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Cabrio car hire in Malaga – Review and what to know
Finally summer has arrived and many of us have the image in our minds of enjoying a ride with a brand new cabrio car hire along a mediterranean motorway or through the streets of one of the popular resorts of the Costa del Sol.
EasyJet increases flight offer from its new base in London to Malaga airport
The low cost company Easy Jet has announced an augmentation of flight offers including the new destination of London Southend Airport in Essex, its new base in the UK from spring 2012, according to the airline in a statement. The airport is very well connected to London in city and is thus an interesting alternative for customers from Essex and London. … read more
Spanish fruit and vegetables for tourists at Malaga airport – Costa del Sol
The Spanish government has installed in five international airports, including Malaga airport – Costa del Sol, a campaign to promote consumption of Spanish fruits and vegetables. Thus, there have been set up at the departures of the airport several stands … … read more
Malaga airport and the Costa del Sol – Spanish premier destination for Brits
Malaga airport – Costa del Sol continues to grow and is positioned as the fourth most important in Spain. In the first half of this year it has seen an increase in both passengers and operations, as reported by AENA (Spanish Airports and Air Navigation). … read more
Works finished at the second airfield at Malaga airport
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Ryanair opens new routes to Malaga airport
From early July to the beginning of the season, the controversial low cost company Ryanair has opened another route to Malaga airport, which is the gateway of a large number of tourists spending their holidays on the Costa del Sol and southern Andalucia.
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The increase in passengers experienced at Malaga airport during the first 5 months of this year is partly due to the low cost carrier Ryanair. Since establishing a base of operations in June 2010 at the popular Costa del Sol airport, the controversial Irish company has experienced an increase of 92%. … read more
10% increase of travelers at Malaga airport during early summer
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British Airways launches a new route between Malaga airport and London City
From now is available a new route between Malaga airport – Costa del Sol and the central London city airport. British Airways is responsible for this substantial improvement for passengers to save time when reaching the centre of the British capital, while making a commitment to a destination as popular as the Costa del Sol.
Malaga airport is renamed into Malaga airport-Costa del Sol
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Wiring 100A subpanel
After reviewing comp1911's recent post as well as several others on the net I have a couple of questions regarding my install of a 100A subpanel off of my tragically small 200A main panel.
I am planning to move the dryer over to the subpanel and use its slot in the main panel to feed the subpanel thru a 100A breaker. It appears that to avoid controversy and be safe I'll need to use #2 copper hots and neutral and a #4 copper ground wire from the main to the sub.
First question: Where can I get the wire? The largest wire my local Home Depot carries is 2224 aluminum. When I asked the guy about 2224 copper he laughed and said they don't have copper that big.
Second question: Does the wire have to run thru conduit between the two panels? I can already guess the answer to this one, but as the install site is already drywalled I'd like to avoid too much demo. If conduit is required, will a 3" straight section thru a stud between the two panels work using the side punch outs?
Third question: Relates to the drywall question above... Would it be safe or acceptable to wire nut the existing dryer circuit lines in the main panel thru the connecting conduit to the new location in the sub panel?
Fourth question: Does the #6 wire from the subpanel to my hot tub(the motivation for installing subpanel) GFCI box need to be in conduit, or can it just run thru the walls like romex?
Answers, corrections and clarifications on any of these points would be appreciated.
Did you consider getting a larger 200a panel.
You canget a 200a panel with a max of 40 slots..
150a panel with 30 slots......
125a panel with 24 slots...
typical 100a panel has 20 slots..
These figures are in addition to the main circuit breaker.
Then, we'll look into your initial questions...
I did consider a longer panel but the cost/benefit ratio didn't work out, and thats something that I most certainly would hire a professional to do. I needed one additional circuit and wanted to learn a little something in the process so I decided on a sub panel. I realize of course that the ideal solution would be a 40 slot main panel, but a sub panel fit my particular constraints better.
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I just did the exact same thing, but my main and sub were both on the outside of the house. You'll have to get the wire from an electrical supply house (I got mine from Dealer's Electric, don't know if they have one where you live). I did run my wire through 1-1/2" conduit because it was outside, but I don't know about inside panels. I wouldn't think so because conduits main purpose is to protect from moisture, shouldn't be an issue in the wall.
I assumed (and this is why I'm asking on this forum, assumptions can be dangerous) that I could run the wire right thru the stud to the subpanel, but after seeing com1911's nice looking work with his panel using conduit, it got me thinking I might need to use it. I'll look into electrical supply houses in my area (Northern Virginia), I'm sure there are plenty of them around. Keep the advice coming guys, I've learned a little from reading this and other forums, but a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. Any other specific answers to those four questions would be helpful.
Q1: You can get the #2 wire from an electrical supply house. Or you can use the 2-2-2-4 Al cable and a 90A breaker.
Q2: If individual wires (THHN), then conduit is required. If cable, then no conduit is required. The straight section of conduit will work, but getting the side knockout out of the exsiting panel will be difficult.
Q3: Yes. If your dryer circuit a three wire (H-H-N) then it can not be run from the subpanel. Only four wire (H-H-N-G) are allowed from a subpanel.
Q4: Same as Q2.
"Q1: You can get the #2 wire from an electrical supply house. Or you can use the 2-2-2-4 Al cable and a 90A breaker."
The only reason I went with a 100A breaker for the sub panel is my friend had one that he gave to me. Would I be able to run two 50A circuits from the sub panel over a 90A feed breaker and still have room for a random 15A light or socket circuit in the future, or is this as I suspect highly dependent on the types of devices being driven?
Q2: If individual wires (THHN), then conduit is required. If cable, then no conduit is required. The straight section of conduit will work, but getting the side knockout out of the exsiting panel will be difficult.
Yes the hot tub circuit consists of 4 THHN cables, so I'll get some conduit behind that drywall before I pull the wire thru.
Q3: Yes. If your dryer circuit a three wire (H-H-N) then it can not be run from the subpanel. Only four wire (H-H-N-G) are allowed from a subpanel.
I believe the dryer is indeed a 3 wire. Thats unfortunate because the dryer breaker was in a convinient spot and was the lowest amperage 240v breaker in the main panel. Would the same thing apply if I were to move my water heater, range, or furnace circuit over?
