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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former supermodel Christie Brinkley's sensational divorce to her fourth husband ended abruptly on Thursday with a settlement, a spokeswoman for Brinkley said.
"After five days of trial and for the sake of their children, Christie Brinkley and Peter Cook have reached an agreement," spokeswoman Amy Jacobs said in a statement.
Cook revealed during testimony he had an affair with his 18-year-old assistant and spent $3,000 a month on Internet pornography. Brinkley, who asked for full custody of the couple's two children, said that her "perfect life" had been shattered by the revelations.
The settlement was reached at 6:15 a.m. after all-night negotiations, Jacobs said.
"I didn't want this trial. It's humiliating for all of us," Brinkley had said on the witness stand in New York family court in Central Islip, Long Island.
The agreement awarded Brinkley, 54, full custody of the children, aged 10 and 13, and gave Cook, 49, a financial settlement of $2.1 million as well as "parenting time."
Brinkley will retain all of the couple's properties, including 18 in the Hamptons, which were at dispute because Cook had advised the former Sports Illustrated swimsuit model to buy them during their 10-year marriage.
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BEIJING, July 31, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Duolingo, the No.1 foreign language learning application around the world, was released on July 25th, making an exclusive debut in China by working with 360 Mobile Assistant. In just three days, the app was downloaded over 350,000 times. This solidifies 360 Mobile Assistant's positioning as the No. 1 app distribution platform in China and demonstrates its power of influence in the country and its international potential.
350,000 downloads inthree days may not seem like a lofty number when it comes to games, but in the education category, Duolingo has definitely set the record. Duolingo's science-based, fun and 100 percentfree language courses are recognized by users worldwide, while 360 Mobile Assistant users are highly educated and appreciate high-quality education apps, making this a perfect combination for success. 360 Mobile Assistant currently has more than 400 million users, many of whom are education enthusiasts.
According to iResearch, 360 Mobile Assistant has over 40 percentpenetration rate in the Android-based Chinese mobile applications market. In addition, 360 Mobile Assistant is highly selective, providing support only to authentic, high-value apps in the ecosystem. Duolingo has been repeatedly recognized as the best language learning tool worldwide and is the No.1 education app for Android internationally. In the United States, there are more people learning a language with Duolingo than in the entire public school system. In two years, Duolingo has gained over 30 million users around the world.
Besides Duolingo, many popular apps have chosen to launch exclusively with 360 Mobile Assistant, including "Despicable Me: Minion Rush," "Plants Vs Zombies 2," and "Frozen: Let it Go." This reflects the outstanding reputation that 360 Mobile Assistant has domestically and internationally.
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The dentist office that performed the procedure was great and so was the staff. My friend and I both did the zoom whitening treatment and we both experienced severe tooth sensitivity. I have bleached my teeth in the past with other products and have never experienced the same level of sensitivity.
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There was never really a question of if Panthers wide receiver Steve Smith would play today against the 49ers, but rather how agile and effective he can be. We will get a look. Smith is officially active for the divisional-round playoff game. He didn't get in much practice time due to a sprained PCL.
On the other hand, running back Jonathan Stewart is a surprising inactive. He went through full practice all week. Yet, he'll miss his four consecutive game due to a sprained MCL.
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Glamorgan's Friends Life t20 match against the Worcestershire Royals that was due to take place on Wednesday has been postponed as a mark of respect for Tom Maynard and his family.
Maynard died on Monday at around 5am after being hit by a London Underground train at Wimbledon Park.
It is thought that the Cardiff-born player, son of former England cricketer Matthew, may have been trying to avoid police at the time of his death.
The 23-year-old began his career at Glamorgan before leaving for Surrey in 2011.
"Glamorgan Cricket would like to thank both the England & Wales Cricket Board and Worcestershire County Cricket Club for their understanding and co-operation with this matter," read a statement released by Glamorgan.
"The match has now been re-arranged and will take place at the SWALEC Stadium on Tuesday July 3."
Surrey's FriendsLife t20 game against the Hampshire Royals had already been postponed.
The county's pace bowler Jade Dernbach has used Twitter to express his grief over the death of his friend.
"The day is not as bright without you here with us. Will love you always and forever brother.#RIPTom" Dernbach tweeted.
Dernbach has been withdrawn from the remainder of England's one day international series against the West Indies on compassionate grounds.


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Designing for Reflective Practice in Legal Education
McNamara, Judith & Field, Rachael (2007) Designing for Reflective Practice in Legal Education. Journal of Learning Design, 2(1), pp. 66-76.
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On Your World, Cavuto let DeLay claim that "we went and got" the terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan
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During an interview with former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, Neil Cavuto allowed DeLay to claim that "we went and got" the terrorists in Afghanistan and Iraq. In fact, recent reports indicate that the security situation in Iraq and Afghanistan has deteriorated significantly.
During an interview with former member of Congress and House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) on the July 24 edition of Fox News' Your World, host Neil Cavuto allowed DeLay to claim that "we went and got" the terrorists in Afghanistan and Iraq. In fact, recent reports indicate that the security situation in Iraq and Afghanistan has deteriorated significantly, with insurgent attacks and terrorist activity continuing.
On July 10, Agence France Press reported that Afghanistan has recently seen a significant resurgence of "Taliban-inspired forces," that have "mounted larger, better coordinated attacks on US and NATO forces this year than at any time since their ouster in a US-led campaign in late 2001." Further, according to a July 23 Reuters report on recent insurgent attacks in Afghanistan, the past week has been "the bloodiest phase of an insurgency since coalition forces overthrew the Taliban in 2001." Reuters added that "[s]uicide attacks are becoming more common in Afghanistan, as militants apparently copy tactics used by insurgents in Iraq."
Similarly, an April 28 New York Times article noted that a recent State Department report had found that terror attacks in Iraq have doubled over the last year:
The figures for 2005, reported in the State Department's annual survey of global terrorism, showed a doubling from the previous year in both the number of major terrorist attacks in Iraq and the death toll from them. The overall tally of about 3,500 terrorist attacks in Iraq last year represented nearly one-third of such attacks around the world. The numbers do not include attacks against American or coalition troops.
Further, the "Iraq Index" from the Brookings Institution illustrates that the strength of the Iraqi insurgency had risen to over "20,000+" fighters by June 2006, up from less than 5,000 in January 2004. On July 18, CNN reported that the most recent United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq report found that over 14,000 civilians had been killed in Iraq since the beginning of the year and that "more than 5,800 deaths and more than 5,700 injuries [were] reported in May and June alone." The Times also noted on July 19 that, according to the report, an average of more than 100 Iraqi civilians died per day in June as a result of the violence.
From the July 24 edition of Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto:
CAVUTO: All right, well, U.S. Senator John Kerry says that if he were president, none of this would have happened. Were his comments out of line during an international crisis or was he fully justified in making them? We'll ask former House majority leader Tom DeLay after this.
