend got me to try Peet's Italian Roast. I no longer hate coffee, or add anything to it. This Roast is very special to me; it reminds me almost of eating food, like a delicious bread. Every sip is such a truly fantastic experience.
- Jean , drinking Peet's since 1978 2/18/14
- Los Angeles, CA
Italian is my favorite Peet's roast, dark & rich. Couldn't live without it. Peet's is the best.
- Ivonne , drinking Peet's since 3 mon 6/2/13
- Downey, CA
I am hook with this coffee! Italian roast is the best blend that i have tasted so far.
- Catherine , drinking Peet's since 2001 5/20/13
- Encinitas, CA
This is my favorite coffee for all uses, but remember to properly grind for the machine you are using. Purchasing pre-ground in the grocery store will not be a fine enough grind for espresso machines.
I always purchase Whole Bean direct from Peets online. Order 3 pounds and save on shipping.
Want to cut down your caffeine? Try my personal blend: Half Italian Roast, Half Sumatra Decaf.
- Kevin Kirby , drinking Peet's since 2009 5/21/12
- Lithia, FL
I regularly use whole bean French Roast in my Rancilio espresso machine, but recently my grocery store was out of that particular variety. I quickly noticed a bag of Peet's Italian Roast (Ground), but I was hesitant to try it because I like to grind my own beans right before brewing; however, when I read the bag I noticed that it was recommended for espresso and I thought it must be good if Peet's produces it and they should certainly know how fine to grind it, so how could I go wrong? Well in my opinion I did go wrong. It thought the shot that I poured was so weak that perhaps my machine was faulty, but it is not. Personally, I would not recommend the Italian Roast for espresso, but I highly endorse French Roast (whole bean) for an excellent shot. Now I just wish that Peet's would replace my nearly full bag of ground Italian Roast with the Espresso Forte that I just discovered on their website. F
- Ellie Tanenbaum , drinking Peet's since 2011 1/27/12
- Erie, PA
This is my favorite coffee! I have two cappucino coffees a day at home. Originally I tried it because it was on sale and I quickly became hooked. I always have an extra bag on hand so I don't run outl It is amazing. Thrilled that our Wegmans carries it. Not all grocery stores do.
- Natalie Sigala , drinking Peet's since 2000 6/23/08
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This coffee is not be missed! I admit that at first I was a little nervous to drink our coffee that is dark roasted, nervous that it would be too strong. I was pleasantly mistaken when I had first tried this roast! It was very bold and flavorful but not acidic or too bright. The combination of Latin American and Indo-Pacific beans is perfect! This is a smooth. bold, flavorful roast...yummy!
- Linsey Shupe 4/18/06
- Emeryville, Roasting Plant,ca,USA
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This is one of my favorite "Dark Roasts". Italian is smooth and rich. Its dark roast has a slight sweetness to it. While it is quite rich it lacks that smoke flavor that is usually associated to coffees like French Roast. This coffee is so smooth I could drink it black though its richness holds up so beautifully to cream and sugar. Though it is traditionally brewed hot it is wonderful as an iced coffee as well.
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Italian, one of Peet's darkest roasts, is an earthy, full-bodied coffee with rich smoky tones. This blend gives us the best of both worlds: Latin American spice and the smoothness of the Pacific.
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This is the perfect coffee for those who enjoy our smoky, robust French Roast but are looking for an added layer of richness and depth. Its undertones of oak and wet earth create an intriguing new dimension of complex flavor.
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Smoky, with a cellared taste. Very full bodies with smooth acidity.
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What is unique about our Italian Roast? The quality and variety of beans that go into it. While it has traditionally been the practice to use mediocre beans in dark roast coffees on the assumption that the roastiness would mask any lack of character in the bean, Peet's knows that only the only the highest grown, best quality hard beans can stand up to the intensity of our roasting style and still have enough character and individuality to assert themselves alongside the roast. We blend high-grown Latin American beans for lively acidity and bright flavors with Pacific origin coffees for depth and full body. The result is an Italian Roast with a rich toasty palate, the requisite carbony edge and undertones of sweet caramel all enhanced by the balance of Pacific and Latin American beans.


