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World War II has finally come home to Britain, but it takes more than nightly air raids to rattle intrepid spy and expert code breaker Maggie Hope.
After serving as a secret agent to protect Princess Elizabeth at Windsor Castle, Maggie is now an elite member of the Special Operations Executive-a black ops organization designed to aid the British effort abroad-and her first assignment sends her straight into Nazi-controlled Berlin, the very heart of the German war machine.
Relying on her quick wit and keen instincts, Maggie infiltrates the highest level of Berlin society, gathering information to pass on to London headquarters.
But the secrets she unveils will expose a darker, more dangerous side of the war-and of her own past.
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Following in the footsteps of Samsung's HT-WS1G, B&W's Panorama and Crystal Audio's SSB-1, Sharp's first soundbar is designed to offer an upgrade from the soggy sound quality of most flatpanel TVs.
Sharp HT-SB200 soundbar not for you? Check out our round up of the best soundbars to buy
But improved audio isn't the only reason why these all-in-one sound systems are taking off in a big way - they're wall-mountable, which makes minimal demands on your living space, the lack of rear speakers keeps ugly cables to a minimum and their stylish, unimposing designs are guaranteed to get the green light from sceptical spouses.
At one end of the soundbar spectrum, you have models like the Philips HTS8100, which packs everything you need into a single box - DVD player, 5.1 sound decoding/amplification and speakers. At the other end are models like the Monitor Audio Radius One HD, which are simply three passive speakers shaped into a soundbar. The Sharp sits somewhere between the two, boasting 32W of built-in amplification and sound processing, but no on-board decoding.
It's a 2.1-channel system, housing full-range left and right speakers and four built-in subwoofers, but like most soundbars it features some token surround sound tech that claims to simulate the 5.1-channel experience. In this instance it's HDSS (High Definition Sound Standard) and SRS WOW HD.
The HT-SB200 is an unassuming unit, designed to blend in seamlessly with your TV rather than divert attention from it. That's not to say it's ugly - the black finish is actually smart and tasteful - but it lacks the upmarket sparkle of the Samsung HT-WS1G.
At 65mm high and 70mm deep, it's remarkably compact plus its 800mm width makes it best-suited for TVs between 32 and 42in. It doesn't have to be wall-mounted - four screw-in feet are supplied for table top placement on your AV rack, but wall-mounting is the most aesthetically pleasing option.
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Been intrigued by sound bars for a while, but found them a bit pricey.
Now trying to decide though: this soundbar or Creative Gigaworks T40 series2 speakers?
@ drdark - Probably neither. For a living room TV setup the T40s, while great 2.0 computer speakers, will be far too puny for said use. The soundbar would be better but going by the review I doubt I'd use them to listen to music. If you want the best quality for as little cash as possible, then your best bet would probably be to look at getting a second hand amp/receiver and some speakers on the cheap, which you could probably do for not much more.
@smc8788 - Going for second hand is all well and good if you know what to look for but I have no clue so I'd either end up paying too much, getting the wrong thing or buying rubbish. I'd love to get a good speaker set-up on my TV but the multitude of options just baffles me so the all in one solution is about the only way I can go. I just wish videologic had carried on with thier digitheater surround sound systems. The digitheater DTS was awesome and I'd really like a "Digitheater True-HD" if such a system existed
Digitheatre DTS - amen to that! :)
Instead, the lads in Kings Langley created the Pure brand and have dominated the DAB radio market ever since. Oh, and in their spare time they designed the 3D graphics core that's inside the iPhone, iPod touch, Palm Pre and a bunch of others. Not bad going :)
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If you have noticed a rise in your monthly expenses in the past month, don't blame only the recent hikes in fuel and vegetable prices, but also the appalling state of roads in the city, which are ironically made using the tax you pay to the civic body and the state.
With the city's roads pockmarked with nearly 9,000 potholes since June, your travel time on several major roads has doubled, leading to excess fuel consumption and making your vehicle require more frequent maintenance and repair.
Mark D'souza, 55, has pitched in his yearly bill for car maintenance in just a month since June.
"I have had to send my car for maintenance twice, spending up to Rs2,000 each time, which I usually have to get done once in six months. Flat tyres are common because of the horrible state of roads," he said.
"One ends up spending so much unproductive time on the road. Potholes are spotted at the entry and exit of every flyover on the Western Express Highway," said Ashish Limaye, 39, media and communications professional.
Six MLAs from the Bharatiya Janata Party met metropolitan commissioner UPS Madan on Thursday to express dissatisfaction over potholes.
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Kumar Wiratunga's Advice on How to Succeed with Paperless Facilities Management
During technology VP Kumar Wiratunga's time at ARC Document Solutions and SKYSITE InfoLink (an app that lets users manage facilities documents from their desktop or mobile device), he's witnessed a lot of change in facilities management. But he's noticed one professional desire has stayed the same: FMs wanting an easy way to efficiently manage their docs without paper.
Paper Is Costing Facilities Managers and Organizations
Until fairly recently the options for creating a paperless work environment relied on a fractured set of solutions, such as email and FTP, to produce the desired result. Thanks to the advent of the cloud and mobile tech in facilities management this is no longer the case. Facilities managers, regardless of sector, can now paperlessly manage design, O&Ms, and As-Built documents.
The problem, Wiratunga reports, is that local government officials, facilities managers, project managers and others working with facilities documents are not taking advantage of this tech, leaving money on the table. The lack of adoption is a surprising fact when considering the potential reduction in document storage and retrieval costs could be 20 percent or more.