CAVUTO: Well, Democratic Senator John Kerry taking a jab at President Bush over the weekend for the handling of the Mideast crisis -- while in Michigan to help the state gubernatorial campaign, he told The Detroit News, quote, "If I was president, this wouldn't have happened." Are Democrats like Kerry out of line, using the Mideast crisis to score some political points? With us now is former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. Congressman, good to have you here, in the flesh.
DeLAY: Thank you, Neil.
CAVUTO: What do you think of that?
DeLAY: Well, it's typical John Kerry. And God forbid that he ever become president, because we'd -- he'd be in a bigger mess than we are in today. He is the soul and -- and the -- the soul of the Democratic Party, the banner-carrier, and he reflects what Democrats' first instinct is cut and run.
CAVUTO: So, this idea that -- and this is widely held among Democrats, as you know, Congressman, that -- and -- and some Republicans, I guess -- that the Bush administration, distracted with Iraq and other developments, ignored the Middle East, what do you think?
DeLAY: Absolutely did not. In fact, I think that in my opinion, they were -- they were over-reaching a little bit in calling for a two-state solution, creating a -- a state for the Hamas terrorists. What we have now is a situation that no one prayed for, but it is a situation that we can face reality and take care of this once and for all. You can have the cease-fires with legitimate governments. But these are terrorists. And now --
CAVUTO: But you got to talk to them, don't you?
DeLAY: No, you don't need to talk to them.
CAVUTO: Really? So, what do you do? You just destroy them?
DeLAY: You go get them.
CAVUTO: Really?
DeLAY: And just as we went and got them in Afghanistan, we went and got them in Iraq -- we are at war on terror.
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Overfishing, climate change, habitat destruction, and pollution remain major threats to the world's ocean. But amidst all that there is some seriously good ocean conservation news worth celebrating. So, to continue the tradition started last year with listing 14 Ocean Conservation Wins of 2014, here's a rundown for 2015 that will hopefully fill you with…
An Earthship at the end of the world: Peace Boat passengers consider sustainable tourism in Ushuaia
Between October and April every year, scores of gleaming cruise ships bound for Antarctica join the usual array of fishing boats, oil tankers, and freighters at the harbor in Ushuaia, Argentina. Last month alone 22,000 cruise ship passengers and crew disembarked from ships like the Celebrity Infinity, the Golden Princess, and Peace Boat's Ocean Dream.…
Celebrating a Decade of Conservation in Chile's Karukinka Landscape
By Bárbara Saavedra and Cristián Samper
On the southern tip of Tierra del Fuego in the Patagonia region of Chile, you'll find one of the most stunning wild places in the hemisphere, complete with bountiful peat bogs, sub-Antarctic woodlands, windswept steppes, and snow-covered mountain ranges. Spanning 1,160 square miles, the Karukinka landscape is home to Patagonia's unique wildlife, including the endangered culpeo fox, the Andean condor, guanacos (wild relatives of the llama), and the Magellanic woodpecker, the largest woodpecker in the Americas. It's also a place rich in plant species like southern beech, Chilean fire bush, white dog orchid, and sundew.
May 18, 2014: Kayaking from Australia to New Zealand, Exploring America by Night, and More
This week on National Geographic Weekend, join host Boyd Matson and his guests as they bicker at the South Pole, find the perfect pairing between beer and food, ride off into the Chilean sunset, solve the global malaria crisis, celebrate the desegregation of American public schools, tip our waiter, hunt for Sasquatch, and jog to save our memory.
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Join radio host Boyd Matson and his guests as they paddle Class V rapids on the River of Doubt, hand cycle the length of the Americas, investigate deaths from common drugs, preserve lions' disappearing prides, slide headfirst down an icy track at 90 miles per hour, and reconcile the future and the past in the Amazon Rainforest.
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As I walked along the shore of the serene Laguna La Salada at the northern fringe of the Patagonia region of Argentina, I struggled to imagine the severity of the storm that wrecked havoc on this small lake and the rest of Buenos Aires province just six months before. The Southern Hemisphere spring was in…
Two Young Explorers Create First Map of the Future Patagonia National Park
For Young Explorers Marty Schnure and Ross Donihue, the past nine months have been a journey of energy, frustration, sweat, cold, wind, laughs, scree, sore feet, an icy tent, warm sleeping bags, a lot of lamb stew, hard work, failure, perseverance, and success.
June 23, 2013: Brokering Peace for Elephants, Surfing Down the Baja Coast, and More
This weekend, we learn about how National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Mike Fay made peace between rebel leaders and forest elephants in Central African Republic, we carry water on our back for a 1,000-mile trek down Mexico's Baja California Coast, and we ride Europe's rails in comfort.
Patagonia Chilena Sin Represas // Chilean Patagonia Without Dams
Panorama: Immerse yourself in the confluence of the Baker and the Chacabuco, two of Patagonia's wild, free-flowing, and threatened rivers.
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After six hours of bushwhacking up a trail-less mountain side, Marty and Ross come upon a breathtaking sight- the Northern Patagonian Ice Field.
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The night sky in Patagonia is breathtaking — there is no light pollution, and on a clear night with a new moon the sky flickers with stars. Long exposure photographs show us how the Earth spins relative to the stars.
Patagonia's Local Llamas: The Guanaco
Have you ever met a guanaco? Learn about these large, charismatic mammals that roam the Patagonia National Park Project in Aysén, Chile.
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There's more to big smalls than jocks in jocks, claims Phil Fuller.
So Thorpey's released his own brand of underwear. That's original. Right on the tail of Kylie's underthings, Sarah promoting singlets for non-chesty blondes, Elle's odds and sods for perfect bods and Pat's range (don't call them smalls). I can now wear famous name undies for almost each day of the week if you include my Superman ones.
Obviously someone's figured out that cotton underduds can become cotton under-super-achievers, provided you do not use a dud to promote them - and at twice the price of exactly the same thing in the store with a big consonant as its main branding.
While Kylie's and Elle's seem to differ only on how tall you need to be, Sarah has linked up with an existing iconic brand to give you double value for your price premium. And Pat's smalls are apparently what you need if you do not want to grunt loudly while giving a serve.
But what's going to differentiate Thorpey's? Can they get wet on the outside while keeping you dry on the inside? (Hard to see that selling, but the inverse might be useful for a much older demographic). Do they stay on if you jump into a pool? Will they help you get more out of your breaststroke?
Thorpe has already promoted jewellery and pearls for men. Now he has realised there is more volume downmarket in a clothing range for men's crown jewels.
This is, to my mind, an infuriating trend from which seemingly plain and ordinary things are not safe. However, if we must have a celebrity name on everything we buy, then some famous Australians come to mind as future promoters of the formerly bland and boring undergarment.
Simon Crean could promote underwear that promises it will not be detected.
Warney could promote some for male adolescents (of any age) that are so tight they constrict blood flow, and therefore libido, while assisting this spare blood to flow to the eyeballs, improving sight.
Malcolm Turnbull could promote underwear that allows even the least endowed to look well stacked down below.
Finally, there should be the John Howard rage - the Understateds. The marketing edge here should not try to make the boring interesting by association.
