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Room service, minibars, free parking, even individually packaged shampoo and conditioner may soon be luxuries rather than standard offerings at many hotels.
Some hotels have already cut select perks. New York City's largest hotel, the 2,000-room New York Hilton, stopped offering room service in 2013, and other hotels are downsizing their room service menus. The minibar is suffering a similar fate: Some Marriott hotels are phasing out the in-room minibar and other hotels are considering a similar move.
For the most part, hotels are making cuts like these to eliminate or reduce parts of the business that aren't very profitable and that many guests don't even want. Revenues dropped 9.5% from 2007 to 2012 for room service and 28% for minibars, the largest segment decline in the whole hotel food and beverage arena, according to the most recent data available from PFK Hospitality Research; that's compared with a decline of just 0.6% for overall revenue per room. Plus, many guests don't even like these perks: A survey by TripAdvisor.com found that hotel guests said that the minibar was the least important amenity to them.
What's more, guests shouldn't expect some hotels in the low- and mid-priced ranges to stop just at these amenity cuts, experts say. Hotel consultant Melanie Nayer says that we may soon see reductions in front desk staff as many hotels are exploring mobile check-in or kiosk check-in. Plus, "the concierge may be digital—a touch-screen TV with weather, news, attractions, services and restaurant and entertainment recommendations," says Bjorn Hanson, divisional dean of the Preston Robert Tisch Center for Hospitality, Tourism and Sports Management at New York University. Hanson also says that more and more hotels will stop offering free parking—even for self-service parking—in the coming years. "Parking is a very lucrative fee and surcharge for hotels," he says; data from PFK Hospitality Research shows that hotel revenues from parking jumped nearly 19% from 2007 to 2012, one of the fastest-growing segments. And Nayer says that some very low-priced hotels might also do away with the individually packaged shampoos and soaps and instead go for large containers of shampoo, conditioner and body wash.
We may see hotels get rid of some technology and entertainment options too, though primarily things that guests don't care about. Jan Freitag, a senior vice president at travel research firm STR, says that he thinks many hotels will do away with the on-demand entertainment selections like live movie rentals. "These days travelers have their laptops and phones and already have all the entertainment they want," he says. "Guests don't need all that…they can entertain themselves well." (Indeed, hotel movie rental revenue declined more than 56% from 2007 to 2012, according to PFK Hospitality Research.) Ryan Meliker, the managing director and head of real estate and lodging research at boutique investment bank MLV and Company, says he thinks that in the next five or so years we might see hotels do away with phones for a similar reason: people just don't use them. (Telecommunications revenue for hotels declined 37.6% between 2007 and 2012.)
To be sure, many hotels, especially high-end ones, are moving in the opposite direction "The luxury segment will do what they're doing today plus much more," says Freitag. For example, the James Hotel in Chicago recently added selections from health food company 2 Degrees to their minibars and in Miami has expanded its in-room dining options this year. And many lower and mid-range priced hotels are replacing the amenities they are taking away with other perks. So, for example, while they're often ditching the minibar and room service, many are offering grab-and-go food options at little cafes near the lobby, or retail spaces with plenty of food options, says Nayer. And Meliker adds that while they might ditch phones, they'll likely replace them with another communication device like a smart TV or tablet. The reason: Many hotels are raising rates (room rates are expected to tick up 4.2% in 2014, according to PFK Hospitality Research) and "generally speaking when you're raising rates you don't want to cut back on amenities," says Meliker.
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Crap I was going to mention them. I have met them in Padre really nice guys.GregK wrote:Awesome US kiteboard craftsmen - Bro Kiteboards in Corpus, TX - http://www.brokite.com/2012/page/ .
Next twin I buy will be one of theirs
I disagree with your comments.aeberl wrote:I am glad my Sligshot kite was NOT made in the US. I would not have been able to pay for it and it migth have worked just as american cars do:
It would only fly in a straight line and it would be so heavy that it would require a 14m Rally to barely fly in 40 knots. It would only hold together for 3 sessions before rattling along and startt loosing parts.
Or maybe it would work as MS Windows does... fallig out of the sky for no reason what so ever only to read in the instructions that if you encounter this minor problem, swim back to shore, pack up and reinflate your kite again.
Get real guys, american manufacturing has lost its competitive adge years ago, Thats why most US brand do not manufacture at home.
But don´t be sad, I drive a BMW X3, entirely assembled in China!
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The newly elected French president, Francois Hollande, met with Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany to discuss the possibility of growth measures as they sought a way out of the Greek debt debacle. Markets reacted to the failure of Athens to form a government amid open discussion of the possibility that the country may depart the euro.
Bloomberg reported Wednesday that Hollande's first meeting with Merkel resulted in a declaration that growth measures would be considered for Greece as long as that country remained committed to the austerity measures that are a condition for its second bailout.
"I'll respect the vote of the Greeks whatever it is," Hollande was quoted saying. "Yet my responsibility is to give Greece a signal. I see the suffering and challenges that the Greeks feel. The Greeks need to know we'll come with growth measures that will allow them to stay in the euro zone."
Merkel has been adamantly opposed to any leeway in austerity, while Hollande won the French presidency on a platform of growth in addition to austerity. She took care to bring up the fact that Greece and its creditors had agreed on the bailout program, and that it "has to be adhered to."
The likelihood of Greece honoring those austerity requirements has been diminishing by the day, as first voters punished the parties that had accepted them and now anti-austerity parties look poised to win new elections that could be called as early as June 10 but could be set instead for June 17.
After talks failed on Tuesday to produce a new government, President Karolos Papoulias of Greece was scheduled to meet with party leaders on Wednesday to discuss forming a caretaker government. The BBC reported that Papoulias was expected to name a senior judge to preside over the running of the country until new elections are held.
Markets took a dim view of the proceedings, with the euro and stocks from Europe to Asia falling on concerns that the situation would end badly. Greek citizens, also anticipating problems, withdrew near-record amounts of euros from the country's banks—something they also did prior to the country's first bailout.
Bloomberg reported that the head of Greece's central bank, George Provopoulos, said that at least at least 700 million euros ($894 million) were pulled from banks on Monday. The report said that according to two banks, Tuesday's withdrawals ran at about the same pace.
According to the minutes of a meeting with political leaders on Tuesday, Papoulias told them about the withdrawals. He was quoted saying, "Mr Provopoulos told me there was no panic, but there was great fear that could develop into a panic."
He added, "Withdrawals and outflows by 4:00 p.m. when I called him exceeded 600 million euros and reached 700 million euros. He expects total outflows of about 800 million euros, including conversions in German Bunds and other such things."
A senior bank executive cited in the report said that, while there was no sign of panic, there had been withdrawals in a manner similar to April 2010, when 8 billion euros were withdrawn from Greek banks just before the country was granted its first bailout. Worries over a possible return to the drachma have caused people to fear that their savings would be destroyed.
Central bank figures showed that Greek businesses and households had 165 billion euros on deposit at the end of March, and had withdrawn 72 billion euros since January 2010. According to experts, part of the withdrawals were because of capital flight, while the need to use savings to meet expenses during the financial crisis accounted for another chunk.
On Tuesday, Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), brought up the possibility of an "orderly exit" from the joint currency for Athens. She was quoted saying, "It is something that would be extremely expensive and would pose great risks, but it is part of options that we must technically consider."
Hollande has said that the European budget treaty, into which Germany has had so much input, should be renegotiated. He has also said he wants "growth aspects to be real and translatable into reality." At a June summit meeting of euro zone leaders, he added, "everything needs to be put on the table," including investment spending and joint euro-area bonds. Merkel has firmly opposed the possibility of euro bonds.
She did, however, say that she had called both New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras of Greece, whose party won the May 6 vote, and caretaker Prime Minister Lucas Papademos to tell them "that we are prepared to help Greece overcome its structural challenges, to help with growth."
Even as many countries in the euro zone are rebelling against austerity measures that thus far have failed to produce the desired results, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy of Spain is pushing the Spanish Parliament to honor its own austerity commitments.
As worries over the possibility of a Greek exit from the euro raised yields on Italian and Spanish bonds, Rajoy told Parliament that a failure to keep to budget cuts could shut the country out of financial markets. He was quoted saying, "There is a serious risk that they don't lend to us or that they lend to us at astronomical prices. All the measures we are currently taking are to lift us out of a pit."


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- U-shaped square pipe side pedestal 60 x 60 mm, stove-enamelled, silver (RAL 9006, white aluminium)
- Table top 25 mm thick, melamine resin coated chipboard according to DIN 68765, emission class E1, rounded with 2 mm plastic edge. Floating table top 8 mm distance. Rectangular panels are pre-drilled at the bottom, free-form panels can be mounted left / right, self-cutting screws are included.
