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Torture test: Is AT&T's unlimited iPad 3G plan truly unlimited?
We get acquainted with the iPad Wi-Fi + 3G by hammering AT&T's data network to see if "unlimited" really does mean unlimited
UPDATE: I have received numerous emails asking how I was able to move such an enormous amount of data in such a short period of time. While I happily shared my methods -- along with a disclaimer -- I would urge readers to not attempt to replicate these tests without cause.
This "torture test" was performed in an effort to publicly verify Apple and AT&T's claim of unlimited data. 30GB is well beyond the amount of data any iPad user would move over the course of a month, even with very heavy usage. As such, I will be discontinuing my testing.
Again, I highly recommend against moving large amounts of data over AT&T's 3G network without cause. The simple fact is that there is no longer a need to test the waters.
EARLIER: Last week, the drawn-out launch of Apple's first-generation iPad came to a close as iPad Wi-Fi + 3G models finally began shipping to customers who placed pre-orders.
The iPad Wi-Fi + 3G is nothing new thanks to its Wi-Fi-only counterpart, which launched at the beginning of April. In fact, there are really only five differences important to consumers:
- The + 3G model is one-tenth of a pound heavier.
- The + 3G model has a plastic piece at the top of the case to help radio reception.
- The + 3G model has an internal GPS unit.
- The + 3G model has shorter quoted battery life.
- The + 3G model has... 3G.
While some people got lucky and received their 3G iPads a day ahead of schedule, our unit was delivered on Friday -- actually, it was handed to me exactly two minutes ahead of the 3:00 pm estimated delivery time. Well done, FedEx.
Since I already reviewed Apple's iPad quite exhaustively here on Know Your Cell, I thought I would take some time to focus on the most important new feature brought about by the 3G model -- that's right, the 3G.
To touch briefly on performance, it's exactly the same as the iPhone 3GS. Reception might be slightly improved thanks to a larger 3G antenna, but AT&T's 3G signal typically sits at five bars everywhere I go. As such, I obviously don't see any difference between the iPad and iPhone. iPad and iPhone 3GS data speeds were also nearly identical in my tests.
But most of that goes without saying. Truth be told, I've had one thing and one thing only on my mind since placing my pre-order for Apple's iPad Wi-Fi + 3G: unlimited data.
In contrast to many smartphone data plans, which include a 5GB soft cap, Apple and AT&T have been very clear with the iPad's 3G data plan options. $14.99 gets you a paltry 250MB of cellular data to use in one month, but $29.99 gets you unlimited data.
We've heard the word "unlimited" tossed around quite freely in the wireless industry for some time. Carriers have been a bit more careful with the word recently, but the memory of discovering "unlimited" actually means 5GB is still fresh on our minds.
So when Apple and AT&T took the time to clarify that the iPad's "unlimited" data plan truly is unlimited, I couldn't help but spend my first month with the 3G iPad ensuring the companies' claim is true.
Welcome to the iPad Wi-Fi + 3G torture test.
"Torture test" might be a bit harsh -- no, I won't be blending the iPad or anything like that -- but considering AT&T's 3G network has been the source of many complaints (and a smear campaign) in recent history, bombarding it with an iPad Wi-Fi + 3G could certainly be considered torturous.
In my first two days with the new iPad, I've pumped just about 31GB of data over AT&T's 3G network:
In fact, actual data usage is likely a bit higher than the figure shown above, as the iPad seems to have some trouble tracking cellular data usage accurately. I haven't yet fully investigated the issue, but I did observe at least one instance where the cellular data received counter actually dropped as I used it. To clarify: the received counter was at 28.3 gigabytes and after using the iPad for another hour, the counter was at 26.1 gigabytes.
I'll be digging further into this issue at some point, but for now my focus is on continuing heavy usage and ensuring that the unlimited data plan truly is unlimited.
It should be noted that I have no intention of keeping up with my current pace, which would put me somewhere north of 450GB when the month ends. I do, however, plan to pump somewhere around 100GB of data over AT&T's 3G network during the course of the month.
If I can hit 100GB without being shut off by AT&T, I think it will be safe to say that users can consider the $29.99 iPad data plan to be "unlimited". Considering I'm currently at six times the 5GB soft cap placed on smartphone data plans after just two days of usage, things are looking good.
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Quote-unquote music producer J.R. Rotem had massive amounts of sex with Britney Spears.
And he's not afraid to disclose his kinky sexual position of choice for doing the pop princess.
Kind of makes the usual news about Britney Spears - the nipple slip, the crotch shots, the fashion faux pas, the floundering career, the kids, the ongoing feud with Lynne Spears - seem dull.
According to J.R. Rotem, he and Britney Spears had a heck of a good time back during their brief fling, which lasted between one sexual encounter and a few weeks, depending on who you believe.
So what did they do, exactly?
"I f**ked Britney wheelbarrow style!" J.R. Rotem tells Blender, before amending that.
"Just kidding," he says. "It was tractor style."
Tractor style? The Hollywood Gossip's research department has uncovered no evidence of such a position existing, so it's clear that J.R. Rotem either made up a special new move or is making some kind of white trash joke at Britney's expense.
As far as the wheelbarrow goes, UrbanDictionary.com describes it as intercourse, up against the wall, in which the male (J.R. Rotem) holds the legs of the woman (Britney Spears) apart, like a wheelbarrow, as he leans against the wall and thrusts feverishly.
Sounds like something Kendra Jade would be familiar with. See illustration below, along with a picture of the greasy, Spencer Pratt-like Jonathan "J.R." Rotem with Spears last year.
All his wheelbarrow fun wasn't without consequences for Rotem, who says that after his affair with Brit became public, he was nixed from Kevin Federline's MySpace friends. Bummer.
In the end, Britney and J.R. "decided for both our careers that it would not be cool to have a romantic relationship," says he. Or one based on hard core sex, more accurately.
In the past, Rotem has boasted of other conquests - Bai Ling, Hayden Panettiere, Mya and Meagan Good, among others - though he didn't divulge specific details, other than to say that none of those young ladies "got him as far" as Britney.
Britney soon moved on to Isaac Cohen, who, oddly enough, also divulged details of making sweet love to her in an extensive interview after their brief relationship ended in February.
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Cops: Men Wanted For Armed Robbery Of Phone Store
Cops are hunting for a couple of guys with a gun. They have already robbed the Metro PCS store at 14th Street and First Avenue in the East Village and could strike again. To turn up the heat they have released photos cops say show the men robbing the phone store Friday night.
On the tape you see the two guys enter the store. The first man pulls out a handgun and heads for the counter where he demands cash.
The second suspect can be seen wearing gloves and close behind his partner. He heads deeper into the store.
They escape with an undetermined amount of cash.
The first guy is described by police as Black, about 40-years-old, 6-feet tall and weighing about 160 pounds. He has a black and gray beard and was wearing a black leather coat, wool cap, and sunglasses.
The second man is also believed to be in his 40s, 5'6" tall and about 150 pounds. He was last seen wearing a black coat, gloves, and sunglasses.
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McKinsey & Company is the most respected and most secretive consulting firm in the world, and business readers just can't seem to get enough of all things McKinsey. Now, hot on the heels of his acclaimed international bestseller The McKinsey Way, Ethan Rasiel brings readers a powerful new guide to putting McKinsey concepts and skills into actionThe McKinsey Mind. While the first book used case studies and anecdotes from former and current McKinseyites to describe how "the firm" solves the thorniest business problems of their A-list clients, The McKinsey Mind goes a giant step further. It explains, step-by-step, how to use McKinsey tools, techniques and strategies to solve an array of core business problems and to make any business venture more successful.