What to move over
I guess the reason for not putting a 3 wire dryer circuit in the subpanel is it would effectively bond N and G at the subpanel which is a no no, this is why I'm on this forum, I would have probably never thought of that.
Would it be acceptable to move two previous 15A light/outlet circuits over to the subpanel thru the two panel's connecting conduit?
If it is acceptable, should I move the existing neutral/grounds over to the subpanel neutral and ground bars, or leave them alone in the main panel?Thanks for everyone's expertise in the matter
Possibly time to review the data used for that cost/benefit analysis.
That 40ckt panel is the proper and safest manner to go. And you really don't need a contractor for that. Prep the new panel ahead of time...ie, remove the LARGEST KO's ...install LARGE romex clamps for the service cable and all the branch ckts.
1)Turn off the main ckt brkr...ie,.. turn off all load in the house....
2)Pull the meter (glass portion), so it won't arc and havin' you go kah-kah in your pants....
3)Remove the mains, neutral, and grd service conductors from your main service panel...
4)LABEL...and remove all the branch ckt conductors..
5)Run an extension cord from your neighbors so you can have lite and power tool capability...also so he can watch and %$%$^%....
Pull the required permits, have it inspected, and your loved ones sleep safer at night.
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Terrorism by Telephone
If any of you have ever been in debt - I mean, really really behind, you will understand why I still cringe every time the telephone rings.
The tactics that are considered legal by bill collectors in Canada are nothing short of terroristic harassment.
Before I "disappeared" I got no less than 30 calls a day from creditors. I got 2-3 calls a day from friends or kids or the school. That means that whenever the phone rang chances were good that it was someone wanting money. I began to have a Pavlovian jaw clench every time I heard the phone ring.
Initially, I tried answering the calls. However, I soon discovered if you can't make arrangements to pay, there is no point to talking to the person on the other end of the line. I attempted to be polite - after all - I owe this money and these people are just doing a job.
But courtesy got me absolutely nowhere. Abrasively, they would reply to me that I was "stealing" by not paying the bill immediately, they would ask if I had ever had an intention of paying they bill, they would begin to ask personal questions about what other bills I had and whether or not I was behind on those bills too.
So I proceeded to screen my calls.
This led to the messages. Sometimes I would come home to over 20 messages on my answering machine. I can't really describe the stress felt when one message after another was a person representing a collection agency calling to "discuss a personal financial matter." I couldn't delete them fast enough to keep the anxiety at bay.
Then came the very vivid day when collector actually SHOWED UP AT MY DOOR. I felt invaded, paralyzed, nearly raped by his appearance. I sent my daughter into the house, told the man never to come there again and when he wouldn't stop questioning me, picked up the phone to call the police, which finally made him leave. I was shaking for days after that and every knock at the door made me want to hide under the table until the person went away.
That's when I decided to vanish.
I began to plan the best way to disappear. I figured that every place that had my address and phone number was one more way for bill collectors and creditors to track me down. I searched only for apartments that were not in buildings run by corporations that would run credit checks and keep records of their tenants. I looked only at places that had all utilities paid - including cable and internet. I finally found the perfect spot, an adorable but tiny apartment in an owner-occupied duplex with everything paid for.
My phone was not set up under my name and is unlisted.
My settings on Facebook are the most private settings available.
I don't give anyone my home phone number.
My workplace does not have my home address.
The only place that has my actual address and telephone number is the Ministry of Transportation and Revenue Canada, and that is only because I could find no legal way to get around it. The government really loves to know where you are.
This experience has been life-altering. I used to trustingly give out personal information at the fair, hoping to win some prize or another. I used to keep track of all sorts of bonus points and programs from Shopper's Drug Mart and Zellers. I used to have numerous magazine subscriptions. I had my city and workplace listed on Facebook for all to see. I'll never be that open again.
It is tough - I feel guilty, like a criminal hiding from the law. I know that I owe that money. I wish that I could pay it. However, I have the right not to be constantly harassed and hunted.
The way the collection agencies work - well, it's nothing more than legalized stalking. Did you know that collection agencies can look at your credit information at will, and if you have filled out a credit application somewhere, your personal information is updated on that site? There are so many places that you can be found.
If anyone is reading this who has not been in extreme debt and been at the mercy of an army of collection agents, you will probably think I'm crazy. You might look at this situation and feel like I'm over-reacting or that I'm some kind of spineless idiot, or perhaps a conspiracy theorist.
But to paraphrase the old saying, are you paranoid if everyone really is looking for you?
Been there, still am to some extent. However There are recourses in the US. Hopefully there are some in your area too. It sounds silly as all get out, but I called on of the TV lawyers that advertise that they can help you if you are being harassed by bill collectors. I found one that was amazing. And she cost me...nothing. The law firm fights for you and rolls their cost into what they "go after" the collectors for when they are being abusive and harassing here. I don't know the laws there, but here it's illegal for the collectionhs companies to harass like that. Keep track of everything you can. I hope you find peace, can get back on your feet, and when you are able to pay, I hope the collection companies are willing to be civil.03-19-2011, 10:25 PM #3
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Oh my. . .bless your heart. That is just unbelievable!!! I don't blame you one bit for the actions you've taken. You were pretty much boxed into a corner where it was your only recourse. I'm sure you felt on the verge of having a nervous breakdown because of it. And then to have them come to your house and not leave??? Scary!! It is a form of terrorism and I'm surprised that Canada allows it.~ Lori ~Sponsored Links Remove Advertisements03-20-2011, 12:51 AM #4
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I first want to say; I'm sorry this was happening to you. My dh has a seasonal job and when you don't have money; you don't have money.
I have never been in extreme debt and I do BELIEVE you.!!!! I had BOA (niko will love this one) calling me for 3 months and leaving messages that we owed money. I have NEVER owed them money and I was being harassed because we have a common last name and it was just looked up. AND while the credit reporting agencies make or break you with credit scores; they are busy giving or selling your name and address to any creditor who wants it!!!03-22-2011, 06:02 PM #5
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That is truly horrendous. As said above, here in the US there are some protections against that kind of behavior, but unfortunately, many victims are not aware of their rights.
