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ANJeL is pleased to host the first event below in Brisbane, and co-host the second at UNSW (as well as the 10 August CAPLUS symposium on Consumer and Contract Law Reform in Asia).
International investment treaties and investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) are in the news again, notably in Australia and India, which are negotiating a bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA) as well as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP or "ASEAN+6" FTA). The possibility is emerging of a shift from US-style to contemporary EU-style treaty drafting in the broader Asian region, as a new compromise between the interests of foreign investors and host states.
Private law and regulatory frameworks impacting on consumer protection are being reformed in many parts of Asia, the world economy's fastest-growing region. This development is important for Australian exporters and outbound investors, as well as policy-makers engaged over 2016 in a five-yearly review of the Australian Consumer Law. [My Submission to that inquiry is here - Download file]
This symposium on 10 August 2016, hosted by the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law at the University of Sydney (CAPLUS) with support from the Australian Network for Japanese Law (ANJeL), brings together experts from around the Asian region to outline and compare reform initiatives achieved or underway in consumer law as well as contract law more generally. [On 12 August at UNSW, ANJeL is also supporting a symposium on "Democracy, Pacificism & Constitutional Change: Amending Article 9?": the draft program is here - Download file.]
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement was signed in February 2016 by 12 Asia-Pacific economies that already account for 40% of world GDP, including the United States, Japan and Australia. If ratified, economists model significant economic growth prospects, especially for smaller and/or less developed member states, with a considerable impetus coming from greater cross-border investment. Further economic benefits are expected if others join the existing signatories, with expressions of interest already coming from leaders in several Asian states.
However, whether the treaty will be ratified and come into force remains unclear, partly because of some ongoing opposition to the TPP's investment chapter provisions even within existing signatories, for example from some quarters within Australia (and, to a lesser extent, Japan). One focus of criticism is the extra option of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), aimed at more credibly enforcing the substantive protections and liberalisation commitments of host states. My paper for a conference on FTAs in Melbourne on 19 May 2016, (at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2767996 and outlined below) assesses such concerns.
A version will also be presented at the Institute for Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore on 5 August, for their interdisciplinary project on the impact of the TPP in the region. In addition, on 4 August I will present a broader paper on "Rebalancing Investment Treaties and Investor-State Arbitration in Asia and Australia" at the SMU workshop on "Regulation and Investment Disputes: Asian Perspectives".
The pros and cons of ISDS nowadays will be further addressed in another joint research conference and book project with Chulalongkorn University, funded by its ASEAN Studies Centre, at a conference in Bangkok on 18 July that compares the experiences and debates over treaty-based ISDS as well as contract-based investment arbitration across all ten ASEAN member states (including current TPP signatories, and potential additional ones like Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines). The draft program and speakers are listed below.
[Reproduced from https://elgarblog.com/2015/05/28/japanese-law-the-hero-by-leon-wolff/; based on our co-edited book published last year, Who Rules Japan? Popular Participation in the Japanese Legal Process]
The legal system in Japan is undergoing substantial change. Associate Professor Leon Wolff argues that for all its faults, these changes represent a shift of power away from elites towards giving the people a say on policy decisions.
This project (funded for 2014-6) will evaluate the economic and legal risks associated with the Australian Government's current policy on investor-state dispute settlement through multidisciplinary research, namely econometric modeling, empirical research through stakeholder surveys and interviews, as well as critical analysis of case law, treaties and regulatory approaches. The aim of this project is to identify optimal methods of investor-state dispute prevention, avoidance and resolution that efficiently cater to inbound and outbound investors as well as Australia as a whole. The goal is to promote a positive climate for investment inflows and outflows, while maintaining Australia's ability to take sovereign decisions on matters of public policy.
For the econometric study of the impact of ISDS on FDI inflows, CI Armstrong has completed the literature review, data assembly and coding, producing preliminary results. These have been incorporated into a paper jointly with CI Nottage on "Mixing Methodologies" for an Oslo University "Pluricourts" program book project. CI Nottage, plus CI Trakman, have completed numerous semi-structured and informal interviews on stakeholders involved or interested in international investment dispute resolution and given many public lectures individually and sometimes jointly, nationally and internationally. Drawing on interim project findings, Nottage has also provided evidence and submissions for several parliamentary inquiries since 2014 (including on 19 February 2016 for the JSCOT inquiry into ratifying the Trans-Pacific Partnership FTA, based on three recent postings on this Blog), as well as media commentary. CI Kurtz has also given many presentations drawing on his analysis of arbitral jurisprudence and commentary. All this has already generated many research publications, listed below (updating from April 2015 here).
Happy New Year of the Monkey! I am also pleased to report that two new books will be forthcoming.