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I've been a citizen on patrol for over 20 years. My stomping grounds are often Southern inner-cities where I grew up and currently reside.
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I also walk business districts where the very poor and very well off warily pass by each other and give food to the homeless planted there.
This places me well to the right of the communist "Black Citizens Council" thug lobby lionizing the Hood's hoods as anything but criminals.
I call them "chocolate Klansmen."
As such, I have much more in common with George Zimmerman of the Trayvon Martin case fame than liberal Blacks ignoring our murder rate to go ape over occasional non-Black suspects.
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The Hood's molly coddled tormentors are my personal specialty. I make no secret of believing that opposing them is today's equivalent of the 1963 March On Washington.
As a citizen on patrol and an American Black, I followed the Zimmerman case closely. This unique vantage sometimes placed me at odds with mainstream media and conservative news outlets.
Things have cooled off a bit, allowing a more dispassionate review of a case race-baiters hoped would explode into national ethnic warfare.
I know only too well the thug mindset downloaded into millions of young Black male minds- it culturally surrounds me.
Liberals prefer to privately air these concerns, but I don't owe chocolate Klansmen the courtesy of a gag order.
Their ignorant, bullying swagger and violence is well known to Americans of all colors. Pictures and accounts surfaced that suggest the late Trayvon Martin may have been part of this ghetto branch of anti-social, communist collectivism.
Gold teeth, while not a constitutional admission of criminality, argue badly when benefit of the doubt is required.
Where I'm from, such cosmetic dentistry is a sure sign of chocolate Klansman affiliation. One is either a predator or perhaps trying to fit in with these goons.
Even worse are thug enablers in good standing of supportive "Black Citizens Councils", which include civil rights organizations, activists, clergy, and others who should know better.
Reports Martin was suspended from school during the fatal night in question also tilt benefit of the doubt away from him in some minds.
Critics can dismiss this conjecture as purely circumstantial, especially the famed hoodie worn that fatal night.
American Black boys and men have the dubious right to gold teeth and not to have legal infractions outweigh the facts in separate matters.
We're also free to walk at night to purchase Skittles or anything else we can afford.
We're not free, however, to ignore how chocolate Klansman rampages place other Americans on guard against us.
This is the real world. I always advise urban boys and men not to use thug-wear, nor hang out with known criminals.
Again, they're free to do so; but society (police and concerned citizens of all colors ) are also free to exercise added scrutiny these stupid decisions invite.
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By the Numbers: Cardinals 27, Texans 24
Keenum on the difference in the second half
The Texans lost to the Cardinals on Sunday, for a franchise-worst seven losses in a row.
Here are some more interesting statistics:
- Through nine games, the Texans have 3,386 yards of offense and their defense has given up 2,520. That's a yard differential of 866.
The Texans are one of 100 teams in NFL history to have a yard margin of 866 through nine games and have the worst record of all of them at 2-7. They are one of five to have a losing record and the other four were 4-5 (most recently the 2010 Chargers).
- On Sunday, the Texans were actually outgained by the Cardinals for just the second time this season.
The Texans' 235 yards of offense is their worst output this season and the worst overall since the loss to the Vikings in Week 16 last year.
- For as bad as the Astros were this season, the Texans are statistically worse. The Astros' 2013 winning percentage was .315. The Texans' winning percentage through nine games is .222.
- This ties the 2002 season for the second-worst start in franchise history. They were only worse in 2005, when they went 1-8 through nine games.
- Randy Bullock went 1-for-2 on Sunday. The miss was big but it wasn't his fault. His kick at the end of the first half was blocked by a rusher off the edge. But with the 1-for-2 performance, dropped his percentage to 60.9 percent.
- Andre Johnson had two more touchdown catches on Sunday. That gives him five in the last two games after he had zero before last week and just four all last year.
Catching touchdowns has never been a stat that Johnson has dominated. He's never had more than nine in a season.
He caught touchdown No. 60 and 61 of his career on Sunday. Since he entered the league in 2003, eight players have had more and two others are tied with him at 61. Calvin Johnson has 63 TDs since he entered the league in 2007.
- In the third quarter on Sunday, Shane Lechler became the sixth player in NFL history to reach 50,000 punting yards in a career. Jeff Feagles is the all-time NFL leader with 71,211.
Lechler has punted 50,311 yards in his career. That's about 28.5 miles.
According to Texasn PR, on Sunday, Lechler punted seven times for an average of 58.9 yards. That's the seventh-best average in NFL history and the best as a Texan with a minimum of four punts.


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Wisconsin offered Mariemont junior defensive lineman/tight Jon Bezney last week, according to Mariemont coach Kurry Commins.
Bezney visited Madison on Tuesday and really enjoyed the experience, Commins said.
Bezney, who is 6 feet 5 and 275 pounds, also has offers from UC, Vanderbilt, Connecticut, Miami University, Kentucky, Louisville, Massachusetts and Kent State.
He was an Enquirer Divisions II-VI all-area selection last season. He had 133 tackling points, eight sacks and 11 tackles for loss last season.
"UC has him as their No. 1 player on their board," Commins said in a text message. "I am talking to him today and we will narrow it down soon.
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Facebook has once again changed the "invite your friends" functionality, which powers suggestions and invitations to events, groups, pages, etc. I'm not a fan of mass invites to everyone. Best practices is to have your friend list separated by City, Interests, etc. I have several lists such as Miami area, Art, Press, Live Music Lovers, Miami Mama's - this helps me send invites to people who I think will have a genuine interest and not bombard my followers with invites that don't pertain to them.
To select all your new friends in the new interface you can use this code, tested under Safari 5.0.4, Chrome 10 and Firefox 4 (should work also under IE).
javascript:var x=document.getElementsByTagName("input");for(var i=0;i<x.length;i++) {if (x[i].type == 'checkbox') {x[i].click();}}; alert('Done, all your friends have been selected');
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British Land puts European properties up for sale
Property developer looks to offload £244m retail assets, which have been hit by economic crisis in Spain and Portugal
The property developer British Land is looking to sell its £255m portfolio of retail properties in mainland Europe after the assets lost almost a fifth of their value on the back of the economic crisis in Spain and Portugal.
British Land said on Tuesday its mainland European properties, which account for 2.4% of its £10.5bn portfolio, fell 17% in value in the year to the end of March, hit by rental concessions and widening yields. "Looking forward, we consider Europe to be a subscale business for us and our intention is to exit over time," the chief executive, Chris Grigg, said, adding that the company was not having active discussions with buyers at the moment.
"It could be a long haul, the market's not that easy in Europe at the moment and we don't expect any near-term announcement but this is a very clear statement of intent," he said. British Land entered mainland Europe in 2005 with the purchase of Pillar Property, which had assets in Spain and Italy. It co-owns Spain's biggest mall, the 200,000 sq metre (2.2m sq ft) Puerto Venecia shopping centre in Zaragoza, and owns a 65% share in the continental European property fund PREF.
Retail sales in the eurozone fell for the second month in a row in March, reflecting the bloc's high jobless rate and restricted credit conditions, with the worst slump seen in Spain where retail sales fell 10.5% on an annual basis. Like its rivals Hammerson and Land Securities, British Land has been focusing on its core office and shopping centre businesses in London and key UK regions to combat the tough economic outlook facing property markets in Britain and Europe.
In March, it raised almost £1bn for new investments and developments via a share placement and sale of an office block in the City of London. The company, which is building the Cheesegrater skyscraper in the City, said its EPRA (European Public Real Estate Association) net asset value for the year to the end of March rose 0.2% to 596p per share, while profits before tax increased 1.9% to £274m. It also increased its dividend by 1.1% to 26.4p a share.