I did a quick google and it looks like there are some similar laws of protection in Canada. I wonder if you would have been able to pursue these prior to your "vanishing". Here in the US, violations can result in some pretty nasty monetary settlements from the debt collectors.
Canadian debt collection rules. Debt collection in Canada.
Debt Collection Laws2017 Year to Date MM$ Challenge Total: $32,994.04/$60,000 (5/31/17)
2017 Pay Down Debt Challenge Total: $17,155.07/$23,398.50 (5/31/17)
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I know how you feel. I used to move 2-3x a year so I could stay one step ahead of them. Eventually I had to file for bankruptcy. It's pretty screwed up that you become a "criminal" in this country if you have no way to pay your medical bills. I had no choice about my hospitalizations, because I was in the psych ward. If I had left I'd have been arrested.10-17-2013, 08:13 PM #9
Oh gee, I was thinking Daisygirl was back when this thread popped up. Nope someone bringing up a thread that is almost 3 years old to make negative comments. Seattle I didnt mean yours. I dont think unless one knows all the details of a persons, life, situation and how things came about that one is in a position to judge. Shucks I thought Daisygirl was back10-17-2013, 08:41 PM #1010-17-2013, 08:44 PM #1110-17-2013, 08:54 PM #1210-17-2013, 09:48 PM #13
No, if you are admitted to the psych hospital it is because you are considered a danger to yourself or others. You are not allowed to leave until you are discharged. They lock the doors and if you were to escape somehow you would be arrested.
Sorry, I did not realize this was an old thread though! Didn't mean to keep it going.10-18-2013, 08:52 PM #14
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Well my buddy rented a 1.8T passat and before he returned it we wanted to see how his bone stock 1997 neon 5 speed would do against the auto passat. We did two runs first run from a dig he dumped his clutch to high and spun the tires and the passat walked away. The next race from a dig it was dead even from 0-60mph then the passat started to creep very slowly. Wow was that passat a dog, I was driving the passat and i was shocked how the neon was dead even with it until 60mph. I even brake boosted the passat off the line.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Sunday he remained "neutral" on whether to proceed with a hike in the sales tax to 10 percent, adding that decision would hinge on the strength of economic indicators for the current quarter.
"The economy is a living thing, and we are thinking about this in a neutral way," Abe told NHK.
Abe has to decide by the end of the year whether to proceed with a previously approved plan to raise the consumption tax to 10 percent from 8 percent in 2015 after a hike from 5 percent in April sent consumption into a sharp contraction.
Abe said in an NHK interview he wanted to see how the economy performs in the third quarter after GDP contracted by 7.1 percent from April to June as a result of the previous tax increase.
"We would like to get economic indicators from the quarter and hear the views of economists. As part of that process, we will decide whether to proceed with the tax hike as now set by law or whether to wait. That's the discussion we need to have," Abe said.
Abe said his goal is to restore growth to the world's third-largest economy and end 15 years of deflation. At the same time, he has pledged to curb government debt, which is well over twice the size of GDP, the heaviest debt burden in the industrial world.
"We have no alternative but to aim to spur growth even as we get public finance on a healthier footing," Abe told NHK.
Meanwhile, Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General Sadakazu Tanigaki made clear his belief on Saturday that the government should raise the consumption tax rate again, to 10 percent in October 2015, as planned.
"We should not put off things in the broad direction," Tanigaki said during a TV Tokyo program. "We can overcome risks associated with a tax increase by a range of measures, but it would be difficult to respond to risks stemming from a decision not to raise (the sales tax)."
The remarks appeared to shift his earlier position. On Sept. 3, soon after his appointment as secretary-general of the LDP, Tanigaki underscored the need to make a careful decision as to whether to go ahead with the additional tax hike by closely watching economic conditions.
"Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and I basically share the common understanding," he said at the time.
On Saturday, Tanigaki also revealed that he had held talks the day before with Natsuo Yamaguchi, leader of New Komeito, the junior coalition partner of the LDP, and former Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda of the now-opposition Democratic Party of Japan.
Tanigaki, Yamaguchi and Noda were at the helm of their respective political parties when they reached the landmark agreement in August 2012 to enact the law for the two-stage consumption tax hike, aimed at financing bulging social security costs. Noda's DPJ was in power at that time.
The consumption tax was raised to 8 percent from 5 percent on April 1.
Abe plans to make a decision later this year on whether to hike it to 10 percent in October 2015.


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Fresh from the birth of her kid, Megan Fox has begun her journey back into the public eye with new modelling gigs, an appearance at The Golden Globes and now a cover spread in the February Esquire magazine, where she gets down to more than her underwear. Delving into the personality and mindset of this modern day bombshell, as Esquire puts it, proves to be a mixed bag of intriguing, contradictory and completely batshit. For instance, Megan apparently has a Star Wars room, covered in movie posters and a life-sized Darth Vader. Not bad, although we've always known she was a bit of a geek. She keeps her 90210 man around to run interference for the paparazzi and has grown tired of fame, which would seem to clash with the whole Esquire cover thing. She's also seemingly convinced that end times are coming and is intrigued with the book of revelation, which she's read "a million times." She feels compelled to speak in tongues while at church and counts bigfoot, the loch ness monster, aliens and leprechauns as her favorite celebrities.
Oooookay, well, there you go. I guess being hot as hell and desired by millions gives one some wiggle room for batshittery. I doubt there's many of us who wouldn't be able to overlook it given the proper incentive. Read the entirety of her nutty interview by clicking the Esquire link below.


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I was tagged by my BFF Lily the Q-Tip Queen!!
Q.-Are you Irish?
A. no
Q.-Do you and /or your family celebrate St. Patrick's Day
A.- uh, if my mom rememebrs...
Q.- How?
A. I have gree tuna fish
Q.-Will you wear Green?
A.No, but I have green eyes
Q.- What will you wear?
A.- eyes
Q.-Do you like Corned Beef and Cabbage?
A.-no. it's too stinky
Q.-Do you believe in leprechauns?
A. Yes!
Q.-Why/Why not?
A.-I'm LUCKY to be alive and to be living in the home that I'm in now
Q.-What would you like to find at the end of the rainbow?
A home for every animal, love everywhere, peace, harmony, happiness, sunshine and LOADS OF Q-TIPS!!!
