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The 39th Annual John Coltrane Memorial Concert's "An Evening of Ballads & Blues" | Oct. 29, 2016
"An Evening of Ballads & Blues": the 39th Annual John Coltrane Memorial Concert. Presented by the Friends of John Coltrane Memorial Concert (fJCMC) and featuring the John Coltrane Memorial Concert Ensemble with host Eric Jackson.
BOSTON – Sept. 23, 2016 – PRLog — "An Evening of Ballads & Blues" : the 39th Annual John Coltrane Memorial Concert. Saturday October 29, 7:30 pm. Blackman Auditorium, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115. Tickets: $30 general admission, $25 students/seniors, $40 VIP [all ticket prices include service charge]. For tickets and further information, visit www.friendsofjcmc.org (http://friendsofjcmc.org/).
This year's annual John Coltrane Memorial Concert (est. July 17, 1977) provides an exploration of some of the ballads and blues compositions of Coltrane, whose accomplishments as a composer are oftentimes overshadowed due to his tremendous legacy as an acclaimed, explosive and brilliant improviser. "An Evening of Ballads & Blues" timing couldn't be better, with this year's tribute providing an opportunity for performers to come together and breathe new life into some of the signature songs and melodies of Coltrane's majestic legacy. It is also significant that September 23, 2016 marks the 90th anniversary of the great musician's birth and this year's JCMC at Northeastern University is the 30th anniversary of this unique collaboration between creative performing artists and a major institution of higher education.
The 2016 JCMC ensemble is composed of master musicians, most of whom are based in the Boston-area, with many having made multiple annual concert appearances. Featured will be Carl Atkins (reeds and woodwinds), Billy Buss (trumpet), Consuelo Candelaria (piano), Jeff Galindo (trombone), Jason Palmer (trumpet), Bill Pierce (reeds and woodwinds), Ron Savage (percussion), Avery Sharpe (acoustic bass), Rick Stepton (trombone), Stan Strickland (reeds, woodwinds and voice), and Bobby Tynes (reeds and woodwinds).
The performance repertoire will feature ballad compositions chosen from such masterpieces as "Naima", "Crescent", "Lonnie's Lament," and "Dear Lord." Blues compositions will include "Blues Minor," "Mr. Day" and "Blue Train." All these Coltrane works will be presented in new arrangements showcasing the ensemble's great musicianship, prowess and flexibility.
Eric Jackson, hailed as the"dean of Boston jazz radio"and recognized nationally, will serve as host for the evening, which this year is being co-presented by Friends of John Coltrane Memorial Concert (fJCMC) in collaboration with the following divisionsat Northeastern University: Center for the Arts, Office of City & Community Affairs, Music Department, and Global Studies Department.
The John Coltrane Memorial Concert is co-produced by Leonard Brown and Emmett G. Price III. Further information on this year's concert, as well as a detailed history of the JCMC, can be found at www.friendsofjcmc.org (http://friendsofjcmc.org/).
Brief historical background:
John Coltrane Memorial Concert originated in 1977 at the Friends of Great Black Music Loft near Boston's Chinatown area. Over the last 39 years, the JCMC has earned its reputation as being Boston's annual "rite of fall," by keeping true to Coltrane's desire to be "a force for good" and using his musical gifts to make the world a better place for all people.
The JCMC has maintained its commitment to Coltrane's musical and spiritual legacy in the following ways:
— Consistently presenting "all star ensembles" composed of the leading musicians in the Boston and New England area;
— Featured numerous world premiere arrangements;
— Guest appearances by great world renowned musicians including McCoy Tyner, Pharoah Sanders, Yusef Lateef, Gary Bartz, Alvin Batiste, Frank Foster, Shirley Scott, Guru, Danilo Perez, Bill Barron, Cecil McBee, Ravi Coltrane and Terri Lyn Carrington;
— Providing free musical exposure and education to elementary and secondary public school students through the John Coltrane Memorial Concert Educational Outreach Program.
Since its inception, the JCMC has reached over 30,000 audience members, many of whom return every year. It is common knowledge that the JCMC audience is one of the most diverse of any of the major cultural performance events in the New England area and the John Coltrane Memorial Concerthas grown to be one of the hallmark musical events in the Greater Boston area.
"I want to be a force for real good.
In other words, I know there are bad forces,
forces put here that bring suffering to others
and misery to the world, but I want to be the force
that is truly for good."
(John Coltrane, 1966)
John Coltrane Memorial Concert; photo credit Hakim Raquib


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Travelling around Wrexham
Wrexham is the largest town in North Wales, lying between the Welsh mountains and the lower Dee Valley, close to the English border. This charming market town is surrounded by wild, natural beauty, with acres of parks and woodland to enjoy.
Wrexham is home to the oldest medieval church in Wales, and, with a selection of museums, art galleries and some of the region's best examples of Georgian and Edwardian architecture, there's much to see and do. Just a few miles from the English border, Wrexham has excellent road and rail links. Arriva buses operate in the area, providing services to and from Chester, as well as local towns and villages, such as Minera and Mold.


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Business Grants
Whether you are setting-up in business for the first time or an established growing business, you may be eligible to apply for grants to assist in the following areas:
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There are a number of schemes that are available both from Hartlepool Council and other agencies that offer financial assistance to individuals setting up in business and existing businesses located in Hartlepool.
Further information on what is available and whether your project qualifies for assistance please contact us on the details below.
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Chart of the Week: Large Urban Counties are at the Forefront of America's Demographic Change
To add equity data to the national dialogue about growth and prosperity, every week the National Equity Atlas team posts a new chart from the Equity Atlas related to current events and issues.
It's been well reported that Hillary Clinton, despite failing to secure the necessary 270 Electoral College votes, won the popular vote by more than 2 million ballots. At the same time, county-level maps of election results show a sea of red. There are now nine times as many "Republican landslide counties" (counties that went Republican by more than 20 percentage points) than "Democratic landslide counties" according to The New York Times. But the areas where Trump won big are less populated than the areas where Clinton won big: the 2,232 Republican landslide counties have less people overall than the 242 Democratic landslide counties. And according to a Brookings analysis, the less than 500 counties that went Democratic made up 64 percent of total U.S. economic activity in 2015.
Our analysis of Large Urban Counties (LUCs), counties with more than 500,000 residents, underscorces just how urban and diverse the country has become. LUCs are not just the economic powerhouses of the country, they are also home to a disproportionate share of people of color.
This week's chart draws from the new people of color maps added to Atlas to highlight how the nation's most populous, "high output" counties are at the forefront of America's demographic changes. In 2014, there were 133 LUCs, accounting for just four percent of counties nationwide. Of these 133 counties, 52 are already majority people of color and 18 are two-thirds people of color. The U.S. population as a whole is just 37 percent people of color, but half of the 151 million residents of LUCs are people of color.
LUCs are major economic actors and have a unique opportunity to advance equitable economic policies. Last month, Angela Glover Blackwell, CEO of PolicyLink, in her address to the Large Urban County Caucus (LUCC) of the National Association of Counties, highlighted several strategies that LUCs can adopt to catalyze equitable growth, including the integration of health and human services into development through investing in the residents and workers as well as the built environment.
To see how population and the share of people of color vary by county in your region, visit the National Equity Atlas, type in your state or region, and share the map for your community using #equitydata.