Document Storage and Retrieval = Time & Money & Communication
Wiratunga explained that many professionals don't realize that upgrading and streamlining document storage and retrieval processes saves employee work time and company money.
"SKYSITE InfoLink in particular handles the transition package to the owner of a recently built structure, and provide them to the existing building management group," Wiratunga said. "And of course we can also provide a Project Closeout package for a client." The benefits of these smoother processes add up quick, boosting the bottom line.
While it might seem that construction and facilities management are wholly technically focused, numbers-based endeavors, those numbers are just one part of the work.
"Construction is a business of communication." Wiratunga said. Tech, like SKYSITE Infolink, streamlines the conversation by allowing updates to be distributed painlessly and provide quick information access. But in order for FMs and their organizations to leverage these benefits old methodologies must be left behind.
Disrupting How Companies Think about Document Storage
Changing how companies view documents and adopting helpful technology is a matter of overturning a long set of traditional document retention and management practices. For Wiratunga, cloud based FM solutions are the catalyst for this change:
"We want to disrupt the traditional thinking of company leaders regarding document storage, real time updates, and access to facilities documents."
In the past, a company would have to store a box of paper records through a hard copy storage provider like Iron Mountain, costing $10 or more annually per box. Multiply that cost by dozens or 100s of boxes, then add the unrecognized cost of not having instant access to documents on a desktop or mobile device, and the old approach to document storage starts to make little sense.
While it's clear that the best Iron Mountain alternative is a digital, cloud based solution, Wiratunga explained why this tech is so effective:
"Mobile and desktop facilities management solutions disrupt FMs' thinking by showcasing better workflows and a better way to manage their information," Wiratunga said.
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Hogan Lovells' corporate team has helped Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LabCorp) finance an offering of $700m (£440m) in senior notes. The proceeds will allow LabCorp to repay outstanding borrowings under its existing credit facility and will also be used for general corporate purposes.
The offering consists of two tranches, including a $400m aggregate principal amount of 2.5 per cent senior notes due in 2018 and a $300m aggregate principal amount of four per cent senior notes due in 2023.
The active joint book-running managers for the offering are Barclays Capital and Wells Fargo Securities. Credit Suisse Securities (USA) and Goldman, Sachs & Co are acting as passive joint book-running managers. Fifth Third Securities, Lazard Capital Markets, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith and US Bancorp Investments are acting as co-managers.
The Hogan Lovells team included partners Michael Silver (New York/Baltimore), Eve Howard (Washington), William Intner (Baltimore) and Scott Lilienthal (Washington) and associates Tifarah Allen (Washington), Venroy July (Baltimore) and Cara Shepley (Baltimore).


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New Braunfels Herald Zeitung (Newspaper) - January 24, 1995, New Braunfels, Texas TUESDAY2-1 Unicorns, 2-1 Cougars face off in district clash tonight, See P.5 50 CENTS COUNTDOWN! 54 DAYS New Braunfels Sesquicentennial March 21,1845 New Braunfels 4.1 0 no 16 SO-WEST pf jrr / 0/2'2/99 2622 e va&^lish, y ANDELL DR SH1 Ng 2 990S'- 8 pages in one section ■ Tuesday, Jan. 24, Inside Obituaries.......................................2 Comics............................................3 Opinion...........................................4 Sports Day......................................5 The Marketplace.........................6-8 Sid iii in t isc Ii Birthday withal from tho Harald-Zaltungl The New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung extends the following birthday wishes to; Laura Ann Rodriguez, Kenneth Brinkkoeter (Saturday), Carl Newsome, William R. Woeckn-er, Janice Gandy. Happy Anniversary to John & Margaret Landmark (47 years!). Third Doll a Toy Show data la changad The Third Annual Doll & Toy Show at the New Braunfels Civic Center will be moving to a new date - Saturday, Feb. 11. The event will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The agenda for the show will remain the same. A raffle of several beautiful and valuable dolls is held at 4 p.m. with proceeds going to the Comal County Children's Shelter. For more information, call Dorothy 625-3245. Cktdaralla to ba cast Monday, Jan. 30 A pumpkin coach, Prince Charming, a glass slipper and a dream come true are all woven together by the magic of a Fairy Godmother in Cinderella, presented by the Missoula Children's Theatre. This original adaptation is a musical production which features 50 local children from K thru 12th grades. Tickets are available at the Children's Museum or during rehearsals at the civic center (after 4 p.m. daily, Monday. Jan 30.