Categories: News Tags: British Land, Europe, European, Spain
Barclays investors seek meeting on board split
Shareholders want to see senior independent director following reports Alison Carnwath did not initially support Diamond bonus
Barclays shareholders are considering demanding a meeting with Sir Michael Rake, the senior independent director on the board, amid mounting concern about tension within the bank's boardroom.
Following reports that Alison Carnwath, the Barclays director who heads the remuneration committee, had not initially supported the payment of a £2.7m bonus to the chief executive, Bob Diamond, shareholders are understood to want to hear from the senior independent director rather than the bank's chairman, Marcus Agius.
Carnwath, a serial non-executive director who also chairs Land Securities, faced a protest vote of 20% at the Barclays annual meeting. More than 30% of investors failed to back the bank's pay policies after Diamond was awarded the controversial bonus and the bank paid £5.7m of his taxes. Diamond received £17m in total.
Shareholders did not want to be identified but they now believe that Carnwath did not support the bonus payout – initially at least. When this speculation first surfaced, Agius said that the bank encouraged "a full and vigorous debate" but insisted that the pay deals were supported unanimously.
The Barclays annual meeting took place at the start of what has been dubbed the "shareholder spring", when there was a wave of protests about executive pay.
Chris Grigg, the chief executive of British Land, the FTSE 100 property development firm behind the Lakeside shopping centre, is the latest to emerge as having a bumper pay rise last year. Grigg received a 50% boost to his pay packet this year to £3.4m, while his staff saw wages drop by an average of more than 5%.
Grigg received £1.9m in salary, bonus and benefits, plus a £280,000 cash allowance in lieu of a pension contribution in the year to March 2012. A golden hello of shares awarded "in order to facilitate [his] recruitment" in 2009 were also handed over, worth £1.19m.
British Land's chief executive, a former investment banker, cashed in more than half of those shares, pocketing £622,000. In the previous year, he received £2m in salary, bonus and benefits, plus another £280,000 in lieu of a pension payment.
By contrast, employees were paid an average salary of £127,000 this year, compared with £134,000 last year. The company's headcount increased slightly from 179 in the head office to 205 this year. The details were published in British Land's annual report.
The value of British Land's portfolio of office and retail property – which ranges from Cabot Circus in Bristol to Broadgate Circus in the City and Meadowhall shopping centre in Sheffield – rose by 2.6% to £10.3bn in the year to March.
The company, which is also developing the "Cheesegrater" skyscraper in the City, said London's booming office rental market helped drive a 5% increase in pre-tax profits in the year to March.
Lord Turnbull, chairman of British Land's remuneration committee, defended the pay scheme. "Pay plays an important retention role and hence needs to be competitive with alternative employment opportunities," he wrote in the annual report. "This is particularly so as British Land's expectations of staff are high and there is a scarcity value on proven performers." As chief executive of a bank that is 82%-owned by the taxpayer, Hester now suffers even more scrutiny of his pay packet and was forced to waive a near £1m bonus this year after a political row.
Categories: News Tags: Alison Carnwath, British Land, Chris Grigg, Marcus Agius
British Land boss sees pay rise 50%
Chief executive of FTSE 100 property developer Chris Grigg sees pay rise 50% to £3.4m
The chief executive of British Land, the FTSE 100 property developer behind the Lakeside shopping centre, has been rewarded with a 50% boost to his pay packet this year to £3.4m while his staff saw wages drop by an average of more than 5%.
Chris Grigg received £1.9m in salary, bonus and benefits, plus £280,000 in lieu of his pension allowance in the year to March 2012. Shares awarded "in order to facilitate [his] recruitment" in 2009 also vested this year with a notional gain of £1.19m. Grigg, a former investment banker, cashed in more than half of those shares, pocketing £622,000. In 2011, he received £2m in salary, bonus and benefits, plus another £280,000 in lieu of a pension payment.
By contrast, employees were paid an average salary of £127,000 this year, compared with £134,000 last year. Headcount increased slightly from 179 employees in head office to 205 this year. The details were published in British Land's annual report.
British Land's portfolio of office and retail property – from Broadgate Circus in the City to Meadowhall Shopping Centre in Sheffield – rose in value by 2.6% to £10.3bn in the year to March. The company, which is developing the "Cheesegrater" skyscraper in the City, said London's booming office rental market helped drive a 5% increase in pre-tax profits in the year to March.
Lord Turnbull, chairman of British Land's remuneration committee, defended the pay scheme. "Pay plays an important retention role and hence needs to be competitive with alternative employment opportunities," he wrote in the annual report. "This is particularly so as British Land's expectations of staff are high and there is a scarcity value on proven performers."
Grigg left Barclays' commercial banking arm to take over at British Land from Stephen Hester, who went in the other direction to rescue Royal Bank of Scotland in 2008. As chief executive of a bank that is 82%-owned by the taxpayer, Hester now suffers even more scrutiny of his pay packet and was forced to waive a near £1m bonus this year after a political row. However, his bank balance was not unduly affected as he still walked away with some £3.2m in salary, benefits, payments in lieu of pension and share awards that vested last year.
Details of Grigg's pay packet were published in a week where shareholders voted against a 60% increase in the pay of WPP chairman Martin Sorrell, and follows a series of investor revolts over executive pay.
The row over executive pay has been reignited following a survey by Manifest/MM&K which showed FTSE 100 chief executive pay rose 12% in a year when the share index fell by 5%. The annual meeting season for the 2011 financial year currently underway has been dubbed the "shareholder spring" as a record six remuneration reports have been voted down. Premier Farnell suffered a 30% protest against its pay policies this week and further rebellions are expected as the AGM season continues.
Categories: News Tags: British Land, Chris Grigg, FTSE, Martin Sorrell
London office developments 'at risk from eurozone crisis'
Schemes are due to deliver 53m sq ft of office space in London by 2016 but a loss of confidence among tenants and problems securing funding are hampering some projects
A property consultancy has warned that more office developments could stall in the City of London as the eurozone debt crisis affects tenant demand and funding.
A report from EC Harris shows that the "notional" London office development pipeline contains 150 potential projects ready to deliver 53m square feet of office space by 2016, with a construction value of £12bn. However, difficulty securing pre-let tenants and external funding means that many may not come to fruition.
The City accounts for more than 60% of the total area (34m sq ft) and more than half the number of projects. The average size of a City project is 420,000 sq ft, nearly twice the size of those planned for the west end.
These projects are driven by a growing shortage of high-quality office space, with leases covering up to 70m sq ft to expire before 2017 in London. However, the eurozone crisis, diminishing tenant confidence and tighter funding markets are key reasons for tenants to stay and ride out the storm. Some are opting for refurbished space, rather than newly built offices.
Royal Bank of Scotland downscaled its investment bank with 3,500 job cuts last month – equivalent to 500,000 sq ft of office space. Property finance is also becoming scarcer as some banks such as Société Générale have pulled out of risky lending.
"What the crisis has done is put doubt in people's minds," Richard Taylor, head of commercial development at EC Harris and author of the report, told the Guardian. "Tenants are getting nervous – from media to solicitors – about pre-lets."
Developer Hammerson suffered a blow last month when law firm CMS Cameron McKenna pulled out of a partial pre-let at Principal Place in the City. At about the same time, work on the £800m Pinnacle tower on Bishopsgate stalled again. Funding from a group of lenders including HSBC hinges on the developer, Arab Investments, pre-letting a large chunk of the planned 63-storey building.
