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For Worldwide Release: September 2016
Release Number: 476PR16
Designed to lower fuel costs and increase operating efficiency, the recently updated Cat 992K Wheel Loader features Caterpillar's Economy Mode operation. With the new On-Demand Throttle arrangement, the 992K automatically manages engine speed, combining the efficiency of a manual throttle with ergonomic throttle lock operation. Caterpillar performance studies have shown the 992K reduces fuel consumption by as much as 21% compared to the previous model series.
Production-matched to deliver efficient 3-pass loading of the Cat 775 and 4-pass loading of the Cat 777 trucks, the 992K now offers Cat Production Measurement (CPM), the advanced payload weight measuring system. CPM promotes cost-effective hauling by helping loader operators minimize truck under-loading and overloading.
Several new features of the updated 992K enhance operating safety. The loader is built fire suppression ready, which simplifies installation and provides system integration to enhance reliability. Fall protection tie-offs provide fall arrest for service technicians when working on the loader. The 992K design includes turn signals and hazard lights, a bi-directional emergency gate, wheel chocks and mid-rails for enhanced safety when cleaning windows.
New performance enhancing features boost uptime and productivity. Pump efficiency monitoring improves hydraulic system responsiveness, improved fluid filtration boosts reliability, and coolant loss monitoring increases uptime. Cat Advansys™ G.E.T adapters maximize loader uptime by offering fast, hammerless installation and removal of ground engaging tools.
Inside the 992K cab, joystick controls provide low effort, sure operation of implements. The updated information display includes a color graphical touchscreen for intuitive machine operation. A common mining cab design for Caterpillar's four largest wheel loaders and two largest wheel dozers helps ensure parts availability and helps keep inventory costs down.
The 992K offers several design features to reduce service time. Centralized service centers and ground level access points, including the bumper service center and fluid service center, speed up service and reduce exposure to falls. The Vital Information Management System (VIMS™) continually monitors machine health and provides operators, service personnel and fleet managers operating information across a wide range of critical loader functions.
Offering a net 801 horsepower (607 kW) rating, the Cat C32 ACERT™ engine powers the 992K. Depending on regional needs, it can be configured to meet U.S. EPA Tier 4 Final/EU Stage IV or U.S. EPA Tier 2/EU Stage IIa emissions regulations. The loader's 14-16 yd3 (10.7-12.3 m3) bucket capacities offer a standard lift payload of 24 tons (21.7 tonnes) and 21-ton (19.1-tonne) high lift payload.
Featured updates to the Cat 854K Wheel Dozer
Sister machine to the 992K Wheel Loader, the Cat 854K Wheel Dozer includes many of the same safety, uptime and operator environment advancements of its wheel loader counterpart. Dozer design includes fall protection tie-offs, turn signals and hazard lights, seatbelt minder, bidirectional emergency gate, wheel chocks, mid-rails and accommodations for a fire suppression system. Improved filtration and coolant loss monitoring increase dozer uptime, while the updated information display with touchscreen enhances operator productivity.
For additional information on the 992K Wheel Loader or 854K Wheel Dozer, customers should contact their local Caterpillar dealer or visit the Cat web site at www.cat.com.
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The roads and bridges we drive on connect us to the places we need to go, our ports move freight around the country, and our transit systems are weaving our urban communities together. The health of our transportation system is directly related to our economic success, but the reality is that some of these assets are centuries old and in desperate need of repair, while the need for new infrastructure continues to grow.
I've made it a priority as Secretary of Transportation to support creative and innovative infrastructure finance, and to advocate for long term funding solutions. I am excited to announce that today we officially opened the doors of the new Build America Bureau, a center that will deliver real, tangible infrastructure development for local, regional, and national population centers.
The Build America Bureau – which we call "the Bureau" – will drive transportation infrastructure development projects in the United States by streamlining credit opportunities and grants more quickly and transparently, while providing technical assistance and encouraging innovative best practices in project planning, financing, delivery, and monitoring. The FAST Act, the legislation establishing the Bureau, acknowledged the success of the Department's earlier work through the Build America Transportation Investment Center (BATIC), part of the Obama Administration's broader Build America Investment Initiative. The Bureau will ensure that the BATIC efforts are continued into the future while providing a more comprehensive approach and will expand upon the successful customer-oriented infrastructure development support provided by BATIC.
Project sponsors and investors will be able to access the Build America Bureau as a one-stop shop to help develop projects and provide financing in a single streamlined, effective, and comprehensive manner. Under the Bureau roof there will be an outreach and project development arm, full credit services, and the new $800 million Fostering Advancements in Shipping and Transportation for the Long-term Achievement of National Efficiencies (FASTLANE) grant program.
The Bureau will utilize the full resources of all the modes within DOT, and promote a culture of innovation and customer service. To the customer, there will be a single entity in charge of DOT credit, large scale, and intermodal project development, and a single point of contact for working with DOT on infrastructure finance and development.
Although DOT has been successful in delivering major transportation infrastructure in innovative ways with a variety of public and private partners, the existing processes can be often overly complex, time-consuming to access, and frustrating to navigate. While transportation projects are increasingly multi-modal, the existing federal credit and funding programs remained siloed by mode.
The Bureau Outreach and Development team, continuing the work of the BATIC, will work with the project sponsors to educate them on how they can best combine DOT credit, funding, and innovative project delivery approaches such as public-private partnerships (P3s), and then offer project-level technical assistance to get them ready to pursue it. The Department's Credit team will be able to underwrite loans from multiple sources together, so that the customer is no longer getting a TIFIA loan or a RRIF loan, but instead a single credit package from DOT to help them build the infrastructure they need. The FASTLANE grant program will help fund high-impact projects that address key challenges affecting the movement of people and freight.
In 2014, President Obama challenged us to "Build America" and deliver the infrastructure the United States needs. We answered with BATIC, which so far has helped DOT close over $10 billion in financing for 21 projects to support $26 billion in total project costs. Today, we take our commitment one step further launching the Build America Bureau, which will be the home of innovative infrastructure finance for years to come.