- Horizontal electricity supply with RKW CKHO cable trough (optional). Vertical arrangement possible with CKVE cable spiral (special accessory)
- Desks can be combined with each other and connected with interlinking panels (LE90, LE91 and JT12). The working surface can also be extended with installation plates (JA60, JA80 and JA160)
- Table height: 68 - 76 cm, height-adjustable every 1 cm, load capacity: 120 kg
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Release Number: 219PR13
Caterpillar introduces two new wheel loader bucket designs—the dozing bucket and the load-and-carry bucket—for solid waste handling in transfer stations and recycling centers. The buckets are specifically designed to enhance the productivity of Cat® small and medium wheel loaders in waste applications.
The buckets range from 6.0 to 14.0 cu yd (4.6 to 10.7 cu m) and complement Cat wheel loaders ranging from the 924K to the 980K. Two distinct types of waste buckets give the fleet manager the ability to choose the optimum based on the facility layout and the specific tasks to be performed. Both types of buckets can be equipped with bolt-on cutting edges or rubber edges to suit the requirements of the facility.
Dozing bucket pushes high volume
The Cat dozing bucket has a shallow throat and a taller profile than a standard bucket. It is specifically designed to push loads along the floor to a hole or hopper that feeds a hauler or processing machine below. The bucket design has high volume for its size, because it pushes the load rather than carrying it. In addition to its high volume, the strength of the dozing bucket is its fast loading capability due to its deep floor design.
Cat dozing buckets also feature robust design and construction for extended durability. Visibility to the load is improved with the use of bars instead of screens.
Load-and-carry bucket lifts high volume
The Cat load-and-carry bucket has a deeper throat and less height compared to the dozing bucket, which enables it to carry high volumes. It's designed for light weight materials and achieves a fill factor of 1.3 or greater.
The versatile bucket can be used for stockpiling or loading haulers or pushing away from trucks tipping on the floor. The bucket design enables the loader to work in any facility layout—loading below grade, partial grade separation or at the same level. The load-and-carry bucket has tamping capabilities to help ensure haulers are fully loaded.
Cat load-and-carry buckets feature high strength construction and superior durability. Bars, rather than screens, provide improved sight lines through the upper part of the bucket and to the load.
The new Cat buckets will be commercially available starting in August. For more information about Cat waste handling machines and work tools, see the local Cat dealer or go to: waste
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My recent road trip with the National Garden Bureau was a hortiholics adventure of the first order. I was one of four garden writers invited to attend the 2018 California Spring Trials (CAST) as their guest on a week long, plant-peeping extravaganza.
CAST is the opportunity for plant breeders across the country to showcase their latest introductions, hoping that plant growers will select, grow and then sell these treasures onto the retail nurseries where you and I can finally get our hands on them!
Most of the plants shown here will not be available until 2019 – this is your insider's peek into what's happening behind the scenes, focusing in this post specifically on plants which had outstanding foliage.
New Succulent Creations
Yes please!! I'll take half a dozen of these! LOVED the dual-tone, ruffled edges on this Coral Reef Aqua echeveria by Greenfuse Botanicals. Fabulous color blend. So easy to repeat these apricot tones with foliage and flowers too – or simply plant this solo in a terracotta vessel for easy elegance.
Succulent breeder Chris Hansen has teamed up with Proven Winners to come up with what is sure to be a HOT collection of succulents called Coral Creations. Their display at CAST showed some highly desirable planters brimming with these colorful treasures. Chris has even provided recipes for attractive, long-lasting combinations that production greenhouses can use to mimic these designs.
I for one would be hard-pressed to only pick up one of these! Thankfully the plants will also be sold individually I believe, so we can pick and choose our own selections.
A New Deer Resistant Perennial
I'm a huge fan of gaura for their drought tolerance, deer resistance, and long flowering display. Walberton's Silver Fountain is a new variegated form that promises cold hardiness down to zone 5 and a tidy habit. I know of at least one plant producer that has purchased this from the breeder so I for one will be knocking on their greenhouse door next spring!
So many Coleus!
There were extensive coleus displays throughout our tour – these were just two that stood out to me.
Coleus Pinkplosion had a fun twist to the end of each leaf, as well as a clean multi-colored variegation and a distinctive purple margin and purple stems. I found myself drawn to it time and again.
This one had Christina's name written all over it! Main Street Rodeo Drive was fun, flirty, crinkled, frilly, colorful in a "Look at ME!" kind of way…. you know what? Adjectives just aren't enough. Here's another photo:
See the incredible pattern of veins underneath the leaves? And the molded-tortilla shape?
Here's the really good news – you can buy this one NOW
Silver Standouts
The photo of Dib's Moonlight begonia really doesn't do it justice, check out this image on the breeder's website to get a better sense. Each leaf was almost the size of my hand, and the silver color shone as though polished. With burgundy undersides and stems, and a crinkled texture reminiscent of dinosaur kale it was far superior to any similarly colored begonias introduced to market so far in my opinion.
Here's a fun tidbit: The Dibley family are from Wales and have been working with the Greenfuse for many years, breeding this and other outstanding Rex begonias. Readers in the UK may enjoy visiting their nursery which specializes in begonias and streptocarpus.
Be jealous – I have four of these Artemisia 'Makana Silver' in my "holding area" waiting to be planted into the landscape and container for testing this year! This annual opens a pale seafoam green before maturing to a metallic silver that is nothing short of stunning.
Deer resistant, rabbit resistant, and drought tolerant – you knew I'd love this one didn't you?
Last but not Least
When I posted this photo of Trifolium 4luck Red Green on Facebook recently it drew a lot of interest. Really pretty, perennial groundcover for shady spots. (Note that the colors of my photo are accurate – those on this website link are not).
It's new relative Trifolium 4luck Red Stripes is equally beautiful – reminds me of a kaleidoscope. You should see this next year (2019).
Voted "Outstanding Plant of 2017", Alternanthera 'Choco Chili' was a very attractive annual foliage plant, at first glance reminiscent of a fringeflower (Loropetalum) but with softer leaves. Suitable for full or partial sun, the colors will be darker in full sun (greenhouse conditions had lessened the color during CAST). Noted for its heat tolerance.
It's a Wrap!
Well that wraps up this post, but it is also time for Christina and I to wrap up this blog. While we will keep it published so you can access the archives, make notes on your "must-get' foliage plants and pin your favorite images to Pinterest, as busy designers, traveling speakers, and authors we need to scale back our everyday workload.
We've enjoyed getting to know you and sharing our passion for all things foliage, and have been both humbled and profoundly grateful for your enthusiasm, encouragement and cheerleading.
Do keep in touch – our contact information and social media links are here for Karen and here for Christina, and for now at least we will keep the Fine Foliage Facebook page going.
Keep loving your gardens, one leaf at a time!


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Year 6 Curriculum Coverage
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Daci is learning really well. I love the fact that the children are pushed to their full potential.
It was very nice to be able to view Oliver's work and see how he is progressing. Thank you for the opportunity.
"My child really enjoyed this Play and Stay and so did I as a parent. Nothing to improve – really pleased!"
Yr R Parent
Thanks for inviting me to do a story session with your school. I found the whole experience very rewarding as both children, and teachers were open to engage with me, and participated in listening to the stories, dressing up, singing and dancing.
Genny Jones (Confidence Queen)
"The behaviour of the Year 5 children was a credit to the school when we were out on the road."
Mick Jeffries, Invicta Cycle Training
At the end of every lesson I know a bit more than before.


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Blue Mountains Explorer Bus
Attraction Highlights
- Up to 29 sightseeing spots in the Blue Mountains Heritage area
- Live commentary and personal service from the friendly local driver-guides
- Includes free Cliff-Tops and Valleys Tour
- Check out the famous Three Sisters
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|283 Main Street, Katoomba, Blue Mountains
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|Bus departs hourly from 9:15 AM to 4:20pm, return at your leisure up to 5.25pm.
What to expect
Things to look out for
Helpful Tips
In the mountains, the weather changes fast. It is recommended that you wear layers, and pack a light rain jacket just in case it rains.The Blue Mountains has abundant natural beauty and mountainous terrain just perfect for photos, so don't forget to pack your camera! If you are planning to spend the entire day at the national park, don't miss out on visiting Jenolan Caves as well as Bygone Beautys if you are looking for somewhere to relax with a pot of tea. These attractions are all included in your Sydney attraction pass giving you the convenience and saving you money all in one package.
Tour durations are up to 60 minutes and buses run from stops every 30 minutes. Your ticket is valid for up to 3 days when staying overnight. This activity is suitable for all ages and abilities. Unfortunately, the buses are not wheelchair accessible.