One is co-edited by Chulalongkorn University Law Faculty (and immediate past Dean) Prof Sakda Thanitcul, who like me studied for an LLD at Kyoto University (but, unlike myself, persevered and obtained the degree there, as well as another PhD from the University of Washington). Entitled "ASEAN Product Liability and Consumer Product Safety Law", this volume adds the editors' introduction plus two other general chapters to ten country reports presented and discussed at a major international conference held late July 2015 in Bangkok, funded by Chulalongkorn University's ASEAN Studies Centre and hosted at Thailand's Ministry of Commerce facilities. Thanks also to publication support from the Centre as well as the Sydney Southeast Asian Centre (SSEAC), complimentary copies of the English version will be distributed to delegates at the 2nd ASEAN Consumer Protection conference, also being held in Bangkok over 14-15 December (see here for my co-authored volume of Policy Digests & Case Studies for that conference, and Volume 1 tabled at the 1st conference in Hanoi a year earlier). In addition, the book will be translated and published in Thai in early 2016, through Thailand's leading legal publisher (Winyuchon), to reach a broader audience at reasonable cost. With priority to national and international regulators and NGOs, other complimentary copies of the English version are available on request, to assist in the important and ongoing task of harmonising and strengthening consumer law and enforcement, amidst major trade and investment liberalisation initiatives underway in the region - including now the Trans-Pacific Partnership FTA. The editors' introductory chapter is also freely downloadable via SSRN.com, and Prof Sakda will be visiting the University of Sydney in late July 2016 thanks to further support from SSEAC. Bios for all contributors to this book are listed below.*
Southeast Asia has long been known as a particularly dynamic part of the global economy. In 2007 the leaders of the ten member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations further agreed to accelerate the project to complete a single market or "ASEAN Economic Community" by the end of 2015. Less well known is that their blueprint also committed to improve and harmonise consumer law, to prevent a "regulatory race to the bottom". A new Committee has encouraged member states to enact strict product liability regimes (as in Australia, Japan and the EU) aimed at making it easier for consumers (and sometimes even businesses) to be compensated for harms suffered from unsafe products. ASEAN states have also introduced new or revised laws allowing regulators to set mandatory safety standards before products are put into circulation, and to enforce post-market controls such as bans and recalls of unsafe products.
The second new book is on "Independent Directors in Asia", co-edited for Cambridge University Press with ANJeL stalwarts Profs Harald Baum (MPI Hamburg), Souichirou Kozuka (Gakushuin, Tokyo) and Dan Puchniak (NUS). As previously mentioned on this Blog, contributions have been extensively workshopped at major conferences in Berlin and then Singapore, as well as by individual authors in other forums. A longer version of the chapter comparing Australia, which I co-authored with Fady Aoun, is also forthcoming in early 2016 from the University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review. Core aspects of corporate governance in Asia provides essential backdrop to firms' dealings with consumers as well as their cross-border engagement facilitated nowadays through FTAs.
* LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS to the ASEAN Product Liability and Consumer Product Safety book:
Riza Buditomo is an Associate Partner in the Corporate & Securities practice group of Hadiputranto, Hadinoto and Partners (member firm of Baker & McKenzie). He graduated from the University of Indonesia with a B.A. Law in 2004, and Accounting Diploma in 2002. With an educational background in accounting and tax as well as law, Riza focuses on corporate/commercial, trade and tax work. This includes consumer protection, export/import, food industry, and anti-dumping issues. He has also been involved in several due diligence projects for acquisitions and mergers, drafting legal due diligence reports, providing various types of legal advice and assisting major clients in a number of high profile transactions. Riza is admitted in Indonesian Courts including the Tax Court. Riza is also a certified customs consultant.
Rumondang Sari Dewi is an Associate in the Corporate & Securities practice group of Hadiputranto, Hadinoto and Partners. She graduated from the University of Padjadjaran with a B.A. Law in 2009. She has been involved in assisting and advising clients in various corporate and trade matters. She also has experience assisting clients in dealing with government authorities on licenses and approvals.
Sornpheth Douangdy is Associate Director in charge of both legal and tax services at PricewaterhouseCoopers (Lao) Company Limited. Prior to working at PricewaterhouseCoopers, he was the Deputy Head of the Law Research Division in the Law research and International Cooperation Institute and the Ministry of Justice in Lao; Deputy Head of the Law Research Division in the Law Research Centre at the Ministry of Justice; a member of the Civil Law Working Group to prepare the Civil law Textbook and to amend Contract Law, Tort Law, and Law on Economic Arbitration Organisation; a lecturer in Intellectual Property Law at the Law Colleges; the co-ordinator of Ministry of Justice to the UNODC; a member of the secretariat team to implement the UN Convention against Corruption; and a judge of Saysettha Court, Vientiane. Sornpheth holds a bachelor degree from the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the National University of Laos, and a post-graduate Business Law and Commercial Law degree from Curtin University of Technology, Australia.
Geraint Howells is Chair Professor of Commercial Law and Dean of the Law School at City University of Hong Kong; barrister at Gough Square Chambers, London (though not currently practising) and former President of the International Association of Consumer Law. He previously held chairs at Sheffield, Lancaster and Manchester and has been head of law schools at Lancaster and Manchester. His books include Comparative Product Liability, Consumer Product Safety, Consumer Protection Law, EC Consumer Law, Product Liability, European Fair Trading Law, Handbook of Research on International Consumer Law and The Tobacco Challenge. He has undertaken extensive consultancy work for the EU and UK government as well as for NGOs.
Dr Jocelyn Kellam has a particular interest in product liability in the Asia Pacific. Previously a partner with one of Australia's national law firms and an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Sydney she holds a PhD (USydney) and LLM (Tuebingen) in comparative product liability law. Jocelyn is the general editor of a comparative text, Product Liability in the Asia Pacific (Federation Press, 3rd ed 2009), and the former general editor of the Australian Product Liability Reporter.
Khin Mar Yee (LLB, LLM, PhD) is Professor and Head of the Department of Law, University of Yangon. Her teaching and research interests include international trade law, intellectual property law and the Law of the Sea.
John E King is a partner in Tilleke & Gibbins, heading the firm's Cambodia practice in Phnom Penh. He is supported by a strong team of local Khmer advisors and the international expertise of the firm's offices across Southeast Asia to provide advice that is tailored to the franchising, life sciences, and technology sectors. John previously led the firm's Dispute Resolution Department for several years, and he played a central role in building Tilleke & Gibbins' Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City offices, where he served as managing director from 2007 to 2010.
