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Just fair: AmaCello Cruise Review by mistyone
Overall Member Rating
Just fair
Destination: Europe - River Cruise
Embarkation: Amsterdam
I flew nonstop to Amsterdam from Philadelphia, took the con ex ion shuttle serVice into town,stayed T the swissotel in dam sq.,booked tours with victor,and enjoyed Amsterdam. Swissotel was excellent...gorgeous room,excellent complimentary breakfast, free upgrade, and champagne to help celebrate a birthday. This was our fourth time in amsterdam. This time we visited the historic museum which was fabulous. It has a vast collection of all types of things that make Amsterdam such a great place. We also enjoyed walking around town, by the canals, in the parks, and the markets. Weather was sunny and warm. Keukenhoff was gorgeous.
We took a taxi for ten euros from the hotel to the dock...a bit More high for such a short trip...did not want to drag my suitcase. We boarded the ship mid afternoon. It was quick. Our luggage was handled by the staff. There were a few small snacks in the lounge. Our cabin was midlevel with a French balcony,,a sliding door....nice for letting some air into the cabin. The cabin was well organized but small. The bathroom was very nice. Shower was excellent...glass doors, lots of jets, and roomy. The provided soap, shampoo, and conditioner were fair. The towels were thick. There was also robes and slippers. Drawer space was not good. Tiny drawers except for the large drawer under the bed. The closet was good. I hung most things. There was a tv and Internet console. The tv had a very small selection of offerings. The Internet was slow...and often didn't not work. The public rooms on the ship were very well maintained. The forward lounge or sun eck were good places to sit to see the scenery. The scenery was great especially the vineyards along the Moselle river. The people on board were older, quiet, and very interesting. There were no children. The included excursions were good and bad. The best was in Bernkastel...excellent local guide. The worst tour was in cochem where we expected to be driven back to the ship. However he left us in town without maps or directions and just ordered us to find the river and go back to the ship. By the time we figured out how to get back to the ship the guide had already driven his van to the ship and been paid. He even stopped and laughed at us as we walked toward the ship. We also had a problem in koblenz. There were two buses that were to take people to koblenz to see the flower show. We were almost there when we were told that we had to go back and pick up people from the other bus which had broken down. That took a few hours off our flower show time. We had only one hour in the show and the local guide rushed us through everything. We were then supposed to driven to boppard to meet the ship. Instead the guides were told to keep us in koblenz near the water and the ship would pick us up. THat was at 5pm. The ship arrived at 9pm. The tour director said that the water levels were low in the Rhine and that she was sorry. The tour director never went on any excursion, did not pay attention to details, and basically did not do much. She was probably the laziest td that I have ever met. The entertainment was not good. On a few nights there was some local talent...other times there was a pianist who played poorly. The piped in music was mamamia. I love abba, but they kept playing it over a d over again...way too much. The food was good to fair. The included wines were mostly good. The waiters were also good. The maitre d was all s lies but did not listen or accept requests. The bar staff was excellent. The lounge cookies were nice. The evening snacks were just the cookies, cakes and cheese...not much.. The coffee machine in the lounge was good. The bottle of nescafe decaf was awful. The gift shop was small but had a nice selection of stuff...and their prices were good. The library had books that people had left. I used my kindle. The free postcards and postage were a nice idea. The nice part of the cruise was the pace at which we sailed..slow enough to see the beautiful scenery. We disembarked in remich and took the cruise lines extension to Paris. The tour director came with us. After the cruise, the only time that we saw her was when she gave us the train tickets and our hotel room keys. She was not available during the four days in paris. The meridian etoile hotel was huge, dirty, and not convenient. I have been in Paris many times. There is always lots to see. This time, I went to the louvre, le petite palais, the mused de moderne rate, took a boat ride on the seine, went to the Jacque art Andre muses, ate famous food, and enjoyed shopping. That was the end of my cruise line experience. My trip continued on my own. The major question is would I take another riverboat cruise? Maybe...not with amawaterways.. The lack of the td organization was inexcusable.. I loved the scenery and the size of the ship. I still like ocean cruisers. The service cannot compare to the service that you can get on luxury lines like seaboard, Oceania, regent or azamara.. Even some of the larger mass market ships like celebrity have better amenities...and cost a lot less. I do not mind paying top dollar for excellent service. The bottom line for me is...cruise was just okay...not worth what I paid. Less
Published 06/14/11
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Wonderful voyage to the Douro ...
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Anuradhapura Hotel Shalini
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41/388 Harischandra Mawatha
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Hotel Shalini is located in the heart of the city in Anuradhapura, along Harischandra Mawatha, which runs from the clock tower to the hospital. It is centrally situated within close proximately to the Old Bus & Railway Station, Nuwarawewe Lake, all the Banks, main Post Office and about 2km far away from ancient city of Anuradhapura.
We have 14 very clean rooms with attached toilet and bath rooms available to the guest to select according to his/her budget and a choice of Single, Double, Triple and Quadruple rooms - Hot and Cold water, Fans, Air conditioning, Mosquito Nets, Electrical Mosquito Vaporizer, Satellite Television, Wi-Fi in all rooms,Telephone,Comfortable King or Queen size beds and other facilities.Also we can arrange Air Port pick up service to Anuradhapura even in odd hours for your convenience.
Homely atmosphere and quiet environment with open air restaurant at first floor serving western, eastern and Chinese food, roof top beer garden, Cyber cafe for the convenience of the guests providing fast internet browsing, e-mail, VOIP IDD calls, local (STD) calls, Fax, Digital Cam Downloading and writing CD's. Travel desk arranging site seeing of the ancient city, safari tours to Willpattu National Park or any other destination. Professional Guide service available for tours. Bicycles for rent.
Conference and Banquet facilities, Free tourist information service, same day laundry facilities etc.
Our services and facilities are available for in house guest as well as for non-residential guest.
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Former New York Times editorial page editor turned columnist Gail Collins made the front of Sunday Opinion with a (what else?) condescending and stereotype-filled story on Republican Gov. Rick Perry and Texas, rounded out with a cartoon of Perry as a cactus and an undignifying stack of headlines: "Rick Perry, Uber Texan – Meet the lone wolf of the Lone Star State. To him, Texas has all the answers and Washington is the enemy. Go Aggies!"
Clearly the Times isn't afraid of offending those particular regional sensibilities.
