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Someone Had To End Up Last: Why Tulane Is The Worst Head Coaching Job In The AAC
Despite sporting the worst record among AAC programs over the last five seasons, the head coaching job at Tulane has the ability to turn into a solid job.
By Jeremy Adcock May 25, 2016, 9:00am EDT
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Remember Shaun King, the Tulane Green Wave quarterback that led them to a 12-0 record and top ten national ranking? That was 18 years ago. It seems so much more recent than 1998. Wow, time has gotten away since things were going so well for the Green Wave.
Since then it has been rough; from Hurricane Katrina and a season full of road games to a series of coaching staffs that could never find consecutive successful seasons, Tulane has been unable to build upon the potential of that magical season.
For the first time in ages, there is an aura of excitement in New Orleans as former Georgia Southern head coach Willie Fritz left the Sun Belt program for Tulane and the AAC. Even with Fritz taking the job, this job was still ranked as the worst of the 12 head coaching jobs in the AAC.
How does the Tulane head coaching job stack up versus other jobs in the AAC?
A recruiting hotbed. Louisiana is one of the best states at producing FBS talent despite a population under five million. They have over 60 Louisiana natives on the current roster.
The opening of Yulman Stadium. Getting a beautiful new on-campus stadium to replace playing at the Superdome is a big deal.
No short leashes. Between Curtis Johnson (4 years), Bob Toledo (5 years), and Chris Scelfo (9 years), coaches are given a chance to bring in their recruits and succeed.
The right coach can make it work. Tommy Bowden took over a program that was 2-9 in 1996 and proceeded to go 7-4 and 12-0 before leaving for Clemson.
The budget at Tulane will never compare to most of the AAC. There is a game plan that shows an initiative to increase the athletic budget, but an overall budget of $25,000,000 is nowhere near the level of other programs.
Lack of success. Since 1980, Tulane has ended the season with a winning record seven times and five bowl games.
Not a destination job. Only one coach, Clark Shaughnessy from 1915-1926, has stayed longer than 10 years as head coach. Chris Scelfo, nine seasons, is the only head coach since the 1950s to stay longer than five seasons.
Making the case for why it should be ranked higher than 12th: Nic Lewis, Managing Editor
I was tempted to simply type "they aren't Tulsa" and be done with it. It is most certainly true that Tulane is a ways behind most other AAC programs in terms of financial investment in the program. It's also at least somewhat true that one of the biggest reasons they're in the AAC is because they're in New Orleans and the AAC wanted to accumulate media markets, not just sports programs.
But look at the positives. This is a great job for someone looking to make a name for themselves; there are no expectations to live up to, so you can grow along with the program and not get Solich-ed out of a job when you don't win 10 games. If you're looking for a program that needs some rebuilding, your best bet is one that has low to no expectations about how you do it or where it ends up.
You're also in a city that has a lot going on culturally that you can build into your gameday experiences, and in terms of sports two-thirds of your competition is "a very mediocre minor league baseball team in a mediocre venue" and "a very mediocre basketball team whose venue is tucked up the ass crack of the Superdome". There are numerous demographics ripe for the pickings, especially now that they aren't having to drag their asses downtown to sit in a 80% empty dome.
Also, did I mention that they have craft beer on tap? Yes, not only is Yulman on the short list of on-campus stadiums that sell beer, it's legitimately good craft beer. I personally am going to attend one Tulane and one LSU game next season, but if I had to choose I would take cozy Yulman and its craft beer over LSU's concrete-and-no-beer combination every time.
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You want to see the team decked out in those sweet blue uniforms. You are the type that likes to rebuild from the bottom up and prove that any job can be successful with the right person in charge.
Tulane will not have many players with high rankings in any category, but fighting through a tough season or two and adding recruits, they can be virtually any type of offense or defense. The Green Wave is the ultimate blank slate of a program to build just as you prefer from the very beginning.
If you choose this job in real life...
You enjoy job security while getting a chance to build a program just like you want it. A coach that takes the job at Tulane is given a very long leash and has an administration that is actively trying to figure out how to bring more money into the budget.
