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Should Governments Give Serious Consideration to Electric Car Only City Centres?/
Over the last 12 months the subject of electric car only city centres has been discussed on numerous occasions, although so far no government has been brave enough to push through any formal regulations. The authorities continue to encourage the use of electric vehicles within city centres and have assisted with the creation of recharging stations networks but perhaps they could be doing more?
Only a few days ago we wrote about an expert in the field of electric vehicles who is suggesting that financial incentives should be focused towards commercial operations such as taxis and vehicle fleets. The idea is that taxis and vehicle fleets cover the most mileage per annum compared to your traditional motorist and therefore electric vehicles will be more visible under this particular strategy.
Health issues
While there are pros and cons with regards to electric vehicles, with some experts suggesting additional power requirements have their own impact upon the environment, there is no doubt that diesel/gasoline vehicles do impact air quality. Indeed a number of reports have suggested that the likes of asthma and other similar ailments are encouraged by air pollution caused by vehicle emissions.
Quote from ElectricForum.com : "Slowly but surely the electric vehicle market is moving towards the mass market but there are still particular elements of the industry and technology which appear to be stopping potential customers from buying electric vehicles. If you have thought about buying an electric vehicle, but have not yet done so, what is the one thing stopping you from going ahead with a purchase?"
The data on this particular subject is not conclusive but many people believe it does offer enough support for some governments around the world to introduce selective electric vehicle only city centres. This would very quickly improve air quality, assist in promoting electric vehicles to the wider public, further commercial opportunities as the number of electric vehicles on the roads would rise dramatically.
Are governments doing enough to promote electric vehicles?
This is a very hot topic at the moment, the fact that many governments around the world are offering financial incentives to those looking to purchase an electric vehicle while offering significantly greater support to the gasoline/diesel vehicle market. Indeed the US government spends billions upon billions of dollars each and every year protecting the country's supply of oil from various sources around the world. While investment in the electric vehicle market is very much appreciated, it is but a fraction of that associated with the oil industry.
Whether or not the authorities in the US, and around the world, are just paying lip service to the issue of environmentally friendly travel is something which many people have different opinions upon. Whatever the case the fact remains that government investment, as well as commercial investment in the electric vehicle industry, is greater today than it ever has been. There are more EVs on the road, there are more companies looking to introduce electric vehicles, and thankfully the cost is starting to come down.
The Scottish government was one particular authority which was looking at banning petrol/diesel vehicles from city centres. While this law change is unlikely in the short to medium term it is certainly something which could be on the agenda in the longer term. The electric vehicle industry is more developed today than it ever has been and is on the verge of the mass-market, but perhaps it needs one more major push?
Which government will have the bottle to call the big shots?


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As a longtime music journalist and even longer-time music fan, I'm often asked to list my favorite concert experiences of all time. It's a daunting task, considering that I see more concerts in a week than most people see in an entire year, and so of course my list changes weekly, daily, or even minute-ly, depending on my mood and that particular evening's post-concert high.
But one landmark gig always lands somewhere in my top five: Primal Scream at the House Of Blues, August 2000.
Yes, pretty much everyone who was lucky enough to attend the Scream's two-night stint at the Sunset Strip club almost a decade ago recalls it as a life-changing and life-affirming live event, in the same way American music fans of previous generations remember seeing Elvis or the Beatles on Ed Sullivan or Michael Jackson's first moonwalk on that famous Motown TV special.
It's hard to explain what made it so magical, but it really was one of those legendary, you-just-had-to-be-there kind of concerts.
That hot August night, Primal Scream's onstage lineup boasted more live instruments than most straightahead rock bands even know how to play. First of all, sharing the HOB stage were no fewer than three guitarists (including My Bloody Valentine's then-recluse Kevin Shields), and then the Sex Pistols' Steve Jones later emerged and brought the total number of electric guitars onstage to an almost ridiculous FOUR. Plus there was a full horn section whose playing somehow evoked both Kill City-era Stooges and the Average White Band (though never in an average way), a flautist, a turntablist, and of course former Stone Roses bass ace Mani. The eight-piece band not only recreated the sinister sound of the Scream's current album at the time, XTRMNTR, with incredible pinpoint precision, but also held down the proverbial fort by playing cacophonous, eardrum-splintering instrumental jams whenever Bobby Gillespie wandered offstage for several minutes at a time to do/ingest God-knows-what.