-Fnday, Feb. 3) Proceeds will benefit the Children's Museum, New Braunfels Art League scholarship fund and other local chanties. Auditions will be held Mon., Jan. 30 at 4:15 p.m. at the civic center. Fifty parts for students grades K thru 12th will be cast. For more information, call Jean Wilson at 609-0454. FPO Youth Choir ar# taking orders for Super Subs The members of the High School Youth Council of First Protestant Church are taking orders for Super Sub Sandwiches for Super Bowl Sunday. Sales proceeds will be used to support PPC Youth Projects and the S.O.S., Inc. Community Food Bank Cost per 12-inch sandwich is $6. Send your order (with payment) to: SUPER SUB SANDWICH, First Protestant Church, 172 W. Coll St., New Braunfels, Texas 78130. Sandwiches can be picked up after the 10:30 service, Jan. 29 (Super Bowl Sunday). Woman's evening Bible study set The non-denominational, women's evening Bible study, "JOURNEY WITH DIRECTION," continues to meet at First Protestant Church, in the Family Life Center. The one-hour study begins at 7 p.m. The study is taught by Marty Lindley. For more information, call 609-7729. This newspaper is printed on recycled newsprint © Herald-ZeituiiA 1995 Serving Comal County for more than 143 years ■ Home of LAURA ANN RODRIGUEZ Residents clash over proposed street By SUSAN FLYNT ENGLAND Staff Writer The New Braunfels City Council recessed at the beginning of its meeting last night and reconvened less than a block away at the New Braunfels Civic Center to accommodate the number of citizens who attended. Those citizens aired their differences on council agenda items in a meeting which lasted until 12:50 a.m. The counpil meeting went into overtime when discussion began about extending Ridge Hill Drive through to Loop 337 to alleviate traffic congestion in the Mission Hills area, particularly on Kerlick Lane. "We've beat this subject to death," said Mission Hills developer Randy Taylor. The City of New Braunfels Development Plan/Transportation Plan (master plan) now provides for the extension of Ridge Hill Drive as an outlet for the subdivision. Petitions were presented to the council both on Dec. 12, 1994, and last night regarding the extension. Discussion was tabled on Dec. 12 pending further information gathering. Area resident Jim Cook wanted the master plan amended to not require the Ridge Hill Drive Extension. "We are not being 'elitist' or 'self-ish'...we want to keep out the undesirable element — the burglars, the thieves," he said. "If you cut Ridge Hill through to the loop, Council schedules hearing for Paul Fraser By 8U8AN FLYNT ENGLAND Staff Writer The New Braunfels City Council voted unanimously to schedule a public hearing to allow Mayor Paul Fraser to answer charges in the recall petition presented to council on Jan. 14. The hearing will be Thursday, Feb. 2, at 7:30 p.m. Several citizens spoke up in Fraser's behalf at last night's meeting. Jim Holster of Dist. 4 said that Fraser has been a long time leader in the community. "He took a leadership role in Lafarge when it wasn't popular, and now he's taking a leadership position on the library issue when it isn't popular," he said. Another resident enumerated situations in which Fraser has served the community. "If he was incompetent why was he elected to a second term?" she said. every car that goes through is going to shine its lights in my kitchen," said another resident. Others insisted that some sort of traffic collector street was absolutely necessary for traffic safety. "Honor and defend our master plan and diffuse this speedway that Kerlick has become," said resident Stinson Worley. The council heard numerous vehement opinions on both sides of the issue. Taylor, the area's developer, defended his actions in circulating a petition regarding the Ridge Hill extension and claimed neutrality in the matter. "We circulated two petitions, one for, one against," he said. He claimed he had been directed by the city manager to circulate the petitions. City manager Mike Shands disagreed with Taylor's version of the facts. "You came to me saying you wanted to kill the street," he said. Alternate ideas for easing the Kerlick Lane traffic problems were introduced: building a driveway connecting New Braunfels Christian Academy with Loop 337, and extending Valley View Lane instead of Ridge Hill. Council member Ambrosio Benitez said that no solution would please everyone. "I suggest you go back and hammer out a solution," he said. A motion to table the item was made and seconded. It passed 4-3 with council members Jan Kennady, Brenda Freeman, Benitez, and Tim Walker in favor of tabling. When the issue of scheduling a referendum on recycling came up, more emotion was dis played. Council member Mary Serold introduced the agenda item to discuss a referendum. "The general consensus of the citizens I spoke with is that they want to have the opportunity to vote on this recycling program," she said. Trisha Cogdell of Dist. 2 took offense that recycling had not come for a vote in the first place, and accused Recycling Committee chair Susan Curtis of speaking irresponsibly about those who oppose recycling. "I'm afraid there's not going to be a democratic process for my grandchildren," she said, "The point is that you need to ask before you reach into our pockets." Mayor Pro-Tem Chris Bowers reminded citizens of the length of the planning process the city employed for recycling, and the opportunities for citizen input. "We did everything in our power to put this before the public. We had an excellent committee," he said, "I feel we're not giving this thing a chance to flourish." Kennady warned the council against changing its direction every time negative views are expressed after due process of legislation has already been completed. "It's a terrible precedent to set," she said. Resident John Haas noted that citizens express their views when they vote for elected officials. "I voted for you guys to take care of business. Recycling is business," he said, "The best thing you did this year was to get a contract and set up this recycling program." United Way tops $320,000 from '94 drive From staff reports The Comal County United Way's 1994 campaign drive totalled $310,000 from 4,000 different local sources, according to a release from the organization this week. The United Way board of directors met last week and elected Doug Miller as the new president for 1995 and also named Frances Huff as the organization's drive chair for the next campaign. She will be assisted by John Stauffer, who was instrumental in the success of the 1994 drive. "We have a strong foundation to build upon and it is our responsibility to keep Comal County a great place to live," Miller said. "Over 4,000 citizens of our county have entrusted us to distribute their money where it can do the most good. This is an awesome assignment because over 35,000 people count on the United Way and we can't let them down." Nine new board members were also elected, including Diana Guerrero-Campos, Deame Chollett, Joyleen Dodson, James Dunks, Bonnie Landrum, Ray Martinez, John Mathis, Lee