You can reach the Blue Mountains by public transportation. Katoomba is about a 2-hour train trip from Central Station. If you catch the 7:23 am train from Central, you will reach Katoomba at 9:45 am. For more transport times, you can visit Transport NSW. Alternatively, you can rent a car. Katoomba offers free all-day parking.
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|283 Main Street, Katoomba, Blue Mountains
|02 4782 1866
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|Bus departs hourly from 9:15 AM to 4:20pm, return at your leisure up to 5.25pm.


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Gabrielle Prendergast, an award-winning screenwriter and prolific author of young adult fiction, has been named Vancouver Public Library's tenth writer in residence.
This tenure involves spending four months mentoring emerging writers, appearing at library and community events, hosting workshops and developing her own work.
Prendergast is best known for her five novels — Hildegarde (2002), Wicket Season (2012), Audacious (2013) and Capricious (2014) — and her film, Hildegarde, won the Tokyo Children's Film Festivals Grand Prize in 2003.
Her new novel, The Boy Who Fell to Earth, is inspired by Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield.
Emerging writers who would like a one-on-one consultation with Prendergast can apply online at bit.ly/vplwriter2014.
Prendergast's inaugural public reading as the 2014 VPL writer in residence will take place Sept. 17 at 7 p.m. at the central library's Alice MacKay room. Admission is free.
Q: Why write?
A: I was just discussing this with my daughter, in the wake of the news that one of her favourite actors has taken his own life. Writing is a form of self-medication for me, as it is for many — perhaps most — writers, performers and artists. Not all of us suffer from such severe mental illness but I think we all feel the therapeutic effects of practicing our art. It's hard. And it often doesn't pay that well. But it feels really good.
Q: What writer, living or dead, do you most admire and why?
A: I've always loved Margaret Atwood and John Irving. They really inspired me as a young writer. More recently I'm kind of in awe of writers who write quickly and prodigiously. I know romance writers who put out four full-length novels a year, for example. I'd love to know their secret.
Q: You are well known for writing novels in verse. Why tell stories in verse?
A: One reason I think verse works for me has to do with my beginnings in screenwriting. Screenwriting is very minimalistic, very much about dramatic beats. Poetry, on the other hand, depends on language and rhythm and metaphor. But both depend on imagery and a pretty quick pace. So the pace and plotting of writing in verse came naturally to me. The language was more of a learning curve.
Q: What is your writing routine? Where do you write, how do you get it done?
A: When I'm immersed in a project I write every day, weekends included, starting at about 9 a.m. I prefer to write in my very messy office on a computer. I get it done by allowing myself short breaks. I check Facebook, I fool around with Photoshop, but then I'm back to my manuscript. If I plot something out, I can finish it in a few months. But sometimes I "pants" it (write by the seat of my pants). That takes much longer, but I think I prefer the results.
Q: What's the best advice you ever received, writing related or not?
A: A stranger on a bus once told me that his business partner had worked hard and saved up for many years to retire and buy a sailboat. Three months after retiring, he got a terminal cancer diagnosis. That affected me profoundly. We're always told that we should work hard and save our money to spend on things we really want. Work is great. It's a necessity for most of us, but I've always tried to avoid doing jobs that I don't enjoy just to earn money to spend on things I do. I'd rather not be able to afford the sports car or the designer handbag and be doing something that I love. Because maybe the day will never come to spend that pile of money I worked so hard for. You never know.
Q: What piece of advice would you give to an emerging writer?
A: Be audacious.
Q: What prompted you to write a novel inspired by Chris Hadfield?
A: I was thinking about the amazing things he did, not only being an astronaut but also being a fabulous ambassador for the space program and for Canada, and an accomplished musician. And when he retired from space I thought, "what do you do when you've already had the most awesome job in the world?" Then I thought about how hard that would be as a young person: to peak early in that way. How do you come down from that and be an ordinary person? So the book is about that.
Q: What are you reading right now?
A: I have a pile of new verse novels that I picked up at the American Library Association convention. I think I'll read Jacqueline Woodson's Brown Girl Dreaming next.
Q: What book have you put down and couldn't be bothered to finish recently?
A: I don't feel right naming names, but I'm very interested in the self-publishing revolution that's going on right now, so I frequently check out self-published books. Some of them are great but some I'm saying "nope" within the first page. Sometimes it's bad writing, sometimes it's the plot. I'm a little over the "billionaire" romance trope, for example. I don't find the idea of a billionaire very romantic. Billionaire makes me think of some of the big tech entrepreneurs. I admire them, sure, but they're not the stuff of romantic fantasy. Not for me, anyway! Occasionally, I'll put down a YA (young adult) book because I've read four just like it. Nothing wrong with those books — young readers don't have the extensive reading history that I have so that trope might be new to them — but they're not for me.


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For all those aficionados of the Wizard of Oz, you will know that Toto was Dorothy's dog and loyal companion ..it was also how we were treated at the aptly named restaurant "Toto's" in the heart of London's chic Walton street.
We had originally wanted to go to Scalini's,but as it was fully booked our hotel receptionist wholeheartedly suggested Toto's which is in the same area and apparently equally good if not a little more casual. Fine.
Now we are true foodies,we love nothing better than a fine meal served with a fine wine and are more than happy to pay for the top notch service one expects in these establishments. We would have had a warmer reception upon entering McDonald's on Brompton Rd than what awaited us upon entering Toto's.
The manager was on the phone,audibly irate and had his back to us. While waiting for our table to be ready,we were relegated to a corner table in outer Mongolia,adjacent to the neglected bar that may never have actually seen a barman let alone any atmosphere .There we dutifully sat, a little unnerved by the abrupt reception but nevertheless still naively optimistic. We weren't offered a drink but there was a bowl of rubbery looking olives that may very well have been rubber judging by their sheen and consistency.
We were finally escorted to a nice big round table slap in the middle of the hustle and bustle,once the manager had angrily torn himself away from the phone and could muster the semblance of a smile.
"Would you like anything to drink?" he asked.
"Could we see the wine menu please?"
We got water and the menus, the wine list still bizarrely absent. After another two polite attempts and once the order had been taken, did it finally appear. It was as if we had absurdly demanded to see the Magna Carta.
The bread basket made its round,the wine appeared and the starters were served...we fell into the mutual silence of the hungry.
Then things took a dramatic turn for the worst just as our main meal was served. We had almost finished the bottle of wine by then, when the headwaiter appeared by our sides and it wasn't to ask us whether we wanted another one. The empty bottle was removed and this man with more hair than sense seemed hell bent to get a head start on inappropriately clearing away certain items on our table.... while we were still eating! The excruciating part was watching him extend his arm across my partners plat without so much as an "excuse me,sir"... as if an act of such gross misconduct could be excusable. We were rendered speechless...but either it was because as a group we are way too polite for our own good or simply because we were eager to see what could possibly happen next. What we did mutually agree upon was our shared desire to get the hell out of "Dodgy"...and fast!
The bets were on as to whether dessert or coffee would be suggested (they weren't) ... I had a distinct feeling as to what would happen next...and it did not disappoint.The waiter sidled up to my sister's husband and presented him with the bill.Ever polite my Italian brother in law looked at him and quietly said in Italian ,in case anything got lost in translation:
"Would it trouble you at all to at least bring me an espresso?" The waiter withdrew his arm as if it were scalded and sheepishly withdrew the offensive item all the while mumbling that he was told to do so.
No one came forward to apologize for the sub standard behaviour, let alone the shoddy service or to offer us a conciliatory drink. We politely paid the bill and walked out.
As far as we are concerned, Toto can trot on back to Oz...we'll find Dorothy a better ,far more classier companion.
Seriously, do not bother going ... nothing there is memorable apart from the headwaiter's absurd amount of hair.
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A restaurant without table manners.
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2 comments:
- Unknown said...
hahahah what a dinner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- 10 September 2010 at 09:05
- Lina said...
The food was in line with the service....
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In written form, that notion of what the right to counsel is looks like this:
[The Sixth Amendment] commands, not that a trial be fair, but that a particular guarantee of fairness be provided—to wit, that the accused be defended by the counsel he believes to be best. "The Constitution guarantees a fair trial through the Due Process Clauses, but it defines the basic elements of a fair trial largely through the several provisions of the Sixth Amendment , including the Counsel Clause." Strickland, supra, at 684–685. In sum, the right at stake here is the right to counsel of choice, not the right to a fair trial; and that right was violated because the deprivation of counsel was erroneous. No additional showing of prejudice is required to make the violation "complete."