(Source: https://www.transportation.gov/fastlane/build-america-bureau-opens-doors-innovative-infrastructure)

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trac02 wrote:If you've got a solid outfield already, he's a great bench player to have for an outfield or utility spot. Play him when he's batting at Coors and you won't be disappointed. He will hit cleanup for the Rockies. Look at the numbers -- even in a poor year last year he hit .338 with an OPS over 1.000 in Denver. He cannot be relied on every day, but he'll make a great spot starter if you've got room.
so now oyu have to stare at your roster everyday at 3 pm to see if he is starting? No thanks. let somebody else have the hassle.


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Angel Rebolledo died and two others were wounded on August 17th in a shooting in the city's Hermosa neighborhood on the Northwest Side. Shortly after midnight, officers responded to 2315 North Keeler Avenue and found three people with gunshot wounds. Reports said the victims were standing outside on the street when they were fired on. Angel was shot and was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center where he was pronounced dead at 1:02 a.m.


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Valley Humanities Review-- Call for Undergraduate Papers in the Humanities
The Valley Humanities Review is currently seeking essays in the humanities for publication in its Spring 2012 Issue. We seek essays of high quality, intellectual rigor and originality that challenge or contribute substantially to ongoing conversations in the humanities. Topics may include but are not limited to: literature, history, religion, philosophy, art, art history and foreign languages. VHR is also currently seeking poetry submissions; students may submit up to three poems. VHR is committed to undergraduate research and scholarship in the field; therefore, we only accept submissions by current or recently graduated undergraduate students. Our reading period runs from September 1 to December 15 of each year. All submissions received outside of these dates will be returned unread. All submissions should adhere to the Chicago style in formatting, footnoting and bibliography. Essays should be between 3,000 and 6,000 words in length, be free of errors and have an original title; essays in languages other than English may be 2,000 to 6,000 words. All submissions should be free of any identifying marks such as names, addresses, or school affiliations. Please give contact information in the body of your email. All submissions should be emailed to email@example.com as a Word document attachment. Please visit www.lvc.edu/vhr for more information.


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This newly renovated 4 bedroom home has 100 feet of private waterfront beach and a gently sloped yard. Immaculately decorated, it is located on the most pristine lake on Vancouver Island offering swimming in crystal clear water with visibility up to 20 feet deep. Located one hour from Tofino and one hour from the ferries. Truly a family vacation home worth remembering.
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This property is 2800 sq ft.
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Qualifying for a Home Loan may be easier than you thought…
Buying a house is usually the biggest investment in your life and it can bring you the largest Return on your Investment. Getting qualified can be easier than you think.
There are practically an unlimited number of compensating factors depending upon the home owner loan candidate's circumstance– from high credit history to performance history and conserving cash.
The average person is usually in far better position to getting approval than they may think.
Some home loan programs, such as the HomeReadyTM program, have written making up aspect standards. Borrowers can use income from people renting rooms from them through the use of new 'boarder' income to help loan approval.
Analyze your circumstance, whether you have been turned down, or are obtaining the initial time.
A number candidates look a lot better in "reality" than they do on paper, for several reasons.
First, certifying a person's income comes into play, but is not limited too. For example, a freelance or home business owner can subtract home-related costs. The lender will certainly subtract these costs from the candidate's income.
Second, some sources of earnings aren't counted. Part-time or seasonal earnings, compensations, or perks often typically aren't taken into account without a long record of getting them.
Last but not least, your living expenses might be reduced. This can allow you to place even more money right into a future house settlement.
Click to see today's prices (Jun 1st, 2016).
10 Ways To Ensure You Qualify For A Home Loan
Loans are still accepted by actual people, as well as experts who can overturn a rejection with enough evidence that you can and will certainly make your payments.
1. Get A Government-Backed Home Loan.
The initial step is to look at government-sponsored mortgage repayments programs. FHA loans, in addition to VA mortgage and USDA loans are typically much more approving of compensating factors compared to are typical traditional loans.
Furthermore, you can frequently have debt payments that are as high as 50 percent of your gross earnings.
The combination of flexible features could get you right into a residence when you assume you might not qualify.
2. Purchase A Residence That Requires Reduced Payments.
" Settlement shock" refers to an increase in real estate expenditure brought on by a new house payments. If you're paying $1,000 a month for rental fee, and your brand-new home owner loan repayment (including principal, interest, residential property taxes as well as resident's and home warranty insurance) would be $1,500 a month, your repayment shock is HALF.
If your new settlement is $2,000, your repayment shock is ONE HUNDRED%. However the brand-new payment is merely $1,000, payment shock is absolutely no.
Your loan provider will typically presume that you could pay for the brand-new mortgage repayments if it's the exact same as your current rent. Your case is greatest when you have best repayment history at your existing rental fee for a minimum of 12 months.
3. Conserve 2 Or More Months Of Money Reserves.
Reserves are funds readily available to pay your pledge if you experience a disruption in earnings. Reserves are determined in months. So if your possible home loan settlement is $1,000, and also after closing, you'll have $3,000 in financial savings, you have three months of reserves.
When it comes to reserves, more is much better. Lenders usually intend to see a minimum of two months of reserves for wage-earners as well as six for independent or appointed workers.
You have a strong instance if you have between two as well as One Year of cash reserves after paying the down payment and closing expenses.
4. Demonstrate Credit rating Use.
Lenders prefer to see that you have available credit, but are not using it.
For example, you have three charge card, each with $5,000 readily available. However you only have $1,000 balance across every one of them.
You remain in a stronger economic position compared to someone with a greater revenue, but numerous maxed-out accounts. Available, unused credit history indicators financial duty: you recognize just how to use, but not depend on, your charge account.
