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Overall it's a good experience.
Mr. Ghodgaonkar
Free wireless all the time was very good.
Ms. Sandra
Thank you for everything. The stay was perfect.
Miss. Melissa & Chloe
Every staff is very friendly & the meals are also fantastic. The Security at the beach are very good and also so helpful as everyone else.
All staff are very polite & Helpful.
Secondtime visit. Services still at par since 2010.Good work.
Mr. Patrick
This is a beautiful Hotel and we had a great and memorable experience. The Beach set for Dinner was the bestand we enjoyed all the entertainment after Dinner.
Thank you for a great stay!!!!
Mr/Mrs Samuel Kabugah
Everybody was very helpful, smilling and interested in making our stay perfect.
We would like to thank you for everything; it was a perfect Holliday in a perfect Hotel and environment.
We enjoyed every second and it might not have been our last visit to Kenya and the Diani Reef Beach Resort& Spa.
We won't forget our stay here!
Mr. Peter Krach & Ms. Tanja Koller
All staff were very good, friendly and most pleasant
Yeah for real it was a good stay and am coming back again.
Mr. Evans Were
Diani Reef hotel has really exceeded our extremely high expectations. I am sure you are extremely proud of being part of this flawless organization. We had very high expectations, and these have been totally exceeded to a level we would have never expected.
I am glad to have met Albert and your family at Keekrok, and am glad we took his advice and came here.
I have to comment on the high and professional level of customer service from your entire team, from guest relations to dining staff and the ever so friendly entertainment team. They have made our stay here perfect an problem free. It's been an extremely pleasureable stay here and we are extremely sad to say goodbye. All ten of us have been using the gorgeous spa facilities which have been amazing, we sampled a full range of treatments and wish we had time to sample more.
I cannot thank you and your team for our perfect flawless stay at your hotel. I will be recommending this hotel to all my family and friends back in Nairobi, and when I get back home to London, I will be telling everyone about this beautiful hotel. I am a very seasoned and well travelled holiday maker and have stayed in many 5 star hotels all around the world, but have never had a reason to email the hotel manager to say thank you, but our stay here has been made extremely special and I personally on behalf of my family thank you for that.
I hope our paths cross again soon, and if you ever find yourself ever in rainy London, I welcome you and your family to ours for dinner. I would like to return the hospitality.
Mr. Vimal Raghwani
Thank you for a wonderful stay at Diani Reef. Your staff especially Susan in the restaurant and Juma at the beach towel hut they are a credit to you and your hotel. This was my first visit to Kenya and your hotel created a great first impression. So thank you once again for a wonderful holiday.
Mr. Cooper
Dep. Date: 22.07.11
My family and I would like to let you know what a wonderful holiday we had at Diani Reef and to thank you and your staff for making it so special. Our daughters understand now why their mum and I love the hotel so much and they can't wait to go back next year. I would also like to thank you for your kind gifts you sent us before we left they will remind us of our fantastic holiday every time we wear them. Once again I would like to thank all your staff from the receptionist, waiters and waitresses in the restaurants, the animation team, the cleaners, the pool and beach attendants, the gardeners and also the security staff, all these people really made us have such a great holiday and that is why we like to keep returning. Hope to see you all in January 2012.
Mr. Stephen McWilliam
Dep. Date:16.07.11
I had the pleasure of staying in your hotel last month and I just wanted to congratulate you on the excellent service I received. On behalf of the charitable trust I established some years ago, I was looking at various schemes we have supported – with WWF in Kwale and in and around Mombasa with Actionaid. I plan to return next year and I hope to renew the acquaintance of you and your hotel!
Mr. Chris Ingram
Dep. Date:12.07.11
Just a quick line to say a very big thank you to you and all your staff members for making our stay at the Diani Reef very special and memorable. Once again, many thanks for your kind hospitality. Kirti and I both thoroughly enjoyed our holiday and were very impressed with the hotel.
Nila Patel
Dep. Date: 12.07.11
Thanks for a fantastic stay – we had a great time. In particular the staff were first class. The food was outstanding and the beach was beautiful. We will certainly recommend the hotel in UK. Thanks to everyone.
Mr. & Ms. Gilroy
Dep. Date: 12.07.11
We had a wonderful experience! First class resort, great service, excellent staff! Definitely an exceptional resort.
Mr. Ranchhod & Family
Dep. Date:12.07.11
Thank you for everything. We had a great time. See you again.
Ms. S. Leahy
Dep. Date: 11.07.11
Asante Sana! Thank you very much we had a delightful lstay! Perfect setting, lovely food and super staff! kwaheri. See you soon.
Mr. Grobler & Family
Dep. Date: 09.07.11
Thank you so much for a wonderful holiday and for making our honeymoon so special. It was very difficult to leave. Big thanks to Dorcas, Walter and Twiga. You have great staff, without them the place would not be the same.
Mr. & Ms. Brassington
Dep. Date: 06.07.11
Everything has been wonderful, thank you very much for making our holiday so amazing. We will come back soon. Thank you.
Mr. & Ms. Berhe
Dep. Date: 02.07.11
l enjoyed my stay very much! Loved the beach view from my room and l loved the Pool! The food was amazing. The staff is also nice! See you soon!
Mr. Patil & Family
I enjoyed every part of my stay,the General manager took good care of us. Thank you
Mr. Bharadawaj & Family
Great food, excellent service. What a beautiful property! Thanks to Mr. Aditya-GM a great person is a strong backing of the Hotel. All the best. Just love beach resorts, especially this one. Very luxurious!
Mr. Gupta & Family
(Aman Sawhany Group)
Dep. Date:01.07.11
Had a very pleasant stay. Staff were amazing and very helpful. Asante.
Mr. & Ms. Davies
Dep. Date: 30.06.11
Really enjoyed our stay at Diani Reef. Staff were really lovely and good facilities! Great time of year to stay ¬ so busy and great weather. Thanks, Asante sana.
Mr. & Ms. Braithwaite
Dep. Date: 30.06.11
thank you and your entire staff for making our stay special. we always will have fond memories of all of you....!! the Diani Reef family touched our hearts deeply. Hope to see you all real soon.
Mr. Gaurav Makhija
Dep. Date: 27.06.11
What a fantasic time we have had - awesome food & warm reception. Beautiful people - We celebrated our 40th Wedding Anniversary.
Mr. & Ms. Lloys
Dep. Date: 27.06.11
My son and I had a simply wonderful stay. I was very impressed with all aspects of my stay. The staff were courteous, and helpful at all times and nothing was too much trouble. I would recommend anyone to stay at Diani reef. Would love to return and may do in the not too distant future. Meanwhile my Best wishes to you all, and a big thank you for making our stay so wonderful. Thanks for the photograph, a nice one for the album. The cake was a big surprise and delicious.
