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It's not small talk that's the problem, it's when we pierce the veil of custom and attempt to exchange thoughts with another human. It's a frightening prospect, but there are certain traps we fall into that turn it into an unadulterated nightmare. Thankfully, I'm here to help. Together we can make the world of tomorrow a better, less annoying place!
One - Dreams
When you're in a dream it's the coolest thing, like, ever. You're an omnipotent action hero fighting a monster that's part the kid that picked on you in fourth grade and part Sephiroth from Final Fantasy 7, all while that girl in legal that won't give you the time of day hangs off your arm, worshiping you with her eyes. Then you wake up and can barely remember it.
We all dream. As weird as your dream is, something equally strange happened to someone else last night, or the night before. Part of the weirdness of dreams is how emotions and feelings manifest fully formed - it can take years to fall in love with someone, but you instantly fell for that guy or girl riding the inflatable hoverboard last night; movie after movie tries to fill you with horror, but none of it can match the bedwetting (possibly literally) terror of the closet door from your childhood room slowly swinging open.
However, since you can't relate those emotions to anyone else, your dreams sound like drug fueled hallucinations directed by a three year old with ADD.
Dreams are likely the only virtual reality many of us will ever experience, our own personal Matrix. We're self centered creatures, and dreams take this to the nth level - it's a whole universe that finds its purpose in us.
In fact, have you ever been bored by someone's dream, only to perk up when they mentioned you were in it? Case in point. So keep the dreams to yourself. If you absolutely have to get the details down, start a dream journal that you never, ever share with anyone else. Here's some Lisa Frank stickers to get you started.
Two - Geneaologies
"Now, he wasn't married to Sheila, because he had the marriage annulled on account of her being barren. And that's what she's only my great uncle's cousin, instead of his second wife."
History is important. Interesting, even. That's why we entrust its care to scholars and anyone with a beard on the Discovery Channel. These people make the great events and personalities of the past come alive.
You can't.
You're a guy who spends more on ancestry.com than a month than Sumatran families spend on food in a year. You have no formal training in historical criticism or the socio-cultural milieu of the time you're researching.
Most people have no interest in geneaology. They're not particularly concerned with where their parents went to high school, so knowing your great-great-grandpa Josiah touched Abraham Lincoln's shoe or how many candles Grandma Baloney sold at her Ye Olde Ne'erywacks Store does nothing for them.
Here's what I know about my family: they spent seven generations farming the same patch of dirt in a redneck county for 160 years. They were dirt farmers. Is that interesting to you? No. It doesn't matter what you find out about your ancestors, even if they were Aztec astronauts that invented the escalator. No one but you will care.
And if you do discover something - the blood curse of the beast which swells at midsummer - at least they'll have some investment in that info. Me? I'll shoot silver straight in your heart.
Three - Health Problems
"Well, my crippl'ins is acting up, and that medicine they got me on for it causes my downstairs to itch up something fierce. 'course, I cain't even do that cause my joints trouble me if I move so much as a fly's mustache. But you don't want to hear about that, do you dear?"
I'm looking at you, old people.
Back in the 50's, "How are you?" might have well meant, "Tell me in detail what you're feeling right now."
In this era it's a standardized American greeting. Acceptable responses include "Doing well", "I'm okay", and the ever popular "Fine." Unacceptable responses are anything that make us visualize you sitting on a doctor's cold table, paper gown swaying in the AC, frowning your jowls as you prepare to be invaded by a camera or a spelunking finger.
Co-workers, I didn't forget about you all. What part of sharing an office with someone communicates that it's okay to share the results of your colonscopy? I'm not talking about overhearing it while you tell your spouse, which is annoying; I'm talking about direct, "Hey, want to know how my intestines are doing?" I once had a coworker tell me, "Well, now I know what the inside of my anus looks like."
There is no universe where it's okay for anyone to tell me that. Ever. In another dimension we're silicon based beings that eat with our noses and shit out our ears, and it's still not okay for that to happen.
This doesn't mean we don't care about your health, or want you to die; we only want you to extend to us the same bland, polite apathy we do to you. I keep that mole with the weird borders quiet, you don't tell me when and how often your bowels bleed. Deal?
Four - Babies and kids
"Jenny's nursing now, and I'm so exhausted! She keeps me up all night, just chewing at my nipples till they're all stretched out. And little Tim wants to hold his sister, but - did I tell you he's doing t-ball now? The coach says that..."
You reproduced. Congrats. So did the people down the street from you, the ones you don't talk to because the husband lost his job and you're afraid they'll ask for a handout. What would actually be impressive is if, like a horse, your baby was running as soon as he fell out of you.
To the contrary, most of your stories deal with your kid's inability to do anything well; they're shitting and pissing left and right while babbling like the Insane Clown Posse at a spelling bee. Since we were all children at one point, and most of us had siblings, we've heard these stories before. The fact that your baby is named "Brad" instead of "Stephen" does nothing to keep us interested.
Listen - I like kids, I really do, but secondhand stories of macaroni art make me want to force feed you the teapot/hot air balloon/leprechaun head your kid glued to the page in between surreptitiously eating the paste. Yes, your little princess/slugger eats paste. They call it "art candy."
I'm considerate. I don't tell you about my friends when they're drunk, despite the disturbing similarities to your baby tales. And no matter how hard they chew on my nipples, that's between them, me, and the hypnotherapist I hired to make me forget it all.
Five - Commercials
"I laid awake at nights and fantasized about killing my husband with a knife I called Spousereaver. But thanks to the patented lazy spring suspension system, I've buried all those thoughts deep, deep down! Thanks Slumberco!"
Prior to the 70's, when people told one another about commercials, there was an obvious, easily relatable gag. Absurd humor hadn't entered the mainstream yet, so it didn't take much to get people buzzing at the water cooler.
The listener would think, "Wow, that's funny. Talking cats. I gotta check that stuff out."
Commercials are a visual medium, and an ephemeral one at that. They've grown more sophisticated over the years, such that they seem like short films; unfortunately, this only exacerbates the problem. When someone tells me about a commercial, I stare at them blankly. Then they look vaguely ashamed, like they should, and finish "I guess you had to be there." Yeah, I "guess" I did, to see the thing you're trying to tell me about with words.