Rodriguez and Bonnie Tetrault. David Sansing was named presidentelect and Cheryl Land was named treasurer. The $320,000 was ail all-time high for the local United Way. The United Way began from what was called "the Community Fund," which began in 1954. The Community Fund was changed to United Way status in 1990. In five years, the total contnbution gathered each year has gone from SKK),OOO to $320,000. Welcome home Election to create water district may be called Board to meet in Spring Branch By CRAIG HAMMETT Staff Writer Heratd-Zeitung photo by MICHAEL DARNALL Workers from Robinson Iron of Alexander City, Alabama and the New Braunfels Parks Department lower the Plaza Fountain back down to its foundation after it was returned from a repair job yesterday. A suspected drunk driver struck the Fountain several weeks ago, causing considerable damage. However, the city's insurance enabled the repair work to begin soon after the mishap. A temporary board of directors for the Comal County Underground Water Conservation District will meet Wednesday night, 6 p.m. at the Spnng Branch Fire Station on U.S. Hwy. 281. The meeting will include only one action item. to call an election to decide the creation of the distnct. Only those who live w ithin the proposed distnct boundaries would be eligible to vote in the election Cameron Wiley of Bulverde was an onginal petitioner in the first phase to create the distnct I Ic is also a temporary board member but said a new board would be voted in should the distnct the creation pass. Wiley said early indications say an election could come as early as May, although the temporary board has any of four dates within this year to set for election. He said the county would not be in charge of the election, rather the temporary board. "They arc not responsible for it," said Wiley. "We can contract with them to do it We need v oting machines, those kind of things." An election would conclude a long process to create the distnct. A petition was submitted in February of 1993 to the Texas Water Commission. A public hearing was conducted in the county in March and July of last year. and the petition tor creation, it approved by election, was granted by the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission in November. The proposed distnct would include approximately 64 percent of the county, about 360 square miles of land over the Trinity Group aquifer. It includes a proposed initial tax rate of .02 cents per $100 valuation, estimated to provide $ 137.8(H) annual revenue for recharge, brush control arui other water conservation projects. NB Battalion Chief takes top honors in arson investigation By SUSAN FLYNT ENGLAND Staff Writer New Braunfels Fire Department Battalion Chief Donald W Zereher took top honors among the law enforcement professionals who graduated Friday night from an Arson Investigation class offered by the Alamo Area Law Enforcement Academy. The graduation ceremony was held at Oak Run School in New Braunfels. Zercher's fellow NBFD officer, Lieutenant Stephen K Mabe, was second in the class of 25. Zereher is a 20-year veteran of the NBFD. Students in the arson investigation class began Aug. 29 to endure long hours of punishing work, said City Manager Mike Shands. "They studied four nights a week and most Saturdays," he said. "Community service is a way of life for all of us, but these graduates have taken the effort to go a step further," said speaker Jerry Smith. Staey Cornwell of the NBFD described how the cadets had to undergo unnerving search simulations. Entenng a vacant building iii Seguin, they would try to ferret out a hidden suspect armed with a gun loaded with blanks. "Every one of us got 'killed' more than once," Zereher said. Exhausting memorization of penal codes and traffic laws was another part of the training, said Cornwell. "They would get home from work, study 'till midnight, then study again when they woke up in the morning," she said In an address to his fellow graduates, Zereher urged the younger cadets to learn from experience — theirs and that of their senior officers. "When you're out in the field you can't put a price on experience," he said. Zereher urged graduates to set an example with their own lives for youth to follow in the hope that future crime might be prevented. "As a law enforcement officer, my fundamental duty is to serve mankind," said Edward Coleman of the Alamo Area Law Enforcement Academy, as he read the Code of Ethics which all law enforcement officers pledge to follow, "I will keep my private life unsullied as an example to til..." Each of the 25 trainees who completed the course passed tile state examinations. They are: Seth A. Burgoon, Seguin Police Dept.; Joe S. Castillo, Seguin Fire-EMS Dept.; Kurt A. Domke, Hays County Constable Pct. WI; Larry Leissner, Comal County Constable Pct. #2; Stephen k Mabe, New Braunfels Fire Dept.; John E. Moher, Hays County Fire Marshall's Office, Robert Moya, Comal County Sheriffs Dept.; Joel V. Pope, Hays County Fire Marshall's Office; Terrence I) Roberts, Comal County Fire Marshall's Office, Martha Rodriguez, Seguin Fire-EMS Dept.; David E. Strawn, Hays County Fire Marshall's Office; Gerald Weniger, Seguin Fire-EMS Dept.; Donald W. 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Hillary isn't POTUS....even though it appears she's been stuck with accepting the responsibilities of the job.
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I swear everytime you open that mouth its the same ole thing , hypocracy is overwhelming your old ass , are we to believe that the man who won the Vietnam war , invented baseball , dates models ,owns all those houses and sports cars and travels the world , and has a book deal and the presidents ear , spends his time on topix arguing with strangers ??
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Fast fwd a few decades...WTH we doing in Libya, with "troops" of no drones, surrounded by big black flags?
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Did you try it like I asked , I did and it doesn't work .
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#846843 Jan 25, 2013
47%'ers taking a free ride....
Staying in a hotel and not paying....