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Transforming the Customer Relationship: What Electric Utilities Must Do To Survive the 21st Century
The Challenge: Changing the Customer Relationship and Customer Behavior
The next big challenge for electric utilities is to change their relationship with their customers and change customer behavior, so electric utilities can keep their customers, their business and survive. This is about survival, not new lines of business. It is about changing electric consumers from passive "so what, the lights come on" consumers to actively engaged customers who want to use energy wisely. Customer energy literacy, in a new customer paradigm, should be a top priority.
Electric customer communications need radical change and modernizing. To survive and flourish, electric utilities must become "consumer coaches" as well as power providers, and for some customers they must become like "personal trainers", motivating customers to pick and adhere to individualized energy plans and packages.
Electric utilities must become proactive communicators with their customers, developing multiple communication channels to interact with and serve electric consumers, by way of the Internet, the Web, texting, mobile devices, smart phones and Twitter (and even more communication channels to come). Hand-held wireless devices are going to become the link to electric consumers for everything we do as utilities. Long gone will be the meter reader and customer service representative as we know them today. What used to be a poles, wires and power business, is about to become an energy communications-customer relations industry.
Electric utilities don't want to come late to the game in crucial modern technologies like mobile, search, media and tablets. There has emerged in our society a seamless fusion of hardware, software, social networking, online shopping, data access and new forms of cyber-based social interaction. And, these new technologies have been embraced by all consumers, in all generations, for seemingly every kind of transaction or interaction. Electric service is next in the queue for these technologies.
Why change the traditional utility-customer relationship?
Forces are at hand that are changing the focus of the electric utility business. National politics will ultimately force electric utilities to radically change how they produce power. By legislation or regulation, utilities will be forced to dial back or even shut down coal fired power plants, and as a result, 40% or more of the power produced in America will have to come from some other power generation. In just a few years, many states will have a renewable energy requirement and there may be a national standard as well. To combat global warming, electric utilities will have to buy a certain amount of renewable power every year or suffer huge "climate change fines". Electric customers, when asked, think it's great to turn to renewables for power, but when told they will pay much higher electric rates, the excitement quickly fades. Auto manufacturers will ultimately make an electric vehicle that everyone will want, and electric utilities will be forced to make costly distribution system changes that those auto makers and electric car buyers will not be willing to pay for. Electric rates will zoom upward and unprepared utilities will have lots of explaining to do.
Telecommunications companies and internet providers are poised to sell mobile communication applications that will promise electric consumers lots of savings and do cool things around their homes and apartments, and electric utilities will get the blame if savings and things don't work as advertised. They will set up "home energy store fronts" on line and go after electric customers with a vengeance. Home solar and wind generators will be hawked like chamois sales at the State Fair. People will be told that if they hook up solar panels on the roof, all their electric needs will be taken care of and they can sell back excess power to their utility; they will make money on generating electricity at home. These new home generators won't want to hear that the utility doesn't need the excess power and doesn't want to take it or pay for it. State legislatures, Congress and regulators will make electric utilities involuntary facilitators of all this new business at cost-the utility's cost, and that will have to be passed onto electric customers.
Congress or federal regulators (like the EPA) at some point will mandate global targets for reduction in green house-gas emissions; whether utilities or customers believe it is necessary or not, this is no longer a seriously debated issue. And, studies have shown that, while the global targets are daunting, if everyone participated on an individual basis in conserving energy (for example, raising the temperature when the air conditioning kicks in or lowering the thermostat in the winter), there would be significant reductions in pollutants in the air from power plants who don't have to run as often. Research shows that individuals have control of about 50% of the energy they consume; the rest is embedded in the energy it took to produce the things we buy and use. Electric utilities are said to be responsible for about 40% of the green house-gas pollution going into the air today; the rest is primarily automobile pollution. Electric utility power plants are targeted by the regulators and legislators, and electric utilities cannot dodge this big bullet coming their way.
Another potential national legislative mandate on the horizon is the "energy efficiency resource standard", where government will tell every seller of electricity to meet a percentage of its sales growth with energy efficiency savings rather than sales. Nineteen states, and some individual utilities on a voluntary basis, have some form of this in place already. This standard requires electric utilities to do whatever they must do to get customers to buy less electricity to meet savings targets.
The best hope for electric utilities is to change their old relationship with their customers and change customer behavior at the same time.
What is this new relationship? How does it get created? What customer behavior must change for utilities to survive? How can the customer-utility paradigm change?