5. Make A Bigger Down payment.
Each financing type includes a minimal down payment quantity. The lender intends to see that the home customer has actually money purchased the transaction. The even more cash the buyer has actually invested, usually, the most likely they are making their repayments.
A higher-than-required down payment is a solid indicator of a fully committed purchaser. For example, paying 5 percent down on an FHA financing, which only needs 3.5%, could turn a turned-down application into an approved one.
Likewise, making any down payment on a VA lending– also one percent– could result in authorization.
6. Show A Pattern of Conserving.
Routine deposits into savings aid you accumulate more funds for your down payment and reserves. Yet that's not the only benefit. Making monthly cost savings contributions shows that you're economically liable.
An added benefit: you could conveniently re-allocate the quantity saved on a monthly basis to your home repayment, if required. It's an added layer of evidence that you will make your future house payment faithfully.
7. Verify Extra Income.
Some earnings cannot be counted in your qualifying proportions if there is inadequate record. Some examples of revenue that call for record are earnings from a second task, commissions, overtime pay, and seasonal joblessness settlement.
Nonetheless, that you gain much more in real life compared to on paper is considered a strong compensating element by underwriters.
One more recent lending program called Homeready showcases a choice to use earnings from non-borrowing family members as a compensating element. Candidates just who give a record of coping with roommates, member of the family, as well as others who add to costs can be authorized for complete housing and also debt repayments around 50% of their revenue.
8. Describe Future Earnings Potential.
Those whose future revenue is likely to be significantly higher might certify for larger debts.
This regularly puts on new university graduates in financially rewarding areas, or to those with credentials that will permit them to gain even more– as an example, a medical doctor that lately finished medical school and residency.
9. Buy An Energy-Efficient Home.
The cost savings produced by structure or purchasing an energy-efficient home enable the borrower to route more earnings toward paying a home loan. "Energy-efficient" typically describes residences constructed or retrofitted to surpass the International Energy Preservation Code requirement.
10. Show A High FICO Rating.
Government-backed house payments standards think about a FICO rating of 680 or greater a making up variable. This score shows that the applicant has actually shown financial obligation administration skills.
The ordinary credit rating was 685 in April for complete FHA lending, according to lending origination software application firm Fannie Mae. This could possibly be one of the easiest compensating elements to supply to a lending institution.
Home loan prices have been going down in 2016, as well as this further assists the mortgage candidates that had trouble certifying simply a few months earlier.
Reduced rates equate suggest it's simpler to obtain accepted, specifically for home finance loan applicants whose settlements are high as compared to their earnings.
Also if you have been turned down in the past, it's an excellent time to obtain one more home-buying analysis and also price quote.
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U-T San Diego (the stupidly rebranded former San Diego Union-Tribune) may have fired its best sports columnist and be owned by a guy who thinks journalists should be cheerleaders for stadium deals, but I may have to rethink my evaluation that it's not a real newspaper anymore. Yesterday, business columnist Dan McSwain wrote an excellent analysis of why new stadiums are so often money-losing propositions:
Let's start with what we do know: The Spanos family, which owns the Chargers, wants a new stadium costing about $1 billion.
On the bright side, interest rates are low. The annual payment would be about $80 million, assuming a 20-year loan at 5 percent interest…
In a 2004 presentation, the Chargers estimated that a new stadium at the Qualcomm site in Mission Valley would boost the team's "local revenue" by $15 million a year.
A fresh estimate by John Vrooman, a sports economist at Vanderbilt University, put the gross increase at $50 million (some would indirectly go to players via league revenue sharing).
At $15 million or $50 million, either figure is a long way from covering $80 million in new costs, let alone boosting profits. This may explain why the Spanos family hasn't simply built a stadium itself by now, after 13 years of occasional pleas for public help.
Let that sit in your head for a minute. Chargers owner Dean Spanos says he desperately needs a new stadium in order to be economically competitive — a new stadium that would cost 60% more than it brought in in new profits. (There would likely be some help from the NFL's G-4 fund, but it wouldn't be enough to fill a $30 million a year gap.) Spanos' stadium chief Mark Fabiani told McSwain that this is why the team needs public subsidies ("Your calculations do demonstrate the severe and very practical limitations we face in San Diego with regard to private investment on a new stadium"), but another way of looking at it is that a new stadium in itself would actually hurt the Chargers' bottom line. Or as McSwain put it:
My take-away: The team's deal at Qualcomm is too good to abandon without hefty public subsidies.
This is possibly the key point to keep in mind when analyzing stadium proposals: With few exceptions (the San Francisco 49ers stadium in Santa Clara comes to mind), the building itself is a money-loser — the team owner only turns a profit thanks to the public subsidies. (If you want another detailed example of this, see Kansas City's Sprint Center, though there substitute "arena manager" for "team owner.") This means it would literally be more cost-effective for cities to just hand over a wad of cash to their teams, and skip all of this laundering of subsidies through a billion-dollar construction project that nine times out of ten will be awash in red ink.
There is nothing wrong with new stadiums and arenas per se — well, unless you think they're ugly, but plenty of old ones are, too. But the reason the U.S. has so many of them, and is tearing down its not-quite-as-new ones to replace them with shinier models as fast as possible, has nothing to do with the alleged riches that can be made off of them, and everything to do with the fact that in order to get those fat checks from the public treasury, you need to be able to present a giant construction bill as justification. If we could only start subsidizing something useful instead — say, rules changes to prevent concussions, or better mascots — there would still be a massive transfer of money from the public to a bunch of rich dudes, but at least we might get something out of the bargain other than fancier cupholders.
[UPDATE: Neglected to mention that UT-San Diego also has a new poll of local residents on a Chargers stadium, and they oppose using taxpayer funds by a 63-29% margin. (A slightly lesser majority opposes "tax breaks" for a stadium, because some people think tax breaks aren't taxpayer funds somehow?) NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, meanwhile, chimes in that "they do need a new stadium for the Chargers to be successful long-term." Same as it ever was…]


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The educational journey begins with the most important elements —love, caring, respect, and discovery. This is the environment in which our youngest students thrive, creating an unshakable foundation for lifelong learning.