Collins opened:
You think of Rick Perry, you think of Texas. And more Texas. Perry the cowboy coyote-killer, the lord of the Texas job-creation machine, the g-dropping glad-hander with a "howdy" for every stranger in the room. He barely exists in the national mind outside of the Texas connection.
This later line required some gall:
Perry comes to the race with a remarkable lack of national experience and exposure. The only recent equivalent would probably be Sarah Palin, and it's not surprising that Texas and Alaska would produce the people with little frame of reference outside of their home states. Both places are huge, so it's easy for people who live there to think they're in a self-enclosed world. If Texas or Alaska had the population density of New York City, either one could contain every person on the planet, although of course a lot of them would be very uncomfortable.
What was Barack Obama's "national experience" again?
Rick Perry has never spent any serious time outside of Texas, except for a five-year stint in the military. Nobody sent him off to boarding school to expand his horizons. He grew up in Paint Creek, where he graduated third in a high school class of 13. He went to the most deeply Texas of all the state's major institutions of higher learning. He was a terrible student, but won the prized post of yell leader, the most deeply Texas of all possible Aggie achievements. Then he joined the Air Force and flew transport planes out of Texas, Germany and the Middle East. "There was no telling what you were going to haul around on any given day, from high-value cargo like human beings to the colonel's kitty litter," he once told a reporter in Texas.
Having an interest in national government that's mainly limited to disliking it might work fine if you're the governor of a state that has always regarded itself as "low-tax, low-service" anyway. It's a little more problematic if you're the guy in charge of keeping the dollar stable, the food supply safe and the national defense ready.
We could live with a president who named his boots "Freedom" and "Liberty."
Not sure about one who has contempt for the job he's running for.
In 2008 the Times evaluated the major presidential contenders in a comprehensive continuous series of long articles titled "The Long Run." On Sunday the Times devoted what seems to be its first "Long Run" profile of the 2012 campaign to Perry. Deborah Sontag's front-page profile Monday, the paper's official welcoming of Perry to the campaign, "Paint Creek, the Town Perry Left Behind," was lukewarm at best and hostile at times, as Sontag relayed accusations of the Perry family's "thirst for power."
People here in Haskell County do understand Mr. Perry in a way few can, seeing the spirited, mischievous child in the brash, ambitious politician and recognizing how far this son of a dry-land cotton farmer has already traveled from a county with one stoplight.
But they also know that this town "too small to have a ZIP code," in Mr. Perry's words, propelled a restless farm boy whose disciplinarian father was a local power broker into a life of politics that fed off his roots while he moved beyond them and, some say, betrayed them.
Many in itty-bitty Paint Creek, with its 259 registered voters, are proud and protective of Mr. Perry, the ardent Eagle Scout and scrappy athlete dubbed "most popular" and "Future Homemakers of America Beau" by his class of 13.
But others here will never forgive Mr. Perry for switching to the Republican Party five years after they elected him as a Democrat to the Texas House of Representatives in 1984. And they are leery now of seeing Haskell County, with its graying population, ailing economy and drought-parched landscape, used as a bucolic backdrop for his self-promotion.
Mr. Overton, 72, the late scoutmaster's son, said the young Rick loved to play pranks and push limits. One winter night when he was 11, he sneaked into the Overtons's yard to fish for crawdads with his friend Bob Earles.
"I caught them and told them they'd catch their death of cold," Mr. Overton said. "Rick said, 'Well, I'm not going to catch pneumonia because I got my underwear on, but Bob here is naked.' "
Consulted for Mr. Perry's scouting book, Mr. Overton said he enjoyed its reminiscences and its acknowledgment of his father. But he rolled his eyes at the governor's depiction of a "war on the Scouts" being waged by atheists and "activist homosexuals."
"I think there are a lot of good men who can't be scoutmasters because they are gay," Mr. Overton said, adding that he would not vote for Mr. Perry for president despite their personal ties.
About the time that Mr. Perry graduated from high school, his father was elected county commissioner and held on to the post for 28 years. Mr. Perry wrote in his book that his great-great-grandfather was county judge and that public service -- some here call it a thirst for power and a steady salary -- runs in the family.


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BlackBerry executive won't mention the Apple iPhone
0. phoneArena posted on 01 Feb 2013, 10:31
BlackBerry U.K. executive Stephen Bates was interviewed by the BBC for its 5 Live Breakfast program and was asked what BlackBerry has learned from the Apple iPhone; instead of coming up with an answer or saying that he didn't want to answer the question, Bates fumbles and rambles though a response that basically promotes BlackBerry...
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1. PhoneArenaUser (Posts: 5498; Member since: 05 Aug 2011)
30. AamirSIII (banned) (Posts: 187; Member since: 04 Oct 2012)
this is insane! why should he answer? why is it that everyone thinks iPhone as the LEARNING benchmark? what INNOVATION has iPhone brought to the smartphone market all around the world other than making "ONE OF THE MOST EXPENSIVE AND STUPID PHONE A FASHION FIGURE"???
36. notor (unregistered)
Poor Chap you are, one who does not accepts facts.
46. lyndon420 (Posts: 5000; Member since: 11 Jul 2012)
Got some facts to share...let's have them. Looks like you were in the middle of making a point and then got lost somewhere between why you originally got an iPhone, and then trying to justify that decision to yourself somehow.
48. jiezel91 (Posts: 67; Member since: 28 Jul 2011)
Actually dude, as much as we hate Apple for their arrogance, they certainly deserve credit. I'm talking about how they demonstrated to the other companies how to launch a product successfully.
I mean, there is a reason why a company could be wildly successful in a water that it has never sailed before and that is to make the user experience great. Apple nailed the user experience right when they launched the original iPhone back in 2007.
In comparison, Nokia's Symbian phones lost the smartphone game because Nokia never bothered to make the user experience of Symbian-based handsets great. Yes, we all know that Nokia's Symbian-based phones are home to the key hardware innovations in the past decade. But then, Nokia never bothered to improve the software side of things. They are more on hardware and complement it with problematic software which spoils the user experience.
At least give credits where it's due.
2. centurion (Posts: 25; Member since: 28 Jan 2013)
who care about the apple phone
3. sithvenger (banned) (Posts: 371; Member since: 25 Aug 2012)
Millions other than u
31. rusticguy (Posts: 2828; Member since: 11 Aug 2012)
Mr bates doesn't and that mattered the most as of now :D
7. InspectorGadget80 (unregistered)
yes he wants to talk bout BB not the dumb fruit
4. wildcard (Posts: 65; Member since: 15 Jan 2013)
he is talking on their phone an not about the icrap phone an mistake the icrap is trash wiz a lot of bugs in there hands
5. Ninetysix (Posts: 2671; Member since: 08 Oct 2012)
In English please.
