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|19th February 2004, 08:00 AM
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Typical newbie question
I hope this is not too annoying as im sure you get these darn questions all the time.
I really dont know the difference between solid state, chip amps, and pass labs amps. I am looking into the cost to upgrade my setup by adding power amps, i have a NAD 5.1 receiver and it has preouts. It is rated at 50w with all channels driven and has 90w dynamic power.
SO for a decent up grade i spose if be looking at around 100w per channel for power amps.
I know this is a bit vauge but i dont know diddily about diy-amps.
If i need to go post in a different section let me know. Im just after a price of what it would cost me to build power amps for my setup, first 2 channel for my music then 5 for HT. Please help me out, even just some direction is helpful, links etc.
|19th February 2004, 10:47 AM
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Hi Michael;
>>>...I really dont know the difference between solid state, chip amps, and pass labs amps...<<<
That part's easy; in the context of this forum, "chip amps" are amplifiers in which the entire amplification circuit uses an IC chip. "Solid state" in this context refers to those amps that use discrete solid state components (i.e. separate transistors, rather than chips that are packages containing a number of prewired transistors), and "Pass Labs" refers to discrete designs by Nelson Pass.
>>>...I am looking into the cost to upgrade my setup by adding power amps, i have a NAD 5.1 receiver and it has preouts. It is rated at 50w with all channels driven and has 90w dynamic power.
SO for a decent up grade i spose if be looking at around 100w per channel for power amps...<<<
Nothing wrong with upgrading to separates. However, I do question the idea that "more power" = "upgrade". The best DIY system I've yet built went in the other direction - to a little over 4 watts - yet has more ability to convey emotion and delicacy to music than earlier (and later) systems (though to be fair, that one cost nearly $1000USD to build and these days I'm trying to match it's performance for lower cost). It uses valves rather than solid state, but the principle holds that more is not NECESSARILY better. Are you sure you need more power for your speakers? What kind of speakers do you have? What kind of music do you enjoy? What sorts of volume do you listen at?
>>>...Im just after a price of what it would cost me to build power amps for my setup, first 2 channel for my music then 5 for HT. Please help me out, even just some direction is helpful, links etc...<<<
That one's a real hornet's nest. The cost of a decent sounding budget chip amp can be as little as $50 for both channels using cheapie components and giving about 16wrms to 18wrms. However, for 100wrms you're going to either a. bridge something like a pair of LM3886's for each channel, b. use some chips I'm not familiar with or c. go to discrete solid state. If you were to want a high powered valve amp, I'd say that you could get away with something like a push-pull 6550, to the tune of maybe 50 wrms per channel (valve amps tend to sound "louder" watt per watt than solid state designs due to their clipping characteristics - when I first went back to valves, my 40 wpc EL34 amp was easily able to keep up with a 75wpc solid state Yamaha, for example). Cost there will be pretty high - figure around $500USD in parts alone, plus the cost of a matched quartet of 6550's and some small signal valves (maybe $120+ for new production valves per set, and you'll want spares).
AND, a high powered valve amp is not for beginners. Better to try a low watts SET valve amp or better yet, a chipamp (easier and FAR SAFER for a beginner!). High powered discrete semiconductor amps are not a particularly good starter project either, IMHO. The easiest starter project would be something like a Chu Moy chipamp to power your headphones. Go to headwize.com and check their library of DIY projects for details of that one - figure you can build one for under $40, total. Next up in cost and ease of construction would be something using an LM1875 - be sure to use shielded cable for both the inputs and outputs, and do some reading of the archives here for information on layouts. You could go with a PCB or P2P ("dead bug") wiring for something like that. If you're willing to go to around 50-55wrms, look into the LM3875.
In general, the biggest cost in any solid state amp (including chipamps) is going to be the power supply transformer. Figure that for each channel at 100WRMS that you are going to need a minimum of 100VA (and many people will go far higher on general principles!) transformer. Take a look at Parts Express' list of Avel Lindberg torroidal trafos for reference and bear in mind that you're going to need to get over 100VA per channel (so if you double up channels you could get by with a 250VA model). The chips themselves can actually be pretty cheap. LM1875's (good to about 20wrms each) can be had for around $2.5USD, and LM3875's (good to about 56wrms each) are between $5USD and $6USD. Capacitors for the Power Supply (PS) are another cost. In general GainClone guys generally like to keep those small (for solid state; valve amp guys like me use much less capacitance but we also use inductors in our PS filters and those are $$$), but they can be pricey even so, if you insist on the likes of Black Gate (think $$$ when you read the words "Black Gate"). Panasonic caps are good, as are Nichicons, so you don't have to break the bank here. Then there's the heat sink. Particularly for a higher powered amp you're going to need a big one for cool operation. And if you're dreaming of class A operation in a discrete solid state amp, you're going to need an enormous heat sink for 100wrms per channel - class A amps are the least efficient type though they have some theoretical advantages over class B and hybrid class AB types.
Assuming I've not put you to sleep with all this (God knows I could use a bit - it's another evening of insomnia over here! ), I'd suggest that you do a bit of reading and get it clear in your head what you want to accomplish. There's nothing wrong with wanting more power - if your speakers need it. If you're using higher efficiency types (my current 'best' DIY speakers knock out 96dB SPL on a single watt, so it's not like I often use more than 1 watt, period), then wattage alone is a bit of a waste. If you're after "higher quality" watts (i.e. midrange "to die for", etc.) that's another matter entirely.
All this is just a collection of my own opinions. Others may differ, natuerlich.
Good luck on finding and building a DIY amp that will do just what you want and all the best!
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Why Watson Can't Talk to SiriStacey Higginbotham
On Tuesday night, I was schooled by Watson on playing Jeopardy in an exhibition match at the Computer History Museum. I discovered that despite our fear of the robot overlords, humans are much smarter than we think. Case in point: Watson could never use Apple's personal assistant, Siri.
While each service seemingly understands what we're saying and can respond with amazingly functional or accurate answers, the truth is that they are both programmed for specific tasks and could never actually converse with one another or a human, outside a narrow context. Watson can't take dictation and Siri can't play Jeopardy. Understanding their limits shows how far we have to go when it comes to true artificial intelligence and rational fears of robots taking over.
David Ferrucci, the guy at IBM behind Watson's creation, explained during a conversation before the match that as intuitive as the interactions with Siri or Watson appear to us, they are fundamentally task-oriented. The questions Watson gets are in effect "translated"—not just into the zeros and ones of digital signals but also to a series of words that are then broken down into related concepts.
Watson then tries to ascribe "meaning" to those contexts, based on searches of unstructured data to derive an answer. It next determines which answer is most likely to be correct—and how much confidence it has in the top answer—because if someone guesses the wrong answer in Jeopardy, he or she (or it) is penalized. Watson's tasks are thus to figure out the context associated with a question, determine which answer is the likeliest based on that context, and then reckon if it's confident enough in the probabilities to bother answering.
Watson's Greater Firepower
Siri, on the other hand, does two important things: It recognizes speech (Watson actually doesn't understand speech, but is fed a text version of the question) and it can figure out what steps to take in a limited number of applications, once it understands the words in a natural language process related to the process by which Watson functions. The sense from IBMers (unsurprisingly) is that Siri doesn't have Watson's natural language depth. Siri certainly lacks the computing horsepower behind it (2,880 processor cores and 15 terabytes of RAM) or the 100 GB of text data that Watson uses to figure out how different words relate to each other.
