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Big Ten Chooses Indianapolis As Site For First Five Football Title Games
The Big Ten yesterday announced that Indianapolis "will be the site of the first five Big Ten football title games, beating out Chicago for the events," according to Jeff Rabjohns of the INDIANAPOLIS STAR. Indianapolis "already had been awarded the inaugural game, to be played Dec. 3," so the four-year deal announced yesterday means the game will be played at Lucas Oil Stadium through '15. All five Big Ten football title games "will be played in prime time and broadcast on Fox," and Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany said that Fox "preferred an indoor venue for football." Delany added that weather "was a concern for a December game." Meanwhile, the Big Ten men's and women's basketball tournaments "will rotate between Indianapolis and Chicago" beginning in '13. The tournaments "will be in Chicago in 2013 and 2015 and at Conseco Fieldhouse in 2014 and 2016." Rabjohns notes Indianapolis has "had practice hosting high-profile games." The city "already is in a regular rotation to host both men's and women's Final Fours," and the Big Ten men's and women's basketball tournaments "will be played at Conseco Fieldhouse in 2012, the end of a five-year contract between the league and the city" (INDIANAPOLIS STAR, 6/6). In Cleveland, Doug Lesmerises writes, "Consider it no small matter that Fox told the Big Ten it preferred an indoor venue" (Cleveland PLAIN DEALER, 6/6). Delany: "In order to establish ourselves and build a foundation, it's [a] good idea to be indoors and see what we have. ... Indianapolis has a unique ability to deliver turn-key events in a quality way" (ESPN.com, 6/5).
SHORT OF THE MARK: In Chicago, Teddy Greenstein reports a "lack of a united effort ... worked against Chicago in football." Big Ten presidents and chancellors "examined bids from three groups (Chicago Park District, United Center, Sears Centre) compared with the synergistic Indiana Sports Corporation proposal." Delany said, "For anyone who has been around the Final Four or the Super Bowl, you can't help but look at the integrated nature of the Indianapolis bid process." Greenstein notes the United Center will host the men's basketball tournaments, while the 11,800-seat Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates, Ill., will host the women (CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 6/6). Delany said that there is a "chance both men's and women's tournaments will be played at the same time in Chicago and Hoffman Estates in mid-March" (Illinois DAILY HERALD, 6/6).
Big 12 Elects To Share Football TV Revenue More Equally
The Big 12 BOD "closed spring meetings Friday by adjusting its distribution formula for college football TV revenue" in a "major move toward more equal revenue sharing," according to Chuck Carlton of the DALLAS MORNING NEWS. Big 12 Commissioner Dan Beebe said that the amount "to be evenly shared will increase" to 76% from 57%. As much as "80 percent of the total conference revenue -- including bowl payouts and NCAA basketball money -- could be divided uniformly next year." Teams "will still receive an extra share of the football revenue pie for playing quality competition, or shifting games to accommodate TV," and the "third-tier TV rights remain the property of each school." But Texas A&M Univ. President R. Bowen Loftin said, "What's happening clearly is we're moving in a steady pace toward a more equal sharing revenue model, which is a good thing for the long-term stability in the conference." Carlton wrote the move "indicates that all the talk of a more solidified Big 12 since its near-death experience is not just lip service." Every Big 12 school "will be making lots more money" thanks to the "new $1.17 billion contract from Fox Sports for its second-tier (cable) rights." The increase "should average about $5.2 million per school" during the '12-13 academic year, and the Big 12 "also received the equivalent of a 'signing bonus' from Fox for next year." Beebe said that "most Big 12 schools could approach the $20 million mark in annual distributions as the Fox contract continues" (DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 6/4). The AP's Doug Tucker noted the Big 12 is "spending part of its new money on polishing its image and brand." The conference partnered with Austin-based GSD&M Idea City, and will "launch a media blitz at the start of the football season" (AP, 6/3). Beebe said "experts" told him that the conference's logo is "unique, with the use of the Roman numerals, and also one that has a lot of power to it" (ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, 6/4).
FILLING THE COFFERS: In Orlando, Rachel George reports each SEC school "will receive another $18.3 million in distribution from the conference" this year, marking "another record year." The SEC reported $234M in revenue in the '10-11 FY, "with the schools retaining $14.2 million from bowl participation." That "leaves the conference to divvy up $200 million, its highest total ever" and a 5.3% increase from $209M last year. George noted the total "doesn't include amounts schools receive from their local media deals" (ORLANDO SENTINEL, 6/4).


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In Style - Dr. Debra Jaliman and Dr. Joshua Zeichner: "Secrets to Strong, Smooth Tips at Every Age"
You can keep nails super-tough and snag-free with these handy pointers: "Resist switching your polish at the sight of every chip," said Debra Jaliman, Assistant Clinical Professor of Dermatology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
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In Senegal, Goodwill Ambassador Angélique Kidjo addresses violence in schools
Dakar, Senegal, 20 December 2010 – UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Angélique Kidjo, known throughout West Africa and around the world for her powerful singing voice, urged students at a Dakar elementary school to speak up about what is often a silent crime: violence in schools.
"Keeping silent makes you a victim twice. Girls and boys must speak out," she told a class of sixth-grade students. It was Ms. Kidjo's third visit to this school in the impoverished Dakar neighborhood of Liberté VI since 2006. "Oh, how the kids have grown up," she said as students welcomed her at the schoolyard gates.
The dynamic Beninese singer has traveled worldwide with UNICEF to advocate for girl's education.
Violence remains a reality
Violence in school remains a reality for many Senegalese children, especially for girls. Student Aida Yacine Sy, 8, said girls must be careful. "My mom told me not to wear short clothing. I should not go into a room alone with a teacher or a group of boys.
It is not smart," she said as her friends nodded in agreement. Other students at the school said violence could mean anything from bullying to rape. Seated alongside students at a small wooden desk, Ms. Kidjo listened to their stories. Violence, she told them, is never the answer.
"When I was young, kids bullied me because I was small. My dad told me that my brain is my best weapon," she said. "You must have a strategy. You must speak to your teachers and parents."
A safe learning environment
A safe learning environment is essential to keeping girls in school. In Senegal, violence in school, early marriage, sexual abuse, gender discrimination and poverty can impede a girl's ability to learn.
Improving gender parity
"I have something to tell the boys," Ms. Kidjo said in the schoolyard. "I encourage you to be the next generation of strong Senegalese men, to fight against practices like female genital cutting and early marriage. I want you to remember that women are not objects."
During her morning visit, the Grammy Award-winning artist danced, tapped out drum beats on desks and sang with the students. She left them with homework to speak up for their rights. Students said she has become a godmother for the school, and they know she will be back.


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Trumbo, Goldschmidt homer as Diamondbacks beat Rangers 8-7
Trumbo and Goldschmidt had three hits apiece, and Blake Lalli singled in the winning run in the ninth. Lalli is trying to make the team as a backup catcher.
Texas center fielder Delino DeShields had two hits, including a solo homer, and two RBIs, bolstering his case for a spot on the Rangers' opening-day roster. DeShields is 7 for 17 in his last four games.
Nick Martinez, who was recently selected for the fifth spot in Texas' rotation, was charged with six earned runs in 4 1-3 innings.
Diamondbacks starter Chase Anderson labored through four innings, giving up six runs and 11 hits. Trevor Cahill then came in and struck out five in two scoreless innings.


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Douglas Wellman Author of "Boxes": The Secret Life of Howard Hughes Visits Across America [Audio]!
