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Capcom Arcade Stadium is yet another compilation pack from the arcade masters that are known as Capcom. I have lost count at this point of how many times, Capcom has re-released some of these games. Yet, as I keep on buying these same games over and over again on every console since these compilations started on the PS2, I really cannot complain. I do have to say that this is something really cool and you can try it out for free.
What Do I Get For Free?
Ok, so Capcom Arcade Stadium can be downloaded on STEAM (and other systems) for free. What you get for free is the actual software which is great and you get access to 1943, the classic Capcom arcade shooter. You also get logos and wallpapers for the game in the bundle. Now, as I write this, Capcom are also giving you Ghosts n Goblins for free as well. That is two all time classics for nothing. At the very least, it is worth downloading for those games alone.
What Is The Catch?
Well, Capcom is supporting Capcom Arcade Stadium by selling packs of games. Currently, as I write this there are three packs of games, each pack is themed around a few years in gaming. You can buy all three packs together at the same time and save some money. If you factor in how much all of the pack's costs, you are getting 30 arcade classics for what equals to around a buck per game! I think this is great value for money.
A Line Up Of Classics
Granted, what is classed as a classic is all subjective, but I think Capcom has done a great job with the library of games on offer here. You get three versions of Street Fighter II, Final Fight, Captain Commando, Strider, Forgotten Worlds, 1944: The Loop Master, Giga Wing, and many more. That is just the games that appealed to me off the top of my head, but I think that the majority of the games in this collection are at the very least, good.
Classic Games In A Modern World
I also want to talk about what makes Capcom Arcade Stadium one of the best overall services Capcom has done. To start with the UI and the way the service looks is great, you get a bunch of wallpapers and you can customize your setup so that it looks just the way you want. I found this way more fun than I thought I would! They also give you various display options where you can smooth things out, use scanlines, and so on. They even let you rewind a game while you are playing it which is neat.
There are online leaderboards too so you can prove to your friends that you are the ultimate retro gamer. For a collection of classic games, I do feel that Capcom has tried really hard to make this a package that is attractive, even for those of us that have bought these games many times before.
Including the various Street Fighter collections (which I first bought back during the PS1 days! I have purchased some of these games as many as eight times. I even have the Arcade 1Up Street Fighter II machine in my game room! The point I am making is that if I, someone who has already bought many of these games multiple times thinks that the Capcom Arcade Stadium is a good package, you can be sure that it is. I think the whole way this is presented is great and it is awesome having all these games on my STEAM account. It is also worth noting, it is on other platforms too.
You get two great games without spending a penny
The whole service looks and feels cool
I like the way it celebrates the history of Capcom
The asking price for all of the game packs is more than fair
You have probably plated these games a million times before
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Perhaps you've battled price hikes by switching provider, paid a year's line rental up front, or combined it with a broadband and TV package. But do you know how much you're paying for your telephone line compared to a few years ago?
We've tracked the cost of line rental prices and found that regular price increases by the UK's biggest providers mean you could now be paying up to 62% more now than you did in 2008. This is much higher than the cumulative inflation rate of 20.5% and means you now pay up to £77.88 more per year if you pay monthly – and that's before charges for call packages and individual chargeable calls.
Is it time to call time on the landline?
We're begrudgingly familiar with price rises, but considering most of us are using our home phones less and less, landline price hikes seem to sting a bit more. Ofcom reports that we made 28 billion fewer landline calls in 2012 compared to 2003. And our own research has found people are spending £14.48 less each month on their home phone in 2012 compared to 2003.
Then there are those of us who only use our landline for broadband. Virgin Media is currently the only provider that offers a 'broadband-only' deal within its cable network area. Yet other providers still have a mandatory line rental charge – even for fibre broadband which, unlike ADSL broadband, doesn't use the same copper line used for your voice calls.
How much has your line rental gone up? What have you done to try and reduce your home phone costs?
Following our Fixed Means Fixed campaign, Ofcom introduced new rules that mean anyone taking a contract from 23 January 2014 onwards can cancel without penalty if the provider increases prices mid-term and didn't warn you when you bought it. Signed-up before then? You could argue a case of 'material detriment' under Ofcom's old rules.
BT's latest increase is just one in a long line, plus of course the hidden charges. For example, when they changed earlier this year and started billing people for caller ID, which had previously been free with BT Privacy.
All my calls are made over the internet connection, with the exception of a few calls made by the burglar alarm when it's turned on and off. Frankly, I could replace the alarm with one which uses a mobile SIM, and then I wouldn't need a dial tone at all on the phone line.
Yet, with BT's increases, I was paying for weekend and evening calls that I never made, plus their extra payment charge for using BACS rather than letting them help themselves to my bank account, and in the end it worked out at not far short of £20 a month.
I've now had my ISP take over the phone line, which is costing around £12.50 a month. As more and more people have mobiles, or make calls over the net, it's about time BT was made to provide a really basic "DSL only" line, with no dialtone, at little more than cost price.
We stepped on this slippery slope when we accepted with no protest the changeover from quarterly billing to monthly charges for various utilities . It seemed to me that in no time at all we acclimatised to monthly line rentals that were not much less than the previous quarterly rates for line rental plus call charges . Expressing rentals in annual terms as the lead-in article does shows the enormity of the charge for what is a standard and universal utility service – no operator/service provider can add much value to a telephone line outside of broadbanding it [which costs extra anyway]. Comparing telephone charges with historic ones is another painful exercise for some of us; we can remember when not only did BT supply the instrument free of charge but included many free services and had low charges for repositioning an outlet or installing an extension.
The days of BT supplying devices free of charge etc were not good. These low charges for hardware etc were offset by extortionate charges for calls, even basic local and national calls. Charges for international calls in the 1980s and early 1990s would breach the current roaming price caps, even without adjusting for inflation. The whole thing was a total rip-off where charges bore little connection to cost.
with line rental and calls which would have taken me through to November 2015. Can they actually increase prices on a pre- agreed contract only six months in? I have contacted them but with little response only a young man on the phone to say that can opt out of the contract without charge if i am not satisfied. Not customer friendly at all!! However I am still awaiting an email response.
"Virgin Media is currently the only provider that offers a 'broadband-only' deal within its cable network area" – This is incorrect; I have a one gigabit broadband connection from Hyperoptic without a telephone line. Although Hyperoptic offers an optional telephone line that runs over its broadband connection for an additional charge, I chose not to take it. For incoming calls I instead have a virtual 020 number from Flextel, which I receive via VOIPtalk, all for free. For outgoing calls I instead use FreeVoipDeal which costs me €12 every 120 days for unlimited calls to fixed lines in most industrialised countries. I can still make emergency calls on my mobile.
The days of a physical landline are numbered. It's high time that we move away from carrying the internet over archaic copper telephone lines and instead carry telephone lines over the internet. Fibre should be the norm, not the exception.
Fibre broadband is simply not an option for many of us at present, and it could be years before we are all connected. I had a 90 minute power cut recently and my mobile was dead. I have one wired landline phone, so I spent the time phoning friends.
My point is that fibre broadband should be an option for most people; I'm well aware that it isn't currently. Copper telephone lines have had their day and should be confined to history as soon as possible.
As I see it, we are moving towards fibre broadband at a reasonable rate and to roll it out faster would mean a substantial increase in what we are expected to pay.
I have several friends who have never seen a download speed of 1Mbps. Might it be fairer to prioritise areas with a very poor service rather than replacing copper wiring in areas with a 5 – 10Mbps service, which many users find satisfactory?
I agree that priority for a blanket fibre rollout (e.g. by BT Openreach) should be given to rural areas where the improvement in speed will be greatest. Urban areas already benefit from a competitive market where niche providers like Hyperoptic are already providing fibre broadband without using BT Openreach's infrastructure.
With the drop in landline calls due to mobile use ,texting and call bundles by phone providers, its not surprising that the cost of the landline itself has risen.
We are moving, as with other utilities, towards more realistic rates for the provision of the copper landline as its no longer neing subsidised by phone calls.
While non-fibre broadband is so integrated with the physical phone lines we are not going to see broadband only rental .
Fibre to the premise for the majority of the country is years away – the infrstructure cost is not commercially viable.
One of the reasons that I am very keen to keep my landline is that it is usually expensive to call a mobile from landlines. NFH has thought about this, by setting up a virtual 020 number, but I wonder if some mobile users realise how much it can cost to call them. I have often wondered whether it is the landline or mobile provider that makes money out of these costly calls.
1. Using FreeVoipDeal.com, I can call UK mobile numbers for €0.007 (0.5p) per minute. The termination rate payable to the mobile networks must be even lower than this retail price.
2. Consider the prices charged by the mobile networks themselves for bundles of calls for mobile-to-mobile. They are similarly a fraction of the price charged by landline providers for calls to mobile numbers.
Thanks NFH. This seems a reasonable assumption.
Termination rates for calls to 01 and 02 landline numbers are around 0.21p per minute.
More than a decade ago, termination rates for calls to mobile numbers were at least 20p per minute. Since then, they have been steadily falling. Ofcom intervened in the market a few years ago and forced an accelerated reduction. Termination rates for calls to mobile numbers are now around 0.85p per minute and will be subject to a further small reduction in April 2015.
Termination rates for calls to 01 and 02 landline numbers are around 0.21p per minute. – Thanks Ian. What are the termination rates for calls to 03 numbers? I believe they are higher. In July 2014, FreeVoipDeal stopped charging 03 numbers like 01 and 02 numbers and started surcharging them at €0.03/min. FreeVoipDeal are based in Luxembourg so don't seem to respect Ofcom's rules about 03 numbers be charged at the same rate as 01 and 02 numbers.
Termination rates for 03 numbers appear to be around 0.56p per minute on weekday daytimes, and around 0.26p per minute during weekday evenings and at all times during weekends.
The difference between the termination rates for 03 numbers and those for geographic 01 and 02 numbers is at least partly due to the fact that calls to geographic numbers have far-end handover and calls to non-geographic numbers generally have near-end handover.
Thanks for that Ian. If the cost to an operator of delivering an 03 call can be double that of an 01/02 call, how can operators be expected to charge 03 calls at the same rate as 01/02 calls? I'm therefore not surprised that non-UK operators ignore Ofcom's guidance. This needs reform, otherwise 03 will become another 0845, particularly as more consumers buy their telecoms services from other EU countries.
The termination rate for calls to 03 numbers may be higher but the near-end handover means the transit costs for the originator are lower. Likewise, the termination rate for calls to 01 and 02 numbers may be lower but the far-end handover means the transit costs for the originator are higher. In the end, there's probably not all that much difference in the overall costs of call origination for each.
The termination rate for calls to mobile numbers is four times that of calls to geographic numbers and yet mobile operators manage to offer large call allowances, even unlimited calls, to both landline and mobile numbers.
The ongoing scandal is that landline operators still massively overcharge for calls to mobile numbers. For example, Virgin Media still charge up to 31p per minute. BT's best rate (on Home Phone Saver) is still as much as 6p per minute.