Anne Sarsfield
Dep. Date: 23.06.11
Diani Reef was a perfect setting to have an unforgettable wedding. The staff & Hotel were amazing will be sure to return. Asante sana
Mr. & Ms. Charania
Dep. Date: 22.06.11
A lovely stay, the staff were very friendly and helpful!
Mr. & Ms. Veeral
Very comfortable stay, friendly staff, good food and Spa.
Room No: 4003
Very comfortable stay and very good service. l pleasant experience
Room No: 4005
Very comfortable stay & excellent services by your staff. Keep it up guys!
Room No: 4059
Very good hospitality very comfortable. All staff very helpful – No complaints. Keep it up ! So that l can return back.
Mr. & Ms. Kundan
Good service and good staff. Well done!
Ms. Rajni
We had a pleasant stay at the Diani Reef. The staff are very hospitable and accommodating. Our hosts from Nairobi were very generous. See you again.
Mr. & Ms. Manish Shah
We have had fantastic 3 days here. Hope to visit again.
Room No: 3031/33
Very fantastic stay, service greatly improved from the last time we came.
Mr. & Ms. Deepa
Amazing hotel, awesome service, very helpful staff, whenever l come back l am definitely coming to stay here.
Mr. & Ms. Charania
Fantastic service, very good stay & amazing staff.
Mr. & Ms. Shah
Amazing hotel and fantastic service. Very good stay and enjoyed very much.
Mr. & Ms. Satish
Amazing! Everything about the hotel was perfect, good service. l will come back for a holiday.
Ms. Sumitra
Good stay and great destination.
Mr. & Ms. Bhavin Shah
Fantastic stay, excellent service from staff.
Mr. & Ms. Bid
Great stay!!
Mr. & Ms. Bid Shah
Wonderful service and a nice place to be at anytime.
Mr. & Ms. Mape
Excellent hospitality very humble staff. l got tired of saying Jambo to all your lovely and charming staff very and always smiling. Excellent food. Very clean place. Always the staff were cleaning the premises. All the management were helpful and smiling. This is my 2nd holiday at Diani Reef Hotel. Keep it up. Congratulation you are 7 star not 5 star hotel.
Mr. & Ms. Shah
We enjoyed the wonderful reception received by the staff and was very pleasant and well organized wedding for Rakhee & Vishal. Our special thanks to CHANRAKANT & FAMILY. With lots of love.
Mr. & Ms. Deepak
All was superb and best and cannot be better. Thank u to all staff they were very cooperative. Thanks!
Mr. Vora & Family
Excellent service from the staff throughout our stay! Great ambiance, and a lovely hotel. Will definitely recommend to family and friends. Thanks!
Room No: 2007/1002
We had a fab time. The resort is beautiful and the staff are wonderful. We shall definitely come back.
Mr. & Ms. Raksha Shah
We had a great time. The staff are wonderful and very hospitable especially in the spa & room service.
Mr. & Ms. Shaikh
Thanks for the hospitality. We had a great stay. Room could do with refurbishment especially the bathroom.
Ms. Chetna
An amazing and unbelievable experience. Fantastic staff who helped to make every aspect of our stay special.
Mr. Aasit Shah
Very good service, friendly staff, keep it up the good work. All staff including Matindi (security), Lilian, Elizabeth were very friendly.
Mr. Kahn
Dep. Date: 20.06.11
Thanks again for being the perfect host. We have wonderful memories of our time at your hotel. My kids keep talking about it. Thanks for asking doctor Raj's prescription,worked perfectly. I do hope to come back and will write up a review just as soon as I get a moment.
Mr. Sukhwinder Singh
Dep. Date: 20.06.11
"We had a great time. Food was fantastic. All hostesses and servers were friendly and helpful. Entertainment crew kept us quite entertained. They gave Pool Volleyball a new meaning. Unfortunately we have to move on but will surely return for more sun, sand and sea. Lovely place!
Noela: Wonderful and friendly
Tony/Tony-Gym: Great-Spend every day with them –GOT FIT.
Susan-Hostess: Made sure all our needs were met.
Dorcas, Humprey, Kevin, Miriam etc-all Great service.
Mr. Dumas & Family
Dep. Date: 17.06.11
We have had the most amazing and relaxing honeymoon here. The staff were excellent and all very friendly. We will highly recommend this hotel to everyone. Thank you for everything.
Mr. & Ms. Satchwell
Dep. Date: 17.06.11
Thank you Diani Reef Management team and staff. We were here for 5 days and your hospitality was wonderful the food, ambience, team, events and general up keep of this great hotel was highly commendable. We'll be back.
Mr. & Ms. Ewuosho
Dep. Date:17.06.11
Nice view and good service. Fun time at beach volleyball. Thank you!
Mr. Zhan & Family
Dep. Date: 16.06.11
Service was so amazing and the people treated us like we needed to be treated on vacation. The location is pure paradise.
Mr. & Ms. Walker
Dep. Date:16.06.11
Had a marvelous time. Wonderful food, great service lot of sun.-Kenyamasi, Kanchan Kutri were here. Excellent!! All staff and crew were absolutely wonderful. Thank you!!
Mr. Macaskill & Mr. Lakhani
Dep. Date:15.06.11
The stay was excellent, specially the service was fantastic keep it up. We will definitely be back. ASANTE SANA
Mr. & Ms. Shah
Dep. Date:15.06.11
Thank you all for making our stay as wonderful! Great food, great pool, great beach, great staff. Best services in the World,literally. Special thank you to Ngonyo, Susan (Chef) and Patrick for all your smiles and polite conversation. Colobus Trail was Superb.
Mr. Richard & Ms. Elizabeth Sarsfield
Dep. Date:14.06.11
Thank you for very interesting tour around your property. Nice rooms and so many facilities, but best of all was the tasty lunch by the beach. Your staff really makes one feel welcome. Thank you for your hospitality. All the best.
Ms. Lundqvist
Dep. Date: 12.06.11
Thanks a lot! Great hospitality. Really enjoyed our stay here! Great property ! Definitely will come many more times. Thanks
Mr. Khosla & Family
Dep. Date: 12.06.11
Thank you Aditya and the entire Diani Reef resort staff for making our stay very comfortable!! Truly, All of you have touched our hearts! We will be back for sure.
Mr. Makhija & Family
Dep. Date:12.06.11
The staff and hospitality at the hotel defined our experience. To top it off, the facilities and especially the beach was a sure bonus. Sylvester has a lot of energy and dishes out smiles all day long. Nunu was fantastic with the kids. The entire family had a wonderful time.
Mr. Odhiambo & Family
Dep.Date: 11.06.11
We had a great holiday. Beautiful hotel and nice staff.