It also helps if you love New Orleans. You are the only FBS program in New Orleans and can build a very nice fan base if you start winning.
It is hard to compare Tulane with other AAC members that have much higher budgets, enrollments, and regular success over time. The job, at its best, could barely break the top six in conference jobs, but that is not a bad thing.
Much of the negative talk about this job is in comparison to other AAC jobs. When comparing this job to the Sun Belt, Conference USA, MAC, and MWC jobs, coaching the Green Wave moves up the list rather quickly.
Tulane will always have a hard time erasing the reputation of being a stepping stone job to something better. Whether it is Tommy Bowden and Clemson or Mack Brown and North Carolina, it will be hard to keep a star coach with the program.
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The Flat Belly Diet claims to make you lose weight without any exercise required. You can also lose 15 pounds in 32 days! This diet was created for people who have tried just about anything to eliminate belly fat (like me!). The diet is centered in the research that eating healthy fats or MUFAs (Monounsaturated Fatty Acids) during each meal specifically targets belly fat.
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Would Darryl from The Castle buy battery storage?
By Giles Parkinson May 21, 2015 Battery/Storage 5 Comments
Tell 'em they're dreaming! That's what Darryl Kerrigan from the film The Castle would say when knocking back a proposal to pick up a great deal. And it's what that most networks and utilities would have told you a year ago if you raised the prospect that battery storage would upturn their customers into competitors and threaten to upturn their business models.
Now, though, it is a different story. Tesla, in the stroke of a genius marketing ploy, has not just brought down the cost of lithium-ion battery storage, it has also changed the conversation.
Battery storage is here. We know that, because even the utilities are rushing out battery storage offers to ensure they don't miss the market, like they did with solar.
But how competitive is battery storage right now? Would Darryl really buy a battery storage system if one was offered?
Well, that would depend on a bunch of things. Such as where Darryl lived, how much electricity he consumed, if he had solar on his roof already, and how many panels, and what sort of tariffs is he getting now, and will get in the future.
Because of that, it is impossible to be prescriptive. Battery storage will, in any case, be adopted by a large number of "early adopters" for a whole bunch of reasons such as wanting to be the first, wanting independence, wanting to save money, or just sticking it up the big boys.
Clearly, battery storage is not quite ready for widespread mass market adoption. It still has some cost falls to come, inevitable as they may seem, and generous tariffs in Queensland and South Australia that will last for more than a decade provide no real incentive.
But to give some idea of the complexity involved, we have been running a series of articles with different views of the economics and how they might apply to households.
The first came from UBS, which predicted paybacks as low as 6 years for battery storage; the second came from Morgan Stanley, which came to a similar conclusion for some states and suggested 2.4 million homes might install them.
We have also published an online calculator that might provide a guide to consumers, given the huge number of variables that can exist from location, roof size, consumption totals and patterns, and the size and position of the solar array.
The next installment comes from Craig Chambers, an energy expert with AECOM, a consultancy with strong links to the utilities industry.
Chambers agrees that while there is not much incentive for existing solar households in S.A and Queensland, there are 160,000 households in NSW that will lose their generous feed in tariffs at the end of 2016.
That, Chambers says, is a potential 1GWh market of household battery storage in that state alone, a number that would have huge implications for retailers, networks, and generators alike.
As an example of how this might work, Chambers uses the example of a "Darryl" in Bonny Doone in NSW. He's on a tariff now of 66c/kWh for everything he produces. At the end of next year, he will get just 6c/kWh – if he's lucky – for the energy he exports. So he will have a strong incentive to consume as much of his solar output as he can.
The problem with Darryl is that he has got an oversized system – probably built to take advantage of the premium tariff. It's 5kW. Darryl will likely use around 2kWh most of the day, occasionally peaking to 3-4kWh.
Would the Tesla system help him? A little bit. But as this graph above shows, those batteries would likely fill up pretty quickly, meaning that in the afternoon, Darryl would still be exporting to the grid, and not getting paid much for it.