#846844 Jan 25, 2013
Can you say envy ridden...Only from the mouths of baggers do stories get twisted and distorted so even they think it makes sense. Allow me to waste my time on the facts again. I served 21 years and also Vietnam[ said nothing about winning the war or being a hero there or anywhere else] You lie....Invented baseball???But what's one more lie. Mentioned that I dated a couple showgirls in Vegas, and look what your envy did to your lame azz. I own two houses and now 2 cars, I realize that is unheard of in bagger world...
Where two cars on blocks in front of your doublewide is the sign of being affluent. I have been traveling for the last 8 months, does that bother your homebound azz? I didn't post on here for 6 months, loser. I said that I worked to help re-elect president and Tim Kaine here in Va. So you see tis you with the real problem.Perhaps if the home would allow you out more? Meanwhile I will simply laugh at your retarded azz like all the other clueless baggers.
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#846847 Jan 25, 2013
No guns for protection?
Lily, Leo, jean......
Move to India...
They'll issue you a knive and some chilli powder for protection from rape!!!!!
Since: Nov 09
#846848 Jan 25, 2013
He logs on with different names. Interesting that you right wingers claim to be experts at seeing through conspiracies and lies in Washington but can't see an obvious fraud right under your nose. Or, do you choose to ignore a scam if it supports your agenda. Obviously waxturd has been loading the judge-it system for months. This is trivial except that it points out the hypocrisy of folks like you that pick and choose truth.
Now, let me ask again, do you think ten people awarded waxturd brilliant judge-its for his post this morning?
#846849 Jan 25, 2013
One more little paragraph--it's fare thee well cold out tuday and the environment would benefit from the hot air effects of some caliphonybrokia heat blended with some not quite east coast cool hot air warming!!
#846850 Jan 25, 2013
And this is fact because you say so , or do you have a "special" computer that screens and deletes all non truths ? And if you do may I suggest you loan it to the white house and liberal media for the good of the country please.
#846851 Jan 25, 2013
Yes and private Benjamin awarded at least two of them.
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#846852 Jan 25, 2013
47%'er obama is the Commander in Chief....
UN investigating US drone attacks....
#846853 Jan 25, 2013
Let's see how many posts it takes before you are pitch forkedly, stone age torch carryingly (and WAY WRONG, WRONG, WRONGLY ANd Ignorantly) brandished as being some sort a criminal element by lunaTic, psycho nutcases, for spreading that SELF PROTECTION "propaganda"...
Starting with this..one....
#846854 Jan 25, 2013
Those three couldn't get laid in a foriegn prison walking around naked with an apple in their mouths and passing out gate keys , you can't rape the unfuckable.
#846855 Jan 25, 2013
Louisiana Gov. Jindal calls on GOP to 'recalibrate' at RNC's winter meeting
"We've got to stop being the stupid party. It's time for a new Republican Party that talks like adults," he said. "We had a number of Republicans damage the brand this year with offensive and bizarre comments. I'm here to say we've had enough of that."
Republicans presidential nominee Mitt Romney struggled last fall to win over women and minorities, who overwhelmingly favored President Barack Obama's re-election bid. GOP officials conceded this week that they must change their tone and message, if not their policies, if they hope to expand their appeal in the coming years.
Romney alienated many Hispanic voters by highlighting his support for a fence along the Mexican border and "self-deportation" of illegal immigrants. Down-ticket Republican candidates alienated female voters by backing new abortion laws in a handful of swing states like Virginia and New Hampshire, while Senate candidate Todd Akin of Missouri hurt himself and his party by declaring that women's bodies could prevent pregnancy in cases of "legitimate rape."
GOP strategist Ari Fleischer suggested that his party could learn an important lesson from Democrats on messaging: "Republicans talk policy and Democrats talk people. Republicans can learn a little bit from Democrats on how to make those people connections with our policies."
Asked whether he was considering a presidential bid in 2016, Jindal brushed aside the question. "Any Republican that's thinking about talking about running for president in 2016 needs to get his head examined," he said. "We've got a lot of work to do."
One of the party's most popular voices, Christie earlier in the month criticized his party's `'toxic internal politics" after House Republicans initially declined to approve disaster relief for victims of Superstorm Sandy. He said it was `'disgusting to watch" their actions and he faulted the GOP's most powerful elected official, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., told reporters on the sidelines of the meeting Thursday that Republicans also need to develop a sound strategy for confronting the Obama administration, suggesting House Republicans could use hearings to expose waste and promote better ideas.
"A lot of Republicans, frankly, spent the last two years saying,`Oh, gee, we don't have to do much because after Obama loses we'll work with the new Republican president.' Well, that world ain't there," Gingrich said. "So now they have to make adjustments. They've got to understand that this is a different game."
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Homer has been saying this for years time to confront the retards in the party, you know the party base.
Real conservatives need to take back the party and I believe they have some good ideas.
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#846856 Jan 25, 2013
Then you're as phony as waxturd. Why haven't any of the people that think so highly of waxturd come to his defense? Do they drop by this site just long enough to lavish praise on their "brilliant" spokesman and then run off? I've exposed this fraud numerous times, doesn't it make sense that at least a couple people would post something to support him? Waxturd should be an embarrassment to conservatives that claim to represent truth and credibility.
#846857 Jan 25, 2013
She will be come January 2021 unless she decides not to run.
#846858 Jan 25, 2013
"We've got to stop being the stupid party. It's time for a new Republican Party that talks like adults," he said. "We had a number of Republicans damage the brand this year with offensive and bizarre comments. I'm here to say we've had enough of that."
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#846859 Jan 25, 2013
You mean like private Benjamin [ghostie] is to the democrats?