Join Gary Freeman as he talks with Author Douglas Wellman and book researcher Mark Musick the former commander of the Nebraska Air Guard as they talk about their new book Boxes: The Secret Life of Howard Hughes. Click through the jump to hear this unbelievable interview right here, right now!
Join Gary Freeman as he talks with Author Douglas Wellman and book researcher Mark Musick how "The Aviator" Howard Hughes officially died in April 1976, an emaciated, drug-addicted, long-haired, tragic, lonely old man who proved to some people money couldn't buy happiness. But not really…..according to a new book, "Boxes: The Secret Life of Howard Hughes".
Reportedly, as they say.
Hughes died in 2001, at age 96, according to the book.
Hughes had lost access to his fortune but won the heart of a woman, married her and stayed married 31 years until his death, according to the book.
The wife, Eva McLelland, who died last year, told her story to Mark Musick, who has been documenting this off-road saga for almost a decade. Wellman wrote the book for him.
"It is a wild story," Musick acknowledged. "It changes history."


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Reba Crawford, 47, of Lubbock remained in serious condition Saturday at University Medical Center. She was injured Jan. 25 in an automobile accident at 114h Street and Alcove Avenue.
CORPUS CHRISTI (AP) A fire broke out on the upper floors of the Omni Hotel Bayfront on Saturday afternoon, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of guests, but no one was seriously hurt.
Damage from the three-alarm fire was contained to a restaurant and its balcony, fire officials said.
Two employees were preparing meat for the evening's meals on a deck outside the Republic of Texas Bar & Grill when the fire started, said Kevin Latone, general manager of the hotel.
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Jason Eisener's "Hobo with a Shotgun" is making its SXSW premiere on Tuesday March 15 and Wednesday March 16, so if you're heading down to Austin this week, be sure to check it out. It's got Rutger Hauer and a shotgun. What more can you ask for? Speaking of which, check out the Mondo poster for "Hobo with a Shotgun" below by artist Jeff Procter. It's part of Alamo Drafthouse and Mondo's 2011 SXSW poster collection. The lesson here, kids? Don't mess with a hobo. With a shotgun.
A train pulls into its final station and a Hobo hops from a freight car. He has dreams of a fresh life in a new city, but finds himself trapped in an urban hell instead. A city where criminals rule the streets, landlords evict single mothers in the middle of the night, and where the city's crime boss, The Drake, reigns supreme with his sadistic, homeless-killing sons, Slick & Ivan. Through the chaos, the Hobo comes across a shop window displaying a second hand lawn mower and a shotgun, and decides it's time to cut the grass, make the city beautiful and start a new way of life. But after witnessing the brutality that encompasses this city, he realizes the only way to make a difference in this place is with a gun in his hand and two shells in its chamber.
Once it finishes up its SXSW run, "Hobo with a Shotgun" will be available on VOD, iTunes, XBOX Marketplace, Playstation Network and Amazon.com come April 1st, before going into select theaters on May 6. Yup, you can essentially download the movie a full month and change before it even opens in theaters. Welcome to the future, kids.
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"In short, we found that those patients that were operated on early enough following the specific criteria of the guidelines (that is, also assuring that they were not given a too early operation), survived for a longer time and had better health than those patients who were referred for operation in later stages of the disease," said Pilar Tornos, M.D., from the Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron in Barcelona, Spain.
Patients with aortic regurgitation may feel only mild symptoms or no symptoms at all. While some patients never need to have their aortic valves replaced, other patients may already be developing heart failure or other problems by the time their aortic regurgitation symptoms become severe; so the challenge has been to determine the best time to recommend surgery.
Guidelines from the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association, as well as recommendations from the European Society of Cardiology and other institutions, describe when surgery may be the best option for patients. This study evaluated the results of following such guidelines in clinical practice.
The researchers analyzed data on a total of 170 patients with chronic severe aortic regurgitation, but who did not have coronary artery disease, when they submitted to aortic valve replacement. Patients were divided in two groups depending on the clinical situation at the time of surgery. Group A were 60 patients who were operated on following guidelines advice of earlier surgery, and group B were 110 patients who were operated on late with regard to guidelines recommendations.
Although many of the patients were operated before current guidelines were published, the clinical practice of the hospital for early surgery was generally similar to the subsequent guidelines.
After an average of 10 years, seven patients (12 percent) from the early surgery group had died compared to 37 deaths (37 percent) in the later surgery group. (p = 0.001) The earliest surgery included the study was done 22 years before the analysis and 16 years before the ACC/AHA guidelines.
Dr. Tornos noted that although it may seem obvious that operating earlier would be better, the risks of surgery and follow-up therapy need to be taken into account.
"While too late means a worse prognosis, too early, that is, operating on patients with a more delayed risk of deterioration, would mean an unnecessary surgical procedure and additional years of anticoagulation therapy, which is in itself somewhat hazardous. So a properly timed waiting period may be needed," she said.
This study was not a randomized controlled trial, but Dr. Tornos says a true clinical trial of aortic regurgitation surgery may not be either practical or ethical.
"Usually, observation in real practice represents a risk of mistakenly attributing a nonexistent effect to a given therapy, or missing a real one, and thus clinical trials are mandatory in many instances of therapeutic research. In our example, the magnitude of the difference in the effects of surgery in the two groups and the statistical adjustment for other factors that might have influenced the results make us very confident of our conclusions. In the present state of our knowledge, we feel that a clinical trial to assess the issue addressed by our study would be unethical, as we are convinced enough of the superiority of the established timing of operation over other options," Dr. Tornos said.
Daniel J. Ullyot, M.D., a consultant and surgeon in Burlingame, California, who was not connected with this study, noted the "happy fact" that the Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron in Barcelona selected patients for surgery in a way very similar to the guidelines that were published years later, thus providing lengthy follow-up data.
"The importance of this study is the indirect validation of the guidelines with respect to the recommendation for early surgical intervention for asymptomatic and moderately symptomatic patients with aortic valvular regurgitation," Dr. Ullyot said.
"Ideally guidelines would be based entirely on randomized controlled trials and would fulfill the desirable goal that clinical practice be exclusively evidence-based. This goal is incompletely achieved in most instances, and data such as provided by the Tornos paper in support of the guidelines is welcome and reassuring," he added.


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1. More precision meditation, using High-Tech Meditation.
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3. With In-App Purchases, you can add up to 5 additional High-Tech Meditation audio music versions.
Synchronicity 10 Minute High-Tech Meditation® is an app designed to play a 10 minute High-Tech Meditation audio file.
You can also use the app to create "Meditation" reminders. These will remind you each day to meditate at any times you specify. Doing so will assist you in more consistently maintaining balance and wholeness in your daily life.
High-Tech Meditation® was created by Master Charles Cannon and is practiced by thousands of meditators world-wide for over thirty years. It provides a novel, precise method to achieve balance, wholeness and fulfillment in a fast-paced Western lifestyle.
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When Carrie Underwood talked to Tim and Willy a month ago, the buzz was all about hockey. As we all know the Phoenix Coyotes defeated the Nashville Predators in the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs a team close to Carrie's heart, because Carrie's husband, Mike Fisher, plays for the Predators! So of course Tim and Willy took the opportunity and made a little wager with Carrie!
Tim, Willy and Andrea offered Carrie an interesting bet that, "If the Coyotes win, the next time you're in Phoenix you have to sing one of our Coyotes songs. And if the Predators win, we'll go on a strict vegan diet for 30 days." Tim and Willy (and Andrea too) gave Carrie, a vegan herself, the power to pick out their diet for the entire 30 days.