John is a US-licensed attorney, and a founding member of the Thailand branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He earned his Juris Doctor (JD) with high distinction (magna cum laude and Order of the Coif) from the University of Minnesota, and he practiced banking and finance law at Leonard, Street & Deinard, a leading U.S. law firm, prior to joining Tilleke & Gibbins.
Dyan Danika Lim (BS, JD) specialises in energy, gas, oil, telecommunications & public utilities litigation and alternative dispute resolution with a particular interest in domestic and international arbitration and cross border litigation. She also handles product liability cases. She is currently an Associate Solicitor at the Office of the Solicitor General of the Philippines and a Professor at the De La Salle University, College of Law. Prior to joining the government, she worked as a Senior Associate at the Litigation and Dispute Resolution department of the Angara Abello Concepcion Regala & Cruz Law Offices. She is a member of the UP Women Lawyer's Circle and the Young International Arbitration Group.
Chee Wee graduated from the University of New South Wales in Australia with LLB and BComm (Accounting) degrees. He was called to the Malaysian Bar as an Advocate and Solicitor in the High Court of Malaya in 1993 and started practising in SKRINE, where he became a partner in 2001. Chee Wee is the immediate past president of the Malaysian Bar.
Chee Wee has a broad commercial practice. He also has an established public and administrative law practice, having regularly advised and acted as Counsel for the Malaysian stock exchange and another regulator. His other areas of practice encompass banking, construction and engineering, land law, reinsurance, trusts and partnership disputes. He is listed in various international legal directories as a leading individual for dispute resolution.
Managing Director of HBS Law, Attorney-at-law and Member of the Council of Jurists of the Council of Ministers of the Royal Government of Cambodia
Ng Hui Min is a partner in Rodyk & Davidson LLP's Litigation & Arbitration Practice Group. Hui Min graduated from National University of Singapore in 2006 and was admitted to the Singapore Bar as an Advocate & Solicitor in Singapore in May 2007. Hui Min is effectively bilingual in English and Chinese, and her main areas of practice encompass commercial litigation, corporate and investment disputes litigation, insolvency cases and employment disputes. She represents and advises companies and individuals on a wide array of commercial issues including commodities disputes, international sale of goods, directors' duties, and shareholders' disputes.
In her practice, Hui Min has represented companies on contractual disputes in the oil and gas industry as well as in the commodities industry where she has dealt with issues ranging from breach of warranty to claims under guarantees. Hui Min has also acted for companies in international arbitrations with respect to claims associated with international trade including commodities disputes. Hui Min has also acted for a variety of clients in employment matters, and possesses particular expertise in the area of confidentiality and restrictive covenants. In her insolvency practice, Hui Min has advised and acted for shareholders of companies where she has dealt with issues which include directors' breach of fiduciary duties and deadlock between directors leading to a winding up of companies.
Dr Luke Nottage specialises in contract law, consumer product safety law, corporate governance and international arbitration, with a particular interest in the Asia-Pacific region. He is Professor of Comparative and Transnational Business Law at Sydney Law School, founding Co-Director of the Australian Network for Japanese Law (sydney.edu.au/law/anjel), and Associate Director of the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law at the University of Sydney (CAPLUS). Luke's 11 books include International Arbitration in Australia (Federation Press, 2010), and Foreign Investment and Dispute Resolution Law and Practice in Asia (Routledge, 2011). He is an ACICA Special Associate and founding member of the Rules drafting committee, the Australasian Forum for International Arbitration council's Japan Representative, and on the panel of arbitrators for the BAC, JCAA, KCAB and KLRCA. Luke has also consulted for law firms world-wide, ASEAN, the EC, OECD, UNCTAD, UNDP and the Japanese government, and is Managing Director of Japanese Law Links Pty Ltd (www.japaneselawlinks.com).
Dr Colin Ong is a practising member of the Brunei, English and Singapore Bars. He has acted as arbitrator or as counsel in many commercial and investment arbitrations under most major rules of arbitration governed under Civil and Common Law. He is a Chartered Arbitrator and a Master of the Bench of the Inner Temple. He is or has been a Visiting Professor at various universities, including the University of Hong Kong; Universitas Indonesia; King's College (University of London); University of Malaya; Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia; Universitas Indonesia; Queen Mary (University of London); Padjadjaran University (Indonesia); and National University of Singapore. He is the author of several arbitration and law books and is an editorial board member of various legal journals including Arbitration (CIArb); Business Law International; Butterworths Journal of International Banking & Financial Law; Dispute Resolution International; and Maritime Risk International.
He currently holds various positions including President, Arbitration Association Brunei Darussalam; Advisory Board, BANI (Indonesia); Board, Cambodia National Commercial Arbitration Centre; Advisor to China-ASEAN Legal Research Center; ICC Commission on Arbitration; and ICCA-Queen Mary Task Force (Costs and Security for Costs). He was a Former Principal Legal Consultant, ASEAN Centre for Energy; Panel Member (Brunei Darussalam nominee) of the ASEAN Protocol on Enhanced Dispute Settlement Mechanism; and Former Vice President of the LCIA (Asia-Pacific Users' Committee).