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Yeah, I've read some negative reviews, too. It sounds like Spot 2 might be okay for communicating with home (if it's not essential that the message actually get through), but not for something like, oh shall we say, getting rescued? And then there's the subscription fee–it's sorta like inkjet printers, where the printer's super cheap and the cartridges expensive. I ended up getting a PLB instead. To the tune of about 5 times what a Spot 2 costs. There is an optional subscription service for the PLB (which lets you send a limited number of communications to select recipients) that costs almost as much as the Spot's subscription service, but the PLB also works without the subscription service, whereas the Spot doesn't. I chose to use the PLB strictly as a personal locator device in case of an emergency, but I might decide to subscribe later on. The Spot doesn't do anything without a subscription.
If your main concern is being able to send rescue messages that will reliably be received, don't waste your money on a Spot. If your main concern is communicating with home, don't spend all that money on a PLB.Apr 15, 2014 at 11:05 pm #2093490
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Ha ha Ian! Doug was right. S@$&!?.
I had a version 1 Spot. Useless unless on the freeway.
The subscription fee is a total rip. Way more than what would be fair.Apr 16, 2014 at 6:49 am #2093525
Where were you guys with these pearls of wisdom like a month or so ago!Apr 16, 2014 at 6:52 am #2093527
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If you don't activate you'll only be out $45.Apr 16, 2014 at 11:02 am #2093666
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I have a Spot 2 and used it in a lot of the Colorado back country. It sent out signals and people were able to see where I was. Maybe it's not good under dense cover or in deep narrow canyons, but mine seems to be fine most places I go. I think it could get you rescued in CO…Apr 29, 2014 at 7:02 pm #2097741
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Which PLB did you buy? Thanks.
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I bought an ARC ResQ Link. Sorry for taking so long to answer, but I've been on vacation–no cell coverage, no internet.
There are a couple of stores that sell ARC online, and all of them had a special spring promo (some extra stuff if you mailed in your receipt, proof of registration) that I think has since expired.
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Former "Dancing With the Stars" pro and guest judge Maksim Chmerkovskiy popped the question to Peta Murgatroyd, who just wrapped up the latest season of the DWTS earlier this month, on December 5th.
Maks proposed to Peta onstage in front of 1,500 people following their performance of "Sway: A Dance Trilogy" at the Olympia Theater, in Miami last night. It was an incredible experience for Maks and Peta to be surrounded by their family, close friends and fans who shared in their happiness.
Maks designed a custom Cantamessa engagement ring for his beloved Peta. "For years I knew Peta is the one for me. She is the perfect fit with my family and she has made me a very happy man", said Maks."
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A while ago, I wrote a series of 'ghost walks', where I looked for the traces of features of Wellington that have largely disappeared. It occurred to me then that perhaps the most significant ghost in the Wellington landscape was the dense and luxuriant forest that covered much of the peninsula and was comprehensively cleared by the first European settlers within the space of a few decades, leaving behind a landscape of bare hills littered with tree stumps.
The hills of Wellington are no longer bare: native bush is returning, along with 'exotic' vegetation that has either been deliberately planted or has colonised empty spaces. But it would take hundreds of years, if ever, to return to the type of forest that was here when Europeans first arrived, where huge podocarp trees punctuated the forest canopy. It was these trees that caught the attention of early explorers and surveyors, such as Charles Heaphy the New Zealand Company's surveyor:
'The red pines are all of large growth. In the Karori and Porirua valleys, near Wellington, I have counted as many as fifty trees from one spot, that would each furnish a top-mast for the largest merchant-ship'
I wanted to see if there was anything left in Wellington that could give me a sense of what this bush had been like. Guided by a copy of Isobel Gabites' book 'Wellington's Living Cloak', I set off to explore two 'bush remnants', starting in the Botanic Gardens. Passing the tourists by the cable car, clustering for photographs in front of the harbour view, I turn off from the main path to follow the 'Pukatea bush walk' which zig-zags down a steep gully to the Pukatea Stream.
'Remnant' makes me think of forlorn scraps of leftover fabric, and this seems quite an apt analogy for the bush that is left in the Botanic Gardens. Although land was identified and set aside for a Botanic Garden in the earliest plans for the city, the Gardens were not fenced or managed until 1869, by which time the native bush had been depleted for firewood. The small size of the remaining bush made it difficult to sustain itself – vegetation that would have been sheltered inside the forest was exposed to wind, and as the land around the Gardens was developed, the gullies where the bush grew were eroded by stormwater run-off. Like a small piece of fabric, the complex strands in the forest ecosystem were easily unravelled, and many of the remaining large trees started to die off.
There are a few large trees left however along the banks of the stream, although I'm not very good at identifying them unless they are conveniently labelled. There's a northern rata at least, and rewarewa, and further on, an information board points out the last black maire in the gardens. The path is pleasingly gloomy as it snakes through tree ferns. There are no tourists down here and it is very quiet, apart from the distant shouts of children in the playground. I stop to look at tui darting from bush to bush above the stream, and even they are uncharacteriscally silent, as if they are concentrating on something that I can't see. I notice some graffiti carved into the trunks of a couple of trees and I wonder how old it is, thinking of courting couples wending their way along the secluded bush path. I don't know how long tree graffiti lasts, or whether the bark ever grows back.