With the termination rate for calls to mobile numbers now around 0.84p per minute, landline operators should be able offer a reasonable number of inclusive calls to mobile numbers in their monthly call allowances. The next reduction in the mobile termination rate is scheduled for April 2015 and should bring that reality much closer.
Thanks again Ian for this useful answer. How do termination rates for 03 numbers compare with those for 0845 numbers?
I agree totally with your comments about the lack of correlation between retail charges and termination rates for calls to mobile numbers. It's similar with international calls in that charges are based according to what operators believe the general public perceive to be normal rather than being correlated to cost.
Alongside the inflated cost of calling mobile numbers from landlines, nowhere is retail price manipulation more obvious than in the illogical inclusion of calls to 0845 numbers within some of the call packages offered by several landline providers. The Enhanced Termination Rate for calls to 0845 numbers is currently around 1.6p per minute – almost double the Mobile Termination Rate.
The cost of telecoms has plummeted in the last decade. We no longer pay for individual calls to 01, 02 and 03 numbers. Most people call these within the allowances of an inclusive call package on their landline or on their mobile. By now, the same should also apply to calls to mobile numbers from landines.
The "unbundled tariff" will reveal the realities of 084, 087, 09 and 118 call pricing. With the Service Charge exposed and separately declared for what it is, this new found transparency should bring an end to inclusive 0845 and 0870 calls – especially as the Service Charge for 084 numbers will be allowed to be as much as 7p per minute including VAT.
This, coupled with the forthcoming small reduction in MTR should be the moment that inclusive calls to mobile numbers from landlines finally becomes a reality.
TalkTalk now offers unlimited calls to both landline and mobile numbers on their "anytime" call plan.
If Sky and one or two others do the same, the rest will surely follow.
In April 2015 there will be another small reduction in the Mobile Termination Rate.
June 2015 presents an obvious opportunity to stop offering inclusive calls to 0845 and 0870 numbers, and replace these with inclusive calls to mobile numbers.
0845 numbers are inclusive calls on many networks. Why wouldn't they be? When will other networks start including them?
Following years of complaints about the high cost of calling customer service lines on 0870 and other non-geographic numbers, Ofcom suspended revenue sharing on 0870 numbers on 1 August 2009. Most landline providers, including BT, made these calls inclusive in their call plans. However, consumers gained nothing because most users of 0870 numbers simply swapped to new 0844 or 0871 numbers in order to continue receiving revenue share payments. Additionally, most mobile providers did not drop their 0870 call prices.
At the same time, BT incorrectly anticipated that Ofcom was about to suspend revenue sharing on 0845 numbers. BT therefore decided to also make 0845 calls inclusive in their call plans. Calls to all 084, most 087 (not 0870 at present) and all 09 numbers incur a Service Charge paid to the joint benefit of the called party and their telecoms provider. Where 0845 calls are made inclusive, all call plan subscribers are contributing to those payments whether they call these numbers or not.
Ofcom quickly realised that the changes to 0870 numbers had been a failure and did not proceed with any changes to 0845 numbers. This left BT with a problem. They now had to pay out Service Charge without collecting revenue for each call, a situation that still prevails more than five years later.
On 26 June 2015, 0870 calls will once again return to revenue sharing and all users of 084, 087 and 09 numbers will be required to declare their Service Charge wherever their number is advertised. This will confirm all 084, 087 and 09 numbers as being expensive and will be an ideal time for BT and other providers to stop offering inclusive calls to 0845 and 0870 numbers.
Those users who are unable to justify the imposition of a Service Charge on callers should change their number to one which does not impose it. For those who need just such a non-geographic number, Ofcom made replacement 03 numbers available in 2007. These are inclusive calls from landlines and from mobiles. Take up of these numbers has been slow until the last couple of years.
Recent regulation covers post sales lines for retailers, traders and passenger transport companies and requires them to use 01, 02, 03 or 080 numbers in place of 084, 087 and 09 numbers. Cabinet Office guidance mandates similar terms for government departments and agencies. The FCA will, very belatedly, eventually introduce similar regulation for the financial sector.
Thus, all these changes will largely return 084 and 087 numbers to usage only by those offering a genuine chargeable service. It is only right and proper that only those people who call these numbers should be paying those Service Charges, therefore these calls should not be inclusive in call plans.
Simon – do you also believe that networks should include calls to 09 numbers in inclusive minutes? I don't understand the basis on which you believe that a surcharge can be included within inclusive minutes without making a loss for the network or without the majority of customers unreasonably footing the bill for the minority. There is no economic difference between including 09 numbers and including 0845 numbers except that the magnitude is different.
I have made plenty of use of calls to 0845 and 0870 numbers, and I chose my phone tariff because these calls are included, as are weekend and evening calls to mobile numbers. It's a case of choosing the tariff that best suits your needs.
With most retailers, traders, passenger transport companies, government departments and agencies, banks and insurance companies now abandoning 0845 and 0870 numbers en masse, you'll soon have no need to phone these numbers.
When inclusive calls from landlines to 0845 and 0870 numbers are dropped, you'll not miss them. Calls to the replacement 0345 and 0370 numbers have been inclusive both from landlines and from mobiles since 2007.
My price rise for phone and broadband has recently risen by a more modest £1 per month. As John Ward pointed out earlier, monthly rises don't look big, so we should all think in terms of annual charges.
Thanks wavechange, I always try & look at prices over the 12months & not just monthly.
And as for the complaint i always try & follow the same system (as you can see from my comment).
Then depending on what reply I get, I follow it up with a e-mail to the complaints team like i did today (and copying the tweet into the e-mail so the company knows I moan on social media). Or sometimes the company will contact me first following the complaint tweet.
To update this, I have this morning had a email from "Hugh Stacey – Senior Telephony Marketing Manager", just proves my point – when you moan on Twitter the top people contract you.
While I still don't have the outcome I would like (A £39 goodwill credit to cover the increase) I do believe things are moving in the right direction.
Well done Lee. What my service provider's £1 per month price increase achieved was to encourage me to look at my present tariff, switch to a cheaper one that is more suited to my current requirements and cancel paper billing. I'm now saving around £5 per month.
Most so-called fibre broadband is actually FTTC (Fibre To The Cabinet) and DOES use the same copper line used for your voice calls.
Virgin's cable services also use a copper cable from the cabinet to the home to carry broadband, TV and telephone, but it is a different type of cable and provided by them rather than BT Openreach.
Amongst the major providers, only FTTP (Fibre To The Premises) (also known as FTTH (Fibre To The Home)) services don't use the copper line, and they are only available in very limited areas at present, and with a very large installation charge.
There are also other providers serving limited areas (such as Hyperoptic referred to above and Gigaclear) who provide FTTP services using entirely their own infrastructure.
Iv hit a brick wall with sky after getting to retentions and they were bad would not listen to the fact the disabled person the tv and phone is for can't afford the 64% price increase.bad sky bad.canceled the contract after good mannered haggle.no movement from sky so i canceled as contract is up in 2 months.wonder what they do for disabled folk.to my experience nowt.sad sky.
Presumably these increases have all been approved by Ofcom. I am baffled as to why. Where is the consumer protection here? Is this the price to be paid to encourage BT to invest in the network? It bears down hard on the elderly, who still rely on landlines and don't use the internet so much to shop around, whereas the youngsters have moved to mobile.
It seems to me that most telecom/media supply companies are acting in a similar way to Energy companies in regards to charges, in particular telephone line rentals. One company up's the rate and the others follow suit in a very short time. I have been with TalkTalk for the past few years and really have had no reason to complain or be unhappy with their products or prices until yesterday.
I normally pay 12 months in advance to take advantage of a 10% discount, in late Dec 2013 I paid £126 ( annual actual cost £140 ) could not believe the cost to renew my 12 months advance line rental yesterday, cost to take advantage of 10% discount was £180 ( actual annual cost £200 ).
In this current climate of austerity how can companies justify a 40% plus rise in landline rental costs,until Oftel or the government seriously investigate these charges then it looks like we are stuck with them.
I've just done the same thing. I've emailed them to ask them to justify it. Nearly a 50% increase in 12 months. It's daylight robbery.
Hi Elisa, interested to know where your figure of 6% increase on BT line rental from December 1 came from?
I've just had a reminder that my line rental saver is close to the end. The price last year when paying the year's line rental upfront was 141. This year it is 169. By my maths that's an increase of more than 16%.
I've just checked to pay my value line rental, upfront with TalkTalk, and it seems to have jumped an incredible 45-50%, from around £120 last year, to just over £180 this year (a lot higher than the £126 shown for Nov 2014 in this article). Not sure how that's value. I've emailed them to ask them to justify it. Be interesting to see if they can.
A few years ago we just had by phone & line rental package with bt line rental cost £15 99 a quarter (every three months) then two years ago we had a broadband package and bills became monthly, then we noticed our line rental was costing us now £16 99 a month ,what a rip off , bt must now be making a fortune by doing this, why are they allowed too, just ripping off customers again, I would like to no why they can do that, any one no ?
" …so on 2nd September 2015, we're making some changes to our home phone pricing and call charges. The cost of our monthly line rental will increase to £16.99 a month, and you can see the changes listed below.
We're making some changes to your Line Rental Saver, which will still save you money on your phone bill when you pay for 12 months line rental in advance. The renewal charge for Line Rental Saver on or after the 2nd September 2015 will increase to £185.88, equivalent to £15.49 a month, which equates to a saving of £18 per year.
2. I pay my line rental annually, equivalent to £12.99 per month.
3. The increase in annual line rental is to the equivalent of £15.49 per month, an increase of £2.50 per month (or 19%).
5. I could cancel my contract, BUT only within 30 days of receipt of the email above. To do so would mean that I would lose any prepaid line rental, as it's not refundable. So lose-lose.
Come on PlusNet. We know you belong to BT, but you don't have to behave like them!
Another ripof by a once state owned company. Consistently pushing up charges and increasing their profit. Once a state owned industry is moved into the public domain it has to make profits for its shareholders. The governments of past years have done us no good in privatising industries which have consistently made profit for shareholders at the expense of both the country and its customers.
This years land line increase is beyond a joke and its`s time the government were enquiring into why these increases are necessary.
Thinking about it, the Line Rental has increased faster than train fares over the past ten years or so.
If the Train Companies can be regulated on One percent train fare rises, so can the phone companies.
The "lines" which we "rent" have been paid for decades ago when installed. Yet we still pay for them on a "monthly" basis…month by month… year by year….FOREVER! The actual piece of fibre optic line costs LESS than that. The govt should step in on this ENDLESS scam by BT (and the rebranded 3rd party companies) and end this RENTAL scam.
The maintenance and renewals of the telephone lines and all the technical equipment in the exchanges still has to be paid for.
The sneaky thing about line rentals is that, during the early days of British Telecom – after it separated from the Post Office – the tariffs were changed from quarterly billing to monthly billing and this has enabled the rates to rise less noticeably but more expensively for many years now.
The monthly billing is the choice of many BT subscribers you need to apply to get it John .I have been on quarterly bill since I first got a landline phone in (donkey,s years ago ) and I am still on quarterly payments and yes it is DD . But yes BT has just increased all tariffs recently but it is across the board.
Agreed Duncan, but my point was that the translation to monthly billing meant that price rises did not appear to be so significant. A one pound rise on a monthly bill does not look so bad as a three pound rise on a quarterly one so is easier for BT to get away with. I have no complaints about monthly billing as a payment mechanism but I confess I never bother to check my bills when they come in attached to an e-mail. Paperless billing has also allowed tariff increases to go through with little attention to them.