Infomercials are a different case; they embrace the narrative for all it's worth, telling us a story about how the woman who couldn't peel a carrot without burning her house down is now a happy, vegetable peeling maniac. We believe in the power of the ShamWow guy, and Billy Mays was damn near an uncle to all of us.
The fifteen second spot for Tide with the talking bubbles? Not so much.
And companies, this word of mouth advertising is doing nothing for sales. When a friend gives me his lame ass rehash of what might have been a cool commercial, I judge you for it. No, it's not fair, but maybe you should start working on a way to make people stop. Maybe you can run PSA's, like Wonder Woman used to.
I hope this advice has been helpful for you. Keep eating your vegetables, don't tell people about stupid shit, and life will go immeasurably better for you!


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Black Power
The Black Power movement is one of the most misunderstood and understudied protest movements in American history (Jeffries 2006). Many whites believed that Black Power was synonymous with violence and black racism. Some black leaders viewed the movement as separatist, following a similar path to that of such earlier movements as Marcus Garvey's (1887–1940) Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), the National Movement for the Establishment of the Forty-ninth State, the Peace Movement of Ethiopia, and the National Union for People of African Descent.
The Black Power movement emerged at a time when the modern civil rights movement was in its final stage as a viable movement for social, political, and economic change. While some contend that the civil rights and Black Power movements were vastly different endeavors, the latter was indeed a logical extension of the former. In fact, many have maintained that Willie Ricks, a civil rights activist, introduced the Black Power slogan during a march in 1966. In 1968 Kwame Ture (then Stokely Carmichael, 1941–1998) defined Black Power as "the ability of black people to politically get together and organize themselves so that they can speak from a position of strength rather than a position of weakness" (quoted in Ladner 1967, p. 8). It is apparent though, that while the Black Power movement was a continuation of the struggle waged by the civil rights movement, it was distinct in many ways.
Black Power organizations such as the Black Panther Party, US, the Republic of New Africa, the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, the Revolutionary Action Movement, and others saw themselves as the heirs to Malcolm X (1925–1965). Malcolm had argued that the nonviolent tactics of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) were not a viable option for black people. Malcolm viewed integration as a surrender to white supremacy, for its aims of total assimilation into white society implied that African Americans had little that was worth preserving.
Malcolm's candid and fiery rhetoric appealed to many urban blacks, and his autobiography was devoured by Black Power advocates. Nat Turner (1800–1831), Che Guevara (1928–1967), Frantz Fanon (1925–1961), Amílcar Cabral (1924–1973), Kwame Nkrumah (1909–1972), Patrice Lumumba (1925–1961), Sékou Touré (1922–1984), and Toussaint Louverture (1743–1803) were also held in high regard. Black Power advocates were inspired by the struggle for African independence.
For many in the Black Power movement, Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth (1961) was considered a blueprint for revolution in America. The Wretched of the Earth distilled the lessons of the Algerian war for anticolonial movements everywhere. In terms of organization building, Garvey's UNIA served as a model for many Black Power advocates.
The 1965 assassination of Malcolm X coupled with the urban uprisings of 1964 and 1965 ignited the Black Power movement. Some young black activists committed themselves to continuing the unfinished work of Malcolm X's Organization of Afro-American Unity by forming their own organizations. During the summer of 1965, the predominantly black Watts district in Los Angeles reached its boiling point and erupted in violence in response to the mistreatment of a black motorist by members of the California Highway Patrol. This uprising was arguably the most catastrophic of its era; it signaled to America that some blacks were willing to lash out against the establishment in a violent way when consistently denied the most basic of human rights. Ironically, this rebellion occurred just a few days after the passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Consequently, for many blacks it was clear that oppression was too deeply entrenched in America's institutions to be overcome by civil rights legislation that addressed the symptoms and symbols of black inequality rather than the root causes.
By 1968 the Black Power movement was in full gear. Thousands of blacks all over the country took to the streets in response to the killing of Dr. King. Months later, black athletes staged protests at the Olympic Games in Mexico City as a way of bringing attention to the plight of African Americans in the United States.
The Black Power movement was dispersed throughout the United States. The civil rights movement, on the other hand, was to a large extent a southern-based movement. Unlike the civil rights movement, whites were prohibited from joining any of the Black Power organizations. With the exception of the Black Panther Party, Black Power organizations did not form alliances with white groups. Black Powerites sought to be free of any white influence or interference.
While all of the Black Power organizations believed in black control of their communities, they were not monolithic in their approach to that end. The civil rights movement sought to dismantle desegregation in public accommodations and to exercise the right of black Americans to vote. For many Black Powerites, integration was a nonissue and nonviolence was out of the question. The political philosophy of the organizations that comprised the Black Power movement ran the gamut. Some were black nationalist, others were cultural nationalist, while still others considered themselves Marxist-Leninist.
The Black Power movement was preoccupied with increasing black people's level of consciousness. Black people began calling themselves black instead of negro. Congressman Adam Clayton Powell (1908–1972) of New York spoke of Black Power at a rally in 1965 in Chicago and elaborated on it in his Howard University commencement speech the following year. He exclaimed that Black Power was "a working philosophy for a new breed of cats … who categorically refuse to compromise or negotiate any longer for their rights … who reject the old-line established white financed, white controlled, white washed Negro leadership" (quoted in Muse 1970, p. 242).
The Black Power movement not only represented a change in tactical strategy, but also a change in mind-set. For instance, the black music industry, with its roots in gospel and rhythm and blues became nationalist in an extraordinary way. Songs like James Brown's "Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud" (1968), the Temptations' "Message to a Black Man," (1969) and the Impressions' "We're a Winner" (1967) established a distinctive sound that became the preferred expression for a generation of politically conscious young black Americans. Some blacks chose to don African garb and adopt African names. Some chose to wear their hair in ways that were more distinctively nonwhite. In the fall of 1966, Howard University students elected as homecoming queen a woman who ran on a Black Power platform and wore the emerging Afro hairstyle. "Black Is Beautiful" became the mantra among Black Powerites.
Young black activists from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, to the University of California at Berkeley established black student unions and demanded black studies programs, more black faculty, and proactive recruitment and admissions policies. Black Power advocates claimed that most African Americans knew little about their history. Carter G. Woodson (1875–1950) had made the same point years earlier: "The Negro knows practically nothing of his history and his 'friends' are not permitting him to learn it.… And if a race has no history, if it has no worth-while tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of extermination" (Wiggins 1987, p. 45; Young 1982, p. 100).