The net result of their differences? Not only could Siri and Watson not communicate directly because each relies on different input methods, but even if they could, their tasks are fundamentally far apart. Each has an ability to do natural language processing, but one uses that skill to find related information and figure out which information is most correct, while the other uses it to open applications and perform a set number of tasks.
So while Alan Turing proposed that the best test of artificial intelligence is that humans can't distinguish between interactions with a human or a computer, it may be more accurate to say that the best test will be the creation of a machine that can not only understand natural language, as Siri and Watson can, but can then employ Watson's ability to determine the best course of action and Siri's skill at taking the action.
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Chiang Mai has loads of cafes; the local brew is excellent, the accompanying bakeries are good and nearly all come with free WiFi and pleasant seating areas. But when we came come across this interesting variation on a coffee shop theme the other day — a piano bar coffee shop — we thought it was worth writing home about; it's probably the cutest looking coffee shop we've come across in a while.
Now while it's a piano/coffee bar, no regular in-house pianist tinkles the ivories, so anyone who fancies a turn can go ahead themselves.
Plenty more than coffee is on the menu, including beers and a few cocktails to help get the creative juices flowing, or shakes and juices if you play better when sober. To eat you can select from the usual default bakery section of brownies, mango cheesecake and so on as well as sandwiches, some local-style light lunches such as fried rice and all day Western-style breakfasts, all at very reasonable prices.
This interesting hybrid joint is well worth checking out if you're in the area. The cafe is located in the old city at the corner of Ratpakinai and Moonmuang Soi 6, just up from Chiang Mai Blue House. (See Chiang Mai map.)
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Senate Passes 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' Repeal
Saturday, December 18, 2010
UPDATE: President Obama signed the repeal law on December 22.
The Senate today passed legislation to repeal the discriminatory "don't ask don't tell" law banning gay and lesbian servicemembers from serving openly in the U.S. military.
Categories: LGBTQ Rights
Wade Henderson Receives Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award
Friday, December 10, 2010
Wade Henderson, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, was one of four recipients of The Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights today. Recipients are honored for advocating "tirelessly for human rights, both at home and abroad."
"I cannot begin to tell you how humbled I am to receive this award in the name of Eleanor Roosevelt, whose devotion to civil and human rights gave birth to a set of universal principles that continue to transform our world for good," said Henderson. "This award really belongs to The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a coalition of more than 200 national organizations working together for an America as good as its ideals."
Categories: Human Rights, The Leadership Conference
Anti-Poverty Campaign's Online Quiz Seeks to Educate the Public
Thursday, December 16, 2010
As part of its effort to raise public awareness, the Half in Ten campaign is encouraging people to take an online quiz to test their understanding of poverty issues in the United States.
Categories: Poverty & Welfare
Business, Civil Rights Groups Challenge Arizona Law on Undocumented Workers
Friday, December 17, 2010
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case about whether an Arizona law prohibiting employers from hiring undocumented immigrants conflicts with federal immigration law.
Categories: Immigration, Workers' Rights
Census Bureau Releases First 2010 Census Data
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
The U.S. Census Bureau released the first results of the 2010 census today. These findings were delivered to President Obama by Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, as required by the Constitution.
Categories: Census
Senate to Vote on DREAM Act and 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' Repeal
Friday, December 17, 2010
Sen. Harry Reid, D. Nev., has scheduled votes on the DREAM Act, which would provide undocumented immigrant youth whose parents brought them to the U.S. with a path to citizenship if they pursue higher education or serve in the military, and a bill to repeal "don't ask don't tell," the current law requiring lesbian and gay servicemembers to conceal their sexual orientation or face expulsion from the military.
Both bills are top priorities for the civil and human rights community.
Categories: LGBTQ Rights, Immigration
Report Card Finds Most States Falling Short on Women's Health
Friday, December 10, 2010
Despite some progress, the majority of states received an "unsatisfactory" grade in an annual report card on women's health issued by the National Women's Law Center (NWLC). Only two states – Massachusetts and Vermont – received a "satisfactory" grade, while the District of Columbia and 11 other states received a failing grade.
Categories: Health Care, Women's Rights
New Report Documents Exploitation of Truck Drivers at Nation's Ports
Friday, December 10, 2010
Thousands of truck drivers shuttling cargo at major ports in the U.S. are being denied basic civil and human rights due to companies illegally hiring them as "independent contractors" rather than employees, according to "The Big Rig: Poverty, Pollution, and the Misclassification of Truck Drivers at America's Ports," a groundbreaking new report examining the working conditions and employment status of 110,000 port truckers.
Categories: Workers' Rights
Senate Fails to Pass DREAM Act, Again
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Today, the Senate failed to pass the Development, Relief and Education for Minors (DREAM) Act.
Categories: Immigration
Congress Passes Bill to Increase Number of Low Power FM Stations
Monday, December 20, 2010
The Local Community Radio Act, which will help increase the number of low power FM (LPFM) stations in the United States, is poised to become law following passage in the House of Representatives on Friday and passage in the Senate on Saturday.
Categories: Media & Technology
Report Analyzes Successful Campaign to Defeat Colorado's Anti-Equal Opportunity Ballot Measure
Friday, December 17, 2010
The University of Colorado at Boulder recently released a report analyzing the key factors that led to the defeat (49 percent – 51 percent) of Amendment 46, a ballot initiative that would have amended the Colorado state constitution to ban equal opportunity in public higher education, employment and contracting in 2008.
Categories: Equal Opportunity
Senate Nears Adjournment Without Voting on Critical Judicial Nominations
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
The Senate headed toward adjournment on Wednesday having voted to confirm only 19 of the 38 judicial nominations pending on the Senate floor. The other 19 nominations fell victim to a two-year campaign of obstruction by Republican senators that prevented even the most noncontroversial nominees from getting an up-or-down confirmation vote on the Senate floor.
Categories: Judiciary
Government Officials Contribute to Online Video Campaign for LGBT Youth
Friday, December 10, 2010
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D. Calif., Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Tom Perez, and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius have recently contributed short online videos to the "It Gets Better Project," offering their unique words of support to LGBT youth.
Categories: LGBTQ Rights
Wade Henderson among Advocates Appearing in Characters Unite Civil Rights Documentary
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Wade Henderson, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, appears in a USA Network/NBC Characters Unite special, "Tom Brokaw Presents Bridging the Divide," as one of several civil and human rights advocates commenting on the "state of the civil rights movement in our changing nation."
The special aired on Friday, December 10. Check out the video on the Characters Unite website or click "Read More" to view the video.
Categories: The Leadership Conference, Civil Rights History
Senate Vote on 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Repeal Blocked
Thursday, December 9, 2010
A minority of senators succeeded today in blocking consideration of legislation that would repeal "don't ask, don't tell."
Categories: LGBTQ Rights
Women's Rights Advocates Make the Case for CEDAW Ratification
Friday, December 3, 2010
Women's rights advocates recently told the Senate Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law that it is critical for the U.S. as a global leader on human rights to ratify the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
"The United States has long stood for the principles of equal justice, the rule of law, respect for women, and the defense of human dignity. We know that women around the world look to the United States as a moral leader on human rights. And yet when it comes to the Women's Treaty, which reflects the fundamental principle that women's rights are human rights, we stand with only a handful of countries that have not ratified," said Melanne Verveer, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for the Office of Global Women's Issues in the U.S. Department of State, in her testimony. "And we stand on the sidelines, unable to use the Women's Treaty to join with champions of human rights who seek to use it as a means to protect and defend women's basic human rights."