Several wowed concertgoers were overheard to pronounce afterwards that it was the best show they'd seen in a "long-ass" time, and my guess is most of those spectators have not witnessed a better gig since. Especially since Primal Scream's Southern California concerts have been few and far between post-2000, save for a Coachella appearance or two. It's been a long-ass time, indeed.
Well, I'm glad to say "I was there" back in 2000, and that I was there again last night when the band played their first L.A. show in "a million fucking years" (Bobby's words), ready to live up to their legend. Their appearance at downtown's new Club Nokia was THE most anticipated gig of 2009 so far (if all the excited, expletive-laced Facebook status updates among my screamadelic friends were anything to go by), and it was probably the only show that could convince me to go out on the Monday night before I left for South By Southwest, when I should have been resting up and packing.
Sure, Kevin Shields and Steve Jones weren't in the lineup this time (although Bobby did cryptically dedicate "Swastika Eyes" to Jonesy), and the horn section was M.I.A., but Mani was still there–as was the real rock star of the evening, dizzy Gillespie himself, still oozing jaded superstar glamour from his every milky-white pore. (All Bobby had to do was cock a bony hip to one side, lazily drape his spindly arms over his mic stand, and stare down the crowd with those nasty swastika eyes of his, and he was completely compelling.)
Whether it was the Giorgio Moroder-on-PCP groove of the aforementioned "Swastika Eyes," the Altamont-friendly (or is that Woodstock-unfriendly?) "Kill All Hippies," the hypnotic and hallucinogenic "Higher Than The Sun," the gospedelica of "Movin' On Up," or the sleazy Memphis-style party anthems "Rocks," "Jailbird," and "Country Girl," Bobby and company proved once again that there ain't no band that can rock, rant 'n' rave like Primal Scream.
They in fact rocked so intensely and intently for two hours beneath Club Nokia's seizure-inducing strobelights (and the diehard Angelenos in the audience had been sadly Primal-deprived for so damn long) that no one in the venue even seemed to notice or care that the band's two biggest U.S. radio hits, "Loaded" and "Come Together," had been left off the setlist completely. Everyone just kept on dancing. Hell, even too-cool-for-school Bobby Gillespie couldn't help but shake his own skinny little groove thang in earnest.
Let's hope another nine years doesn't pass before a Scream show this awesome comes to L.A. again.

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Headmaster Finch walks the staircases and corridors of his school, before approaching his office only to find a young girl sitting outside. She explains that she is ill with a headache and Matron has sent her to see him. He asks why she cannot just go home and she explains she lives in Ambrose Hall, the local orphanage. He sympathises and ushers her inside his office. It's nearly time for lunch. As he closes the door he takes a peek back outside before closing it completely. The shadows through the frosted glass window shift and change, as the girl lets out a scream.
Elsewhere in the schoolchildren are rushing to lessons at the sound of the bell. Some of them pile into a science lab, followed by their teacher. He walks to his desk and sets down his bag before greeting his students. It's the Doctor. Continue reading


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By Dave Jolivet, Anchor Editor
WAREHAM, Mass. — In 1 Kings 19 when God spoke to Elijah, it wasn't in the strong wind rending the mountain and breaking up the rocks; it wasn't in the earthquake; and it wasn't in the fire. God spoke to Elijah in a gentle breeze, a whisper. It was in those conditions that the Almighty informed Elijah what God wanted him to do.
Today God still speaks to His children, wishing to guide them in a direction that will make them happy and make the world a better place for all. But it's difficult to hear the "whisper" amidst the noise and confusion of social media, school, work, Netflix, Youtube and Pandora. The message is still being transmitted but the receptors are being neutralized.
To help young women block out the "strong winds, earthquakes, and fires," Sister Paulina Hurtado, O.P., newly-appointed associate director of Vocations for the Diocese of Fall River, and Paula Wilk, director of Faith Formation and Youth Ministry at St. Patrick's Parish in Wareham, are offering a three-day respite from the day-to-day busyness with a "Called by Name Retreat for Young Women" at Sacred Hearts Retreat Center in Wareham from August 21-23.
"God's call comes through many ways at the time we least expect," Sister Hurtado told The Anchor. "Hearing and noticing God's call requires being attentive. It may come through simple events or through persons God puts on our way. Listening or keeping a conversation with them, praying, reading a book or listening to a song, a prayer or a poem allows our heart to be touched and to respond. The Call by Name retreat is an occasion in the process of readying our heart to hear God's voice calling us."