Rather, these should promote a 1950s approach to undergarments, i.e. that they're just undergarments, plain and simple, albeit with the following features: Uniform colour of fair dinkum man-of-steel grey. Ability to make you look bigger than you really are. Logo consisting of a larger US flag sitting on top of a smaller Australian flag with sheriffs' badges where the Southern Cross should be. A complete lack of a serious competitor.
It's all a bit underwhelming really.
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With Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 opening at U.S. movie theaters today, I was reminded of my visits to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal's Islands of Adventure this year.
Even though Yesterland.com is primarily about discontinued theme park attractions, thats not the case here. The Wizarding World of Harry Potter is a huge success and should be around for a long, long time.
Despite a wonderful queue, I was disappointed with the signature attraction, Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey. I know that's sacrilege. After all, the consensus seems to be that Forbidden Journey represents the pinnacle of themed attraction design. I know I'm in the minority, but I'll explain my reasons.
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"Attention to detail."
"Immersive environments."
"Were storytellers."
If you follow the theme park industry, youre aware of these catchphrases. Ever since Disneylands original lands and attractions opened in 1955, themed attraction designers have looked for opportunities to take the guest experience to the next level. Sometimes they are successful. Other times, inadequate budgets or poor executive decisions get in the way.
The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universals Islands of Adventure in Orlando, Florida succeeds brilliantly. The details have been executed with incredible skill and creativity. Guests are immersed in the world of J.K. Rowlings books and the Warner Bros. movies based on those books. And guests participate in the story as they explore the nooks an crannies of the 20-acre masterpiece.
I intentionally chose the photo of the simulated moss to begin this article. Compare the details in the photo with artificial stone that youve seen elsewhere.
The Wizarding World of Harry Potter officially opened June 18, 2010 (after a limited soft opening at the beginning of the month). Perhaps youve been there. If not, youve probably read about it. So I wont describe all the details to you, but Ill give you my reaction to the three rides—and to the best part of this park-within-a-park.
The three rides all fall under the category of thrill ride, but theyre quite different from each other.
Flight of the Hippogriff is the type of roller coaster that serious roller coaster aficionados call a kiddie coaster, but that I would call a family coaster. I enjoyed the one-minute ride with my wife, even though we didnt have any children with us. The view of Hogsmeade from the top is great—thats where the second photo in this article came from—and there are decorations in the queue and on the ride based on Hagrid and his magical creatures. The drops and turns are fun rather than terrifying.
Flight of the Hippogriff opened as the Flying Unicorn in June 2000, a year after the opening of Islands of Adventure. The odd-looking trains consisted of armor-plated carts with a unicorn horn on the front car. An elaborate backstory explained how an ancient wizard had assembled the carts from knights armor and scraps of wood from magical castles—and how the carts came to life when he placed the unicorn horn on the head.
I like the wicker basket look of the Flight of the Hippogriff trains much better.
The next thrill ride also goes back to the 1999 opening of Islands of Adventure. Originally Dueling Dragons, its now Dragon Challenge. The trains of the twin-track, inverted roller coaster represent two dragons, a Chinese Fireball and a Hungarian Horntail.
I never wanted to go on Dueling Dragons and I didnt want to go on Dragon Challenge either. There are people who love this kind super thrill ride, but Im not one of them.
However, I walked the queue for Dragon Challenge until just before the boarding platform. Its a nice walk, especially if the ride is a walk-on and you dont have to wait behind guests wanting to board the ride. Among other things, youll see the crashed Ford Anglia (but why isnt the Whomping Willow here?), the Goblet of Fire, and the Triwizard Cup.
Dragon Challenge is a bare steel ride. It still looks like Dueling Dragons, including the colors of the supports, tracks, and trains. Beyond the queue, there doesnt seem to be any Harry Potter magic. (Of course, Im making this observation as a spectator, not as a rider.) The ride is visible from parts of Hogsmeade and detracts from the fantasy of being in the wizard village. The ride is an ever-present reminder that youre in a park that built its reputation primarily with thrills, not with storytelling. I wonder how much of the 20-acre Wizarding Word this ride takes up?
Still, it makes sense that they kept the ride. It was already there. It represented a huge capital investment when it was built, and its still a well-liked ride.
That brings us to the third ride: Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey. Its an attraction that attracts adjectives such as amazing, awesome, state-of-the-art, and cutting-edge.
Before my first visit to The Wizarding World, I asked a woman at the park gate about the motion on Forbidden Journey.
"There are some rides that I dont handle well," I explained. "Over at Disney, Im okay on Star Tours, but I had to sit down for 20 minutes after Body Wars. I cant go on Mad Tea Party. Here at Islands of Adventure, I do fine on The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man."
"You should be okay then," she replied. "Forbidden Journey is about the same intensity as Spider-Man."
Hoping that she was right, I looked forward to the ride. A sign at the ride entrance suggested I might be making a mistake.
I entered the queue. The sign said the wait would be 10 minutes.
The queue is a walk-through of Hogwarts Castle, complete with visits to Madame Sprouts greenhouse, Headmaster Dumbledores office (where he invites us to hear a lecture about the history of Hogwarts), and the Defence Against the Dark Arts classroom (where Harry, Ron, and Hermione suggest something that would be more fun than a lecture). I let people go ahead of me rather than racing through. I wanted to enjoy the "show."
As queues go, this might be the most intricate, detailed, and entertaining theme park attraction queue ever (even including Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Forbidden Eye at Disneyland). Of course, its still a queue, with some long hallways and sections of switchbacks.
The final location in the queue before boarding was the Sorting Hat. Rather than assigning riders to the Houses of Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, or Slytherin, the animatronic Sorting Hat gave a safety spiel ("and so the Hogwarts Sorting Hat tells all you need to know").
Time to board. I hoped this would not be a mistake.
First, let me share this description from an official press kit fact sheet:
Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey draws guests into the excitement and chaos of Harry's life. Guests travel through the Floo network and begin the adventure as they soar over Hogwarts, narrowly escape a dragon attack, have a close encounter with the Whomping Willow, get pulled into a Quidditch match and more. The combination of pioneering, state-of-the-art technology, innovative filmmaking and surprises around every corner encapsulates some of the incredible drama in the Harry Potter stories—and make this attraction the future of theme park entertainment.
Thats not quite how I remember it. I remember swerving very rapidly through a few scenes. Then I remember thinking that the motion was far more intense than Spider-Man, and that it would be a good idea to close my eyes, relax, and tune out as much as possible. I think the ride lasts around four minutes, but these were the longest four minutes. I was looking forward to getting off. I hoped that my breakfast would stay inside me (fortunately, it did).
I staggered over to Jurassic Park and waited until I felt better.
Yes, it was my own fault. I knew the motion might be a problem. I ignored the sign. I deserved what I got.
A few weeks later I was back in Florida, this time with my wife. Our plans included The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. I told my wife that she would have to go on Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey without me.
I wasnt happy. By all accounts, Forbidden Journey is the greatest achievement in immersive theme park entertainment and a bellwether of the future of attractions. And Im a theme park historian fascinated by the past, present, and future of themed entertainment. I wanted to experience it—and not with my eyes closed.