9. wildcard (Posts: 65; Member since: 15 Jan 2013)
look in to a mirror an look at your self an then say lm a smuck
22. CorianU (Posts: 27; Member since: 22 Jan 2013)
and* is the correct spelling of that word
6. InspectorGadget80 (unregistered)
right. so gives a damn bout apple. this guy is such a idiot and he doesn't want to answer to him. HE WANTS TO TELL HIM BOUT BLACK BERRY. NOT talk bout THE DUMB FRUIT. this guy is such a idiot and he call himself a journalist keeps interrupting him. STFU BOUT THE IPHONE and let the guy talk
8. dman999 (Posts: 1; Member since: 01 Feb 2013)
That was awesome,
Reporter is a typical id10t reporter who wants to guide the conversation to apple. well done
47. InspectorGadget80 (unregistered)
he's a a$$ hole. this guy is trying to promote there phone NO OTHER PHONE.
10. Cha7520 (Posts: 221; Member since: 31 Oct 2010)
WOW.....so basically the Blackberry is just a copy of iphone/android OS, design, interface, etc. How is Blackberry different from the iphone and Android? umm....ummm.....ummmmmmm
11. cripton805 (Posts: 1485; Member since: 18 Mar 2012)
You dummies. The reason he didnt answer that question is because it would be clear evidence for a lawsuit. What better evidence than him saying he took something from the iPhone. Even if it WERE true. This question would also be giving the iPhone positive remarks during a mothercrackin Blackberry Interview...
For GODS sake. Not everyone compares themselves to Apple or the iPhone. Its a different product for the Sake. Damn!!!
You people amaze me sometimes....
12. Ninetysix (Posts: 2671; Member since: 08 Oct 2012)
Well Google learned from Apple/iPhone. Look at their very first android phone and you'll see that it's a blackberry clone. They then changed the the design to look more like the iPhone.
15. cripton805 (Posts: 1485; Member since: 18 Mar 2012)
You do know there were touchscreen rectangular phones before the iPhone right?
Did the iPhone copy them too? (sarcastically rolls eyes)
16. cripton805 (Posts: 1485; Member since: 18 Mar 2012)
Also, why is this a Blackberry copy? Could be a Palm or early Samsung too. Even Kyocera had that similar design early in the game. Heck the design could have come from Samsung!
Just showing how closed minded you really are.
26. Ninetysix (Posts: 2671; Member since: 08 Oct 2012)
Once you click my google link. You can go ahead and express your rage to those close minded tech sites that reported that it's a blackberry clone.
18. Ninetysix (Posts: 2671; Member since: 08 Oct 2012)
Sure. Name one that was a huge success and changed the smartphone industry.
21. cripton805 (Posts: 1485; Member since: 18 Mar 2012)
So because it was a success it makes it a copy? Wow. Mind blown.
I never knew it worked that way...
28. gwuhua1984 (Posts: 1237; Member since: 06 Mar 2012)
You do know that prototype was only one of the prototypes that Google had in mind right? That prototype you mentioned was the only one Apple chosen to use to attack.
54. jroc74 (Posts: 6019; Member since: 30 Dec 2010)
I take it he's never seen this clip:
Look at the whole clip, but pay attention to 3:05 and forward....thats an all touch sreen phone with a track ball.
He must also dont realize that Android had dev phones that looked like BB clones...in 2010:
At 6:48...it shows its running Android... Uh....Ninteysix....that BB clone you were so proud to show....would be a dev phone....it does say prototype. Android was thinking about both a BB like and all touch screen phone.
13. VLaRueC (Posts: 182; Member since: 18 Dec 2012)
At the beginning of the interview, I was miffed that he couldn't answer the questions about the iPhone. However, towards the middle, I began to realize the brilliance of dancing around the question. Towards the end of the interview, it was clear that the interviewer wasn't interested in Blackberry 10 but was more interested in comparing it to the iPhone. Nothing like trying to bring a touch of "sour" to such a sweet event for the Canadian manufacturer. I hope the hire-ups continue this trend of ignoring the iPhone because it simply makes the interviewers look foolish. What's wrong with wanting to enter the market on your own terms? Oh...you can't be Blackberry 10 unless you list all the things you learned from IOS 5 and 6. Since, you know, everyone is just copying off each other...
17. dorianb (Posts: 612; Member since: 24 Oct 2012)
I like how he had tunnel vision to the question. "I'm here to push my product."
Maybe it would of been funny if he answered, "Everything we learned we learned from SAMSUNG!!!"
24. XPERIA-KNIGHT (unregistered)
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL.............smh well copying would be "one" thing to learn if we do learn anything from samsung! :)
33. rusticguy (Posts: 2828; Member since: 11 Aug 2012)
Foxabt was torn down the moment it landed with the defected pilot. Why was it torn down ? to see, research and copy of course ... once everything was learned/researched it was sent in dismantled condition to russia ... moral of the story... everyone copies :)


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The Green Investment Group, Inc., which last year bought the former Smurfit-Stone pulp mill in Frenchtown, has apparently threatened to sue VanTek Inc., a Washington-based supplier of used paper mill equipment and a former GIGI business partner, over information VanTek recently provided to the Independent regarding GIGI's solvency.
Last month, VanTek President Gordon Cassie forwarded to the Indy an email, sent from VanTek's attorney to GIGI's attorney on April 10, explaining why VanTek requested that a Washington judge pull its breach-of-contract case against GIGI. As was published in "Pulp fiction" in the Indy on April 19, VanTek's attorney Donald Grant wrote that "it appears that [GIGI] will never be able to pay back" the $19 million loan it secured from a Seattle-area real estate developer to buy the Frenchtown mill, and "it also appears that GIGI is headed for insolvency and will likely never be able to pay back any judgment."
Through his attorney, Cassie now says in a statement that he retracts "any impression regarding GIGI's financial situation attributed to the email. ... I regret sending the email and any harm that the impression regarding GIGI's financial situation may have caused."
Montana law states that in order to claim punitive damages over defamation, "the defamed person shall first give those alleged to be responsible or liable for the publication or broadcast a reasonable opportunity to correct the defamatory matter."