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Researching mortgages when purchasing a home is challenging due to the number of rules that vary between types of loans. There is one mortgage, however, that stands out against the others in that the borrower is actually the one receiving payments. This is called a reverse mortgage, and it caters to older homeowners looking to supplement their income and plan for retirement.
Those who own a home, and are aged 62 or older, are eligible to apply for a reverse mortgage from a lender like Sun West Mortgage. When applying, the lender will confirm that you are able to financially maintain the home and utilities and will continue to make tax and insurance payments. Once approved, the money can be used however you see fit, and the loan does not need to be repaid until you pass away or sell the home, at which time the estate … Read more


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Tutorials are awesome, but what do you do when it stops working, or you tried a little experiment and now something that once worked is broken? Here are a few troubleshooting tips related to my projects, grouped by functionality. Continue reading Fix My Pi
Author: Jim
Pi PVR
For many years I have been seeking solutions to reducing my ever increasing cable TV bill, and to that end I built a Windows Media Center with a Ceton infinity PCI card and an HDHomeRun as video sources. I used the Xbox as a Media Center Extender, and for the most part it was great as long as I had a wired connection. But the Xbox was expensive and at the time remote controls were not great, and people complained that we could not use Video on Demand. I succumbed to the pressure and went back to the expensive Cable STB/DVR and non-DVR STB – which cost me $17.95 plus $9.95 respectively, altogether $27.90 extra per month. Enter the Raspberry Pi.
Pi Wi-Fi Access Point
I searched the web for instructions on how to set up a RPi as an access point using a Wi-Fi adapter, and found some very good material. Dave Conroy has a how to that is the basis of this post. As with most situations there were some tweaks to fit my needs. So I thought I would offer up my experience on how to build a wireless router with an RPi.
Update: Feb 17, 2015 – I repeated this with my raspberry pi 2 and nothing needed to be changed. 🙂 Continue reading Pi Wi-Fi Access Point
Raspberry Pi First Steps
There are loads of web pages out there that are meant to guide you through the process of setting up your RPi for first use. I wrote this version as a reminder on how I created my "baseline" installation upon which all my projects are built. Continue reading Raspberry Pi First Steps
Simplify. That's my goal, and this collection of thoughts is part of that effort. I am clearing the clutter and saving my sanity in the process.
The pages and posts here are going to help me when I need to recall a trick or two, and if you try something I post I hope it helps you out. I don't live on this site, so I haven't turned on comments because I wouldn't want you to be disappointed when a response would be late in coming. But who knows? I might change my mind.


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DDM Debt secures financing for its JV in Croatia
DDM Debt AB (Nasdaq Stockholm: DDM2) announces that the group, together with its Joint Venture partner B2Holding, has secured third party financing for part of its JV in Croatia acquired in Q2 2019. DDM's share of the gross proceeds from the financing amounts to approximately EUR 35 million. The financing is at a lower cost of borrowing than the existing senior secured bond frameworks. Repayments will be made according to an amortization schedule linked to certain cash flows from the portfolio.
Henrik Wennerholm, CEO of DDM, comments: "We are happy to have secured financing on favourable terms, and that the extensive due diligence by the financing provider confirms the portfolio quality. This enables us to invest the proceeds from the financing in future acquisitions."
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Boris Johnson has urged Nato to remain united as leaders gathered for talks amid tensions over the future direction of the Western alliance.
The Prime Minister, who is hosting the 70th anniversary gathering near Watford, said Britain's commitment remained "absolutely rock solid".
However, simmering divisions were on display on Tuesday after Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron clashed over the French president's suggestion the alliance was experiencing a "brain death".
Mr Trump said the comments were "very, very nasty"" and insulting to other alliance members.
However, Mr Macron insisted he stood by the remarks prompted by Turkey's offensive against the Kurds of northern Syria – seen as key allies of the West in the fight against the so-called Islamic State (IS) – after it was effectively given the green light by Mr Trump.
The ensuing row has led Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan to threaten to block Nato plans to expand the defence of the Baltic states and Poland in the face of the growing threat from Russia.
Mr Johnson – who hosted talks with Mr Macron, Mr Erdogan and German chancellor Angela Merkel in Downing Street on Tuesday in an attempt to resolve their differences – sought to play down the divisions.
"Clearly it is very important that the alliance stays together, but there is far, far more that unites us than divides us," he told reporters as he arrived at The Grove country house hotel, where the meeting is being held.
Downing Street said the leaders had agreed on the need to ensure humanitarian access to refugees displaced by the fighting in northern Syria based on a United Nations "needs assessment".
"The leaders said they would work to create the conditions for the safe, voluntary and sustainable return of refugees and that the fight must be continued against terrorism in all its forms," a No 10 spokesman said.
Arriving for the talks on Wednesday, Mr Macron again defended his original comments saying they had opened up some "crucial debates" within Nato.
"Those included how to create a durable peace in Europe, clarifying who was the enemy and how to act collectively against international terrorism in particular," he said.
"It think it was our responsibility to raise ambiguities that could be harmful and to tackle a real strategic debate. It has started, it will continue and I am satisfied."
In opening remarks at the start of a meeting of the North Atlantic Council, Mr Johnson said: "Seventy years on, we are rock solid in our commitments to Nato and to the giant shield of solidarity that now protects 29 countries and nearly a billion people.
"The fact that we live in peace today demonstrates the power of the simple proposition at the heart of this alliance: that for as long as we stand together, no-one can hope to defeat us, and therefore no-one will start a war."
Downing Street said the PM held meetings with Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Dutch PM Mark Rutte, PM Zoran Zaev of North Macedonia and Italian PM Giuseppe Conte on Wednesday morning.
Meanwhile, Mr Stoltenberg – who also met Mr Erdogan on Tuesday – has insisted that he remains confident that their differences could be overcome.
"We have plans in place to protect all Nato allies including the Baltic countries and Poland," he said as he arrived for Wednesday's meeting.
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Not EVERYTHING Goes in Recycling
A few items are often found in recycling carts, both at homes and in parks, that should not be included in curbside recycling. The following items go in the garbage:
- diapers
- food soiled paper/pizza boxes/paper plates (these can go in organics)
- plastic silverware
- straws
- candy wrappers and other similar packaging
- Foam blocks and packing peanuts (check UPS stores to recycle peanuts)
- Anything long and stringy (garden hoses, Christmas lights, VHS tapes, etc.)
- Plastic toys
- Shredded paper (a drop off location is being worked on for paper shredded at home; please make sure you only shred items that actually contain confidential information and use one of the city shred events when possible)
Top items to recycle consistently
In the Twin Cities metro, everyone gets curbside recycling, but some things are not always accepted for recycling by your hauler. Remember to recycle these items that all haulers take:
- Aluminum and metal food and beverage cans;
- Glass food and beverage bottles and jars;
- Paper (including magazines, newspapers, cardboard and cereal boxes);
- Plastic bottles and jugs (including milk and juice jugs, water and ketchup bottles and leave the caps on)
- Cartons (including milk cartons and juice boxes and caps can stay on)
Just make sure they are empty and dry. Sorting methods will make mistakes if liquid or food is left in the container, not to mention the smell and contamination at the recycling center.
Remember to collect recyclables throughout your house; not just in the kitchen! Collect recyclables from the bathroom, laundry room and office as well. You might even be able to save money by downsizing your trash bin.
Cooking Oil Recycling
Carver County Environmental Services will collect used cooking oil for no charge. Please do not dispose of cooking oil in home drains or in storm sewers.
Plastic Bag Recycling
Take plastic bags to one of the many stores that have plastic bag drop offs, including Cub Foods, Target, Staples, Lunds-Byerlys, and Whole Foods. Many dry cleaners will take their bags. Just ask! Carver County Environmental Services is no longer accepting plastic bags.
Plastics Recycling
Confused about which plastics you can now recycle? It is confusing. Generally, most food containers (if you read the recycling numbers they are #1, #2 and #5) are easily recycled. Although #3, #4, #6 and #7 have been collected in the past, they are not easily recycled, so please limit your purchase of them when possible, and just throw these items in the trash if you cannot reuse them in some way. Black plastics are also difficult to recycle, so you can just throw these in the trash if you must get them.
Lids on!
One item that has changed about the preparation of recyclables is that you may now leave the lids on the containers and bottles--in fact, you are encouraged to do so!
What Can I Recycle?
Magazines, Newspaper
No Food Waste**, Garbage or Yard Waste
*Many plastic bags may be recycled at drop off locations.
**May be composted in commercial compost collection programs offered curbside in Shorewood. Contact the city for more information.
Electronics Recycling
When you purchase new electronics, don't throw the old in your garbage. Most electronics contain lead, mercury, or other hazardous materials and should not be thrown in the trash. First, ask the retail store where you purchase your electronics if they will take the old electronics for free. If not, Hennepin County offers drop off facilities in Bloomington and Brooklyn Park. There might be fees involved for some items, so check their website for pricing. Find many drop off locations for electronics and other items on the EPA web site. Get more information and drop off options on our Household Hazardous Waste page. If you can't find where you should take a particular item, please call city hall, 952.960.7900 for assistance.