I have to answer 10 questions in my diary then choose 4 furrends to do the same ,here are the questions and my answers
1. What is your favorite color: black
2. What is your favorite food: hamburger
3. What are your favorite treats: whatever mom is having
4. Have you got a valentine: yep, Piper
5. Do you get table scraps: of course
6. What is your favorite toy: twist ties
7. When is your birthday: May 31, 2007
8. How many meals do you have in a day: 2
9. What is the color of your collar: don't have one
10. Do you hope your pals put this in their diary entry: yep
I am going to Heart:
Scrappy, Lily, Dalton and Kasha
My new buds Creampuff and Orangie tagged me!!
7 things you need to know about me:
1. I am a SBF (single black femaile).
2. I do NOT like to be held as much as Lily loves Q-Tips!!
3. I love BBQ
4. I rattle the blinds day or night to let mom know I need FOOD!
5. I am a catster junkie
6. I am second in charge behind my brofur Charcoal. Papa Floppy is retired
7. Although I cannot remember who invited me, Flower Felines is the first group I joined and I love FF!!!!!
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A similar game is being played in the video below with giant blocks and assorted Caterpillar equipment—though I'm sure it could also be done with other brands of machines. Is the video intended to promote the Cat brand? Of course it is, but that doesn't make it any less fun to watch.


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|Vine Microclimate
Temperature, humidity, wind, and sunlight are the four major variables of microclimate, the physical environment around the vine and across the vineyard. Historically, scientists studied the effects of temperature on plants in controlled environment chambers or greenhouses, completing experiments that provided us with some of our fundamental knowledge about plants. Outside, in the vineyard, we can extend our understanding of grapevine biology in the real world environment where the microclimate represents the complex interaction of multiple factors (temperature, wind, humidity, sunlight) that change continuously.
The temperature of dormant buds is controlled for several weeks during the spring.
In one approach, we allow wind, humidity, and sunlight to vary according to Mother Nature, but we control the temperature of part of the vine using the device pictured above. This heater-cooler device was designed and built to deliver hot and cold air to different parts of the vine so that we can determine specific effect of temperature on vine biology. Thus we keep the vine in a situation as close to the real world as possible while studying one aspect of the microclimate. Doing so in the context of fruit ripening has allowed us to suggest alternate farming practices for growers who find too much 'sunburn' or browning of the ripening fruit in their vineyards. Click here for related articles.
The temperature of this grape cluster, seen here before flowering in June, is kept below normal by cold air delivery from tube at right.
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text: NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- You're ready for a new car, have decided to buy rather than lease and now want to find the best loan. In today's conditions, should you go from a standard car loan from a dealer or bank, or look to a home-equity or margin loan? Standard car loans are pretty attractive, ranging from about 3.2% for a 36-month deal to just under 4% for a 60-month loan, according to the BankingMyWay.com survey, But because home values have been rising, you may be able to get a home equity loan and perhaps deduct your interest payments from your federal income tax. (Talk to your tax expert.)> The stock market has been rising, too, making a modest margin loan from your broker less risky. (Margin interest payments are deductible only if the loan bought taxable investments, which doesn't include vehicles.) home equity interest doesn't apply to you. That means the interest rate you pay is your true, after-tax rate, and the average dealer or bank loan will probably be cheaper than the average home equity loan. If you do itemize, your after-tax rate on the equity would be lower than the official loan rate. Suppose you paid 6% and had a 25% income tax rate. Then a quarter of your interest payment would come back to you through the deduction, making your after-tax rate 4.5%. While that sounds good, keep in mind that your "tax bracket" really represents the rate on just the last portion of your income. The tax is progressive, meaning the first chunk of earnings is not taxed at all, while additional portions are taxed at ever-increasing rates until that top, or "marginal" rate, is reached. A person in the 25% tax bracket may well pay less than 20% once all this is taken into account. One way to get a clearer picture of the tax deduction is to figure your total federal income tax as a percentage of your gross income. If the result were 15%, subtract 0.15 from 1 to get 0.85, and multiply that by your loan rate to figure your after-tax rate. That would give a 6% loan a 5.1% after-tax rate -- 0.85 x 6.


text: For the third year in a row, the Mason's at Lynde Lodge #174 in Hermon, have opened their doors for Thanksgiving from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m."It's a thing we do for the community to let the community know that there's not just a building here in town, but we're here to help with the public and the community itself,†said the senior warden, Audie Gould.This free dinner is served up for everyone to enjoy together, which despite all of the yummy food, may be the best part."It's seeing the people come in through the door, whether they can afford it, or can't afford it, it's that it's free. Free to the public and it's neighbors being able to sit and enjoy a meal together,†said Gould.It means so much to the folks here, especially around the holidays."I think it's extremely important, because it brings the family together and it helps show unity and also the giving nature, as Thanksgiving should be,†said Guy Chapman of Bangor."I think people appreciate it and enjoy themselves. I did. I have,†said Nancy Chapman of Bangor.It took about a month to prepare and hours to prep, but to give folks a chance to sit and reflect on what they're thankful for , is what it's all about."I'm thankful for very many things. My family, my friends, and the community and I love the Masons,†said Joyce Wheeler, a former 43-year Hermon resident.Last year, the lodge served around 80 dinners. They hope to feed even more this year.


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LATROBE (AP) — A Westmoreland County man has died after lying on train tracks and being struck by a locomotive, but investigators still don't know why that happened.
The Westmoreland County coroner's office has identified the dead man as Tyler Quakenbush, 21, who lived in Latrobe, not far from where he was hit by the Norfolk Southern freight train about 12:40 a.m. Tuesday.
Investigators have yet to determine whether the death was accidental or suicide, in part, because toxicology tests on the victim's body will take weeks to complete.


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Kim Kardashian Brings Her Beauty to the 2012 MTV EMAs
Ready to take the stage as one of the night's many presenters, Kim Kardashian made an appearance at the 2012 MTV Europe Music Awards in Frankfurt, Germany on Sunday (November 11).
Looking glamorous upon arrival, the E! reality queen wowed in a sultry black ensemble, as she made her way inside for the evening's main spectacle.
Eager to take part in the annual event, Kim tweeted, "What's up #Frankfurt! Can't wait to present @ the #MTVEMA tonite! Xo."