Mr. & Ms. Meyer-Kalbitz
Dep. Date: 11.06.11
Fantastic sleep & food Keep it up
Hon. Dr. Otwoma
Very Hospitable staff
Mr. Mayanga
Wonderful stay & Hospitality –will come again
Mr. Waweru
Dep. Date: 06.06.11
This was our first trip to Diani Reef plus we loved it. Special thanks to Dorcas, Damaris and Ali who were wonderful! We will definitely come back. Noela was great too.
Ms. Kinuthia & Ms. Peterson
Dep. Date: 06.06.11
First time had an amazing time. Will definitely come back.
First time too at Diani Reef a nice place to be and never miss the Sin Club ever and always look for BAKARI(Great Character), he is the best.
Mr. & Ms. Ngugi
Dep. Date: 06.06.11
This is our 5th time@Diani Reef and each time it gets better. This is a fabulous hotel and we will be back again. Thanks to everyone!
Ms. Lavallis & Family
Dep. Date:06.06.11
Excellent facilities and great service. Would most likely return. Keep up the good work.
Mr. & Ms. Jaiswal
Dep. Date: 06.06.11
We had a great time, good service, friendly people. Thanks.
Mr & Ms. Koenen
Dep. Date: 04.06.11


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29.10.2012 - Liam Condon (44) to become the new Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Bayer CropScience subgroup and Chairman of the Board of Management at Bayer CropScience starting December 1, 2012.
Condon succeeds Sandra E. Peterson, who is leaving the company on November 30 and moving to Johnson & Johnson. He has been the Managing Director of Bayer Vital GmbH (Leverkusen), and head of Bayer Pharma's business in Germany since January of 2010. Condon studied International Business in Dublin and at the Technical University of Berlin. He holds a B.A. degree in International Marketing & Languages from Dublin City University and an MBA from the Japan Management Association. From 2007-2010 he was Managing Director of Bayer HealthCare China and Bayer Pharma General Manager for China. Liam Condon served as Managing Director of Schering China starting in 2005. Before that he was Regional Marketing and Medical Director for Schering's Asia-Pacific/Middle East region, based in Berlin.
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Intel Technology Chief Rattner to Step Down
One of the most familiar faces at Intel events, Justin Rattner, is giving up the post of chief technology officer at the giant chip maker.
Intel said Thursday that Rattner, 65 years old, is hitting the company's mandatory retirement age for corporate officers. He will depart immediately to attend to what the company called a "pressing family matter," but will subsequently return to Intel in a post still to be determined, the company said.
Rattner also is a vice president and director of Intel Labs, the company's research arm. Those operations will report to Renee James, Intel's newly appointed president, until further leadership decisions are made, Intel said.
The announcement comes as something of a surprise, as Rattner hosted an Intel research event in San Francisco Tuesday with no mention of any impending changes.
Rattner, like James, spent most of his time at Intel's large operations in Oregon rather than at the corporate headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif. He joined the company in 1973. Unlike many senior technologists at the company, he did not start out in fields such as designing semiconductors or perfecting recipes for how to manufacture them.
Rather, Rattner is best known for his expertise in the field of high-performance computing. In the 1980s and 1990s, he helped advance the concepts of "massively parallel" computers, built using hundreds or thousands of standard microprocessor chips rather than a few custom-built calculating engines. Intel at one time sold such systems itself, though later withdrew to focus on supplying chips for them.
Rattner was known for his work on a machine called ASCII Red that was built by Intel and installed at Sandia National Laboratories in 1996. The massive machine was credited as the first computer to sustain one trillion scientific calculations per second.
In his later job as chief technology officer, Rattner was a fixture at Intel events for the engineering community, frequently giving keynotes discussing long-range projects emanating from Intel's research centers.
On Tuesday, for example, Rattner discussed concepts such as automotive lights that switch on and off at ultra-high speed to eliminate reflective glare when driving in snow storms.
In another demonstration, Rattner and colleague Paul Crawford discussed using wearable sensors that measure brain activity by blood flow, a potential tool to detect whether drivers are becoming distracted and thereby a hazard to people around them.
Rattner's presentation Tuesday was much less formal than those he conducts at the large events known by the acronym IDF, for Intel Developer Forum, which are chock full of elaborate on-stage demonstrations and require lengthy preparation. "I spend months for an IDF keynote," Rattner said.
As for the simpler demo prepared for the San Francisco event, "we've all got our fingers crossed," he said.


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12 Apps That'll Make You Skinny
We turn to our smart phones for everything from news updates to boredom-busting games. But can they help us lose weight? See the best fitness apps that just might get you to shed those pounds fast
Despite the hazards that come with being distracted, you can't help but succumb to the smart phone's lure. With just a tap of your finger, you can "like" your friend's Facebook picture, see what Kim Kardashian is having for lunch today, and get up-to-the-minute breaking news. No need for a TV, a computer, or a personal assistant. And now, there's just one more reason why you should tighten your grasp on that little gadget: It'll make you skinny.
Skip ahead to see the 12 best fitness apps that'll make you skinny now.
That's right. Because of the ingenious entrepreneurship of app creators, there are now apps for every fitness and diet need imaginable. Need some sage advice that'll pry the cookie dough out of your hands at 3 a.m.? There's an app for that. Want a personal trainer to yell at you for slacking on your target pace? There's an app for that, too. Need motivation to get off the couch and start running in the first place? Yeah, you get the drift.
And while there are hundreds of applications out there that promise to offer you the same results as a gym or personal trainer, we sifted through all of them and boiled it down to the best fitness apps that'll help you lose the most weight. These 12 apps have the latest in GPS, motion sensor, and bar scanning technology to give you all the tools you need to get in the best shape of your life -- fast. See the 12 best fitness apps now.
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Foodeducate is a nice one! and it's free, too i enjoyed it
by cindy11052 Sunday, March 3, 2013 at 06:43AM Report as inappropriate
by EricaF123 Tuesday, January 1, 2013 at 06:43AM Report as inappropriate
Great list, just wish they were also available on android :(
by Hcaddy15 Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 06:52PM Report as inappropriate
Can't believe they didn't mention MyFitnessPal! Great for tracking calories, setting goals.. Also, if you have any FitBit products, their site is really good. I can't recommend the FitBit Aria scale and FitBit One tracker enough...such good products!
by shimmergurl Sunday, November 18, 2012 at 06:15PM Report as inappropriate
Although this is a recycled article, some of these apps are very helpful. Check out Fitday. It's great!
by robyne00 Saturday, October 13, 2012 at 01:31PM Report as inappropriate
wow, some apps I definitely want to try!
by Chris213 Saturday, October 6, 2012 at 08:18AM Report as inappropriate
i knew it this is an old one... why is this on the top of the home screen again? lol
by Sohee Thursday, October 4, 2012 at 12:58PM Report as inappropriate
going to get these apps
by jenni84 Thursday, October 4, 2012 at 08:21AM Report as inappropriate
I like workout trainer.
by muellsrus Wednesday, October 3, 2012 at 06:55PM Report as inappropriate
this is very handy when traveling. No excuses anymore.