I had an idea. If motion sickness medication works for boats and ships, maybe it would work for Forbidden Journey. We stopped at a drug store on the way to the park. I followed the instructions and hoped for the best.
This time, I was able to keep my eyes open during the whole ride. I was flying along with Harry Potter and other characters, through big stage sets and facing movie screens that gave the feeling of great speed. There wasnt any time to enjoy the details. The emphasis was on fast, fast, fast in a dark and scary world. The ride was okay. I was a bit dizzy when it was over, but I felt much better than the first time.
[Disclaimer: Take the motion sickness warning seriously. The medication worked for me, but theres no guarantee it will work for someone else.]
The technology that makes Forbidden Journey possible is amazing, but I can think of a lot of attractions that I enjoy more—at Disney parks and at Universal parks. The technology of a boat floating through s flume is primitive compared to the whiz-bang KUKA robotic arm technology that Forbidden Journey uses, but I think that Pirates of the Caribbean, which has been around since spring of 1967, is still a better attraction.
So what is the best attraction at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter?
Its not any of the three thrill rides. Its the village of Hogsmeade. Thats where the attention to detail, immersive environment, and storytelling provide a theme park experience unmatched anywhere else.
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As a speaker during the holiday season, riparian specialist Lorne Fitch took a contrary view to consumption that dominates the season.
His message challenged those in his Dec. 20 audience to reduce their focus on consumerism in the new year.
"Consider this simple proposition: buy less, consume less and live on a healthier Earth longer," he told a meeting of the Southern Alberta Council of Public Affairs.
"Consuming our way to a better world seems self defeating."
Fitch, an adjunct professor at the University of Calgary and a biologist with the Alberta Cows and Fish program, has long advocated protecting the environment from the ravages that people impose upon it.
However, environmental protection does not always mesh with Alberta's model of economic development.
Audience members questioned Fitch on how the province can have a strong economy and sufficient jobs for its populace if environmental protection takes precedence.
He said employment exists in jobs that recognize the value and protection of the environment, but the flaw at the basis of the question is the placement of Albertans' priorities.
"I understand that to succeed in business, you need to identify your particular assets and leverage them to create your own competitive advantage," he said. "Alberta's competitive advantage isn't solely vested in barley, beef, oil or dimensional lumber. It is our clean air, water, productive soil and biodiversity along with associated ecological goods and services, coupled with an educated and healthy population that provides our strengths. Once you lose that foundation, the Alberta advantage is gone."


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Last night on the top floor of the Sydney Park Pavillion, SMASH! had organised a spooky Halloween party, fit for Cosplayers and Anime fans in general. At the party, attendees found themselves partaking in many activities, some of which were general Anime themed, and some others, a lot more spookily themed.
Dusk and Despair was pretty cool in itself, with attendees given free Spiders (drinks combining ice cream and soft drinks (sodas)), a hall for socialising and an area designated for all of the Pokemon battles. Unfortunately, I had left my 3DS on my desk before leaving, so I missed out on some epic battles. However, for some events, the divided wall would be used as an impromptu stage, for example, with the Cosplay competition.
The night began with an Anime Q&A where everyone present had to head to one of two sides of the hall in accordance with an A or B answer to a question. This was quite fun, but, everyone really seemed to know their Anime, so getting people out was a bit hard.
The Cosplay competition was pretty successful with a pool of entrants, ranging from Anime to Zombies, entering. Each of the acts were fairly entertaining and the costumes were pretty well done. If Dusk and Despair continues next year, I can see this being a great attraction to the night.
In my opinion, the best event of the night was the wide game outside in the forest. In this game, the SMASH! organisers had taken members from each team and led them deep into the forest somewhere, whilst other members of the team were taken to a different end and had to essentially stealth their way through the bushes to find them without being caught. This game was fun for two reasons. First, is that the SMASH! organisers had to hunt us down; and the second is that I was dressed as a Ninja (as an aside, Anime Ninja may or may not be a thing from us soon, depending on where our research takes us).
So what made this fun was that, essentially, I was this hard to spot person in dark woods, and the organisers would walk past. I remember this one staff member shone his torch on me and was like "Is that a person?". I jumped up and I swear I heard him scream. Classic. I was, of course, caught and captured, so I lost, but this didn't stop me hiding around trees and ambushing the other two staff. Good times.
During this time, those remaining in the room were tasked with a game of wrapping people in toilet paper to make some kind of spooky uniform. Having been someone that's done this at other parties, I can assure you that it would have been pretty entertaining.
After both of those events, we headed back up to the main hall where the winners of the wide game were announced. Each person that rescued a hostage got both themselves and their hostage a prize. Congrats to all of the winners, dodging those staff members with torches would have been difficult.
And then from there, we had a pretty fun dance routine from the dance club of UTS (IIRC) which segued into the ending of the night. This included a raffle draw and more prizes.
Dusk and Despair concluded with the organisers giving speeches about how this was the first event for them of this type and we all got to see who put in the effort behind everything behind the scenes to make it work. It was also really interesting meeting the current head of the SMASH! organisation, who was also invited to the stage to give a few words.
Throughout the event, I couldn't help but notice that all of these activities seemed to be put together to get attendees to interact and have fun with each other. The only odd thing about this is that there was no alcohol being served, which is something that always helps lower that initial social barrier that people feel. But being a 16+ event, it's understandable that alcohol was prohibited.
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Kim Kardashian's Physical Fitness Dedication
She never does anything halfway, and Kim Kardashian proved her commitment to staying in shape during her pregnancy with a trip to the gym this morning (February 28).
Donning a plaid shirt teamed with a black top, black tights, and mint green Nike sneakers, the "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" cutie carried her Balenciaga handbag to the fitness center while chatting on her mobile phone.
Meanwhile, it seems the rumor that Kim has been "obsessing over her pregnancy pounds" is nothing more than a tabloid fabrication to sell papers.
A supposed "insider" told press, "She isn't adapting to her new pregnancy figure. She's freaking out about her weight gain. She seems more concerned with how she looks than she is with her baby."
However, a source close to Kardashian vehemently denied the claim as "not true."
Enjoy the pictures of Kim Kardashian out in Beverly Hills (February 28).
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Sprint's relationship with Clearwire has been anything but simple. Despite the carrier's majority stake in Clearwire, Sprint does not maintain operational control of the struggling company. Clearwire, along with Sprint, deployed 4G WiMAX service, but has since announced that it would build out LTE service since that is the prevailing standard.
Unfortunately for Clearwire, the LTE rollout has not been proceeding as quickly as planned. That could be some of the motivation for Sprint to reassess its interest in taking full control of Clearwire, even though the carrier has paid its spectrum lease to Clearwire through 2013. Buying out Clearwire would also give Sprint direct control over much needed spectrum.
Sources inform The Wall Street Journal that this deal is far from guaranteed. Softbank would have a hand in the approval, but the more difficult obstacle would likely be with Clearwire's shareholders, many of whom have been holding on to their equities with Clearwire in hopes of recovering some of their investments (Clearwire's share prices are down over 90% from five years ago). Sprint and Softbank may place some specific conditions before such a deal as well.