Categories: Human Rights, Women's Rights
Congress Lets Emergency Unemployment Benefits Expire, Millions Facing Potential Loss of Income
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Efforts to approve an extension of emergency unemployment benefits before a November 30 deadline were blocked in the Senate last night, leaving millions of workers and their families facing the potential loss of vital income heading into the holiday season.
Categories: Jobs & Economy, Poverty & Welfare, Workers' Rights
Pentagon Study Shows Majority of Military Sees No Harm in Repealing 'Don't Ask Don't Tell'
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
A Pentagon study to assess the impact of repealing the military's ban on openly gay servicemembers found that repeal would pose little risk to military effectiveness.
Categories: Human Rights, LGBTQ Rights
Supreme Court Hears Case on Prison Overcrowding
Friday, December 3, 2010
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tuesday in a case that concerns whether overcrowding in California prisons, which has led to grossly unsanitary conditions and inadequate access to medical and mental health care, warrants a court ordered reduction of nearly 40,000 prisoners within two years.
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In a nutshell the problem with Apple TV is not what it does or how it does it, but what it doesn't do. Some of this is country specific: there are no TV show rentals in the UK iTunes store so they have to be bought and downloaded on a computer then streamed to Apple TV. A licensing problem rather than Apple's fault, surely? No. In being so small the second generation Apple TV has stripped out the hard disk meaning no downloads. There is 8GB of NAND flash, but strangely this is reserved entirely for cache. The result is the Apple TV is still heavily dependent on the computers in your house and needs them to be switched on for everything other than renting films or browsing YouTube and Flickr.
This limitation is just the tip of the iceberg. The move to an iOS core (despite no App Store access) has seen it also adopt the same Apple A4 chipset (ARM Cortex A4 CPU, PowerVR SGX535 graphics) as the iPad and iPhone 4 meaning it isn't capable of 1080p video play back. Whether you see this as essential or not, it's an embarrassing omission for a media player released in late 2010.
Can you overlook the lack of storage, 1080p content and TV rental? If so you'll need strong stomachs to make up for the most fundamental flaw in Apple TV: its codec support. Apple has built its success on providing beautiful user experiences within tightly walled gardens and why Apple TV has struggled up to now is because this is diametrically opposed to the freedom required in building a good media player. Apple TV supports just H.264 video encoded in M4V, MP4 or MOV as well as AAC audio, MP3, Apple lossless, AIFF, WAV plus JPEGS, GIF and TIFF. Compare that with the WDTV, which arguably kicked off the renewed interest in media players in 2008 - codec support reads:
Audio - MP3, WAV/PCM/LPCM, WMA, AAC, FLAC, MKA, AIF/AIFF, OGG, Dolby Digital, DTS
Photo - JPEG, GIF, TIF/TIFF, BMP, PNG
Video - AVI (Xvid, AVC, MPEG1/2/4), MPG/MPEG, VOB, MKV (h.264, x.264, AVC, MPEG1/2/4, VC-1), TS/TP/M2T (MPEG1/2/4, AVC, VC-1), MP4/MOV (MPEG4, h.264), M2TS, WMV9
Playlist - PLS, M3U, WPL
Subtitle -SRT, ASS, SSA, SUB, SMI
There is simply no comparison, especially with 1080p video support also included. Yes you can't buy content through the player directly, but you can buy content from ANY online store (including iTunes) on your computer and stream it or connect an external HDD and it will playback just fine.
Then there's the issue of price. £99.99 may not seem like a lot given it is less than its predecessor, but there are more comprehensive rivals like the WDTV HD (£79.99), Asus O!Play HDP-R1 HD (£86.99) and Roku ($79, but awaiting UK release) which offer better value for money. Furthermore the $99.99 RRP (£62) for the Apple TV in the US means UK customers have the right to feel short changed, especially given the reduced content available.
Only the most hardcore of Apple fanatics will find the Apple TV to be a worthwhile purchase. This is a tragedy because Apple has demonstrated it knows exactly how to build a stunning, intuitive and (in the US at least) inexpensive media player that has the potential to take the market by storm. Apple's restrictive principles mean it will never likely achieve the success so easily within its grasp. Some flaws simply can't be polished out.
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Mumbai's Mighty Cash In on a Real Estate Boom
"In Mumbai, property is destiny," the novelist Vikram Chandra, author of the huge fictional investigation into the city's hidden vortexes of power "Sacred Games," once said to me.
Of course, every one of the 20 million or so denizens of the space-starved Indian financial capital knows and feels (and dreams) this truth, but the city's extortionate real estate prices and lamentable urban planning mean that more than half of its industrious population lives and suffers in slums, while hundreds of thousands of middle-class people expend their energies on debilitating journeys on jam-packed trains and buses from homes in the distant suburbs.
But more than the average Mumbaikar, more even than the city's sizeable class of entrepreneurs and investors, it is Mumbai's politicians (and those of Maharashtra, the state in whose crown Mumbai is the jewel) and its bureaucracy that might be said to hold this mantra closest to their hearts. Over the last two decades, as India's liberalization has spurred an economic boom and made some sections of the country flush with capital, no business in Mumbai has grown so rapidly as the business of property, and no partnership has generated so much intrigue and malfeasance as that of the nexus between the city's politicians and builders.
Simultaneously, as an exhaustive report in a recent issue of the investigative weekly Tehelka showed, politicians in power have worked assiduously at capturing real estate by leasing or transferring land held by the government at highly subsidized rates to "trusts" run by themselves or family members, thereby turning public goods into private wealth and draining the city of much-needed investments in roads, parks, hospitals, and schools.
The extent to which this corruption is no longer individual but systemic, built into the very structures of the city's economy, political parties, government, and laws (and periodic amendments to those laws) is no secret to Mumbaikars. But its secrets, deceptions and compromises are by and large well-managed and contained by those who perpetrate them. Every now and then, though, the persistence of an isolated journalist or activist pays off, and the curtain falls away from the truth, toppling those at the very top. Last week, after a series of arrests of high-profile bureaucrats, including that of the former municipal commissioner of Mumbai, in a housing scam, newspapers were abuzz with speculation that a really big fish -- the state's previous chief minister, Ashok Chavan, himself the son of a former chief minister of the state -- might be arrested.
In November 2010, Chavan, then the incumbent chief minister (and holder of the coveted urban development portfolio), lost his job after his complicity in the Adarsh Housing Society scam was revealed. The details of this audacious land grab provide a revealing snapshot of how power beds itself down in modern India through networks of patronage, and even straight barter.
In 2003, the Maharashtra government passed a proposal to construct a six-story building in Colaba, one of Mumbai's most expensive neighborhoods, offering flats at concessional rates to veterans of the Kargil war of 1999 with Pakistan, or their widows. Many suspicious aspects of the project were queried as far back as 2003 by the journalist Samar Halarnkar in the Indian Express, but to no avail. By the end of the decade, the building had come up, but it was now 31 floors high, the many clearances it needed having been expedited swiftly by a compliant bureaucracy. But it housed only a handful of soldiers.
The rest of the flats had been parceled up between politicians (in both government and opposition), their proxies, and bureaucrats in the state government. As a who's who of the residents of the building published by the Indian Express showed, almost everyone who had contributed to the building project being passed had been rewarded with a prime address in the city. Every chief minister of Maharashtra of the past decade (including the notorious Vilasrao Deshmukh, now taking a breather in the union government from the frying pan of Maharashtra politics) had some involvement with the project, and stood to benefit in return.