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This is a budget case. Some cheap cases feel okay. This is not one of those cases. It feels flimsy. The steel is very thin. Some of the rivets on my case were not correctly fitted. The drilling is rough. Once you've got everything fitted in and screwed together it feels a bit more sturdy. I wouldn't recommend moving it much once you've got it built. There are *huge* gaps in the back. There's no blanking plate for the motherboard connectors - just a massive hole. This case is the cheapest m-ATX with PSU. It is a case. The paint is reasonably finished. The switches work. These are the only positive things I can say, and really that's the minimum you'd need from a case. You should spend an extra £20 and get a much better case unless you absolutely cannot afford to do so.
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Reviewed by Mick. Review Posted 18/06/2013
A little disappointed when this case arrived, at first I thought they had sent an empty cardboard box, it was so light. The case is feather weight due to the 0.6mm sheet steel, but this of course makes it very flimsy.
There are no rubber feet, no pc speaker and only four mounts for the motherboard instead of the required six.
The worst part about this case is the wires to the front USB are so thin that it wont even power my external hard drive.
I didn't need a power supply, which is just aswell because the one supplied is half the weight and size of my 300W PSU.
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Simply the worst case I have ever used
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Wow, I actually couldn't believe how poor this case actually was. The metal is truly the thinnest I have ever seen on a case, it is not solid enough to support the components and flexes at every turn. The PSU quite simply is not a 500w PSU I am being genuine when I say I am not convinced it is even a 150w unit based upon the weight of it. Positives:
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The Civil War of The Civil Wars
Alas, looks like the Civil Wars are going through a Civil War of their own.
The rising rural roots music group announced on their Facebook page that unspecified internal issues have prompted them to cancel all tour stops for who knows how long. The band is just two people–John Paul White and Joy Williams–and they had been on a tear lately, collaborating with Taylor Swift on music for "The Hunger Games" and picking up various nominations and awards for their songs.
Here's the note they posted on their Facebook page. It's all about conflict but it sounds downright…civil. Man, we hope these two work things out. The note:
"We sincerely apologize for the canceling of all of our tour dates. It is something we deeply regret. However, due to internal discord and irreconcilable differences of ambition we are unable to continue as a touring entity at this time. We thank each and every one of you for your amazing love & support. Our sincere hope is to have new music for you in 2013. "
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
One building in the Plaza trumps a city full of historical buildings.
The uproar over the proposed office building on a Plaza corner has more peoples shorts in a wad than that time TKC compared the Waldo Rapist composite to the Creature from the Black Lagoon. The local news outlets have been as excited over this thing as Liberace discovering a dick tree. Everyone has an opinion on why it would be sacrilegious to build a modern glass structure smack in the middle-ish of Spanish Architecture. I was listening to 3 or 4 clowns on Steve Kraskes show going on and on about how The Country Club Plaza IS Kansas City. How our history as a city is entwined with a shopping district that few of us ever actually shop at. How important the Plaza is as an entertainment destination, even though most Kansas Citians don't really dine there, or drink there. Oh sure, you might take your significant udder out to dinner at the Cheesecake Factory or Plaza 3 once a year. And we all like to go look at the lights around Christmas, Hanuka, Ramadan, Kwanzaa, whatever , pick your poison. And yes the streets are often crowded with posers and drunk women hoping to catch the eye of some sports figure, or spittle if it's Larry Johnson. But the Plaza isn't Kansas City, it's just a small sliver of stores most of us can't afford to buy a pair of socks at. It's like the really hot chick in high school, nice to look at, but not of much use on a day to day basis. She might bat her eyes at you, she might give you a glimpse of cleavage, but at the end of the day, she is going to go with the biggest over privileged douche bag in the school.
Anyone with an interweb connection has chimed in on what a disgrace it is for someone to suggest building something on property they own. They being Highwoods. So I wasn't going to bother with throwing in my 2 nickles. However, by the end of Kraskes show, after every single caller went on and on ad nauseum over how horrible it is to even suggest tearing down one of the old Plaza buildings, I'd heard enough. Like a mighty trout rising to take the fly, No Seacrest, I couldn't resist the bait, the pointing out of what is either glaring hypocrisy, total ignorance, or a sense of entitlement. I'm going to go with all 3. Here's the rub, I don't really care if they put up the building or not. I would even say I agree that the Plaza should stay looking like it does now. I agree it is a historical part of the city. No problem with the Plaza per say. I just have one question.
Where was all of the outrage, the face book pages, the radio, news and print soup stirring, before the Plaza conflict? The same people who are so incensed over the thought of a modern building amidst the Spanish Stucco themed Plaza, were as quiet as a group of Deaf Mutes over the Sprint Center and the P&L district. Or they cheered it on, called it progress. Someone please explain to me how a giant mirror disco ball building lives in peace and harmony, all feng shui and shit, among a downtown that is dominated by Art Deco buildings. Where is all of the outrage over a Jazz District that is nothing more than crumbling facades with a couple of money pits thrown in for good measure.
In one of the greatest movies ever made, Cool Hand Luke, there is a particular scene, it's really the biggest scene in the movie. Luke gets brought back from another escape. They throw him in the bunk house, beat up, broke down, tore up from the floor up. Some of the cons crowd around him, all carrying on about a picture he sent them while he was on the run. He is flanked by two flashy looking women in the photo. All smiles, all Cool. He tells the cons the pic was a fake, he paid to have it taken. Tells them to stop feeding off of him, get their own lives. He tries to make it to his bunk, but he falls and can't get up. He sticks his hand out, looking for a hand up, and they all turn their backs on him. "Where are you now?" is his money line.
See, it's like this, when Luke was all flash they loved him. Couldn't get enough of him. Then he falls, he is all dirty, beat up, not a trace of flash. They turn their backs, to a man, every last one of them. This city, the majority of it's people, they turn their backs on the dirty old bricks and mortar buildings. The old homes where lives were lived, the backbone of this city, it's reason for existing in the first place. It's just not pretty, no flash, just blood, sweat and tears. In the minds and eyes of most, the real history of this city can't hold up to the stucco , the fashion, and the fountains.
I know what some of you are thinking, "Why not both? Can't all historical areas of the city be important? Does caring about the Plaza mean we can't care about other parts of the city?"