Clearwire and its spectrum would be a bargain if bought out at its market value of $1.8 billion, but the company is also carrying quite a bit of debt, north of $4 billion. Based on what is being reported now, it will be interesting to see what announcements, if any, are made in the next few days.
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This week's customer story is a poem written by Jenny Schrimshaw of Las Vegas, Nevada.
A knock at my door;
delivery in a box.
Just what could it be?
I ordered nothing,
my birthday is not this month,
but I take it in.
"Fairytale Brownie" -
It's BROWNIES! Eee! Just for me!
Brownies!! Mine mine mine!
Complete surprise. Wow!
I wonder who sent these here?
An amazing gift!
No name on the card,
no hint in my email box.
Oh well, brownie time!
One, two, three, four... EIGHT!
Peanut Butter! Toffee Crunch!
Why do you look sad?
I can't hear you over here.
Too busy tasting.
No crumb left behind,
delicious goodness savored,
tasted every one.
Two pair of sad eyes;
I can feel them watching me.
Trembling little chins.
Alright, alright, here -
I saved you kids half of each.
I know. You're welcome.
Jenny - Thank goodness you had some self control and shared your brownie gift with your children! Many people would have eaten all of the fudge brownies and then had to order more or suffer the consequences.
Thanks for writing a poem for us. - Alyssa


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The model by which the recorder chooses which classes are to be recorded is as follows:
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According to the NCVO, there are more than 160,000 charities in Britain. Of these, nearly 80% believe that measuring impact makes their organisation more efficient. More than 70% have increased their efforts in measuring results over the past five years. But, according to James Newell, a fundraising consultant and senior associate at Kingston Smith, there are several hundred tools for measurement available. So in order to choose between measurement tools,you need to think about why your organisation wants, or needs, to measure its impact.
Voluntary organisations may want to measure their impact because of bottom-up factors, such as a desire to improve services, or a wish to see what difference the organisation makes to society. These were certainly the most important factors highlighted in New Philanthropy Capital's (NPC) recent research. But equally, organisations may need to measure their impact as a result of top-down factors, such as funder or trustee requirements. This could be true for organisations more reliant on grant applications.
When you know the reason for measurement, you can work out which method or tool is most suitable.
One possible tool is Social Return on Investment (SROI), which is able to assign a monetary figure for social, environmental and economic benefits minus costs. Tomorrow's People is an example of an organisation that has used SROI well. They measured the value of all benefits that would occur over a 20-year period, and showed that £1 in costs resulted in up to £2.90 in benefits for society, in net present value terms.
Another tool that can be used is social accounting. This is a more qualitative approach that focuses on tracking outputs over a number of years. It seeks to assess whether an organisation is achieving its aims, and provides ongoing feedback of how performance has changed.
For example, a charity may want to track how the perceived quality of its service has changed over time. It may therefore decide to track whether the emotional wellbeing of its clients has increased after an intervention. If it asks clients via questionnaires and compares the results across different time periods, it can improve the service it delivers, or report progress to trustees.
These are two common approaches to measuring impact. On the spectrum of qualitative and quantitative approaches, SROI counts among the most quantitative. It is qualitative approaches, however, that are often more intuitive and easier to understand.
SROI is often preferred by larger organisations that have the necessary resources to collate the data required. Alternatively, it could be used by smaller organisations for focused projects, where the benefits are tangible and easily measurable. For example, the savings created by reducing the need for social care by providing sheltered housing, or the savings made for government by providing education and training for homeless people.
It works less well for organisations where the benefits are intangible, or not as easily measured. For the Family Rights Group, for example, FTI Consulting found a SROI-ratio ranging from £1 to £48 for every £1 spent. In this particular instance, the analysis was driven by funder requirements. But generally for organisations whose outputs are intangible, such as community or faith-based organisations, social accounting or other qualitative approaches are more useful.
The City Hindus Network (CHN) is a case in point. It is a voluntary body that promotes networking, personal development and charitable activities among young Hindu professionals in London. Its impact is probably best measured through individual success stories and a narrative, whether in tackling mental health issues in the South Asian community, in individual transformative mentoring relationships, or enabling spiritual development. The Anne Frank Trust is similar, in that it seeks to spread positive attitudes and respect. But a narrative and set of individual case studies may convey its impact more powerfully than attempting to quantify it.
Understanding what the objectives for measurement are, and therefore what approaches to measure may be suitable, is important to successfully measuring an organisation's impact.
Pratik Dattani is managing director of EPG Economic and Strategy Consulting.
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Oxford Dictionary of History v7.1.199 Unlocked | 15.4 MB
The wide-ranging Oxford Dictionary of World History contains a wealth of information on all aspects of history, from prehistory right up to the present day. It includes biographies of key figures in world history, historical summaries for each country, and entries on religious and political movements, international organizations, and key battles and places. The second edition has been thoroughly updated to include recent changes in world affairs. There are new and updated biographies (e.g. Vladimir Putin, Benedict XVI, Tony Blair) and entries on recent major events and their after-effects (including the Orange Revolution and the 2004 tsunami).


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Entrepreneurs: Michael Slane and Tim MacLehose
Business: Napa Technology
Location: London
Napa Technology provides outdoor-specific, full HD LCD TVs that are visible in direct sunlight. These TVs can therefore be used in bars and public spaces and are fully operational outdoors, without loss of visibility.
Michael Slane (left) and Tim MacLehose (right) of Napa Technology.
Napa Technology Outdoor IP66-rated outdoor specific displays are available as standard in three sizes; 32", 42" and 52", with larger sizes made to order. All screens are Full HD 1080P and their top of the range LED backlit screens offer circa three times the brightness capability of your average LCD TV at home.
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Kylie Jenner: Wasteland Shopping Woman
She's always up on all the latest clothing trends, and Kylie Jenner stepped out to pick up a few new garments in Beverly Hills yesterday (April 15).
Joined by a gal pal, the "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" starlet combed the racks at Wasteland boutique, giving the once-over to vintage tops, trousers, skirts and dresses.
Over the weekend, Kylie and a bunch of her friends all converged on the 2014 Coachella Valley Music and Art Festival in Indio, California and she definitely looked as good as she felt.
Following a night of merrymaking, Jenner posted some photos to Instagram with the caption, "before we got into our honda #coachella."


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Nikon's Coolpix range of compacts offers something for everyone, from the entry-level L series right up to the top-of-the-range Nikon Coolpix A. The Nikon P330 replaces the Coolpix P310, and is some respects a smaller, pocketable version of the Nikon Coolpix P7700, albeit with a few limitations due to its size. Does it offer a comparable level of performance to its elder sibling, or does it make too many sacrifices?
At the core on the Nikon P330 sits the very same sensor as that found in the P7700. It measures 1/1.7-inches, the same size as the sensor on the Panasonic Lumix LF1 and Lumix LX7, is back illuminated and takes photos at up to 12.2MP. Although this is a drop in resolution from the P310's 16.1MP, it should result in better performance at higher ISO levels.