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A recent article in the Exeter News-Letter reported the Stratham Board of Selectmen are considering moving emergency dispatch service to the Rockingham County Dispatch Center. The reason given was "increased prices and dissatisfaction with Newmarket dispatch." Selectman Bruno Federico was quoted indicating that the problem was —¦poor service because of a poor connection." Federico stated "the cost has escalated out of control. When we started it was $20,000 and now it is over $90,000." In my opinion it's not a problem of "poor service" but "poor reception." To suggest that you are receiving poor service is a misrepresentation of my staff that I feel does an exceptional job at providing quality service to all of you.
Although I have only been the Newmarket Chief of Police for less than four years, I have worked for the Newmarket Police Department since the 1970s when we opened our dispatch center. At the time of its inception, it was a separate town department charged with handling Newmarket's emergency services. The center was located in the old fire station on South Main Street. The transmitter was located on Zion's Hill downtown where it remains today.
Newmarket took on Stratham's Police, Fire and EMS dispatching services in 1983. The annual dispatch operating budget at the time Stratham joined us was $49,548. During that period the center handled about 2,000 total calls for service for both communities. These figures were taken from the 1983 Newmarket Town Report.
We handled 21,245 calls for service last year. Of those calls 10,001 (48 percent) were Newmarket Police and Fire calls, 7,408 (34 percent) were Stratham Police and Fire calls, 3,474 (16 percent) were Newfields Police and Fire calls, and 362 (2 percent) were Nottingham Fire calls.
In 2008 it cost Newmarket nearly $300,000 to operate the dispatch center. This figure includes personnel costs, utilities, repairs to equipment, software leases and upgrades, training and supplies. The combined revenue received from contractual agreements for dispatch services for all communities serviced was $102,694. The Newmarket taxpayers have been paying a higher percentage of the cost for their dispatch services than residents of Stratham. In addition Newmarket residents have paid 100 percent of the infrastructure improvements since the inception of dispatch over the last 25 years.
When Stratham Chief Michael Daley first mentioned, a few years ago, that his officers were having problems in certain areas of your town receiving our police radio transmissions, we consulted our radio repair technicians who reported that we are transmitting at our maximum FCC licensed power. The solution proposed for Stratham's reception problems was to install a repeater system on high ground in your community to relay the signal. Stratham Hill Park was discussed as a site.
Occasionally over the last few years, we've received complaints that Stratham officers have missed radio transmissions. Whenever we receive these complaints, we call out our radio repair technicians who come in and check our equipment. Whenever a radio part is in need of repair it is immediately addressed. Most of the time, when a radio transmission has been missed, its not as simple as replacing a broken piece of radio equipment. It usually comes back to the need for a repeater to increase the signal strength in your reception area. When I inquire about it, I always get the same response, that the Stratham isn't going to do it.
If the radio in your car has poor reception, do you repair the radio or complain to the radio station?
Selectman Federico is correct about one thing. You're not paying $20,000 anymore. The current five-year dispatch contract has increased annually in an attempted to bring the fees charged to Stratham closer in line to the actual cost of providing the service.
As a police chief I know you can't place a price tag on public safety. That is why as long as a dispatch contract exists between our communities I will continue to exhaust every option within my control, to improve the reception issues that have been reported to me.
If Stratham officials really believes they're getting "poor service" and are truly dissatisfied with the Newmarket Dispatch, I suggest you terminate the contract and seek services elsewhere or open your own center. It may be less costly for the Newmarket taxpayer to adjust our budget for the revenue shortfall caused by losing Stratham's dispatching business, than to keep operating at a loss and spending money in an attempt to repair a reception problem that can't be rectified on our end.
The facts are the facts. Newmarket Dispatch has worked long and hard to ensure that Stratham Police and Fire receive the best service our center can provide. We will continue to do so as long as Stratham continues to utilize our dispatch center. I believe we have been fair and reasonable in working to resolve the reception issues that Stratham has experienced. Stratham should also implement solutions on its end to improve reception issues.
When we work together we can resolve problems and improve services. Without working relationships, we end with poor connections, and the public we serve suffers.
Kevin P. Cyr is the chief of the Newmarket Police Department.