GIGI President Ray Stillwell told the Indy last month that VanTek's decision not to go forward with the suit had "nothing to do with financial information."
VanTek filed suit against GIGI in June 2011, about a month after GIGI acquired the Frenchtown mill. About two years earlier, VanTek signed an agreement with GIGI to partner in buying former paper mills. They created a company called VanGreen. VanTek claimed in the lawsuit that it spent 18 months working to acquire the Frenchtown mill through VanGreen only to have GIGI pull out of their agreement at the last minute and acquire it separately.
Missoula-area real estate agent Tom Dauenhauer also filed a breach-of-contract claim against GIGI. That case remains open.


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The Toolbox for Happiness, with the Controversial Truth (Hard B&W)
(Hard Cover, Image Wrap, Black and White Print)
de ProSo
Acerca del libro
Danger Warning! Do you want to be HAPPY? Then CONGRATULATIONS!!! You have found the book for you!! If you can read this book with the mindset that the way you think could be wrong, and keep an open mind, then this book will improve your life exponentially, to live to your best potential. If you believe your right with your line of thinking then move on, this is NOT the book for you! This book is the most ground breaking step in improving your life in a positive way, from making you feel happier and content with life and improving your ability to enjoy all relationships, through to allowing you to live to the best potential. If you are mentally ill it will enable you to manage your mental illness, to a point where reasonable happiness can be achieved, I hope some professionals pull their head out of the sand and embrace this book, to make a monumental difference in the world! Good luck and enjoy, remember it's actually OK to be happy.
Características y detalles
- Categoría Autoayuda
13×20 cm
56 Páginas
- Fecha de publicación ago. 28, 2013
- Idioma English
- Etiquetas NHS, mental, illness, good, medicine, hope, relationship, sexuality, medication, being, well, behaviour, speak, communication, time, forgive, P.T.S.D., PTSD, anxiety, ego, self, ability, emotional, triggers, etiquette, understanding, social, issue, perception, happiness, toolbox, ISBN 978-162840672-6
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Do you want to be TRULY HAPPY? Then CONGRATULATIONS!!! You have found the vehicle to take you there! This book will give you the ability to achieve maximum happiness that your particular mindset will allow. ALL mindsets are not the same, and no two minds have the same capability or ability. WARNING! This book will work, but you MUST follow this one GOLDEN RULE. Read this book and do as it says with NO EXCEPTIONS and with the belief that some of the ways that you THINK could be or are WRONG!!!
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BGF invested £6.3m in satellite and telecommunications investment company, Broadband Satellite Services Ltd (BSS). BSS is using the investment to accelerate its long-term growth strategy, further strengthening its position as a top tier distributor of satellite communications services to those requiring communications in remote environments where mainstream terrestrial networks are not available.
Through its wholly owned companies Satcom Global and AND Group, BSS supplies services to military, maritime, aeronautical and offshore customers as well as media and aid agencies across the world. It is a key global distribution partner for major Satellite Network Operators (SNOs) Inmarsat, Iridium and Thuraya. In addition, BSS provides value-added services for customers including installation and technical support as well as a suite of in-house developed solutions to enhance the application of satellite services in different sectors.
BSS was formed in 2012 through the acquisition of Satcom Group and AND Group, and is now one of the world's largest mobile satellite communications providers. The Group will continue to identify high-growth acquisition and investment opportunities in the Mobile Satellite Services market to further strengthen BSS's offering.
Headquartered in Newcastle, BSS has offices in Singapore, Bangkok, Tokyo, Phoenix, Brisbane, Perth, Athens and Moscow and employs more than 200 people globally.
Follow-on investment for Boost
December 2014
BGF provided Boost Juice Bars UK (Boost) with follow on funding in December 2014 after a continued period of growth. BGF's investment in the company now stands at £3.9m, up from the £2.5m committed in December 2012.
The number of Boost stores in the UK has more than doubled from 10 to 25 with sales approaching £10m over the last 18 months. New flagship stores have launched in London, Newcastle, Brighton and Birmingham along with other major cities across the UK. The original 10 stores – including Manchester's Trafford Centre and Meadowhall Sheffield – continue to show very strong like for like sales growth, as they approach nearly eight years of trading and as the "well-being" sector continues to find favour among food and beverage consumers. Manchester Trafford Centre now hosts two Boost Juice Bars and remains the busiest location for the company across its global footprint of 350 stores in 16 countries.
The company behind Boost, Manchester-based TD4 (to die for) Brands, will use the follow-on capital to accelerate the roll-out, with locations identified for another 20 stores over two years.
Co-founders, Richard and Dawn O'Sullivan, retained their existing shareholding while their long standing non-executive chairman Bill Holroyd, one of the original backers and current non-executive at AO.com, increased his shareholding in the company. BGF, which provides long-term and patient capital as well as access to a network of support for growing businesses, remained a minority shareholder.
Richard and Dawn O'Sullivan bought the exclusive rights to operate the Boost business in the UK and the Republic of Ireland in 2006, shortly after selling their original business Millies Cookies to Compass PLC.
December 2014
Hobs Reprographics, the largest independent 3D printing company in the UK received a £7m investment from BGF in December 2014 to support its growth strategy.
The investment is being used to roll-out further Hobs Studios, which house state-of-the-art 3D printing and animation, augmented and virtual reality and CGI solutions for architectural, engineering, construction and product designers. Customers work with Hobs Studio's BIM and 3D printing experts during bid and construction projects, transforming 2D files into 3D masterpieces. The first Hobs Studios opened in Manchester in December 2013, followed by Clerkenwell, London in May 2014. The company plans to develop new facilities across the UK to provide a national service.
Founded in 1969 as a reprographics specialist, printing architectural drawings, Hobs manages onsite print rooms for customers in the legal, healthcare, utilities sectors, in addition to its digital offering. As a support partner to the construction team responsible for the new Wembley Stadium, Hobs was on-site providing all the 3D printing and drawing management services and managed the daily flow of documentation during the build.
In 2013, founder and chief executive Kieran O'Brien demonstrated Hobs' 3D and augmented reality services at the Coronation Festival, which was held at Buckingham Palace. The Liverpool-headquartered company employs more than 300 people working across 29 offices in the UK, with revenue in excess of £30m.
Kieran O'Brien remained a majority shareholder in the business and appointed Peter Bertram to the board as non-executive chairman after being introduced by BGF. Peter has extensive, first-hand experience in the business services sector and was formerly chief executive of Azlan Group. He is non-executive chairman of Phoenix IT, chairman of Ten Alps and non-executive director of Microgen.