The sensor itself offers Raw capture in Nikon's '.NRW' format, as well as full HD video capture at either 25p or 50i frame rate. On the subject of video, the P330 also supports stereo sound capture and optical zooming while filming.
On the rear of the Nikon P330 sits an LCD screen with a resolution of 921k-dots and measuring in at 3-inches. One feature that's lacking – which will no doubt disappoint some enthusiast users – is a viewfinder of any sort, as is the capacity to fit an external viewfinder of any sort. If that's something you're after, the Lumix LF1 is the place to go.
Another feature lacking from the P330 is any kind of wireless of Wi-Fi functionality, a feature which has become more prevalent in compacts in recent times. Despite this, the P330 does have an on-board GPS system for capturing location information.
The P330's lens, meanwhile, is a 5x optical zoom that covers a focal range of 24-120mm in equivalent terms, with a maximum aperture of f/1.8 a the wide end of the range. The lens also benefits from Nikon's advanced lens-shift VR technology, complete with an Active mode, for both video and stills capture.
As you'd expect for an advanced compact from Nikon, the P330 features full PASM image capture modes. It also features a range of Auto shooting settings, including an auto HDR mode, for when you're happy for the camera to do the work.
One element of the specification that is both somewhat surprising and welcome is the P330's intervalometer. This is a feature usually reserved for Nikon's higher-end DSLRs and can be used to capture a series on images at regular intervals for use in a time-lapse video, for example.
Why does every camera review everywhere quote the resolution of the screen in terms of 'dots'? These aren't even pixels, but individual red, green and blue sub-pixels. The impressive-sounding "921,000 dots" is simply VGA resolution - 640 x 480 x 3. You wouldn't describe a smartphone or laptop in this way, so why do camera manufacturers get a free pass?
Also, "small aperture at tele end of the focal range" is not a Pro...
Good review Paul. This camera is ideal for those wanting a good "point and shoot" camera at a reasonable price. It certainly stacks up well against others in this segment of the market. Steve - www.observingcameras.com
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Gifted and Talented Seats Become Far More Competitive
The percentage of children eligible for gifted and talented programs who received an offer declined precipitously this year, according to data released by the city's Department of Education. But the city says it's largely because so many more children tested well enough to compete for the sought-after seats.
A total of 5217 children entering kindergarten through third grade received offers, which was 54 percent of those who applied. Last year, 72.5 percent of those who applied received an offer, and more than three quarters received offers in 2011.
Department of Education spokesman Devon Puglia said in a statement that there were two reasons why the percentage of applicants who received an offer dropped so much this year:
"First, the number of eligible applicants rose by 2,232 compared to last year. Second, this year we did not guarantee a G&T; district seat for every student. We have found that in past years, many families opted not to take their offer, since it may not have been close enough to home for families with young children. Last year, only 58.5% of families accepted. As such, eliminating the guaranteed offer, which many families likely would not have accepted, contributed to the lower percentage of students receiving an offer this year."
The testing company Pearson admitted to making two different rounds of scoring errors this spring, after which it apologized and agreed to refund the city for part of its fees. Chancellor Dennis Walcott also said he would consider terminating the contract with Pearson ahead of schedule.
Children are only eligible to apply for seats in district gifted and talented programs if they score at or above the 90th percentile, and only those who score at or above the 97th percentile are eligible to compete for the five highly selective citywide programs, which include NEST+M in Manhattan.
This year, the Department of Education changed one of the tests that's used to determine eligibility, in an effort to increase diversity and reduce the benefits of test prep. But once again, District 2 in Manhattan had the most offers among children entering kindergarten, who make up the majority of those tested. More than half of the 842 children who applied were offered seats. District 2 also had the greatest number of students tested: 1794 children entering kindergarten.
The Upper West side, District 15 around Park Slope in Brooklyn, District 25 in Eastern Queens, and Staten Island also received high numbers of offers.
By contrast, only 69 entering kindergarten students were tested in District 7 of the South Bronx, 24 of whom were eligible. Just eight of those applied and seven were given offers.
The Department of Education stood by its efforts to expand its gifted and talented programs. It noted that it's increased the number of kindergarten sections citywide, and that it's been able to offer seats to many more kindergarten pupils in the past five years.
"Since 2007, we have almost doubled the number of kindergarten Gifted & Talented sections, and that's as we've created two new citywide programs," said Senior Deputy Chancellor Marc Sternberg, in a statement. "We try to make offers to as many families as possible, but our Gifted & Talented programs are just one part of the wide menu of school options we've created for parents. A great neighborhood school or program can deliver instruction that is just as good as any Gifted & Talented program. Our goal is a great school everywhere - and that's what we've strived to provide."


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GuySuCo: Death by a thousand cuts
Today I continue appraising the sugar industry (and GuySuCo) in view of the considerable European Union (EU) support and the further $4 billion transfer to GuySuCo from the National Budget 2012. I shall discuss the amount, intent, and rationale behind the EU support. Before attending to this, however, as promised last week, let me present for readers' benefit an updated list of the major players (producers, exporters and importers) of sugar globally (see Table 1 below).
As hinted last week, there has been no major re-shuffling among the global players. There are, however, three recent changes of note: 1) the rise of Russia as a leading producer; it is now no longer a leading importer 2) the emergence of India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as leading exporters and 3) the emergence of Algeria as a leading importer.
EU assistance
In the Section to follow I shall address the major considerations that lie behind the EU's support for Guyana's sugar. As indicated last week, these are directly related to the EU's unilateral denunciation of the EC−African, Caribbean, Pacific countries (ACP), Sugar Protocol (SP) in 2009. EU assistance is provided under the framework of Accompanying Measures, where the EU undertakes to provide assistance for ACP sugar exporters required to adjust to the lower price of sugar, consequent to the termination of the SP. Specifically, Guyana is the second largest beneficiary of these measures, after Mauritius. Indeed since 2000, Guyana has had available about 72.5 million euros ($19.3 billion).
Guyana's assistance is being channelled through two successive Multi-Annual Sugar Support Programmes. The first covered the years 2007 to 2010, and the second (which is ongoing) covers 2011 to 2013. Last December (2011), the sum of 12.5 billion euros ($3.4 billion) was provided to Guyana and a few months later (May 2012) the further sum of 24.9 billion euros ($6.5 billion). An important change is that this year's support is not given as specific project support but instead as general budgetary support to the government and therefore paid into the Consolidated Fund!
As the EU Ambassador described it at the handing-over ceremony, this funding is directed at "the continued modernization of the sugar sector." Parenthetically, he mentioned his expectations for wider agricultural sector improvements and referred to the Guyana Sugar Action Plan, submitted to the EU in 2006. At that ceremony the Minister of Finance also referred to an "action plan," which guides the ministry.
However, it was not clear to me whether this was the same plan or the later "turnaround plan" GuySuCo has frequently referenced in the wake of its ongoing distress.
The goals of all the "plans" seem intended to follow routine aims such as 1) to continue the modernization of the industry; 2) to construct a viable and profitable GuySuCo; and 3) to enhance the competitiveness of Guyana's sugar through increased productivity and more value added. To crown this banality, the Ambassador is reported as telling his Guyanese audience that sugar is "the industry of the future"!