To give these new learners the sense of well-being and security they need, we transformed a residence into the Toddler House, which creates a sense of home. The space is beautifully designed to appeal to children's curiosity, including an area for large-motor development, a spacious yet self-contained backyard, and a parlor that has been converted into a napping area with toddler-size oak beds and matching dressers where children keep their own clothing and family photos.
Full-day class:
8.45am to 2.45pm
Classes are offered for 3 days per week or 5 days per week for Toddler age students.
Breakfast Club:
7.30am to 8.45am
Rainbow Club:
2.45pm to 6.00pm
Vacation Care:
Available on days classes are not offered and parents require child care.
We instill in our Toddlers the basic values and skills that will serve them for a lifetime. At this young age their language abilities are just beginning to emerge, so we spend considerable time helping them learn to associate specific letters with sounds, naming and matching objects and of course, singing, with music playing a huge role in this process through the integration of songs that help children develop language skills.
These are the first steps on their journey of intellectual discovery and, even though they might not be aware of it, little games like putting different objects in baskets marked by a corresponding letter represent their first taste of reading. In addition to cognitive development, these years are also time for enormous physical strides. Gross and fine motor skills are emphasized, as we play games and participate in activities that improve coordination and stamina, as well as pincer muscles. We also expand learning outside the four walls of the classroom, spending as much time as possible outside — even during the winter months — to create an appreciation for an active lifestyle. This also offers children their first taste of independence, by giving them the responsibility of dressing themselves for the outdoors.
The first hour of the day is spent exploring and discovering the classroom under the guidance of their teachers while doing hands-on work with the Montessori materials. Students are given individual lessons on the materials and offered the opportunity to choose, complete, and return the work to the appropriate shelf. In addition to working on language, small and large motor skills, and forming the basis for further academic work, children also spend time on care-of-self activities, such as toileting, dressing or undressing, washing hands, setting up their own snack, etc.
After an hour, children are called together for circle time. Once everyone settles in, teachers lead the children through various songs and activities. At the end of the activity, the children are dismissed individually to go get their coats and boots to go outside, where we believe they learn as much as they do inside. The Toddlers enjoy their outside environment and special playground, which is fenced in to create a secure area for their activities.
"These words reveal the child's inner needs, 'Help me do it alone'."
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The Lab of the Future Congress is an exciting, large scale, multidisciplinary conference and exhibition allowing participants to discuss and debate best practice with industry peers and solution providers. Located within the Wellcome Genome Campus in Cambridge UK, the Lab of the Future Congress offers an opportunity for an open and flexible congress format in the heart of a world class research hub.
Please come and visit our team at booth 117 - we look forward to seeing you there!
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2019, November, 13 | 09:00 – 2019, November, 14 | 17:00
Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton
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THE RACE for the TT Super League crown took another dramatic turn on Sunday as Queen's Park were left to settle for a draw after a 10-goal thriller against Matura Reunited. FC Santa Rosa, however, returned to the summit yet again, recording a 3-1 away win over Bethel United in Tobago.
After both teams went into the break at 1-1, the Parkites and Matura took turns leading the scoring, but in the end, a goal from Matura's Stevon Stoute in injury time meant both teams walked away with a share of the spoils. Jason Devonish, who scored a brace for Queen's Park, and Kitwana Abosi, who bagged a hat-trick for Matura, were among the stand-out performers.
The draw was welcome news for FC Santa Rosa, who made their trip to Tobago count with a comfortable 3-1 win over Bethel United in Mt Pleasant.
Keron Clarke, who spent the first half of the season with Cunupia FC, scored his first goal since his return to FC Santa Rosa in the 42nd minute to give the "Big Cannons" their second lead of the match.
Andre Rampersad opened the scoring in the 11th minute for Santa Rosa, before his item was cancelled out by TeeJay Cadiz of Bethel in the 37th. Santa Rosa, after leading 2-1 at the half, added a third in the 56th minute through a Noel Williams effort.
Bethel had the opportunity to get back into the match following the dismissal of Santa Rosa defender Jesse Reyes in the 65th minute, but a subsequent missed penalty from Bethel dented their spirits.
Sunday's results meant FC Santa Rosa overtook Queen's Park as the league leaders with a superior goal-difference. Both sit on 31 points, four ahead of their nearest rivals Cunupia FC, who were held to a goalless draw by San Fernando Giants.
League action will continue this weekend.
Saturday –
Club Sando FC 2 (Marcus Griffith 65th, 90th+3) vs Metal X Erin FC 0
Guaya United FC 3 (Ronaldo McIntosh 15th, Jody Allsop 19th, Carlon Hughes 87th) vs Petit Valley/Diego Martin United 1 (Keston Bibby-Cummings 81st)
Sunday –
Cunupia FC 0 vs San Fernando Giants 0
Queen's Park 5 (Jason Devenish 25th, 74th, Leslie Russell 45th, Sean De Silva 76th, Nasyir Rodriguez 78th) vs Matura Reunited 5 (Kitwana Abosi 32nd, 67th, 69th, Zavion Navarro Patron 73rd, Stevon Stoute 90th+1)
Bethel United 1 (TeeJay Cadiz 37th) vs FC Santa Rosa 3 (Andre Rampersad 11th, Kerron Clarke 42nd, Noel Williams 56th)
RSSR FC 2 (Tyrel Wilson 25th pen, Ikechukwu Uhuegbulem 50th) vs UTT 1 (Cyrano Glen 11th)
Police FC 0 vs Prison Service 2 (Tevin Garcia 10th, Nathan Julien 38th)
Saturday's fixtures
FC Santa Rosa vs Police FC, Arima Velodrome, 6.30 pm
Matura Reunited vs Club Sando FC, Venue TBD, Time TBD
Metal X Erin FC vs Cunupia FC, Erin Recreation Ground, 6 pm
UTT vs Queen's Park, UTT Ground, O'Meara, 7 pm
San Fernando Giants vs Bethel United, St Margaret's Recreation Ground, 4 pm
Sunday's fixtures
Petit Valley/Diego Martin United vs RSSR FC, St Anthony's College Ground, 4 pm
Prison Service FC vs Guaya United, YTC Ground, Arouca, 3.30 pm


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Surrey Life Food and Drink Awards 2015 finalists announced
PUBLISHED: 11:33 25 August 2015 | UPDATED: 12:19 11 September 2015
With record numbers of votes received from the people of Surrey, competition has been fierce during the third Surrey Life Food & Drink Awards. But with our judging panel having deliberated long and hard to whittle down the thousands of nominations, here we bring you this year's hotly-anticipated shortlist of the finalists...