Timing is crucial, said Simon Rawlinson, head of research at EC Harris. Land Securities and British Land, two of Britain's largest property developers, look to have timed the completion of their new skyscrapers right – both the Walkie Talkie and the Cheesegrater, designed by Rafael Viñoly and Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners respectively, are due to open in 2014 when most City office leases expire. By contrast, the nearby Heron Tower, which was completed last year, is "slightly early in the market and possibly a harder market sell than when you deliver in 2014/15," said Rawlinson.
The advantage of office towers is that they tend to be occupied by several tenants, and are not reliant on one big pre-let. British Land has already signed up insurance broker AON for the lower floors of the Cheesegrater in Leadenhall Street. Land Securities is building the Walkie Talkie in Fenchurch Street in partnership with Canary Wharf Group, and both have strong client bases. Meanwhile, the Renzo Piano-designed Shard at London Bridge is backed by Qatari Diar, which has deep pockets.
"Tenants don't want to commit two or three years in advance," said Rawlinson. "Developers that don't have a joint venture partner, are dependent on a pre-let or without alternative sources of funding will struggle most to get projects across the line."
Categories: News Tags: Arab Investments, British Land, Land Securities, London
Sheffield's Meadowhall shopping centre comes on the market at £1.4bn
Sale by British Land and London & Stamford expected to attract CSC, Britain's top mall operator, and foreign investors
A majority stake in the Meadowhall shopping centre in Sheffield is for sale, at a price likely to value the whole mall at £1.4bn or more.
British Land, one of Britain's biggest property developers, is looking to put half its 50% stake in the 1.4m sq ft mall up for sale, at the same time that its joint venture partner, London & Stamford, is putting its 50% stake in Meadowhall on the market. London & Stamford hopes to wrap up a sale in the first half of this year.
Big centres like Meadowhall are coveted assets as they rarely come on the market and perform far better than high-street properties. The sale is likely to generate a lot of interest from companies such as Capital Shopping Centres (CSC), Hammerson, and Australia's Westfield, as well as sovereign wealth funds from Singapore, Canada, Norway and the Middle East.
The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation's real estate arm bought a 40% stake in Britain's biggest mall, MetroCentre in Gateshead, in 2007. CSC, which is the country's top operator with 14 shopping centres including Manchester's Trafford Centre, retained a 50% stake in MetroCentre and still manages it.
British Land's chief executive, Chris Grigg, declined to comment, but has said that when disposing of a property the group would consider retaining a minority stake if the buyer were prepared to pay a better price on the remaining stake in return for having the comfort that the developer remained invested.
"It would allow them [British Land] to recycle capital into some of their other schemes," Peel Hunt analyst James Carswell told Reuters. "It's a good opportunity, as Meadowhall has performed well."
Meadowhall was valued at £1.4bn in British Land's annual results last May. It is the company's third-biggest property after the Broadgate office complex, which has been pre-let to Swiss bank UBS, and Regent's Place in London. The developer bought Meadowhall for £1.17bn in 1999 and sold a half share to London & Stamford for £588m in 2009.
Both British Land and London & Stamford declined to comment.
Categories: News Tags: Australia Westfield, British Land, CSC, London Stamford
The payout to the boss of RBS is a disastrous deal for the taxpayer| Aditya Chakrabortty
Ministers could act over Stephen Hester, the most lavishly rewarded public servant of all – but will they?
How much would you pay the boss of RBS? No one in Westminster would be crass enough to put it like that, naturally; but that's the fundamental question party leaders are addressing in their arguments about Stephen Hester's bonus.
Except that when Ed argues that the chief executive shouldn't get his annual top-up, and Nick coughs about the need for restraint and Dave tries to get everyone to look away by loosing the hounds on Fred Goodwin, they always leave out the most important bit: how Hester's payout is taxpayer money. As chief executive of a bank that is 83% owned by taxpayers, Hester is as much a public-sector worker as anyone behind the desk at your local JobCentre. If ministers wanted to block his bonus, they could. Indeed, they could renegotiate all the salaries paid out to the board of RBS. The government could quite legitimately point that these sums are transfers from ordinary families, many of whom face redundancies and pay freezes. So let's tweak the original question: how much should we pay Stephen Hester? This strikes me as a perfectly legitimate subject for democratic debate – especially under the coalition that a couple of years ago published the names and salaries of 300 top government officials
Well, we know how much the RBS boss got last year. The bank's annual report shows his salary as £1.22m. Add in the benefits and pensions and the shares awarded as part of the company's incentive scheme, and Hester was awarded a total of £5.85m last year. You may not have thought he was on so much, largely because the press normally quotes only the not-so-basic pay. But the rest would be what Harvard law professor and corporate-governance expert Lucian Bebchuk calls "camouflage" compensation – that is, payment expressly designed not to be noticed by the public and so not stir up outrage.
Some might look at that £5.85m and shrug that this is the price you pay for someone to turn around a failed bank. Bear in mind, though, that Hester is head of a public enterprise; in that sense his excessive pay is a burden on the business. On average, Britons contribute £5,280 each in income tax every year: so effectively, 1,107 individuals worked flat out for a year to pay for Hester.
This isn't personal. I'm sure the RBS boss is as nice a chap as ever came through Credit Suisse's investment bank, where he spent 20 years. Were I less happily caffeinated, I might dwell longer on the fact that Hester worked in finance during a historic bull market, before going on to British Land during an unprecedented property boom. Good or bad, we don't know his true capabilities; but he sure knows how to pick his cash cows.
Still, the fundamental point is that this is public cash that might otherwise go into hospitals, schools, housing benefit for poor families – or back to you in tax cuts. Instead, it's going to one man. Is he worth it? Hester's total pay is 97 times the average RBS employee's income and pension contribution. Let's accept that he is a very able executive working in a gruelling environment – but is he really 97 times more brilliant or productive than the next man or woman?
"Whatever we decided to pay Stephen Hester, people would regard it as too much," writes Alistair Darling in his memoirs. "Like it or not, bankers are paid a great deal of money, and if we were to salvage anything from RBS, I needed to get the best possible candidate and to pay him what was needed to do so." With those sentences, the former chancellor neatly sums two of the main arguments for giving people at the top more money: that they are super-talented, and that without those sums they would simply leave.
Yet Hester isn't some kind of super-banker. Pay-watchers One Society point out that in 2010, while Hester's total remuneration went up 71%, the value of his bank rose 33%. And over the past year, RBS's share price has nearly halved. Nor are British bosses hotly sought-after abroad. Indeed, the list of British heads of global businesses is short and not especially sweet: it includes Tony Hayward, who was drummed out of BP, and Martin Sullivan who was head of, um, AIG, recipient of the biggest corporate bailout in US history.
Announcing his proposals on executive pay today, Vince Cable went some way to distancing himself from the notion that executives are merely getting the going rate. Extra power for shareholders; more transparency on rewards: who could quibble with such policies? But it would have been better if he had broken the influence bosses have on their pay-setting boards. Not only should workers sit on remuneration committees, the same forum should discuss pay for the rank and file, as well as the top.
Over the past fortnight, residents of the Westminster bubble have jawed on about reforming capitalism. Politicians like that, as it allows them to gaze into the middle distance and use words like "responsible" and "moral". The rest of us can judge whether any of this means anything by seeing what ministers do about RBS. We might remember the letter Warren Buffett sent to his investors in 2004: "In judging whether corporate America is serious about reforming itself, CEO pay remains the acid test." The same goes for Westminster, too, and how it tackles the most lavishly rewarded public servant of all time.