Perhaps intending to comfort sceptical Guyanese, the EU has promised strict monitoring and auditing of its support flows against agreed performance indicators. After the past six years of GuySuCo's relentless deterioration, and its repeated excuses for failure, one can foresee the same end result for the Second Multi-Annual Sugar Programme. The question therefore, to be resolved is whether the EU is doing anything more then seeking to ensure GuySuCo dies by a thousand cuts?
EU denunciation
The EU's denunciation of the SP in 2009 has played a major role in reduced sugar export earnings and GuySuCo's failing financial health. That denunciation however, was widely anticipated by all Caricom governments, which nevertheless acquiesced to it. From previous columns readers would be aware that the SP which was established in 1975 was a multilateral treaty for mutual beneficial trading of sugar between the EC and ACP countries. It was never designed as a one-way preferential system to the benefit of the ACP.
Indeed at the time the SP come into force the world price for sugar was two-and-a-half times that provided by the SP!
The consequent ACP subsidisation of EC consumption continued for years, with at various times the world price reaching four times (and higher) than the negotiated SP price! It was only in the much later years when this price relation was reversed that the EC started to describe the SP as a preferential system (that is, when the EU was required to pay through the treaty higher prices than the world price); this reversed what had been occurring previously.
I do not intend to discuss this issue at length again. Of note, however, the crucial outcome was that the EU denunciation of the SP in 2009 started a process of large cuts in the SP price. As observed last week, this price is now below the world price (formed, as I termed it, in the "residual global market" for sugar).
To the eternal shame of the EC, the abject capitulation of all the ACP countries (in not taking legal action against the EC) the SP is now effectively history. The Accompanying Measures were designed by the EC as "compensation" to the ACP sugar exporting countries, which no longer enjoy their due benefits from the workings of the SP Treaty.
Next week I shall continue the assessment from this observation.
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Vine Talk: Campaign promotes wine corks over screwcaps
Adam Lechmere is editor of decanter.com, www.decanter.com, the web arm of Decanter, the leading British wine magazine. The opinions expressed are his own.
By Adam Lechmere
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - The cork industry has mounted a new campaign called I Love Natural Cork, that invites consumers to pledge to buy more wine sealed with natural cork stoppers.
"Natural cork in your wine bottle does more than just preserve and improve the quality and character of your wine. It preserves a centuries-long way of life in the rural communities of the Mediterranean cork oak forests, its incredible wildlife as well as the planet by absorbing CO2," the campaign, which is backed by Britain's Prince Charles, claims.
The statement's sentiments are as suspect as its syntax. It demonstrates once again that the cork industry's grasp on the realities of public relations is as shaky as ever.
Natural cork now accounts for 69 percent of the 18 billion wine closures sold last year, with screwcaps taking 11 percent and plastic corks 20 percent. Ten years ago, over 95 percent of bottles used natural cork. Natural cork is being supplanted as a stopper for all but a top tier of the most expensive wines.
The essence of the campaign is that the harvesting of cork is a sustainable practice under threat. The move to screwcaps would destroy ancient ecosystems. In short, the cork industry is appealing to our emotions to convince us to support a stopper that almost the entire wine industry agrees is not the best closure for 99 percent of wines.
It is absurd to seal a bottle that will be drunk within hours of purchase with a natural stopper that has a failure rate of between one and six percent, depending on whom you talk to. In no other industry would this be tolerated.
Winemakers like Peter Gago at Australia's Penfolds, makers of Grange, agree that cork is best for the 'small niche' of top reds that may be cellared for many decades. Continued...


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Telstra holds back broadband speeds. Again.
Confused by Telstra's rejected low-cal bid for the National Broadband Network? Stilgherrian looks at Telstra's latest moves.
Jan 12, 2009
Confused by Telstra's rejected low-cal bid for the National Broadband Network? Stilgherrian looks at Telstra's latest moves.
Confused by Telstra's rejected low-cal bid for the National Broadband Network? Let's stir some new jargon into the stew: "DOCSIS 3" and "dark fibre". Suddenly Telstra's strategy makes sense — for Telstra — but it delays the rollout of high-speed broadband even further. Again.
DOCSIS 3 is a new system for cable internet which increases speeds from the current 17Mbit per second of BigPond Cable (30Mbit in Sydney and Melbourne) to 100Mbit or more. Last week Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo revealed that the technology is being deployed, but implied that it won't be offered until they're forced to by a competitor's actions.
"We have [DOCSIS 3] as an option if somebody chooses to compete and to compete with us," he told a conference in Phoenix.
"The only difference is we'll be there a lot quicker a lot faster a lot bigger, a lot more integrated and with more capabilities than anybody else."
How does Telstra do it quicker? By quietly stashing away its secret weapons, ready to be unleashed when a competitor tried to deploy their own big guns. Remember how Telstra didn't sell ADSL2+ broadband, even from exchanges where equipment was already installed, until ISPs like iiNet started selling their own ADSL2+?
This time Telstra will do it quicker by using dark fibre — optical fibre cable that's already in the ground but not yet "lit up" by the data-carrying laser beams.
Any telco with half a brain has dark fibre. If you're digging expensive trenches, it doesn't cost much to drop in a few extra cables while you're at it. In the late 1990s, before the Dot-Com Bubble burst, demand was predicted to continue soaring. Telstra laid in plenty of spare capacity.
"There's nothing imaginary about the many hundreds of kilometres of dark fibre out there," writes former Telstra Wholesale employee "TerraMatt".
"Telstra's NDC division was so busy installing that new-fangled 'fibre' thing that companies like John Holland and (was it?) VisionStream were contracted to keep up." And then there were start-ups like COMindico, many of whom went broke or. COMindico's assets were bought up by SP Telemedia (now Soul Australia). What happened to the other networks?
According to TerraMatt, there's dark fibre from the Pilbara to Perth and Kalgoorlie, Warrnambool to Geelong and Melbourne. Even Mt Gambier has fibre optic cable sitting there.
"It's kind of like rats," he says.
"There's bound to be some fibre optic cable within about six feet of you…"
The rejection of their NBN bid is a great outcome for Telstra. They can pretend to fight the decision in the courts, delaying the release of that $4.7 billion of taxpayers' largesse to their competitors. Meanwhile, Telstra gains a few more months to polish their 100Mbit DOCSIS 3 cable for capital cities and their to-be-announced-any-time-now 21Mbit Next G wireless broadband upgrade everywhere else — all joined together by Sol doing a quick "Fiat Lux!" on the dark fibre.
[Disclosure: Stilgherrian receives free Next G access from Telstra Country Wide as part of a technology seeding program.]
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Please spare us your indignation. Telstra is doing what any other listed private company would, that is put the interests of their shareholders first. Spare a thought for all the mum and dad shareholders out there. The current government inherited this dog's breakfast from the previous one. The great Telstra privatisation experiment is a work in progress. Watch this space.