Headline sponsor: Huntington House and Langham Court care homes
Venue partner: Foxhills
Surrey Life Food and Drink Awards Night 2015: Thursday September 10
2015 Surrey Life Food and Drink finalists
(follow the links below to discover the three finalists for each of the categories)
Newcomer of the Year
Sponsored by Wood and Wisdom
Last year's winner: Cellar Magneval Wine Bar & Caveau, Woking
Pub of the Year
Sponsored by Visit Guildford
Last year's winner: The Four Horseshoes pub, Chobham
Restaurant of the Year
Sponsored by Scattergoods
Last year's winner: Stovell's, Chobham
Best Local Menu
Sponsored by Surrey Hills Enterprises
Last year's winner: The Clink prison restaurant, near Banstead
Farm Shop of the Year
Sponsored by NFU Mutual Oxted branch
Last year's winner: Priory Farm Shop, South Nutfield
Independent Retailer of the Year
Sponsored by The Great Big Event Co
Last year's winner: The Godalming Food Company, Godalming
Chef of the Year
Sponsored by Hot and Cold Equipment
Last year's winner: Steve Drake at Drake's Restaurant, Ripley
Food and Drink Innovation
Sponsored by Mandolay Hotel
Last year's winner: New category for 2015
Butcher of the Year
Sponsored by T&G Wholsale Meats Ltd
Last year's winner: New category for 2015
Services to the Community
Sponsored by Irwin Mitchell Solicitors
Last year's winner: New category for 2015
Entertainment Venue of the Year
Sponsored by Proskin
Last year's winner: New category for 2015
Best Family Dining
Sponsored by Frobishers
Last year's winner: The Jolly Farmers pub, Buckland
Best Local Food Event
Sponsored by BBC Surrey
Last year's winner: Ripley Farmers' Market
Food and Drink Producer
Sponsored by Pennyhill Park
Last year's winner: Halliloo Longhorn Beef, Woldingham
Tea/Coffee Shop of the Year
Sponsored by Farrow & Ball
Last year's winner:Pinnock's Coffee House, Ripley
Pride of Surrey
Sponsored by Woking Food & Drink Festival
This award is chosen by our judging panel and will only be revealed on the night...
Last year's winner: Barry Arminson from Kingfisher Farm Shop, Abinger Hammer
Awards night!
With our judging panel currently on the road, running the rule over each finalist, we find out who has taken each of this year's crowns at a lavish black-tie evening event held on Thursday September 10 at the luxury Foxhills resort in Ottershaw. Keep an eye on our twitter feed at @SurreyLife for all the gossip and winners from the night.


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Again, thank you to you and your team for the value that your research gives us to make the RIGHT changes for the RIGHT results!
I would like to take the opportunity to extend our gratitude and excitement over the success of the customer clinics recently held. The entire day was highly engaging, interactive and gave us much insight into various facets of vehicle ownership, as seen through the eyes of our customers.
I would like to thank Michelle, Talya, Eleni and Kim on their tireless efforts in recruiting the participants, assisting in the facilitation of the customer clinic as well as preparing the workbook materials. Thank you to Gordon for your infectious energy and your unique ability of getting the best out of every participant.
The customer clinic displayed the bar-setting level of professionalism and proficiency Bateleur Brand Planning is known for.
We are in awe of the discipline and passion. Most importantly, the care you and your team shows in the work and our business.
Thanks for the great work, the data was presented to our CEO and he was super impressed with your work. Well done to your "HOT" team.
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Thanks again for pulling out the stops to do the presentation today, ahead of the strategy session. Everything was clearly thoroughly worked and thought through. You gave us much to work on already.
This is just a quick email to say thank you, it's been almost two years since our workshop and research project. We are recording record sales month after month with records tumbling. There is an amazing benefit from having research done, facts rather than opinion drive the business strategy and having a whole team focused on the outcome of a fact-based strategy is amazing.
Bateleur has given me some really powerful stuff to work with. No doubt you've done the same for others. There are shining eyes out there because of you. I am deeply grateful for the impact you have made on me. The pebbles you have thrown into my pond have created ripples and waves that have and will continue to impact others very positively. Thank you!!
Thanks for your passionate presentation and contribution, it has provided a lot of food for thought and opportunities on our side!
Thank you for a very informative report back. I have a very clear idea of what we can do going forward.
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Well researched, well executed, well collated and extremely well delivered and unpacked. The attention to detail throughout the entire process is exceptional and the final product is pure platinum in the hands of any discerning leadership team. The information gathered will put you in a position where you are able to apply focused actions on "hot spots" in your organisation which need urgent attention. Do this exercise in your company as soon as possible and be sure to follow this up annually with specific measurement criteria.
We have found the service provided by Bateleur to be both professional as well as friendly. We are happy with the research they have undertaken on our behalf over the years and the user-friendly manner in which the findings are work-shopped with us. I have no hesitation in recommending Bateleur for their competence and service.
They have provided us with invaluable insight into our customers. The Bateleur team is highly professional and enthusiastic about their customers' business. Bateleur's insightful analysis of the research has resulted in positive action within Game.