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Ancient Levin
Lentas, South Iraklion
The first habitation of the site dates from the Neolithic and Early Minoan period (3rd millenium B.C.). In the late Classical period (beginning of the 4th century B.C.) the Gortynians established the sanctuary of Asklepios at the harbour. During the tremendous earthquake of 46 B.C. the city was destroyed and subsequently rebuilt. In the Early Christian and Byzantine periods, a small settlement developed and the basilica was erected.
The small Byzantine church of St. John was built in the 14th century. The archaeological investigation of the site started after the first visit of the English captain H. Spratt, in the middle of the 19th century. Excavations were carried out by the Italian Archaeological School at Athens in 1900, 1910 and 1912-13, and revealed the sanctuary and other buildings. Since then no excavation had taken place in the ancient city until recent years, when the investigations of the Greek Archaeological Service brought to light the Minoan settlement and graves.
Apart from consolidation work on the monuments, extensive restoration has not been carried out with the exception of the columns of the temple of Asklepios which were immediately restored by the excavators.
The most important monuments of the site are:
The Temple of Asklepios. It lies at the SW edge of the terrace of the sanctuary and dates from the 1st-2nd centuries A.D. The walls, built of mudbricks with a revetment of white marble, are preserved to a height of 3.40 m. Two of the marble columns and the bases of the cult statues of Asklepios and Hygeia are preserved inside the temple.
The temple is built on an artificial terrace at the SW edge of the sanctuary and is oriented to the east. The walls of the cella, preserved to a height of 3.40 m., are built of mudbricks, reveted with white marble slabs. Similar slabs cover the central part of the floor, while the rest of it is mosaic. Two of the columns (4.70 m. high) and the bases of the cult statues of Asklepios and Hygeia are preserved inside the temple.
It was constructed in the first centuries of the Roman Empire (1st-2nd century A.D.). After the expansion of Christianity the temple (and the sanctuary) were abandoned and gradually destroyed. Architectural members of the temple were used for the construction of the Byzantine basilica. In 1856, Onorio Belli drew the groundplan of the Asklepieion of which only the outline and two of the columns are still preserved today.
The temple of Asklepios was excavated, along with the rest of the sanctuary, by the Italian Archaeological School at Athens in 1900, 1910 and 1912-1913. The columns of the temple were immediately restored by the excavators.
The "Treasury". It is earlier than the temple and the west portico, lying beneath the floor of the latter. It was built in the Hellenistic period (3rd century B.C.) and its floor is covered with mosaics, forming two "panels" depicting a seahorse and palmettes. The mosaic covered the mouth of the "Treasury" (a well 1.90 m. deep, where the offerings were kept).
The Fountain, located to the south of the Nymphaion.
Large, three-aisled basilica. Ruins of the church, dated earlier than the 9th century A.D., were found underneath the basilica of St. John.
Early Minoan settlement (2600-2000 B.C.) on the low hill called Anginaropapouro.
The West Stoa. It extends to the north of the temple and is almost 27 m. long. In the northern part are preserved the thresholds of three doorways leading to rooms on the west, which were probably used by the priests and the temple personnel. The West Stoa and the temple were built in the period of the heyday of the Roman Empire (1st-2nd century A.D.).
The North Stoa. It was built before the temple (2nd century B.C.), into which it was later incorporated. Bases and parts of columns along with marble slabs are preserved. Most likely it was the "adyton" or "abaton" (sanctuary) of the shrine.
The Nymphaion. Room with two arches built of mudbricks, located at the east edge of the North Stoa.
Two large, mud-brick cisterns, used possibly for therapeutic baths.
Source: The Hellenic Ministry of Culture
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South Iraklion
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L'OSSA Phantom fou un model de motocicleta fabricat per OSSA entre 1974 i 1977, dissenyat específicament per a la pràctica del motocròs. Al llarg de la seva vida comercial se'n produïren diverses versions en tres cilindrades (125, 175 i 250 cc), per bé que les més populars foren les de 250 cc. Com a característiques generals a totes les versions, disposaven d'un motor de dos temps monocilíndric refrigerat per aire, bastidor de doble bressol, frens de tambor i amortidors de forquilla convencional davant i telescòpics darrere.