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The laser used by Fade Fast is the Palomar Qyag5, which is one of the most versitle machines available. Not all are created equal and this holds true when it comes to lasers. A Zimmer Cryo 5 is used to cool the treatment area during the procedure. This in conjunction with a pre-icing of the area dramatically decreases the sensation to a level similar or below that of tattooing. Because our clients often have numerous tattoos, rather than pushing for total removal, Fade Fast was founded on the idea that ink reduction, the act of lightening a tattoo through laser treatment, is the perfect pretreatment to covering a tattoo.
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We are now doing Laser tattoo removal. We have brought in a company called Dermalab. They have setup a laser in our studio. They have have trained 3 techs for us and we are now offering laser tattoo removal. They are using the best technology in the laser tattoo removal industry. The laser is a Medlite C6 by Hoya ConBio.
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Acklins DIY Report
Sean Visintainer - 02/11/18
Budget Bonefishing
The bonefish urge recently was too much to resist scratching so we decided to hit the remote island of Acklins Bahamas for a low budget "bonefish bum" DIY trip. Unfortunately, most of the east coast, and a good chunk of the Caribbean, had been getting hit with cold fronts and winds, not favorable for bonefishing. Bonefish don't come into the flats as much when temps are not as warm. Acklins being the furthest southern Island in the Bahamas chain we thought would dodge most of the that, but unfortunately not completely. When we booked the lodging my crystal ball did not work like I thought.
Despite colder than average conditions, and a bit more wind and clouds than normal, there were still bonefish to be found and opportunities to be had. Acklins certainly does not have a lack of flats to fish, and quite frankly it can be a little overwhelming as one could get into analysis-paralysis pretty quickly. On DIY trips there is always some level of "figuring shit out" as you go so 6 days of fishing is only beginning to scratch the surface of exploring this bonefish mecca.
While we did not "crush fish", based off what we say and compared to previous DIY bonefish trips I would certainly go back and give Acklins another go. We stayed at nice B&B called Ivel's (www.ivelsbedandbreakfast.com) which can provide you with clean rooms, nice rental vehicles, breakfast, pack lunch, and very good dinners. All for a pretty reasonable price. They also have connections to local guides, two of which we met and hind site we wish we would have saved a few extra bucks before hand and brought more cash to get connected with one of them to speed up the learning curve on Acklins.
Overall though, it was a beautiful island with lots of bonefishing opportunity, great people, and quality fish. I would not recommend this location to non fishing spousing though... this is a fishing destination for sure with not much else to do! And that's exactly why we had to go check it out!


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By: Michelle Harripersadth
One of the biggest parties to hit African soil. The official H20 party had social media and the rest of the world wondering who will be the next deejay to join the H20 team.
On the 10th of July 2013 the winner of the H20 competition was announced and Durban bred Aman Maniram, better known as DJ Monstrosity, took the crown. We here at JournalismIziko caught up with the gifted deejay to find out a little more about the local up and coming talent.
JI: Welcome! So why don't you tell us a little more about yourself?
DjM: Well for starters I don't drink or smoke and I am very family orientated, which seems to be a shock for most people. I spent my adolescent years involved in the art of music and my passion flourished into a way of life.
JI: How did you get your introduction into the musical world? And how many years have you been Deejaying?
DjM: I started at the age of fifteen when I received turntables and speakers as a birthday gift and from that day forth I spent countless hours practicing and I guess you could say the rest is history. My career as a club deejay took off after I won a competition called "Full Moon" held at the Bellagio nightclub on the 2nd of February 2012.
JI: As a Deejay who do you draw your inspiration from and what is your biggest influence?
DjM: Well I don't really aspire to be like anyone else. I just strive to be the best I can be by my own standards.
JI: What is your opinion on the stigma attached to Deejaying being an unstable career choice as opposed to being an extension of an art of music?
DjM: I guess it can be perceived as being an unstable career choice especially if you do not have confirmed work like residency at a club or being a radio DJ.
JI: Why don't you tell us a little more about the work you have been associated with?
DjM: Well currently I am a resident deejay at Empyre nightclub. I have played on 4 local, 4 National and 2 International Radio stations.
I also played at the third edition of the Aquafest franchise held in June 2013 and shared a platform with the musical styling's of Fatman Scoop, Lady Lea, Deejay Kent, Crazy White Boy and Pascal and Pearce just to name a few.
JI: Congratulations on your win! How does it feel to be the lucky winner of the H2O competition?
DjM: The feeling is amazing! especially knowing that so many people support me.
JI: How do you feel about social media playing such a dominant role in the competition?
DjM: I guess it would make sense. You would not have a following if you were not talented and from a business point of view you're also going to need someone who is well known in order to contribute to the number of people who attend the event and social media is the perfect platform to attain such results.
JI: Are there any surprises that we can expect from your set at the H2O party?
DjM: Hahaha! Unfortunately I can not disclose that kind of information.I guess you will just have to show up to find out.
JI: Where do you see yourself in five years?
DjM: I see myself being on radio and playing internationally on a regular basis.
JI: Would you please leave us with your life motto…
DjM: Music never separates people. Persistence and perseverance is the key in order to progress.