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Over the last 22 years, Juno and ECMA award winners Sloan have been a fixture of Canadian Rock. The group formed in Halifax in the early '90s while attending University. All four members of Sloan write their own songs, each has their own distinctive voice and when they play live they switch instruments accordingly with each different song. With influences diverse as The Beatles, punk rock and AC/DC, the young band was signed within months of their creation. They can boast massive Canadiana hits like "Money City Maniacs", "Coax Me" and "Beverly Terrace". Sloan recently released their coming of age album, Twice Removed.


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Mister Saturday Night: Brothers & Sisters
Having discovered General Ludd's 'Woo Ha' through Jamie XX's DJ set at FWD's night last month at The Dance Tunnel, I've been intrigued by the General's label, Mister Saturday Night. I bagged myself a copy of their newly released collaborative album of all their signed artists, 'Brothers and Sisters' from Phonica Records this week.
The first disc (yes I buy CDs) brings together a range of industrial and experimental soundscapes, some that I'm sure would be fitting to the likes of Dinos Chapman's washing machinesque taste buds. I've found disc two to be more relaxed and jazzy.
For me, Dark Sky are what make this album and lo and behold, they are from London (I promise I've only just found that out). Whether it's introducing the the album with 'In Brackets' or when they reappear later on with 'Rare Bloom', incorporating a mix of industrial beats with robotic and warpy synths whilst consistently creating such a polished feel. When we're reintroduced to them again on disc two, I can't help but think that 'Clear' has been somewhat inspired by Kanye's 'New Slaves' and replaced with dreamy vocals. To bid us farewell we hear the last of Dark Sky with 'IYP' with its housey shakers and retro melody, this track for me, is the club hit.
Other favourite's of mine on the album include Anthony Naples' 'Moscato B' with his upbeat tempo, Boya's 'Dawn Corner' or 'The Idler' that has similar sounding vocals to some of Burial's old stuff and Alex Burkat's 'Shower Scene' – just because I think it would make a great film soundtrack.
It's fair to say that the owners of Mister Saturday Night, Justin Carter and Eamon Harkin have an impeccable ear for new electronic music and with Jamie XX leading the way, I'm sure we'll be hearing a lot more of this album in'a de cluub.
Fresh Out The Box @ Kachette 17.05.14
Having bagged myself a ticket to this eclectic night I was very unsure of my expectations – the line-up was simply mind blowing, but I did get the feeling that not everyone would have thought so. With a mix of jazzy soul and r & b it was hard to know exactly what to expect…
I arrived mid set during the fabulous F A T I M A's performance and was instantly absorbed. You could tell that she is a genuinely confident woman with the right balance of attitude and modesty. She played with such passion and enthusiasm with a shadow of coolness that followed her wherever she moved – it was obvious that her band were in awe of her too. Through her fascinating lyrics and melodies, she has created an array of undoubtedly beautiful music that places her above the other r & b singers out there. I'd only heard a couple of her tracks on soundcloud before this night and it just goes to show that if you place a mind-blowing singer with a marketing team that just about have their heads screwed on, you can definitely persuade people that music is worth paying for. Just look at her recent success!
Here's a snippet of her famous 'La Neta'
Then came Coby Sey and Mo Kolours. I'd never heard of Coby before and wasn't blown away. That said, for a filler, he wasn't bad at all. Mo Kolours, on the other hand, really got the crowd ready but unfortunately by this point my mate and I were pretty wavey and between us, haven't been able to remember any of the tracks he played.
Eventually Lil Silva arrived and I managed to place myself right at the front and loved the fact that I had enough space to get a proper skank on. Though I was also right next to the speakers which really hasn't done any good for my ears, I'm sure… Whoops. The set in general wasn't a touch on the last time I'd seen him back in March at the Evian Christ album launch night – nowhere near as much hype, but it was decent. To be fair though, he did have the likes of Travi$ Scott to compete with, which might have had an effect on the tracks he played then. Here's 'Gobble That'
We know that Lil Silva is doing big things at the moment but I can't help but think that he's ended up in a bit of a trap of producing the clean and crisp music that's earning him the dollar. I'd really like to see him being a bit more honest with his music in his next releases. I was completely taken aback mid Lil Silva's set when, Swindle, the cocky little thing he is, began to mess around with the decks – attempting to set up his set – uh… mate, have a little respect?
I first came across Swindle at the Giles Peterson Worldwide Awards – he came with a band of two horns and a drummer and I'd definitely recommend listening to tracks such as 'Do The Jazz' and 'Ignition' for a proper introduction to the array of talent that can potentially come out of Swindle (the band).
To be fair to him, he was the most enthusiastic of all the DJs at Fresh Out The Box, it just would have been nice to see the jazzy flare he's famous for shine through, especially considering the fact that FATIMA opened the door at the beginning of the night proving that modern jazz is undeniably cool.
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P-Square – Personally / Lynxxx – Fine Lady / Ibibio Sound Machine – The Talking Fish (Asem Usem Iyak)
I have my South-African family in London at the moment and have been forever picking their brains about what Afrobeat to listen to. Funnily enough, whenever I've mentioned the more traditional Afrobeat artists such as Fela etc, I've been shunned and told 'That's too old! Modern Afrobeat is much better!' So I asked for some recommendations and out came P-Square, Lynxxx, and Ibibio Sound Machine. Well obviously, there are some obvious distinctions between these three artists. P-Square and Lynxxx sound very westernised – like Fuse ODG – and wow is it hard to refrain from dancing or even smiling along to Lynxxx's 'Fine Lady' on the bus – try it, I dare you. Ibibio Sound Machine's 'The Talking Fish' is more like what you'd expect from the more traditional Highlife genre, with their eight-piece band you can instantly hear the deep bass guitar and 80's style synths thrown in with some disco. Interestingly enough, they are now situated in London and will be playing at Village Underground on the 27th November.
The Wizard – Breaking All Limits
I can see why this might be a great way to get into house and techno, but I can't help but think that this track in particular is incredibly simple and boring. It lacks depth and that incredibly cheesy synth hook we hear before the track goes into full swing, I mean seriously? We've all heard it before and when we do, it's embarrassing and and reminds us that we're cooler than the club we're in or that the drugs have completely worn off. Each to their own though.
Having released his second EP on his own label Hadal only two days ago, Pangaea really has given us all a treat. These tracks are near to unexplainable but by no means should they be undervalued. I'd say that Ivy and Pob are my favourites. Ivy, with it's experimental soundscape and Pob with its deep, dubby, industrial beats. I'd prefer for listeners to make their own minds up on these though, as I think Pangea does – considering the fact that he has disabled comments and the ability to view how many people have liked, re-posted or listened to the tracks on Soundcloud. Big up Pangaea for encouraging individual opinions.
Having just released his first album 'Earth. Home. Destroyed.', Dream Koala seems to be the talk of the town. Having already released his first EP 'Blur' in 2012, this Berlin-based producer, sure enough knows what he's doing. Experimenting with dreamy vocals along with heavy, bassy, beats he has managed to create a track that, if I had it my way, would be topping the charts. It's accessible enough and clearly illustrates his talent for making and producing incredible music.


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Influencing Young Doctors
The news media has recently covered some innovative programs that are influencing the choices and attitudes of the next generation of doctors.
American Medical News reports on the Buddy Program, which pairs first-year medical students with early-stage Alzheimer's patients and their caregivers. The program empowers patients, and also serves as a valuable learning tool for the students, heightening "their sensitivity and empathy toward people with the disease." The program was developed at the Northwestern University Alzheimer's Disease Center in Chicago; Boston University, Dartmouth College, and Washington University have replicated it.
NPR reports on a program at the University of Missouri School of Medicine that is encouraging more young doctors to pursue primary care in rural areas. During the summers, the school has been sending medical students to work alongside country doctors. While school officials caution they can't be sure about the reasons, they have discovered that students who took part in the summer program were more likely to become primary care doctors who practice family medicine. Some 46 percent of participants are choosing to work in the country after completing their medical training.