Good point, and I've no doubt that many of you probably do care. Sadly there are only a few hundred of you lonely rubes who regularly take time out to read this shit. The majority of the people who are raising a stink over the Plaza, the ones getting air and face time from the media, they could give a shit if some old building gets demolished downtown. They could really not care less about some stately old home on the Paseo, or some craftsman bungalow in Midtown. The majority of the people in this city have never ventured beyond the commercial districts, the Plaza, the Power and Light district, maybe the City Market area. So when I see the outrage, and I hear all the sanctimonious horseshit about "Saving the Plaza" from the greedy corporate types, it pisses me off. When I get pissed off these days, I write. There was a time when if I got pissed off, I'd get in a fight. At 51 carpal tunnel is more appealing than swollen hands and the likelihood of getting my ass handed to me. So write it is. Over the next couple of weeks, starting Wednesday, I'll be giving you rubes a history lesson, with pictures and everything, Double M style. It's time for another Urban Blight tour with hopefully a little history thrown in. Maybe some of the French Poodle crowd will stumble across this humble lil blog and it's humble lil writer. And maybe, just maybe, they will find out that there is more to this city than a half dozen blocks of pretentious stores and overpriced restaurants. The Plaza doesn't define Kansas City. There are far more important parts of this city decaying, slowly dying, and it's bigger and more important than one building, in a place most Kansas Citians rarely visit.
Where's the outrage?
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Good for you MM! Where was the outrage when, in the early 80's, they got rid of a perfectly wonderful dime store and grocery store to give KC Saks' Fifth Ave. and Brook Bros. (FYI-Sak's departed sans hurrah and BB has morphed, too.) Where was the outrage when Bruce Smith Drugs had to take a hike for Armani Exchange....and does anyone remember the old Plaza Movie theater-now Restoration Hardware--old items made new, mostly in China, so we can all re-live our memories.ReplyDelete
I used to live on the Plaza when a single person on low wages actually could and the Plaza was a self contained community, i.e., bank, grocery, post office, drug store, dry cleaners, etc. It has changed many times since then so throwing out the residents of the Neptune Apts. will just be a formality...
Well said, MM!ReplyDelete
What I don't understand is why they can't - instead of tearing down and building a brand new building (where ever they decide to do it) - take over one of the many half-empty, barely-used buildings that already exist downtown? I used to work in one of the biggest ones in the heart of downtown KCMO and it always amazed me how nearly 3/4 of the thing was abandoned. I mean, the company that I worked for - which consisted of less than ten people - had an entire floor to ourselves. We were surrounded by huge, empty offices.
Can't they take an office building that already exists in Kansas City, take the giant pile of money that it would take to build someplace new and spruce up the old place to meet their standards? That way, you're not tearing down parts of "classic" Kansas City, you're not wasting time and money and you're putting something - that's already here and largely ignored - to good use.
Outrage only requires a click on FB or a call to a radio show. No effort required.ReplyDelete
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I like the old throwback parts of town too. We lived at 3423 Central until 1968, at wich time we moved to a small town called Blue Springs. My brother, who is your age, always tells of the days he owned every alley in midtown. From fighting the Puerto Ricans at Westport HS, to fishing at Penn Valley park.
My first taste of the big city came in the 70's, when I would spend summers with my aunt in Northeast. What fun! All those grand old homes on Gladstone blvd, Corinthian Hall, Cliff Drive, all that Pendergast Reddi-Mix concrete, all still there today, but ignored by the folks you speak of. So many stories and so much history, silently spins its yearn as I drive through the neighborhood I used to own. Yep, the old Northeast was once mine.
Looking forward to your next urban blight segment, and as always, thanks for sharing your perspective.
ps-damn glaucoma.
Frankly, MM, with the right incentive you could get those same people's panties in a wad over a bit of used toilet paper in an alleyway. There are hordes of them standing by waiting to vent their outrage over anything that smacks of media whoredom. All ya gotta do is pick a topic, poke the multitudes with the right stick and find the right media outlet and you'll have a full fledged lynch mob on your hands.ReplyDelete
You're so right. It's a town of lost (or neglected, or unappreciated) treasures.ReplyDelete
SO GLAD you are gonna do another Urban Blight, and that I asked you about it the other day.ReplyDelete
Its not just that they're funny(they are) and sad(that too), but they give a sense of what WAS.
You write better when you're pissed off.
The company I worked for was a German company in JoCo but our German visitors never stayed in JoCo. They stayed on the Plaza because they liked the character of the Plaza, the restaurants, the hotels, the celebrations. They spent big bucks on the Plaza. My family is all from out of town and I've taken them all to the Plaza. We've had lunch there and then we went to the Nelson or something like that. I see it as a tourist destination, one of the few that Kansas City has. If it changes too much over time, it won't continue to be a tourist destination. The rest of the city has plenty of good restaurants and shopping.ReplyDelete
If it was my home, I know I'd really be digging my heels in against change. That's just me.
But, nothing stays the same forever. Sometimes good, sometimes not.
Hasn't anyone noticed that in the last month, Kansas (and particularly the Sprint Campus), has stolen about 1,000 jobs from Kansas City. Then we have a law firm, with Kansas offers, wanting to build at their own cost a building on the Plaza to keep 800 jobs in Kansas City. And the populous wants to string them up and call them everything that is bad about Kansas City.ReplyDelete
Thank you Polsinelli for staying in Kansas City.
So happy that Urban Blight tours will be returning!!!ReplyDelete
Great news that Urban Blight tours will be back. Agree with poster who said you write better when you're pissed off. (Funny thing about passion...) Agree with you that too many of the pieces of the real history in this city are ignored- tarnished gems leveled for bright new baubles.ReplyDelete
As for the Kraske callers- didn't listen except to excerpts on TV news- the lady placing this 'threat' to the Plaza on the same level as the BP oil spill almost cost me a TV.
Oh, I'm still chuckling over "...Liberace discovering a dick tree"
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I refuse to be one of your sycophants, MM, even if I do like your writing.
That crap they tore down for the P & L District was just that--mostly neglected crap. It wasn't one specific area, all done at the same time, in one specific, cool architectural style as, of course, the Plaza is.
And did you see the picture of the glassy crap building they wanted to put up? It could go or be ANYWHERE. It had no specific style other than "contemporary" or "modern", which means "lots of glass". Sure, put it downtown where all the other glassy modern buildings are but not where the Balcony building is now, for pity's sake.
Jools, above, is right. Where else would a visitor to this town go intentionally, if given the option? The Plaza, of course. And why? Because it's one little area in town where there is one continuous, well-done style of architecture. It's not like the rest of the Midwest--all done in the same, nondescript style.
You're right about us being hypocrites, I'll give you that. We've let far too many things go that shouldn't have. Heck, that's America. But on this one thing--the "Country Club Plaza"--we've drawn a line in the sand.
And this one time, you're wrong.
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Glassy building + one. good. tornado.ReplyDelete
I almost want to see that one.