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The North Mill has a collection of cotton spinning machinery, original and replica, representing the whole history of spinning from the drip spindle to Crompton's mule. There is also an exceptionally fine collection of silk and cotton hosiery. This includes stockings made for King George III and Queen Victoria. There is also examples of the unique embroidery done by local women and called chevening. The photograph shows a corner of that exhibit. Framework and other machines that made the stockings and also the earlier industry of nail making are well shown. But, of course, the building itself is the great exhibit and the picture shows and aspect of it, the blue cast iron quatrefoil pillar.
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Herschel Supply Made Exclusive Merch for KAWS' Mt. Fuji Exhibition
Herschel Supply is the official sponsor for the fourth stop of KAWS:HOLIDAY at Mt. Fuji, which is taking place from July 18 through July 24. The exhibition by Brian Donnelly aka KAWS kicks off with a VIP overnight camping experience and activation, as Herschel Supply has partnered with KAWS to create a selection of exclusive merch.
The KAWS:HOLIDAY VIP experience takes place at Fumotoppara Camping Ground in Fujinomiya, Shizuoka. Those in attendance will enjoy dinner, live music, and an exclusive drone performance by SKYMAGIC. Once the night's festivities are over, guests are welcomed to stay in specially-designed KAWS for Herschel Supply tents and sleeping bags. The setup also includes lanterns, tumbler mugs, apparel, full amenity kits, and other camping accessories.
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Google has something big to celebrate for Pi Day this year: one of their teams has beaten the Guinness World Record for the most accurate value of pi. Emma Haruka Iwao and her colleagues used the power of cloud computing to calculate 31,415,926,535,897 digits of pi. That's 9 billion digits more than the previous record and a complete novel longer than the 3.14 value that most of us know. To perform that task, Iwao had to run a pi-benchmark application called y-cruncher in 25 Google Cloud virtual machines for 121 days.
According to Google, the problem with computing for such a large number is that the time and resources needed for the task increase more rapidly than the number itself. Iwao said the biggest challenge was that the project required "a large amount of storage and memory to calculate." I needed a whopping 170 terabytes, equivalent to all Internet parts indexed / searched in 2002, to complete. In addition, the longer the supercomputer works on a computer, the greater the risk of a hardware failure that can affect the process.
The execution of the cloud computing prevented these problems from arising and allowed access to 170 terabytes, since Google only had to keep its cloud infrastructure running. In addition, it allows the technological giant to sell researchers access to the digits for $ 40 per day without having to save the massive data set in physical units.
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Final Call for Chapters for Springer Book on Sustainability
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Sustainable economy is an economy with "capacity to endure", where bearable environment, equitable society and viable economy are well integrated with social, culture, legal, business, financial and environmental perspectives. To reach for this integration for sustainable development, it is essential to understand and study the mechanisms for interactions and impact from and among these perspectives. The mechanism design for sustainability intends to provide advanced analytics and decision management techniques and tools towards developing sustainable competitive advantages in the studied target context (e.g. enterprises, economic clusters).
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A great way to keep your cutting boards bacteria free.
Often we don't have a lot of time to clean up after preparation of that perfect dinner evening, so here's some easy solutions for keeping your cutting boards clean. To sanitize wooden cutting boards, use approximately 2 tablespoons of Clorox(R) regular-bleech per gallon of water to create a sanitizing solution.
Wash, wipe, or rinse with dishwashing detergent and water, then apply the Clorox(R) solution. Let stand for 2 minutes. and rinse with water. To prevent wood from cracking or warping do not submerge in water or soak overnight.
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Investment pledge for Fenland leisure centres
PUBLISHED: 09:43 31 August 2018 | UPDATED: 09:43 31 August 2018
Substantial investment to boost leisure facilities and help people to live healthier, more active lifestyles is being promised in the Fens.
Fenland District Council has awarded a leisure management contract to not-for-profit leisure trust Freedom Leisure to take over the running of the its four leisure centres.
Freedom Leisure will begin a 15-year partnership with the council in December 2018 in a move that will also save taxpayers hundreds of thousands of pounds every year.
The contract covers the management and operation of the George Campbell Leisure Centre in March, the Hudson Leisure Centre in Wisbech, the Manor Leisure Centre in Whittlesey and Chatteris Leisure Centre.
The appointment follows a review of leisure services to determine the best and most efficient way to manage the centres in the future.
Freedom Leisure is one of the largest leisure operators in the UK, managing over 90 leisure centres across the country. As a not-for-profit organisation, it reinvests surpluses into its facilities to increase active participation.
The contract fee over a 15-year period gives a saving of £351,000 per year against the council's current budget for the management of the centres.
Mark Buckton, the council's portfolio holder for leisure, said: "We are pleased to announce the award of this contract as it will allow us to continue to deliver high-quality, affordable leisure facilities for our residents, while enabling significant improvements to the service. We will also work with Freedom Leisure to pro-actively improve the health and wellbeing of the whole community through increased opportunities to participate in sport and physical activity."
Ivan Horsfall-Turner, managing director for Freedom Leisure, said: "With so many councils seeing ever reducing budgets, Freedom Leisure is here to operate leisure facilities on behalf of its partners so that these wonderful local centres remain vibrant."
It comes as neighbouring West Norfolk council looks to take back control of King's Lynn Corn Exchange, Lynnsport and three leisure centres from Alive Leisure, which was set up to run them in 2014.
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This continues my blog entry from yesterday, day one of the FDA hearing. Click the link for background and further information on this topic.
Although the final decision is not imprinted on rescinding the approval for Avastin® as a treatment for advanced breast cancer, the recommendation by the committee following the completion of the hearing today was that the approval be denied. The basis of the decision was the clinical trials that followed the original accelerated approval based on initial studies failed in two key areas important for evaluating drugs for advanced cancer: extending progression free survival and extending lifespan. Avastin has also proved to have harmful side effects, including increases in blood pressure. Essentially, the studies have suggested that Avastin may have more harmful than helpful effects.
Questions remain.
Will Genentech attempt to conduct further clinical studies?
Will insurance pay for Avastin, prescribed off label, for women who have been receiving Avastin with the apparent therapeutical benefit of no progression?
Will someone else step up to defray the cost of this drug for patients whose options diminish as they exhaust various treatments in keeping their metastases from progressing?
What about those patients whose oncologists have not yet prescribed Avastin but who might have been keeping it in the arsenal until such time that it could be an option? Will insurance cover such an off-label prescription? Will Genentech subsidize?
What drug will step in to occupy that space left by Avastin? I do not see any others at this time since Avastin was the only drug of its kind (it stops the blood flow to cancer tumors) to treat metastatic breast cancer.
Avastin remains an FDA-approved treatment for brain, colon, kidney and lung cancers. Because Avastin will be available for use with those cancers, some oncologists might still prescribe it to patients off-label.
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lemon rosemary gin fizz
The difference between a gin fizz and a gin and tonic is really in the type of sparkling water you use. A gin fizz typically has an acidic juice (like lemon) and soda water. Whereas a gin and tonic traditionally has a squeeze of fresh lime as a garnish and uses tonic water, known for it's quinine flavor, instead of club soda.
- 1-2 ounces of gin
- 2 ounces fresh lemon juice
- 2 ounces club soda
- sliced lemon and fresh springs of rosemary for garnish
- Fill a glass with crushed ice.
- Pour gin, lemon juice, and soda water over the ice.
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Thought I'd share some pics of my new AFTs from Hunter1 on the forum. (I see he is selling stuff, can definitely vouch for him, his animals are A-grade)
I got 2 females for my lone male, I was not planning on getting more animals, but they where going at such a good price I could not resist! They are het albinos, my male I also got form Hunter1, albeit not this season's, so I am hoping that he is also a het albino. Will have to wait and see what happens. But breeding is still a long way off! AFTs are epic geckos, don't know why, but I rate them much more than my leos.
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I am currently keeping them together, but this is very temporary, will sort out another "tub" over the weekend.
Top view of their setup
The water and calcium bowls are coke caps, just to give an idea of how tiny these geckos are
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Twelve Days of Anime – Kill la Kill, an Enjoyable but Forgettable Experience
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Whenever someone mentions Kill la Kill people seem to go into trances, explaining the brilliance of hand drawn animation, the wonders of Mako and her eccentricities, and eulogising about the brilliance of studio Trigger and the geniuses behind it. The only other series I seem to see as much hype surrounding have been those from Type-Moon, and perhaps a couple of Shaft anime. As for me, I found it an enjoyable, but entirely forgettable experience, and one that left very little impression on me. During the winter season I explained that Kill la Kill was a series that I enjoyed watching, but never really found anything remarkable about either the story of characters. It was a series that took the madness of vintage Gainax anime, turned everything up to eleven in true Spinal Tap fashion, and threw what was created at the audience, hoping that something would stick. Unfortunately for me, nothing about the series ever made me look at it and think that it was a truly wonderful, memorable anime, one that may become a classic with engaging characters and enjoyable story. Even now my thoughts remain the same, even more so as until recently I had completely forgotten that the series even existed.
Does this mean that I hated the series? Far from it, it was an anime that I thoroughly enjoyed watching, and the madness on screen was rather entertaining. The characters were suitably eccentric, and the animation style, coupled with the use of those giant red titles and other little artistic flourishes made it an enjoyable series, much like watching a silly action film at the weekend. However, there was very little about the series that remained particularly memorable, I enjoyed each episode, but them promptly forgot about it, only to watch something else. Much fuss surrounded Senketsu, and the use of skimpy clothing as representative of power and abilities, themes that I should have been fascinated with given my interest in such things, yet this was not the case this time. Furthermore, I found the characters entertaining, but also quite bland and one-dimensional, with many of their eccentricities simply lost in the madness.
When I watched Kill la Kill I was consistently reminded of past Gainax works such as Abenobashi and FLCL. I remember the madness of Abenobashi as Arumi and Satoshi travel through the surreal manifestations of Satoshis imagination. The worlds that the series visits represent the forms of escapism found within popular culture, which is further reinforced by Satoshi's unwillingness to return to reality, thus trying to escape from their everyday lives. The series mixes elements of history and religion with the surreal and imaginary, creating an eccentric, but entirely memorable set of worlds and characters. Similarly, I remember first watching FLCL as Haruko smacks Naota across the head with a bass-guitar, while riding a Vespa. I also still remember the giant 'plant' in their city that is clearly a very big iron designed to iron the universe flat, along with duelling guitars and robots coming out of people's foreheads. This sort of madness and eccentricity is memorable, it has remained with me since first watching these series, and helped shape my view of anime, it is also the sort of madness that I was consistently reminded of while watching Kill la Kill. And here lies my central issue with the series, it is entirely forgettable, a series that tries to use the same sort of madness that these earlier series employed to such effect. But, in doing so there is little that differentiates Kill la Kill from these more memorable, and in many ways, more enjoyable series.
I certainly enjoyed watching Kill la Kill, and don't regret sticking with certain more tedious moments, but the experience was brief. This anime reminds me of a summer blockbuster, it could easily be a ridiculous action film that you can enjoy wholeheartedly, but fails to leave any lasting impression once it has finished. It never stuck me as especially clever, although while writing this post I realised that there were a few moments that were interesting and well produced, but there is little about the series that made me sit down and think about the underlying themes that it may be trying to explore. Instead I see the series as consumable entertainment. Ultimately, watching the series and writing this post reminded me of how good FLCL, and Abenobashi are, whereas Kill la Kill is very ordinary, and does little to differentiate itself from series that are now over ten years old (FLCL was 2000-2001, and Abenobashi was 2002). In writing this post, and thinking about Kill la Kill, I am even more disappointed in what was an enjoyable, but forgettable experience, especially because I wanted it to be something else, something with more depth, a series that I can enjoy and remember as fondly as I remember FLCL and Abenobashi.