The Deccan Herald reported in a piece called "Maharastra's Land Scandals":
The defence first located the plot and then approached the state politicians for their help way back in 2000. The incumbent chief minister Ashok Chavan was then the revenue minister, and as per the government records, the land belonged to the government, although it was given to the Army. Although Chavan now denies it, the politician in him must have noticed the windfall the building in Colaba could bring, and he reportedly insisted that the Society, initially meant for defence officials, should allow 40 per cent membership to civilians. That was agreed, and the file moved quickly.
At current market price, the flat in Adarsh will cost somewhere between Rs 7 to 8 crore [$1.6 million], but the members of the Society were asked to invest up to Rs 85 lakh [$170,000] for a 2 BHK apartment. The appreciation would be more than 10 fold, that is, 1000 per cent. Can any business or job fetch this kind of returns in so short a time? No wonder, four former state CMs -- Vilasrao Deshmukh, Sushilkumar Shinde, Narayan Rane and Shivajirao Patil Nilangekar -- who had given various clearances to the controversial project at some point of time, were benefited directly or indirectly through allotments to their associates or nominees. Three relatives of Ashok Chavan were alloted flats in the Society, which he confirmed publicly.
So where do the surpluses generated by such sweetheart deals go? Certainly into the election war-chests of political parties, and perhaps into Swiss bank accounts. But, most damagingly, they perhaps go into the subversion of democracy, and fund the corruption of the public sphere. It is surely not a coincidence that Chavan's tenure as chief minister marked not just a new chapter in the history of crony capitalism in the city, but also, as a scathing series of reports by the journalist P. Sainath during the Maharashtra elections of 2009 proved, a new era for the capital-intensive phenomenon of "paid news" -- articles published on the eve of elections praising the incumbent chief minister.
And just as significantly, such collusions, if they go unpunished, vitiate the reputation and professed ideals of capitalism itself far more than any critics on the left could, and demonstrate what a great gulf may lie between "free" and "just," when capitalism's votaries often think of the second word as virtually synonymous with the first.
It is indisputable that the energies of capitalism have worked wonders in the last two decades in transforming the static and oppressively hierarchical India of old. But simultaneously, capitalism's disregard for its own professed rules has greatly skewed access to the wealth it has generated, and supplied damning data to its critics, while suggesting even to those who are new to its ways -- as most young Indians are -- that it is a system that depends more on access than on efficiency.
As the historian Joyce Appleby argues in her history of capitalism, "The Relentless Revolution," "the shape and direction of capitalism are always set by its participants and never by inexorable laws" -- although economic determinists would have us believe that they are. All too often in India today, as examples like Adarsh prove, political power is thoroughly compromised by its proximity to special interests and lobbies, and capitalism's participants don't make a good enough case for the legitimacy of the system. In the case of Mumbai, the politician-builder nexus has condemned its citizens to a vastly poorer life than they deserve, and the parallel lines of genuine capitalism and crony capitalism have spawned a double economy. As an editorial titled "A Profitable Partnership" in The Economic and Political Weekly pointed out:
Mumbaikars believe that no matter which party is in power, it is the builders' lobby that is all powerful. While the Congress Party has been at the helm for the longest duration, the Shiv Sena--Bharatiya Janata Party (SS-BJP) government did little for the predominantly jobless mill workers whose interests it claimed to espouse and whose homes were being taken over by the developers. [...] As the National Alliance of People's Movements has pointed out, the shanties of the poor are regularly demolished as encroachments but rules are regularly flouted to accommodate the illegal housing of the rich.
In the "India Shining", regulatory capture of different kinds (changing regulations, bending rules, discretionary allotments, etc) in infrastructure meets the needs of all sections of the powerful: it oils the machinery of the political parties, it lines the pockets of senior politicians and bureaucrats and, of course, it benefits those corporates who at a price are able to get the rules changed in their favour. Adarsh is just a speck on the landscape.
Can things change at all when both government and opposition in Maharashtra are deeply invested in the politics of property -- capture, development, slum rehabilitation and redistribution? In a long investigative essay in Tehelka last May called "Land Grab. And How To Make Millions" -- required reading for anybody interested in Indian politics -- the journalist Ashish Khetan supplied indictments of dozens of prominent Maharashtra politicians:
In Mumbai, almost every MLA [member of the legislative assembly] and MP, both past and present, cutting across political lines, owns at least one real estate project, either directly or through family members or a proxy, at any given point of time.
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray runs a big construction company named Matoshree Infrastructure. Right now, this company is redeveloping a cluster of over a dozen residential buildings in Mulund. Former chief minister and Shiv Sena leader Manohar Joshi and Raj had together bought the 4.8-acre Kohinoor Mill Land for Rs 421 crore in 2005 amidst a slew of controversies and allegations. [...] Raj's company also constructed one of the first slum rehabilitation projects in the city. [...]
BJP MLA Mangal Prabhat Lodha (Malabar constituency) is today one of the top real estate developers in the city. Lodha first became an MLA in 1999 and has not looked back since then. Lodha Group, which he started in 1980, currently has 38 real estate projects under construction covering over 29 million sq ft of built-up area.
People often say that Raj and Uddhav Thackeray [of the Shiv Sena] will never contest elections. Why? Because then they will have to declare their assets, both movable and immovable. Similarly, the stories surrounding the alleged illegal gains of [former Chief Minister] Sharad Pawar, who in the last Lok Sabha election declared his total worth as 8.73 crore [roughly $18 million], are the stuff of urban legend.
In a sense, then, no Indian city is as great a symbol of the exhaustion of democracy and the takeover of policy by special interests as Mumbai, historically a city of entrepreneurship and public-spiritedness. Returning to the city -- the one I know best and love best, and the place where my own stories are set -- late one night last week after a couple of months away, I found it looking, even at midnight, weary, ill-lit, dusty, and dystopian, the roads littered with construction debris and garbage, and hundreds of people sleeping on the pavements or beneath flyovers. I found myself remembering the close of Cyrus Guzder's excellent essay about the city from 2003:
An Irish proverb says 'It is in the shelter of each other that people live.' Bombay's builders and their rich clients may forget this only at their own peril.
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Our accommodation was mixed, the first night being in the car as we did not arrive to the beaches until midnight (aforementioned roads adding a few hours to our anticipated travel time), managing to wild-camp on a local farmers land in Jali, and then capping it off by spending our last night camping directly on the beach in Drymades. Spending our days eating the insanely cheap food, swimming in the waters, taking in the view (dotted all around by bunkers - google them, they are awesome) and being astounded by the symbiotic relationship created between the local animals (pigs, cows and donkeys to name a few) and anyone throwing rubbish on the street. Albania was the perfect prelude to our next Adriatic destinations - Montenegro and Croatia - but not before we embarked on to the capital.


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Headquartered in Ponsonby, Gentrack designs and builds specialist software for utility companies and airports.
Where do you export to?
For the best part of 30 years, Gentrack's software products, Gentrack Velocity, mDATA21 and Airport 20/20 have been used by utilities and airports throughout New Zealand, Australia, Asia, Europe, UK and North America. Our customers include utilities companies such as Vector, Genesis Energy, Trustpower, Meridian Energy, Origin Energy, Unitywater and Barwon Water. International airport customers include Sydney, Brisbane, Hong Kong, JFK, Newark Liberty, London City and Sri Lanka as well as 48 airports in Pakistan and 30 in Finland.
What percentage of your business is export?
Our growth in Australia meant that in 2012 our revenues there exceeded those from NZ and the rest of the world. With the addition of our latest utility customer in the UK, Bournemouth Water, and ongoing Airports 20/20 projects in Asia, we expect to see more than 70 per cent of our sales coming from outside NZ.