Black Power advocates felt little need to prove to whites that they were deserving of the same rights. From their standpoint, to whom were whites to be equal? They believed that their time would be better spent educating the community, building institutions, and meeting the daily needs of the people by providing protection, food, shelter, and clothing.
The Black Power movement did not grow out of a vacuum; it was firmly rooted in the rich tradition of black protest. Like the slave rebellions and the Garvey movement, it was extensively organized. Its use of the written word, art, and culture to heighten the consciousness of the black community also linked the movement to the Harlem Renaissance (or the New Negro Renaissance), which relied heavily on these black expressive endeavors.
The Black Power movement also heightened the consciousness of other oppressed peoples throughout the world and greatly influenced the direction of their movements. The Black Power movement had a profound impact, for example, on the struggle for equality in the Caribbean, where freedom fighters started the Afro-Caribbean movement, activists in Barbados formed the People's Progressive Movement, and grassroots organizers in Bermuda launched the Black Beret group (Jeffries 2006).
By the mid-1970s, the Black Power movement was for all intents and purposes over. Government repression, which included assassinations of Black Panthers Mark Clark and Fred Hampton in Chicago, and Carl Hampton of Houston, raids, arrests, and harassment of many of the movement's members, gets much of the credit for the decline of the Black Power movement. In addition to repression, by 1973 African American activists had begun to concentrate their efforts on getting blacks and progressive whites elected to public office. Some saw the electoral process as a significantly less dangerous undertaking. Intragroup squabbles and government programs such as welfare (which underwent a loosening of eligibility requirements) also worked to dampen militant activism. While a few Black Power organizations remained active well into the mid-1970s, by the time of the election of President Jimmy Carter in November 1976, the Black Power movement was dead.
SEE ALSO Black Panthers; Civil Rights Movement, U.S.; Congress of Racial Equality; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Jeffries, Judson L., ed. 2006. Black Power in the Belly of the Beast. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Ladner, Joyce. 1967. What "Black Power" Means to Negroes in Mississippi. Transaction (November): 7–15.
Muse, Benjamin. 1970. The American Negro Revolution: From Nonviolence to Black Power, 1963–1967. New York: Citadel.
Ogbar, Jeffrey O. G. 2004. Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Van DeBurg, William L. 1992. New Day in Babylon: The Black Power Movement and American Culture, 1965–1975. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Wiggins, William H. 1987. O Freedom! Afro-American Emancipation Celebrations. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
Young, Alfred. 1982. The Historical Origin and Significance of the Afro-American History Month Observance. Negro History Bulletin 45: 100–101.
Judson L. Jeffries
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The Black Power movement grew out of the civil rights movement that had steadily gained momentum through the 1950s and 1960s. Although not a formal movement, the Black Power movement marked a turning point in black-white relations in the United States and also in how blacks saw themselves. The movement was hailed by some as a positive and proactive force aimed at helping blacks achieve full equality with whites, but it was reviled by others as a militant, sometimes violent faction whose primary goal was to drive a wedge between whites and blacks. In truth, the Black Power movement was a complex event that took place at a time when society and culture was being transformed throughout the United States, and its legacy reflects that complexity.
In the 1950s and early 1960s, groups such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (naacp) and the southern christian leadership conference (SCLC) worked with blacks and whites to create a desegregated society and eliminate racial discrimination. Their efforts generated positive responses from a broad spectrum of people across the country. Rev. martin luther king jr., who headed the SCLC, made significant headway with his adherence to nonviolent tactics. In 1964, President lyndon b. johnson signed the civil rights act and a year later he signed the voting rights act.
civil rights legislation was an earnest and effective step toward eliminating inequality between blacks and whites. Even with the obvious progress, however, the reality was that prejudice could not be legislated away. Blacks still faced lower wages than whites, higher crime rates in their neighborhoods, and unspoken but palpable racial discrimination. Young blacks in particular saw the civil rights movement as too mainstream to generate real social change. What they wanted was something that would accelerate the process and give blacks the same opportunities as whites, not just socially but also economically and politically. Perhaps more important, they felt that the civil rights movement was based more on white perceptions of civil rights than black perceptions.
Not all blacks had been equally impressed with the civil rights movement. malcolm x and the nation of islam, for example, felt that racial self-determination was a critical and neglected element of true equality. By the mid-1960s, dissatisfaction with the pace of change was growing among blacks. The term "black power" had been around since the 1950s, but it was stokely carmichael, head of the student nonviolent coordinating committee (SNCC), who popularized the term in 1966.
Carmichael led a push to transform SNCC from a multiracial community activist organization into an all-black social change organization. Late in 1966, two young men, huey newton and bobby seale, formed the black panther party for self-defense (BPP), initially as a group to track incidents of police violence. Within a short time groups such as SNCC and BPP gained momentum, and by the late 1960s the Black Power movement had made a definite mark on American culture and society.
The Black Power movement instilled a sense of racial pride and self-esteem in blacks. Blacks were told that it was up to them to improve their lives. Black Power advocates encouraged blacks to form or join all-black political parties that could provide a formidable power base and offer a foundation for real socioeconomic progress. For years, the movement's leaders said, blacks had been trying to aspire to white ideals of what they should be. Now it was time for blacks to set their own agenda, putting their needs and aspirations first. An early step, in fact, was the replacement of the word "Negro" (a word associated with the years of slavery) with "black."
The movement generated a number of positive developments. Probably the most noteworthy of these was its influence on black culture. For the first time, blacks in the United States were encouraged to acknowledge their African heritage. colleges and universities established black studies programs and black studies departments. Blacks who had grown up believing that they were descended from a backwards people now found out that African culture was as rich and diverse as any other, and they were encouraged to take pride in that heritage. The Black Arts movement, seen by some as connected to the Black Power movement flourished in the 1960s and 1970s. Young black poets, authors, and visual artists found their voices and shared those voices with others. Unlike earlier black arts movements such as the Harlem Renaissance, the new movement primarily sought out a black audience.