As part of the investment, Neil Inskip joined the board of the company as non-executive director.
October 2014
BGF has invested £3m of growth capital in Nationwide Window Cleaning (NWC), a leading provider of window cleaning and associated services.
NWC directly employs and centrally manages 200 staff from around the UK, providing complex and simple cleaning services to universities, hospitals, large retailers and other commercial businesses. Set up in 2009 by Managing Director Thornton Tasker, the company has an annual turnover approaching £10m and manages several major window cleaning contracts including with Royal Bank of Scotland, ASDA and the British Museum. NWC is headquartered in Harrogate, Yorkshire.
The £3m investment will allow the company to expand its fleet and equipment, and hire new staff within its abseiling and specialist cleaning divisions where the company continues to experience growing demand. It plans to use part of the capital investment to increase its workforce in these business areas, with the aim of achieving a fivefold growth in revenue over the next seven years.
Stuart Lees, Managing Director at Altium Capital and former Chief Executive of Latium Group, a manufacturer and retailer of windows, has been appointed Non-Executive Chairman at NWC. Neil Inskip, Senior Investment Manager at BGF joins the board of the company.
Thornton Tasker, Managing Director, NWC commented:
"The NWC approach is to recruit skilled and committed employees, who we can offer ongoing training and development with excellent potential for career progression, actively promoting from within. We have committed to the government apprentice scheme nurturing new talent who can support the business going forward, resulting in higher productivity, quality of work, staff retention and employee satisfaction.
"NWC is a truly national service provider offering a managed quality service with high visibility through leading edge IT. This is the right time to expand. Demand for our range of national specialist services continues to gain momentum and we are in a strong position to grow this part of the business. We are delighted to be partnering with BGF. In addition to the investment, we value the insight and experience of its investment team as well as our newly appointed Chairman, Stuart Lees."
Neil Inskip, Senior Investment Manager, BGF commented:
"We've tracked NWC over the past two years and are impressed by its progress and development under the leadership of Thornton Tasker. There is an extremely strong management team in place, with a clear business strategy and sound operating model.
"In a relatively short amount of time, NWC has become an industry leader in a market with significant opportunities, making the business well placed to build on the number of existing contracts it manages."
Andy Gregory, Regional Director, North of England & Northern Ireland, BGF commented:
"This is the 63rd growth capital investment made by BGF in UK companies, and the 12th investment made in companies headquartered in the north of England. Our aim is to work with enterprises that span a diverse range of industry sectors, and as such, we are delighted to be working with NWC."
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BGF builds investment record in improving construction sector with £2.5m provided to leading specialist interiors subcontractor
In June 2014, BGF made its first investment in a South Yorkshire based business with £2.5m provided to leading specialist interiors subcontractor Horbury Group. At the point in time, BGF had invested c. £30m in the county to date via its Leeds and Manchester based local investment teams.
This was also the third investment that BGF had made in businesses growing in the wake of an improving construction market. In May 2014, BGF invested £10m of growth capital in TCL Holdings Ltd, an external property services business; and in 2012, it backed high specification scaffolding services specialist, SHS Integrated Services with £5.4m of growth capital.
Headquartered in Rotherham, Horbury Group was founded in 1993 by current Group Managing Director Trevor Wragg as a specialist subcontractor for the construction industry. It comprises three principle subsidiaries; Horbury Building Systems, Titan Interior Solutions, and MWS Joinery, and has a combined turnover in excess of £50m and a workforce of 800 people. Headquartered in Rotherham, Yorkshire, Horbury Group also has offices in London and South Wales.
The company provides internal fit out services including partitioning, ceilings, joinery and flooring to major construction companies including Carillion, Balfour Beatty, Kier, and Shepherd Construction. It has successfully installed a range of products and internal structures to public and private buildings that include student accommodation, apartment, hotels, schools, hospitals and major retail and leisure developments. Projects include the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham; Liverpool Library; the Business School at Manchester Metropolitan University, Reading Railway Station; and Park Hotel in Nottingham.
With the UK construction market showing positive signs of growth, BGF's investment will enable Horbury to tender for larger, and a greater quantity of, projects. As a result of the investment, the company expects to significantly increase its workforce in the year ahead.
Trevor Wragg, founder and Group Managing Director of Horbury, commented:
"This is great news for the company and everyone associated with it. This funding means that we can act on growth opportunities that we have identified as part of a recent strategic review of our business and market. Our core trades are seeing demand as the construction industry is returning to growth. Last year we opened two new offices in the South West and in Central London primarily to improve our service to clients in these areas. This investment has paid off, and contributed to the strong growth we achieved over the last 2 years throughout England and Wales. It's great to know that the enthusiasm and confidence we have for the business and the future is shared by our backers."
Andy Gregory, BGF's Regional Director for the North of England, commented:
"Horbury Group is one of a small number of businesses in its sector with the size and scale needed to operate nationally; and as the recovery of the construction industry continues, it is well placed to take advantage of a growing pipeline of work.
"It is one of several businesses that we have backed which are acting on exciting growth opportunities generated by an improving UK construction sector. This is exactly where BGF's growth capital is intended to help – enabling businesses to capitalise on opportunities that they might otherwise be unable to take full advantage of."
BGF in £5.6m follow on funding
In May 2014, BGF announced investments totalling £5.6m, of follow-on capital, into two investee businesses: award-winning Mexican street food chain, Barburrito (£3.6m) and budget gym chain, Xercise4Less (£2m).
BGF retained a minority stake in each of these businesses following the investments.
John Swarbrick, BGF's Head of Portfolio, commented:
"We are an investor of just three years standing and the majority of our investments are still less than 18 months old. However, we are already seeing many encouraging signs of growth across the portfolio of companies that we have backed. This sort of sustained growth often requires the provision of further funding and the ability to provide this forms a critical element of BGF's offer."
Morgan Davies, MD and founder of Barburrito, said of the additional funding:
"We started this great burrito race in the UK and as I have always said, this is more than a business…it's a passion. The further funding provided by BGF is a great step forward for our business. It offers us a vote of confidence and most importantly, the funds with which to continue to take the business forward."