What is your company's story? What appeals to your customers overseas about it?
In essence we deliver where many of our large overseas competitors can't. Our Kiwi "can-do" attitude, proven track record in New Zealand and Australia, and our value- based solutions is what really gets us noticed on the international stage. Our people love software and they love delivering real commercial solutions to our utilities and airport customers.
Over the years, we've evolved as a business that made its name in New Zealand's deregulating energy sector and we've transformed ourselves into an international business that has systems billing water and energy across all states and territories of Australia and airport systems at some of the world's largest airports.
What countries are your biggest exports? How have you identified them?
By revenue our largest exports are to Australia and the UK. Airport 20/20 has also had significant success in North America and Asia. With our utility software we have initially targeted those countries with similar regulatory regimes and are undergoing structural changes which will require new and innovative software solutions.
Once we feel we are well established in the UK, we plan to take our utility software into North America where we have already built some credibility in the airport sector.
Does winning awards help you market abroad?
We've actively taken part in the awards as a means to build awareness of our business success and growth prospects offshore. We were a finalist in the HiTech awards in 2012, and we're excited to be a finalist in this year's International Business Awards. Through engagement with NZTE and the Trade Commissioner in the UK, we're starting to understand the relevance of the New Zealand aspect of our company culture and brand.
New Zealand technology companies have a strong reputation in the UK and we plan to add to this with our growth in the region.
How do you view the Fonterra situation at the moment?
Fonterra is a sound company with good processes and I believe they'll do whatever it takes to resolve the current situation. What it does suggest is a need for continued investment in alternative hi-growth export industries in New Zealand like software and technology where we have a growing reputation for innovation.
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Been having some battery drain issues resulting in a beeping low power sound when getting in to car
checking with pa soft its giving a Vehicle power < 9 Volt and then after a while it will flatten battery eventually.
Live results in PA soft showed a 11v rating
Ive fully charged it up externally and now im getting 11.7v the following at position 1
with engine running and nothing on this goes to 13.6v
with 2100 rpm its showing 13.8v
and 2500 rpm with full aircon, lights and wipers its at 13.4v
i gathered its meant to be approx 14.2-14.8v with engine running if all working well
given there is an increase from engine off to engine on, im "guessing" the altenator is working so would this be a battery issue not taking a higher voltage and not retaining it :?
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Garlic infuses a delicate flavor in these extremely fresh and versatile beans that would be a great side dish for any entrée at all.
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- 1 pound fresh green beans, cut into 2-inch pieces
- 2 teaspoons minced garlic
- 1/2 cup water
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- In a large saucepan, bring the beans, garlic and water to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 8-10 minutes or until tender. Drain. Stir in the oil, oregano, salt and pepper. Serve immediately. Yield: 4 servings.
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|30 September 1988(aged 78)
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Dhulappa Bhaurao Navale (15 January 1910 – 30 September 1988) was born in a Chaturtha Digambar Jain family at Ankalkhop. Navale lost his father & his elder brother in his childhood. He completed his education till matriculation. After completing school he started social work in Ankalkhop and surrounding villages.
Role in Freedom struggle[edit]
In 1930 he took part in the Civil Disobedience Movement led by Mahatma Gandhi. During this period he came in contact with Yashwantrao Chavan, Swami Ramanand Bharti, V.S. Page & Gaurihar Sihasane. All of them became very close friends and their friendship lasted till the end. Mahatma Gandhi & his principles of Satyagraha had a great impact on him. In 1930 he broke the colonial laws. He broke the salt law & supported the foreign cloth boycott by burning foreign cloths and picketing liquor shops. In his village Ankalkhop, he and his friends refused to pay revenue and chaukidari taxes. From 1932-1933 he participated in movement against untouchability. In 1934 he was elected as president of Ankalkhop Vivid Karyakari sahakari Society. In the 1937 Local Board elections, he and his friends Gaurihar Sihasane and Sakharam Retharekar were congressional candidates. The three were elected from Satara district against the British backed Kooper party. He started the Congress party campaign from Ankalkhop-Audumber in 1937. Since then there has been a tradition of the Sangli district Congress party to start its campaign from Audumber-Ankalkhop. In the 1937 local board election, Vasantdada B. Patil was one of the dedicated campaigners of Dhulappanna. Dhulappa (Anna) Navale strongly suggested & stood up for Vasantdada's name for Tasgaon Taluka congress secretary to the then President of Taluka Congress, Mr. R.P. Patil & Adv. Kutte of Tasgaon.
In 1940, on Mahatma Gandhaji's order, he gave his resignation of local board membership. He was the first individual Satyaghari of Mahatma Gandhi from Satara District in which Sangli District was also included. He made his satyagraha in Bhilawadi in 1940, but was arrested and sent to Yerawada jail along with friends V.S. Page, Swami Ramanand Bharti, Balasaheb Bharde, and Gaurihar Sihasane. He was released in the month of December 1940. He was again elected in the 1941 Local Board elections. He participated and led Ankalkhop, Audumber, and Bhilwadi in Tasgaon morcha (March on Tasgaon Tashil) on 3 September 1942 and Islampur morcha on 8 September 1942 in Satyagraha. He also supported the prati or Patri sarkar movement led by Nana Patil & others, which resulted in his arrest in Bhilwadi. He was sent too Yerawada & Visapur jail for one and a half years.He was honored by "Tamrapat" for his role in freedom struggle.
Elected positions and founded organisations[edit]
From 1948-1949 Satara District was divided into North Satara and South Satara District. At that time Navale was elected as a School Board chairperson of South Satara District. He played an important role in forming a separate Sangli District, which was completed in 1950. He was elected as first chairperson of Sangli District local board (now called as President of Zilla Parishad). Several lands & buildings problems of schools were solved in his period & many new primary & secondary schools where started. Directory of teachers was first time made in his period.
In 1955 he was elected President of Sangli District Congress. In his tenure, he requested land from His Highness Chintmanrao Patwardhan of Sangli for headquarters of Congress committee at Sangli and it was immediately allotted by Chintamanrao Patwardhan.
He was the founder of Shetkari Sahakari Sakhar Karkhana ltd.,Sangli (Now Vasantdada Shetkari Shakari Sakhar Karkhana Ltd. Sangli). On 31 May 1956 the first meeting of all promoters of the sugar factory was presided by Swami Ramanand Bharti and was attended by Vasantdada Patil, Dhulappa (Anna) Navale, Aabasaheb Shinde, Rambhau Arwade, Dattaji Surywanshi,and Shankarao Shinde. G.D. Patil was elected chief promoter of the sugar factory. In this first meeting Dhulappa Navale suggested the name "Shetkari" (Shetkari means Farmer)for the Sangli sugar factory, and everyone liked it and accepted. He made highest number of share holders of Shetkari Sahakari Sakhar Karkhana Ltd,Sangli. He was vice-chairman for several years of V.S.S.S.K.Ltd; Sangli.
He was MLC from 1963 to 1972 for Satara and Sangli District. He requested Mr. Balasaheb Desai, who was then PWD Minister, for a bridge between Ankalkhop and Bhilwadi. His request for the bridge was soon sanctioned. It was Dhulappa (Anna) who brought a rural (Gramin) telephone exchange to Ankalkhop for the first time ever. He and his friends gathered 100 connections from Ankalkhop within three days for this telephone exchange.He was a member for several years on Telephone Advisory Committee for Sangli District.