Mo you must have been so ready to argue your point about lines in the sand that you missed the part where I said they should probably leave the plaza as is. It's the outrage over a single building, the line in the sand rhetoric, that I took issue with. I'd wager the vast majority of those face bookers can't even tell you the last 2 or 3 tenants in that particular building. But take heart, I snapped a pic of the Funk today at that very corner, so it looks like you have like minds. Let me know when that facebook page goes up over the blight and decay of this city. Keep reading, you'll be a psyhco pants one day soon.ReplyDelete
Good, way to make us think. Ever since I moved here 20 years ago, I've noticed an eagerness to tear down old stuff. Older stuff is what gives character. I used to work in midtown, and I enjoyed the drive to work, even before 71 was done and I had to take surface streets starting at 75th street. It would hurt my heart to see fire take one of the great old 3 story houses in much of that neighborhood. Or even the little craftsman homes.ReplyDelete
You are right in that I don't go to the Plaza a lot. It's not as unique as it used to be, and so it is less of a draw. It is still the most attractive and well put together part of Kansas City. When my parents, who are slightly snooty, came to town, I put them up at the Ritz (now something else...) There was no thought of putting them anyplace else. So when this totally out of scale and out of type building was proposed, I thought it was wrong.
Yes, they can build anything they want within the limits of the zoning and covenant on their private property. I would prefer they do right and work a compromise to preserve the basic character of the Plaza.
Thanks for a thoughtful and well written entry.
For me, I'm not outraged over this particular building. I'm upset over the precedent that this will set in the Plaza area. Sure, those other buildings were converted and new buildings have been built out to the west, but the main exterior architecture maintains the character of a mini-Seville that is the point of the Plaza. Not some generic glass box that would be at home anywhere and will stick out like a sore thumb. If they were even building something that was in keeping with the rest of the Plaza, I wouldn't give much of a damn.ReplyDelete
I admit, I'm a bit of an architecture wonk. I'm a midtowner, born and bred, and don't shop on the Plaza extensively anymore (although I love going to a movie theater that doesn't let kids in at night), but I walk down the Brush Creek walk with the dog, stroll around, hit up Three Dog, watch the crazies in Mill Creek Park for a bit, and then wander back over to the wrong side of the tracks.
When I have people come to town, we hit the Plaza, mainly to look around. We also hit some of the better parks, drive around Janssen Place, head down the Paseo to old northeast. For everyone that comes here from "more urban(e)" cities, this always impresses them. Big glass boxes won't.
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Mark- I like the old throwback parts of town too. We lived at 3423 Central until 1968, at wich time we moved to a small town called Blue Springs. My brother, who is your age, always tells of the days he owned every alley in midtown. From fighting the Puerto Ricans at Westport HS, to fishing at Penn Valley park. My first taste of the big city came in the 70's, when I would spend summers with my aunt in Northeast. What fun! All those grand old homes on Gladstone blvd, Corinthian Hall, Cliff Drive, all that Pendergast Reddi-Mix concrete, all still there today, but ignored by the folks you speak of. So many stories and so much history, silently spins its yearn as I drive through the neighborhood I used to own. Yep, the old Northeast was once mine. Looking forward to your next urban blight segment, and as always, thanks for sharing your perspective. ps-damn glaucoma.ReplyDelete


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STOCKTON - Five of San Joaquin County's top law enforcement leaders are coming together Thursday evening at University of the Pacific to speak with the public about crime trends, prevention, prison realignment, the status of their departments and their visions for their agencies.
Those leaders scheduled to appear include District Attorney James Willett, Stockton Police Chief Eric Jones, Sheriff Steve Moore, Chief Probation Officer Stephanie James and Pacific Police Chief Michael Belcher.
The Town Hall Forum Addressing Violence in Our Community is being co-hosted by Pacific and the Domestic Violence Task Force of San Joaquin County.
It will begin at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Grace Covell Banquet Hall on the University of the Pacific campus, 3601 Pacific Ave., Stockton.
"We're hearing from the community that more and more people want to do something, but they don't know exactly what. So this event will allow them to hear directly from the leaders what is going on," said Suzanne Schultz, family crimes coordinator for the San Joaquin County District Attorney's Office.
Schultz said the forum is an attempt to educate people about the status of local law enforcement so that the public can make informed decisions about what to do.
"This is where we can use some assistance and not add to the negativity," Schultz said.
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Leo 1
Words that rhyme with Leobrio, Clio, Krio, Milhaud, Rio, Theo, trio
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- Like all the fire signs, Leos are idealistic and don't hold back from expressing their passion.
- Statistics show many accomplished actors in Hollywood and television are Leos, and many have Moon signs in Cancer as well.
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lion from Middle English:
The lions known in parts of Europe and around the Mediterranean in early times were not African but Asiatic lions, rare animals in the 21st century. The name lion came into English from French, and ultimately from Greek leōn. The Anglo-Saxons had used the Latin form Leo, which was overtaken by lion for the animal, but which is still the name of a constellation and sign of the zodiac.
In ancient Rome lions and other wild beasts provided entertainment in the amphitheatres. Christians and other dissidents were left at their mercy in the arena, a practice behind our phrase to throw someone to the lions. After the terrible slaughter of British soldiers during the First World War, the phrase lions led by donkeys became popular as a way of encapsulating the idea that the men had been brave, but had been let down by their senior officers. It is not clear who first came up with the description, but the French troops defeated by the Prussians in 1871 were described as 'lions led by packasses'. From medieval times until the opening of London Zoo in the 19th century, the Tower of London contained a menagerie of unusual animals, among which were lions. Not surprisingly, they were a great attraction for visitors to the city, and the phrase to see the lions sprang up with the meaning 'to see the sights or attractions of a place'. From there a lion became a celebrity or noted person, a sense which gave us lionize, 'to treat as a celebrity', in the 1830s. See also beard
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Mark in Minnesota wrote:
The point is that Shakespeare didn't write a menstruation joke.
Z-0 wrote: does this approved editing of the "obsolete" parts apply only to literature? should we edit cinema art as our sensibilities change? should music be edited? where do you end the editing process in time? when the language no longer represents what was written by the author, but this new language retains the authors intention? dont you lose the authors intentions via multiple reinterpretations? even if it is one word at a time? slippery slope.
i'll also say i dont believe a classic novel or story is necessarily eternal. it has a generational life span. it doesnt need to be updated or revised so that present or future generations can enjoy it as our grandparents, parents, and possibly we did. as such it should be left to represent the time in which it was crafted. that's one of the great gifts of literature.
medicineman wrote: Mark in Minnesota wrote:
The point is that Shakespeare didn't write a menstruation joke.
crash wrote: how have they re-written the constitution?
Mark in Minnesota wrote: medicineman wrote: Mark in Minnesota wrote:
The point is that Shakespeare didn't write a menstruation joke.
The line 'O bloody period!' in the final scene of Othello can be seen to refer to menstruation today, at least in a "that's what she said!" kind of context. My understanding is that this wasn't true at the time the play was written. Had Shakespeare somehow been able to live and control the performances of his works over several centuries, he almost certainly would have altered that line for modern/contemporary performances of the work.
Over time, his language has shifted underneath him; presumably his goal would be to tell the same essential story he had always been trying to tell, even though the audiences he would now be trying to tell it to have an entirely different vocabulary and idiom than did the audiences who first saw his play performed hundreds of years earlier.