Read more about the Buddy Program in American Medical News.
Read more about the University of Missouri's summer in the country program on NPR.org.
Increase in Funds for Primary Care Residencies
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HSS) last week announced that it will support twice as many primary care residencies during the 2013-2014 academic year as it supported last year, thanks to $12 million in funding from the Affordable Care Act. The new funds will support more than 300 residents at community-based Teaching Health Center programs across the country.
"Teaching Health Centers help attract students who are committed to serving communities of need and prepare them to practice in these communities," HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a news release. "Students exposed to training opportunities in health center settings are more likely to stay in these communities and continue to contribute to the care of their residents."
Residents will be trained in family and internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, psychiatry, and general and pediatric dentistry.
Duty Hour Restrictions Limit Practice Time for Surgery Interns, Study Says
First-year surgical interns are getting less experience performing or assisting with surgeries as a result of the 16-hour workday cap enacted in July 2011 by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, according to a study in JAMA Surgery.
In a review of 10 West Coast general surgery residency programs, researchers found 2011-2012 interns recorded a 25.8 percent decrease in total operative cases as compared with the preceding four years before the cap was enacted. There was also a 31.8 percent decrease in cases performed primary by the interns, under faculty supervision, and a 46.3 percent decrease in cases in which the interns assisted a faculty member.
"The decline in operative case volume in our present study is in some respects surprising given that the new duty-hour changes did not mandate a reduction in an overall 80-hour work week for interns," the researchers write. "Thus, interns were presumably working the same number of total hours." The program directors surveyed in the study reported that their predominant solution to the 16-hour rule was to expand the "night-float" system, meaning interns are increasingly working overnight when there are fewer intern-level, elective surgeries taking place.
Graduate Medical Education Funding Is Not Helping Solve Primary Care, Rural Provider Shortages, Study Finds
From 2006 to 2008, 158 of the country's 759 residency sponsoring institutions and teaching sites did not produce any primary care graduates, according to a study published online last week by Academic Medicine. Less than one-quarter of medical school graduates entered primary care during those years.
The study also found that physician shortages in rural and underserved areas persist; only 4.8 percent of 2006-2008 graduates practice in rural areas. Nearly 200 institutions produced no rural physicians, more than half produced no Health Service Corps graduates, and 283 produced no physicians practicing at Federally Qualified Health Centers or Rural Health Clinics.
Graduate medical education (GME) distribution is uneven, the researchers found, and provides more support to subspecialty programs than to primary care programs. The top 20 primary care producing institutions (where 41 percent of graduates were in primary care) received $292 million in total Medicare GME payments, while the bottom 20 (where only 6.4 percent of graduates were in primary care) received $842 million in these funds.
Where Supply Meets Demand: Why Medical Students Should Aim Their Sights at Primary Care
Italo M. Brown, MPH, is a third year medical student at Meharry Medical College. He holds a BS from Morehouse College, and an MPH in epidemiology and social and behavioral sciences from Boston University, School of Public Health. He is a Health Policy Scholar at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy at Meharry Medical College.
In an ad-hoc poll among classmates, I recently inquired about the most important date (in 2013) to a second year medical student. The overwhelming majority of respondents cited their respective STEP 1 exam dates as most important, followed closely by the season finales of ABC's Scandal and Grey's Anatomy. While the top three responses are noteworthy, the one date that should bear the most gravity in the minds of medical students across cohorts is October 1st.
This October marks the launch of open enrollment for health insurance exchanges, a much-anticipated provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The ACA seeks to reduce the number of nonelderly uninsured Americans by half; in other words, a projected 20 million new patients will enter the health care system over the next 18 months.
The Implications of Limiting Work Hours for Medical Residents
In 2011, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) limited shifts for first-year medical residents, or interns, to 16 hours, in an effort to improve their well-being. But two studies published online this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) find that these regulations may not be improving resident well-being—and that they may be decreasing both the quality of care they provide and their educational opportunities.
Although interns worked fewer hours after implementation of the shift length restriction in 2011, researchers found no change in their sleep duration or symptoms of depression. That study, led by Srijan Sen, MD, PhD, of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, also found an increase in self-reported medical errors among interns (from 20% in 2009 to 23% in 2011). The researchers hypothesize that the increase in errors may be due, in part, to interns having to perform more handoffs—where medical errors are known to occur—and to a lack of additional clinical staff that may mean "residents [are] expected to complete the same amount of work as previous cohorts but in less time."
Another study, led by Sanjay V. Desai, MD, of Johns Hopkins University, also found "unintended consequences" of duty hour regulations. Although that study found more consistent sleep patterns for interns, it also found that nurses, as well as the interns themselves, believed the quality of patient care suffered. Desai's research team found a concerning balance between the interns' workload and their time spent on educational activities. "Concerns have been raised about the competency achievable with less hospital experience during any fixed duration of training," they write. "Opportunities were reduced with restricted shifts, many of which occur solely during evening hours, precluding participation in traditional core educational components of medicine residency programs, such as noontime conference and morning rounds."
Match Day 2013: Good News for Primary Care
More U.S. medical students "matched" to primary care residency positions this year than in 2012, according to data from the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP). Almost 400 more students chose primary care fields— internal medicine, family medicine, and pediatrics—than last year. NRMP is a private, non-profit organization established in 1952 to provide a mechanism for matching the preferences of applicants for U.S. residency positions with the preferences of residency program directors.
Of the 17, 487 graduating seniors who participated in Match Day 2013, 3,135 matched to internal medicine—a 6.6 percent increase from last year. The number of seniors who matched to pediatrics (1,837) represents a 105 percent increase over last year.
This year's Main Residency Match was the largest in NRMP history, with more than 40,000 student and independent registrants. NRMP attributes the increase to three new medical schools graduating their first classes, and expanded enrollment in existing medical schools.
Conducted annually by the NRMP, The Match uses a computerized mathematical algorithm to align the preferences of applicants with the preferences of residency program directors in order to fill the training positions available at U.S. teaching hospitals.
Read a NRMP news release about this year's Match Day results.
Diversity in Medical Education
A report from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) documents an overall trend toward increased diversity among students applying to medical school.
AAMC's Diversity in Medical Education: Facts and Figures 2012 finds that nearly half of the applicants to U.S. medical schools in 2011 were non-White. Whites were the largest group of applicants, followed by Asians. "Compared with 2010, in 2011 the percentage of Hispanic or Latino applicants increased by 5.7 percent and the number of Black or African American applicants grew by 5 percent," the report says.
But only 2.5 percent of medical school applicants in 2011 were Black men. Twice as many Black women as men applied to medical school that year, creating the biggest gender gap in medical school applicants among all racial or ethnic groups.
"We have a major, major problem in this country," Marc Nivet, EdD, AAMC's chief diversity officer, told American Medical News. "There is just simply an enormous amount of indisputable evidence that we're not intervening as effectively as we'd like as a society to increase the talent pool of African-Americans who are capable of taking advantage of the science curricula available up and down the pipeline."
New Studies Examine Primary Care Physician Shortage
Two newly published studies examining different aspects of physician workforce trends suggest that the long-expected shortfall in primary care physicians could be averted or lessened.
A study in Pediatrics finds pediatric residents are more likely to consider primary care or hospital practice––rather than a subspecialty that requires additional training––if they have more educational debt. The researchers found that residents with at least $51,000 in debt were about 50 percent more likely to be planning a primary care or hospitalist career than residents who owed less or no money, Reuters reports. They also found that educational debt rose 34 percent from 2006 to 2010 for pediatric residents.