In 1972 he was elected as chairman of Warna valley. He brought forward some young leaders like Baburao Birnale, Dadasaheb Patil, Dinkar (Bapu) Patil and Bajirao Patil from his village Ankalkhop. Under his guidance and leadership, Bhagatsingh High School was established in Ankalkhop. Several irrigation schemes were implemented in Ankalkhop, Nagthane,Suryagaon(Kholewadi)& Santgaon Radewadi.
He was Chairman for eleven years of The Groundnut Co-operative society Ltd. Sangli & was a founder member. When he took the chairmanship of the Groundnut co-operative society, it was in huge losses. With the support of labors and managing staff, he brought The Groundnut co-operative society in profit. This was the golden era of the society in his chairmanship. He used to say that we are nothing but the trustee of this society and one can bring any industry into profit with crystal clear governance & without any self acceptations. The Groundnut Co-operative society got several National & state awards in 1982. He was member of Maharashtra State Agriculture department. He was chairperson of Warna Valley co-operative society.
He brought about the historic (Preeti Sangam) re-union of both his friends, Yashwantrao Chavan and Vasantdada Patil in his native village Ankalkhop on 24 May 1982.
He was elected Secretary of the Freedom Fighter Organisation of Maharashtra Government, which was equivalent post to a Cabinet member. He increased the pension for freedom fighters & gave several benefits from the state government & from Central Government to freedom fighters.
He was a founder and a prominent leader in several co-operative organisations and educational institutions in Sangli District. Throughout his entire life he followed the principles of Individual Sathyagrahi, as exemplified by Mahatma Gandhi.
Personal life[edit]
Dhulappanna had married to Sou.Ratnadevi & has eight children (four sons & four daughter's).He was a great swimmer & was a good wrestler. In memory of Dhulappanna Navale one social & charitable trust has been established. Late Shri Dhulappanna Navale Vikas Pratisthan Sangli was established in the year 2000.The main objective of setting this trust is to perpetuate memory of Late. Dhulappa(Anna) Navale by acknowledging his rich, outstanding and valuable contribution in Indian freedom struggle, cooperative sector and social development of Maharashtra and to undertake social activities and education programs particularly for the elevation of common man . Dhulappanna Navale was very close friend of Yeshwantrao Chavan, Swami Ramanand Bharti, V. S. Page, Vasantrao (Dada) Patil, Nana Patil, Balasheb Bharde, G. D. Lad, Nagnath Naikwadi, S. M. Joshi, G. D. Madgulkar, Rambhau Arwade, Abasaheb Kulkarni (Khebudkar), Dhondiram Mali, R. P. Patil (Kupwad), Barde Guruji, Gaurihar Sihasane, Adv. Kutte (Tasgaon), Dattoba Surywanshi, Dr. Sawant (Panchgani), Bhilare Guruji, Br. G. D. Patil, Kavi Sudaunshiv, Balasaheb Desai, Rajaram (Bapu) Patil, Adv. Keshavrao Chougale, Rajaram Desai, P. D. Patil (Karad), Madhukarao Choudhary, Nilkhantrao Kalyani and Babasaheb Patil (Yelavi).


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Earlier that evening, Taylor was chased down and shot at the Ocean Village housing complex, according to witness depositions. Security guards saw a small group of men arguing in front of 57-07 Shore Front Parkway and then watched the men chase and shoot Taylor before fleeing.
Police put out a full response, canvassing the entire area and searching from the air by helicopter. The Canine Unit led officers to 146 Beach 59 Street. Police identified Hakeem Brock, who lives at that address, as a suspect and obtained a warrant for his arrest. They are asking anyone with information to call 718-868-3400.
Taylor, who was released from PHC, faces three counts of criminal possession of controlled substance charges. Judge Joseph Zayas released Taylor on his own recognizance and set his return date for January 19, according to a spokesperson for Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown.


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My household and community made it out of the storms yesterday without damage, but several of my hives did not fare so well.
At least two colonies were completely submerged by floodwaters. Prior to the storm, they were Sunkists from Russell Apiaries, now they are Baptists. I've already caught a few sneaking into the liquor store...but they wouldn't acknowledge me! (I can joke about it because I'm Baptist too). All the bees were still with the hive when the storms ended, so they have a hard clean up job ahead. It was still sprinkling rain a bit when I went to check on them so I couldn't get pictures, but I will have some posted soon.
I think a total of 3 hives and 1 nuc split were affected by the waters, only the aforementioned Baptists were completely submerged.
Sorry to hear about the hives but glad all are ok. We were very fortunate compared to our friends to the south and east. Last year I had hives that flooded into the bottom box but all survived. Had to requeen one which was knocked over by the swift water. I checked those hives today expecting the same but they appeared to be ok. I am now ready for some sunshine!


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Crews from Caltrans are working to repair a steep slope off the shoulder of Highway 35 (Skyline Boulevard) at mile post 13.1 near Skylonda at the intersection of Bear Gulch Road. Work hours will be from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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Didn't say what the problem with the slope was ... ?
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> Didn't say what the problem with the slope was ... ?
Storm damage slippage. Another year and it'll start undercutting the road. The Caltrans link shows a photo.
I hope folks take extra care at the 1-way signal and cyclists don't get trapped in the middle....


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Design is at the forefront of modern travel, with yet more innovations on the way as Julietta Jameson, Anthony Dennis and Belinda Jackson discover.
It's one of the most futuristic images of modern transport. A sleek, shiny white Japanese bullet train streaking, like a wrong-way-up rocket, across a rice field-studded landscape with the sacred, perpetually snow-capped Mount Fuji as its backdrop.
But the reality is that shinkansen, or new trunk-line as the bullet train is properly known in Japan, was introduced in 1964, capitalising on the international prestige delivered by the Tokyo Olympics that year, a potent symbol of Japan's breathtaking postwar technological revival.
The fundamental design of such long-distance trains, capable of reaching speeds greater than 350 kilometres an hour, has changed little in 50 years - surely the essence of great design.
Yes, there have been major advances, such as the German-designed magnetic levitation (Maglev) train, with the first such operating between Shanghai's Pudong Airport to the city. But essentially the shape of high-speed (and much slower) trains, with the distinctive streamlined nose of the engine, is roughly the same, something that also applies to the design of modern airliners. It's perhaps the interiors of trains (and planes) where much progress has been made in terms of comfort, though aside from tourist trains the romantic dining car has been replaced by prosaic cafeteria cars.
We can credit the French for advancing long-distance train design when Philippe Starck was commissioned to redesign the interiors of France's high-speed TGV, rendering carriages more akin to funked-up airline cabins. Indeed, Boeing's troubled Dreamliner passenger jet features vaunted oversize windows more reminiscent of a rail carriage.
Elsewhere, according to Global Rail News, design students at the University of Applied Science in Graz, Austria, have devised a concept for a transparent carriage, where the body of the train is composed of hexagonal panels; while architect firm Hassell has radically rethought train interiors for the theoretical, unlikely to be built Australian bullet train. AD
The mainstreamed green consciousness of the 21st century and the fashionableness of Zen spaces brought about an almost zealous adherence to earth tones, dark wood and straight lines. Chuck in a tea light, plonk a Buddha statue somewhere, scatter a few wooden bowls and furry cushions and there you had it - the "noughties" hotel room. But if the past decade was all about the beiging of hotels, then get ready for the technicolour revolution. Hotel design is becoming bespoke. Love or loathe the hipster, make fun of their beards and bicycles if you will, but the rise of the urban individualist says much about generational change in sensibilities.