Mark in Minnesota wrote: A short IM conversation between me and a friend on the distinction I'm trying to make about whether any revision is acceptable and whether this specific revision accomplishes its goals:
m: Most of those 200+ uses of that word are using it as an appellative, not as a pejorative. That word no longer has a non-pejorative usage.
d: Yes. And reading the book and realizing that it used to is a powerful and important thing. The book is a history lesson as is.
d: Changing it changes the history lesson. Is that a valid reason to change it? Maybe, but only as long as it's clear it's expurgated.
m: I agree, but I also think that there's something to be said for trying to read the book two ways.
m: Expurgate is a strong word and possibly not appropriate.
m: Would we call Chaucer's work expurgated when it's translated out of Middle English?
d: Have you read Chaucer in Middle English? It's not intelligible. Drift in perjorative/non-perjorative usage between now and twains time is not the same thing as middle english to modern english translation. Saying they are the same is a grave misconception, IMHO.
m: The question is, in revising Twain, are we modifying the text to make it less objectionable than Twain intended, or to keep the text from being more objectionable than Twain intended?
m: Expurgated implies the former.
m: I do agree that the book should be shipped with an introduction explaining what edits were made, and why.
d: Translating from middle english to modern english is necessary in order to consume the work at all, much as translating something from spanish to english is required if a non-spanish speaker is to consume it. modifying the usage of a word which today has only perjorative connotations vs. leaving it as written and offending modern sensibilities is not the same activity as making something written in a foreign language intelligible.
I think expurgated is exactly the right term.
m: So, which are we doing in revising Twain?
d: Expurgating the text.
m: Making the text less objectionable than he intended, or restoring the tone to its original intent?
d: We are discussing three different things which are all completely distinct:
d: 1. translating text from one language to another so as to make it intelligible.
d: 2. Maintaining original artistic intent via updating language to modern forms to take into account changes in connotation, idiom, and usage
d: 3. Censorship
d: Specifically, censorship in the service of modern sensibilities.
m: There are two ways for a modern English speaker to read Chaucer:
m: 1. To read a translation.
m: 2. To sit down with the original text and perform a translation.
m: If we leave Twain's original appellative uses of the word "nigger" intact, we are asking the modern English speaker (who does not have an appellative use of that word, only a pejorative one) to perform a much more limited version of that same on-the-fly translation.
d: Mark Twain horrified people with Huckleberry Finn.
d: I think Mark Twain would argue that expurgating his text to remove 'nigger' because there is now no non-perjorative usage of the text would change his intent in writing it.
d: He would be thrilled there is now no non-perjorative usage for the word, I think. And he would want to preserve the historical record of a time when there was.
d: Obviously, I'm not a Twain scholar, and I can't say that for certain.
d: But that's certain how I would interpret this, and how I feel about it.
m: Well, okay then.
m: Your conclusion there is that when Twain wrote that book, he specifically desired for people to make the on-the-fly translation from modern pejorative to obsolete appellative.
d: Yes.
m: That's a totally valid perspective, and puts me in mind of A Clockwork Orange, which included a bunch of untranslated Russian vocabulary for the same reason.
d: That's exactly the kind of smart-assery that Twain loved.
jakethesnake wrote: I am also eagerly awaiting the irony of someone changing offensive words in "1984".


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Every time Republicans suffer a rejection of the most right-wing items on their agenda, a significant number decide they haven�t been sufficiently crazy. That was the conclusion that many Republicans drew from the defeat of Mitt Romney in 2012. And now that Republicans in Congress have been forced to surrender in their fight with President Obama over the budget, health care and the nation�s credit, some are drawing the same conclusion.
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Dow Rockets. Volumes Plummet.
The timing couldn't have been more apposite: the Dow Jones Industrial Average breached 17,000 for the first time just ahead of the July 4th weekend.
But this landmark didn't quite trigger fireworks. Investors are becoming used to this key U.S. equity market barometer setting record highs–it's been doing so steadily since the first quarter of 2013. What's more, the highs have been hit on steadily shrinking trading volumes.
Smoothing for daily volatility, the number of shares changing hands hasn't been this low since the late 1990s. Trading volumes have been on a declining trend since the DJIA hit a post-crisis low in the spring of 2009.
While it's been consistently true that market drops have been associated with big jumps in volumes, trading volumes remained consistently high between the start of the last decade and the financial crisis. The boom in share trading tracked the tech andtelecom bubble but then didn't fall back after the bust of 2001.
The decline in share trading during the massive market rally of the past five years looks to be a reversal of the previous trend. So, perhaps it's not a surprise that the new highs have been less of a cause for celebration on Wall Street than past peaks. Falling turnover tends to mean less revenue for brokers.
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All trading volumes shown for the Dow Jones Industrial Average are primary-market volumes. This limitation was not made clear in the original post.
The trends in composite and primary-market volumes were similar during a sample period examined (September 2010 through July 3, 2014), but the numbers of shares traded in the primary market were between one-fifth and one quarter the number traded in composite trading during that period.
The decline in composite volume was still greater, down 62.9% based on the 20-day moving averages versus a decline of 55.8% in the primary-market volume.


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Oberlin's Creative Writing Program is one of few in the country that offers a major at the undergraduate level. Established here in 1975 by poet and translator Stuart Friebert, creative writing is an intense and rigorous course of study that provides instruction, studio training, and coursework in six genres: poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama, translation, and screenwriting.
In keeping with the liberal arts tradition, we prepare you with a broad and balanced program of study that emphasizes interconnections between various literary genres. Majors will have some interdisciplinary study through a playwriting course and courses offered by the departments of English and comparative literature.
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Creative writing has a juried curriculum whereby interested students must apply for admission into the program. We base the curriculum on the view that reading is essential to a writer's training. A required 12 hours of literature (English, translation, or world literature) and 25 hours of writing will help you develop your own voice, potential, style, and portfolio. While the program does not offer a minor, two first-year courses are open to those who wish to explore poetry and fiction writing.
Fine-tune your writing through lectures, independent projects, workshops, public readings, and reading assignments that also provide opportunities to present and discuss your work. A variety of internship opportunities and practicum allow you to gain credit for hands-on, real world work, including teaching and editorial assistantships. Some students may work at FIELD magazine, a twice-yearly journal of the best of contemporary poetry and poetics, and the Oberlin College Press, which publishes new collections of poetry by established and emerging American poets. Majors can do supervised teaching of creative writing in the Oberlin public schools, or pursue other supervised activities related to creative writing.