Patricia-Ann T Prodigalidad (BS, LLB, LLM) is a Partner of the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department of Angara Abello Concepcion Regala & Cruz Law Offices (ACCRALAW). Ms Prodigalidad specializes primarily in commercial litigation (intra-corporate disputes; banking, investments and securities litigation; corporate rehabilitation and insolvency) and criminal matters relating to corporate activity (including white collar and other business-related crimes; anti-money laundering; anti-corruption and other FCPA issues), with particular focus on cross-border issues. She likewise practices extensively in the fields of international commercial and construction arbitration as well as product liability and antitrust litigation. Ms Prodigalidad also acts as an arbitrator in international commercial and domestic arbitration, both institutional and ad hoc. In 2013, Ms Prodigalidad passed the Fédéracion Internationale Des Ingénieurs-Conseils [FIDIC] Dispute Board Adjudicator Assessment Workshop sponsored by FIDIC and the Japanese International Cooperation Agency and was one of four (4) Philippine delegates accredited as a dispute board adjudicator. Leveraging on her science degree, Ms. Prodigalidad has successfully handled environmental law cases.
Ms Prodigalidad, a prolific author, obtained her Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of the Philippines, cum laude, graduating class salutatorian. She then topped (ranked 1st in) the 1996 Philippine Bar Examinations. In 2004, she obtained her master's degree in law from the Harvard Law School. Ms. Prodigalidad is a member of various professional domestic and international organizations and serves as trustee of the Philippine Dispute Resolution Center, Inc, the UP Women Lawyers' Circle and Harvard Law School Alumni Association. She is currently the National Secretary of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines, the countrywide organization of all lawyers in the Philippines.
Lawrence Teh is a partner in Rodyk & Davidson LLP's Litigation & Arbitration Practice Group. Lawrence advises clients and acts as an advocate in all areas of commercial law and appears regularly as leading counsel in the Singapore Courts, in arbitration and in other forms of dispute resolution. He is also appointed regularly as an arbitrator in international disputes. He has particular experience in international trade and commodities, maritime and aviation, banking and financial services, onshore and offshore construction, mergers acquisitions joint ventures and other investments, and insurance in related fields.
Lawrence is currently the Chairman of the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Committee at The Law Society of Singapore. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators, and a panel arbitrator at the Singapore International Arbitration Centre. He chaired the committee that drafted the Law Society Arbitration Rules and is a panel arbitrator of the Law Society Arbitration Scheme. Recently, he was appointed the Administrator of the Comite Maritime International (CMI) in 2013, and Chairman of the Promotion Committee of the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration (SCMA). He is also a Council Member of the Legal Practice Division in the International Bar Association (IBA). He is named in numerous legal guides and directories including the Asia Pacific Legal 500, International Who's Who for Commercial Litigation, International Who's Who of Shipping & Maritime, Asialaw Leading Lawyers for Shipping, Maritime & Aviation and on the Guide to the World's Leading Aviation Lawyers.
Dr Sakda Thanitcul is Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, Chulalongkorn University, in Bangkok. He earned his LLB from Chulalongkorn University, LLM and PhD (Law) from University of Washington School of Law and also LLM and LLD from Kyoto University. He was a member of the advisory team to the chief negotiators of the US-Thailand FTA and the Japan-Thailand Economic Partnership Agreement. His recent publications include "Thailand
(co-author with R. Ian McEwin) in Mark Williams (ed), The Political Economy of Competition Law in Asia (Hart Publishing, 2011), pp 279-291, "Thailand" (co-author with R Ian McEwin) in Mark Williams (ed.), The Political Economy of Competition Law in Asia (Edward Elgar, 2013), pp 251-282, "Compulsory licensing of chronic disease pharmaceuticals in Thailand" (co-author with Matthew L Braslow), (2014) 37(3) Thai Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences 106-120.
Tu Ngoc Trinh is a licensed attorney in Vietnam and a member of the Tilleke & Gibbins corporate & commercial team in the firm's Hanoi office. Her practice focuses on the life sciences sector as well as general corporate matters including company formation, employment, franchise activities, commercial transactions, and mergers and acquisitions. Tu is committed to helping her clients achieve sustainable success in Vietnam. She is a member of the Hanoi Bar Association and the Vietnam Bar Federation.
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Update: Bose has updated its flagship noise-cancelling headphones and made them wireless in the process. The Bose QuietComfort 35s have replaced Sony's H.ear On MDR-100ABNs to become our top pair of noise-cancelling cans.
To get the most out of your smartphone or music player, you have to buy a respectable set of headphones. There's no getting around it. The dinky throwaways that are included with today's most popular devices just can't convey the intricacies that artists put into every song.
But when it comes to making a selection, it's all too easy to get overwhelmed by the sheer amount of options to choose from.
Over-ear headphones generally provide tons of comfort and a much bigger sound than you'll hear with earbuds, but at the expense of portability. Wireless headphones mean you can walk around without being tethered to your device but, in order to have that level of freedom, depend on a battery that can run out after a few hours of use.
So, how do you choose the right set of headphones? First, think about what you're going to need from them.
Do you work in a noisy office space? Noise-cancelling headphones might be in your best interest if you want to drown out your chatty cubicle buddy. For headphones that move at the speed of life, in-ear headphones could be just what you're looking for.
Even if you're still unsure which set fits your lifestyle, there is a perfect set of headphones out there for you. With this guide, we want to help you find them.
What does techradar recommend?
Below, you'll find the top contenders in each category of headphones. We're always reviewing the latest and greatest headphones available, so you can ensure that this guide is up-to-date.
Best in-ear headphones: Klipsch Reference X6i
Audiophile sound on the go
Acoustic design: N/A | Weight: 18 grams | Cable length: N/A | Frequency response: 10-19,000Hz | Drivers: N/A | Driver type: N/A | Sensitivity: 110dB | Impedance: 50 ohms | Battery life: N/A | Wireless range: N/A | NFC: N/A
The Klipsch Reference X6i are a wonderful-sounding package. Their comfort, build quality, sound quality and features make it great value for the money, too.