Presentada durant el Saló de l'Automòbil de Barcelona de 1973, la Phantom es començà a comercialitzar a començaments de 1974. El model, força evolucionat per a l'època, naixia de l'intent per part d'OSSA de tornar al motocròs després d'uns anys en què havia tingut abandonat aquest segment. La moto tingué molt bona acceptació comercial, especialment al mercat nord-americà i al francès, per als quals se'n desenvoluparen fins i tot versions especials com ara la Desert Phantom -pensada per a les curses pel desert típiques dels EUA- o lEnduro Phantom 125, adaptació a l'enduro de petita cilindrada (un sector molt popular a França aleshores). D'altra banda, a començaments de 1978, un cop abandonada la producció de la Phantom i amb OSSA immersa en una greu crisi que n'acabà provocant el tancament, aparegué una versió de Phantom matriculable, teòricament d'enduro, coneguda indistintament com a Phantom TT i Phantom Desert.

Pel que fa al vessant esportiu, la Phantom aconseguí també bons resultats en competicions internacionals a mans de pilots com ara Håkan Carlqvist, John Banks, Claude Jobé (germà gran del multi-campió del món Georges Jobé) i Marty Moates, així com èxits destacats en campionats estatals arreu del món, especialment a França, Itàlia i l'estat espanyol (en aquest darrer cas, a mans de pilots com ara Narcís Roca Vampir i Ferran Alibés). Al Campionat del Món de motocròs, però, l'OSSA Phantom no hi destacà tant com les també catalanes Bultaco Pursang i Montesa Cappra, bàsicament perquè OSSA no comptà mai amb pilots de primera línia (Carlqvist, Campió del món uns anys més tard, era un debutant quan corria amb la marca i Moates no tenia experiència en curses europees).

Història

Antecedents

L'interès d'OSSA pel motocròs començà tan bon punt aquesta disciplina s'introduí a la península Ibèrica, a mitjan dècada de 1950. Alguns pioners d'aquest esport, com ara els germans Elizalde, Josep Romeu, Conrad Cadirat i Carles Giró, pilotaren amb èxit unitats de models d'OSSA 125, 150 i 175 preparades per a curses de motocròs (poca cosa més que motocicletes de carretera amb rodes de tacs). Amb aquestes motos, José Antonio i Juan Elizalde guanyaren els dos primers campionats d'Espanya disputats -els anys  i - en la categoria de 250cc.

Entre 1964 i 1972, l'empresa produí els models 175Sport i 175SE, evolucions de la 175 de carretera adaptades al fora d'asfalt. Però fou amb la Stilleto, apareguda el 1967, que OSSA entrà amb força dins el sector del motocròs, amb un model competitiu i pensat específicament per a aquesta disciplina. La primera versió cubicava 230 cc i el 1969 en sortí una de 250 cc, creada sobretot per al mercat d'exportació i en concret per al nord-americà. La Stiletto es fabricà fins al 1973, se'n vengueren milers d'unitats i participà amb èxit en competicions internacionals, pilotada entre d'altres per Gaston Rahier (anys abans d'esdevenir Campió del món amb Suzuki), el també belga François Minne i Mick Andrews.

Llançament de la Phantom

Després del llançament de la Stiletto, l'enginyer (i fill de l'amo d'OSSA) Eduard Giró treballà durant anys en un nou model de motocròs altament competitiu tot provant-ne diversos prototipus en curses de tota mena, fins que l'empresa el presentà el 1973 amb el nom de Phantom i un motor de 250 cc. Aquest nou model es posà definitivament a la venda el 1974 i, de cara a la temporada de curses, OSSA fitxà el vigent campió britànic de motocròs, John Banks, i l'ex-campió estatal Domingo Gris com a pilots provadors (al mateix temps que fitxà també a Randy Muñoz com a pilot oficial de trial). La moto destacava per la seva lleugeresa (va ser la primera moto de sèrie amb un xassís de tub de crom-molibdè i basculant de duralumini, amb la qual cosa pesava sis o set quilos menys que les motos de la competència) però els resultats no foren els esperats i Gris abandonà la marca poc després. Fou aleshores quan Randy Muñoz el substituí en la tasca de desenvolupament de la Phantom i, de passada, decidí abandonar el trial definitivament i començà una reeixida carrera esportiva en el motocròs.

La principal virtut de la Phantom era la seva extrema manejabilitat, producte de la seva lleugeresa (la moto pesava només 88,5 kg de pes). Després de Domingo Gris, OSSA va fitxar algun pilot de renom i la fama de la moto s'escampà arreu. Un punt d'inflexió important en la història d'aquest model fou la tardor de 1976, quan uns periodistes de la revista Solo Moto desplaçats als EUA per a cobrir la Trans-AMA hi descobriren en una cursa de Supercross a Marty Moates, un pilot desconegut que guanyà a tots els oficials de les marques japoneses amb la seva Phantom AS76 privada. En saber-ho, els directius de la marca fitxaren Moates i el portaren a Europa durant el mundial de . Tot i que l'americà prometia força, la nova versió de Phantom d'aquell any (AS77) no estigué a l'altura de les expectatives i l'experiència coincidí amb l'inici del declivi de l'empresa, de manera que aquella fou la darrera temporada en què una OSSA Phantom competí oficialment en un campionat mundial, així com l'AS77 fou la darrera versió del model que fabricà l'empresa.

Versions

Les diferents versions de la Phantom es varen diferenciar històricament amb la nomenclatura «AS nn» (essent nn l'any de llançament), tot i que no hi ha acord en el format exacte en què cal escriure la denominació: les diverses fonts consultades documenten les versions indistintament com a ASnn, AS/nn, AS-nn o AS nn. Pel que fa al prefix «AS», cal dir que ja fou emprat abans amb el model Stiletto i corresponia a les inicials d'American Scrambler ("Motocròs americà" en anglès).

Al mateix temps, d'ençà de la versió de 1976 (AS76), les Phantom es varen comercialitzar al mercat nord-americà com a Phantom GP, de manera que l'AS76 s'hi distribuí com a "Phantom GP II" i l'AS77 com a "Phantom GP III".

Llista de versions produïdes

AS74
La primera versió de la nissaga de les Phantom es començà a comercialitzar en la cilindrada de 250 cc, tot i que atès el seu èxit n'acabaren sortint versions de 125 i 175 cc. El seu bastidor era molt lleuger causa de l'ús de crom-molibdè i anava pintant de negre. El motor era molt manejable fins i tot per pilots no gaire experts, gràcies a la seva carburació i a un peculiar tub d'escapament.

Pel que fa a l'estètica, dipòsit i parafangs combinaven el blau metal·litzat amb unes franges carbasses, combinació que heretarien les seves posteriors evolucions AS75 i AS76.

Fitxa tècnica

AS75
La principal novetat de la versió AS75 fou el canvi de bastidor (per tal de reforçar-ne la part posterior) i l'increment de tres centímetres pel que fa al basculant. En aquest, a més, s'hi canviava el grau d'inclinació dels nous amortidors de gas, de la marca Betor. Mantenia pràcticament la mateixa estètica que la versió anterior, ja que els colors eren els mateixos, però s'hi canvià la caixa del filtre de l'aire, que ja no era solidària amb les tapes laterals (per tant, per a enquibir-lo en la nova disposició, el parafang del darrere i el seient s'hagueren de modificar, motivat això també per qüestions estètiques).

Pel que fa al motor, cal destacar-ne el canvi de distribució per tal d'aconseguir més potència, les variacions a les relacions de canvi i diverses millores al cigonyal, biela i selector. El tub d'escapament comptava amb més protecció.

Fitxa tècnica

AS76
L'OSSA Phantom AS76 ha estat considerada sovint com a la millor moto de motocròs de la marca. Era una evolució dels models precedents, amb els quals mantenia força semblança estètica (el dipòsit i la pintura eren els mateixos) malgrat que els parafangs ja no anaven pintats de blau, essent de plàstic blanc. Fou la primera versió a incorporar tub d'escapament de bufanda i amortidors posteriors de gas. A banda, s'hi renovaren les tapes laterals del motor i s'hi implementaren millores mecàniques importants, com ara els nous càrters (per tal d'incloure-hi nous rodets) i un nou carburador Bing de 38 mm amb estàrter.