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We've all seen it more than once, in print and on TV. Car dealerships are offering cash back when you buy a car. And used correctly, cash back deals can save you a bundle. But it's important to know exactly the deal you're getting, and why you're getting it.
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You need to be aware of the exact reason a car is being offered under a cash back incentive before buying. Sometimes a model of car just doesn't catch on … but other times, it's not selling for excellent reason. So before you get excited for your cash back, look closely at the car you're buying with it.
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Cash back deals come in two forms. The first is "customer cash," which is exactly what it sounds like, a rebate given to the customer by the manufacturer. Most cash back deals have specific requirements, depending on the motives behind them. For example, a "loyalty" customer cash deal would depend on whether or not you own an older model of the car you're buying. And yes, they'll want proof. Or it could be a "conquest" deal, where you prove you have a specific car from a competitor.
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Globe always tries to give back to the communities where it operates, thus, PGH was chosen as the beneficiary of the project. Manila, where PGH is located, was the first local government unit to cooperate in removing the hurdles in infrastructure building which paved the way for the deployment of fiber optics in Binondo for ultra-fast internet access.
While the young patients battled a deadly disease, residents of several provinces in the Bicol region also struggled to survive when Typhoon Nina struck the area on Christmas day, leaving them with little food and drinking water and hardly anything to come home to.
Responding to the predicament of the victims, Globe acted immediately to send 900 relief packs filled with food and water to Albay and Camarines Sur as well as 86 boxes of mineral water to Catanduanes.
Globe employee volunteers distribute relief goods to Albay residents.
At the same time, Libreng Tawag and Charging stations were set up in 16 locations across Oriental Mindoro, Albay, Camarines Sur, Quezon, Sorsogon, and Marinduque to assist the residents with their communication needs.