If you're looking for balanced sounding in-ear headphones for $179 / £165 / AU$399, though, I can wholeheartedly recommend the Klipsch Reference X6i. Stated simply, they're supremely comfortable audiophile-level in-ear headphones for an affordable price.
- Alternative pick: Looking for bass-heavy in-ear headphones? Check out the Razer Hammerhead Pro V2
Best on-ear headphones: Bang and Olufsen H2
Posh headphones with grand sound and comfort
Acoustic design: Closed | Weight: .34 pounds | Cable length: 3+ feet | Frequency response: N/A| Drivers: Two 1.5" drivers | Driver type: N/A| Sensitivity: N/A | Impedance: N/A
When you wear the B&O H2, people will look at you with intrigue, desperately trying to figure out who makes it so they can buy their own later online. I should know: it's how I found out about them.
Thankfully, the H2 sounds as good as it look. The sound performance should please even picky listeners with its warm, evenly-balanced sound. We're trained to assume that good looks are a guise, but the H2's slick design complements the sound performance quite nicely.
Read the full review: Bang and Olufsen H2
- Alternative pick: The Skullcandy Grind are a fantastic alternative for listeners on a budget
Best over-ear headphones: Oppo PM-3
Closed back planar magnetic headphones from the gods
Acoustic design: Closed | Weight: 0.71 pounds | Cable length: 9.8 ft or 3.9 ft | Frequency response: 10-50,000Hz | Drivers: 55mm | Driver type: Planar Magnetic | Sensitivity: 102dB | Impedance: 26 ohms | Battery life: N/A | Wireless range: N/A | NFC: N/A
The Oppo PM-3's are a truly stunning pair of headphones. Make no mistake, we've reviewed a lot of headphones in the last 10 years but none have we become more fond of than the PM-3.
They're equally comfortable being plugged into a headphone amp at home as they are commuting through the hustle and bustle of a big city, and they stand head and shoulders above rival products from bigger brands. We really can't recommend them highly enough, they're just amazing.
Read the full review: Oppo PM-3
- Alternative pick: The Beyerdynamic Custom One Pro Plus are our previous favorite over-ear headphones, featuring great sound and impressive customization for a great price.
Best wireless headphones: Skullcandy Grind Wireless
Stellar sound without shredding your wallet
Acoustic design: Closed | Weight: 0.68 pounds | Cable length: N/A | Frequency response: N/A | Drivers: 40mm | Driver type: Dynamic | Sensitivity: N/A | Impedance: N/A | Battery life: 12 hours | Wireless range: 33 feet | NFC: No
In the battle of the brands, it can be hard to trust an outsider. You probably know and trust companies like Sennheiser, Sony, Bose and Beats. And nothing against the tried and true headphone manufacturers, but a lot of what you're paying for is the name.
The Skullcandy Grind Wireless is a black sheep, it breaks convention left and right and yet delivers in all the major areas. It's far from perfect (see: battery life and accessories), but, for its $89 (£69, about AU$116) price tag, you're getting a great-sounding, well-constructed pair of cans that know how to rumble with bass notes and rock with mids and highs.
Read the full review: Skullcandy Grind Wireless
- Alternative pick: The Jabra Move Wireless is a cheap choice that looks slick.
Best noise-cancelling headphones: Bose QuietComfort 35
Bose has cut the wires off its flagship noise-cancellers with great success
Acoustic design: Closed | Weight: 0.68 pounds | Cable length: 3.94 feet | Frequency response: N/A | Drivers: N/A | Driver type: N/A | Sensitivity: N/A | Impedance: N/A | Battery life: 20+ hours | Wireless range: N/A | NFC: Yes
Bose has finally brought its fantastic noise-cancelling technology to a pair of wireless headphones and it's done so without any of the traditional drawbacks of wireless headphones. They sound great, and their battery life is long enough for all but the longest of flights.
At $349.95 (£289.95 / AU pricing tbc) the QC35s sit firmly at the premium end of the spectrum, but if you want the best noise-cancelling headphones available right now then you can't get any better.
Read the full review: Bose QuietComfort 35
- Alternative pick: If you're looking for a super premium pair of noise-canceling cans, check out the Philips Fidelio NC1.

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Date: 1931 ca.