Design that harks back to a simpler time, when granny put a doily under a vase on top of the TV set and dinner came on mismatched china, is the new cool. And that is transferring to hotels.
Sofitel So is a new design-driven label. Kenzo Takada, Christian Lacroix and Karl Lagerfeld have had a hand in the first three properties in Bangkok, Singapore and Mauritius. Across the brand, you'll find rooms as individual as their guests. Even business chains such as Marriott have caught the bug. The giant American has teamed with 1980s enfant terrible of the industry Ian Schrager (of Morgans fame) to produce Edition, a series of hotels with design at the centre.
The new QT Sydney hotel employed art curator de jour Amanda Love to oversee its installations, while the Art Series Hotels in Melbourne had each of its properties designed around the work of a particular directional Australian artist. In Europe, Dutchman Marcel Wanders, dubbed "the Lady Gaga of design", has transformed an old public library into the Andaz Amsterdam, with a kooky "artistically Dutch decor inspired by local themes".
Across the Atlantic, 55 new hotels are under construction in New York, with themes ranging from 1920s speakeasy (NYLO New York City) to Brady Bunch '70s groovy (the Quin). Also in NYC, the hotel world is watching and waiting for the Willow, by Roman and Williams, the hot, hot, hot designers behind some of the city's funkiest spaces. The duo, who have worked on films for the likes of Martin Scorsese and been entrusted with renovations of architectural icon Frank Lloyd Wright's work have flagged a mid-century aesthetic. Mad Men indeed. JJ
Catering to passengers' individual tastes and giving them a sense of personal control has become the new black for airlines, with research by Singapore Airlines that shows "no two customers are the same". Even once-ultra-daggy American Airlines has recognised that, introducing a self-service bar - a first for any US airline, where pointy-end passengers can help themselves to canapes and drinks.
But touches such as a mirror incorporated into in-seat storage and a pivoting table that allows an easy exit, even with a meal on the go are the real passenger empowerments. Customer individuality concerns have resulted in greater choices of seat positioning, more privacy, and more accessible storage nooks. SIA's new Biz seats are among the most responsive going. Expect others to follow suit.
Virgin Atlantic, whose groovy nightclub-style product when first introduced looked as novel as Austin Powers' ties, has upgraded some of its cabins with the individual experience in mind. Upper Class now includes suites - but the glowing red "futuristic" bar and Swarovski crystals used with abandon are all about the airline expressing itself.
It's not just Virgin using design to state its identity: Air Canada's new holiday airline, Rouge, has flight attendants decked out in cardigans, cool hats and designer shoes, while Finnair has introduced crockery by Marimekko to its cabins, a move that gives the passenger a more homely experience.
This personal touch extends to airline lounge design. Qantas led the way with its Marc Newson-designed first-class lounge in Sydney and its privacy suites. Now British Airways offers private dining booths and cabanas in its Concorde Lounge at Heathrow, stating "privacy as top priority", while Air China's JPA-designed space at Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport is another case in point, with "a sense of intimacy and human scale". With Singapore Airlines, Cathay and Qantas all rolling out new or renovated lounges within the next year, expect the ante to be well and truly upped. JJ
Baggage fees, lost luggage and the melee at the carousel have made the carry-on the bag of choice for frequent flyers. But new design developments may convince even the heaviest of heavy packers to go light, especially if they stumble across Briggs & Riley Baseline bag with a built-in compression system, which squeezes 33 per cent more into the standard bag space.
While a big general luggage trend is towards more exterior spaces for ease of access to things needed while travelling, others have their own unique proverbial bells and whistles. Zuca Pro Travel's cube-shaped bag has five zippered, colour-coded and removable drawers inside, and the aluminium alloy frame means the case does double time as a seat.
Victorinox has put eight wheels on its Spectra bag, making it extra manoeuvrable, while Rimowa has similar on its Salsa Air, a bag that also includes a telescopic handle that will lock at any height.
The Genius case could be for packing dummies - it has labelled compartments, a permanent checklist written on the lining, a battery pack for recharging devices, a speaker that can be connected to devices, and a dirty laundry compartment in the lining which compresses its contents. The bag even has a removable toiletries pack and an umbrella. The Visionair Podpal doesn't have all that, but it does have a tablet cradle built into its top. Not all luggage trends are about functionality. Porsche Design, for instance, maintains the stance that looks continue to matter. Its sleek leather French Classic case was voted best luggage 2013 by Travel + Leisure magazine, while the amazing Porsche Design Twin Bag has become a cult, covetable carry-on item for design-wise women. It's not just a gorgeous bag - its handles adjust from hand-to-shoulder bag, by sliding invisibly inside. JJ
Forget communal tables and allocated seating: it's all about how you deign to dine when you're all at sea. Crystal Cruises is one of many saying "no" to long buffet counters, replacing them with "food islands" and more tables for two. Private dining is also on the rise, with Seabourn's large verandahs set up to encourage private alfresco dining while Princess Cruises' newest ship, the Royal Princess, features a new Chef's Table Lumiere, sectioned off by a curtain of light around a glass table in one of its dining rooms.
On-board spas are larger and more glamorous, with more facilities and treatments. Expect couples retreats, cabanas, indoor-outdoor spaces and capitalisation on those ocean views. The Seabourn small ships' spas top the range, coming in at more than 1000 square metres, with thermal suites, herbal baths and walk pools. Its four new penthouse spa suites are connected to the main spa by a dramatic spiral staircase and come with a spa concierge, because we all need a spa concierge.
We've also seen the rise of all-suite ships, with more private verandahs - up to 95 per cent of Silversea's new Silver Spirit has verandahs. Adjoining staterooms and two-bedroom penthouses are another in-demand feature, in response to the increase of families of up to three generations taking to the seas together. P&O's popular Pacific Pearl and Pacific Dawn were refitted with adjoining rooms last year: expect to see more adults-only pools, most likely adjoining the spa, and a rise in single cabins. In fact, the first single balcony cabins are now on the market as more solo cruisers hit the seas, without paying a costly single supplement. BJ


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He is my Father-In-Law's doctor. Absolutely terrible in every aspect! The older you get, the less he cares.
I have been a patient when I was very young. My experience was not a good one. He was not professional. Dr. Smith, in my opinion, was to quick to suggest drugs without performing tests, and provided little or no explanation as to what was wrong. I was very fortunate, many years ago, to find a great doctor to replace him. However, my parents were not. I understand it is very difficult to find another doctor in cape Breton. I feel very bad for my parents and the community that they have to settle for poor medical service.
Dr.Murdock Smith saved my life, when I was in my early 20s I developed Chron's disease, not much was known about the disease at that time, so he immediately sent me to the Halifax infirmary, where I was successfully assessed and treated properly, I have been free of Chron's for the last 28 years, God bless him for his quick action, I owe my life to him...literally, he is a 5 ? Doctor to me! Isabelle Sampson
Dr.(and I use that term lightly)Smith was my father's doctor for a number of years. My father passed away a few years ago...but just b4 he passed..about 2 weeks he was in to see the Dr. and his blood pressure was so low..he should have been admitted to the hospital. He was suffering from severe arthritis in his knees and legs. He was having a very hard time walking. He was getting depressed b/c of this...so Smith decided to put him on anti depressants, which my father had never taken b4 in his life, and put him on the highest dosage possible. My dad ended up seeing things and acting all weird..so we had to take him into the hospital. His kidneys were started to shutting down. 3 days later..he passed away from a major heart attack. Like I said...my father had been seeing him for years....and my mother never even got a phone call from him. It was so unproffesional. Just seeing what my dad when through with him...I wouldn't take a dog to him. Absolutely disgusted!!!