Aside from passing out an award, Kardashian will also be supporting her rapper beau, Kanye West, who is up for three different EMA honors.
It was previously announced that the evening's agenda will also include singing legend Whitney Houston being honored with the 2012 MTV EMA Global Icon Award, for her "inspirational" career.
The show boasts performances by Taylor Swift, Carly Rae Jepsen, and The Killers, as well as appearances by Anne V, the Jonas Brothers, and Ludacris, just to name a few.
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BREWER, Maine — A Brewer meeting originally re-scheduled for today, January 2, by the Maine Department of Marine Resources to seek stakeholder input on a plan to reduce harvest of elvers by 25-40% from the 2013 harvest for the 2014 fishing season, has been re-scheduled for January 7.
The meeting will take place from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM at Jeff's Catering, 15 Littlefield Way in Brewer.
At the request of the Department of Marine Resources (DMR), the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission has postponed action on Draft Addendum IV until its 2014 Spring Meeting so that it can update the landings data and continue to develop options for the 2015 fishing season. DMR has agreed to reduce the harvest for the coming season. Landings in 2013 totaled 18,253 pounds.
This is the second of two meetings seeking industry input on a plan to reduce the harvest; the first was held in Augusta on December 11.


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It may not be the fastest broadband in the UK, but British Telecom has just given DSL one heck of a speed boost...
The company has announced 'BT Infinity', a new flagship 40Mbit/sec connection which it will start rolling out from Monday (25 January) with packages starting from just £19.99. Perhaps just as interesting as the download speed, however, is the superfast 10Mbit/sec uploads Infinity will bring - an increasingly important factor for many who regularly upload photography and video to the Web.
Infinity will launch in two choices: 'Option 1' being a £19.99pm 18 month contract with £50 connection charge, free BT wireless N Home Hub, 5GB online Digital Vault and 250 free minutes of BT OpenZone WiFi access per month. Limitations are a 20GB monthly download allowance and restricted 2Mbit/sec upload speed.
'Option 2' costs £24.99, is subject to the same length of contract, drops the connection fee, provides 10Mbit/sec upload rates and - that phrase we all love to hate - unlimited download allowance plus unlimited monthly OpenZone minutes. Naturally enough, BT states that 'unlimited' is subject to a fair usage policy, but doesn't spell out what that is (we're chasing).
"The internet is essential to our customers' lives and they are demanding more and more as richer and even more compelling services become available," said BT CEO Gavin Patterson. "BT Infinity gives customers the capacity and reliability they need in an instant and at a great value price they can afford. We want to give our customers the best possible online experience and are committed to rolling out super-fast speeds across the UK."
The move follows successful trials of the service in Muswell Hill, Whitchurch and Glasgow Halfway and BT pledges to make Infinity available to at least 40 per cent of UK homes and businesses by 2012.
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Calculating greenhouse gas emissions reductions from climate change mitigation projects requires construction of a baseline that sets emissions levels that would have occurred without the project. This paper describes a standardized multiproject methodology for setting baselines, represented by the emissions rate (kg C/kWh), for electric power projects. A standardized methodology would reduce the transaction costs of projects. The most challenging aspect of setting multiproject emissions rates is determining the vintage and types of plants to include in the baseline and the stringency of the emissions rates to be considered, in order to balance the desire to encourage no- or low-carbon projects while maintaining environmental integrity. The criteria for selecting power plants to include in the baseline depend on characteristics of both the project and the electricity grid it serves. Two case studies illustrate the application of these concepts to the electric power grids in eastern India and South Africa. We use hypothetical, but realistic, climate change projects in each country to illustrate the use of the multiproject methodology, and note the further research required to fully understand the implications of the various choices in constructing and using these baselines.}, keywords = {baselines, mbase, project based activities}, attachments = {https://eetd.lbl.gov/sites/all/files/lbnl-51917.pdf}, author = {Jayant A. Sathaye and Scott Murtishaw and Lynn K. Price and Lefranc, Maurice and Joyashree Roy and Winkler, Harald} }


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Teacher Resource Guide Home — Anti-Semitism — Hitler's Rise — Prewar Nazi Germany
The Holocaust — Resisters — Bystanders — Remembering
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The magnitude of the Holocaust did not become evident until April 17, 1945, when the Allied forces from the west and the Russian forces from the east linked up at the Elbe River in Germany. As unsuspecting Allied soldiers entered the concentration camps in Germany, they discovered thousands of dying people. Despite the efforts of the British and American medical personnel. these prisoners were rescued too late. In the weeks following liberation, many of them died of typhus and other diseases or from starvation.
Allied forces faced a serious dilemma. What was to be done with the freed prisoners of war and displaced persons (DPs). For most survivors, their homes, family, and friends no longer existed. Those who did return to their homelands were often met with hostility by their neighbors; many of whom had profited by their absence. The Allies set up DP camps to house the vast numbers of Jewish survivors and other refuges with no place to return to. The camps were mostly located in areas of Germany controlled by the western Allies, especially the United States and Great Britain. By 1946, 250,000 Jews crowded into DP camps. These camps were considered a temporary arrangement until the DPs could immigrate or return to their native lands. When it became clear that other countries would not significantly raise their immigration quotas, the 200,000 Jews liberated from the camps were returned to their native countries. Some 65,000 Polish and Lithuanian Jews had nowhere to go.
Both political and humanitarian reasons contributed to the decision to open the doors of Palestine to the survivors of the Holocaust. In western Europe and the United States, letters from soldiers in occupied Germany described the horrors of the death camps. In the United States, the findings from committees and individuals contributed to public awareness of the Holocaust.
In November 1947, the United Nations General Assembly voted to sanction a partition plan dividing Palestine into a binational state. The state of Israel became a haven for the surviving Jews of Europe. The modern state of Israel did not result from the Holocaust. Its roots go back to the Zionist political philosophy of the late nineteenth century, but the holocaust experience influenced its establish-ment. After the horrors of the Holo-caust, many Jewish leaders felt that a Jewish state was the only guarantee of safety.