(The black dotted lines show the difference from batteries – in the middle of the day Darryl is not exporting to the grid, but he's charged his batteries by lunchtime.Then uses battery to cover the evening peaks, effectively shifting them to later in the evening).
Of course, this is not to say that battery storage doesn't pay dividends. Any installer will tell you that whether you install solar or storage, it is best to look at your energy consumption. Find ways of being more efficient, and in Darryl's case here, he would be best advised to funnel more consumption, via timers, during the day.
And houses with a smaller system – say 1.5kW to 2kW – would likely find most or all their excess solar output absorbed by the battery storage.
But in the case of Darryl and others like him, it's the peak tariffs that dictate the battery ROI (return on investment). As this graph below suggests, – it applies to NSW only – the return for those in Ausgrid's area will get a return within 11 years, but for other areas is will be later. (It assumes $7,000 cost of the 7kWh Tesla Powerwall).
Put another way, Chambers argues that battery storage is still falling short in a bunch of metrics, as this graph below shows.
Now, not every analysis shows this because the assumptions about cost, usage and deployment may change. Chris Cooper's excellent calculator shows a lot more depth about different scenarios for households, and over the next few weeks we'll have a lot of differing points of view and estimates.
The one impediment that most are agreed on is the glacial pace of regulation. In the time that the regulators have recognised the need for reforms such as Power of Choice, and actually implemented them, more than 3,500MW of rooftop solar PV has been installed in Australia.
Now battery storage heralds another revolution and the regulators will struggle again to keep up. "Regulatory change is not moving far enough," Chambers said. "The regulatory landscape is not changing as fast as the technology."
This article was first published at RenewEconomy.
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Giles Parkinson is founder and editor of One Step Off The Grid, and also edits and founded Renew Economy and The Driven. He has been a journalist for 35 years and is a former business and deputy editor of the Australian Financial Review.
Tim Forcey May 21, 2015
Hey Darryl, don't forget to heat your water with excess / cheap solar PV, as we discussed here: http://reneweconomy.com.au/2015/get-more-out-of-your-solar-power-system-by-using-water-as-a-battery-26228
And while you are at it, make sure you use your reverse cycle air con (rather than gas) for winter space heating. Soak up some of that excess PV-generated electricity…
cost battery $7 k lets use $8k
usage lets say 350 days
also lets use 80% for input output
so 7kw system with these very conservative figures 7 kw times 350 times 80%
and use 33 cents as KwH power cost
outcome 1960 KwH $646 return that is an 8% return on the money spent.
So for the spend on a TV and a sound system which gives you nothing but entertainment you can spend the same amount or less and get 8%.
I think just looking at my very rough and I do not think optimistic figures that this is going to be compelling.
suthnsun May 21, 2015
"will, in any case, be adopted by a large number of "early adopters" for a whole bunch of reasons such as wanting to be the first, wanting independence, wanting to save money, or just sticking it up the big boys."
I really hope most 'early adopters' will be motivated primarily by the need for ultra low emission energy. Comprehensively displacing ff generation is the main game and savings pay for EV investment..displace oil..
Jacob May 22, 2015
Isn't Bonny Doon in Victoria. But in the movie the house is next to an airport.
Alan S May 25, 2015
Uptake of storage will also depend on what happens to electrical connection fees – or whatever state governments call them when they realise how much they stand to lose when too many people go off-grid. They'll need to introduce another way of raising revenue and we don't yet know what that is. This is what happened to water. It doesn't matter how much you store or economise, the service fee will still get you..

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Nicoleta Daniela Șofronie (Constanza, Rumania, 12 de febrero de 1988) es una gimnasta artística rumana, campeona olímpica en 2004 en el concurso por equipos.

Carrera deportiva

En los JJ. OO. de Atenas 2004 gana el oro en la competición por equipos, por delante de Estados Unidos (plata) y Rusia (bronce), siendo sus compañeras: Oana Ban, Cătălina Ponor, Monica Roșu, Alexandra Eremia y Silvia Stroescu. Asimismo también gana la medalla de plata en el ejercicio de suelo, tras su compatriota Cătălina Ponor y por delante de la española Patricia Moreno (bronce).