Alito pens the dissent (and is joined by the Chief and Justices Kennedy and Thomas):
The majority states that the Sixth Amendment protects "the right of a defendant who does not require appointed counsel to choose who will represent him."What the Sixth Amendment actually protects, however, is the right to have the assistance that the defendant's counsel of choice is able to provide. It follows that if the erroneous disqualification of a defendant's counsel of choice does not impair the assistance that a defendant receives at trial, there is no violation of the Sixth Amendment.
In those italics, I hear Scalia being scolded: I thought you were the big textualist. The word "assistance" or one of its variants appears 19 times in Alito's (relatively short) opinion. The count for Scalia (whose opinion is slightly longer): 8.


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After months of preparation, PRIME TIME Family Reading Time begins tomorrow at Stair Public Library.
The PRIME TIME program is scheduled 6 to 7:30 p.m every Thursday from Sept. 23 to Nov. 4 (no session Oct. 14 due to Parent-Teacher conferences) at the library for parents or guardians and their children. At each session, Melissa Elliott will present stories and model reading aloud. Humanities scholar Melissa Stewart will serve as the discussion leader.
Tomorrow's session will focus on the oral tradition of storytelling, poems and songs as the basis for the written word; the remainder of the sessions will focus on award-winning children's books that families will check out each week.
PRIME TIME introduces families of children ages 6 to 12 to the pleasures and benefits of reading together and the many resources and services of the library, and aims to foster a lifelong love of learning through reading. A pre-school program is offered for younger siblings aged three to five. Meals, books, and transportation are provided and there will be a drawing for door prizes each week.
The project was developed by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the American Library Association. The library won a grant from the Michigan Humanities Council, with support from the W. K. Kellogg Fund of the Grand Haven Community Foundation to implement the program locally and has received support from area businesses through willingness to provide meals, transportation, door prizes, and
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Q Mothers Against Drunk Driving, or MADD, has been inundated with inquiries about lowering the legal blood alcohol limit for drunken driving from 0.08 percent to 0.05 percent, which is the legal limit in much of Europe and which last week was proposed to become the legal limit in the U.S.
From 1999 to 2010, 20,671 people in California were killed by drunken drivers. During these same years, DUI deaths accounted for 36 percent of all driving fatalities in California.
MADD has Victim Impact Panels (VIPs), where DUI offenders are required to listen to DUI horror stories. All DUI offenders in Contra Costa County are required to attend one of these, and each month there are 400 DUI offenders in Contra Costa County. We recently started having VIPs in Santa Clara County.
It would be great if the legal limit for alcohol was lowered to 0.05 percent. Alcohol and driving do not mix.
Janet Boggs
East Palo Alto
A Janet has much more to discuss. …
Q Two recent tragedies connected to the Bay Area serve as reminders about the dangers of driving drunk. On March 9, a repeat DUI offender killed three people on the Peninsula. And many of us know that former 49er Delanie Walker's aunt and uncle were killed by a drunken driver in New Orleans after the Super Bowl.
Janet Boggs
A Janet has another reason for supporting a lower DUI threshold: "My son, Ben, is also paying a lifelong price for driving when he was drunk at age 25. He's spending the rest of his life as a quadriplegic because of his choice to get behind the wheel when he was drunk. Please do urge people to report drunken drivers."
Should the 0.08 percent blood alcohol level be lowered to 0.05 percent, as the National Transportation Safety Board recommends? It's the standard in more than 100 countries, and it's been credited with lowering DUI fatalities by 8 percent.
Q Several years ago, I was cut off in traffic by a car making an erratic, unsafe left turn out of a liquor store. I followed, and it was clear they were driving very impaired. I called 911 on my cell and told the dispatcher I would follow at a safe distance until they could collect him.
Based on my description of his path, they waited in a side street and pulled him over as he drove by. The dispatcher later called back to tell me they did not need my witness statement because the two occupants in the vehicle were too drunk to stand up.
No excuse for drunken driving ever.
George Leavell
San Martin
A No excuse, indeed.
Q One day I was at a roadside restaurant and noticed two men in uniform with a volunteer patch on their shoulders. They left and entered a black and white CHP cruiser with volunteer stickers on the rear door panels and drove away.
My questions: Are they authorized to make roadside stops and/or perform arrests? In other words, are they sworn officers? If they are not sworn, what is my correct response to any commands they may issue?
Ken Johnson
A These are the CHP's senior volunteers, of which there are about 20 in the South Bay. They are not armed, nor are they sworn officers, and they cannot make stops or arrests. They are not authorized to issue commands to citizens.
What they do is help the CHP's clerical staff inside the office, deploy radar trailers on the road and put on an "Age Well, Drive Smart" presentation for older drivers.
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\nTen years before he would ever meet and propose to his wife, my longtime friend and former roommate Ian invested in a diamond for a future engagement ring. He was 100 percent single at the time.
His engagement ring fund began when he was 18. Ian's father knew an old German Gemologist and encouraged him to start saving up for a rock. "It's a smart thing to do," his dad said. The idea behind this early investment was simple: He knew a wife would eventually come into his life and diamonds don't really go down in value. Why not get a jump on one of the biggest purchases in life? Inspired by his father's wise words, Ian began putting his pennies away and asked the jeweler to keep an eye out for a quality stone that was well-priced. It wasn't too long before the jeweler located an excellent VS1 precision cut diamond. Basically, the diamond was flawless to the naked eye.
Ian paid several thousands of dollars that he had stashed away and his father fronted him the rest, which he would repaid over time. For an entire decade, the stone and its paperwork laid dormant in a little plastic baggie. It was stashed away inside the seat cushion of an orange 1970's recliner in his father's hobby room. This was the last place they expected a thief to ever look for diamonds.
When I first heard this, I thought it was highly unusual. I mean, seriously: Why would someone make such an early advance investment, especially when there are no guarantees?
At the time, I had a lot of uncertainty about finding The One. I had met a lot of girls while in college, but none who I really wanted to pursue. I thought that I must just be too picky, but now when I look back, I think I just wasn't ready. In the process, I think I've passed up some really good girls and probably disappointed some hearts too. Now 33 years old, I'm starting to understand how Ian felt when he bought that loose rock: I do really want to settle down and get married. When I was younger, I felt that marriage would hold me back and somehow stiffle my sense of adventure. I really just think I was afraid of commitment. But I don't want to "do" life alone anymore. I've realized that life is more fun when you can experience it with someone you love. And as I see all my friends getting married, it hits me that I'm not getting any younger. Everyday that goes by, more and more women are coming off the market...so I better jump in before it's too late.
When a guy realizes what he wants in life, he begins preparing, whether it's consciously or subconsciously. It's sort of like what Billy Crystal says in When Harry Met Sally, "When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible." With Ian, it was a very conscious choice to begin saving early for his engagement ring. With me, it's been more of a subconscious one.
I recognized earlier this year that although I had retirement savings, stocks, and an emergency fund, I had a separate account set up so I could quickly access money for a "life event" What "life event," though? I'd set up a ring fund without even really admitting it to myself.
Call me crazy, but to be honest, knowing that I have been saving makes me feel really good. It solidifies the decision that I ultimately do want a committed relationship. Financially, it's a wise choice. When I'm ready to pop the question, I won't be scrambling for cash. Right now, I'm not in a relationship. But when I do get into one, I won't tell my girl about the ring fund. That's something I'd reveal after my proposal.
Of course, there may be times where you doubt why you're even saving. With Ian, there were moments when he thought his future bride would never arrive. He figured maybe he would end up getting his ear pierced and repurposing the diamond into a flashy earring or a Super Bowl-style ring that he could show off to his buddies. But eventually she arrived in 2009. The girl he had waited for all those years (a fun spirited girl from the east coast) came and he proposed to her on Alki Beach overlooking the Seattle skyline. The diamond (his savings) finally served its purpose, and while the stone had been selected several years earlier, he personalized the ring with the perfect setting. It was exactly what she wanted.
I hope I'm not too far behind.
As told to Dara Adeeyo.
What do you think about guys having an engagement ring fund? Smart or stupid?


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Set against excellent wind conditions and sunny weather, the Telefonica Movistar Kite Pro 2008 in Tarifa, Spain had an exciting grand finale in contrast to yesterday's long wait for the wind. The morning started with a lot of it with the strong and westerly Poniente wind making its debut into the final games.
The competition started right on time at 11:30 am, half an hour after the mandatory skippers meeting. The men went in the water on their 8- to 9-meter kites while the women were on their 5's.
Into the highlights of today's double event, the women had the privilege of going into the water first before the men, showing their extreme kiteboarding talents for the pleasure of the crowd. Netherlands' Jalou Langeree (Naish) had a great heat against Germany's Susi Mai (Cabrinha) – the talented young host of ExtremeElements.tv, in the first heat of the day.