Fitxa tècnica

AS77

L'OSSA Phantom AS77 fou el darrer model de motocròs de la marca i era un intent de competir amb els fabricants japonesos. El xassís es basava en l'AS76 i el basculant era totalment renovat (més llarg i reforçat), aconseguint així una major geometria. També es potencià el motor, amb un canvi important al cilindre (ara de quatre transferidors i quatre aletes). La bufanda seguia essent la mateixa, però ara el silenciador sortia per la part esquerra del darrere i no quedava ocult sota la tapa lateral, com en el model anterior. L'estètica es renovà totalment, tot canviant el dipòsit de tipus llàgrima anterior per un de més quadrat d'un color blau més elèctric.

Aquesta versió, coneguda als EUA com a Phantom GP III, disposava de l'última tecnologia del seu temps: un cilindre de cinc ports, en lloc dels quatre de la generació anterior, dissenyat de nou amb quatre aletes per a una millor refrigeració en condicions de fang, amortidors de gas muntats cap endavant, motor amb cobertes de magnesi i una forquilla Betor feta segons especificacions d'OSSA, tan eficaç que Marty Moates la preferia abans que no pas la Marzocchi (considerada com a la millor configuració de l'època). La producció, però, va arribar tot just a les 500 unitats, ja que aviat quedà obsoleta respecte a les seves competidores i la fàbrica, ja submergida en fase crítica, hagué d'apostar per models més comercials i oblidà per sempre més el motocròs.

Fitxa tècnica

Resultats al Campionat del Món
Tot seguit es relacionen aquells pilots que han obtingut punts al Campionat del Món de motocròs amb una Phantom al llarg de la història d'aquesta competició, detallats per cilindrada i any. S'hi indica la posició final obtinguda i el total de punts aconseguits per temporada. S'assenyala amb negreta la millor classificació final obtinguda a cada cilindrada.

250 cc
Fou en la categoria dels 250 cc on les Phantom obtingueren els millors resultats internacionals.

125 cc
En la categories dels 125 cc, els resultats obtinguts al mundial no varen ser tan destacats com en la dels 250 cc perquè l'empresa esmerçava els màxims esforços en aquesta (més rendible comercialment).

Referències

Enllaços externs

 Manual original de l'OSSA Phantom AS76 escanejat
 Aplec de revistes d'època escanejades amb articles sobre l'OSSA Phantom al web Motosclasicas.org
 Article sobre l'OSSA Phantom AS76 de Marty Moates
 Vídeo de la victòria de Scott Burnworth amb una OSSA Phantom AS75 (núm. 8) en una cursa de "clàssiques" als EUA el 2009

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Motocicletes de motocròs

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If you're an entrepreneur in search of capital, the truth is that banks don't really want to loan you moneyunless you have met credit requirements and have enough assets to cover the loan amount in the event of a default. An angel investor is another dicey option: They an be a great source of capital if you can find one, but VCs are usually interested in big ideas that guarantee high returns.
For many entrepreneurs, this reality makes it difficult to raise funds for a new venture, but peer to peer (P2P) lending is on the rise, opening financial doors for small businesses and creating a scenario where everyone wins.
In a nutshell, P2P lending links investors with entrepreneurs to start or expand a business. And the good news is that there are many P2P platforms out there ready to serve as intermediaries between the two groups and match loan applications with those willing to take a chance on that particular investment.
The process is entirely digital, with the entrepreneur applying online on the P2P site of his or her choice and providing basic documentation, making the application more streamlined than a banking application. The P2P application is then reviewed by potential investors, and funding may be received is as little as 72 hours.
This industry experienced an annual growth rate of 513 percent between 2013 and 2018, according to IBISWorld. To be sure, P2P lending serves a clear, unmet need, but there are good, bad and unknown factors that impact entrepreneurs and investors alike.
For entrepreneurs, P2P lending offers access to funds they could not receive through a bank either because they would not qualify for a loan or because the loan amount is too small to be financially beneficial to the lender.
The denial rate of P2P loans is much lower than that of banks due to the collective nature of these loans. In addition, such transactions may create long-term relationships between entrepreneurs and investors, giving the former group access to additional funds over time. Further benefits to entrepreneurs include lower interest rates than those at banks, a quicker application experience and less cumbersome paperwork.
For investors, P2P lending allows the ability to diversify their portfolio in new and exciting ways. Depending on the P2P lending platform used, you can open an account with a minimum of $1,000 and invest $25 or more in a single note, making these opportunities available to smaller investors who might otherwise have difficulty participating in this type of investment.
In addition, more than 80 percent of active investors met or exceeded their expected return on investment on some P2P lending sites.
The loans are for a small amount. Loan ceilings are often limited to $35,000, though that figurevaries by lending site. While this is a significant amount of money, it might not be enough for entrepreneurs to really get their idea off the ground or take it to the next level.
A P2P s a personal loan.And these lending sites are not set up to directly loan money to a small business. Accordingly, these are personal loans, so the entrepreneur must provide personal financial information, including access to their credit reports. As more companies request those credit scores, the outcome can be negative, making it difficult for these entrepreneurs to secure other funding later.
There are fees. Usually, this means a 5 percent closing fee, which is deducted from the loan amount.
P2P is not legal everywhere. While most states do allow this kind of lending, not everyone is on board with its new financial structure. In this context, P2P lending map is constantly changing, so entrepreneurs need to do their due diligence before committing to this process.
For investors, the biggest challenge is that the process takes time. Each opportunity must be evaluated and there are no guarantees that the borrower is telling the truth. Other issues include: the fact that these are unsecured loans, that defaults do occur and that there is a lack of automatic reinvesting.
The P2P lending industry reached $3 billion in the U.S. market in 2018 and is currently unregulated. As these numbers continue to rise, and they are expected to do so, it is possible that federal and state government agencies will step in with regulations to better protect investors and establish various requirements. If and when that happens, ithe landscape of P2P lending will change, making P2P less accessible to those entrepreneurs who rely on it the most.
Peer-to-peer lending can be a great way for entrepreneurs to access the small loans needed to support new ventures or expand operations. While there are many great aspects to the process, it is important for loan applicants to understand that this is a personal loan that may impact their credit rating. So, while this system works, there are challenges, and its future is unknown.


Logic dropped the song "One Day" with OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder.
Things will get better. That's the theme of most of Logic's new song with OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder, Colorado's reigning king of cheesy pop.
"One Day" dropped this week, topping Spotify's New Music Playlist. The lyrics chronicle Logic's rise from homelessness and despair, and on the surface prove to the most despondent pop music fan that anything in this gloomy life is possible – well, at least, tomorrow.
Cause maybe one day I'll be further from here.
Put all of my faith in tomorrow.
Dark days keep me up all night.
Only thing I know, it's gonna be alright.
Is it gonna be alright?
Sorry, Tedder and Logic. Probably not. Call me a wet blanket, but cooking up pop music solutions to the gloomy present is like taking a cheese-grater to tender souls. Hopeful songs just make things seem even worse. Why? Because even if things will turn around as the song suggests, between Arctic ice caps melting, racism on the rise, mass shootings becoming as inevitable as breathing air, apocalyptic poverty as the status quo, and a lying groper-in-chief puppet of Russia squatting in the Oval Office, our world is going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better.
But we all need something to look forward to, some reason to struggle through the swamp of despair, some dream to believe in – at least, that's the pill the pop music machine has always prescribed. And the song appears to dose us with that.
The rapper offers a personal heart-to-heart with each fan about hope and the possibility of unity – nodding to that myth that the world's problems can be solved through hand-holding and dialogue.
After a line about Frank Sinatra doing things his way and taking the road to success, Logic one-ups the old crooner, saying he, on the other hand, has taken the highway.
But the promise of rags to riches for the rest of us – "And if I can, you can no doubt" – is just plain malarkey, and while placebos have been proven to cure diseases as long as people believe in them, even the placebo effect won't make the American Dream come true.
Most of the song follows the pop script, obeying that mandate of catchy music — that it must be inspiring, lest people won't buy it. It's a cynical recipe for growing rich at the expense of other people's desperation: I show you why you're life's hard, and then I sell you the solution.
But the lyrics do something smarter and more honest than that right at the end; the song doesn't wrap up with a period, but rather a question mark.
And here's the song's shocking kicker: "Only thing I know, it's gonna be –"
Alright? Terrible? Good? Apocalyptic? Surely this is just a long pause, not a cliffhanger? Actually, we're left dangling and have to fill in the blank. And that's where the song leaves other optimistic pop numbers in the dust.
The future isn't up to Logic or Tedder, that incomplete sentence suggests. It's up to us.
Correction: An earlier version of this story misidentified Ryan Tedder's band. It is OneRepublic.