Since BGF backed Barburrito with an initial investment of £3.25m in March 2012, it has opened three new restaurants across London and additional sites in Leeds and Nottingham; and has established its position as the UK's first burrito bar with a national presence. Its existing sites have also continued to experience strong like for like sales growth. The company's turnover has doubled over the past year alone with a net sales run rate of over £8m, and it now employs 200 people nationwide.
Following this latest investment, Graham Turner the former CEO of the Tragus Group (the UK's largest independent restaurant companies with more than 290 sites across the country) has joined the board of Barburrito as a Non-Executive Chairman. This introduction was made via BGF's Talent Network.
Leeds based low cost gym chain, Xercise4Less, which received a £5m investment from BGF in August 2013, is also performing strongly and is on track to secure a further 11 sites this year, bringing its total to 29 gyms located across the country.


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The Philadelphia 76ers came out of Tuesday night's NBA Draft Lottery with the third and tenth overall pick in next month's draft.
Philadelphia had the second-worst record during the regular season, giving them a 19.9% chance at the top pick. Among the top four picks, they had the lowest chance of landing third (17.1%).
"We have a lot to be hopeful for with two top-ten picks in a draft like this, which is something a lot of teams would give a lot for," Sam Hinkie said moments after the order was revealed. "We're excited. There is a lot of work to be done in the weeks ahead, but we are looking forward to it."
The tenth pick was owned by the New Orleans Pelicans, but was sent to the 76ers as part of the Jrue Holiday trade.
"Depending on who you might have asked today, they might have said they were more nervous about the picks at the back half of the lottery and how that might go," Hinkie said in reference to the New Orleans pick. "We are pleased to have ended up where we did."
Despite not reaching the ultimate goal of landing the first overall pick, Philadelphia will still have the chance to pick Andrew Wiggins, Jabari Parker or Joel Embiid -- whoever is still available.
"There's a lot of work to be done. I think some of those players will come in and have physicals. Some will come in and meet with various teams. All the agents make decisions on how they want to do that, how they want to handle that," Hinkie added.
"I suspect, from our discussions thus far, that most of the top players find Philadelphia a really attractive place. They want to be in a place where they'll have opportunity, they want to be in a big market and they recognize what a big platform it is to play in Philadelphia. They also want to get better and they realize with our coaching staff and roster, you can come and play and get better."


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Review: 7DayShop USB3 64GB swivel flash drive Manufactured: August 2012 Reviewed by: Seán Byrne
Over the past few months, 7DayShop has been selling an unusually cheap 64GB USB flash drive. What caught our attention is its USB3 capability, usually only available on premium branded flash drives. This drive claims read performance of up to 80MB/s and write performance of up to 35MB/s, both when operating on a USB3 SuperSpeed interface.
USB flash drives have come on a long way since the very first flash drives that held just 64MB of data. This model also makes even Blu-ray rewritable media look outdated, as not only does this carry more capacity than a 50GB BD-RE, it also fits on a keychain and doesn't need any special reader, let alone a writer to use it. As with other USB3 flash drives, this is also backwards compatible with USB2 ports.
In this review, we will take a look at the performance and how it handles with various file systems such as exFAT and NTFS.
7DayShop Company Information
7DayShop a well-known supplier photographic equipment and memory products in the UK. While 7DayShop does not manufacture its own products, it does sell a variety of products with its own branding, including this flash drive we are reviewing.
The company was founded in 1998 and has become an established online seller of photography, digital and computer products.
Further information on the 7DayShop Company Profile can be found on their website.
Retail packaging
Unlike most retail products, this flash drive was supplied in little other than a padded envelope along with the invoice. The flash drive had no outer packaging, so no annoying hard plastic to tear apart.
Like most removable media products, this did not come with any operating instructions or any other information about the product other than its artwork, but then again like the vast majority of USB flash drives, it's just matter of plugging it in and it's ready to use.
Product photos
Now, let's take a look at the product:
Reverse side
Opened up
USB3 connector
The flash drive itself is fairly light and compact, about the length of a door key. The twistable cap cover is also a nice feature that avoids the issue of losing the cap and includes a loop to attach to a ring of a keychain.
Operation mode indication
Like most flash drives, this one has an LED that serves to indicate power and activity. When powered up, it flashes white at the tail end to indicate activity and remains solidly lit when idle. The twistable cover needs to be positioned off to the side to avoid covering up the LED.
The following image shows it lit while plugged in my desktop PC:
Product Specifications
The following are the specifications, as provided on the 7DayShop website:
- Nice rubber feel
- Quality swivel action
- Red LED on Light
- Keyring attachable
- Write Speed Up To: 35MB/s
- Read Speed Up To: 80MB/s
- Backwards compatible with USB 2.0
- Please note: speeds on USB 2.0 will be slower compared to USB 3.0 standards
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Now you may be wondering if there is no cholesterol or fat in beer, how does it impact cholesterol levels in the blood? As it turns out, beer does not necessarily lower the amount of bad cholesterol
With better HDL levels, the body is better able to stay away from the risks of coronary heart disease. In a study conducted to assess the impact of beer on heart disease risks, the data presented that those who drink beer in small amounts on a regular basis are 30-50% less likely to have coronary heart disease than those who do not drink.
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NEW YORK – Crude-oil prices rose Wednesday as traders braced for the possibility that Hurricane Rita could smash into key oil facilities in Texas.
Workers fled oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico (search) less than a month after Hurricane Katrina tore through the same region, as Rita strengthened into a Category 4 hurricane Wednesday.
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Heating oil jumped nearly 3 cents to $2.0387 a gallon, while gasoline surged more than 7 cents to $2.0531 a gallon.
On London's International Petroleum Exchange, November Brent crude oil futures gained 53 cents to $64.73 a barrel.
Oil prices slipped from earlier highs after forecasters said Rita would likely hit south of Galveston, Texas, which is near Houston. Traders had been worried about the already-ravaged oil facilities off the Louisiana coast.
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"It's a silver lining, but it's not positive enough to get traders to stop staring down Rita," Kilduff said.
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Crude inventories dropped 300,000 barrels to 308.1 million, but are nearly 12 percent above year-ago levels.
Crude oil prices are nearly 45 percent higher than a year ago. They reached an intraday record of $70.85 on Aug. 30 after Katrina made landfall.
Forecasters said Rita's winds have reached 140 mph and is predicted to make land Saturday somewhere between northern Mexico and western Louisiana, most likely along the central Texas Gulf Coast between Galveston and Corpus Christi.
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The oil industry has lost production of more than 27 million barrels of oil since Aug. 26 — about 5 percent of the Gulf's yearly oil output, MMS said Wednesday.