When asked, many electric utilities today will say defensively "We have a fine relationship with our customers, thank you very much." But they don't actually. Most customers don't even know who their electric provider is or where the power comes from; a consumer owned utility, a privately owned utility or a cooperative? Most customers don't care; and that is the biggest problem we face. Most electric consumers just flip a switch and pay a bill. That is all about to change. They are about to be bombarded with internet applications that not only promote home energy savings, but marketers will use that premise to capture other profitable services to consumers as well. Home energy audits, performance evaluations and energy usage monitoring will be combined with access to shopping for "energy saving" devices, appliances and computers and data that also will be linked to lots of totally unrelated things and applications to buy over the Internet.
What will be lost is the old utility-customer relationship. Left unchecked or unchallenged, electric utilities won't have direct-customers anymore; Internet, media and telecommunications companies will have the electric customer relationship as just one aspect of their relationship with their customer. The thousands of electric utilities operating today across America will be viewed as the old backbone, backwater infrastructure, like the roads, sewers and water pipes that are just there to be used up, and need to be fixed on occasion. And, electric utilities will have to be there to fix everything at their cost, so Internet companies and energy service marketers can make a profit on the relationship they used to have with their customers.
Not only do electric utilities have to act now and pre-empt the invasion of these marketers and internet giants on their customer turf, they need to take on the things that these companies will offer up, or find ways to partner up with these marketers, to survive. And, electric utilities will have to be proactive in Congress, state legislatures and regulatory agencies, like FERC and EPA, to watch their backsides, showing these federal and state officials that electric utilities can do all these things being promised and do them better.
Turning Customers Green
At the same time, electric utilities must uncover and capture the secret to turning their customers "green" as they must turn off their greenhouse gas spewing power plants, convince customers to conserve and at the same time willingly pay more for electricity that doesn't seem to be any different than it was before. The road to making electric consumers "greener" is not just about putting smart meters in their homes or inundating them with energy conservation brochures; it is about getting into the psyche of the consumer and permanently changing behavior. Traditional energy conservation campaigns are based on the idea that the more information people have about energy savings, the more they will save. That works to a certain extent, but is not the panacea, and for some consumers does not work at all. Dangling financial incentives in front of customers, through rebates and credits, works for some consumers, but not all. New customer strategies must be added to the old mix.
The most successful and powerful way to permanently change behavior is to change social norms. When people find out that their neighbors are more successful than they are, at anything, they want to know more and want to meet or beat them. Home energy reports, being produced by companies like O Power, comparing home energy usage with neighbors or business peers, have been very effective in changing energy usage (they send out smiley faces for good consumers, frowning faces for energy hogs). Peer pressure can be very effective. And, for those energy couch potatoes who don't care what the neighbors or statistically similar couch potatoes do, they will probably need financial incentives to inspire significant energy consumption reduction.
Psychologists study the power of "modeling behavior" on modern human beings in all kinds of settings; and so should electric utilities. Electric utilities must explore new ways to get consumer types (competitive, indifferent, zealots and persuadable types) to become habitual energy conservationists and still love their local utility. To survive as an industry in the future, an electric utility must change enough of its customer base to model energy conservation behavior in more ways than just changing a few incandescent bulbs to compact fluorescents or trade in an old energy hog refrigerator. How we use electric energy everyday in every way, at home, on the road, in the office, in someone else's home, on vacation, everywhere, must change to meet the kind of national goals that will be set to clean up the air and to reduce dependence on, coal and other carbon based fuel for energy. Laws and regulations will change. Habits have to change.
Are electric utilities responsible for people's habits? Yes, to a certain degree, they are. For 100 years, electric utilities have promoted using as much electricity as one wanted. In the sixties, electric utilities promoted the "all electric home". Now electric utilities will be responsible for getting people to conserve (or pay a very high price to keep the same level of electric gluttony) and buy energy efficient appliances. This won't be easy as consumers are inundated with electricity fueled devices, everywhere, all day long, connected to them continuously, feeding their need for social interaction, business interaction, every kind of consumption and entertainment through multiple media connections and displays. There is more need for electric power now, not less. The electricity business is not going away. But, like it or not, the politicians and regulators will turn to electric utilities to change consumer behavior, or pay a lot more for power and the right to operate a utility if utilities don't get on board.