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I Got Married at the Society Hill Sheraton
Happy memories mix with a viral video.
By Stephen Silver·	 10/10/2012, 7:50 a.m.
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The latest one is the post-wedding brawl last weekend at the Sheraton Society Hill that led to multiple arrests and even the death of one guest. According to multiple media reports, the fight involved parties from two different weddings, and at one point had as many as 100 participants. Not much is known about the origin of the dispute, although media accounts are nearly unanimous in describing the events as "alcohol-fueled."
The deceased man was the uncle of one of the brides, who had ducked out onto the street during the fracas and then reportedly suffered a heart attack. A cell phone video of the incident, posted to YouTube by a 15-year-old hotel guest, garnered close to a million pageviews in the first few days.
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But the incident hit especially home for me—because five and a half years ago, my wife and I were married at the same hotel.
Our wedding and reception were both on the premises; the photograph of my wife and I seeing each other for the first time on our wedding day was taken right in the now-infamous lobby, just steps away from the spot where the policeman is swinging his baton in the footage above.
I must say it was surreal enough, watching a viral video pop up in the Facebook feed of friend after friend throughout the early part of this week, featuring brawling guests, baton-twirling cops, and someone asking "did they just deck the bride?" But even weirder for me was that this took place in a hotel lobby instantly recognizable as the site of one of my family's most joyous occasions.
Our wedding had no fisticuffs, at least none that made the local or national news. There was another wedding party at the hotel the same day as ours, but all I remember is going up to the groom and shaking his hand.
When you get married at a venue in the city where you live, but it's not a place of worship or somewhere else you go to regularly, you develop a certain kinship with the place. I always get a warm feeling when I stop into the Sheraton, which has been impressively remodeled in the last five years.
In my capacity as a film critic, I attend movie screenings at the nearby Ritz theaters on a nearly weekly basis, and I've occasionally stopped into the hotel for a post-flick drink or bathroom break. Friends and family members of mine have stayed there on visits to the city.
Throughout the week, the incident grew far beyond Philly, even getting coverage on NBC Nightly News—although not, interestingly, on the Drudge Report; that site doesn't appear so interested in covering urban brawls when they're instigated by white people. Meanwhile, 97.5 radio host Tony Bruno wrote on Twitter that the donnybrook is "reason 1 why I am anti-marriage or don't even go to weddings"—this from a guy who's spoken extensively about his own brutal divorce.
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My sympathies are with the family of the gentleman who passed away, as well as with the people who got married and had to have this event sully their special day.
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Prey species: No assessments were made of prey fish populations on Cooper Reservoir but body condition of game fish populations was good indicating adequate availability of prey species.
Catfishes: Cooper Reservoir continued to sustain a quality population of Blue Catfish and a less abundant population of Channel Catfish. Sub-stock sized fish of both species were collected, indicating successful reproduction. Harvestable-size Blue Catfish occurred in high numbers and exhibited good body condition.
Temperate basses: Ample open water habitat and a sufficient prey base allow Cooper Reservoir to support populations of White Bass and Hybrid Striped Bass (Palmetto Bass and Sunshine Bass combined). Cooper Reservoir has received annual stockings of Hybrid Striped Bass since 2002 with the exception of 2010 and 2012.
Largemouth Bass: Largemouth Bass abundance has historically been limited, indicating low population density. The length frequency distribution of fish collected in 2015 was dominated by fish smaller than stock size (8 inches) and no legally-retainable fish were sampled.
Crappie: White Crappie were the only species collected in 2015 and the sample was dominated by fish less than 5-inches in length. Few legal fish were collected in sampling.
Annual stockings of Hybrid Striped Bass (Palmetto Bass and/or Sunshine Bass) should continue at a rate of 10/acre to maintain the fishery.