The same spirit of racial unity and pride that made the Black Power movement so dynamic also made it problematic—and to some, dangerous. Many whites, and a number of blacks, saw the movement as a black separatist organization bent on segregating blacks and whites and undoing the important work of the civil rights movement. There is no question that Black Power advocates had valid and pressing concerns. Blacks were still victims of racism, whether they were being charged a higher rate for a mortgage, getting paid less than a white coworker doing the same work, or facing violence at the hands of white racists. But the solutions that some Black Power leaders advocated seemed only to create new problems. Some, for example, suggested that blacks receive paramilitary training and carry guns to protect themselves. Though these individuals insisted this device was solely a means of self-defense and not a call to violence, it was still unnerving to think of armed civilians walking the streets.
Also, because the Black Power movement was never a formally organized movement, it had no central leadership, which meant that different organizations with divergent agendas often could not agree on the best course of action. The more radical groups accused the more mainstream groups of capitulating to whites, and the more mainstream accused the more radical of becoming too ready to use violence. By the 1970s, most of the formal organizations that had come into prominence with the Black Power movement, such as the SNCC and the Black Panthers, had all but disappeared.
The Black Power movement did not succeed in getting blacks to break away from white society and create a separate society. Nor did it help end discrimination or racism. It did, however, help provide some of the elements that were ultimately necessary for blacks and whites to gain a fuller understanding of each other.
further readings
Carmichael, Stokely, and Charles V. Hamilton. 1967. Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America. New York: Vintage Books.
Cross, Theorore. 1984. The Black Power Imperative. New York: Faulkner.
Van Deburg, William, L. 1992. New Day in Babylon: The Black Power Movement and American Culture. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press.
Black Panther Party; Carmichael, Stokely; Civil Rights Acts; Malcolm X; Nation of Islam; NAACP; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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Black Power
BLACK POWER encompasses a political belief in self-determination, anti-racism, and racial consciousness among African Americans. The term became prominently known when, in June 1966 during a protest march in the South, Stokely Carmichael (later Kwame Turé) and Willie Ricks of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee used the phrase as a rallying cry. The ambiguity of the term led to many different interpretations. The media and some mainstream civil rights organizations saw Black Power as negative because of its perceived anti-white and separatist tone. But others, ranging from black intellectuals to political activists, saw Black Power as a positive expression of cultural nationalism. Over time, it became another means by which black Americans united themselves to achieve equality, freedom, and dignity.
Carmichael, Stokely, and Charles V. Hamilton. Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America. London: Cape, 1968.
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., and Kwame Anthony Appiah, eds. "Black Power." In Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. New York: Basic Civitas Books, 1999.
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See alsoAfrican Americans ; Radicals and Radicalism ; andvol. 9:Black Power Speech ; andpicture (overleaf).
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Ukraine is on the verge of major armed conflict as government forces launch their first significant military action in the east of the country, where they have clashed with about 30 armed pro-Russian gunmen at a provincial airfield.
Shots were fired in Kramatorsk airport as Ukrainian special forces stormed in to reassert Kiev's control. As troop helicopters hovered above and tempers flared, a Ukrainian general was set upon by a group of local people incensed that two protesters had been injured, knocking off his military-issue fur hat and yelling, "Jail him."
At the same time as Kramatorsk airport was being seized, elite Ukrainian units were also gathering outside the nearby city of Slavyansk in an operation aimed at taking back control from armed pro- Russian groups.
The deployment involved regular army troops alongside special forces from the interior ministry and the security service in at least nine troop carriers and seven buses. Tracked troop carriers could be seen parked in the woods.
It was the first major operation since the Ukrainian government vowed to take "anti-terrorist" action if the rebels did not vacate government buildings in eastern Ukraine. A smaller, abortive operation in Slavyansk on Sunday ended in a shoot-out, in which one Ukrainian soldier died and two were wounded, apparently by pro-Russian forces.


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Schoolgirl stomped to death by stranger after sending text message to boyfriend
A BIKER allegedly stomped to death a 14-year-old girl only seconds after she texted her boyfriend saying: "I almost got kidnapped, OMFG."
James Van Callis is now on trial for murdering April Millsap, whose body was found in a drainage ditch in July 2014.
A jury heard she was walking her dog, Penny, when 34-year-old Van Callis stopped his motorbike, dragged her into the woods and tried to rape her.
When she resisted he beat her and stomped on her body, the court heard.
Assistant Prosecutor William Dailey told the jury: "She was literally beat and stomped to death."
Dailey said she was found with her clothes "literally ripped off her" and her shorts and underwear around her ankles.
Witnesses saw her talking to a man on a motorcycle before continuing to walk up the path. It was at this point that she texted her boyfriend saying "I nearly got kidnapped OMFG".
"She was literally beat and stomped to death"William Dailey, prosecutor
The trial in Michigan, US, heard from an FBI phone and computer expert who retraced April's steps using her fitness app and Google Earth.
Prosecutors claim Van Callis dumped her belongings, including the phone, after the murder near the town of Armada, just outside Detroit.
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Last month the Daily Star Online reported the case of April Millsap as one of several where someone sent a chilling text message moments before their death.
Seconds later Van Callis is alleged to have returned and attacked her.
Her body was discovered by joggers who had been alerted by her dog, which was standing guard over her and barking.
Van Callis denies first degree murder, kidnapping and attempted sexual assault.
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There's nothing more alluring than the aroma of fresh baked bread, and now this scintillating scent is wafting through the streets of Salisbury. Since April, Salisbury Breads has been satisfying everyone's carb cravings, thanks to Pete Hathaway, whom the town already has to thank for its coffee shop, The Roost, and its luxurious B&B, the Ragamont Inn. Hathaway knows that man does not crave bread alone, so he and his baker stock the shelves with other treats, both savory and sweet, along with an array of stylish and whimsical wares from Hunter Bee. RI's Tara Kelly says it's worth stopping by, especially on Sundays, when the sticky buns emerge from the oven.
Pete Hathaway, transplanted New Yorker, man-about-town, and — as former head of 18th century European furniture and decorative arts at Sotheby's — arbiter of great taste, is well on his way to claiming a new sobriquet: savior of Salisbury. When he came to town 10 years ago he restored the landmarked Ragamont Inn, which is now a sumptuous bed and breakfast and special events venue, with exquisite in-house catering. Last fall when The Roast, the first stop of the day for a wide range of worker bees and a favored hang-out for the coffee set, abruptly closed, Hathaway stepped up and reopened it, wittily christening his new coffee shop The Roost. This rescue delayed by a few months his alread-in-the-works plan to open Salisbury Breads, a bonafide, made-fresh-daily-on-the-premises bread bakery.