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Date: 1956
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Courtyard by Marriott Hannover Maschsee, Hannover
- Free WiFi
Main amenities
- 149 smoke-free guestrooms
- Restaurant and bar/lounge
- Breakfast available
- 24-hour health club
- Self parking
- Massage/treatment rooms
- 24-hour business center
- Airport shuttle
- Childcare
- Terrace
- 24-hour front desk
- Coffee/tea in common area
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- In Mitte
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Courtyard by Marriott Hannover Maschsee, Hannover
Hotel Info: 866-539-8117from $76
- Standard Room, 2 Queen Beds
- Standard Room
- Suite, 1 King Bed, Lake View
- Superior Room, Lake View
- Standard Room
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Hotel size
- This hotel has 149 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 5 floors
- Check-in time starts at 3 PM
- Check-out time is Noon
- Express check-out
Required at check in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
- Minimum check-in age is 18
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- Babysitting/childcare *
- Pets allowed *
- Free WiFi and wired Internet access in public areas
- Free WiFi and wired Internet access in rooms
- Airport shuttle *
- Self parking *
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- Smoke-free property
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- Buffet breakfast (surcharge)
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- Coffee shop/café
- Coffee/tea in common area
- Barbeque grills
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Sauna
- Bicycle rentals on site
- Golfing nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Sailing nearby
- 24-hour business center
- Number of meeting rooms - 7
- Conference space
- Meeting rooms 7
- Conference space size (feet) - 6598
- Conference space size (meters) - 613
- Computer station
- 24-hour front desk
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Free newspapers in lobby
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- Elevator/lift
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Courtyard by Marriott Hannover Maschsee, Hannover's small print
Also known as
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- Marriott Maschsee
- Courtyard Marriott Hannover Maschsee Hotel
- Hannover Courtyard
- Courtyard Hannover Maschsee
- Courtyard Marriott Hannover
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Reservations are required for massage services and can be made by contacting the property before arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
Optional extras
Self parking costs EUR 7.70 per day
Rollaway beds are available for an additional charge
Buffet breakfast is offered for an extra charge of EUR 19.00 per person (approximately)
Cribs/Infant beds are available for an extra charge
Babysitting/childcare is available for an extra charge
Pets are allowed for an extra charge of EUR 10 per pet, per night (maximum EUR 10 per stay)
Airport shuttle service is offered for an extra charge of EUR 20 per vehicle (roundtrip)
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
Recent reviews
Excellent 4.5 /5 from 201 reviews
We arrived very late around 2 am or so. There was no one to get our bags after our very long trip. We can to carry and drag the hotel cart on our own even though there was hotel personnel there. Not very welcoming! the bed were very tough and uncomfortable. Not much around the hotel but a nice view of the lake. Service even at the restaurant was below average.
An excellent hotel and would highly recommend to others.We did have a slight problem on checking in, but it was quickly rectified. All in all a thoroughly enjoyable overnight stay.
It is a nice,convenient and clean hotel but absolutely expensive at the time of fair
Great and attentive staff, nice rooms, clean and big enough, comfortable beds. You get what you expect from a Marriott. It's a great hotel for a business stay in Hannover but also if you want to visit the town as it's not that far from the city center.
Free parking was extremely limited
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Nantucket in September, early Oct
A friend of mine and I had planned to visit Nantucket in August, but we figured it was "high season" and packed with vacationers, so have about decided to go in mid to late September and early October.
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ssssssshhhhhhhh! Lot's start early in June. September is often perfect weather, atmosphere and lower rates.
sssssshhhhhhhh!!!! mums the word.
cottages at the boat basin are horrible! and pet friendly!
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September is our favorite time to visit Nantucket. Gone are the summer folk, vacationers, and day trippers, for the most part.
A few restaurants are closed after Labor Day, but the rest are all still open, along with nearly all the shops.
Rates used to drop right dramatically right after Labor Day, but in recent years many places have extended high season rates, so shop for accomodation with shoulder season rates. And, shop mid-September to early October, as rates definitely drop everywhere at some point.
The weather will still be pleasant (though not for sun bathing) with flowers still in bloom. Expect cool breezes (it's an island), however, and a significant drop in temps when the sun goes down.
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You may even consider going during Nantucket restaurant week - which is usually around the last week in September - you can probably get an 08 calendar of events online -
It is a lovely time to be on island - but don't think you can wait last minute to book either, it fills up - and on any long weekends there is often a 3 night minimum in many places
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I forgot about Restaurant Week - another of those "festivals" in the shoulder/off season to promote visiting. You may find that rates are lower before and after.
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Well, as I have said before and most of you agree, September is definitely the best month to be here, for all the reasons djkbooks writes, though there will be a couple of cool and/or rainy days. Most days you can certainly sunbathe, esp if you can get out of the breeze, and the water is actually at its warmest for the 10 days after Labor Day.
That being said, the last week of August is getting better and better. Once the schools in Connecticut and Massachusetts start, there is a great exodus from the island. People with kids in private school are still around, but the scene is definitely calmer, except for Labor Day weekend itself.
It is usually very nice here through October, though the possibility of sunbathing goes down day by day, and it can be really cold (50's) for a day or two.
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How can I stop all the socks?!
Is there anyway to clean multiple socks at a time? It's so darn slow! I get a lot from the time cheat and I know I probably shouldn't use it...
Answer from: YanyanJulie
Unfortunately u can't. But I do time cheats, but I'm a pro at it so I don't really worry much about that. If you can, try hiring a maid. But sometimes she's tricky, she she's not at your house doing her duties. At least the socks will be gone soon. Just visit every other time to pick up socks. Have a big family to help pitch in with clean up. I hope I helped....
Answer from: Romancefreak
Do you need to clean the socks from the pile in the laundry room or the ones all over the house? If it's the laundry room pile, there is a certain place on the pile that if you place your person on, it will put the entire basket of socks in the wash. I font know exactly where it is, but if you keep dragging the person on different places, you should find it. If it's the socks all over the house, unfortunately there is no faster way to do this except to have the whole family picking up socks at the same time or to hire a maid. The maids and gardeners are worth it by the way, if you have the money I would get both. Hih!
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Romancefreak, that is interesting about that pile of socks, never knew that! Would of so loved to have known that, that pile of socks got on my last nerve. Sheshez, believe they covered you on the sock thingie, but it gives the kids something to do. I also found that as generations go on the socks are not a big thing anymore. Also, the maid does stop all of that, even if she's not there, once you buy that option the socks and the black dirt spots more or less stop. If you can't afford a maid when you can get the washer& dryer the socks slow way down. But, let's face it they are always there, it's part of VF..
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I hated the socks too! This is how I got rid of them. I hired a maid, next I baught a washing machine and dryer. The socks stopped.
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1. Make a person (I recomend a child) pick up a sock or wrapper.