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03. 1987 Citroen 2CV
One of the French pop-culture icons
After meticulous restoration
Registered and ready to drive
Chassis number: VF7AZKA00KA258988
Starting price: 34 000 PLN (estimated: 40 000 – 55 000)
(8 200€/9 600-13 200€)
Engine: L2, 0.7-litre
Power output: 35 break horsepower
Other: manual gearbox, front-wheel drive
Legal condition: registered in Poland, 'yellow' vintage car number plates
Available paperwork: certificate of title, vehicle history card, certificate of insurance, evidence card for a classic car, expert's appraisal of technical condition
1930s is an incredibly difficult, but also interesting period for European motoring. Projects of numerous cars were dropped or abandoned because of the outbreak of the World War II. Such was the case of the Citroen 2CV. In 1939 250 prototypes were created, but there was no official launch. The car was first unveiled in public in 1948. When it went on sale it was already a little bit dated, but its supposed purpose was to be an affordable means of transport for the people. Over time though, the French fell in love with the 'duck' and it became a part of the furniture on French roads. The 2CV offered at the auction on March 17th is a late model made in 1987, towards the end of production. It is a 2CV 6 Club version. A couple of years ago this car was meticulously restored. It is difficult to find a part that was not replaced or repaired. A factory fresh, zinc-coated frame was imported from Belgium, new axle shafts and electrics were fitted. Carburetor was professionally refurbished. Interior was restored using appropriate materials, a new roof top and new tires were also fitted. Cherry-black paint is a nod to the Charleston version, whereas the quality of metalwork is virtually spotless. The car is shiny and looks like new. Its two-cylinder horizontally-opposed engine springs to life without any issues, runs smoothly and the noise it makes is a pleasure to the ear. The owner will hand over a full photographic documentation of the restoration process. Cost of such work is definitely higher than the proposed starting price, which makes this Citroen a particularly attractive offer. Despite its young age, the car belongs to a model line with a rich heritage and is an example of a practical, easy to maintain classic car that's universally loved among other road users.
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Places of publication: Charleston, SC (x)
Miscellany (1)
American Poetry -- 19th Century (2)
Cortes, Hernan, 1485-1587 -- Poetry (1)
Poetry, American poetry -- 19th century (1)
Richardson, Maynard Davis, 1812-1832 (1)
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The Cosmopolitan: An Occasional
Miscellany | Wm. Estill | 1833
Simms was the primary, anonymous contributor to the Cosmopolitan: An Occasional, and the two numbers of this short-lived publication reveal the state of his talents at the end of his apprenticeship period. Issued in May and July 1833 by Wm. Estill of Charleston, the two issues of the Cosmopolitan are among the works leading to what John C. Guilds calls Simms's "flurry of literary efforts that produced four major works of fiction within the next two years.".[1] As such, Guilds suggests that the Cosmopolitan be considered not so much for the quality of Simms's inconsistent ...
The Remains of Maynard Davis Richardson with a Memoir of His Life
Documents | O. A. Roorback | 1833
One of Simms's most personal works, The Remains of Maynard Davis Richardson is an editorial project the writer undertook after his good friend Richardson's premature death at the age of 20 on 12 October 1832. While details about their friendship remain scarce, it is known that Richardson accompanied Simms on the writer's first trip to the North,[1] and Simms dedicated his long 1832 narrative poem Atalantis to him, referring to the younger man's "high moral and intellectual worth" in his dedicatory note. The families of the two men had been long acquainted ...
Early Modern History | History | S. Babcock & Co. | 1840
The Vision of Cortes, Cain, and Other Poems.
Early Modern History | Poetry | James S. Burges, 44 Queen Street | 1829
The Vision of Cortes, Cain, and Other Poems, Simms's fourth separate publication, was issued in the summer of 1829. Like his three previous works, it is a volume of poetry. Comprised primarily of the three long poems "The Vision of Cortes," "Cain," and "Ashley River," the volume also contains a number of shorter works, some of which had been previously published in other venues. The subject matter of the volume ranges widely, moving from the title poem, which recalls in verse the 1518 expedition of Hernán Cortés into Mexico, to an ode to South Carolina's ...
The Sword and the Distaff; or, "Fair, Fat and Forty," A Story of the South, at the Close of Revolution
Revolutionary History | Novel (Romance) | Walker, Richards & Co. | 1852
Written in the "midst of one of the most productive creative surges in his career,"[1] Woodcraft; or, Hawks About the Dovecote: A Story of the South at the Close of the Revolution makes the most serious and sustained claim as Simms's masterpiece in the novel form.[2] The fifth novel composed in Simms's saga of the American Revolution, it is set during the chaotic close and aftermath of the war. This makes it the last (eighth) Revolutionary Romance in terms of chronological action. As the work opens, the British are evacuating Charleston in December 1782. Then the novel shifts ...
Early Lays
Era of the Early Republic | Poetry | A.E. Miller | 1827
The year 1827 was an eventful one for William Gilmore Simms. He completed reading law in the office of boyhood friend Charles Rivers Carroll and was appointed as a magistrate for Charleston; his first child, Anna Augusta Singleton, was born, and he published two volumes of collected poetry.[1] Early Lays was the second of those volumes and it was published by A.E. Miller of Charleston in the fall of 1827.[2] In his dedication Simms noted, however, that the material in Early Lays was "principally compiled from a surplus quantity of matter left from the publication ...
Lyrical and Other Poems
Era of the Early Republic | Poetry | Ellis & Neufville | 1827
The Charleston firm of Ellis & Neufville issued Lyrical and Other Poems, which was Simms's first published collection of poetry, in January or early February of 1827. An early date is most likely, because the copyright notice reprinted at the front of the text indicates that Ellis & Neufville filed the necessary paperwork on December 13, 1826, and a review of the volume appeared in the New York Literary Gazette and American Athenæum on February 3, 1827. The collection was generally well-received by critics and in later years Simms would recall fondly the praise ...


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Q: Updating biblatex First of all, I need to say I am new to both LaTeX and to Linux. I am using ubuntu 14.04. And I have to update my version of biblatex.
I know it has been described before, e.g. in this question. But I have a few questions about the answers given and also I am not sure if that process is still the same.
So as far as I understand I have to download the latest version of biblatexfirst. This can be done on SourceForge. Is this an official LaTeX site ?
Anyways, how would I have to replace the version, I mean, I don't know what version is the latest.
Then, in the answer provided in the link I have given, there is the line: /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist
I have checked, my texlive version can be found under /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist
So am I right to assume I just need to replace the /localby /shareand leave out the year ?

A: It is not the greatest idea to manually update biblatex and Biber.
And it is truly a terrible idea to update only one of the two manually, as that will almost inevitably lead to version conflicts between the two.
Updating biblatex and Biber manually can lead to version conflicts with packages that require biblatex (mostly custom styles - last year biblatex received an update that broke many styles to a point that they couldn't be used any more) or with packages that biblatex requires (most of these are stable, so this is less likely to happen, but not impossible).
Ideally you would only update your packages via your TeX distribution (tlmgr or the MikTeX Update wizard). Some TeX live distributions that are packaged on Linux don't allow for updating with tlmgr and rely instead on (often rather old) versions of packages in their official repository.
You can install a vanilla TeX live that lets you use tlmgr and gets updates from CTAN directly instead of the outdated repositories of your Linux distro. See How to install "vanilla" TeXLive on Debian or Ubuntu?
If you really, really must update your packages manually, the general procedure from the answer you linked to should still be valid.
There are a few points though

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*Make sure to actually download the current version of biblatex and Biber. Check in the documentation that the versions you downloaded are actually compatible. (At the time of writing this biblatex is at 3.7, Biber at version 2.7.)