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Business-Performance Management Gets A Forum A new organization of IT users, vendors, and management consultants will serve as a clearinghouse for new ideas and best practices.
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Linux Ranks No. 2 On Microsoft Risk List The open-source operating system trailed only the economic environment in the biggest risks outlined by CFO John Connors.
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Super Monkey Ball
Review by Sheepy99
"All Hail the Dole Banana"
What can I say about Super Monkey Ball that hasn't already been said? Its the most unique game to come out since Marble Madness. Stranger still, Nintendo's old rival is publishing it on a Nintendo System (Oh and I guess a little blue mascot came out too, but thats another game). These are strange times. Anyway on with the review.
Story -
I dont remember seeing any story in the booklet so this is where I insert my own. I guess a monkey family has been trapped inside little hamster balls (ah the hamster ball). This does not deter this determined family of monkeys from doing everyday monkey things like; eating bananas, racing, jumping of a ski jump, playing pool, bowling, and falling off a ledge to their monkey death.
First let me talk about the main game. If you ever played Marble Madness on the old NES, then you remember how frustrating it was when you had to navigate a narrow space only to watch your poor marble fall. Well now replace marble with a monkey in a ball. Oh and you dont actually control the monkey, you control the land. So move the analog stick up and the land tilts down and you monkey goes forward. Its a very weird way to control the monkey. I think the most enjoyable part is actually the mini and party games. You have to unlock the mini games but the party games are ready from the get go. Party games include Monkey Target (think ski jump), Monkey Fight (where you punch people off a platform with a big glove) and Monkey Race ( where you take your monkey and race him/her in the style of Mario Kart minus the Kart). The Mini games take 2500 points to unlock each and I've play most of them and they just dont hold the same appeal as the party games.
This is a puzzle game and because of this the graphics dont always shine, but this is not true for monkey ball. Everything thing in the game is nice and smooth. The backgrounds are very nice and terrainis like a giant Sonic the Hedgehog game (checker board). Even though there isnt ''eye candy'' this is a first generation Gamecube game and it sets the standard on how party games should look. Nothing fancy mind you, but its no NES either.
The sound fits the mood for the game you play. Especially the Monkey Race music, but its nothing you haven't heard before.
Some of the levels on normal gameplay are INSANE. But as long as you have friends you will be playing the mini and party games for a while.
The Final Tally:
Story: 5 (No story just a monkey trapped in a ball)
Gameplay: 7 (You dont move the monkey you move the screen, except in the party and mini games)
Graphics : 7 (nothing fancy, nothing terrible either)
Sound : 7 (average puzzle game sound, nothing stick out)
Replay : 7 (The only thing keeping you coming back are friends and the party/mini games)
Final Score : 7
GameFaqs Score : 7
This is a first for so many reasons. First game from Sega, first puzzle game for Gamecube, first game to star huge Dole Bananas. Honestly Whats up with DOLE Bananas everywhere. I havent seen this much blatant sponsorship since 1080 Snowboarding for N64 (Tommy Hillfigure) and TMNT 2 on the NES (Pizza Hut). I hope this isnt a new trend or something.
Reviewer's Rating: 3.5 - Good
Originally Posted: 03/11/02, Updated 03/11/02
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Santa Cruz de Tenerife, April 2015.- The Gran Hotel Bahía del Duque (www.bahia-duque.com), company owned by the Grupo CIO (www.cio-company.com), has been once again nominated for the "CONDÉ NAST JOHANSENS AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE 2016" awarded by the prestigious travel guide, and which are considered one of the most important and recognized tourism accolades in the world.
Created in order to recognize, reward and celebrate excellence in all hotels and resorts that are part of the guide, the "Condé Nast Johansens Awards for Excellence" have become a seal of quality, recognized by luxury consumers and professionals of the sector.
The most important aspect of these awards is that they are chosen based on a combination of the results obtained by reader votes through the website www.johansens.com/awards; the responses to quality questionnaires filled in by hotel guests, and the reports of the inspectors of Condé Nast Johansens about the hotels which have participated in recent publications.
To vote for the Gran Hotel Bahía del Duque, readers must visit the following page and vote before August 31, 2015, date on which the voting will close. http://www.johansens.com/awards?property=Gran%20Hotel%20Bahia%20del%20Duque%20Resort&Id=9311.
The winners of these awards, which nomination or invitation to participate is already an important recognition for any hotel establishment in the world, will be announced next November.
Condé Nast Johansens remains the most comprehensive illustrated reference to annually inspected, independently owned hotels and spas. With dedicated and highly trained local experts. Many properties have been evaluated up to five times to appear in the guide, in order to reduce the final selection and obtain the finest collection of accommodation for independent travellers.


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World Aids Day was marked with events around the world designed to raise awareness of a disease that is now estimated to have infected 50m people world-wide.
In Bombay, a bullock-cart carries the so-called 'AIDS demon' to inform people on the use of condoms and the necessity of having safe sex.
On the eve of World AIDS Day, 700 people light candles on a red ribbon in Berlin, after a funeral march for the victims of AIDS.
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Councillor Justo C Justo, (second right), and Roman Catholic Priest Father Richard Mickley (left) fit a "condom" to a huge phallic symbol prior to releasing it in the air to mark World Aids Day in Pasay City.
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Festival clues on offer on Saturday with cards across the UK and Ireland
Leopardstown, Warwick and Newbury combine to offer a host of Cheltenham Festival clues on Saturday.
By Ben Coley
Last Updated: 05/02/13 1:26pm
Saturday's Irish Hennessy has the potential to have the biggest impact on the Betfred Gold Cup market so far in 2013 as Sir Des Champs and Flemenstar renew rivalries.
The latter surely needs to win to book his ticket to chasing's Blue Riband event with concerns still looming as regards his stamina.
Surely, any horse who gets beat less than a length in a Lexus Chase gets three miles but there's no denying that this strong-traveller shapes as though he'd be a monster over two and a half, whereas the extra quarter-mile of the Gold Cup would send him close to, if not beyond, breaking point.
That being said, he did finish a short head in front of Sir Des Champs last time and it's therefore no surprise to see the pair virtually inseparable in Sky Bet's antepost market for Saturday's contest.
Should Sir Des Champs win, he'll harden to clear second-favourite behind Bobs Worth and indeed could even join Nicky Henderson's charge at the head of the Gold Cup betting if putting together the sort of imperious display we've been waiting for since he won the Jewson.