Well after one of Tim and Willy's insiders tracked Carrie down during the American Idol finale, Carrie Underwood finally made good on the bet and sung one of Tim & Willy's" Coyotes "I Bet We Can Write A Song About That!"
Carrie's newest album, Blown Away, will is now available and features the smash hit, "Good Girl."


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Early box office numbers for "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" suggest the film could fall $10 to $15 million short of its predecessor, which grossed $152.5 million over its opening weekend in North America — as well as come in well below pre-weekend tracking estimates, which pegged the sequel to open at $160 to $172 million.
It's important to note that projections from Friday matinees are historically unreliable indicators of weekend performance, particularly for a young adult franchise, which could still receive a boost from evening showings.
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"The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" Friday matinee numbers are actually comparable to "Iron Man 3," which hit the after-burners in evening showings and went on to gross $174 million its opening weekend. Prognosticators have had a lot of fun debating whether "Catching Fire" would steal the crown for the year's biggest opening; though that seems much less likely now, it's still a possibility.
Though it appears "Catching Fire" will fall short of those expectations in the United States, its overseas numbers ensure the film will outshine the first movie by a healthy margin.
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Monstrous as the first "Hunger Games" as at the box office, 59 percent of its grosses came from the domestic box office. That is unusual for a blockbuster in recent years. "Catching Fire" has already put up big numbers in Brazil, China and several other territories, and it may double the $283 million the first film made overseas.
In other words, no matter what these very preliminary numbers tell us, the odds are still in Lionsgate's favor.


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|Judgments - Regina v. Smith (On Appeal From The Court of Appeal (Criminal Division))
The subject matter of this section and the special defence to murder which it provides is expressly "abnormality of mind" and consequential impairment of mental responsibility for the actus reus. It is a provision which covers any kind of abnormality of mind provided that it is relevant and sufficient substantially to impair the defendant's responsibility. It is thus a provision which expressly addresses and provides for such matters as brain damage and depressive illness. The Act lays down certain conditions. It is for the defendant to raise and prove the defence. The jury must be satisfied that the relevant mental feature is such as to substantially impair his responsibility.
The striking thing about the present and similar cases is that the defendant is either unwilling to rely upon s. 2 or, having done so, fails to satisfy the jury and wishes then to adopt a strained construction of s. 3 in order to escape the burden of proof and introduce vaguer concepts not contemplated by either section. The present case has only come before the Court of Appeal and your Lordships' House because the jury, having heard the evidence and having been properly directed upon the law, rejected the defence under s. 2. They were not satisfied that whatever degree of depressive illness the respondent was suffering from was such as substantially to impair his mental responsibility for the killing, that is to say, the actual killing with which he was charged taking into account the circumstances in which it occurred.
This is important because there seems in some quarters to be an implicit assumption that the assessment by a jury under s. 2 is inadequate properly to allow for the defendant's abnormality of mind in relation to any killing which was contributed to by provocation. There is no reason to make this assumption. Further, it is contrary to the drafting of s. 2 and to sections 2 and 3 read together. The brain damaged man has an abnormality of the mind. If it is of sufficient severity, in the opinion of the jury, to impair substantially his mental responsibility for killing his provoker, he will be found guilty of manslaughter, not murder, even if his action was not that of a reasonable man (indeed, one could say, because his action was not that of a reasonable man).
If the defendant is merely someone with a personality disorder, for example an exceptionally violent or immoral disposition, he will not be able to rely on s. 2, nor will he be able to rely on s. 3 if his response to the provocation was disproportionate. This is all in accord with the specific policy of the Act and the ordinary principles of criminal responsibility. Similarly, if the defendant suffered from an abnormality but the jury do not consider it to be sufficient substantially to impair his responsibility, he will not have a defence under s. 2. This simply reflects the policy of the statute and it would be contrary to that policy to extend s. 3 to give him the defence advisedly denied him by s. 2.
One of the errors that have bedevilled some of the recent judicial statements in this part of the English law of homicide is the failure to take account of the interaction of sections 2 and 3 and appreciate that they not only show that the strained construction of s. 3 is wrong but also that the perceived injustice which the strained construction is designed to avoid is in fact covered by an application of s. 2 in accordance with its ordinary meaning. Section 2 is of course capable of applying in any situation and those situations include a killing by a defendant who has killed after losing his self-control. A defendant in this situation can contend that his conduct was not abnormal and require the prosecution to satisfy the jury that his loss of self-control was not the result of provocation or his response to it was not that of a reasonable man. Or, he can contend and seek to satisfy the jury on the balance of probabilities that he had an abnormality of the mind which in the circumstances substantially reduced his mental responsibility for what he did. A defendant can of course place both contentions before the jury, as the respondent did in this case. The jury can then return a verdict of manslaughter on the one or the other basis. But it is always open to the jury to conclude (as no doubt the jury did in the present case) that the defendant's response was objectively disproportionate and that his abnormality of mind did not suffice to impair his mental responsibility for what he had done.
This point was made by the Criminal Law Revision Committee and by Lord Simon of Glaisdale, by quotation, in Reg. v Camplin [1978] AC at p. 705, 726-7 -
The point can be similarly illustrated from Scottish law from which the statutory defence derives. The case in which diminished responsibility was first recognised as a defence, not merely as a ground for recommending mercy, was Alex Dingwall (1867) 5 Irv 466. The accused, Dingwall, was irreclaimably addicted to drink. He was weakminded but not insane. He had killed his wife with a carving knife, according to his account, after a quarrel because on Hogmanay she had hidden his supply of alcohol and his money. Whatever might now be the position in England, such facts would not then raise even an arguable case of provocation. Lord Deas directed the jury that they could return a verdict of culpable homicide not murder on the basis of his "weakness of mind": "the prisoner appeared not only to have been peculiar in his mental constitution, but to have had his mind weakened by successive attacks of disease." (p.479) In H.M. Adv. v. Robert Smith (1893) 1 Adam 34, the accused was subjected to a course of taunting by his fellow workmen which so affected him that he eventually killed one of his tormentors. The taunts were described as "altogether insufficient" to cause such a reaction in an ordinary man and this was regarded by Lord McClaren as indicating that his mind was displaced from its balance by the long course of provocation and he was convicted of culpable homicide on the ground of diminished responsibility. (See further Gordon: Criminal Law, 2nd edn. p.787.) In this case there was a causal link between the provocation and the accused's mental abnormality. (point 2)
The defences of diminished responsibility and provocation are both recognised and are capable of operating separately. But, likewise, they can and very often do operate in conjunction. In English law by the Act of 1957 the two defences have been kept separate and are the subject of distinct provision - sections 2 and 3. But the two sections clearly form two parts of a legislative scheme for dealing with defendants who should not be treated as fully responsible for the death they have caused.The Context: The Previous Law:
Turning now to s. 3 itself, it is an amendment of the common law of provocation. At common law the burden of disproving provocation rests upon the prosecution. The section does not alter this. Nor does the section remove the requirement for there to be two constituents of the defence; indeed, the drafting of the section emphasises this requirement, specifying the two questions. The first is the purely factual question whether the defendant was provoked to lose his self-control. The second is the judgment whether the provocation was enough to make a reasonable man do as the defendant did. Section 3 changed the first constituent, the factual question, by adding "whether by things done or by things said or by both together". Prior to the Act, the loss of self-control had to be by reason of things done; things said were not as such enough even though they caused a loss of self-control. (Holmes v. DPP [1946] AC 588.) The Royal Commission recommended that this rule be reversed (paragraphs 146 and following) and the Legislature agreed. As a consequence the second question had to be worded in the section so as also to include the direction that the jury when determining the second question should take into account "everything both done and said".