Technology is Not the Panacea
A lot is being written and hyped about how Smart Meters and Smart Grids in America will be the solution to all these energy conservation and climate change problems. They are not the panacea, but they will help. Consumer behavior does not change simply by installing devices in the home; it is more complex than that. New approaches to change behavior must be designed; utilities need to offer up and promote electricity consumption packages tailored to individual needs. Behavioral changes have to be a part of the use of these new devices in the home and business. Smart Meters and the Smart Grid must accommodate a portfolio of customer choices, new energy conservation programs, individualization of customer energy needs and desires and there will have to be a lot of advanced testing of all of these things to see if they can facilitate significant change in customer energy usage behavior.
The Economists Have Taken Over
Talk to an economist about consumer behavior and she will say that it is all about supply and demand, and allowing markets the opportunity to work, whether it is selling bananas or electricity. What about conservation? Getting people not to buy things or services does seem counter intuitive to simple economic principles. And, there are a lot of economists out there, and particularly in the federal government and state agencies, who believe that the key to reducing energy consumption in America (and eliminating the need to build new polluting power plants) is to allow marketers to sell back to utilities contracts they make with consumers "not to use electricity when power is expensive to buy" (called demand-response contracts). Economic principles are not always the solution to changing behavior in a sustainable way. Behavioral economics is an art, not a science, and needs to be tempered by how human beings react in different economic times, good and bad. Electric utilities need to speak up and challenge arbitrary economic theories with real studies of consumer behavior.
Renewable Energy is Great, But Big New Transmission Lines, Not in My Back Yard!
A big piece of the utility-customer relationship is the external image the utility presents to the public. It can be good, neutral or bad, and can quickly become real bad. The electric consumer does not live in a shell; power plants and particularly power lines are all around us. And, in order to produce and generate an enormous amount of new renewable power, to replace a big chunk of carbon based power production, it will take a huge amount of new construction of new transmission lines across American going from places where there will be solar and wind generators to the big load centers-our cities.
These new electric power transmission needs of electric utilities will stir up anger, frustration and protest by lots of folks who will have new transmission towers and lines built at or near where they live like never before. Electric utilities will have to deal with significant "NIMBY-Not in My Backyard" protesters as renewable energy gets really going and built in America. This is another part of the customer relationship that electric utilities must deal with and it won't be fun. There have been very few significant new transmission lines built in the last two decades in this country. A lot is being planned. Are electric utilities ready for the new NIMBYs who are all connected up with internet chat rooms and experienced at hooking up with other groups to stop these projects from going forward? A lot more advanced outreach and communication with affected customers and others will be required.
What About My Utility Records-Is Anything Confidential Anymore?
Electric customers in America have enjoyed confidentiality for a century; nobody can get my consumption records without my consent. All of that is going to change. Added to the new customer relationship paradigm is a whole host of concerns about privacy of customer consumption and financial records; how will utilities deal with that in the future as Internet companies and energy service marketers demand customer information? Technological innovation will allow all sorts of access to data for customers and utilities and new ways to communicate with each other; this all has tremendous future commercial value outside of the traditional customer-utility relationship. Will utilities take advantage of these opportunities or be forced to sell customer data to third party marketers? This could all result in a lot of abuse of consumers and consumer backlash. Electric utilities today need to speak out and protect customers.
Rates and Bills Have To Change
Electric consumers pay bills, all kinds of them; but electric utilities are focused on rates, cost recovery and profits (for investor owned utilities). The consumer today is not interested in multiple rates and charges and how they pay for their share of the cost of service, nor are they interested in trying to decipher a bill that has line after line of incomprehensible acronyms and numbers. They might be interested in choosing from a portfolio of services designed in part to encourage conservation. But they will have to learn and understand how this all will work in the future and the utility must prepare them for it; this has not been the practice in the electric utility business.
Bills and billing are going to change radically for electric utilities. There will be federal and state legislative and regulatory initiatives that will force utilities to offer time of use rates, rates to charge electric vehicles at home, work or on the road, credits or payments back to electric customers who produce their own electricity with solar panels (PV) or wind, fuel cells or biogas systems (called "net metering"), demand response credits for not using electricity during peak power use periods and other forms of charges and credits for new services to be dreamed up in the future. Charging customers for a portfolio of services related to electricity or add-ons will get complicated, and utilities won't want to get in a situation where they are not recovering the actual cost of these services to different "kinds of electric customers". Customized energy service plans are coming.