Resettlement of refugees was just one of the problems facing the leaders of the postwar world. Equally pressing was the need to understand and bring to justice those who had carried out the Holocaust. This was the purpose of the Nuremberg Trials held in Nuremburg, Germany. This was the first time that leaders of a country were tried by an international tribunal for crimes that had been in keeping with state policy. There were two sets of trials of Nazi war criminals. The first set began November 20, 1945, and lasted until October 1, 1946. An International Military Tribunal was convened, made up of repre-sentatives of the United States, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union. These trials were of the political, military, and economic leaders of the Third Reich captured by the Allies. Among the defendants were Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, and Albert Speer. Many of the most prominent Nazi leaders—Hitler, Himmler, and Goebbels—committed suicide and were not brought to trial. At these trials, most of those who had participated in the Holocaust were charged with committing "crimes against humanity." Such crimes were defined as the murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhuman acts committed against civilian groups on political, racial, or religious grounds.
The second set of trials, the Subsequent Nuremburg Proceedings, was conducted by the Office of the U.S. Government for Germany. Although these trials used American judges, the tribunal considered itself international. These trials tool place from 1946 to 1949. The defendants were high-ranking Nazi officials including cabinet ministers, SS officers, and doctors who had carried out medical experiments. The American Nuremburg tribunal sentenced twenty-four to death, twenty to life imprisonment, ninety-eight to other prison terms while acquitting thirty-five.
Defendants did not deny the charges, but argued that in a war situation, they were following orders and could not be held responsible for orders from a superior. The prosecutors argued that while war is an evil thing, there is the unwritten "custom of war" which forbids murder as distinguished from killing in legitimate combat. Despite these high profile trials, the majority of Nazi war criminals were not prosecuted. Most returned to normal life. Hundreds of thousands of members of the Gestapo, the SS, the Einsatzgruppen, the police, and the armed forces, as well as business people and bureaucrats who planned and implemented the Final Solution. received no penalties for their participation in genocide.
Between 15,000 and 20,000 Nazi war criminals were still alive in the early 1990s. Most were thought to be hiding in Europe, South America, or the United States. The search for these people continues, led by men and women known as Nazi hunters. One of the most famous Nazi hunters is Simon Wiesenthal, a Holocaust survivor. He has successfully tracked down more than 1,000 Nazi criminals. He discovered the hiding places of Argentina's Adolf Eichmann, the high-ranking Nazi official responsible for arranging all transportation of Jews to the camps during the period of the Final Solution. After the war Eichmann escaped from a POW camp in Germany and made his way to Argentina. He was captured by agents of the Israeli government in Argentina in 1960 and taken to Israel, where he stood trial. Eichmann never denied the accusations against him, but claimed that he was powerless to resist orders from his military superiors. After a sixteen-week trial, Eichmann was found guilty of all charges and was hanged in Israel in 1962.
Other well-known Nazi hunters are Beate and Serge Klarsfeld. Through their efforts, Klaus Barbie, head of the Gestapo in Lyon after the Nazis took over southern France, was brought to trial in France and sentenced to life imprison-ment in 1987 for committing "crimes against humanity." Known as the "Butcher of Lyon," Barbie carried out the deportation of more than 800 Jews and members of the French Resistance. In 1951 Barbie moved to Bolivia and lived there under a false identity until 1972, when the Klarsfelds found him. The Bolivian government refused to extradite Barbie until 1983. He died in jail.
The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant and devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored because it cannot survive their being repeated.
— Justice Robert Jackson, Chief American Counsel, Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
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This is a discussion on Stratfor Article: Meth and Mexico and TCO's within the Law Enforcement, Military & Homeland Security Discussion forums, part of the Related Topics category; A pretty interesting analysis From Stratfor: Global Intelligence Meth in Mexico: A Turning Point in the Drug War? Ben West | February 16, 2012 Mexican ...
A pretty interesting analysisFrom Stratfor: Global IntelligenceMeth in Mexico: A Turning Point in the Drug War?
Ben West | February 16, 2012
Mexican authorities announced Feb. 8 the largest seizure of methamphetamine in Mexican history -- and possibly the largest ever anywhere -- on a ranch outside of Guadalajara. The total haul was 15 tons of pure methamphetamine along with a laboratory capable of producing all the methamphetamine seized. While authorities are not linking the methamphetamine to any specific criminal group, Guadalajara is a known stronghold of the Sinaloa Federation, and previous seizures there have been connected to the group.
Methamphetamine, a synthetic drug manufactured in personal labs for decades, is nothing new in Mexico or the United States. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has led numerous crusades against the drug, increasing regulations on its ingredients to try to keep it from gaining a foothold in the United States. While the DEA's efforts have succeeded in limiting production of the drug in the United States, consumption has risen steadily over the past two decades. The increasing DEA pressure on U.S. suppliers and the growing demand for methamphetamine have driven large-scale production of the drug outside the borders of the United States. Given Mexico's proximity and the pervasiveness of organized criminal elements seeking new markets, it makes sense that methamphetamine would be produced on an industrial scale there. Indeed, Mexico has provided an environment for a scale of production far greater than anything ever seen in the United States.
But last week's methamphetamine seizure sheds light on a deeper shift in organized criminal activity in Mexico -- one that could mark a breakthrough in the violent stalemate that has existed between the Sinaloa Federation, Los Zetas and the government for the past five years and has led to an estimated 50,000 deaths. It also reveals a pattern in North American organized crime activity that can be seen throughout the 20th century as well as a business opportunity that could transform criminal groups in Mexico from the drug trafficking intermediaries they are today to controllers of an independent and profitable illicit market.
While the trafficking groups in Mexico are commonly called "cartels" (even Stratfor uses the term), they are not really cartels. A cartel is a combination of groups cooperating to control the supply of a commodity. The primary purpose of a cartel is to set the price of a commodity so that buyers cannot negotiate lower prices. The current conflict in Mexico over cocaine and marijuana smuggling routes shows that there are deep rifts between rival groups like the Sinaloa Federation and Los Zetas. There is no sign that they are cooperating with each other to set the price of cocaine or marijuana. Also, since most of the Mexican criminal groups are involved in a diverse array of criminal activities, their interests go beyond drug trafficking. They are perhaps most accurately described as "transnational criminal organizations" (TCOs), the label currently favored by the DEA.