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A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of attending a press luncheon for new shoe line Layla Joy. A line of shoes focused on providing style mixed with timeless appeal and affordability, I knew I couldn't pass up the opportunity to check it out. Chic + Affordable = My Life Philosophy so I was in there like swimwear.
The designer behind the brand, Layla-joy Williams is one of very few African-American shoe designers in the industry. She's worked with huge names and has really made her mark, and now she's branching off to produce a brand all her own. Below she describes the concept behind her brainchild:
"The Layla-joy brand was born out of a dilemma we all seemed to face: How to find well-priced transitional pieces that could move from season to season and from day to night and are comfortable wherever we are…"..
Instantly I fell in love with the above Charlotte ($120) espadrilles. I had been meaning to get my hands on a pair of these It-shoes for the summer, so when I laid my eyes on them, it was love at first sight! I absolutely love the suede, the caged detailing and the fact that they tie up the leg!
Obvi, I fell in love. Layla Joy was nice enough to gift each guest a pair and I ended up requesting these in my size.
I'm a platform-junkie so I was drawn to these amazing open toe Jade($120) platforms Layla Joy has. They're super comfy and they go with pretty much every day to night ensemble.
These Kira ($120) espadrilles came in as a close second to the ones I chose. So comfy and versatile.I love the leather detailing and the open heel on these. My buddy Danielle from The Style and Beauty Doctor went home with a pair of these.
Here's me and Danielle at Oficina Latina for the event. Had a blast hanging with her.
And can I say the latin fare at Oficina Latina NYC was AMAZE? If you're ever in Nolita for a day trip, please check them out. The Arroz con Camarones (left) and the Tostones (right) gave me foodgasms. Yum!
All in all, I had an amazing time. I must send a special thanks to Renae Bluitt of In Her Shoes blog for alerting me to this amazing new line.You should definitely check out Layla Joy shoes. She's offering trendy, versatile designs in comfortable silhouettes and pretty great prices. Can't beat that!


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The SSL VPN market has just exploded, with over 230m [pounds sterling] already invested in the sector. Infonetics Research, for example, predicts that SSL VPNs will become a 350m [pounds sterling] ($607m) market opportunity by 2006--for a combined annual growth rate of 105 percent.
The mix of having the right technology--SSL VPNS--at the right time--now--to suit a business need--remote access--has proved a perfect one. Add in legislation guaranteeing workers more "place-of-work' flexibility, and the availability of broadband connections, and the mix has become a heady cocktail that the market wants and needs. Remote-working is sweeping the working world, a by-product of the need for workers en route between appointments to catch up on email via a Wi-Fi connection in the nearest Cafe Latte. Spend quality time with their families, avoiding the pointless daily commute usually spent in a traffic jam or stuck on a stationary train., or access their mail and documents easily and securely when working abroad
It's a move that satisfies everyone: the employer, the employee, and often the environment. After all, taking a few million people off creaking, overburdened transport systems is surely no bad thing either. And the numbers backing up remote working are spectacular:
* By 2010, nearly 27 million Europeans will become new remote workers, or "e-Workers", according to the EUs Emergence Project
* The UK will have the largest number. By 2005, in the UK, homeworkers will top 8 million. In 2001, there were 2.2m
* Worker productivity can increase by up to 40% remote-working
* A person working 1 or 2 days a week at home can save a company 3500 [pounds sterling]-7,000 [pounds sterling] a year through lower turnover, reduced office space, and improved productivity
* Savings on lunches, wear and tear on a car, and clothing can amount to 600 [pounds sterling] a year savings for employees, as well as reduced stress and an increased sense of freedom.
* Also in these days when more flexible working and improved technology means higher expectations, your more flexible staff working remotely, mean companies can now offer 24 x 7 customer services. Your enquiry can just as easily be replied to by someone working from home. It's all as a result of change:
* Change in the tools available for work, primarily VPN technology
* Change in lifestyle, because people only work to live, not live to work
* Change in attitudes--by employers, employees, and governments It is SSL...


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I'm a management consultant in the Internet Security field. I've been doing this since the 1990s, when I was doing arts management at the Oscar Peterson Concert Hall at Concordia University.
I wrote the world's first distributed anti-spam software (which pretty much meant telling everybody to block an email address) and putting it up on a website.
Over the years, I have had the opportunity to do a lot of interesting, meaningful things, in great part due to my having co-founded the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (CAUCE.org) back in the mid 1990s. I was one of the primary agents-provocateurs who advocated for the world's toughest anti-spam law to be passed in Canada, and in the process I spoke to politicians and mandarins at the OECD, I've been on government task forces, and currently, I help some of the biggest companies, and law enforcement agencies throughout the world fight the scourge of Internet abuse. For all of this I was awarded the first-ever MAAWG.org Lifetime Achievement Award.
I'm cursed! I can't just sit around and do nothing when a problem presets itself. Unfortunately, those problems that grab my attention tend to be pretty big. That stands to reason: A few years ago I sent my DNA in for genetic testing (the sample actually now resides in The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC), and it turned out that I am part Scottish, Clan Malcolm. The clan motto is "He aims at difficult things".
A while back, as if ridding the world of spam was not quite difficult enough, I began to feel that I wanted a new challenge. My pondering lead me to a few conclusions: One, I wanted to deal with problems in the real, not virtual world. Secondly, I wanted to return to my first love, the arts. Third, I want whatever I do to contribute to our mutual betterment through community service.
One of my fundamental convictions is that people, everywhere, want little more than the basic necessities of life, a full belly, a roof over their heads, and safety and security for themselves and their loved ones.
I also believe that art is the very reason humans exist; it is art that endures from civilizations past.
But why this? Why A Wing and a Prayer? In Ardua Tendit.
We choose to […] do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win … – John F. Kennedy
I've lived in a place where hate was felt so passionately, and yet, when people are left to their own devices, the sparks of peace are inevitably struck, friendships flourish, love abounds. We have seen happen this in my home of Québec, Canada, where divisiveness and anger has given way to peaceful coexistence; So too in Ireland, in Rwanda, in South Africa. I'm not a pollyanna; while imperfect, such places are a proof-of-concept of what we hope to do at A Wing and a Prayer. Give peace a chance.
Last year, Elizabeth spear-headed a drive to bring a Syrian family, refugees, to Canada. I was honoured to participate financially. Last year, she, her husband David, and her 4-year old daughter walked from Toronto to Niagara Falls to raise money for the cause. Her Walk like a Refugee project was a stunning example of fortitude, one I found very inspiring. In the summer of 2017, Elizabeth and David were over for a BBQ, and I happened to mention my concept for AWAAP. Elizabeth's first reaction was 'I'm in'. I hadn't yet even asked, but I knew then, that I had found the perfect collaborator to make this happen, and that this path was laid out before me. I had no choice,
During the peace that ever-so-fleetingly takes hold from time to time in Israel-Palestine, friendships quickly become established. A sense of community grows.
AWAAP hopes, I hope, to provide a protected, environment, where artists can create together, a place where peace, love and understanding can take root, against all odds.
سَلَام. שלום
Because, In Ardua Tendit.