While an unintended consequence of student loan debt may be that it helps relieve the primary care shortage, another recent study in Health Affairs casts some doubt on the severity of that shortage. Most existing estimates of the primary care physician shortage are based on a simple ratio of one physician for every 2,500 patients, the study says, which does not take into account changing patient demographics and alternative care-delivery methods. The researchers found that the use of health care teams and non-physicians, as well as improved information technology and data-sharing have "the potential to offset completely the increase in demand for physician services while improving access to care, thereby averting a primary care physician shortage."
Read the study in Pediatrics.
Read the study in Health Affairs.
Fatigue May Pose Threats to Medical Residents
Long working hours that cause fatigue, sleepiness, burnout and depression are a threat to the personal safety of medical residents, according to a Mayo Clinic study published this month. Working conditions associated with these characteristics are linked to motor vehicle crashes and near crashes, and may contribute to exposure to blood and body fluids on the job.
In the survey of 340 internal medicine residents in training at the Mayo Clinic, 168 respondents (56%) reported a motor vehicle incident during their training. Of those incidents, 34 were motor vehicle crashes, and 130 were near misses. Sixty residents reported falling asleep while driving, and 53 reported falling asleep while stopped in traffic. Residents attribute these incidents to diminished quality of life, exhaustion and depression, and fatigue and sleepiness, the study finds.
Residents also reported exposure to blood and body fluid during their training, some of which was attributed to fatigue. The researchers call the rates "reassuringly low," but caution that "it is not possible to definitively rule out associations of distress with [blood and body fluid] exposure."
"These findings indicate that resident distress is related not only to patient safety and quality of care but to residents' personal safety as well," the study says. "In addition to ongoing efforts to limit physician fatigue and sleepiness, interventions to promote well-being and reduce distress among physicians are needed to improve both patient and resident safety."


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RealFoodTraveler Editor-in-Chief Earns First-ever Canadian Culinary Journalism Award
Bobbie Hasselbring, RFT EditorApr 24, 2012
Veteran food and travel writer and editor-in-chief of realfoodtraver.com, Bobbie Hasselbring, has earned the top spot in Canada's first...
Dog Sledding in Qutaouais, Quebec: Don't Trust Red-headed Strangers
Bobbie Hasselbring, RFT EditorApr 01, 2012
Dog sledding in the Outaouais region of Quebec proves both thrilling, bruising, and a bit funny for our intrepid editor.
Moulin Wakefield Mill Inn & Spa: Historic Luxury in a Natural Setting
Bobbie Hasselbring, RFT EditorApr 01, 2012
Moulin Wakefield Mill Inn & Spa in Quebec's beautiful Outaouais region offers history, luxury, and a spectacular natural setting.
Auberge St. Antoine, Quebec city, Canada: Luxury and Living History
Bobbie Hasselbring, RFT EditorMar 05, 2012
Auberge St. Antoine built on one of the richest archeological sites in history-rich Quebec City is living history in a luxurious package.
Montebello's Sugar Pie (Tarte au Sucre)
Bobbie Hasselbring, RFT EditorFeb 27, 2012
The historic Fairmont Le Château Montebello in Quebec serves this sugar pie made with local maple syrup and it's incredibly delicious.
Jacques Legros: Quebec's Father Goose
Bobbie Hasselbring, RFT EditorNov 08, 2011
At A Taste of Yesterday (Au goût d'autrefois) Farm and Restaurant on bucolic Orleans Island just outside Quebec City, Jacques Legros...
Orleans Island: Quebec City's Authentic "Pantry"
Bobbie Hasselbring, RFT EditorOct 25, 2011
Imagine giant cranberries the size of nickels, intensely-flavored black currant liquor, silky sweet apple syrup, and rich foie gras...
A Taste of the Garden
Bobbie Hasselbring, RFT EditorSep 21, 2011
At Maritime Quebec's Reford Garden (Mont Joli Jarden de Métis), it's all about the flowers – growing them, cooking with them, eating...
Marché de 3 Fumoirs, Quebec: Smokin' Good
Bobbie Hasselbring, RFT EditorSep 21, 2011
The smells are intoxicating – sweet, smoky, briny like the ocean. We're at Marché de 3 Fumoirs (Market of the Three Smokehouses) in...
A Voyage into History
Bobbie Hasselbring, RFT EditorSep 21, 2011
It was 2:00 a.m. on May 29, 1914 and the fog off Pointe-au-Père, Quebec, had settled like a thick woolen blanket over the St. Lawrence...
Le Cercle, Quebec City, Quebec
Bobbie Hasselbring, RFT EditorJun 11, 2011
This combination bar-music venue-restaurant is decidedly one of the freshest, most exciting new dining choices to hit the city's culinary...
Marriott Montreal Airport Hotel, Montreal, Quebec
Bobbie Hasselbring, RFT EditorJun 11, 2011
Normally, this reviewer isn't a big fan of airport hotels. Too often, they're a bit down at the heels and the service is less than...


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Jack McBrayer played a stripper and danced on a pole in an unaired episode of 30 Rock. Tina Fey sent this picture to Conan.
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Get helpful tips and expert advice on boosting your GPA. This section will provide valuable tips on studying, mentor programs and how to avoid academic probation. Examine the latest trends in student motivation techniques, take a good look at online learning, and find resources to guide you on the path to success.
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Getting kids to college is only a part of the equation when it comes to higher education. Whether a student enrolls in community college or a four-year school, the goal is to get that student to leave the institution with a degree firmly in hand. Unfortunately, that event does not occur nearly as often as educators would like. As the quest to improve college completion rates kicks into high gear, a task force in Ohio has some recommendations for schools looking to get more of their students on the path to graduation.
About the Complete College Ohio Task Force
College completion rates in the state of Ohio are some of the lowest in the country, with Ohio ranking 38th on the spectrum of graduating college students, according to the Ohio Higher Ed website. To determine why completion rates are so low – and what can be done to improve them – the Ohio Board of Regents partnered with the university system in the state, which includes community colleges and adult education centers as well as four-year institutions.
The newly formed Complete College Ohio Task Force was given the responsibility of studying the reasons behind the dismal graduation rates. The committee then put forth a list of recommendations to improve those rates. While the recommendations were specifically for Ohio colleges, the recommendations are equally relevant for other colleges across the country.
When the task force began their work, the Ohio Higher Ed website reports that the group was divided into three subsets: . . . read more
Institutions of higher education are just that – places where students can continue to learn, grow and develop professionally and personally. Community colleges are particularly adept at this task, offering a wide range of learning opportunities for students of all ages and walks of life. From young students still years from their college years to senior citizens who never want to stop discovering new things, these campuses offer a wealth of learning opportunities. Check out these 10 ways you can make the most of the programs found at your local community college.
Get Ahead in High School
Running Start is a program available through many of the community colleges in the state of Washington. According to the Tacoma Community College website, this program allows high school juniors and seniors to get a head start on college credits by taking college-level courses while they are still in high school. The program offers a wide range of benefits, including the ability to save on college tuition and choose from a broader course selection. Other states offer similar programs to aspiring college students.
It is important to note that these dual-credit programs are not without their share of requirements as well. Students are typically expected to maintain a high GPA in their high school courses to even qualify for the program. In addition, they will be required to achieve a prescribed GPA in their college coursework as well. College classes may also be offered on weekends and during school holidays, . . . read more
President Obama highlighted the important role community colleges play in today's workforce in his recent State of the Union address, but to achieve the lofty goals set by the President, colleges need tools in place to ensure students entering their doors can succeed. A recent report from the Center for Community College Student Engagement discovered that most schools know what is needed, but not all have successfully implemented those tools on a broad enough scale to help the majority of their students. Check out what community colleges nationwide are striving to offer their students now, and what they can add to give their students even better odds of success.