It is to be noted that neither the Royal Commission nor the Legislature saw any need to change the law in the manner which has since come into prominence. They retained the element of loss of self-control as a factual element of the defence of provocation. Historically, the relevant idea was to distinguish the motiveless killing. In Reg. v Duffy [1949] 1 All E R 932, the elegantly compressed definition of Devlin J (which unfortunately also contained a troublesome elision of the first and second questions) included the words "some act or a series of acts . . . which . . . actually caused in the accused a sudden and temporary loss of self-control". This factual requirement has caused factual difficulties in relation to certain types of killing where the conduct of the deceased has had a long term cumulative effect which has caused the defendant to reach the point where he or she decides that he or she can take no more and kills the deceased. The most usually instanced example of such a case is that of the battered woman. She does not suddenly lose her self-control in the normal use of that term; she is driven in a controlled fashion to decide to kill. The problem that this presents has been discussed in a number of cases in the Court of Appeal, particularly Reg. v Thornton [1992] 1 All E R 306, Reg. v Ahluwalia [1992] 4 All E R 889, Reg. v Humphreys [1995] 4 All E R 1008 and Reg. v Thornton (No. 2) [1996] 2 All E R 1023, and has been the primary subject of a written brief submitted to your Lordships by the interveners on this appeal. It also clearly influenced the dissent of Lord Steyn in Luc Thiet Thuan being the second example which he gave at the outset of his opinion (p.1048).
It must be stressed that this question is not raised by this appeal. The question whether or not a defendant did in fact lose his self-control is a question of fact: it is part of the factual first question. If the jury are satisfied that the defendant did not actually lose his self-control, that is an end of the defence. The second question, the question of judgment, does not arise. There may be scope for amending the law of murder in this respect, as in a number of others, but that amendment was not made by s. 3 nor has it yet been made by any other Act of Parliament.
My Lords, I now turn to the second question, the question with which we are concerned. Section 3 altered the existing law here as well. It required that the question be left to and decided by the jury and not by the judge. Previously judges had been withdrawing consideration of the defence from the jury because in the judgment of the judge a reasonable man would not have been deprived of his self-control. But s. 3 did not make any other alteration to the existing law save for the consequential change of wording (to which I have already referred) to take account of both things done and things said.
The 'reasonable man' test had been specifically considered by the Royal Commission (paragraphs 141 and following). They discussed the argument that -
The Act of 1957 follows the same scheme. It preserves the 'reasonable man' test unchanged and separately introduces the new defence of diminished responsibility. The argument of the respondent on this appeal raises again the argument rejected by the Royal Commission and seeks to give the Act of 1957 an effect which it is patently not intended to have. Further, if the Legislature had intended to change the law in this respect, one would find some indication of it by a requirement that the jury were to be directed to take into account something which had previously been excluded - a reference to any abnormally deficient powers of self-control of the defendant. Instead the jury are required, in determining the second question, simply to "take into account everything both done and said according to the effect which in their opinion it would have on a reasonable man".
There is no problem about ascertaining what was the law on this aspect before 1957. In R v Alexander (1913) 9 Cr App R 139, 141, the court rejected the argument that a mentally deficient person who was provoked into killing a man by his red hair would be able to plead provocation. In R v Lesbini [1914] 3 K.B. 1116, the Court of Appeal had to consider the case of a man who "was not of good mental balance, though not insane in the proper legal sense of the term" and refused to extend the defence of provocation and followed Alexander. The argument, said Lord Reading LCJ, at p. 1120
The word "reasonable" in s.3 was adopted by the draftsman of the statute from the earlier judicial terminology. (e.g. Reg. v Welsh (1869) 11 Cox 336.) It was, and is, a concept used not infrequently in the criminal law to prevent a legitimate defence from becoming a licence to commit crimes. A straightforward example is the concept of acting reasonably in self-defence. Acting unreasonably in self-defence destroys the defendant's justification for deliberately injuring his attacker. Unless the defendant has acted in accordance with the standards of self-restraint to be expected of an ordinary citizen, his act remains criminal although in fact done in self-defence. Another, analogous, example is the rule that self-induced intoxication (although it may, if sufficiently extreme, provide evidence to negative a specific intent) does not provide an offender with a defence; he remains criminally responsible for his acts despite his drunkenness and his inability in that state fully to appreciate and control his conduct. (e.g. Reg. v McCarthy [1954] 2 QB 105) A further example is to be found in the law of duress where direct parallels have been drawn with the public policy and ordinary powers of self-control required in relation to provocation. (Reg. v. Bowen [1996] 2 Cr App R 157: "The law requires the defendant to have the self-control of the ordinary citizen in his situation", per Stuart-Smith L.J. at p.162. This wording was drawn from the almost identical language of Lord Lane LCJ in Reg. v. Graham [1982] 1 WLR at 300 and Lord Mackay of Clashfern in Reg. v Howe [1987] AC at 459.) These are rules of criminal policy. They do not have a perfect logic nor do they operate with complete precision. Their function is not to introduce some additional exemption from criminal responsibility: it is to impose a constraint upon the availability of what would otherwise be liable to become an exorbitant defence.Reg. v Camplin:
Thus far there is nothing to support the respondent's argument. It has been rejected at every turn and has not been supported by the Act. However it is possible to see that the resurrection of the argument has partly derived from the drafting of s.3. When the alteration was made so as to enable provocation to be by words alone, inevitably peculiarities of the defendant became relevant. Physical provocation may affect all those subjected to it in a broadly similar way (except for the one-legged man who loses his crutch) and the reasonable man test was simpler to apply. But provocative words causing loss of self-control are far more likely to be specific to the defendant and his characteristics and will usually leave all others unmoved. How then, it is asked, can one answer the second question taking into account everything said "according to the effect it would have on a reasonable man"? In Reg. v Morhall [1996] 1 AC 90, the difficulty was caused by the fact that the defendant was a glue-sniffer who killed the man who was nagging him about his glue-sniffing. It is said, rhetorically, how can one have a reasonable glue-sniffer? It is a contradiction in terms just as is the idea of a reasonable drunkard.
The answer is that the role of the second question is being misunderstood. Its purpose is, as previously stated, to provide a standard of ordinary self-control so as to compare the reaction of the defendant as he was in fact provoked to lose his self-control with the reaction of a person with ordinary powers of self-control to provocation of equal gravity. Its purpose is not to create for the jury some impossible self-contradictory chimera designed ultimately to displace the concept of reasonableness altogether. The correct purpose was made clear by Lord Diplock in Reg. v Camplin [1978] AC 705 in a speech with which the majority of their Lordships expressly agreed.
There were two particular points which gave rise to argument in Camplin. The first was that the defendant was only 15 at the time of the killing and the trial judge had taken it upon himself to direct the jury that "reasonable man" must mean a man of full maturity and could not include a reasonable 15 year old boy. The second was that an argument was founded upon what had been said by Lord Simonds L.C. in Bedder v. DPP [1954] 1 WLR 1119 before passing of the Act and at a time when provocative words had to be left out of account. With the concurrence of the House, he had said, at p.1123:
Lord Diplock stressed that s. 3 recognised and retained the dual test for provocation. He also confirmed his agreement with Lord Simon of Glaisdale that evidence is not admissible upon the second question. He then stated, at p. 717 the meaning of the phrase "reasonable man" for the purposes of the law of provocation:
Lord Morris expressly agreed with Lord Diplock's direction and his speech discloses no marked differences. Lord Fraser and Lord Scarman agreed with the speech of Lord Diplock.