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Buckingham Palace tickets with 24 hrs Hop on Hop off Bus Tour
Savor a hop on hop off experience of London, allowing you to enjoy the numerous attractions of the historic city at your own pace. Get an exclusive entry into the world-famous Buckingham Palace, the most notable landmark of London. With over 60 stops around the city across four different routes, enjoy a comprehensive tour of London.
- Discover the city and its attractions with a live English speaking guide accompanying you on one of the routes.
- Enjoy a glimpse into the culture and history of London with an audioguide available in 11 languages.
- Explore the interiors of the Buckingham Palace, a crown jewel of London, and venture through its lavish rooms and massive 42-acre garden.
- With a hop on hop off ticket, choose your own timings to visit the various monuments and tourist spots of London.
Why You Shouldn't Miss This
London is one of the oldest cities, steeped in history and is home to hundreds of attractions. It is the perfect tourist hub, and is one of the most visited cities in the world, attracting millions of tourists around the world. Some of these famous monuments include the Big Ben, a massive tower holding a huge clock. It is considered to be the national timepiece of England. The London Eye, a massive riverside observation wheel is another iconic landmark that is often portrayed in media. The Tower Bridge, perhaps the most famous bridge in London has two huge observation towers at either end and is a stunning spectacle from many parts of the city.
The city also has several extensive parks, including Hyde Park, a huge green space that also contains the Diana Memorial Fountain and Serpentine Lake. Trafalgar Square is one of the most famous squares in the world and contains several statues, fountains, works of art and the towering Nelson Column in the center. The Buckingham Palace is home to the British Royal Family and is the most visited attraction of the city. Other famous attractions include the Palace of Westminster and Westminster Abbey, which are part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Your Experience
With the hop on hop off ticket, you will have the chance to visit the attractions of your choice over a 24 hour period. With the freedom to explore the city as you like, you can explore the monuments and tourist spots at your own pace. There are five routes and almost 60 stops, giving you a chance to see nearly all of London's famous monuments. The Essential Route includes an English speaking guide and will take you through some of the most important spots in London. The hop on hop off ticket also includes boat rides, allowing you to catch sight of London from a different perspective. You will be treated to stunning panoramic views of London, and it is guaranteed to be an experience unlike any other!
Admire the splendid State Rooms that contain timeless paintings from the Royal Collection. Many of the rooms in the palace are used for official ceremonies and daily activities of the royal family, and you will get an opportunity to visit some of these rooms. You will also get a chance to walk through the 42-acre garden of the Buckingham Palace. With over 350 types of wildflowers present, the garden is often described as a walled oasis in the center of London. When you see it firsthand, you will understand why!
Round off your London vacation with a free walking tour once you choose between the two on offer, not to mention a free tour of London by Night, which takes you past the most iconic landmarks in the capital city like St Paul's Cathedral, the Houses of Parliament, the London Eye and more, all lit up in the dark as you get fascinating insight into them via audio commentary!
- Entry to Buckingham Palace
- 24 Hour Hop On Hop Off Ticket
- Free Walking Tour
- Free WiFi aboard the coach
- River Thames boat ride valid for 24 hours
Know Before You Go
This tour is only available until September 30th.
Buckingham Palace Timings
You must arrive at the Golden Tours Visitor Centre in Victoria, located at 4 Fountain Square, 123-151 Buckingham Palace Road, London, SW1W 9SH, to collect your tickets to the palace. Please arrive by 10:15 AM and you will be escorted to the Palace by tour staff so you may enter by 10:45 AM.
Visits to the palace last for an average of 2½ hours.
Hop On Hop Off Bus Routes
You have unlimited usage of the routes for 24 hours from when you first board a bus. You can join the tour from any of the 60 stops on the routes below. Each of the stops will be clearly signposted Golden Tours Hop on Hop Off/London Tour Bus. For your convenience, there is a stop outside the entrance to Buckingham Palace but in case you don't want to board there, below are all the different routes you can hop on and off from:
- The Essential Tour (Blue route): Covering all the main Central London sights, this route includes a live English speaking guide. See Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square, Tower Bridge, Big Ben, St Paul's Cathedral and so much more.
- The Classic Tour (Red route): Covers all the main Central London sights and visits London's Museum Quarter.
- The Grand Tour (Orange route): This route passes Madame Tussauds and Kings Cross, as well as many other Central London sights.
- The Pick Up/Drop Off Route (Yellow route): Operating in the morning, this route travels from the popular hotel districts to Central London.
- The Thames Route (Lilac Route): This route will take you to the doorstep of London's most iconic landmarks and locations around the heart of the Thames including Parliament Square and St James's Palace.
Hop On Hop Off River Cruises
You have unlimited usage of the boats between Westminster and St Katharine's Pier for 24 hours from when you first board a boat.
Walking Tours
You can choose between the following walking tours:
-The Royal Walking Tour including the Changing of the Guards- Operates daily, departs from GTVC Leicester Square (11a Charing Cross Road, London WC2H 0EP) at 10 AM and ends at Westminster Abbey by 12 PM. - The Beatles London Walking Tour- Operates daily, departs from GTVC Leicester Square (11a Charing Cross Road, London WC2H 0EP) at 1 PM and ends at 3 PM.
London By Night Tour
This tour departs from Stop 7, Piccadilly, Tourist stop, Hyde Park Corner at 6 and 6:30 PM. It also departs from the Golden Tours Visitor Centre in Victoria at 7 and 8 PM.
Restrictions and Notices
- For safety reasons, pushchairs are not permitted in the State Rooms. They must be checked in and reclaimed at the exit. Baby-carriers are available for loan.
- A one-way system operates along the entire visitor route so be sure to check out the attractions thoroughly as you won't be allowed to revisit them.
- Photography and filming are allowed for private use only and only in the Palace Gardens.
- This tour is not meant for individuals with impaired movement.
Strict Cancellation Policy
This experience cannot be cancelled, amended or rescheduled.
My Tickets
How To Redeem Tickets
You will receive an email with your Tour voucher instantly. Please take a printout of your voucher to the Golden Tour Visitor Centre, located at #4, Fountain Square, 123-151 Buckingham Palace Road, where you can redeem your printout for your tickets.
How To Get There
Walk from the tube station towards Victoria coach station (in the opposite direction to), Buckingham Palace. Before you reach the coach station, you will see the 'Colonnade Walk' on the left. Enter the walkway and turn left at the Subway sandwich store; the visitor centre is behind the fountain.