"This three-day retreat is a wonderful opportunity for young women in high school or college to take the time to reflect on what their vocation in life is, or at least start to think about it," said Wilk, who has been involved with the annual retreat since its inception in 2011. "God calls us many times during the day, speaking to us through the Eucharist, the teachings of the Church, Scripture, and people and events in our lives. By following a simple plan of discernment."
The retreat experience will illustrate Wilk's statement and offer insights to the young women in ways to deepen their relationship with God by listening for that whisper, the call from Him to lead the individual to her vocation in life, whether it be as a religious, as a wife and mother, or as a single woman.
"It was my First Communion what brought me to a deep Spiritual awakening," said Sister Hurtado. Because she didn't belong to a "very Church-going family," she received the Sacrament two years later than her classmates. "The preparation which the school provided made me feel part of an exclusive group in the school. It was not so much a time of study but of joyful expectation, and when the First Communion day came I was ready to join Jesus and to follow Him."
Since that time, Sister Hurtado continued to follow the call, even through a very serious childhood illness. Her ministry as a Dominican Sister took her all over the world. "Now in the Diocese of Fall River, I join in the efforts of Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V., and every parish in the same Spirit of collaboration to invite and to welcome vocations to the consecrated life and to the priesthood."
Assisting on the retreat, as she has in the past, will be Missionary Servant of the Most Blessed Trinity Sister Catherine Lamb, director of the Homebound Ministry at St. Patrick's Parish in Wareham.
In her more than 60 as a religious, Sister Lamb has ministered to Cape Verdeans, Mexicans, African-Americans, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laotians and Eastern European people.
The charism of the Missionary Servants of the Most Blessed Trinity is reaching out to others, and it is with that Spirit that Sister Catherine and two others from her order, Sisters Mary Kay McDonald and Barbara McIntyre will share their experiences with the young women on the weekend.
Held on the beautiful grounds of the Sacred Hearts Retreat Center in Wareham, the retreat offers young women the time for reflection, guidance, food and fun. There are presentations, prayer and daily Mass.
"The retreat changes a bit each year," Wilk told The Anchor. "This year we will be doing a bit more on discernment. Each participant will receive the book, 'He Speaks to You,' by Sister Helena Burns, FSP. It is a lovely daily mediation on God's call in your life. We will be doing this with the ladies and of course we will have a lot of fun by the beach and lots of delicious food."
Anamaria Artaega is entering her senior year at Salve Regina University in Newport, R.I, double majoring in psychology and religious studies. "I went on the Called by Name retreat after my first year at Salve Regina University," she told The Anchor. "At the time I finished my first year of college and had learned a lot about myself and others but I wanted to focus more on what was the purpose for my life. What did God create me for and what gifts and talents did God give me to use to fulfill my purpose? The retreat was for young women discerning where they fit into God's plan.
"The retreat allowed for us to be together in a quiet place surrounded by nature and supportive adults helping us see more clearly what our plan entails. I found that weekend experience to be one of the most personal experiences for me. In a world full of busy schedules, busy people, and a busy culture, silence and spending time with your soul is something that is seldom done. I enjoyed the experience very much! I am now following one of my callings in serving children on the autism spectrum with applied behavioral analysis."
Each year the retreat concludes with guest speakers. "This year we are delighted to have the Little Sisters of the Poor," added Wilk. "Each year we try to change things up a bit so that if we have returning participants they will find something new and different."
Sister Hurtado said that Pope Francis has asked that everyone be open to God's call in our lives. "Vocation is about God's call and our response to that call, so find a moment to journey deep within your heart and mind," she said. "As Pope Francis put it, 'Be open to the action of the Spirit of God, without fear of what He asks us or where He leads us. Let us entrust ourselves to Him.'"
The retreat is open to all young women of high school and college age. The retreat brochure tells of the opportunity to "meet new friends and find new skills that will help you grow in your relationship with Jesus and what God is calling you to do." Whether it be Marriage, single life, or religious life, retreatants will learn the skills necessary to discern their vocations.
"The invitation is to leave your cares and worries behind," said Wilk. "Come and retreat with us."
For information and/or a registration form contact Paula Wilk at 774-283-0441; email email@example.com; or Sister Paulina Hurtado at 508-675-1311, extension 105 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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