Salisbury Breads is actually the dream come true of Hathaway's chef, Bruce Young (in photo, at right). Young describes himself as a chef who bakes. And what he truly loves to bake is bread. He started working for Hathaway at The Ragamont two years ago. Over time, the vacant storefront in the historic Eliza Peet building across the way on Main Street beckoned to Young. Hathaway agreed to work with him to create the bread shop of everyone's dreams. Young still does all the catering for Ragamont House and oversees the menu at The Roost, but now he's also in the bakery's kitchen nearly every morning at 6, elbow deep in dough. Not just any dough: Young only uses certified organic flour.
Hathaway said the response has been terrific since Salisbury Breads opened for business on April 12. "People are just coming out of the woodwork," he said. "A lot of them I've never seen before. And the best part is they keep coming back." Indeed, it's exactly the kind of shop where customers can pop in, get their daily bread and be on their way.
The French-bakery style display racks seem to empty as soon as they are filled. Each loaf of bread practically suggests how you should eat it. The baguette nearly cries out to be sliced into rounds, toasted and slathered with a soft cheese. The peasant boule would be perfect for thick, lusty sandwiches or bruschetta; for variety, try the French miche, which has a slight sourdough tang, or the multi-grain loaf made with flax and sunflower seeds plus oats and millet. Any one of the four varieties of flatbread — carmelized onion; tomato and oregano; arugula and pinenuts; or piave cheese — is a meal in itself, a worthy stand in for pizza. And who could resist ficelle? These impossibly thin sticks of bread just beg to be dipped in a thick creamy soup or, as in France, served alongside soft-boiled eggs. On Sundays mornings there are sticky buns, which the after-church crowd will appreciate.
Recognizing the adage that man cannot live by bread alone, Salisbury Breads also offers pies, both full-size and five-inch personal-size. The pie menu will change with the seasons; expect to find strawberry-rhubarb, mixed berry, and apple, as local produce rolls in. Young also admits to making a "mean Key-lime pie," which we surmise will fly off the shelves. If you care as much about style as substance (Hathaway and Young clearly do), take your pie home in a lovely ceramic serving dish that you can borrow from the bakery, with a modest deposit. Whether you admit to your dinner guests that the pie is store bought is up to you.
Breads range in price from $2.50 for the ficelle to $9.50 for the French miche. There is challah on Fridays only: on Saturdays there is brioche. The Sunday sticky buns (devilishly tempting as proffered by Hawk Blumert, right) are $14.50 for a half dozen or $2.50 each. Pies are priced by size and filling.
Come summer the store also will sell locally grown flowers and produce. In the meantime, for added inspiration, Hunter Bee, the antiques store just over the border in Millerton, NY, has set up a small satellite shop in the room behind the bread shop. Here you'll find a delightful array of housewares including dessert plates, pitchers, vases, lamps, even a stack of picnic baskets — typifying the whimsical wares for which Hunter Bee is known. — Tara Kelly
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The celebration of Woody Guthrie's 100th birthday, a yearlong event, kicked off in Tulsa, Okla., five days ago. Panel moderator and Grammy Museum Executive Director Bob Santelli explained this week's events in Texas and those planned for the rest of the year as a celebration of the folksinger's legacy – why he was important then, now, and in the future. Two of Guthrie's children spoke about the man they knew. Nora Guthrie claimed that the Woody at 100 celebration will "visit as many states as possible to replant the seeds of his ideas. Of course we started in the red states." Rice University historian Douglas Brinkley spoke of an upcoming book that he helped curate, House of Earth, Guthrie's "only fully realized novel," and how it will broaden the artist's reputation of being incredibly difficult to pin down to one art form. Arlo Guthrie was his usual persnickety self, rambling and highly amusing, yet he offered the most cogent analysis of why his father and Pete Seeger remain important in the 21st century. "They were links on a chain. They weren't singing in the key of 'me,' they were singing in the key of 'us.'"
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Geography strongly influences Chile's territorial reach. With the Andes Mountains forming a wall along the eastern side of the country, the Atacama Desert at the northern region of the country and the South Andean Ice Field to the south, there are natural boundaries shaping the country's territory. Chile is one of the few countries in the world that has such clearly defined natural protection from outside invasion. The western boundary is the Pacific ocean and that is the only easy approach to … [Read more...]
Tax Evasion, Corruption And Social Programs – Greece's Industrial Cycle
Greece has a large tourist industry and a large shipping industry. Modern Greece has evolved at the periphery of Europe and along the main trade routes of the Mediterranean Sea. From the end of the Second World War until the financial collapse of 2008, Greece's industrial growth was faster than other European Union countries. After the financial collapse of 2008, Greece fell into economic chaos as the government absorbed cumulative debt reaching over 170 percent of annual Gross Domestic … [Read more...]
Taxes, Jingoism and The Realities of European Politics – Great Britain's Territorial Cycle
During the last year there has been considerable debate over the possibility of Great Britain leaving the European Union. The common complaints are, the EU is a drain on the British economy, British tax payers are bailing out other countries rather than receiving goods and services for their tax dollars, immigration, I am not a European I'm an Englishman, and the list goes on. But there's more to consider here than short-term economic conditions and British chauvinistic pride. Western Europe … [Read more...]
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France, by many standards, has the highest quality of life on the face of the planet. I know this is an opinion, but it's not an unusual opinion. The problem is sustaining that high quality of life and extending it more broadly. For hundreds of years the French, Germans and British fought over control of Europe. Since the establishment of the European Union those conflicts and animosities have been held in check. For almost fifty years from 1946 until 1994 when the European monetary system … [Read more...]


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The ethically-minded designer and shop owner, whose husband Colin Firth is also an Oxfam Ambassador, joins an impressive line-up of stars who have taken on the role in the past, including Scarlett Johansson and Chris Martin.
A long-time supporter of Oxfam, Livia has not only hosted fundraising events in the UK, America and her native Italy but has also visited the programmes in Bangladesh and Zambia.