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Solar photovoltaic products, wind power, biofuels, and fuel cells collectively experienced a 40% growth in revenues in 2007, according to a new report from Clean Edge, Inc. Global revenues for the four clean energy markets increased from $55 billion in 2006 to $77.3 billion in 2007. And although the fuel cell and distributed hydrogen market remains relatively immature, with revenues of $1.5 billion in 2007, the three other renewable markets each exceeded $20 billion in revenue. Of the four energy markets, wind power earned the highest revenue, at $30.1 billion. In terms of production, the biofuels industry produced 13 billion gallons of ethanol throughout the world, as well as 2 billion gallons of biodiesel, while solar photovoltaic system installations fell just short of 3,000 megawatts.
The Clean Energy Trends 2008 report looks ahead ten years and predicts that global installed solar photovoltaic capacity will increase eightfold, to 22,760 megawatts, global wind power capacity will nearly quadruple, to 75,781 megawatts, and biofuel production will nearly triple, to 45.9 billion gallons. It also projects a tripling of the three clean energy markets over the next ten years, with the largest growth rate in the nascent fuel cell and distributed hydrogen market, which grows more than tenfold to $16 billion. But for biofuels, wind power, and solar photovoltaic products, the projection actually represents slower growth compared to recent years. For instance, the solar photovoltaic increased fivefold in the past four years and is projected to increase by a factor of 3.6 over the next ten years. That's a 13.8% average annual growth in the coming decade, compared to 50% average annual growth over the past four years. See the Clean Edge press release, report summary, and full report (PDF 1.9 MB). Download Adobe Reader.
The report anticipates continued revenue growth in 2008, and highlights five major trends: the growing participation of overseas companies in the U.S. wind power market; a renaissance for geothermal energy; the launch of new electric vehicles by relatively small startup companies, rather than the large automakers; the use of new, clean technologies for oceangoing ships; and the design and construction of entirely new sustainable cities. Regarding that final trend, the leader in building new sustainable cities is the United Arab Emirates, which broke ground in February on Masdar City. The new city, developed by the government's $15 billion Masdar Initiative, aims to be the world's first zero-carbon, zero-waste, car-free city. The Masdar Initiative plans to contribute $4 billion toward the city's architecture, with private investment and other financing providing an additional $18 billion. Masdar City is actually a 2.3-square-mile district on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi that will be built in seven phases over the next eight years. The first phase will include the Masdar Headquarters, which will produce more energy that it uses, and the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, a graduate university dedicated to renewable energy. See the Masdar Initiative press releases on its funding, the Masdar City groundbreaking, and the Masdar Headquarters.


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January 18, 2013
Facebook has launched a new way for its users to search, navigate and make connections – Graph Search.
Graph Search will appear as a search bar at the top of each page. When users search, a page with the title of the search will be created in order to provide a customised view of shared content on Facebook.
It's very different from a normal web search, says Facebook. Graph Search involves looking for connections using phrases, such as "restaurants in London my friends have visited". And it promises to respect privacy – users can only see what they could already view elsewhere on Facebook.
Still at the beta stage, Graph Search currently focuses on four main areas – people, photos, places, and interests. It looks set to deliver benefits to businesses on Facebook, helping to highlight brands that Facebook users like.
Commenting on the launch, Andreas Pouros, chief operating officer of digital marketing agency Greenlight, said: "Businesses are likely to become more visible within Facebook given that many of these searches will bring up their pages in Graph Search results. However, this may simply offset the reduction in visibility brands have experienced due to Facebook's Promoted Posts mechanism that has limited the exposure of brand posts on user newsfeeds."
The launch comes at a time when new research suggests that the popularity of Facebook among businesses could be dwindling. A study by EML Wildfire that has analysed the social media activity of the Deloitte Fast Tech 50 reveals that only 83% of B2C companies use Facebook today, compared to 100% in 2010 and 2011.
Other key results of the survey are:
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LONDON — The 49ers are considering deals to extend the contracts of several young players, and that includes troubled linebacker Aldon Smith, general manager Trent Baalke said Friday.
"That's the ultimate goal," Baalke said. "At the same time, like every player, there's a lot of things that go into a long-term decision."
And even a lot more in Smith's case. He'll miss his fifth straight game Sunday after entering treatment following an alleged drunk-driving accident. How Smith responds after his rehabilitation stint will factor into his long-term future with the 49ers, Baalke noted.
"It's like anything, you're developing that trust factor again," Baalke said. "We all understand, including Aldon, that situations like this have to be in the past."
Smith and quarterback Colin Kaepernick can't get new contracts until after this season, since they're third-year veterans.
Kaepernick is indeed a top priority, as are the contract situations of left guard Mike Iupati, cornerback Tarell Brown and leading wideout Anquan Boldin.
No extensions appear imminent, and Baalke wouldn't rule out any being awarded before the end of the season.
Brown lost a $2 million workout bonus prior to the season.
"We're doing our best to make it right," Baalke said. "What is right? I don't know the answer. We'll do our best to make sure T-Brown feels he's being treated fairly by the 49ers organization."
Said Brown: "I'm focused on football. The biggest thing is to focus on the next game and that's the Jaguars. The rest of that will take care of itself. I'll leave it to upstairs and my agent, and they'll do their best to make it work."


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Clarkfield Care Center Administrator Paul Luitjens told the Clarkfield City Council at their regular meeting Tuesday that the facility plans to increase rates for their assisted living and home health care programs.
While giving his monthly report, Luitjens told the council that due to a recent market study, the facility has made plans to raise rates for both assisted living and home health care.
The last time rates for the two programs were increased was roughly a year-and-a-half ago. It's generally been the Care Center's practice to keep rates for those programs near the median average for area care facilities. Though final numbers for the increase have yet to be finalized, Luitjens thought that the increase might be somewhere around $50 per day per resident.
During the meeting Luitjens also presented the council with the facility's budget and annual audit.
The good news for the facility is that the number of residents is creeping back up. To date Luitjens said the 52 bed facility was at 43 residents. During the summer months occupancy at the facility dropped to a low of 35 residents.
Last year the facility operated at near capacity for much of the year.
Traditionally, the Care Center fills up during fall and winter months with a slight drop during the summer.
"The first eight months (of the fiscal year) we were kicking butt and it looked like we were going to make money, but for whatever reason we fell off there for a few months," Luitjens told the council. "Do I think we'll be back up to 50 residents this winter? Yes."
Revenue for the facility, in this fiscal year, was down $122,000 from a year ago.
Recently, and perhaps due in part to the Care Center's recent dry spell, the City Council agreed to enter an equitable cost sharing program for publicly owned nursing facilities (ECPN) with the state on behalf of the Care Center.
As is mandated by the program, the city will raise the Care Center's private pay rate by $5 a day and invest $2,078.35 a month, or $24,940.20 annually in the program. In return, the state will pay the Care Center $6,209 a month; providing the facility with $74,509.18 in extra yearly revenue.
The city, meanwhile, will assess the Care Center for city services in the amount of $20,000 a year in an effort to recoup some of their $24,940.20 annual investment into the ECPN program.
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