Lord Simon, at p.726, said: "In my judgment the reference to 'a reasonable man' at the end of the section means 'a man of ordinary self-control'." Thus Lord Simon, like Lord Diplock, equated the concept of the reasonable man with a man with ordinary powers of self control. (See also Lord Simon to the same effect at p.725D and his express agreement at p.727 with Lord Diplock's model direction.) All this is loyal to the view of the Royal Commission and the drafting of the section and directly contrary to the respondent's argument in the present case.
However, Lord Simon elsewhere used language which seems to have led Lord Steyn later to read his speech differently. At p.727, he referred to the law of New Zealand and s. 169(2) of the Crimes Act 1961, which uses the words I have quoted earlier: "Anything done or said may be provocation if . . . in the circumstances of the case it was sufficient to deprive a person having the power of self-control of an ordinary person, but otherwise having the characteristics of the offender, of the power of self-control." Linguistically, this is a formula very similar to that approved by Lord Diplock at p.718. Lord Simon commented that the subsection, as in explained Reg. v McGregor, was, he thought, "substantially the same" as the law as it now stands in this country. He also, at p.726 misquoted the English Act as if s. 3 said taking "into account everything according to the effect it would have on a reasonable man". (His emphasis) Lord Simon was using this to show that the section requires the jury to take into account a characteristic of the defendant "which particularly points the insult" (North J's point 2). He was not departing from what Lord Diplock had said; he was simply anticipating what would be the majority judgment in Luc Thiet. But, as Lord Taylor was later to point out in Reg. v Morhall [1993] 4 All E R 888, to omit the words "both said and done" inevitably alters the sense and invites confusion if the context in his speech is overlooked.Lord Lane:
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I have a few miles on tap today. It will be my first running effort since my foot pain flare up on Monday. I am going to get some athletic tape and try to tape it if it still gives me problems. I think it is either metarsalgia or maybe a stress fracture. But...if I have to run with a freakin' cast on I am going to run the marathon next Saturday.
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I will be riding the bike with DD and SIL later so I will probably not run today. Marley probably won't mind since she had DD's dog to play with.
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Manchester United kicked off the Herbalife World Football Challenge in style by posting a 4-1 victory over New England at Gillette Stadium on Wednesday night.
All five goals came in the second half as the Revs managed to hold out against the Premier League winners during the opening stanza. Michael Owen and Federico Macheda struck soon into the second half, but Kenny Mansally immediately pulled a goal back for the Revs. Macheda's second goal secured the result, while Ji-Sung Park capped the scoring with a fine team goal nine minutes from time.
United established their superiority in possession from the outset, but the Revolution carved out the first chance of the match after 12 minutes. Chris Tierney pushed up from his left fullback role to swing in a cross for Shalrie Joseph, but the veteran midfielder directed his header wide of the far post.
That foray represented the best chance for New England in the opening half, but United lacked the incisiveness to secure what would have been a deserved advantage before the break.
Dimitar Berbatov came closest for United four minutes before halftime as the Premier League champions constructed their best move of the half. Wayne Rooney played Fábio in behind the Revolution back line, and the defender cut in from the left flank and danced along the end line before pulling back for Berbatov in the middle. Revolution goalkeeper Matt Reis did well to slide over from the near post, stopping Berbatov's one-timer with a spectacular effort.
Rooney saw his header cleared away from an open net by Kevin Alston a minute later as United had to settle for level terms at the interval.
Owen sparked a goal flurry by opening the scoring six minutes after half time. It all looked too easy as United strung together an 11-pass sequence in the buildup to stretch out the Revs. Carrick's telling pass concluded the stretch by playing Owen through and permitting him to easily slot home inside the far post past back-up keeper Bobby Shuttleworth.
Macheda doubled the advantage three minutes later as United threatened to run riot. Carrick once again proved instrumental as he latched onto a pass behind the line before playing the Italian striker into space to slot home.
New England struggled to come terms with the match after making six substitutes at halftime, but the Revs hauled back a goal against the run of play in the 56th minute. Mansally drew a rather fortunate free kick on the edge of the penalty area and compounded his luck by deflecting Benny Feilhaber's service into the net.
Macheda put the result beyond doubt five minutes later by scoring his second goal of the evening. Off a short corner, Revolution midfielder Sainey Nyassi flicked his defensive header toward the unmarked Macheda at the back stick and the United striker buried the opportunity inside the near post.
United saved its best goal of the night for last as Park finished off a three-man move in style with nine minutes to play. Gabriel Obertan created the necessary space with a series of stepovers and played a square ball inside the penalty area. Park played a quick one-two with Ryan Giggs to create a one-versus-one behind the Revs' line and then scooped his effort over Bobby Shuttleworth to provide one last highlight for the bumper crowd.
Scoring Summary:
MUFC – Michael Owen (Michael Carrick) 51
MUFC – Federico Macheda (Michael Carrick) 54
NE – Kenny Mansally (Benny Feilhaber) 56
MUFC – Federico Macheda (Rafael) 61
MUFC – Ji-Sung Park (Ryan Giggs) 80
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New England Revolution: Matt Reis (Bobby Shuttleworth 46), Chris Tierney (Darrius Barnes 46), A.J. Soares (Otto Loewy 46), Franco Coria (Ryan Cochrane 46), Kevin Alston (Kenny Mansally 46), Zak Boggs, Benny Feilhaber (Ousmane Dabo 65), Shalrie Joseph, Pat Phelan (Stephen McCarthy 46), Sainey Nyassi (Ryan Guy 65), Rajko Lekic (Zack Schilawski 64)
Substitutes Not Used: Tim Murray, Alan Koger, Diego Fagundez, Andrew Sousa, Ryan Kinne
Manchester United: Anders Lindegaard, Fabio, Jonathan Evans, Nemanja Vidic (Rio Ferdinand 46), Rafael, Ashley Young (Gabriel Obertan 67), Anderson (Mame Diouf 75), Michael Carrick (Ji-Sung Park 75) Nani (Ryan Giggs 67), Dimitar Berbatov (Federico Macheda 46), Wayne Rooney (Michael Owen 46)
Substitutes Not Used: Sam Johnstone
Referee: Mark Geiger
Assistant Referees: Claudio Badea, Steven Taylor
Fourth Official: Niko Bratis
Weather: Cloudy and 69 degrees
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Earlier this month after receiving a little extra in my pay check I went on a bit of a spending spree. I'm currently loving New Look and I spotted this ruched sleeve blazer on their site. I like the tailored look, but I'd describe my style as more casual. I like to be comfortable. This is a perfect compromise. It's also a longline blazer, as I prefer to have at least some of my bottom covered!
This is currently retailing at £24.99 in two colours. The red blazer is available in sizes 6-14 (though I bought mine in a size 18) and the teal is available in sizes 8-12. Not the best size range, but I suppose some of the sizes have sold out.
The blazer is soft and comfortable. I would have found it a little tight across the chest, but there's no button to wear it closed, so that's fine. I found that the lapel on the blazer doesn't sit very well, but this was amended with a little stitch on each side so that they don't flap open. The arm length is also a little long on me, considering it is supposed to be 3/4 length, it is more like a full length sleeve (but maybe I just have short arms!) My main concern with this blazer is that the colour is not true to what is seen on the New Look site. I would say that rather than being red, it is more of a raspberry colour, which is beautiful but not what was expected. I'd imagine that a lot of people have been surprised with the colour upon receiving this, if they've ordered online. I kept mine because I actually prefer the raspberry shade, but it's not to everyone's tastes.