I really appreciate and acknowledge the extra mile and lending hand that Bateleur always extends to Toyota.
Over the past 12 years I have been using Bateleur Brand Planning for a range of research products. Gordon has provided us with great insights and strategy workshops that have assisted the business to deliver outcomes to grow our business.
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Toyota South Africa has been making use of Bateleur for both small and very large, complex research projects for more than a decade. I have found them to be professional, thorough, and on time. Bateleur contributes hugely to our business by being innovative and through interpreting and presenting research data in ways that enable Toyota to make sound decisions.
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Personally, I would like to thank the team for their excellent support they have given me in co-ordinating these presentations. There were many reschedule adjustments etc which Bateleur have accommodated and supported interminably and timeously. It has been an absolute pleasure working with Bateleur.
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Having worked with Bateleur before on other research projects we discussed our approach and developed an Employee Engagement and Customer Engagement survey. The insights gained from our customers formed the basis of our sales and marketing strategy for the next 24 months and proved invaluable. I would highly recommend the services of Bateleur if you would like to ensure you become more employee and customer centric in your daily approach.
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Each year, hundreds of successful conferences and meetings are held at distinctive Perth venues. So what is it that makes Perthshire such a popular choice with companies and organisations from far and wide?
Without doubt, Perthshire's reputation as a top conference and event destination can be attributed to a combination of factors. Not least amongst the area's many assets are the warmth of its people, its unrivalled beauty, the strong tradition of hospitality which prevails, and the fact that each of Perthshire's unique meeting venues is impressively well equipped and highly accessible.
Months of planning precede any successful conference, symposium or event, with the choice of destination being one of the event organiser's first big decisions. And this is where Perthshire undoubtedly comes into its own, thanks to the wide choice of attractive venues available in this beautiful part of Scotland. The sheer variety of choice means that Perthshire can host:
In addition to enjoying an international reputation for their state-of-the-art conference facilities, many Perthshire venues also offer other complementary services to really add to a conference, from gala dinner incentives to team-building and outdoor activities.
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With a duo of pleasantly green public parks (the quirkily named North and South Inches), a bustling shopping centre, a theatre, cinema and galleries all located just a few minutes' walk from its stunning glass-fronted concert hall, when it comes to venues for meetings and conferences, Perth has it all.
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You may not be able to travel to Oz, but you CAN go to the Emerald City, also known as Seattle. This moniker may make you think of wizards and soaring palaces, but Seattle is not home to these fantastic things – at least not in a literal sense. Rather, Seattle has other near-magical claims to fame – Microsoft, Jimi Hendrix, the Space Needle, Starbucks and Costco. With so many famous progeny, Seattle must have a lot to offer.
Read on to see what's in store.
1. Recommended by ModCloth girl Lauren, Mighty-O Donuts is OH so amazing. Their donuts are organic AND vegan, so nosh on these earth-friendly donuts with a clean conscious. When you take out your A Wallet Of Dough to pay for your treat, you'll be sure to get some admiring remarks on your bakery-savvy style.
2. Perhaps the most famous of all Seattle attractions (forget the Space Needle!) is Pike Place Market. There's no better place to while away the hours than in this expansive market. Watch the fish workers throw their seafood through the air, wander into the tea store and buy some Market Spice Tea, browse the artisan crafts, and purchase fresh food. Bring along your environmentally-friendly Perfect Palate bag to store all your purchases.
3. If you're itching for some great vintage western wear, go to Insurrection. Their stock is fabulous – it should be illegal to have so many amazing vintage cowboy boots under one roof! Wear your Maine Tunic to show their vintage plaid shirts who's boss.
4. Ms. Movie Theater, I now wed you to Mr. Bar. With those words, The Big Picture came into being. As you walk into this bar-theater for a taste of great nightlife, be sure to put on your Gelato Sunglasses to protect your superstar identity. A VIP-style night here includes watching a movie in the luxurious, ottoman-equipped seats and sipping delicious cocktails served to you seat-side.
5. You'll need something comfortable to wear, like the Four Seasons Jeans, as you clamber onto a bench to get a better view of the costumed revelers at the annual Fremont Solstice Parade. This event is a blast, but innocent eyes, beware – you might see some participants who've chosen to dress up in their birthday suit!
For our next travel bug blog, we'll fly over to Prague, so start brushing up on your Czech!


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Swarm Robotics
SAB 2004 International Workshop, Santa Monica, CA, USA, July 17, 2004, Revised Selected Papers
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Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 3342)
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 3342)
Swarm robotics can be defined as the study of how a swarm of relatively simple physically embodied agents can be constructed to collectively accomplish tasks that are beyond the capabilities of a single one. Unlike other studies on multi-robot systems, swarm robotics emphasizes self-organization and emergence, while keeping in mind the issues of scalability and robustness. These emphases promote the use of relatively simple robots, equipped with localized sensing ability, scalable communication mechanisms, and the exploration of decentralized control strategies.
This state-of-the-art survey is the first book devoted to swarm robotics. It is based on the First International Workshop on Swarm Robotics held in Santa Monica, CA, USA in July 2004 as part of SAB 2004


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County Executive Will Host Three Public Safety Forums with Newly Confirmed Baltimore County Chief of Police Melissa Hyatt
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I was very shocked to discover at the age of 40 that I was pregnant. I was told repeatedly that it was not something that I would ever experience without assistance and I had accepted that fact and moved on. Subsequently, when I was feeling off color over Christmas in 2010 I did not give it a lot of thought and put it down to minor gastro flu or some such thing.
There was no full blown vomitting or morning sickness, just a feeling of low-grade nausea that couldn't be attributed to anything. I don't really know why I decided to do a preganancy test on January 2 – maybe deep down I already knew but sure enough, 5 minutes later I was looking at 2 blue lines.