The story of bush clearance is not just a Wellington story of course. Significant parts of New Zealand's bush, particularly in the North Island, were cleared in an astonishingly short space of time. Only a quarter of New Zealand's original forest remains (a long way short of 100% pure). And New Zealand, despite being one of the latest places on earth to be settled by humans has one of the worst records of native plant loss, according to one of the information boards I pass.
Although early explorers and colonists such as Heaphy looked at the bush and saw the masts of sailing ships, in many areas including Wellington, the bush was simply incinerated in the rush to create pasture. The very size of the trees made milling them and transporting them out of the bush too difficult. It's a depressing story of colonial destruction and waste, seemingly driven by greed and cultural arrogance.
And yet it had puzzled me, reading about the early history of Wellington, that some early settlers at least seem to have been enchanted by the bush. Edward Catchpool, who arrived in Wellingon in 1840 described: 'the beauty of the bay, surrounded, or nearly so, on all sides by high hills down to the water's edge, covered with perpetual verdure, the trees and shrubs growing so closely as to render it difficult to ascend, conspire to banish every feeling but that of pleasure from the mind,' and James Taine, another an early settler, described a favourite walk 'through the magnificent forest' with his fiancee.
The rather turgid poems of William Golder, an early settler who farmed in the Hutt Valley maybe cast some light on how people who admired the bush might also quite happily destroy it:
'…Yon majestic trees,
Which have for ages stood the stormy blast,
Are destined soon to feel the settler's axe,
And by it be laid prostrate, as they are
Considered now mere cumbrers of that ground
He means to turn to fields of growing grain;
A noble change indeed! Thus nature wild
Must wear another aspect, feel renewed
With civilization introduced, where once
The wildest solitudes supremely reigned!'
Golder goes on (at great length) about creating a civilised and christian land of industry and prosperity, the 'Britain of the South', from 'forest land' that is 'lying waste', a point of view that reflects what Geoff Park described as 'a culture that aspired to order and improvement, to a time when the entire inhabitable world would be tilled like a garden'.
The bush walk brings me out in what I always think of as the 'Harrogate' part of the Gardens – lawns and formal flower beds stuffed with colourful bedding plants, not unlike the Yorkshire town near where I grew up. A young Katherine Mansfield wrote about this contrast between bush path and formal planting in the Botanic Gardens in 1907:
'I turn from the smooth swept paths, and climb up a steep track, where the knotted tree roots have seared a rude pattern in the yellow clay. And suddenly, it disappears – all the pretty, carefully-tended surface of gravel and sward and blossom, and there is bush, silent and splendid. On the green moss, on the brown earth, a wide splashing of yellow sunlight. And everywhere that strange indefinable scent. As I breathe it, it seems to absorb, to become part of me – and I am old with the age of centuries, strong with the strength of savagery….I pass down the central walk towards the entrance gates. The men and women and and children are crowding the pathway, looking reverently, admiringly at the carpet bedding, spelling aloud the Latin names of the flowers. Here is laughter and movement and bright sunlight – but behind me – is it near, or miles and miles away? – the bush lies hidden in the shadow.'
Mansfield's rather romantic characterisation of the bush reminds me of the paintings of C F Goldie, and with them, the widespread view, influenced by Darwinism, that the indigenous aspects of New Zealand – flora and fauna as well as Māori – were unlikely to survive the introduction of Western civilisation and species and would soon die out. In that respect, the early settlers considered they were merely speeding up the inevitable.
There's a sense in Golder's work too of a natural and inevitable order of progress:
'Here, as elsewhere, must civilization's power
In industry, in enterprise, and skill,
All three with ardent energy combined,
Must rise and conquer nature's wildness, and
Upon her work far other change bold
To bring her to subjection.'
At the same time, I can't help seeing a parallel between the people in Mansfield's description spelling out the latin names of the flowers and my own study of the information boards on the bush path, and wonder what Mansfield would make of the neat labels on the trees of her ancient and savage bush.
From the Botanic Gardens, I walk through the suburbs of Northland and Wilton to Otari-Wilton's Bush, an altogether more significant 'remnant' of native bush. Part of this remnant was preserved by Job Wilton, an early settler who purchased 108 acres of land for his farm, but left 17 acres uncleared. He fenced it to keep out livestock and it became a popular destination for walks and picnics. Job Wilton and his family seemed to have put considerable effort into preserving the bush, checking the fencing and making sure that fires lit by picnickers had been put out. There is no record of why Job Wilton put the land aside, but he appears to have been well ahead of his time.
A piece of land adjacent to Wilton's in Māori ownership had also retained its native bush cover, although not in such good condition as Wilton's land, and when the Māori owners decided to sell their land, Wilton petitioned the Minister for Lands to preserve this area, offering to add his own land. This led to the introduction of the Scenery Protection Act in 1903, the first piece of legislation to protect New Zealand's native bush, although it was by then too late for much of the lowland forest.
I'd walked in Otari-Wilton's Bush many times, but nearly always on the far side of the reserve, to the west of the Kaiwharawhara stream. I hadn't realised that the portion of bush retained by Wilton is the part closest to the road. I follow a boardwalk that takes me through the tops of tall rewarewa and rata, looking down on tree ferns a surprisingly long way down. From the boardwalk, the path winds along the edge of the bush, only metres away from traffic noise, which gradually recedes as I get further into the bush. The bush is much denser here than in the Botanic Gardens, and there seems to be a much greater diversity of different trees and shrubs.