2. Praise the person three times.
3. If he/she runs away, drag him/ her back to the sock
4. Repeat 10-15 times.
5. Whatch the socks disapear!
The trick is that whenever there is a sock, your child will rush over to pick it up. Remember to repeat this process every generation.
Or if you're too lazy, just hire the maid.
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There is a faster way to pick up socks and wrappers. If you have two colors of the same wrapper or two of the same socks you drag your person to pick up the wrapper, before she throws it away pick her up again and she will not drop the wrapper or sock. Place her on the matching color wrapper or the matching sock. She will pick it up an bring both wrappers to the trash can or the sock pile but she will only throw one away. The other one will stay right at the foot of the trash can but it is a lot easier to get her to throw it away from thier than anywhere else in the house and the same thing goes for the socks! If you just dont feel like picking up anything anymore then hire a maid! HIH!
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Tina Rosenberg on the British spy novelist who hoodwinked Hitler
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Tina Rosenberg on the British spy novelist who hoodwinked Hitler
Journalist Tina Rosenberg is best known for her book The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism, which received both a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and for her prolific editorial writing for the New York Times. Her latest single, D For Deception (Atavist), is the fascinating real-life story of Britain's prewar master spy novelist, Dennis Wheatley, and the vital role he played in outwitting German intelligence during World War II. I put six questions to her about Wheatley and his work:
1. How did you come across Dennis Wheatley, and what gave you the idea to write a book about him?
In February while in London, I visited the Churchill War Rooms — the underground bunker Churchill used during the war. (The bunker in Skyfall that purports to be Churchill's is fake.) It's a fascinating museum, and what interested me most there was a picture of Dennis Wheatley, with this caption: "A popular thriller writer, Wheatley drew on his imagination to produce cover plans for Allied operations. His work included a plan, code named 'Bodyguard,' to deceive the Germans about the place and date of the Allied 'D-Day' invasion of Europe."
Like everyone who reads spy novels, I knew about the great British tradition of spies putting what they have lived to literary profit — John Buchan, Graham Greene, John Le Carré, and Somerset Maugham were all spies first, writers of espionage novels later. But Wheatley did it the other way around. I was fascinated by the idea that someone could invent deceptions for a fictional character and then use this skill to fool Hitler.
2. In what sense was Wheatley's life a "double deception"?
Wheatley carried out deceptions on two levels: in his books, and in real life. His real-life deception work was unprecedented. Tactical deception is as old as battle, of course. What was new was the idea of investing in lies for the long term.
For example, Operation Bodyguard (despite what the photo caption says, Wheatley was one of many people who worked on it) aimed to make Hitler believe that the invasion of Normandy was itself only a feint — that the real invasion, with a million men, would come later at Pas de Calais. That's how Britain kept Hitler from moving his troops away from Pas de Calais to Normandy. Even after the Allied expedition landed in Normandy and began fighting its way south, it took Hitler over seven weeks to start moving his forces from Pas de Calais, because he was still waiting for the "real" invasion.
Why did Hitler fall for this deception? Because the deceivers had spent years inducing him to wildly overestimate Allied troop strength. The week before D-Day, Hitler thought the Allies could command more than eighty divisions in Britain. In truth, there were only fifty-two.
Deception worked like this: First, Wheatley and his colleagues drew up a cover story ("story" is actually the term of art) for each operation — what they wanted Hitler to believe. Then they began to scatter crumbs for the Nazis to find. Wheatley created enormous charts detailing what lies to tell on what date, and through what channel. Diplomatic gossip? False reports by double agents? Physical means such as "losing" a rucksack or a dead body? Nothing too direct or it wouldn't be believable — the Germans had to gradually construct the story themselves.
That is how to write a deception plan. It's also how to write a novel. The biggest difference was that instead of writing for millions of readers, Wheatley was writing for just one.
The deception plans he wrote to trick Hitler were in many ways echoes of his Gregory Sallust stories, which were all set against the backdrop of real events. For example, in The Black Baroness, Sallust is in Norway during the Nazi invasion. When a small number of British troops arrive to defend Norway, Sallust is elated — but his elation turns to horror as he watches the troops turn and run.
When Wheatley went to work for Churchill, the first deception plan he created was aimed at convincing Hitler the British were invading Norway, with the aim of getting him to tie up troops there. He planned a massive invasion — troops based in Scotland would be given Norwegian translators, maps of Norway, arctic clothing, and training in mountain warfare. (This worked; Hitler sent 50,000 extra troops to Norway.) So this was his second chance to have Britain not invade Norway.
3. Wheatley's protagonist, Gregory Sallust, is a suave figure, easily envisioned in a smoking jacket, who knows a good vintage champagne and speaks German like a native. But today's spymasters seem to have dumped the skills of a James Bond ("human intelligence") in favor of the increasingly sophisticated machines ("signals intelligence") that now form the crux of their data pool. Is there reason to be nostalgic for old forms of spycraft?
So you have seen Skyfall.
Wheatley lived in both those worlds. Sallust was all human intelligence — the lone wolf outwitting the Germans through his disguises and tricks. As in most pulp fiction of this type, Sallust pretty much single-handedly wins the war. In a later novel, he even infiltrates Hitler's bunker and convinces the Führer to commit suicide.
But in real life, Wheatley relied heavily on signals intelligence. Since Britain had cracked the German Enigma ciphers, they could listen to the Nazis' radio communications. Wheatley could thereby tailor his deception plans to what Hitler already knew and believed.