Examples from the Past
While the level of violence in Mexico right now is unprecedented, it is important to remember that the Mexican TCOs are businesses. They do use violence in conducting business, but their top priority is to make profits, not kill people. The history of organized crime shows many examples of groups engaging in violence to control an illegal product. During the early 20th century in North America, to take advantage of Prohibition in the United States, organized criminal empires were built around the bootlegging industry. After the repeal of Prohibition, gambling and casinos became the hot market. Control over Las Vegas and other major gambling hubs was a business both dangerous and profitable. Control over the U.S. heroin market was consolidated and then dismantled during the 1960s and 1970s. Then came cocaine and the rise in power, wealth and violence of Colombian groups like the Medellin and Cali cartels.
But as U.S. and Colombian law enforcement cracked down on the Colombian cartels -- interdicting them in Colombia and closing down their Caribbean smuggling corridors -- Colombian producers had to turn to the Mexicans to traffic cocaine through Mexico to the United States. To this day, however, Colombian criminal groups descended from the Medellin and Cali cartels control the cultivation and production of cocaine in South America, while Mexican groups increasingly oversee the trafficking of the drug to the United States, Europe and Africa.
The Mexican Weakness
While violence has been used in the past to eliminate or coerce competitors and physically take control of an illegal market, it has not proved to be a solution in recent years for Mexican TCOs. The Medellin cartel became infamous for attacking Colombian state officials and competitors who tried to weaken its grasp over the cocaine market. Going back further, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel is thought to have been murdered over disagreements about his handling of the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas. Before that, Prohibition saw numerous murders over control of liquor shipments and territory. In Mexico, we are seeing an escalating level of such violence, but few of the business resolutions that would be expected to come about as a result.
Geography helps explain this. In Mexico, the Sierra Madre mountain range splits the east coast and the west from the center. The Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean coastal plains tend to develop their own power bases separate from each other.
Mexican drug traffickers are also split by market forces. With Colombian criminal groups still largely controlling the production of cocaine in jungle laboratories, Mexican traffickers are essentially middlemen. They must run the gauntlet of U.S.-led international interdiction efforts by using a combination of Central American traffickers, corruption and street-gang enforcers. They also have to move the cocaine across the U.S. border, where it gets distributed by hundreds of street gangs.
Profit is the primary motivation at every step, and each hurdle the Mexican traffickers have to clear cuts into their profit margins. The cocaine producers in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia can play the Sinaloa Federation and Los Zetas (as well as others) off of each other to strengthen their own bargaining position. And even though keeping the traffickers split appears to create massive amounts of violence in Mexico, it benefits the politicians and officials there, who can leverage at least the presence of a competitor for better bribes and payoffs.
For Mexican drug traffickers, competition is bad for the bottom line, since it allows other actors to exploit each side to get a larger share of the market. Essentially, everyone else in the cocaine market benefits by keeping the traffickers split. The more actors involved in cocaine trafficking, the harder it is to control it.
The Solution
Historically, organized criminal groups have relied on control of a market for their source of wealth and power. But the current situation in Mexico, and the cocaine trade in general, prevents the Mexican groups (or anyone) from controlling the market outright. As long as geography and market forces keep the traffickers split, all sides in Mexico will try to use violence to get more control over territory and market access. We assume that Mexico's geography will not change dramatically any time soon, but market forces are much more temporal.
Mexican criminal organizations can overcome their weakness in the cocaine market by investing the money they have earned (billions of dollars, according to the most conservative estimates) into the control of other markets. Ultimately, cocaine is impossible for the Mexicans to control because the coca plant can only grow in sufficient quantity in the foothills of the Andes. It would be prohibitively expensive for the Mexicans to take over control of coca cultivation and cocaine production there. Mexican criminal organizations are increasing their presence in the heroin market, but while they can grow poppies in Mexico and produce black-tar heroin, Afghanistan still controls a dominant share of the white heroin market -- around 90 percent.
What Mexicans can control is the methamphetamine market. What we are seeing in Mexico right now -- unprecedented amounts of the seized drug -- is reminiscent of what we saw over the past century in the infancy of the illegal liquor, gambling, heroin and cocaine markets: an organized criminal group industrializing production in or control of a loosely organized industry and using that control to set prices and increase its power. Again, while illegal methamphetamine has been produced in the United States for decades, regulatory pressure and law enforcement efforts have kept it at a small scale; seizures are typically measured in pounds or kilograms and producers are on the run.
Mexican producers have also been in the market for a long time, but over the past year we have seen seizures go from being measured in kilograms to being measured in metric tons. In other words, we are seeing evidence that methamphetamine production has increased several orders of magnitude and is fast becoming an industrialized process.
In addition to the 15 tons seized last week, we saw a record seizure of 675 tons of methylamine, a key ingredient of methamphetamine, in Mexico in December. From 2010 to 2011, seizures of precursor chemicals like methylamine in Mexico increased 400 percent, from 400 tons to 1,600 tons. These most recent reports are similar to reports in the 1920s of U.S. liquor seizures going from barrels to shiploads, which indicated bootlegging was being conducted on an industrial scale. They are also eerily similar to the record cocaine seizure in 1984 in Tranquilandia, Colombia, when Colombian National Police uncovered a network of jungle cocaine labs along with 13.8 metric tons of cocaine. It was the watershed moment, when authorities moved from measuring cocaine busts in kilograms to measuring them in tons, and it marked the Medellin cartel's rise to power over the cocaine market.
A True Mexican Criminal Industry?
Anyone can make methamphetamine, but it is a huge organizational, financial and legal challenge to make it on the industrial level that appears to be happening in Mexico. The main difference between the U.S. labs and the Mexican labs is the kind of input chemicals they use. The U.S. labs use pseudoephedrine, a pharmaceutical product heavily regulated by the DEA, as a starting material, while Mexican labs use methylamine, a chemical with many industrial applications that is more difficult to regulate. And while pseudoephedrine comes in small individual packages of cold pills, methylamine is bought in 208-liter (55-gallon) barrels. The Mexican process requires experienced chemists who have mastered synthesizing methamphetamine on a large scale, which gives them an advantage over the small-time amateurs working in U.S. methamphetamine labs.