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1. A person, usually a woman, who is trained to assist women in childbirth.
2. One who assists in or takes a part in bringing about a result: "In the Renaissance, artists and writers start to serve as midwives of fame" (Carlin Romano).
tr.v. mid·wifed, mid·wif·ing, mid·wifes or mid·wived (-wīvd′) or mid·wiv·ing (-wī′vĭng) or mid·wives (-wīvz′)
1. To assist in the birth of (a baby).
2. To assist in bringing forth or about: "Washington's efforts to midwife a Mideast settlement" (Newsweek).
[Middle English midwif : probably mid, with (from Old English; see me-2 in the Appendix of Indo-European roots) + wif, woman (from Old English wīf; see WIFE).]
Word History: The word midwife was formed in Middle English from two elements, mid and wife. At first glance, the meaning of wife would would seem to be clear. However, wife often meant simply "woman" in general in Middle English, not specifically "female spouse" as it most often does in Modern English. The other element in midwife, the prefix mid-, is probably the Middle English preposition and adverb mid, meaning "together with." Thus a midwife was literally a "with-woman"—that is, "a woman who is with another woman and assists her in giving birth." The etymology of obstetric is even more descriptive of a midwife's role. Its Latin source obstetrīx, "a midwife," is formed from the verb obstāre, "to stand in front of," and the feminine suffix -trīx; the obstetrīx would thus literally stand in front of the baby as it was being born.
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The new Mini Clubvan has claimed a top industry award just months after being unveiled at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.
The Clubvan, which starts at £11,175, claimed the 2013 What Van? Awards' Editor's Choice prize.
Mini's latest offering received recognition for providing style, efficiency and driving dynamics which are not generally associated with light commercial vehicles.
What Van? Editor Paul Barker said that the motor's arrival in the light commercial vehicle arena was the "most exciting and charismatic for many years".
He added that the Mini Clubvan would be particularly beneficial for smaller firms thanks to its combination of workman-like light van practicality with a style that is not available elsewhere in the market.
Mr Barker also said that the model provided unrivalled driving pleasure and fuel efficiency.
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The new Mini is built at Oxford's Mini Plant.
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SEVEN MILE MESA. Seven Mile Mesa is near Cold Spring, between the tracks of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway on the north and Interstate Highway 10 on the south, seven miles northeast of Fort Stockton in central Pecos County. The summit (at 30°56' N, 102°53' W) rises to an elevation of 3,195 feet. Seven Mile Mesa was named for its proximity to Fort Stockton. In 1849 United States Army captain William Henry Chase Whiting described the mesa and named it Iron Mountain, for what he called brown "iron stone" around its base.
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Enjoy your newer style tri-level home built in 2000 with a walkout basement and attached 2 car garage. The home is set in 4.4 beautiful wooded acres in the Forest Lakes Area. The main floor offers an open kitchen with island, living and dining room. The upper floor has three bedrooms and a full bath. Lower level family area has a family room with wood burning stove, full bath, laundry, and mechanical area. The home has clean modern exterior design with great multi-level decks for outdoor entertaining and relaxation. Current owner rebuilt the #7 Cabin from the Spider Lake Retreat as a storage shed. Wooded lands are perfect for walking and hiking paths - some wetland areas. Close to Spider, Arbutus, and Rennie Lakes as well as snowmobile and motorcycle trails, Tart Trail, and Timber Ridge. The location gives a feeling of privacy while only 9 miles from all the amenities of Traverse City. Home is being sold as is - could use new carpet and a little TLC.
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SARS officially opens state-of-the-art George branch
The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has officially opened a new state-of-the-art branch in George, in the Western Cape which offers free Wi-Fi to taxpayers.
Opened on Friday by SARS Commissioner Tom Moyane, the George branch is the first SARS branch in the country to offer free Wi-Fi to taxpayers.
At the branch taxpayers can eFile or use the eFiling App from their tablet or phone and file their tax return.
Commissioner Moyane said the revenue service is committed to delivering excellent service to taxpayers.
"SARS is wholeheartedly committed to expanding our service footprint throughout the country. Our goal is to make it as easy and convenient as possible for taxpayers to interact with us. We are committed to ensuring that our branches are more taxpayer-centric and modern, giving taxpayers a pleasant experience," he said.
The George office is the prototype for future braches. The office sports the newly introduced eDNA taxpayer verification system which assists in safeguarding taxpayer information and preventing fraud.
The eDNA system validates taxpayer identity against information on the Department of Home Affairs databases using both the ID number and biometrics (fingerprints) of the taxpayer.
The branch is the first to launch digital signage which displays posters, notices and signs that provide real-time information to taxpayers while they wait.
There are also dedicated small business desks aimed at servicing the small business sector.
Information packs of small business material as well as specialised service will be offered at the small business desks, providing a one-stop shop for those with small business queries.
Small business queries such as business registrations, requests for tax clearance certificates and general business tax issues will be dealt with at these desks.
The vision of the revenue service is to have a self-service area where taxpayers can use SARS equipment while be advised by SARS staff.
In addition to the opening of the branch, SARS has also deployed 15 mobile tax units to service remote areas of South Africa.
Since opening its doors on 27 June 2016, the George branch has assisted 36 356 taxpayers. Approximately 16 000 of these taxpayers visited the branch to file their income tax returns.
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Sep 17, 2011
Sub 9 or sublime?
You'll be doing stoppies with those bad boys.
Sub 9, BTG
EBC Ultimax slotted discs, nearly new. Mintex M1177 race pads half worn, a set of new road pads and Prawns lifetime supply of part worn pads.
This was Prawns ultimate incarnation of the LCR setup. And it worked faultlessly.
Is your car actually fast enough to warrant bigger brakes jardo? :b
Looks about as quick as your RS4 from 40-70.
426g/s, enough airflow to make your torque app explode.
Actual fact.
ATE Super Blue has 30% off on Euro website at the moment.
For those who want to know.
Paul has posted out my new mounts, so just waiting on them and then I can start doing bits and pieces.
I want to do "stuff", I don't know what. But I am bored of cleaning.
Cars looking good, the paintwork looks immaculate! Are you keeping the calipers orange or changing the colour?
Oh wow.
Prawn and I have just spent the morning totally transforming my car, it's all got a bit serious now.