The New Era of Hyper-Federal Regulation of Electric Utilities
The energy business flirted with deregulation over the last few decades. Wholesale electric power production and sale is deregulated, but deregulation at the consumer-retail level was a gigantic failure, particularly in California and the West. The result is a mess and there has been a move to re-regulate things in the electric business from the federal level, things that local and regional utilities did very well voluntarily in the past, without mandates. There are two archetypes in the electric energy and utility business today: traditional electric power providers and energy profiteers. Federal law seems to promote both in ways that are seemingly inconsistent. And, policy makers at the federal level are using new powers, from recent changes in the law, to mandate how electric utilities do everything-how they run generators and transmission lines through thousands of new reliability regulations and how utilities operate their systems down to the neighborhood substation.
Next will be federal and state regulation of the customer relationship-what utilities must tell their customers, what they must offer, etc., taking away local choice and flexibility. This is a dangerous and present threat, and electric utilities need to get politically activity to stop the mandates coming down from inside the Belt Way or in the state legislature. Most of the energy and Internet marketers who want to capture and permanently take away the old utility-customer relationship are in the halls of Congress everyday lobbying for more federal mandates that help their business goals. It has nothing to do with what is good for consumers or the environment or reliability.
Getting SMUD Customers Engaged
The Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) has new programs to "coach" its customers to get more involved in their energy decisions. In a pilot program, launched in 2008, SMUD sent 35,000 home energy reports to customers detailing their energy use for a year compared to customers in similarly sized and aged homes and suggested actions they could take to reduce their electric usage; people got competitive and more engaged with the utility. These reports netted an overall 2.2% reduction in annual savings for these customers. On the Web, you can make SMUD a "friend" on Facebook and learn all about ways to save energy; and you can Twitter SMUD with questions about services or energy.
In 2009, SMUD management and Board members held 108 local community meetings around the service territory to explain changes to rates and what customers could do to save energy. SMUD employees go out to neighborhoods door to door handing out compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) and energy saving information. Over two million CFLS are now in homes in Sacramento through SMUD programs. SMUD has added to its web site an individual carbon calculator and an on-line program that allows customers to purchase carbon offsets through SMUD programs, like dairy digester energy production. Over the course of the next year, every one of SMUD's 660,000 customers will get a Smart Meter and pilot programs will begin testing time of use rates and other potential energy efficiency ideas.
These challenges are daunting, but the electric utilities I know, like SMUD, are up for the task. It will require new energy, new commitment and new customer relationships, all of which will be needed for electric utilities to survive in the 21st century.
The biggest threat to utilities is from natural gas - which is now in plentiful supply (200 years or more by some estimates) in the USA and Canada. As it becomes available to more and more consumers markets having typically guaranteed electrical demand will find those demands disappearing.
In my case when natural gas was available, the dryer was switched to gas, the hot water heater was switched to gas and the heating system was switched to gas. That is a direct destruction of electrical demand.
Add to that the recent conversion of most of the lighting in my house to low consumption LED's and you have a recipe for very real financial hardship for utilities.
The next step will be this: In order to pay for all the demand reduction programs, replacement of aging infrastructure and new power plants as well as shareholder profits electricity rates must go up. This will be the final straw that broke the consumers back. Once that occurs (and it is inevitable) Solid Oxide Fuel Cell technology (now in its infancy but where LED lights were 10 years ago) will be able to replace grid connections with home produced silent electricity at a price that is cost competitive. The size of the SOFC unit required will (due to demand reduction) be much smaller than would otherwise be the case and therefore cheaper.
Once large numbers of people and industries start moving in this direction grid based utility infrastructure is going to be a thing of the past and distributed generation will take its place.
The utilities have taken their customers for granted with the assumption that they will always pay for the product because it is essential to modern living. That will be the case until the transaction cost to switch completely to gas is reached.
That tipping point is about 10 years away.
Utilities have only one option to forestall this event - which is to reduce prices. All the evidence, unfortunately points to the contrary. In order to survive (and a really do believe as you do that this IS a game of survival) utilities MUST lower their prices. Technology can certainly help in many ways but I see no evidence of that happening.
Very timely and thought provoking article for anyone managing a utility business.
First, they should make their product a designer item by convincing their customers that the utility is the smartest and most fashionable lighting designer in the world, then exploit the near infinite variatons of lighting systems now available to provide the homeowner with the "decorator/designer's dream" lighting system, one that will make their friends and in-laws green with envy. Break even on the costs and billings of the design department including marketing. Competitive edge is access to volume purchases.