The Naish-sponsored rider won against Mai with a blind judge, raley to blind, krypt to surface pass, vulcan to surface pass and kiteloop. Mai equally did her best with a raley to blind, front to blind and double back kiteloop but was outpowered and was less on the technical side which gave the win to Langeree.
Poland's Joanna Litwin, on a Slingshot kite knocked out Langeree in the next heat with a slim and blind judge against the Naish rider's krypt to surface pass and vulcan to surface pass. Litwin then succumbed to the power of the more experienced Karolina Winkowska in heat #17 with a blind judge against Litwin's crashed slim and blind judge.
After a tough battle in heat #18 against top seeded Bruna Kajiya (Best, Brazil) in heat #18, Winkowska faced Spain's Gisela Pulido (Slingshot) in the finals but was clearly outclassed by the world champion. Pulido landed a slim, 313, mobe, front mobe and blind judge over Winkowska's lone blind judge – a well-deserved win for Pulido.
ExtremeElements.tv managed to get an interview from top seed Bruna Kajiya after the events and this is what she has to say.
"I had a really bad heat, the wind was really strong and I was on my 5-meter. I was not expecting the Poniente wind to be that strong instead we expected the Levante to be really strong so I was in a real rush and didn't have time to set up my lines, so I was a bit nervous and because of that things didn't go through well.
But I'm very happy because even though I'm not in my best shape even just before Dominican Republic, I made it this far. I got really sick and I lost so much weight, like 5 kilos, and I lost so many muscles so I'm not really strong and I haven't had time to get back to training because the two events were so close to each other."
In the men's division, current world champion Aaron Hadlow (Flexifoil, UK) started his run to the top of the ladder and against Langeree. Winning over Alex Pastor (Naish, Spain) in heat #32, Hadlow landed a blind judge 3, s-bend to blind with aerial handle pass, regular and switch slim, KGB, mobe to wrapped and kiteloop slim.
The Spanish bet landed a nice front mobe to blind and mobe to wrapped among others but had less power overall.
Redeeming himself from a defeat in the singles event, Hadlow landed a regular and switch slim, regular and switch back to blind air pass, front mobe, kiteloop 5, shifty front side 3, a big kiteloop-backloop and switch kiteloop handle pass against Mikael Blomvall (Nobile, Sweden) who landed a mobe to wrapped, front mobe but had a lot of crashes.
The world champ then went against local boy Alvaro Onieva (Best) who also had trouble landing many of his moves, even changing his kite twice during the heat twice trying to find a winning combo. Aside from a blind judge, s-bend to blind, mobe, backside with aerial handle pass, front side 360, Onieva had a routine heat.
Hadlow however landed several regular and switch moves of slim, mobe, kiteloop with aerial handle pass, and back to blind air pass plus a mobe to wrapped, 313, s-bend to blind air pass, kiteloop slim and a blind judge 3.
Hadlow made it to the final and back to doing what he does best – compete for the top podium position. He landed a regular and switch slim and regular and switch back to blind air pass against a well-rested Kevin Langeree (Naish, Netherlands) who opened up the heat with a blind judge with aerial handle pass, KGB, mobe 5, front mobe, s-bend to blind with aerial handle pass, double back mobe and a kiteloop 7.
Overall, Hadlow's moves were powered but lower and slower than Langeree's and would have to settle for second.
ExtremeElements.tv did a back-to-back interview with these two top-ranked PKRA athletes right after the event and got their assessment regarding the recently concluded heats.
First up was Aaron Hadlow.
"Today was very good. I had quite a hard job ahead of me almost coming up through the doubles is super difficult. It takes so much energy in 10-minutes each time and it just takes a lot out of you. But I did some of the best riding today that I've done in this event.
I did one trick which was probably one of the best tricks that I did in a long time though – a mega loop with a handle pass and then a 360 grab going down. I was pretty stoked with that."
"Into the finals, it was really windy, up against Kevin [Langeree] it was difficult because he was consistent but the heat I guess was pretty close. I saw him do the kiteloop 7 which obviously was pretty big, but you know one trick doesn't win the heat obviously, but I had a couple of good things. I crashed out on a couple of my key tricks which probably might have swayed the other way but it was close and he went through again this time."
Then it was Kevin Langeree's turn.
"The day went pretty good for me. I won twice in a row and now I take over the lead, and now I'm stoked, I can't be happier. The heat went very well for me and the wind was stronger when we arrived this morning.
I was on my 8-meter and I landed a kiteloop double handle pass which I landed twice already – that was the second time I landed it in a competition and it's just amazing when you land a trick - the crowd went crazy, I went crazy. I think that because I landed that trick really helped me to win the heat and win the event so I am super stoked."
Double Eliminations Result:
1. Kevin Langeree (Naish, Netherlands)
2. Aaron Hadlow (Flexifoil, UK)
3. Alvaro Onieva (Best, Spain)
4. Mikael Blomvall (Nobile, Sweden)
1. Gisela Pulido (Slingshot, Spain)
2. Karolina Winkowska (Naish, Poland)
3. Bruna Kajiya (Best, Brazil)
4. Joanna Litwin (Slingshot, Poland)
After the end of the double eliminations, there was a 20-minute break and an informal beach awards ceremony was held before the second discipline was started. The Big Air Best Trick had a small ladder of 5-men heats and 3-women heats with a total of 3 rounds with the best two advancing to a quarter finals and then to the finals where there are 4 competitors shooting for the top podium spot. Although by the time the Big Air Best trick competition started, the wind had died off considerably with the men on their 12- to 14-meter kites and the women up on their 9's. Later in the competition, the wind picked up again and provided a great finale for the crowd.
The Big Air Best Trick competition concluded around 4:00 pm after which a formal awarding ceremony was held at the beach at 6:00 pm.
The winners of the Big Air Best Trick competition were:
1. Mario Rodwald (North, Germany) for a high handle pass front mobe to blind
2. Kevin Langeree (Naish, Netherlands) for a high handle pass mobe
3. Aaron Hadlow (Flexifoil, UK) for a high handle pass front mobe
1. Gisela Pulido (Slingshot, Spain) for a high handle pass front mobe
2. Susi Mai (Cabrinha, Germany) for a big front roll one-footer
3. Karolina Winkowska (Naish, Poland) for a big double front spin
The Movistar Telefonica Kite Pro 2008 was sponsored by Movistar Telefonica, Nissan Sport Adventure and O'Neill Kiteboarding.
The next stop will be Portugal from July 9 to 13 for the Kitemasters Invitational Cup 2008 and the second annual Kiteboarding Course Racing World Tour, the event where the hardest-hitting and the best kiteboard racers from all over the world will come together in a five-day event to compete in the toughest racing competition in the history of kiteboarding.
Source: PKRA


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|Jeff Francis pitching for the Rockies
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The Magnus force has made Jeff Francis what he is today: a 25-year-old left-handed pitcher on the rise in his second full season with Major League Baseball's Colorado Rockies.
A former physics and astronomy major at the University of British Columbia, Francis could clarify what puts the curve in a curveball, the "hop" in a fastball, the slide in a slider, the sink in a sinker. But he won't be giving that talk any time soon.
"As much as it might seem contradictory," Francis says, "physics knowledge does not help much on the field. So much of playing baseball is 'feel' that explaining to someone what makes a ball curve would be almost meaningless. I get asked that a lot, and sometimes I say: 'I never met him, but I bet Einstein couldn't throw a curveball.' "
On the other hand, Einstein did toss a memorable and gigantic curve at physicists' concepts of matter, space, and time a hundred years ago. Francis is good, but he hasn't yet matched that impact.
But delivering a pitch is all about physics: the most efficient transfer of momentum from body to baseball; the maximum effectiveness of the arm as a lever; the rotational dynamics of the baseball leaving the fingertips. And within four-tenths of a second after Francis delivers a pitch, the batter faces his own challenge of physics and mechanics.
Yale professor emeritus Robert K. Adair says a batter must react in less than one-fourth of a second. In the one thousandth of a second of bat-ball contact, a superlative hitter such as Albert Pujols of St. Louis will deliver some 8000 pounds of force, compressing the ball to about half its original diameter–that is, if Pujols meets the ball precisely on the bat's "sweet spot," or vibrational node (point of no vibration), after analyzing and reacting to the Magnus force effects on the pitch thrown by Francis.
The Magnus force was identified in 1852 when the German physicist Gustav Magnus demonstrated that a spinning object moving through a fluid experiences a sideways deflection in its path. A twist of the wrist, and a pitch with sideways spin will deflect in the direction of the baseball's spin.