Thus, while methamphetamine consumption has been steadily growing in the United States for the past two decades -- and at roughly $100 per gram, unpure methamphetamine is just as profitable on the street as cocaine -- it is even more profitable for Mexican traffickers. Methamphetamine does not come with the overhead costs of purchasing cocaine from Colombians and trafficking valuable merchandise through some of the most dangerous countries in the Western Hemisphere. Precursor materials such as methylamine used in methamphetamine production are cheap, and East Asian producers appear to be perfectly willing to sell the chemicals to Mexico. And because methamphetamine is a synthetic drug, its production does not depend on agriculture like cocaine and marijuana production does. There is no need to control large swaths of cropland and there is less risk of losing product to adverse weather or eradication efforts.
For the Mexican TCOs, industrializing and controlling the methamphetamine market offers a level of real control over a market that is not possible with cocaine. We expect fighting over the methamphetamine market to maintain violence at its current levels, but once a group comes out on top it will have far more resources to expel or absorb rival TCOs. This process may not sound ideal, but methamphetamine could pick the winner in the Mexican drug war.
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Indeed. Thanks for posting this.
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I saw the report earlier along with the pictures of the Meth Lab,there were numerous 55 gallon barrels of Methamphetamine ready to ship,Meth Addicts are some of the most unpredictable junkies out there.But on the other hand theres a buncha junkies that make it from pseudoephedrine pills cheaper than they can buy it,unless they flood the market with really cheap meth
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I think this article interesting for numerous reasons:
The Cartel War could get much worse before it gets better due the control and wealth meth represents versus their traditional "middle-man" role;
The meth problem here in the USA presumably will get much worse as supplies increase and price wars result as Cartels resort to traditional economics to solidify their position;
The level of drug related violence here in the USA might well escalate; and
I doubt this will play out quickly............
Personally, I think the violence has the potential to migrate to the USA very quickly, but time will tell, and I have no experience to base those thoughts on.
I'd love to hear what those in the LE community think!
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This event will be hosted by Neil Hersh '83.
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The second annual HoLUdays celebrations kick off another season of opportunities for the Lawrence community to come together away from campus. Last year more than 700 alumni gathered at 38 regional, alumni-planned gatherings across the country.
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"The song was written about James Brown — from an admirer's perspective … someone who had truly personified everything that we are," Cee-Lo said in recent interview when discussing 'Who's Gonna Save My Soul.'
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Photos: The Earth from Above - Untold Beauty
Still in the wake of Earth Day, ecological concerns are seldom far from our agenda.
Here we have Time presenting us with photos of our Ultimate Abode.
We theorize that a little bit of beauty will only tide us over the weekend and perhaps fill ourselves with yet more hope and grit to fight the good fight.
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We forget the importance of the Earth and hope things will all be ok. But the effects of ignornace are almost biblical now - to isolate a few points. I live in Cayman and we've had several earthquakes since Haiti....in a neighboring island no rain for a few months - it's unprecendented.ReplyDelete
On the larger scale - earthquakes in Haiti; China; Chile; mean snow storms and mother earth rearing it's ugly head in Iceland!
We cannot help but notice that Mother Nature has been busy reconstituting Herself. Everywhere.ReplyDelete
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NO pictures allowed, we're sorry, and you're not officially allowed to see any imagery from Tom Ford's autumn/winter 2012-13 collection for at least a couple of months – but he's been giving private tours of his latest designs in his London headquarters today and it will be worth the wait.
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"I heard about Stella's party last night but I couldn't go, I was here working until 3am," he said – not looking remotely bleary eyed. The new collection is as sharp, sexy and incredibly luxurious – and no doubt breathtakingly expensive - as we expect from Tom Ford these days, but there's a new attitude that we haven't seen for a while.
"When I first started this womenswear label, we wanted to emphasise the point that we make clothes for different women, different characters, different ages and we really followed that through with each individual look, each of the hair and make-up – but what that didn't give me was a distinct look – so this season we have that: much more graphic than before, this is The Look – all the way through from the clothes to the shoes to the bags to the accessories."
Twenty girls lined up as Ford called each one forward, as ever the high fashion maestro – and nobody had a hair out of place, least of all him.
"I like a lot of black this season –I like strong colours too but with black as the accent," he announced as a bright red alpaca ("fur – not fabric") coat with a raised collar was announced as the opener, shortly followed by a shorter version in what he calls chrome yellow. This is as near as you'll get to couture, with individual snake and crocodile scales hand embroidered onto form-fitting stretch jersey dresses to make incredibly sexy gold shimmering or black dresses that, despite what they look like, are still officially ready-to-wear.
"This would cost around $18,000," shrugs Ford nonchalantly, as if the idea that they could be shelved as couture ideas is ridiculous.
Lots of black meant lots of leather too – for blouses, pencil skirts, stiff square handbags with large gold front panels (some "small enough for just a Blackberry or iPhone, a lipstick, keys and a wad of cash,"), knee-high boots and gold-tipped, pointed stilettos. "I'm trying to eliminate platforms from the world," he added, before allowing just one pair into collection - the platform and heel of which are bright metallic gold, having been cast with crocodile markings.
Stretchy leather or jersey leggings – that unzip over the ankle to elongate the leg as much as possible over heels – stiff leather bustiers, crystal chandelier necklaces and easy, supremely soft V-neck sweaters hint at high voltage down time, while dresses with shiny gold metal wear at the front of the waist "remind me somehow of what I was doing in the Nineties".
Fabulously sexy menswear-for-women ("when I first started all women kept saying was that they wanted mens' suits, but the reality is the don't want menswear – these are boned and padded at the hip and shoulder; they make women look fabulous"), then gave way to what Ford has called the "belle du nuit, rather than belle du jour" section of black velvet and silk cocktail dresses – bowed at the nape of the neck over bare backs and with subtly raised shoulders in a nod to Forties sirens – and then the Oscar worthy gowns.
The first – more crocodile appliqué over sheer jersey with plenty of bold gold metallic accents – he'd love to see on the Oscars red carpet but knows he won't ("nobody would be brave enough – have you seen the fashion police – they get ripped apart if they try to wear style") and the second – a stunning cream double silk crepe robe that has the same Forties appeal - that looks a lot more likely. Our money's on Angelina Jolie.
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