Second, get electric cars working well, and on the road asap.
A bit of news this week Google announced it is retiring its Google PowerMeter home energy management project after only two years, and so too is Microsoft killing its Hohm competing product.
The common problem cited by both companies was too slow take-up of the technology by the utility industry and, by extension, all their customers. In other words they weren't making enough money at them to justify keeping them going.
This news reflects the massive frustration Len and I have been sharing for years now on this website. The utility industry just isn't prepared or interested in changing their business models to financially support and embrace what this article is all about, that is the adoption and commercialization of new energy management technologies and much more interactions with their customers on a wide scale.
This news also supports Malcolm's dire warnings in his post here above for the utility industry.
In my experiences over many years I learned that many utility industry people think home energy management would be a great thing for all their consumers to adopt and to interact much more with customers on, but they cannot move at more than a snail's pace to support it without much faster ways to finance its rollout.
Len's IMEUC market reform proposal on this website is a high-level solution for the utility industry to realize energy management, by using technology for energy bill management, for all its customers. Real-time energy and bill monitoring would be a critical component of Len's or any other solution. Sadly we won't see the utility financing the adoption and support of any wide scale solution until governments force them to, either with direct handouts, or with enabling them to use other ways to raise money, or until their own business survival forces them to down the road as Malcolm warns about.
In any scenario, we can look forward to a long and bumpy road ahead for the electricity industry in North America. In time we will all realize we never had it so good as in the past when our energy supply was cheap and abundant, and nobody cared about electrical energy management or efficiencies. To this day most consumers still don't want the extra hassle of dealing with this stuff, but their pocketbooks will eventually force them to as it will in the utility industry.
Save your pennies guys, we're going to need every one of them.
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CLASSIC PAPER-FOOTBALL ACTION in 3D
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Flick the paper football back and forth across the table in the ultimate test of finger dominance, or play kick mode and launch the paper football into the air again and again... until your own nerves break you!
Paper Football 3D — This game is best played on a tablet facing upright in "kick mode." Then, it's just like the flick football you used to play in school. Unfortunately, it took me about ten minutes to figure it out, but maybe I have saved you some trouble. Recommend.


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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - Chattanooga is eyeing a proposed $40 million housing and commercial project as a way to add housing and connect the city's downtown and waterfront areas.
A Nashville development company plans to start working with the Tennessee Valley Authority to gain permits to kick off construction of the project that would add 70 cottage-style homes and 200 apartments.
Evergreen Real Estate official Aaron White told the Chattanooga Times Free Press (http://bit.ly/171fevF ) the project would resolve the issue of Chattanooga's downtown being undersupplied with housing.
The city's planning panel gave a thumbs up to the project last week. A rezoning of the 11-acre area still needs to be approved by the City Council.
If that happens, White says, construction could start next spring on one of the city's largest-ever riverfront mixed-used projects.


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Im a Newbie. I could use some advice on how to have a pool table appraised. Can one simply send pictures to a reputable appraiser? If so, who? The table is a Hustler by Rozel. I have no idea if there are many of these tables in circulation. The person who gave me the table a few years ago said that he purchased it new directly from Minnesota Fats himself when he was peddling pool tables in the St. Louis area in the early 1960s. [Is it common knowledge that Fats peddled tables?] The table has a slatine top, 7 feet x 4 feet. It is still in good shape.
I would appreciate any information you may have or any recommendations for appraisals via Websites, addresses, etc.
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May 6, 2016
A father and his son have been charged with growing marijuana at their two homes, one which is across the street from an elementary school.
Nash County deputies say today they searched a home on red Oak Road in Nashville where they found an indoor marijuana growing operation. They discovered eight marijuana plants, two to three feet high, growing in a utility room. They were set up with a watering system, lights and ventilation. Also seized were some 3-1/2 pounds of pot and 15 firearms.
Paul Brantley, Jr. was charged with possession with the intent to sale and deliver marijuana, felony possession of marijuana, manufacture marijuana, maintaining a dwelling for the purpose of keeping/storing a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Investigators learned that Brantley's son may also have an indoor grow operation. They searched Timothy Brantley's home on Curtis Street in Rocky Mount, which is across from Williford Elementary School. Inside deputies confiscated 42 pot plants, a gun and materials to grow marijuana.