The pockets on the blazer are real which is becoming a rarity, not that I'd use them as this would spoil the tailored look. For a tailored blazer it is more casual, and I'd say more versatile. I've worn it with dresses and wedges at night time, and also with a pair of teal palazzo trousers and black vest top for a daytime look. It's very easy to wear. The material isn't heavy so it doesn't do a good job of keeping me warm, but it's handy to throw on if it's a little chilly outside, but not cold enough to need a proper jacket.
I love the blazer, but there are definitely a few little niggles with it. I could totally understand if someone else ordered it and ended up disliking it.


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If there is no possibility of NRIs coming to India to vote, why should they get enrolled, asks Chief Election Commissioner V S Sampath. Rediff.com's Aziz Haniffa listens in.
For all the hype about voting rights for Non Resident Indians, the number of NRI enrolled on the country's voting lists is a measly 11,000 or less, Chief Election Commissioner V S Sampath disclosed in Washington, DC on Monday, December 16.
In an interaction that followed his keynote address on the 2013 Indian state elections and the forthcoming parliamentary election at The Brookings Institution, a Washington, DC think-tank, Sampath said, "For long, there was absolutely no arrangement for them, even for enrolment. Since a couple of years now, enrolment is better for NRIs and now there is a facility for Indians living abroad -- that is an Indian who has not acquired any foreign citizenship."
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But the CEC acknowledged, "We have still not made arrangements for them to cast their vote from outside the country. They can only seek enrolment, but if they want to cast their vote, they will have to come to the country at the time of the election and vote."
"So, because of this problem," Sampath felt, "there is no great enthusiasm in NRIs, even in enrolment as against millions and millions of NRIs living outside the country."
"People who have got enrolled is less than 11,000. If there is no possibility of coming to the country to vote, why should they get enrolled?" Sampath asked.
"One or two of the things that can be thought of is postal vote," the CEC said. "But under law, these people are not eligible for postal vote."
"Second, even if they are, the period from the last day of finalising the candidate to the date of poll is only 14 days."
"When our people are living in 200 different countries, would it be humanly possible for the presiding officer or the returning officer to send these many ballot papers to Indians living abroad to exercise their franchise and then send it back?" Sampath asked.
"From our experience in postal ballots, even for the defence forces, within the country, the number of people who are able to reach back is few," he said.
"The other option is to think of Internet voting," he said.
"We are very wary of Internet voting as of now because of the possibility of tampering, possibility of fraud, etc," Sampath said.
Even where electronic voting machines are in operation, the CEC said, "The machine is always in our sight and even then, we keep getting complaints from time to time."


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Cancer. Cancer everyhwere!
Union bosses claimed the use of Uber is tantamount to installing a taximeter – which is illegal in minicabs.
And why is it illegal, there must be a good reason for ... oh!
As if London didn't have enough traffic on its streets, the capital's cabbies have vowed to bring the city to a standstill in a protest against the taxi-booking phone app Uber. The big smoke's grumpiest drivers are furious that minicabs are now using Uber to calculate fares and tout for business. Union bosses claimed the use …
Union bosses claimed the use of Uber is tantamount to installing a taximeter – which is illegal in minicabs.
And why is it illegal, there must be a good reason for ... oh!
Brigitte Grouwels needs to understand that to Americans, being called a "cowboy" is a complement. To Americans, being called "European" is an insult.
Not trying to rain on the parade, but I seem to recall the reason minicabs can't have taximeters is because they're not subject to the same rigors as full cabs, which require certain specifications, licenses, etc.
IOW, are minicabs held to the same standards as full cabs? If not, then there's at least a valid reason for the restriction.
".....which require certain specifications, licenses, etc....." Too true!
Firstly, the London cabbie has to learn The Knowledge, a test that covers the 320 main routes through London, all the street names involved, and landmarks and important/popular buildings on the route. To pass the test, they have to be able to answer questions about a random route in an 'interesting, informative and cheerful manner'. I had a mate doing The Knowledge when I was in my first year of my degree and I think I had the far easier learning job! He took six attempts to get his license, failing once because he could not tell the examiner what year the Battle of Trafalgar took place whilst talking through a route past Nelson's Column. Your average cabbie knows more about London and it's history than the majority of the tour guides in the city.
A London cab has to be in good order or the cabbie's license can be revoked, which means they are usually cleaner than your own car, well-serviced, and the design is spacious and comfortable. Your London cabbie also has to be 'of good character' and not have a criminal record, something which Über in no way whatsoever guarantees about their random driver. In short, you could place an order for Uber for an important meeting for your team of four, get a nice pic of 'Ted' and his Merc on your phone, only for the reality to be some guy called Abdul, driving a clapped out Nissan Sunny, with an A-to-Z and a cheap Android phone as his navigation tools. Abdul then proves to speak very limited English, have SFA idea where anything is in London, and you will have to sit on his stained cloth seats whilst he gets lost and you miss your meeting.
Sorry, but after using cabs in places like Eurpoe and the US, it is a relief to come back to the massively better service provided by the London Hackney cabbies. As a cabbie might put it, Uber can go shove their cut-price offering where the sun don't shine, sunshine.
I don't care if the cabbie knows about history. I'm not paying him to talk.
…Could this be yet another barrier to entry set up for the purpose of limiting competition? Hmm…?
As long as he can type "Paddington Station" into his satnav and follow the instructions on the screen, I'm happy, because even if he takes a sub-optimal route, it will still be a lot cheaper.
Sorry, but after using cabs in places like Eurpoe and the US, it is a relief to come back to the massively better service provided by the London Hackney cabbies. As a cabbie might put it, Uber can go shove their cut-price offering where the sun don't shine, sunshine.
So, regardless of the new competition you would welcome the current cabbies. So what is wrong with having the competition? Let the paying punters choose which service they want.
If the current cabbies are providing such excellent service and value for money then surely they should have nothing to fear from the upstart?
As a cabbie might put it, Uber can go shove their cut-price offering where the sun don't shine, sunshine.
Must be the most self-defeating addie for QUALITY cab services ever.
But thanks for the astroturf.
London Taxi's run their meter from the engine so charge based on revolutions, hence sitting still clocks up 60p a minute
Mini cabs charge per mile plus a bit for waiting time
Also, try getting a black taxi outside central London of an evening, they're all full of suits on company accounts and wont want to take you or I home
Mini cabs have plenty of uses filling in where black cabs wont or refuse to go "not worth my while mate" often cited when I want to go from city to harlow at night (I have 2 black cab driver relatives, neither of who I would ant to get into their taxi's)
> the reason minicabs can't have taximeters is because they're not subject to the same rigors as full cabs, which require certain specifications, licenses, etc.
What utter bollocks. That may well be the given reason, but if it were the real reason, we wouldn't see meters in minicabs in any of the UK's other towns or cities, either, because the cars aren't of a high enough specification to have them installed. But of course we do.
Have to say, this article was the first I'd heard that minicabs aren't allowed meters in London. What the actual bucketing fuck? So London minicab drivers just haggle any old price with you, or what? A meter is just a sign that you're not being overcharged. Everywhere else I've been in the UK, the lack of a meter is a big red flag that the driver can't be trusted and you shouldn't get in the car. Which I suppose would be why London cabbies have successfully banned their competition from having them, the bastards. What a blatant and appalling bit of protectionism. A plague on whichever politicians caved to it.