Given it another wash?
It rained if that's what you mean.
Put S3 badges on em
I purchased some used engine mounts from RedBull/Paul.
Prawn filled them with pourable poly, 1KG for both mounts - Polytek Poly PT Flex 85 Fast Cure - Shore A85 Polyurethane Rubber - 1kg | eBay
More on them later.
I was told to meet Nick at his house at 10. Like that was ever going to happen.
Had a cheeky wash and hoover at the local eastern Europeans, bloody good too. Always use them for a simple wash.
Arrived at Nicks at 5 to 9, and waxed my car. With Angel Wax Desire courtesy of this months Waxybox.
Nick was not happy about this, his neighbour was very happy to see me though. She's lovely.
Then I walked to Sainsburys to get his other neighbour her paper.
Came back, Prawn made coffee and I ate biscuits. Then we got on with it.
Old cruddy 312's.
Old cruddy 312's off.
Prawn won't work without his blankey.
Smeagol making the pad wear sensors short out.
Cleaning the hub faces.
Not a huge difference in disc diameter, but the thickness is huge.
One side on, kevlar lines. Obviously.
It rained, Prawn was sad about this.
Desire was doing its job though, we were both mesmerized at the water just not being able to sit on my car. It was constantly moving and pouring off.
Next side on.
85 shore engine mounts fitted.
And then I squirreled underneith and did the dogbone for my old Super-Pro race bushed one, which was still perfect but was causing issues with the worn engine mounts.
Started her up. Hoooooly **** these mounts are loud and grumbly! And utterly beautiful.
My car has effectively become a petrol powered love machine, the entire interior shakes. But not a violent broken shake, a beautifully connected and smooth vibration. Like the car is happy. This is good.
The mounts will hopefully soften slightly with time, but if they stay like this I'm not bothered by the vibration. Most people would hate it, but most people don't want super stiff engine mounts.
So be warned, these are not quiet. They feel LOVELY, really really full on good. But they're noisy, noisier than the engine.
They are unholy style good compared to 312's, especially with the Mintex M1177 race pads and new EBC Ultimax slotted discs Prawn has given me.
They were Prawns final incarnation of the LCR brake kit, and the ones he was happiest with performance wise. So to have gone from 4 year old worn out 312's which I thought were great to these is a bit of a large step.
The power isn't the best in the world, but the brake feel and the pedal response is instant. Very progressive but short, literally perfect.
Obviously bled with ATE Super Blue.
Car looks rather different with a lairy set of brakes.
The new increased stopping power has highlighted worn subframe bushes, so 034 solid bushes from WOT will be ordered on Monday.
Very, very happy. All of a sudden with the solid mounts and brakes the poly suspension bushes are coming alive, and the car doesn't feel old anymore. It feels so tight and responsive.
Next chapter is the Project camber top plates which are en-route and coilovers. I can't wait.
Nice one chap
It really is properly good, all feels very tight and connected now, no drive train shunt or overrun jolt like before, and it puts the power down nicer too with no wheel hop.
Very impressed. Brakes are top notch too
cars looking really well fella, i want some shiny progressive brakes now!-) i got tyre screech at 70ish yesterday not fun!
Thanks for your help and commitment during the rain, wouldn't have actually done it without you
The screaching is back, so embarrassing...Because Racecar.
What's wrong with your brakes Arn? 312's? How is it possible to lock them at 70?
im not sure, they gave a decent chirp not so much a lock up when everything stopped on the dual carriage way and i was accerating pretty hard? they are stockers yeah, abs seems to work at low speeds? little odd i guess but they feel ok if a little bit insufficient since the remap??
Probably just contaminates on the discs, if you don't drive hard they will build up. Go give them a 5/6 controlled, hard stops from 70mph to 10mph and then drive them for 5 mins without touching the brakes. See if you can bed some life back into them.
Nice work. The new mounts make a nice difference don't they? They should bed in a bit though. Mine are pretty solid. You have to pull away perfect and not labour it else it's pretty bad
Yeah man, it's like fitting a dogbone bush x1000.
Nice work Prawn!
So the mounts are good then? Cant wait to fit mine lol. They dont sound loud either, just sounds like engine and exhaust noise to me.
Good work lads (mainly Prawn). All this modding is making me jealous.
Nice review there of the mounts...I was a bit sceptical at first once mine was fitted due to the amount of vibration in the cabin, but thankfully it softened up as it wasn't pleasant on idle. (Not for me but the women loved sitting in traffic! Lol)
Should work wonders for you at ADI with the mounts and brakes
Nice work Prawn (sorry Jardo)
my job is getting these filled this week hopefully, and shipping out your top mounts hopefully, or giving them to Nick for you to pick up
Think i'm gonna try this on mine. My brakes are poop at the moment, but it was sat for at least a month I think previous to me buying it...which I'm sure hasn't helped.
Oh, and your new brakes do look good! Glad they work well too.
Just had a midnight hoon home, 6* ambient temps as well as the brakes and mounts.
She is gooood!
Cheers for all the kind words lads, much appreciated.
Nice work man! If prawn did that for me, I'd give him pakora's hehe! Heard you been looking at TT's ey jardo? Haha
Oh Tin Turtles.
Prawn did alright out of fitting my new brakes, he got a full 312 setup, a set of engine mounts and a new dogbone.
I am finding the pads a hard transition compared to what I am used to, last night I did a long slow brake onto a set of lights because that's how I am used to braking with the worn 312's. Then after the roundabout about 40 yards after the lights someone pulled out in front of me and I just touched he brakes and scrubbed off 20/30mph in seconds.
I can't wait to try them on track.
Get these super duper brakes they said. Mintex M1177's are awesome they said.
That much dust is after a twenty minute drive.
Fitted on Sunday morning, I have used 500ml of Demon Shine cleaning my wheels already.
Why do you think I have black wheels
My offer still stands.
Come round tomorrow night and I'll fit some totally stock brembo pads in exchange for the mintex back. See how you get on with the stock ones, far less dust, and for your needs still PLENTY of power, they also won't squeal and wake the neighbours
But they are SO good.
I LOVE them.
I might buy a set of DS2500's as a slight step down. What pads have you got left?
Black doesn't help too much either heh. This is mine with Pagids after a few days:
They just go brown !