That was no excuse Stillhere, that's just the way things are…… There is nothing unusual about Field Marshall Trujillo when compared with other CEO's of large companies…… Sometime down the track the debate may turn to the merits or otherwise of the previous governments sale of Telstra.
I can confirm in my part of country Victoria – between Wangaratta and Beechworth (and beyond) there is at least one either unused or under utilised optic fibre cable in place.
When I asked if I could be connected to it, I was told there are no optic fibre cables in the area – .even though a few months earlier I assisted Telstra staff as they had to repair my water pipe repair when it was cut while the optic fibre cable was laid in front of our property
This is really no great surprise. A few years ago I asked (optimistically) forTelstra to connect the fibre optic which runs outside my property to my house. Or via the local exchange 300 metres away. I was prepared to pay all costs involved. They declined. The Minister said it is a commercial decision. I say it is corporate bloody-mindedness, when they have the monopoly in my rural area. I hurl my metaphorical shoes at Telstra, and may they rot in corporate hell.
I'm not sure that debating the merits or otherwise of the previous government's sale of Telstra are particularly useful, except for historians and players of what-if games. The real interest is in understanding where we are NOW and pondering the possibilities for the future.
See what happens when corporations have monopoly control! They act like totalitarian regimes which is how they are run i.e. top down. The people are left powerless to respond with one exception and that is we can stop buying or using their products immediately. Money is what drives them and lack of it is the only thing that brings them to heel. Good old market forces.
Now in the case of state control over resources, it simply mandates that you use its services and that is probably worse; although until such time as it wrests power forcefully from the people, we can still vote them the rascals out. But I am not sure how long we have left.
Telstra is an example of what a monopolistic corporation can do..imagine what would happen if we had monopolies in health care and education whereby government had ceded control of parts of those systems to some "lucky" corporate tenderer! Scared yet?
"Stilwhat"? Um, Stilgherrian IS my real name. Legal, like on my passport, Medicare card and all those nasty letters from my bank manager. Has been since 1981. Why the arrangement of alphabetic characters disturbs you?
Do you have a comment or question about the content of the article? 🙂
Doesn't this raise issues with Telstra not providing information to non-exec shareholders necessary to enable them to make informed decisions on holding or selling shares? Where and when does ASIC come in?
If ever there was a case of renationalising of a national resource and then splitting it up so we can have some real competition in this country, then it is this kind of crap. What arrogance. Where are the ACCC in this kind of anti competitive environment?
You may not be sure Stilgherrian but I'd wager it will become a debating point sooner rather than later.
"the government buy back shares in Telstra ?" Well they are forking out 4.7 billion dollars for high speed broadband. This money may not be going to Telstra, but it certainly means the government is back in the game.
@Stillhere: No problem, many people assume my name is a handle/alias/whatever, but it's all too real. Many call me "Stil" for sort, too. Feel free.
@Richard McGuire: Even though I think a debate about privatisation is pointless, it will almost certainly kick off. There's too many ways for politicians to attempt some point-scoring. But what, realistically, could be done now? The government buy back the shares? Using what for money?
@Alex: Interestingly enough, this afternoon on Twitter I floated the idea that this article could actually help Telstra's share price. Instead of characterising the rejection of their NBN bid as stupid, it frames it as a clever move and part of a coherent overall strategy to beat their competition. TLS shares should therefore go up, and Uncle Sol owes me a big wet kiss. Two, if I'm lucky.
Just another classic example of unbridled capitalism at work. I love the lame excuse of Richard McGuire's that it is all in the interests of "Mum and Dad" shareholders….PLEASE! This is all about a privileged few getting their rocks off through power, and all the rewards that are reaped from being in that position. Field Marshall Trujillo might as well be deploying missiles at the enemy when they get to close. How despairing it all is.
i'm a small investor in Telstra and the shareprice could go to zero as far as i'm concerned. i'd love to see the govt. break Telstra into small pieces and enforce a level playing ground. Sol should follow his loudmouthed fat little friend home asap.
Couldn't agree more – there are reasons that the phrase 'natural monopoly' came about. Since I first heard about the NBN I have wondered exactly what the point of it is. It doesn't appear to introduce meaningful competition and nor does it seem to really provide Australia with any great technological advantage over other countries.
The essential problem it seems is that noone can decide whether they want a strong 'national champion' in the form of Telstra, able to support 'strategic infrastructure' and sure to apply 'national interest' principles to investment or a competitive telecoms environment which drive costs down and introduces innovative services. The second option probably requires Telstra to be broken up and likely as not for foreign companies to be allowed to take parts of it over.
The other point to make here relates to the way that Telstra allocates resources. Currently, they do it to maximise profit and ensure their continued market dominance in the future. I somehow doubt that it would be preferable for government to make those decisions instead. I don't know what things were like here but the nationalised BT was not a great organisation to deal with.
We're into a debate about coloured cables and optical fibres when this ridiculous company cant connect with its customers. Telstra may well be in the communications business but there's not a shred of evidence its into information exchange. Talking, hearing, understanding, speaking, offering service, benefits and facilitating use of its product is well beyond this communications giant totally hamstrung on its mission. Its call centres are staffed either by those with scant language skills who refer you to teams and teams of …credit, service, help, accounts, technical …teams none of whom are capable of making a decision without referring you to a team leader! The communications ombudsman is similarly stuffed on how to bring this company to the negotiation table on basic customer rights. Forget coloured cables, fibres and secret weapons. All Telstra needs is dismantling and someone to flick Sol Trujillo and his daydream. He's landed with public infrastructure – an essential service whether he likes it or not.
Lets put markets and competition aside for one moment………….. Telstra like many government utilities became a natural monopoly……………….. You can either push for these utililities to be run as efficientlty and be as accountable as possible…………….. Or attempt to superimpose the principles of the open market on them……………. In which case, you will find the private sector has neither the will or capacity to duplicate their infrastructure………Governments can always privatise them…….. In which case more often than not your'e left with a privately owned monopoply.
Dark coloured fibre – light coloured fibre – A privatised Telstra owns that cable – it remains to be seen if it also controls that cable. Past experience has shown – re pay tv – when you try to duplicate a network – you end up with multiple communications cables hanging off power poles.
Profuse apologies; I had, without any research, been assuming it was a handle.
It would seem that Telstra is trying to prove to the government that it doesn't need to deal with them. They'll simply crush competitors by utilising it's almost monopoly on infrastructure. However, Sol's empire games may be unnecessarily impacting the share price. By missing out on landmark market matters like government tenders, it sends the wrong kind of signals to the market.
Can you please get someone with a real name to write the technology articles?
As a product of the seventies I well remember the nation enjoyed infrastructure, goods and services that were there and worked with choices when they didnt. Right now Australia looks like one huge graveyard of dysfunctional telecommunications, banking, transport, health, child and aged products with its populace wandering (EMO Nelson here) the streets in third world-manufactured rags. When Beiijing was pilloried for its net censorship and documentaries depicted life for the oppressed masses it looked to me like a window on Australia's future. The no choice, strung up monopolised nation with a massive wealth divide. Telstra is a symptom.


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