*The correct place for biblatex is your local tree Where do I place my own .sty or .cls files, to make them available to all my .tex files? You had better not overwrite /usr/share content.

*SourceForge is not an 'official' LaTeX site. But the biblatex/Biber maintainer updates it with the newest release and development versions when they come available, so the release versions you find there are in a way official. You can get 'really official' package versions on CTAN. biblatex is at https://www.ctan.org/pkg/biblatex and Biber can be found at https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/biber

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Click on your email address. This brings up "member Settings" page.
Click "Update Your Member Record". This brings up an update form.
Fill in the new address, and click "Update". This will return you to your "Member Settings" page. Note that at the bottom of your member settings page there is a heading called "Email Validation", and under that it tells you your address is "unconfirmed".
Click the link titled "Send Yourself a Validation Message". This sends you a validation email.
Go into your email "In Box" and look for a message with the title "Bivouac Self Email Validation". Go into the message, and click on the link in the message. This should set the status of your new email address to "Good". Everything is now ready to go. If you went to your Member settings Page again, you will see that you are confirmed.


Doppelgangster is a UK/Australian performance company that has been recognised internationally for innovatively engaging with climate change, forced migration and globalisation, using digital methods to connect with new audiences.
The company features the dadist poet Tobias Manderson-Galvin and ecological raconteur Dr Tom Payne.
Doppelgangster presented a provocative programme of work in Paris in December 2015 at Artcop21. This included the large scale site-specific performance, Doppelgangster's TITANIC; an online video series, Doppelgangster (DEAD); an irreverent chat show, The Eleventh Hour; and the radical protest performance Oxygen Support, which took place at the Grand Palais during the controversial COP21 Solutions Exposition.


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When was the last time you went to a market and the guy running the vegetable stall was sat quietly behind his tressel table hoping that people would buy his tomatoes? Never!
He's there shouting as loud as he can, charming and coaxing his customers to his vegetable stall.
You should ensure that all of your marketing makes a big noise so that your target audience takes notice and asks for more.
👍 You can't sell anything to anyone if they haven't noticed you!
Being that one of our specialist sectors is healthcare, we often choose to attend exhibitions attended by dentists, doctors and vets. Usually these exhibitions are a little less 'glamorous' than those in the consumer sector.
You've got to be unusual to stand out. If you stand out people will notice you. If people notice you they'll speak to you.
👍 You can only sell something to someone if you speak to them about it!
Have you ever looked up a product on Amazon only to then be presented with an advert for that product when you visit Facebook? Putting aside the ethical / Big Brother case this is an example of remarketing, an extremely effective, highly targeted form of advertising. Remarketing uses your web history to display relevant adverts that you're likely to react to.
Take a similar approach to any marketing you do. Think 'Is this promotion I'm doing going to resonate with the people I'm trying to reach?'. Don't faff around sending mass mailings in the hope that some people will buy your stuff. Instead, pick out the people that are more likely to buy your stuff based on information you've obtained from previous marketing activities.
👍 Remember, be relevant - don't try and sell underwear to nudists!
Now of course this list isn't exhaustive by any stretch. There's a million and one things you can do to get great results from marketing. But if you're going to start somewhere I'd say this is a good place to start.


Are there any motherboards with USB3 headers. From what I have found so far all are connections out the rear. Looking for internal connection to front panel on new Fractal Design Define R3 case.
As long as Intel chipset will not natively support the usb3, it will not make much sense to have a header on the motherboard.
Unless the chip or circuit for header is developed by a third party. Like 2 x Renesas D720200 chips made by NEC on Gigabyte motherboards.
Thanks for the work you have put into the listing there Gloup_Gloup. I am sure there will be some members who will find it useful when looking for devices. It's a shame Gigabyte don't have their own offerings in this market other than of course those that come included with certain motherboards.
I must admit that it took a few hours. But I find the quality in my answers.
Again, thank you. I greatly appreciate your encouragement.
I hope the community of this forum (and other forums Gigabyte) will appreciate the information I have provided.


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Greater Illawarra Zone's Kingsgrove Cup hopes are in tatters after the side lost both of their matches of Sunday's double header. The team opened the day at North Dalton Park with a tight four-wicket loss to St George in a match that Greater Illawarra will have been disappointed to lose. A solid start with the bat was crippled by the loss of 3-5, before they recovered to reach 6-118. The total proved short of the mark, with St George reaching their target with four balls to spare. The team improved with the bat in the afternoon game, with Greater Illawarra reaching 8-134 batting first against Newcastle. The bowlers were no match for Newcastle captain Nathan Price, however, with the opener blitzing his opponents from the onset. Price blasted 75 off just 40 balls to put his team in control, before Nicholas Watkins finished off the job in the 18th over. Greater Illawarra captain Kerrod White was disappointed, but remains upbeat about his side's chances in the competition. "It wasn't a great day," White said. "The first game we struggled, lost wickets in clumps and we were on the back foot early on. Obviously it's hard to come back from that, it's not a total you want to be defending. "In the second game I thought we would be a bit more competitive with 134 but it didn't turn out that way. It is disappointing, but it is what it is."
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Getting creative: Kerrod White batting during Sunday's Kingsgrove Cup clash with Newcastle. Picture: Robert Peet.
Greater Illawarra Zone's Kingsgrove Cup hopes are in tatters after the side lost both of their matches of Sunday's double header.
The team opened the day at North Dalton Park with a tight four-wicket loss to St George in a match that Greater Illawarra will have been disappointed to lose.
A solid start with the bat was crippled by the loss of 3-5, before they recovered to reach 6-118. The total proved short of the mark, with St George reaching their target with four balls to spare.
The team improved with the bat in the afternoon game, with Greater Illawarra reaching 8-134 batting first against Newcastle. The bowlers were no match for Newcastle captain Nathan Price, however, with the opener blitzing his opponents from the onset.
Price blasted 75 off just 40 balls to put his team in control, before Nicholas Watkins finished off the job in the 18th over. Greater Illawarra captain Kerrod White was disappointed, but remains upbeat about his side's chances in the competition.
"It wasn't a great day," White said. "The first game we struggled, lost wickets in clumps and we were on the back foot early on. Obviously it's hard to come back from that, it's not a total you want to be defending.
"In the second game I thought we would be a bit more competitive with 134 but it didn't turn out that way. It is disappointing, but it is what it is."


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The BT-4 Combat is a semi-automatic paintball marker manufactured by BT Paintball.

General
The BT-4 Combat series of paintball markers are the second generation of stock markers released by BT paintball. They are similar internally to the Tippmann 98 custom, and aesthetically similar to the Tippmann A-5. It is used as the base design for all other BT markers, except for the TM-7 and TM-15 - which is based on Mini Technology; with upgraded markers like the Delta Elite being BT-4's with stock add-ons.

The BT-4 Combat is a poppet valve, blow-back marker; the bolt slides forward to open the valve, and air released from the valve propels the paintball forward and recocks the bolt for another shot. The stock BT-4 Combat includes adjustable handgrip and rear sight, sliding feedneck, and 8 inch barrel.

The BT-4 Combat is designed for durability and customizability; as it is similar to the Tippmann 98 custom, it can use many of the same parts and accessories, as well as BT's line of add-ons. The marker uses the same barrel thread as the Tippmann A-5 and the stock (butt) mods of the Tippmann 98 Custom. The barrel thread is also designed to be swapped out so that barrels from other paintball markers may be used.

Additionally the BT-4 Combat marker is used nationwide as a "rental" grade marker.

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Paintball markers