The feeling of shock was profound. I immediately told my husband and mother and the shock was quickly followed by fear. We have all heard the horror stories of older women who could not carry their child to term, or how due to age the risks of deformities and birth defects were higher, Down's Syndrome being one such issue in particular. And what did I know about children at the age of 40? I was supposed to be considering convertibles and holidays in Las Vegas, not cribs and diapers.
The pregnancy itself had its ups and downs. We decided not to have the amniocentesis test but the surrounding tests pointed towards our child being healthy and normal. Pre-eclampsia developed later in the term leaving me very bored and bed-ridden for 10 weeks. It also led to being induced 3 weeks before due date due to sky-rocketing blood pressure and a headache that would not quit. Labor was 24 hours long and ended in an emergency cesarian when the baby got stuck in the birth canal. However, the result was a very beautiful, happy and healthy little girl who is now in the 95th percentile for children of her age in regards to weight and height. She is a blessing we are grateful for every day.


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Another busy week here with City Wide! Check out ABC this Saturday afternoon to watch the IZOD Indy Car Race and you just might see me on TV, hah! Kelly's birthday is today and as a surprise, we're traveling down to Kansas to celebrate with her family. In addition, we will be attending the race at the Kansas Speedway. City Wide in Kansas City cleans the track and always does a fantastic and thorough job! Weather willing, I also plan to take in some golf time!
On Tuesday, Shalee and I attended the Focus on Friends IREM Trade Show. Each company/booth was state-themed and we took on the theme of Wisconsin... a spread of tasty Wisconsin cheese, a few fishing decorations, and a friendly rivalry of Vikings/Packers items. It was really nice to mingle with fellow companies and property managers from around the Twin Cities!
I also had the chance to have lunch with both Tyler and a great customer of ours. They print USA Today's for our region which is pretty neat.
I've also been busy with configuring a quote for a large facility up here. They have multiple Clean Rooms in their facility which will be another service to have under our belt. We're putting together a great package for them, let's hope it pans through!
Personally, the big painting project for our home from last weekend was a huge success! Kelly and I could not be happier and the whole process went really smoothly.
Shalee - Administration Manager:
This week seems to have flown by me... Where has all the time gone?!
On Tuesday, Greg and I were able to enjoy our time at the IREM's Focus on Friends event. Each vendor had a state assigned to them so that they could theme their display around that state, and we quickly put our request in early to get any state save Wisconsin. Greg can't stand the Packers (as a good Minnesotan should feel, according to all the natives to whom I have spoken!).
Poor Kari the organizer. She had a brain block because guess what state we received. That's right - Wisconsin! Kelly and I brainstormed and came up with the idea of focusing on the cheeses from Wisconsin. (They're delicious by the way! Our day after cheese party was fun in the office!)
Greg finally caved and borrowed a Packers Jersey (Jennings #85) and let me take one for the team by asking me to wear it. (Personally, I love any team except the Raiders and the Patriots - only until they finally get smart and get rid of that crybaby Bellechick - then I can respect them as an organization again). I knew I was in trouble the moment I got boo-ed when I put it on! I'd better get a big bonus this year for suffering such indignations, Greg! :) Greg balanced the table by adding Dick's Minnesota Viking's Bret Favre bobblehead to the table.
On Wednesday, my son came down with some sort of 12 hour bug, so I had a work at home day. I got a lot done for work and for home. Laundry is caught up. :) Fortunately for me, he was sick on the most beautiful day of the week! I didn't get to sit outside and enjoy it, but it was nice to work at the computer and be able to look out the sliding glass doors...
This weekend, we're going to continue the house hunt. We still haven't found "the one". That's okay because I know that God will lead us to it some day, and in the mean time, we're paying off bills and enjoying the view from our apartment!
Oh, I made an absolutely delicious meal on Thursday. If you want to try your hand at some Chinese cuisine, I highly recommend that you make this meal. I substituted brandy for the the sherry, and instead of green peppers, I used red, yellow and orange peppers (because that's what I had on hand.) It was a huge success around the table! As my mom would say, it was "laylicious!"
Kelly - Business Development:
This week has kept me busy with a few different things. On Wednesday, I had a new start walk-thru with Greg and Tyler at one of our new customer's factory warehouse. It was really neat to walk through and see the factory floor!! Thankfully I wasn't wearing my high heels as we did a lot of walking-- including across a large field and a few sets of traintracks! :-) Mitch and Tyler have also been keeping us busy with special service bid requests, mainly two projects of carpet installation and parking lot striping & sweeping.
On Thursday we had a nice time with an impromptu Wine & Cheese party at the office... minus the wine ;-) Of course I indulged in much left-over cheese, crackers, and grapes from the IREM event that Shalee and Greg attended on Tuesday. Yum!
On a personal front, today is my birthday! :-) Greg just couldn't keep a secret and spilled the beans earlier this week that we're taking a quick trip down to Kansas to spend my day with my family. What a fantastic birthday present! On Saturday, we will be hitting up the Indy Car Race at the Kansas Speedway. City Wide in Kansas City cleans the track and they always put on a professional, clean, and thorough production at each race. It will be quite the whirlwind weekend, yet it will be very nice to see my family!
Tyler - Facility Service Manager:
It's been a crazy week up in the north metro!! We will be starting 3 new accounts next Monday and will be an extremely busy day! Also, we're finally slowing down a bit with strip and wax projects. We had every weekend booked straight for at least 2 months there. CRAZY! Next we've been focusing on getting carpets cleaned professionally with a truck mount. Rod from our team does a great job for us!
Carpet installation: I recently bid out a very large carpet installation project for a customer in the north. I'm keeping my fingers crossed to get this one as it would be a great experience!!
I'm still looking to get out to a Twins game this year. I played golf last weekend and shot an 86; respectable for my 2nd round of the year! We've recently scheduled to attend a gold charity event for a large customer of ours in the east metro. We look forward to this every year. There is typically a special guest, food and prizes at the end. We're really looking forward to that!