Interestingly, no horse has done the Irish Hennessy - Gold Cup double since 1996 but that fact alone won't stop punters piling on the winner of this race should, as expected, it come from either the Peter Casey or Willie Mullins camp.
The card begins with the Grade One Spring Juvenile Hurdle which seems certain to shed more light on the Triumph Hurdle picture.
Mullins is likely to ask Diakali to spearhead his attack on the contest and this French import has been seriously impressive in two starts for the yard so far.
This represents a big hike in class though and in Our Conor, a Flat-bred who is also two-from-two since switched to timber, Diakali faces stiff competition.
Interestingly, John Ferguson has Ruacana entered too and this one, formerly trained by Michael Bell, is also relatively prominent in the Triumph betting after a taking performance at Cheltenham last time out.
Later on the card, Champagne Fever bids to bounce back from a 1/4 reversal when he lines up in the Deloitte Novice Hurdle.
With the likes of Istabraq and Brave Inca on this race's roll-of-honour, it's usually a contest which throws up a top-class horse or two and it's too early to say Champagne Fever won't fall into that category.
However, it's his stablemate Un Atout who stands out having won all three of his starts untroubled to leap towards the head of the betting for the Supreme Novices' Hurdle.
How he fares against the likes of Waaheb will offer up some collateral form with Jezski, who is currently Sky Bet's 100/30 favourite for the Cheltenham curtain-raiser.
Over at Newbury, the Betfair Super Saturday Chase should see Simonsig step out of novice company for the first time.
Nicky Henderson's freakishly good grey bids to make it a hat-trick of wins in the race for the Seven Barrows team, and it's hard to find a danger among the entries.
However, it will be interesting to see him in a slightly bigger field and Newbury's fences take a little jumping. At around 8/11 for the Racing Post Arkle presently, his price will only go one way if, as expected, Simonsig registers another facile victory.
There is of course an Arkle trial at Warwick in the shape of the Kingmaker Chase, one won by the likes of Long Run and Finian's Rainbow in the past.
Perhaps the most intriguing runner there is Fago, a high-class French import who runs in the colours of the Wylie family for Paul Nicholls.
His jumping impressed on his debut for the yard at Newbury and victory could see him slot in nicely behind Overturn in the Arkle betting.
Back at Newbury, although a handicap the Betfair Hurdle can offer clues for several races at the Festival.
Should My Tent Or Yours provide a welcome tonic for Henderson and owner JP McManus, he could yet trouble the Irish domination of the Supreme market while the likes of Cotton Mill and Grumeti could bid to win this on their way to the Stan James Champion Hurdle.
Long Run's absence from the Betfair Denman Chase removes some of that race's charm but it should nevertheless allow us a final chance to watch Silviniaco Conti in full flow before he heads to the Gold Cup.
Finally, after the Channel 4 cameras turn off there's a cracking three mile novice chase at Newbury, where the likes of Unioniste and Our Father look set to lock horns with the RSA Chase betting likely to be affected.


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South St. Louis, Then & NowPosted on March 22nd, 2010 4 comments
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FILE PHOTO This venerable "gasoline service station" opened in 1931, back when 2 gas pumps in front of a tiny garage was all that was needed to handle vehicular volume in this section of Bevo Mill. We are fortunate to have such historical remnants of the city's past still standing and operating today.
OK, this is actually a lame Photoshop gag.
I took this photo just the other day. With the vintage pickup truck parked in front, the place was an endearing warp in the space/time continuum. This brief, anachronistic moment is Reason #1,238 why I love the City of St. Louis.
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How true, how true! There's just one small giveaway– the phone number. If the photo was really vintage, the number would be GU1-0075 (my guess it's short for GUstine)…
steve carosello March 22nd, 2010 at 8:51 AM
Agreed, 100%: This is one of my hands-down favorite buildings in the entire area. Hard to tell in the photo, but it straddles the corner at an angle, and all the original lettering above the service bays have been maintained in tip-top condition. It never fails to make me feel good when I drive by.
PS: I believe that "481-" was known as "HUdson1". Scroll down this link for more details:
^^Ah! That makes sense– thanks for the correction!
L. Hoffman March 22nd, 2010 at 2:03 PM
Yep, Steve nailed it with HUdson rather than
GUstine–but a good guess. HUdson joins these other venerable South City telephone exchanges:
VErnon 2 (832)
FLanders 1 2 and 3 (351…)
PRospect 1 2 3 6 (771…)
TOwnsend 5 (865)
MElrose 1 8(631…)
PLateau 2 (752)
MOhawk 4 (664)
That should have it pretty well covered!
Toby–that relic of a gas station is worth a drive by! Next time we're at El Burrito Loco!
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Consanguinity, Inbreeding, and Genetic Drift in Italy (MPB-39)
In 1951, the geneticist Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza was teaching in Parma when a student--a priest named Antonio Moroni--told him about rich church records of demography and marriages between relatives. After convincing the Church to open its records, Cavalli-Sforza, Moroni, and Gianna Zei embarked on a landmark study that would last fifty years and cover all of Italy. This book assembles and analyzes the team's research for the first time.
Using blood testing as well as church records, the team investigated the frequency of consanguineous marriages and its use for estimating inbreeding and studying the relations between inbreeding and drift. They tested the importance of random genetic drift by studying population structure through demography of the last three centuries, using it to predict the spatial variation of frequencies of genetic markers. The authors find that drift-related genetic variation, including its stabilization by migration, is best predicted by computer simulation. They also analyze the usefulness and limits of the concept of deme for defining Mendelian populations. The genetic effect of consanguineous marriage on recessive genetic diseases and for the detection of dominance in metric characters are also studied.
Ultimately bringing together the many strands of their massive project, Cavalli-Sforza, Moroni, and Zei are able to map genetic drift in all of Italy's approximately 8,000 communes and to demonstrate the relationship between each locality's drift and various ecological and demographic factors. In terms of both methods and findings, their accomplishment is tremendously important for understanding human social structure and the genetic effects of drift and inbreeding.
"[An] extraordinary book, packed with detailed information. . . . A careful reading of this remarkable book will yield much more information."--Walter Bodmer, Nature
"This work is a uniquely significant contribution to the fields of historical demography and genetics of human populations. Both the results themselves and the approaches the researchers devised are of tremendous interest."--Mary-Claire King, University of Washington
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