On a pitch with backspin–the conventional fastball–the Magnus force acts upward; not sufficient to lift the ball, but sufficient to deliver a perceived "hop" on its way to the plate. The ball rising is an optical illusion. Normally, the ball drops a certain amount in the quarter-second or so that it's in the air on its regular flight towards home plate. If the right backspin is obtained, the air can hold it up just a bit longer on the way to home plate, dropping a certain fraction of the regular distance. Since the eye is so used to seeing it drop the regular amount, the ball gives the illusion of rising on the way towards the batter.
"I think all baseball players, whether they're superstars or not, are aware of certain physical aspects of the game by just being around baseball and observing," Francis says. "For example, you'll always see hitters tapping their bat with their hand and then listening to it like a tuning fork, knowing that a higher sound means a higher frequency, which means harder wood, which, in turn, means the ball will jump off the bat more."
Francis says teammates knowing about his physics background often tease him good-naturedly about being an intellectual, although "I can't get any more crossword clues than anyone else."
Adapted from the June/July 2006 issue of Symmetry magazine (http://symmetrymagazine.org) with permission.


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Book – Cutting for Stone is a beautiful haunting epic story that will probably appeal to fans of The Kite Runner. Set in Ethiopia, the story is about conjoined twin boys Marion and Shiva Praise Stone who are born as a result of a secret love affair between a British surgeon and his surgical nurse and assistant, an Indian nun, both working at Missing Hospital near Addis Ababa. Tragically, the mother dies in childbirth and the devastated father disappears leaving the hospital and his newborn sons behind. Hema and Ghosh, doctors from the same hospital, raise the boys as their own. Though successfully separated at birth, the boys still have a very strong emotional bond to each other and their different personalities make them a complete soul.
The overthrow of the Ethiopian government disrupts their childhood and other events and personal choices result in the brothers drifting apart. Marion goes to the United States and becomes a resident at a hospital in the Bronx. He finds out that his biological father is a famous surgeon in the area. Shiva completes medical school in Addis Ababa and continues practicing medicine at Missing Hospital. An event of life and death reunites the brothers with their father. The author, Abraham Verghese, was born in Ethiopia and started his medical training there. He continues his medical career in the United States and has written other works based on his experiences.


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In Measure for Measure, Shakespeare shows how those in power can easily become corrupted. The Duke appoints Angelo as his deputy while he is absent. Angelo decides to enforce the letter of the law and condemns Claudio to death for a crime which has not been enforced for a long time. His sister Isabella pleads for his life. Angelo accepts her plea in return for sexual favors but double-crosses her by ordering Claudio's execution anyway. In pleading for her brother's liife Isabella accuses Angelo of many things:
So you must be the first that gives this sentence, And he that suffers. O! it is excellent To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
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The theme of the corrupting influence which power has on those who wield it is a common one in Shakespeare's plays. Shakespeare has a most Actonian sensitivity for the myriad ways in which this corruption can manifest itself. In this passage we see Angelo, a "pelting, petty officer" who enjoys "a little authority" while the true master is away, by enforcing a long unused law to remove a man whom he dislikes. He is justly rebuked by his sister Isabella who denounces the petty tyrant by wittily exclaiming "O! it is excellent To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant."


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Vintage Venom Makes It Possible To Install Late-Model Cobra Four-Wheel Disc Brakes On Vintage Mustangs
It's the best of both worlds-the cool looks of a vintage Mustang with the awesome braking performance of the SVT Cobra, not to mention modern 17-inch wheels and performance tires. A new kit from Vintage Venom makes it possible by utilizing used components from a '99-'04 Cobra or brand-new Cobra brakes from Ford Racing. Larger 17- or 18-inch wheels are required for clearance. A wide variety of late-model ('94-'04) Mustang wheels serve the purpose quite well and are readily available used or new from Ford Racing.
A few additional items are also required, including late-model Cobra brake hoses, emergency brake cables, and various fittings, all available from your local Ford dealership's parts department. The explicit Vintage Venom web-based instructions provide the part numbers. We also chose to convert to power brakes using the popular and easy-to-install kit from Trans-Am Racing. Vintage Venom says the conversion works fine with manual brakes as long as the 15/16-inch master cylinder is used for its mechanical advantage.
Ford Racing offers a number of brake options for the Vintage Venom conversion, including standard 3-inch Cobra rotors or cross-drilled and slotted versions, 11.65-inch Cobra rear rotors, black Cobra calipers or red Bullitt calipers, or the M-2300-R kit that comes with the Cobra front caliper, rotors, and hoses. A Brembo kit, M-2300-X, with four-piston calipers and slotted rotors is also available.
Seventeen-inch-or-larger wheels are required to clear the Cobra brakes. Vintage Venom recommends 17 by 8 by 30 mm, the same size as late-model Mustang wheels, most of which look great on a vintage Mustang. Obviously, a used set will work, but you can also obtain brand-new Bullitt-style, Mach 1, or Cobra wheels from Ford Racing. The Cobra wheels are required if using Ford Racing's Brembo kit.
We installed the Vintage Venom kit with Cobra brakes from Ford Racing on Merv Rego's '66 K-GT fastback at Classic Creations of Central Florida. A recently completed restoration with a few mods, such as red LeMans stripes and a body-color engine compartment, the fastback was a perfect candidate for the Vintage Venom brake upgrade. Because late-model Bullitt-style wheels look particularly good on '65-'66 fastbacks, we acquired a set from Ford Racing and shod them with 245-45-ZR17 Proxes performance tires from Toyo.
A fair word of warning: This is not a simple afternoon bolt-on. While the Vintage Venom brackets and the Cobra brakes are a simple R&R procedure, you will need the expertise and tools to create custom brake lines, adapt the vintage Mustang's front emergency brake cables to the rear late-model cables, and precisely open up the lug holes on the hubs for the press-in installation of longer studs. You'll also need the ability, or the services of a local machine shop, to press-off and press-on rear axle bearings to allow the installation of the rear brackets.
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On the Pico project we've recently been moving from Bluetooth Classic to BLE. We have multiple motivations for this, and not just the low energy promise. In addition, BLE provides RSSI values, which means we can control proximity detection better, and frankly, Bluetooth has been causing us a lot of reliability problems that we've had to work around. We're hoping BLE will work better. Finally, we're developing an iPhone client. iOS, it seems doesn't properly support Bluetooth Classic, so BLE is our best option for cross-platform compatibility.
One of the challenges developing anything that uses a protocol built on top of some transport is that typically both ends of the protocol have to be developed simultaneously. This slow things down, especially when we're trying to distribute tasks across several developers. So we were hoping to use
gatttool, part of bluez on Linux, as an intermediate step, to allow us to check the initial iOS BLE code worked before moving on to the Pico protocol proper.
So, here's a quick summary of how we used
gatttool to write characteristics to the iPhone.
One point to note is that things weren't smooth for us. In retrospect we had the iPhone correctly running as a BLE peripheral, but we had real trouble connecting. I'll explain how we fixed this too.
Writing to a BLE peripheral using bluez is a four step process:
- Scan for the device using hcitool.
- Having got the MAC from the scan, connect to it using gatttool.
- Find the handle of the characteristic you want to write to.
- Perform the write.
The first step, scanning for a device, can be done using the following command.
sudo hcitool -i hci0 lescan
This commend is using
hcitool to perform a BLE scan (
lescan) using the local device (
-i hci0). If you have more than one Bluetooth adaptor, you may want to specify the use of something other than
When we first tried this, we kept on getting input/output errors, even when run as root. I don't know why this was, but eventually we found a solution:
sudo hciconfig hci0 down sudo hciconfig hci0 up
Not very elegant, but it seemed to work. After this, the scan started throwing up results.
flypig@delphinus:~sudo hcitool -i hci0 lescan
LE Scan ...
58:C4:C5:1F:C7:70 (unknown)
58:C4:C5:1F:C7:70 Pico's iPhone
CB:A5:42:40:F8:68 (unknown)
58:C4:C5:1F:C7:70 (unknown)
58:C4:C5:1F:C7:70 Pico's iPhone
Note the repeated entries. The device I was interested in was "Pico's iPhone", where we were running our test app. On other occasions when I've performed the scan, the iPhone MAC address came up, but without the name (marked as "unknown"). Again, I don't know why this is, but just trying the MACs eventually got me connected to the correct device.
Having got the MAC, now it's time to connect (step 2).
sudo gatttool -t random -b 58:C4:C5:1F:C7:70 -I
What's this all about? Here we're using
gatttool to connect to the remote device using its Bluetooth address (
-b 58:C4:C5:1F:C7:70). Obviously if you're doing this at home you should use the correct MAC which is likely to be different from this. Our iPhone is using a random address type, so we have to specify this too (
-t random). Finally, we set it to interactive mode with
-I. This will open gatttool's own command console so we can do other stuff.