The son was charged with manufacture marijuana, maintaining a dwelling for the keeping and storage of marijuana, possession with the intent to sale and deliver marijuana, manufacture a controlled substance within 1000 feet of a school and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Both father and son have court dates on Tuesday.
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We are a diverse community committed to educational opportunities within an atmosphere of respect for others. All of this takes place in a splendid natural setting with well-maintained buildings and grounds that not only support our academic and co-curricular programs, but also impart a sense of permanence, stability, tradition, and stewardship.
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For all of its usefulness, acetate does cause a few headaches — ink that won't stay, a yellow or grayish cast to old acetate, edges that curl. The alternatives are expensive and sometimes just don't suit the purpose.
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Buckingham Palace concert for Queen's Diamond Jubilee: Preview and weather update
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Pop music royalty will perform outside Buckingham Palace tonight in today's big event celebrating the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
Stevie Wonder is among the all-star list of artists performing, which also includes Sir Paul McCartney, JLS, Sir Elton John and Kylie Minogue.
Other acts include Will.i.am. Sir Tom Jones, Jessie J, Dame Shirley Bassey, Annie Lennox and Ed Sheeran.
The concert follows yesterday's spectacular Diamond Jubilee pageant that attracted more than a million people to the banks of the River Thames to watch the event despite wet and cold conditions.
The Queen will be joined by many members of the Royal Family including the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince of Wales, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry at the concert.
A highlight of the night will see pop veterans Madness perform on Buckingham Palace's roof, playing their hit Our House.
Another special moment will see the performance of Sing, the special Jubilee song written by Gary Barlow and Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Before the concert is held on a stage in the shadow of Buckingham Palace 10,000 lucky ballot winners, who won seats to the event, will enjoy a picnic in Buckingham Palace's garden with a hamper created by celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal, the Queen's royal chef Mark Flanagan and Waitrose.
Revellers attending tonight's concert should be able to leave their umbrellas at home - after forecasters predicted an end to the wet and wintry weather.
The gloomy skies are set to brighten for the musical extravaganza with dry and sunny conditions expected as the event gets under way at 7.30pm.
Experts said the weather will vastly improve as the day progresses following the downpours and cold winds that hit the capital during the river pageant.
Six pageant participants were taken to hospital yesterday after becoming very cold and wet, while another 40 people were treated by medics on the banks of the river.


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Real World perspective.
|Beck's Beginning
|Media Type
|Television series
|Charlie Bean
|Edward Kitsis
Adam Horowitz
|Elijah Wood
Bruce Boxleitner
Lance Henriksen
|Release Date
|May 18, 2012
Beck's Beginning is the premiere episode of TRON: Uprising.
Plot Synopsis
Beck works at Able's garage with his friends Bodhi, Zed, and Mara. He enjoys his job, but not as much as the disc games he and his friends would otherwise play.
As the group of friends enjoy some recreational time together in a friendly disc game, a military battalion, led by General Tessler, arrives and takes over their playing field. Tessler then informs the people of Argon City that the city is now under occupation. When a giant statue of Clu is dropped in the center of the game field, Bodhi protests and is derezzed by a guard, much to Beck's horror. Deciding to fight back against the Occupation, Beck uses his recoder on his disc to modify his light suit to look similar to Tron's. He then scales the statue, removes its head, and drops a light grenade inside to destroy it.
A guard reports the statue's destruction to Tessler along with the observation that the culprit looked like Tron. Clu enters and refutes this claim, saying that Tron is dead. Tessler responds by sending his second-in-command, Paige, to find this masked renegade.
Once Beck dispatches two of the Black Guard that pursued him after the statue's destruction, he is confronted by Paige and they get into a protracted fight. Boarding a light copter, Beck overpowers the pilot, but damages the flight controls in the process. He is then forced to abandon the craft and bails out over the Outlands.
After repairing an abandoned light crawler, Beck heads for home, but finds himself pursued by a masked program. Unable to escape, he is soon overpowered and captured. He then awakens to discover that he is being held captive in a large chamber and that same program approaches to interrogate him. As the stranger proceeds to question him, Beck secretly starts using his recoder to to disable his bindings. Once free of his binds he grabs his disc and lunges at the stranger, who was anticipating this and dodges Beck's attack. He then knocks Beck's disc to the ground and continues to fend him off. Their verbal exchange continues throughout the fight, and eventually the stranger simply unmasks himself, saying that Beck was right about one thing. "I'm not dead," he says as his light suit and disc change to reveal that he is actually Tron.