This doctor missed breast cancer in my mother-in-law back in 1991. She had an 8cm wide tumor that had gone into her chest wall.She had a mastectomy in 1991 and then again in 2001.The cancer returned and she had a second mastectomy. Obviously she does not go to this incompetent doctor anymore. She had to take a friend to Dr.Smith recently because her friend was unable to take herself. Dr.Smith was her friend's doctor. Dr.Smith asked how my mother-in-law was doing and she replied that her daughter-in-law has breast cancer. To which he replied, "Oh, breast cancer, that's nothing!" My mother-in-law was thoroughly disgusted with his rude and ignorant comment. He obviously has the same callous disregard for cancer victims now that he had back in 1991.It is a miracle that my mother -in-law is alive. It does not matter what type of cancer a person has, it's scary and there is always the unknown. Last time I checked, women have died from breast cancer. Don't risk your life with this doctor.
Dr. Smith has been our doctor for several years. Dr. Smith has always been extremely thorough and addressed any issues immediately. We have also received referrals to specialists whenever he deemed it necessary. Dr. Smith has always been very considerate. We have always been extremely satisfied with his service and expertise.
Dr. Smith was my Doctor from the age of one through to my late twenties....he delivered my daughter and remained as my DR. until I moved. Wonderful, kind caring and knowledgeable DR. He took the time to drive many miles out of his way one summer to let my parents know there was a spot showing up on my left lung, on the x ray. We had no phone of car back then, and lived miles form the nearest neighbor. DR. Smith came out and I was taken back in for a follow up..turns out it was just a tight curl of hair that was hanging down my back when I had the x ray(mom used rags to make extremely tight curls).Thank You DR.SMITH
Unfortunately arrogance on Dr Smith's behalf has caused a misdiagnosis of my illness. After several visits to Dr Smith on this subject and having been repeatedly told everything was ok and it nothing to be concerned about. A year later through another doctor, I found out it was a major and life threatening illness.
Dr. Smith has been my doctor for over 30 years. he's been there for me through 3 spinal fusions and 2 heart attacks + triple by-pass. As a family doctor his peers judge his as one of the best in Canada.
when my father was in a guest home where Dr,Smith was the doctor on call he was to busy to see these patients.when my father was sick he was being treated for pneumonia he died two weeks later in hospital from lung cancer.we were very disappointed that he died on the same day that he was diagonised and i feel that if he had seen a doctor sooner we would have been able to say goodbye.Dr Smith may have too many patients
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STAFF at railway stations could soon receive training to detect signs when a person is preparing to commit suicide, as part of a national campaign to reduce the number of rail deaths.
Other measures being considered include erecting more barriers along train lines and placing phones with a direct link to Lifeline at suicide hot spots. The campaign, to be launched in Sydney tonight, is being driven by a coalition of 11 rail operators, including Metro in Melbourne, with the assistance of suicide prevention experts at Lifeline. It will also push to include teaching safe behaviour at level crossings in the national curriculum and in drivers' licence testing, and to boost support for train drivers who witness rail deaths.
Last year more than 1800 near misses and minor injuries were recorded around Australia's rail networks due to people illegally trespassing on train lines. The average annual number of suicides by train in Australia is unknown, but is estimated at 150, with about 100 attempted suicides. There are enough for it to cause rostering problems, as drivers take time off to recover from the trauma.
Australasian Rail Association chief executive Bryan Nye said that every death on the rail lines triggered huge consequences. ''You only have to talk to a couple of drivers that have been through it and you'll know it's a lifelong trauma that they'll go through,'' Mr Nye said.
South Australian freight train driver Geoffrey Quintrell, who once watched a teenage girl commit suicide by stepping in front of his train, said the memory still haunted him 10 years later. He said he still kept a photo of the girl in his house.
''People that are not in this industry probably don't understand what it's really like,'' Mr Quintrell said. ''We all want to go to work and we all want to go home but some of the things that people do would make your eyes pop out.''
Lifeline executive Alan Woodward welcomed the initiative.
''If we make suicide such a taboo subject then it only makes it more difficult for people … to seek out help,'' Mr Woodward said.
For help or information visit beyondblue.org.au, call Suicide Helpline Victoria on 1300 651 251, or Lifeline on 131 114.


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LAS VEGAS--While teams of people worked through the night to get their booths looking pretty--or at least not pretty awful-- there were some who could lounge a little and be glad that all they had to do was sip a little wine.
Fortunately, I was allowed to be embedded with them--in the Iraq sense, you understand--in order to get an understanding of just how these devious minds saw CES 2012.
When I speak of these devious minds, I do not even think of Justin Bieber's management team. No, I bow in reverence to those whose jobs it is to read patents and then wander around CES in search of one that might have been transgressed.
Alright, I bow in angst as well as reverence, because I cannot imagine wandering around an aircraft hangar-sized collection of stalls in search of something new that might lead to something to sue.
But these gentlemen are patent experts who could happily trade their skills to the trolls or to companies who need to protect themselves from the trolls.
"Patent trolls don't read patents," explained Martin, a jovial man of many words. Patent trolls are often mere lawyers who think if they get close enough to something that can earn them money, they'll slap a lawsuit in there and see how it sticks.
The people who actually read the patents are engineers--engineers who went over to the dark side. Tonight I had dinner with two--Daniel, who seems to be the deity of all things mobile, and Martin, who delights in networks and semiconductors. (Of course those aren't their real names. These people are close to a lot of lawyers.)
They're here at CES to catch someone out. Or, perhaps, to warn someone of impending legal doom engendered by a patent that happened to be registered in, say, 2005.
I asked them if they really wandered around the halls of CES 2012 and examined everything--rather than, perhaps, get up late, have a leisurely breakfast, a first martini, and a flutter on Bust My Gut in the 12:30 at Philadelphia Park.
I misjudged them (a little). They're really serious about patents. They know patents. They spend "at least three days a week" reading patents.
Just imagine how good Hollywood movies would be if producers read scripts three times a week. (An idle thought. Producers can't read.)
How did these bizarrely engaging humans decide that reading patents was more interesting than the engineer's usual joy--building things?
"Engineers often only build things in theory. You can be working on one specific thing for many, many months or even years," explained Daniel. "Then that thing doesn't get produced. So you've done nothing."
Martin butted in: "Reading patents, coming here to CES, I feel like I'm learning all the time. And I'm dealing with things that are happening now. Really happening, as opposed to might never happen."
But isn't there something just slightly sleazy about this patent business? It seems as if companies such as Apple and Google are spending much of their time buying patents or making sure that others can't get hold of them.
I think these two know they're living and working in the gray area. But if you're an engineer who enjoys reading patents--as these two seem to--you can really get paid quite well. Which tends to add, one suspects, to the enjoyment.
I wondered whether they expected to find something new (and sue-able) among the latest ultrabooks, ultra-thin phones, and ultra-ambitious other gadgets that might be littered about the thousands of CES booths.
They began to shake their heads. Then Daniel said: "But you never know, do you?"
After a fine dinner at Jose Andres' Jaleo, did they slink off to bed, in order to be fresh for their morning's sleuthing of phone designs and other fancy stuff?
Not quite. They were off to the craps table.
Because you never know, do you?
All the news from the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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Oct 15Dell's first ultrabook laptop, the XPS 13
Oct 15Toshiba 14-inch ultrabook prototype