If everything goes well, the console prompt will change to include the MAC address.
So far we've only set things up and not actually connected. So we should connect.
[58:C4:C5:1F:C7:70][LE]> connect
Attempting to connect to 58:C4:C5:1F:C7:70
Connection successful
Great! Now there's a time problem. The iPhone will throw us off this connection after only a few seconds. If it does, enter '
connect' again to re-establish the connection. There's another catch though, so be careful: the iPhone will also periodically change it's MAC address. If it does, you'll need to exit the
gatttool console (Ctrl-D), rescan and then reconnect to the device as above.
Having connected we want to know what characteristics are available, which we do be entering '
characteristics' at the console.
[58:C4:C5:1F:C7:70][LE]> characteristics
handle: 0x0002, char properties: 0x02, char value handle: 0x0003, uuid: 00002a00-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
handle: 0x0004, char properties: 0x02, char value handle: 0x0005, uuid: 00002a01-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
handle: 0x0007, char properties: 0x20, char value handle: 0x0008, uuid: 00002a05-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
handle: 0x000b, char properties: 0x98, char value handle: 0x000c, uuid: 8667556c-9a37-4c91-84ed-54ee27d90049
handle: 0x0010, char properties: 0x98, char value handle: 0x0011, uuid: af0badb1-5b99-43cd-917a-a77bc549e3cc
handle: 0x0034, char properties: 0x12, char value handle: 0x0035, uuid: 00002a19-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
handle: 0x0038, char properties: 0x12, char value handle: 0x0039, uuid: 00002a2b-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
handle: 0x003b, char properties: 0x02, char value handle: 0x003c, uuid: 00002a0f-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
handle: 0x003e, char properties: 0x02, char value handle: 0x003f, uuid: 00002a29-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
handle: 0x0040, char properties: 0x02, char value handle: 0x0041, uuid: 00002a24-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
handle: 0x0043, char properties: 0x88, char value handle: 0x0044, uuid: 69d1d8f3-45e1-49a8-9821-9bbdfdaad9d9
handle: 0x0046, char properties: 0x10, char value handle: 0x0047, uuid: 9fbf120d-6301-42d9-8c58-25e699a21dbd
handle: 0x0049, char properties: 0x10, char value handle: 0x004a, uuid: 22eac6e9-24d6-4bb5-be44-b36ace7c7bfb
handle: 0x004d, char properties: 0x98, char value handle: 0x004e, uuid: 9b3c81d8-57b1-4a8a-b8df-0e56f7ca51c2
handle: 0x0051, char properties: 0x98, char value handle: 0x0052, uuid: 2f7cabce-808d-411f-9a0c-bb92ba96c102
handle: 0x0055, char properties: 0x8a, char value handle: 0x0056, uuid: c6b2f38c-23ab-46d8-a6ab-a3a870bbd5d7
handle: 0x0059, char properties: 0x88, char value handle: 0x005a, uuid: eb6727c4-f184-497a-a656-76b0cdac633b
In this case, there are many characteristics, but the one we're interested in is the last one, with UUID '
eb6727c4-f184-497a-a656-76b0cdac633b'. We know this is the one we're interested in, because this was the UUID we used in our iPhone app. We set this up to be a writable characteristic, so we can also write to it.
[58:C4:C5:1F:C7:70][LE]> char-write-req 0x005a 5069636f205069636f205069636f205069636f205069636f205069636f205069636f20
Characteristic value was written successfully
Success! On the iPhone side, we set it up to output the characteristic to the log if it was written to. So we see the following.
2017-09-29 20:09:21.206744+0100 Pico[241:25455] QRCodeReader:start()
2017-09-29 20:09:21.802875+0100 Pico[241:25455] BLEPeripheral: State Changed
2017-09-29 20:09:21.803002+0100 Pico[241:25455] BLEPeripheral: Powered On
2017-09-29 20:09:22.801024+0100 Pico[241:25455] BLEPeripheral:start()
2017-09-29 20:10:01.122027+0100 Pico[241:25455] BLE received: Pico Pico Pico Pico Pico Pico Pico
Where did all those 'Pico's come from? That's the value we wrote in, but in hexadecimal ASCII:
50 69 63 6f 20 50 69 63 6f 20 50 69 63 6f 20 50 69 63 6f 20 50 69 63 6f 20 50 69 63 6f 20 50 69 63 6f 20
P i c o P i c o P i c o P i c o P i c o P i c o P i c o
So, to recap, the following is the command sequence we used.
sudo hciconfig hci0 down
sudo hciconfig hci0 up
sudo hcitool -i hci0 lescan
sudo gatttool -t random -b 58:C4:C5:1F:C7:70 -I
[LE]> connect
[LE]> characteristics
[LE]> char-write-req 0x005a 5069636f205069636f205069636f205069636f205069636f205069636f205069636f20
When it's working, my experience is that
gatttool works well. But BLE is a peculiar paradigm, very different from general networking and offers lots of opportunity for confusion.


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Lies and Double Standards Regarding Iran's Nuclear Program
For over 3 decades the so-called "World Community" (in reality a cabal of a few pompous neo-colonialists) has been warning the rest of us (the unwashed masses) that Iran has been developing nuclear weapons, and is on the verge of building them. For all that time it has been claimed that Iran is perpetually just a year or two away from testing 'The Bomb'.
This disingenuous assertion has been trotted out again and again, on the premise, that if a lie is brazen enough, and repeated often enough, it will come to be accepted as the truth, at least by a large proportion of the population.
It further emanates from the conviction of imperialists, filled as they are with shameless hubris, and revealed in their own 'diplomats' statements, that their adversaries need to be given the "carrot and stick" treatment. In other words, as noticed by those on the receiving end of imperial contempt; that the intended subjects are donkeys.
The carrot and stick attitude and pronouncements have recently been made against none other than Russia. But they've been most often reserved for the ancient civilization of Iran.
There is an aspect of the alleged Iranian ambition for nuclear weapons that, to the best of my knowledge, has never been addressed by any politicians, commentators, or analysts in the Western media. That problem is: If Iran has been developing nuclear weapons, why has it taken so long, such an inordinately long time to NOT have any?
An explanation could have been forthcoming, if the chronic haters of the Iranian administration, and by extension, the Iranian people, had the courage to extend their pithy analogy about carrots and sticks to a bold assertion, an outright statement; that the Iranians are indeed donkeys. And being donkeys, they must be very stupid and of low intelligence. So, that is why those 'I-ran-ians' have been attempting to wrap their tiny brains around the simple problem of how to make an atomic bomb, but in 33 years have not managed to make a single one!
That is the only rational explanation that the lying deceivers could have trotted out. But, due to a rush of political correctness to their fevered mind, they can not expose their bigotry to that extent. That is a line in the sand that even their dainty feet can not cross, lest they give the game away too soon (see the final paragraph, below).
So, the perpetrators of systematic wars, all over the globe, launched under the pretext of "Freedom and Democracy", have ulterior motives, and use any lie they want to use, including the donkey carrot & stick one, as simply another weapon amongst their vast armamentarium.
This is how we are certain that the arrogant powers lie, and lie deliberately:
1) The United States began its atomic bomb program in 1942. By August 1945 they had half a dozen bombs of 2 different types [1]. In just 3 years, with no precedent, with no confidence that such a thing was even possible, the USA had as many as 6 bombs. Some Plutonium based and some Uranium based. Of which they used a Uranium bomb on Hiroshima, and a Plutonium one on Nagasaki. That, with 1940's technology and knowledge, or the lack thereof.
2) The Soviet Union began its atomic bomb project in earnest in 1945, after seeing the effects of the American attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and no longer having the burden of the 2nd World War. They exploded their first bomb in August 1949, just 4 years after serious initiation [2]. Again, using 1940's technology, while trying to rebuild the nation with limited resources.
3) Britain began concerted development of its atomic bomb in January 1947. It exploded its first bomb less than 6 years later in October 1952 [3]. Again, using the technology of 65 years ago, and after a debilitating war.
4) France began its program in 1949. In February 1960, just over 10 years later it exploded its first atomic bomb [4].
5) China began its bomb program in earnest in 1960. Just 4 years later it exploded its first bomb in October 1964 [5].
6) Israel began its bomb program in 1961. By 1967, just 6 years later it had produced its first bombs [6].
7) India realistically began its program in 1956 with its first reactor. It exploded its first bomb in 1974 less than 18 years later [7].