Black means you just don realise how dirty they are till you come to clean them and it takes hours.
Prawns wheels are brown too.
I have sourced a set of TT Comps with P Zero Corsas off Paul, so will get those picked up soon. Then they can get as dusty as they want.
DS2500s are terrible for burning into the alloy finish too....and eat discs.... utter ****e... IMO
The problem is clearly that people fit "race" pads to road cars and run them way below their adhesive operating window, making **** loads of dust and eating their discs.
But it's ok because when they DO brake properly their face is torn off.
Can you use them on the daily grind as they are meant to be used? unless you are one of these dickheads who weave in and out of traffic etc?
I have only got them up to temp once and that took 4/5 HARD stops, more than my stomach can handle.
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WHEN: Wednesday, February 29, 2012
WHERE/TIME: Howard Beach Senior Center, 156-45 84th St. (10 AM– 12 Noon)
For the disabled and senior members of our community, it can be difficult to get around town. In an effort to provide more accessible service, New York City Transit has a mobile outreach program designed especially to serve their needs in their own communities. NYS Senator Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr., is sponsoring the agency's MetroCard Van to visit his district again later this month.
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We switch to this little boats to float around the market. I get into one with Mireille and her husband David (a Walloon couple that is extremely friendly and funny) and the two girls from Luxembourg who are about my age. That's good company alright, and again a perfect day for practicing French. My clothes are dry in an instant since they are all linen, but Mireille is less lucky. She walks around the rest of the day in a wet pants. The market is lovely however.
Back on the bus Mac has bought something for us too. Its banana fried in coco milk, which tastes good but it is too heavy for my stomach, which is still rebooting after its breakdown. So I only taste a little. The other is Ramboutan (of which I just love the outside: so flashy and cute. It is another think that isn't to be found at home) and Pomelo, that we do have in Belgium but not with this lovely taste. We are heading for Kanchanaburi today and that is said to be the province of Pomelo, so we just can't miss those here.
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Raising the bar for data networking in HK
The demand for high bandwidth and network interconnection continues to rise as enterprises are turning to develop innovative digital businesses. Pervasive connectivity to the network edge is gaining traction but will pose new challenges like security threats in 2017.
IDC said that the concept of digital transformation has been taken by businesses in Hong Kong and across Asia Pacific in 2016. In doing so, they aim to survive in hypercompetitive environments disrupted by technology startups.
"Inherent in this concept is that the role of CIOs will shift to be more strategically focused on business competitive advantage and less concerned on operational issues that need to become more automated or efficient," said Glen Duncan, research manager at IDC Asia/Pacific.
Digitalization drives network demand
Telecom operators HKT and networking company Cisco share the sentiment that digitalization drives network demand from enterprises. High bandwidth, on-demand network services and interconnectivity across networks are some key requirements.
"Digital transformation drove various application deployment and the Internet of things (IoT) initiatives in 2016. Connectivity between different cloud platforms support such dynamic deployment scenario," said Tom Chan, managing director at HKT Commercial Group.
Cisco stated that connectivity is fundamental to achieving digitization. "It facilitates connections between stakeholders and enables data collection from millions of devices," said Garrick Ng, head of systems engineering at Cisco Hong Kong and Macau.
High bandwidth, on-demand & interconnectivity services
"We are seeing an ever-growing demand for ultra-high bandwidth multipoint Ethernet services, as well as optical networks for data center interconnection," said Chan.
Scaling vertically and horizontally on bandwidth and connectivity will be the main focus among enterprises and telcos in 2017. According to Chan, scaling vertically means acquiring higher bandwidth to enhance connectivity. Meanwhile, scaling horizontally involve the adoption of new technologies like narrow-band IoT and LoRa to provide long-range and low-power connectivity.
From HKT perspective, point-to-point optical network with over 1G-bandwidth was in high demand from its customers in 2016. Organizations like banking and financial, medical or health care require high bandwidth and low latency to access large volumes of information.
This is driving HKT to invest in its network. The operator announced in November to construct the Ultra Express Link (UEL), a 3km-long submarine cable system. This super high capacity fiber optic cable will connect Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate and Chai Wan to provide lower latency and diversity connectivity. These two sites currently house around 13 data centers.
Targeted to launch in the second half of 2017, the UEL will provide an additional diversity path to data center operators and enterprises. It will also support latency as low as a few 10th of microseconds.
Likewise other telecom operators, such as Orange Business Services, are continuously extending their global network coverage and invest in new technologies to support the digital future of enterprises.


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A portion of Athens looked like a science-fiction movie set Thursday, as men in giant protective suits climbed atop a 20-foot railroad tank car on tracks crossing the University of Georgia campus.
But the scene wasn't make-believe. In fact, it had serious, real-world implications, as dozens of emergency personnel from across north Georgia were on the UGA campus to get training in the proper handling of a hazardous-material emergency.
More than 100 emergency responders from several area counties attended the workshop on handling an anhydrous ammonia leak from a tanker car. Hosted by Athens-Clarke County Fire and Emergency Services, the workshop, offered Tuesday, Wednesday and again on Thursday, was sponsored by PotashCorp, the world's largest fertilizer company.
"I took this training in Augusta a while back and I decided to hold it here because I felt like it's something we could definitely benefit from," said Athens-Clarke Battalion Chief Roger Evans. "A lot of products use this type of ammonia, so it comes through here (on trains) pretty frequently."
Evans added that "if a leak were to happen, we would be better prepared to deal with it following this workshop."
The one-day workshop sessions included four hours of classroom training and additional hours of hands-on training in a simulated emergency. The training was designed to help emergency personnel detect and assess leak sources and to take corrective action. Among other activities, participants had the opportunity to walk through the railcar and study the different types of valves they might encounter in connection with an anhydrous ammonia leak.
Participants also got instruction in handling emergencies while wearing hazardous-material protective gear.
"It's a lot different because (with the suit on). You don't have a full scope of visibility and you have on all this equipment, so it makes it harder to maneuver," Evans explained. "You don't have your full senses, plus you are breathing through a tank."
According to Evans, ammonia is one of the more common hazardous materials transported in this country. It's used in fertilizer, and as an industrial and commercial refrigerant, and is shipped in a variety of ways, including by rail, by ship and in tanker trucks.
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