Mitch - Facility Service Manager:
I want to first take a moment to give credit to Shalee for a great word used halfway through her last paragraph in last weeks blog; "chagrin", I thought only authors used that in novels!
Rain really put a damper on the weekend (pun intended)! We were supposed to sweep and stripe the parking lot in Apple Valley, we were only able to finish the sweeping and started striping last night and will finish up tonight. Tomorrow night the striping crew heads out to Menards to start the striping over two nights which will wrap up our parking lot work we've done over the last 3 weeks!
The weekends between now and the end of May are booking up quickly for carpet cleaning and floor waxing. Much is in contract work that we need to get done, other work is just normal spring routine maintenance to keep our buildings and centers looking fresh and presentable just in time for the great summer months.
I'm working on a video for the blog for Line Painting. We couldn't have had this job come up at a better time. Line painting seems pretty similar everywhere you go, this parking lot however we are adding a few extra features and should make for a good educational video showing what we can do.
Not much on the agenda for me this weekend, my roommate is having his golden birthday so we are having quite the group come through the house for that this Friday. Liz is off to her second wedding shower! She's gotten all the "girly" gifts from the registry so far, but most of it is kitchen items which directly results in me being fed so I shouldn't complain. I think I may be in the garage most the day on Saturday continuing to work on some wood furniture finishing I've put off for a couple weeks.
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Chapter 1
The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?
Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.
Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.
He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn.
The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.
The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.
Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.
Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,
Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.
The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
Chapter 2
Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run.
Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.
They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks:
Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.
They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.
The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:
And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?
Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?
Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:
Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.
Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?
Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people.
Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen:
But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.
Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things.
Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength.
Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.
And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.
And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.
And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD come.
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.
Chapter 3
For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;
Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:
The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.
Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:
And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken it.
Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:
Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD.
Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.
Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.
The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth out of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.
Chapter 1
The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:
But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Benhadad.
I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the LORD.
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom:
But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof:
And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord GOD.
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant:
But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces thereof.
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:
But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:
But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind:
And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, saith the LORD.
Chapter 2
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:
But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kirioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:
And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD.
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:
But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;
That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:
And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD.
But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.
Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:
Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself.
And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD.
Chapter 3
Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,
You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?
Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?
Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.
The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?
Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof.
For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; An adversary there shall be even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled.
Thus saith the LORD; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.
Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,
That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground.
And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the LORD.
Chapter 4
Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the LORD.
Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years:
And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.
So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name.
Chapter 5
Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.
For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:
But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.
Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel.
Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:
That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD.
Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.
As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.
Chapter 6
Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!
Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?
Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;
That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;
That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.
The Lord GOD hath sworn by himself, saith the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.
And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.
And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD.
For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:
Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?
But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness.
Chapter 7
Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.
And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.
Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.
Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD.
Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the LORD stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.
And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the LORD, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more:
And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.
Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.
For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land.
Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:
But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it is the king's chapel, and it is the king's court.
Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:
And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.
Now therefore hear thou the word of the LORD: Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not thy word against the house of Isaac.
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.
Chapter 8
Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.
And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.
And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.
Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.
In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.
They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.
Chapter 9
I saw the LORD standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered.
Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:
And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:
And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.
And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name.
Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD.
For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this.
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.


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…Maybe quite a lot of trouble, but not as much as they will bring upon themselves.
Bard's dragons are creatures of breathtaking power, vast talents, and startling pettiness. Their culture is both alien and perfectly understandable from their perspective. Jyothky makes a splendid guide to this culture, despite -- or perhaps because -- she is frequently blind to its faults. When the book opens, Jyothky is a whiny, self-involved youth whose concerns revolve almost entirely around how she is perceived by her peers. Her growth from this point is slow and fitful and delightfully plausible. By the end of the second book, she has grown immeasurably, but still retains the essential qualities that make her voice unique.
The early part of the book is engaging, as Bard sets the stage for "how a mating flight is supposed to go". The need for this context won't become clear until later, as Jyothky's own mating flight goes off the rails in ways she could not even imagine at the start. And then just gets stranger from there.
Beyond that, the themes of the book are delightful. All levels of privilege get showcased. Jyothky is a dragoness wielding immense personal power: she can melt mountains, casually shrug off the effects of heavy weaponry, destroy weapons of mass destruction, heal herself and others of mortal wounds, and far more. Yet for all this, she is also crippled: she has no sense of touch. The spells that tell her when she's been damaged are no subsitute for a sense of pain, or for feeling warmth, cold, a caress, a hug, or anything else. Neither her power nor her disability are downplayed in the story, even though she takes the former for granted and whinges frequently about the latter. The book explores how vast power may not be sufficient to achieve personal goals, and for that matter that getting what you want might be one of the worst outcomes. One sees the devastation wrought by overconfidence and carelessness, and how people of all kinds can do terrible things in the name of pride. Everything that happens in this book follows sensibly from the choices characters make, from their worst blunders to their greatest triumphs. (Arguably the same event, in certain cases.) When reading this book a little piece at the time in the serial, the reader can miss its breathtaking scope. Drink it down in one great gulp, and be astonished.
I love this duology. Go. Buy it. Encourage Bard to write more. I NEED MORE BARD BOOKS DO IT FOR THE BOOOOOOOKS.
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Hinckley & Bosworth
Hinckley and Bosworth is a largely rural borough of 297 square kilometres located in the south west of the LLEP area.
The majority of the 109,900 residents live in the main urban areas of Hinckley, Burbage, Barwell and Earl Shilton in the south west of the borough. There are also sizeable settlements near the Leicester fringe to the east and in the central and northern parts of the borough.
The district is home to some large employers including MIRA, Caterpillar and Triumph motorcycles. The expansion of the MIRA Technology Park provides significant opportunities for economic growth in the district especially around transport technology.
The borough has a range of attractive and distinctive landscapes with some significant visitor attractions including Twycross Zoo, Mallory Park and Bosworth Battlefield.
The attached contains information relating to the local Hinckley & Bosworth economy. Further information can be accessed via the Nomis website.