A Matter of Degrees: Promising Practices for Community College Student Success
The CCCSE report, titled, "A Matter of Degrees: Promising Practices for Community College Student Success," consolidates four different surveys into a single, comprehensive report. According to a report at the University of Texas website, the report includes data from the Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE), the Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE), and the Community College Faculty Survey of Student Engagement (CCFSSE). The report also included preliminary findings from the Community College Institutional Survey (CCIS).
The report compiled information from 75,000 entering students and 440,000 experienced students throughout 2011. Approximately 35,000 faculty members also provided data for the report, and information was collected from a total of 228 community colleges. The data was compiled and analyzed by CCCSE, where it was consolidated into the single "Matter of Degrees" . . . read more
Community college has come a long way in recent years, especially with the focus these schools are getting from the current administration. President Obama has labeled these institutions as the hope for American's economic future and the way this country will remain competitive in a global marketplace. To that end, President Obama has announced a lofty goal of adding 5 million more community college graduates by 2020. He also hosted the first community college summit at the White House last year, which served as the starting point for finding new ways to support these institutions so they are able to meet this ambitious goal.
In this struggling economy, community college has become the go-to place for displaced workers looking for training in a new field and high school graduates who are unable to afford the skyrocketing tuition rates at four-year institutions. However, the path from enrollment to graduation is not always an easy one. We have tips to help incoming students get the most from their community college experience, so they can use it as an effective starting point for a successful and lucrative career.
In this struggling economy, community college has become the go-to place for displaced workers looking for training in a new field and high school graduates who are unable to afford the skyrocketing tuition rates at four-year institutions. However, the path from enrollment to graduation is not always an easy one. We have tips to help incoming students get the most from their community college experience, so they can use it as an effective starting point for a successful and lucrative career.
Are You Ready?
The first step toward community college success is proper preparation before the enrollment process even takes place. Whether you are coming to college right out of high school, or have been out of the world of academia for some time, you can determine your college readiness with a relatively simple process.
First, find a readiness assessment online or through . . . read more
First, find a readiness assessment online or through . . . read more
The significant role community colleges will play in the country's economy has been underscored by the White House over the past few months with the first annual community college summit taking place in Washington this fall. However, in order for community colleges to become the relevant player that President Obama wants them to be, the current dismal graduation rates at community colleges across the country will need to increase. To that end, the initiative known as "Achieving the Dream" has been implemented to recognize community colleges performing above national standards and use those tools to elevate other colleges to a higher level as well.
Achieving the Dream is committed to assisting community colleges better serve their students so more students can realize academic and professional success. Colleges participating in the movement agree to carefully analyze their current procedures and student outcomes and develop and implement new strategies to improve student outcome overall.
In addition, participating colleges agree to monitor their progress and report their findings to Achieving the Dream so that other colleges can benefit from their knowledge and experience. This year, the organization learned three important lessons on improving learning from two of the participating community colleges in their pool.
In addition, participating colleges agree to monitor their progress and report their findings to Achieving the Dream so that other colleges can benefit from their knowledge and experience. This year, the organization learned three important lessons on improving learning from two of the participating community colleges in their pool.
Reducing Achievement Gaps = Increased Student Retention
Valencia Community College in Florida offered a number of programs for under-prepared students coming to the campus for the first time – more than 100 programs, in fact. However, the piecemeal approach to improving student performance was still resulting . . . read more
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Updated September 30, 2014
As careers in science, technology, engineering, and math become more prevalent, community colleges are shifting their focus to meet demand and secure their place in a rapidly changing educational landscape.
A recent study reveals that job applicants with a credential or associate's degree from a community college have slightly better chances of getting a job interview than students who attend a for-profit college or university. Since community colleges are much more budget friendly than for-profit institutions and have much better job placement results, community colleges are a much better option for employment-minded students.
Nearly 52 percent of community college students in the United States begin their freshman year in at least one remedial class. These courses, which help students acquire knowledge and skills they should have acquired in high school, do not count toward their degree requirements. As a result, students are taking longer than ever to obtain their degree, if they obtain one at all.


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The Official Site of Ocean City, MD
809 S. Atlantic Avenue
Ocean City MD 21842
Boardwalk or beach bound? Parking is easy and convenient in this centrally located lot at the southern most point of Ocean City. The lot provides 1,200 parking spaces including 35 handicap parking spaces and quick access to our bustling boardwalk and beautiful beach. Complete with a passenger load and unload zone, this lot is open 24-hours and is in operation from April to the third Sunday of October.
To gain access to the lot, simply obtain a ticket at the entrance. We suggest leaving your ticket in your car as additional fees ensue for a lost or damaged ticket. Forms of payment are cash and credit card (Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover).
The spring and fall rates are in effect from first Saturday in April, or Good Friday, whichever comes first through Wednesday before Memorial Day. The fall rates are from the day after Labor Day to third Sunday of October.
Weekday and Weekend = $1.50 per hour
0-30 minutes Free
Note: Lost tickets will result in a maximum charge of $36
Summer rates are in effect from the Thursday before Memorial Day through Labor Day.
Weekday $2.50 per hour
Weekend $3.00 per hour
0-30 minutes Free
Note: Lost tickets will result in a maximum charge of $62. weekdays and $72. on weekends.
Physically Challenged Patrons:
In order to accommodate our physically challenged patrons, a 90-minute grace period is in place. In addition, handicap parking spaces are located near the beach as well as the boardwalk. However, if the length of time spent in the parking lot is 91-minutes or more, the person will have to pay for the entire time spent in the parking lot in accordance with the parking fees listed above.
12848 Ocean Gateway
Ocean City MD 21842
While you're in town, why not give your car a vacation, too? The West Ocean City Park & Ride offers FREE ample parking at 12848 Ocean Gateway. Not only is the parking free, but the lot offers spectacular scenic views of the bay, surrounding wetlands, the Ocean City skyline and of course, the gorgeous sunsets Ocean City is known for. Visit the octagon gazebos for amazing bird-watching. And be sure to read the interpretive signs and checkout the railroad bridge and brick walkways before catching the shuttle into town.
Shuttle service from the West Ocean City Park & Ride is $3 for a ride-all-day pass. This enables riders to unlimited daily trips between the Park & Ride, Ocean City Factory Outlets, and the South Division Street Transit Center.
Please observe posted rules and regulations at the Park & Ride. Restrictions apply.
Worcester St., between Baltimore Ave. & Philadelphia Ave.
Somerset St. & Baltimore Ave.
Dorchester St. & Baltimore Ave.
N. Division St. & Baltimore Ave.
4th St. & Baltimore Ave.
1st. St. & St. Louis
61st St. & Coastal Hwy., bayside
100th St., bayside. This is also a boat trailer approved lot. Fee for this lot is $10 a day or $50 a week, April to Oct. 15.
You will also see additional streetside Cale paystation parking on selected streets, oceanside and bayside in the areas between S. Division St. and 10th St., and again at 99th St.
April 4- May 25, 2014. $1.50 Friday-Sunday only, except for Thursday, May 1st during Springfest and May 15th Cruisin Week.
May 26- September 1, 2014. $1.50 7 days a week.
Sept. 2- October 19, 2014. $1.50 Friday-Sunday only, except for Thursday, Sept. 11 during Bike Week and Sept. 18 during Sunfest.
October 20- April 2, 2015. Free Parking at Municipal Parking Lots and Streets