"A meter is just a sign that you're not being overcharged"
Oh really?
When that thoughtless twat jumped under a train on valentines day I spent hours trying to get home in time to go out for a meal with my wife (don't know the details so if it was an accident I apologise for any offence caused - if it was deliberate then we're well rid of such a selfish cunt).
At one point I was desperate enough to ask a cabbie for an estimate of how much it would cost to get me home (this was from Stratford to Colchester).
£200 quid. Wouldn't budge an inch, and actually got quite rudely dismissive after I offered him £100.
If this new model offers a better service and more in line with what the customer wants, then all they [the cabbies] are doing is trying to keep a hold of their monopoly. A pox on them.
> this was from Stratford to Colchester
That's an unusual journey. Above a certain distance, the meter doesn't apply and they're free to negotiate whatever fare they want with you.
> If this new model offers a better service and more in line with what the customer wants, then all they [the cabbies] are doing is trying to keep a hold of their monopoly. A pox on them.
Agreed and agreed.
/Eastenders mode on.
I suggest they leave it. It's not worth it. Unless perchance he's out of order.
Bang aht of ordah, me ole china. Cammon, you can rabbit on abaht it being only a bladdy app on the dog an' bone, but it's taking bread orf us Lahndan cabbies, innit? Ow we going to pay for a pig's ear dahn the rub-a-dub if these bleedin' septic tanks are trying to muscle into our manor? Bit of decent cockney twatting's wot they need, mate, I'll tell yer. When I was a saucepan, we knew 'ow to sort geezers like them aht.
I 'ad that Reggie Kray in the back of the cab once.
Are you perchance suggesting a dry slap?
Reggie's a ginger beer? How would you like both feet nailed to the floor this time?
I say old chaps. I'm awfully sorry, I'm afraid I didn't catch a word of that. Would you mind repeating it in the Queen's own? Top-hole what!
For some unaccountable reason, El Reg doesn't have a twiddling moustache icon! Well I mean, dash it all! What a total shower!
Yoof Acker....
Surely GPS means we dont need drivers with the "knowledge" anymore. Massive cost saving for consumers. Shame for taxi drivers but if we blocked everything that put people out of work we would still be living in mud huts.
"if we blocked everything that put people out of work"
Nope, we don't do that in this country - ever.
See Margaret Thatcher and the Closure of the Mining Industry.
Ah yes, the miners strikes. The go-to for anyone who wants to make a political point, has nothing to say, but thinks they should talk anyway.
They're a great lesson in historical subjectivity. On the one side you had a chancer willing to exploit the miners for personal and political gain, only to abandon them the moment they no longer served purpose; and on the other you had Margaret Thatcher.
Or vice-versa.
The truth is that our political class turned the people of this country against one another so they could score points, and all you bloody idiots fall for it time and time again, picking sides, proclaiming yourselves right and the others wrong, and all the while they take another sliver of control from your life and claim another penny from your pocket, and pat you on the head and tell you it's the other lot that did it.
Spot on. Have an upvote. And a pint 'cos it's Friday.
"Surely GPS means we dont need drivers with the "knowledge" anymore."
Actually you do. One thing that I learned over 10 years of using Satnav, half of that as a lorry driver doing 100,000 miles a year, was that it was only really any good for someone driving as a living for the "last mile" or so and that even with things like Tomtom Traffic IQ it couldn't route for certain times of the day as good as someone with knowledge of road conditions could. There were plenty of times it'd route me a way I would never ever consider given the time of day I would be at a certain point.
Satnav will 100% get you from point A to point B, that there is no doubt. Whether or not the route is the best that it could be is a different question entirely and usually the answer to that is no.
Works both ways, Google nav managed to show almost exactly to a few tens of metres the level of congestion on different sections of the M4 yesterday and the prediction for arrival time was spot on.
As it can now re-route based on whether it is going to take longer to go through the congestion than around it and it stores historical congestion data for times of day, days of week and location it also has the potential to route based upon that - even accounting for how many others have been advised of a less congested route.
Links in to social can also highlight accidents or hazards on the way far quicker than the traffic updates on the radio can.
@Anonymous Coward, the first one in this reply 'thread' (hey what happened to the timestamps of posts to identify which AC you're referring to??)
Too damn right, companies love to do this to divert the attention away form them, like getting their users to blame each other for the service being bad, especially ISPs who have been using their users as scapegoats for their lack of bandwidth since the dawn of 'unlimited' internet access...
As far as satnav (GPS, etc.) goes, much as Conor says, you still need to exert your own intelligence and knowledge.
I did a trip over the holidays, and in order to allegedly save a few minutes in larger cities (Cincinnati, St. Louis, Denver) it seemed to go into 'tour slums' mode (old highways predating the interstates). I still haven't found where I can undo that setting. Had to put up with interminable suggestions to get off the interstates and on to surface streets, sometimes for as much as 60 miles (coming into St. Louis it was advised to go through East St. Louis on surface streets). Neighborhoods where if you get a flat you keep driving " 'cause rims are cheap."
I too wish for the glory days when if you were young and born in the wrong part of the country then the there was a great career for you digging heaps of black shit out of the ground half a mile out under the seabed... for as long as your lungs lasted at least.
But never mind the miners. What about the dockers? That evil bitch Thatcher did for them too by allowing container ports.
Yes. In the glory days, when you were born in the wrong part of the country, there was a great career for you offloading endless sacks of rice and flour and bananas by hand and wheeling them around the dockside... until your back gave in of course.
Spare a thought too for the millions of women who, born into the wrong part of the country, had a great career as a working mum scrubbing the black shit out of clothes by hand half the day. All lost thanks to whichever evil politician at the time decided to allow the use of 'electricity' to power washing machines. (and all sorts of other evil labour-displacing devices).
Solidarity with the masses! Down with Thatcher! Up The Revolution! Etc.
When will we ever learn?
Were you going through these cities or to some destination within them? I've done both in all three cities you listed, and never had that happen. On routes through I got routed on the best highway through (not always staying on the interstate route, often the big cities have beltways that are a better through route - straighter, more lanes than the old interstate route). On routes into the cities it used the best nearest main highway as close as possible to the destination, then surface streets. I've used TomTom and several smartphone satnav apps. Makes me wonder what awful heap of satnav you were using.
Umm...not any more. With smartphone satnav with live traffic awareness and the ability to consider traffic when routing, the phone can actually be better than human experience, because the phone knows about the accident 5 miles ahead that has jammed up everything on what would normally be the best route. It still doesn't always figure the best way, but it gets better every year. And it's way better than the dumb disconnected satnav of the past.
Tried a similar thing 10 years ago but ran into similar problems.
It's a shame that it's taken an American company to really get the black cab drivers' backs up - Could have really used the publicity that Uber are now getting.
.... should ask themselves why Uber is proving popular?
Could it be due to the fact that in an Uber cab they will not be subjected to a torrent of abuse because it isn't a nice fat £50 fare? Such wonderful responses as 'Get out, use the f***ing bus' when stating your destination is exactly what customers using your stupidly overpriced service wish for.
Well, I was going to say that "So, this means that the opinion of cabbies not open to using Uber is going to plummet, right? Nice own goal there, lads,". Looks like you got there first, though. :)
Could not care less about the torrent of abuse. Torrent of attempts to deliberately defraud the customer by giving him the scenic route if the customer has an accent, well that is a different story. London cabbies are nowdays as bad as the Paris and Moscow ones which are probably some of the worst in Europe.