Tron explains how he was programmed to defend the Grid, and how he was betrayed by Clu. He tries to convince Beck to join him and become the next Tron in a fight against the Occupation, but Beck's self doubt has the young program declining at every turn. Beck then returns to Argon City.
Back the garage Beck learns of a new development on the workshop floor. He heads downstairs to find a small group of guards and Paige are in the garage showing the workers a recording of Beck as Tron, and requesting that this rogue program be handed over. Tron is dubbed the Renegade since the army doesn't believe him to actually be Tron. Paige then informs them that the games will be coming to Argon and until the imposter is turned in, "volunteers" for the games will be rounded up.
The next day Beck is horrified to see Tessler rounding up programs for the games, including his friends. Beck dons his black Tron guise and pursues the light rail being used to transport his captive friends. He jumps onto the rail and fights a Black Guard. Beck gains the upper hand and appears ready to derez the Guardsman, but instead breaks the connection of the last car, leaving the soldier confused at why he was spared. Beck opens the car only to see that it is empty and activates his light cycle to catch up with the rail. Beck gets ahead of the rail and breaks the light beam causing it to crash, yet leaving the captive programs uninjured. The Guardsman then helps him find and free his friends, but is then derezzed by Tessler for helping the Renegade. Tessler and Beck fight and Beck is able to throw Tessler into a rail light beam sending Tessler off at high speed. An angry Tessler is picked up by Paige in a light copter.
Beck returns to Tron's hideout in the Outlands and tells him that he is ready to undergo training to become the next Tron. Tron proclaims that he isn't ready, but he will be. Tron then removes his disc and separates it into two halves, one white and one black, which causes his light suit to change black. He then gives the white half to Beck who gives Tron half of his disc. Beck combines the white half with his black half and puts the disc on, giving him Tron's light suit. Tron completes the exchange with the words, "Come, we have a lot of work to do, Tron."


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Vodacom Miss Tanzania 2011 Salha Israel is contesting for Miss World crown in England tonight.
The 61st edition is to be staged at Earls Court Two in London where by 113 beauties from all corners of the globe will fight for that coveted title. Fittingly, Earls Court Two was the venue where it all started in 1951.
Tanzanians will be waiting to see if Salha, who succeeded Genevieve Mpangala, will follow the footsteps or come close to Nancy Sumari who won Miss World Africa in 1995.
The contest is expected to be a mouth watering scenario as the beauties take to the ramp to outsmart one another in different facets in the event scheduled to start at 9.45pm.
Miss Tanzania organizing committee members led by coordinator Hashim Lundenga are in London to cheer the soft spoken beauty queen who also won Miss Ilala title. Reigning Miss World Alexandria Mills of the United States will crown her successor
Meanwhile, the 62nd Miss World pageant will take place in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, on the basis of an official announcement in London on Friday. Over 120 countries are expected to compete in the mystery surrounded Far Eastern country known more for its ancient glories around the world than its modern history.


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Disaster Resilience and Health
Natural disasters in developing countries can have a particularly devastating effect, taking lives and wiping out the hard-earned assets of poor people in a matter of minutes. Compounding this loss is the destruction of vital buildings, including health facilities that are central to recovery but which are often as vulnerable as other parts of the infrastructure. More


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Backyard For Rent: Gardeners and Campers Welcome
There are plenty of folks out there with green thumbs, but no place to get their hands dirty. Renting out a plot in your backyard to a would-be gardener is an easy way to earn some extra cash. Or, if your home is somewhere scenic, you might just want to let someone pitch a tent.


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If you plan to sleep in a tent during a multiple-day cycling adventure, one of the major challenges is finding a place to shower. The ubiquity of public bath houses (onsen or sento) in Japan made it easy for us to clean up almost every day of our ride without needing to get a hotel room.
There are hundreds of government-designated rest stops throughout Japan called Roadside Stations (michi no eki), which came in handy on our ride. They typically have information on the local area, food and places to rest. Some include playgrounds, an onsen and other family-friendly attractions.
If you arrive by bike in a town without any advanced information, make your way to the main train station. That is typically where you will find tourist info. Police officers, often stationed in neighborhood "police boxes" called koban also usually have helpful information.