8) Pakistan's program became serious in late 1965 with its first nuclear reactor. By early 1983, just 17 years later it had its first viable atomic bombs.
9) North Korea began its bomb development in 1989 with its first reactor. By 2006, just 17 year later it had exploded its first bomb.
There are a number of countries, for example, Canada and South Africa, who did similar rapid development of atomic weapons in the past but have abandoned them or never manufactured them though they had the means to do so [10].
So we see that no country has taken more than 18 years to manufacture a plain Uranium or Plutonium atomic bomb. In fact, the design and method of making a simple atomic bomb has been widely known for decades. Any nation seeking to make it would have no trouble in doing so.
There remain, therefore, just two reasons why a particular country with reasonable resources does not have atomic bombs: a) Either it does NOT want atomic bombs or, b) its academic and military researchers are of lamentably low intelligence and aptitude. Iran claims that it is (a), but the United States, Israel, Britain and their cronies claim that it is simply (b). Let's examine this for Iran specifically (though the same analysis may be done for other non-nuclear-armed countries):
Of the many countries with reasonable educational and military facilities, the vast majority have no atomic bombs, even though they could have developed them many years ago. They are not accused (yet) of seeking atomic weapons. It is allowed (for now) by the United States and its, armed to the teeth, NATO syndicate that those other nations do not have nuclear weapons because they don't have a longing for such a demonic device.
Iran is the one country constantly accused of wanting atomic bombs. Yet, after 33 years, or twice as long as it took anyone else to make such bombs, Iran still has none. Why?
The incontrovertible evidence is that Iran has a highly educated, technical, and capable population, military, and social infrastructure. It ranks 17th in the world in regards to Purchasing Power Parity (PPP; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Iran ). Iran has many universities and technical colleges with thousands of graduates per annum. It has the largest auto manufacturers of the Middle East. It has ship yards and steel mills. Vast indigenously staffed oil and gas wells and refineries and petrochemical plants for domestic production as well as export. It has orbital rocket and satellite design and manufacturing facilities. It builds its own dams and hydro electricity machinery and power stations and is the biggest exporter of electrical energy in the Middle East. It has an extensive medical research and development and pharmaceutical industry. It builds and maintains an extensive modern roads, railways and travel network. It has a variety of agricultural produce and processing facilities. It has its own aircraft manufacturing factories. Its own military manufacturing industry, including missiles, jet fighters, helicopters, destroyers and submarines. Furthermore, it has uranium mines and enrichment and processing plants, as well as nuclear research reactors for the past 45 years (since 1967). And that list is merely a synopsis. Iran has recently been ranked as third among industrial developing countries, after China and India [11].
So the possibility of ineptitude allowing a 33 year hiatus in making an atomic bomb is obviously unfounded. So what remains?
The only possibility is that Iran does NOT want atomic weapons. It is simply not interested in them, and as Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has declared; they are an immoral abomination and against God's Law. Indeed, Iran is the only country to have declared atomic weapons absolutely illegal. Fatwas (binding religious decrees) have been issued against their manufacture or use (2003, 2005, 2011). Ayatollah Khamenei repeated his edict most recently at the Non Aligned Movement conference in Tehran.
How bizarre then, how paradoxical and what an irony that the countries baying for blood are the very same which have the blood of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on their hands and possess thousands of powerful nuclear weapons, have been using depleted uranium weapons by the hundred of tons, and constantly wage war after war against perceived enemies (USA), or are not even members of the IAEA (Israel) and do not allow inspections of their facilities or their hundreds of illicit atomic bombs and other banned weapons, such as phosphorus bombs.
And how strange that other Western, so-called "liberal and free democracies" fall in behind the above two hypocrisies, and like a dutiful conga line sway to the dystopian inspired rhythms of vulgar threats, such as; "All options (including pre-emptive nuclear attack) are on the table". And conspire in blatant acts of war, such as embargoes and sanctions. All the while wearing a holier-than-thou mask over their garish hypocrisy, as they prepare to kill, dismember, and pauperize yet more millions of people.
Indeed, the global hegemons recently, inadvertently showed their hand when they admitted that Iran is not building atomic weapons, but that, nevertheless, it must never have the technical know-how to do so. In other words, they admitted that they had been lying, and the Emperor is now revealed in all his naked Priapic splendor: Developing countries are not allowed to develop. They must forever be thankful for the crumbs that fall off their master's table. They must always remain ignorant, helpless, and subservient, to be treated as Caesar decrees.
[1] "Brotherhood of the Bomb". Gregg Herken. Published by MacMillan 2002.
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project
[3] http://www.atomicarchive.com/Timeline/Time1940.shtml
[4] http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/frances-nuclear-weapons-program
[5] http://www.china-profile.com/history/hist_1960s.htm
[6] http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/israel/nuke/
[7] http://responsiblenucleartrade.com/about/deal_timeline/
[8] http://www.pakdef.info/nuclear&missile/timeline2.html
[9] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_North_Korea_nuclear_program
[10] http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/nukes.htm
[11] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry_of_Iran
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I'm practically sitting in the clouds, actually in a lovely suite at the Fairmont, with two of my favorite indie-film folks, Austin-based writer/director Richard Linklater and sassy French provocateur Julie Delpy. This professional couple is in town to promote "Before Midnight," the third segment of a romantic trilogy, after episodes one and two "Before Sunrise" (1995) and "Before Sunset" (2004).
Halfway through our three-way chat, Linklater (better-known for the Jack Black hipster comedy "School of Rock," and "Bernie," with Black as a queer Texas mortician) and Delpy (who's developed a following for her "Two Days in Paris/New York" comedies) explain why the American/French couple in the Before films are still not married 18 years after their "cute meet" on a Budapest-to-Paris express train. Our conversation, on the day Delaware legislature approves same-sex marriage, leads to a wry exchange in which the director confesses to mock horror about how the marriage-equality movement is putting a crimp in his 1960s-inspired relationship philosophy.
"Julie and I are kind of against marriage -"
"- except for gays."
"I used to say, because I don't like the institution, I'll only be married when everyone can be married. That was my line, but it's approaching soon, so I might be called on that."
In "Before Midnight," opening Friday at Landmark Theatres, Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Delpy) are strolling through a paradise-on-earth slice of Greece on the way to a luxury-hotel suite reserved for them by friends from a writers' retreat. The couple are working themselves up for either the best sex they've had in years or the biggest brawl, or maybe both. Linklater and Delpy, who write the films with their acting partner Hawke, note that Celine has in some ways wielded the whip-hand in the relationship ever since the couple's unexpected reunion in the second film. In a powerful scene that is witty, insightful and profane, Celine pushes Jesse to declare whether he still finds her as alluring as he did on the train at 23.
"If we were meeting for the first time today on the train, would you find me attractive?"
"Of course."
"No, really, right now as I am. Would you start talking to me, would you ask me to get off the train with you?"
"You're asking a theoretical question. I mean, what would my life situation be? Technically wouldn't I be cheating on you?"
"I wanted you to say something romantic, and you blew it!"
Delpy once confessed that she sees some of her screen characters as dangerous critters, like female versions of "Raging Bull"'s Jake La Motta. Celine confronts Jesse inside a wayside chapel containing ancient Christian relics. Their free-ranging conversation confronts what once would be major taboos of what a well-bred woman should allow to pass across her lips.
"Okay, I'll never suck another Turkish cock. Oh, I forgot, you're a closet Christian. Is it okay to make blow-job jokes in church?"
Still later, as the gloves come off for real in the hotel, Celine uses Jesse's profession, a bestselling novelist whose first book mined choice tidbits from their first night together, to taunt him about his cocksmanship and reputation as a hot lover.
"The way you write, people think I've hooked up with this Henry Miller type. But you're so boring in bed, you're no Henry Miller!"
From a filmmaking perspective, "Before Midnight" is the most challenging segment of the trilogy, shot in extremely long takes in a fashion that violates the MTV quick-cutting style that has so dominated the last couple of decades of youth-oriented cinema. The film opens on a heart-tugging father/son scene. Jesse is sending his 13-year-old son Hank (Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick) home to Chicago and the care of his alcoholic ex-wife. At this moment we don't know if Jesse is still with Celine, only that he's an emotionally conflicted part-time dad who regrets that Hank's prime kid years are slipping by, with him stuck 4,000 miles out of the loop. No sooner does Hank get his boarding pass than we follow Jesse curbside to a mini-van containing Celine and their school-age twin daughters. What follows is a 14-minute, single-camera take of Jesse and Celine's car chat, catching us up on their last nine years as a couple. We're amused and horrified as they use Jesse's trepidation about his son's future, and a new job that would prevent Celine from following him to Chicago, to plumb the growing fissures in their bond.
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