One could argue, however, that the Germans lost the war because they lacked human intelligence. The deceivers' most important channels to Germany were Nazi agents in Britain who had been doubled. In June 1942, the British came to the astonishing realization that every single German agent in Britain was a double. They would control them for the rest of the war. This meant they could feed the Germans outrageous deceptions with no fear of being contradicted by real agents. Wheatley had started his deception work thinking he had to do everything short of invasion in order to simulate an imminent invasion. But once the deceivers realized there were no real German agents inside Britain, all they had to do was write radio plays.
4. The core of your book is about the outwitting of German intelligence. What vulnerabilities did the Abwehr have, and how were they exploited?
One of the most interesting things I learned researching this book is that for two countries renowned for their discipline and efficiency, Germany and Japan had catastrophically bad intelligence services. Japan particularly. Japanese intelligence was so abysmal that it was actually somewhat immune to deception; you couldn't fool the Japanese because you couldn't assume they would draw the desired conclusion from what you fed them, or even notice it at all. "There was a feeling on the part of the general army officers that intelligence was not necessary," the chief of Japanese Army Intelligence later told U.S. interrogators.
The Abwehr and other German intelligence services were crippled by two factors of which they were unaware: their communications weren't secret, and the people they thought were their spies in Britain were actually using plot points drafted by Wheatley and his colleagues.
But the Nazis' most important vulnerability was that their leader was a megalomaniac who made decisions on whim and instinct. There was no coordinated system for filtering intelligence up to Nazi decision-makers, and when it did reach the top, it was often ignored. What crossed Hitler's desk was determined by which officers he had seen that day. And he would pay attention only to information that supported views he already held — so of course that's what his subordinates tended to show him.
5. Who was Garbo, and what made him one of the most successful double agents of all time?
Garbo — a Catalan named Jual Pujol — was the only double agent who set out to become one. (The others either defected or chose the job over execution.) Before he was discovered by the British and taken to England, he freelanced for the Allied cause: he volunteered to spy for the Abwehr and convinced them he had gone to England. In reality he was in Lisbon, where he made up reports with the help of some maps, a railway timetable, and a Baedeker travel guide.
Garbo put his nerve and prodigious imagination to work in a different way once he reached England. He transmitted reports to the Germans from his stable of twenty-seven subagents (some of whom themselves had subagents). These were people in key jobs and key cities all around Britain. They were highly productive — and wholly imaginary. It is no mean feat to maintain the trust of your handlers when you have to get everything important wrong, but Garbo managed it. He was surely the only man in history to be decorated with both a British MBE and a Third Reich Iron Cross.
6. You write that "Sallust's lasting influence can be seen in the career of his true heir, James Bond." What links Wheatley with Bond's creator, Ian Fleming, and why has Bond outlived Sallust?
When Wheatley was on the Deception staff, he sometimes worked with a young naval-intelligence officer named Ian Fleming. Fleming was not yet a writer — he would not publish the first Bond novel, Casino Royale, until 1953 — but he was telling friends he wanted to write spy novels. Wheatley kept lists of the dinner guests at his house and we know Fleming was one of them. It is reasonable to guess that Fleming was very influenced by Wheatley, and by Sallust.
Sallust is unknown today while Bond is Bond because of luck. The Bond books would not have survived on their own — the movies keep the character alive. There were no Sallust movies, probably because the war intervened.
The Sallust books are classic pulp fiction — artlessly written but brilliant yarns; Wheatley is very good at getting his characters in and out of mortal peril every few pages. And they are better than the Bond books in many ways. They are full of astute political and military analysis, and they insert Sallust into a world of real figures and important events — he spends nights drinking with Hermann Goering; he tricks Hitler into invading the Soviet Union. And they were written quickly, at times coming out four months after the events they described. It wasn't the first time an author had put his characters into the middle of real events, but it was perhaps the first time those events threatened to crash through the reader's living-room ceiling even as he held the book in his lap.
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Small carriers supporting cell phone unlocking to gain access to Apple's iPhoneThe recent push to legalize mobile device unlocking is getting support from a number of smaller wireless carriers, who see the movement as a way of getting Apple's iPhone on to their networks.
Apple sells an unlocked version of the iPhone directly to consumers.
Bloomberg on Wednesday reported that several regional and rural wireless providers have thrown their support behind legislation in Congress that would allow wireless customers to unlock their devices without carrier permission. The Competitive Carriers Association (CCA)which represents carriers includingU.S. Cellular, T-Mobile, Cricket, and NTelos wants Congress to undo a recent decision by the Library of Congress that went into effect in January, forbidding mobile owners from unlocking their devices without permission.
Following the Obama administration's endorsement of legalizing unlocking, the momentum appears to be with the unlock movement.
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For smaller carriers, unlocking phones would open up the possibility of the owners of those phones moving away from the larger wireless services, which often purchase exclusive access to handsets, leaving lesser carriers with lesser devices. Locking cell phones, Librarian of Congress James Billington wrote in his notice banning locking, is an essential part of the wireless industry's dominant business model.
AT&T, responding to the recent unlocking push, has already said that it will unlock a device for any customer whose account is in good standing and has been active for at least 60 days and who has fulfilled the device's service contract.
Unlocking phones would likely be a first step toward trying to encourage greater competition in the wireless arena. The disparity in size between the major national carriers and the smaller players can sometimes be described in orders of magnitude. Verizon, the nation's largest carrier, has 98 million subscribers, while AT&T has 78 million. U.S. Cellular, meanwhile, has six million customers, and some smaller CCA members have as few as 2,000.
That sort of size difference leads organizations like the CCA to push not only for wireless unlocking as a means of leveling the playing field, but also increased access to spectrum and limitations on consolidation among the larger players.
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