As far as Uber - I would never use them because as some other people have noted you do not know what you are getting. There are plenty of private hire companies, get the phone of one that is big enough to always have a car in your area and use it. Excellent service, comfortable cars (instead of that abominable tourist bait on wheels which the cabbies drive) and ~ 50% of the price. Vetted too.
As others have said - never, ever use a cab anywhere, unless you know the route like the back of your hand and are willing to argue the toss when - not if - the driver deviates from the route. If going somewhere you don't know:
1) Find the number of a couple of private hire companies (if on business, ask someone at the place you are going who they use), and book ahead (which can be as you are getting to the destination if there could reasonably be a delay - e.g. Edinburgh to London).
2) If you got the number from the place you are visiting, say so when you book - no private hire company wants to lose the good opinion of regular customers.
3) ALWAYS get a price for the journey when you call.
4) Use a trip-logging program on your phone to make a record of the route for comparison later.
4) Be sure to get a receipt, even if not on expenses - it makes complaining easier if you need to do so later.
I can't remember if I have told this before: had to go to Glasgow on business last year. I hadn't formulated my above rules at that point (only recently started using the car less and public transport more). Got a cab outside the station - took almost 15 minutes to get to the main hospital, cost about £12, but was shown lots of Glasgow's "main tourist attractions". Three other people attending the same training who were on the same train (didn't know then at that point, so couldn't share with them) also got a cab outside the station - 25 minutes' journey and £16. On the way back we asked the organisers to book us a private hire car - 10 minutes, £8.50, and I didn't recognise a single road after leaving the venue and arriving at the station.
I don't trust cabbies - they might not rape you, but they will certainly screw you ...
Err, there is one major point that I have not seen addressed:
A minicab, privateh hire or London taxi are all licensed, as part of the the vehcle is also licensed as well as the driver. This enforces safety and more importantly, insurance. It would appear that any oik with a car can join this and decide to run a business, without the overheads that professionals have. If that is the case then Uber should not be permited. You cannot ran a business on domestic car insurance. If you do, you are NOT INSURED. Uber drivers and vehicles must undergo the stringent checks. At the end of the day it is for the safetly of the customer. But of course that appears not to matter to many posters as it is cheap.
> It would appear that any oik with a car can join this and decide to run a business, without the overheads that professionals have. If that is the case then Uber should not be permited. You cannot ran a business on domestic car insurance. If you do, you are NOT INSURED. Uber drivers and vehicles must undergo the stringent checks.
You're not following this, are you? Uber meet all local regulations, including the requirement to have proper insurance. TFL have looked into the complaint that Uber are breaking the law and ruled that they are not. In other words, they are regulated.
Try looking stuff up instead of making it up.
So, you are faced with a competitor who undercuts you, actually turns up, is prepared to take you where you want to go (sarf ov the river????) and has a more flexible business. How do you challenge that?
> the demonstration ... will attract many many thousands of cabs
Obvious, innit. Withdraw ALL of your services, leaving the other guy to be the only game in town.
Maybe what London (well, OK: what everywhere) needs is a taxi service who's only barrier to entry is the servicabillity of the vehicle and the lack of criminality of the driver. After that, let anyone with the right insurance in on the game - and let them charge whatever rate they please.
Exactly, who says that any cab company or person should have a "territory" for life (like NYC)? If the competition has a better mousetrap, let them catch mice. Protest yourself out of a job.
By the same token (pun intended) there soon will be no reason to be a taxi cab, bus, subway or tram driver because Google's driverless cars will soon take over the entire market whether it be a bus or a cab they will drive themselves by GPS and all you will have to do is tell the "driver " (computer) where to go. Subways would benefit from automation right now because properly designed controls don't fall to sleep and drive twice as fast as conditions allow. Notice I said "properly designed".
I envision something like the "Johnny Cab" from Total Recall becoming the standard. Trouble is the computer has to recognize the voice commands. SOME customers are going to have trouble with that just like they do today. Should leave some jobs in the maintenance of such systems.
That's fine if you're calling taxis with an app, so you can book the lowest bid or set a maximum price you're willing to pay.
But how's that supposed to work for flagging down taxis? Are you supposed to flag down one after another and ask them the cost for your trip? Or do you just get in and hope they don't tell you its a hundred pounds when you get to your destination that was only three blocks away (tourist trap special!)
Well you seeing as you 'flag them down' using an app you can know the price in advance.
Wait 50 minutes for the cheapest cab or use the one just down the road for a little bit more...
"Subways would benefit from automation right now because properly designed controls don't fall to sleep and drive twice as fast as conditions allow. Notice I said "properly designed"."
Come to Lille. The Lille Metro has, for *over*30*years*, operated a fully automatic driverless metro service. The driverless nature of the system means that the "headway" of the system (technical language for the spacing between consecutive trains) is one minute at peak times, which is a lot of trains per hour, and beyond the capabilities of human-operated trains. Lille operates the world's first system using VAL (Véhicule Automatique Lèger = Light Automatic Vehicle, originally standing for Villeneuve d'Ascq à Lille) trains, although there are now many such systems in cities around the world.
The headway of a metro / underground / subway system is strongly influenced by the nature of the control system, and automatic systems are always able to have a shorter headway than human-driven systems. The main cost-increasing aspect is the need for gates on the platforms to prevent people falling onto the tracks, as the automatic system cannot see obstacles that have fallen on the tracks.
Do you really think the taxi-mafia will allow Google cars? Driverless taxis will have a lot of "accidents", from four punctures all the way to mysterious dousing in petrol near naked flames.
The buggy-whip manufacturers didn't have a clue ...
"most of which will never see a penny of tax paid in the UK"
priceless, coming from the LTDA.
> never see a penny of tax
Even if a cab driver did manage to avoid having their fares recorded, they still pay a significant amount of tax (as we all do).
There's tax on fuel: 58p per litre - tax on the fuel tax (VAT) - making UK diesel the most expensive in the world¹. Then there's VAT on buying the car, car tax and tax on the servicing costs. Do Uber cars have to pay the congestion charge? - another tax!
Even when a cabbie does get home with his (or her) untaxed wad, pretty much everything he/she buys will have 20% VAT to pay on it, too - plus any "sin taxes" like booze & ciggies. Now you might think "it's only VAT - everyone pays that" but bear in mind that VAT is the government's second biggest earner and that you pay the same rate (unlike income taxes) whether you are on minimum wage or £1million a year - and it's easy to realise that even cash in hand will never escape the clutches of the HMRC.
[1] Daily Telegraph, May 6
Taxis and registered private hire vehicles are both exempt from congestion charge.
So the minicab driver working for Uber will not be paying UK fuel levies?
He will not be spending his earnings in the country he lives?
Your arguments are no different for the competition, so you make no point at all...
And LTI loves Londoners so much it moved to India so it's workers will feel at home.
Oh, and the fact they protested against being able to use comfortable Mercedes taxi's instead of overpriced "heater? that's an optional extra at £2,000" Indian made London taxi's, well that worked, don't see any Merc taxi's do we.
Protest away and end up like so many Unionised jobs, outsourced to people willing to work and put up with no monopoly
..you will find your Uber fare has shot up. When sunny and not crowded, the fare will drop down. I prefer knowing that i have a level playing field -- I don't want to be standing under an umbrella discovering that they've priced me out of an Uber-ride.
"rush hour in the rain... "
So you can get a regular taxi then?
"Union bosses claimed the use of Uber is tantamount to installing a taximeter – which is illegal in minicabs."
Is that just a London thing? Round here all the "private hire" taxis have meters in them...