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Friday, May 18, 2012
Facebook Goes Public
Look at Amazon, Google, and Apple. Facebook is at least as hot as these companies and they are valued in the hundreds of dollars per share of stock. Sure these companies sell actual product, but Facebook has found a working business model and it is a product that consumers love to use, despite its ill-conceived (and I say doomed) Timeline redesign.
Facebook is slated to offer shares of its stock in the $35 to $38 dollar range, but the price won't be there for long. Buy this stock early.
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After Facebook's (stock symbol FB) unspectacular first day of trading on the NASDAQ stock exchange where it finished 23 cents up on the day there's a lot of talk out there that Facebook as an investment is a dud. This based on one day. An up day too.ReplyDelete
Investing is a long haul "game" and my personal opinion that this stock has got no where to go but up still holds. Google wasn't $600 a share on the first day, it was $85. Now, eight years later, it is $600.
Patience my friends. What is good about Facebook remaining near its offer price after the first day of trading is that more people can get in on the ground floor.
As I said last year, investing in stocks like Facebook should be a long-haul game for most investors. Now a little more than a year later the stock is close to $45 per share, above what it was offered at in May of 2012. Patience can be a virtue in the stock market. http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-wall-street-facebook-stock-alltime-high-20130906,0,1253797.storyReplyDelete


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From The Socialist newspaper, 14 April 2010
20 years ago: the Strangeways prison riot
On 1 April it was 20 years since the start of the Strangeways prison 'riot'. The riot was a protest by prisoners against their appalling conditions. They initially barricaded themselves in the prison chapel, then took to the roof to raise the profile of their demands.
Iain Dalton
At the time conditions in prisons were bad. Strangeways had a certified capacity of 970, yet at the time of the riot the prison was holding 1,647 prisoners.
Prisoners on remand were in their cells 18 hours a day. Category A prisoners were in their cells 22 hours a day, only being allowed out to slop out - empty their chamber pots - for an hour's exercise and for a weekly shower. There was no change of kit for most prisoners after showers, and young prisoners had no work and few activities to keep them occupied.
The prisoners put these demands through the Manchester Evening News:
- Improved visiting facilities, including the right to physical contact with visitors and a children's play area.
- Category A prisoners to be allowed to wear their own clothes and be able to receive food parcels.
- Longer exercise periods.
- An end to the 23-hour-a-day lock-up.
Over a period of a few weeks, prisoners surrendered or were recaptured. Eventually the last five were taken off the roof in a cherry-picker.
The riot led to the setting up of a public inquiry under Lord Woolf which concluded that prison conditions were 'intolerable' and urged reform.
But a scurrilous article in the Society Guardian on 3 March this year attempted to put the responsibility for the riot onto violence-seeking prisoners and lazy prison officers who couldn't see the vision of the newly installed reforming prison governor Brendan O'Friel.
Yet the Woolf report noted that his reforms hadn't done much to alleviate the standards of prison life and called the conditions 'still wholly intolerable'.
Prisons had been understaffed for years, resulting in prisoners being locked up for longer and longer periods.
As part of the government's Fresh Start scheme for prison staffing, prisons had been reducing the number of hours overtime worked by prison officers as well as making other 'efficiency savings' whilst not making up for this by increasing staffing levels.
This also led to the increasing use of sedatives to keep control of the prison population.
After the Woolf report there was a slowdown in the growth of the prison population. Many prisons were improved so that they contained integrated sanitation and Strangeways itself was rebuilt at a cost of £55 million after the damage it had suffered during the riot. It was re-opened as Manchester prison.
But since then the prison population has shot up again. It is now over the 80,000 mark, which necessitated the use of police and court cells to hold prisoners during 2007. Although slopping out is supposed to have been phased out, it is still present in a few prisons such as Peterhead.
Some right-wing media portray prison conditions as luxury accommodation, yet as the Strangeways riot showed, it is far from the 'holiday camp' they wish to portray.
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The coronavirus crisis has laid bare the class character of society in numerous ways. It is making clear to many that it is the working class that keeps society running, not the CEOs of major corporations.
The results of austerity have been graphically demonstrated as public services strain to cope with the crisis.
The government has now ripped up its 'austerity' mantra and turned to policies that not long ago were denounced as socialist. But after the corona crisis, it will try to make the working class pay for it, by trying to claw back what has been given.
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New Week, New Gift - Claret Cheese Board
Monday, October 19, 2015 2:08:49 PM Europe/London
The 'Claret Cheese Board' is a complete cheese board in a box. A lovely bottle of red Bordeaux, with two types of cheese, two types of Italian biscuits to enjoy them on and even a wooden board to display them on and use time and time again. The Ch. Haut Pingat Bordeaux with its dark purple colour, soft strawberry nose, is a great food match with an award winning, spicy Red 'Devil' Gloucester cheese, plus the irresistible 'Green Thunder' mature Cheddar cheese with its subtle hints of garlic and herbs from the Snowdonia Cheese Company.
The UK, France and Italy together for an authentic, artisan gift hamper with great, simple tastes and an explosion of Autumn colours.


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"REACH is for real—it might take awhile to be fully implemented, but it's not going away, nor will it be overturned," said Christian Richter, principal of The Policy Group in Washington, D.C. "REACH is already influencing domestic U.S. chemicals policies; some states are already looking at passing their own REACH laws. Some in Congress are looking at ways to advance some elements of the regulation in Washington."
According to Richter, the new law will ultimately shape worldwide procurement decisions of finishing customers as well as commercial chemicals manufacturing and use directions into the future. Even if a finisher's or manufacturer's products or chemicals are not imported into the EU, he notes, their ultimate end-user customers might choose to voluntarily deselect certain coated materials used in their products. In short, this mandate poses additional demands on the entire supply chain.
In response, NASF and its intensely proactive Government Relations committee have assembled an assistance package designed to help industry members sort out the facts while educating and informing their customers. NASF's REACH Guidance Program spans several phases. The first kicks off with the release of several important documents, including: the NASF Supplier Guidance; NASF Finisher Guidance; and NASF Model Response for REACH Inquiries. NASF members can access all three documents by visiting the association's website. Also available to members are copies of presentations that were given during the NASF annual Washington Forum event held this past May as well as REACH-related presentations delivered at SUR/FIN 2008 back in June.
Moving forward, NASF and The Policy Group plan to issue a more detailed REACH guidance supplement that will include information NASF is currently collecting from finishers and suppliers in regards to specific applicability of the law.
NASF's labor-intensive efforts on behalf of the surface finishing industry demonstrate yet again the tremendous value the association continues to offer to its membership. Efforts, I'm sure, that have not gone unnoticed by scores of industry members who are striving to remain responsible and compliant in an industry that has seen more than its fair share of regulatory mandates.
Burgmann Packings Composites, based in Ireland, has launched a new robot handling system for over-braiding a range of mandrels and cores.
Additive manufacturing (AM) company Renishaw has been named as a stripe sponsor for the Bloodhound project.
The market for materials aimed at 3D printing aerospace parts could reach US$535.1 million by 2024.