While I'd come across accounts from settlers who admired the New Zealand bush, it seems this was not always the case. Theopilus Heale, the commander of the Aurora which brought the first settlers to Wellington, described their bitter disappointment, at the 'steep and barren hills', and the Hutt Valley 'so densely covered wth timber of valueless description'. Other research has found that early settlers felt the bush was gloomy, and even dangerous, particularly once relationships with Māori deteriorated and the bush held potential for ambush.
New Zealand lowland bush is more akin to tropical jungle than the open forests of the European countries that early settlers came from. It's easy to see how the trees, laden with epiphytes and looping vines, could have appeared unseemly and grotesque, and how the denseness of the bush would have made it seemed endless. A long tradition of European fairytales featuring menacing forests full of strange beasts and lost children would probably have fed on these perceptions. A relatively small and contained remnant such as this could have provided a thrill of other-ness, of Katherine Mansfield's ancient savagery, without the fear of getting hopelessly lost.
The path takes me up to a picturesque little waterfall that I could imagine delighting the 19th century picnickers. I commune with an inquisitive fantail as I climb up through tree ferns to the nature trail, which takes me past some huge podocarps – a hollow-based rata, and a monumental rimu, vines twisting ladder-like around its trunk. I bring my own cultural perceptions to the bush of course, and I find there is something about the ephiphyte-laden podocarps that makes me think of Enid Blyton's 'far away tree' housing strange creatures on the way up their massive trunks, and magical lands in their distant branches. And as for fairy-tale forests, growing up in intensively-farmed countryside, I longed for limitless woods with the possibility of getting lost.
Cultural perceptions aside, as Catherine Knight points out, no matter what the early settlers thought of the bush, most of them would have had no choice but to clear their land. Enticed here by the New Zealand Company's promise of endless fertile plains, most settlers would have had to make the best of the land they had bought, sight unseen, in order to feed themselves and their families. Clearing the bush was incredibly hard work: it could take an entire day to clear a patch large enough to pitch a tent. The undergrowth would have had to be cleared, and trees cut down and left to dry over the summer before being burnt in autumn, often several times. Stumps had to be torn up by two bullocks with a chain, and the remaining soil would be full of roots that had to be be broken up with a hoe or mattock.
I'm still not sure though why the early settlers went quite so far. I've often wondered why the Rimutaka hills outside Wellington were cleared. Surely no one could have thought they were suitable for farming. Interestingly, when the Minister for Lands was petitioned to preserve the land now in Otari-Wilton's Bush in 1902 he 'replied sympathetically …we had been too extravagant in our destruction of bush land – land which was good for little or nothing else had been cleared of its native bush land especially on the Rimutakas'.
I was intending to recreate a 19th century picnic experience on the Troup Lawn, but it has been colonised already by a group of very excitable children with over-sized water-pistols, and so I skulk at an out of the way picnic table. I cross the stream, where the children are refilling their water pistols ready for the next attack, and head up the steep path towards the 800 year-old rimu tree. Where the path levels off, there are a few large trees, but the 800 year-old rimu is the most impressive. I sit on one of the huge roots that snake across the forest floor, eating a cereal bar and contemplating. Wandering further along the path, accompanied rather ironically by the distant noise of a chainsaw, I come to a kahikatea, the tree that Geoff Park described as a 'supreme survivor' from prehistoric times, a species of tree so ancient that pterosaurs might have perched in its branches, 'drying their clumsy wings'. I shuffle between its massive roots and put my ear against its trunk which close up, look scaly, almost reptilian. I'm not sure what I was expecting, but it feels solid and ancient and very silent.
Belich J (1996) Making Peoples
Dawson J and Lucas R (2012) Field Guide to New Zealand's Native Trees
Gabites I (1993) Wellington's Living Cloak: a guide to the natural plant communities
Golder W ( 1865) The New Zealand Survey
Heaphy C (1968) Narrative of a residence in various parts of New Zealand
Knight C (2012) Did European Settlers Loathe the Forest?
Mansfield K (1907) In the Botanical Gardens, originally published in The Native Companion [under the name Julia Mark] and quoted in Shepherd W (2000)
Papers Past
Park G (1999) Nga Uruora (the groves of life) [this book is out of print and quite difficult to get hold of, a radio series made by late Geoff Park on the same topic is available here]
Russel Taylor C (2008) Cultural perceptions of the Wellington Landscape 1870 to 1900: an anthropological interpretation
Shepherd W and Cook W (1988) The Botanic Garden, Wellington: A New Zealand History 1840 – 1987
Shepherd W (2000) Wellington's Heritage: Plants, Gardens and Landscape
Ward Louis E (1929) Early Wellington
Information boards in Botanic Gardens, Otari Wilton Bush, and Zealandia
Photo references
Central Park and Brooklyn Road, Wellington. McBride, Denise & Megan :Photographs of Brooklyn, Wellington. Ref: 1/2-182020-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. http://natlib.govt.nz/records/32049996
Remutaka [Rimutaka] Hill, one mile from top, looking down on the Wellington side, Bragge, James (photographer), circa 1875, Upper Hutt, http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/127949
Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd. Goldie, Charles Frederick, 1870-1947 :In doubt. [Portrait of] Atama Paparangi, a chieftain of the Rarawa tribe. Brett Printing Company ; from a painting by C F Goldie, 1918. 1923.. Ref: B-059-012. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22873437
Bush Tram, Wairarapa – Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, AWNS-19030806-8-1


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