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This sandwich became a total improvisation since we didn't have the 'meat' they suggested either. BUT I used the Daiya Havarti wedge as well as the cheddar shreds and I had 'meatless deli turkey slices' from Yves and of course we always have avocado so I threw on some 'butter' to my Ezekiel bread, slapped on two slices on each side of the 'turkey' and sliced the avocado on top of the 'turkey' and then sliced up the wedge & put on the cheddar shreds. Then I threw it all on the George Forman Grill. I think it is pretty funny that originally the grill's purpose was for meats, chicken, sausages, etc. NOW that I am vegan, I LOVE using it as Panini press! It makes sandwiches hot and melty and delicious!
This Avocado Jalepeno Grilled Cheese sure did not let down. Absolutely delicious! I might have to try the recipe 'as-is' next time to see what the pin was all about, but this was definitely delightful and easy!


All of us in Chanakya Puri knew the Pitts S-2A biplane, could pick the tiny speck out of the sky, ducked when the pilot flew a shade too close to the shallow rooftops or did a risky set of roll-and-dives over Palam Airfield. On that June day in Delhi, the insistent mosquito buzz of the biplane could be heard by the last of the morning walkers as it brushed the tops of the gulmohar and amaltas trees. It took a few seconds for us to register the sudden absence of sound, a pause that opened up and then never ended, that marked the end of the Sanjay Gandhi era.
None of us in the neighbourhood actually saw the plane go down. We did see the stately lady who arrived in an official Ambassador—these were the days before VIPs travelled only in entourages—and looked out with grief-reddened eyes over the fields where her maverick, risk-taking son had crashed, searching for something, a twist of steel, wreckage, not visible in the hard stubbled grass.
This was 1980, and later that June, my father took us out to India Gate for ice-cream. We travelled as we always did, a bunch of the neighbour's kids packed in with me and my siblings like squirming minnows in the capacious belly of the family Ambassador. There was no traffic, as it is understood now; just a smattering of Premier Padminis trundling behind the ample, rounded elephant sway of the Ambys, the monotony of these two cars broken by the occasional appearance of a Baby Austin or Studebaker.
In 1980, the year Sanjay Gandhi crashed, the Maruti project was nine years old. It had been handed to Sanjay around the time of the Bangladesh war, and there had been muted criticism that he'd received the exclusive licence to manufacture what was being touted as the People's Car. Within a year of his death, Maruti Udyog was formally established in February 1981. By 1983, the first Maruti had rolled off the line. Like thousands of Indians, our family rushed to join the queue for a new Maruti.
These days, if you're coming back from a Rajasthan vacation, a business trip to Jaipur, you'll see them on the last lap of the long highways snaking into Delhi: the massive, hulking shapes of the car-carriers, like frigates steaming into harbour. Every other vehicle on the roads will stop to let them through, and one of these monsters, carrying 20-odd shiny new cars at a go, can tie up a toll gate for hours on end.
There are at least 26 car manufacturers in today's India offering everything from Range Rovers to Hyundais to dinky little Revas, and more knocking at the gates, a dazzling smorgasbord of models laid out in front of India's consumers, with the promise of more to come. We take it for granted. We grumble that we don't have the full banquet, just the appetisers and a small selection from the vast main courses available in other parts of the world. When we do make our choices, Hyundai versus Honda, Toyota versus Mercedes, we expect delivery the next day, a few sweeteners from the showroom guy.
Back in 1983, the main feature of the average Indian's life was the queue and the long wait. You queued for black Bakelite phones, and then you queued for the privilege of meeting the linesman who would finally activate it, and then, at home, you queued for prebooked Demand or Lightning calls to another city and counted yourself lucky if the call came through in 24 hours. You queued for gas connections and for a token at the bank that would allow you to step up to the counter in ten or thirty minutes or an hour if you were unlucky to collect your cash.
The big surprise about queuing for a Maruti is that you got one in just months rather than years, which was unnervingly rapid progress for that generation of Indians. I remember a friend's parents paralysed by choice, slowly scanning the selection of colours—black, white, red, dark blue, light blue and I seem to remember a sickly green—in disbelief that anyone would actually ask them what colour they wanted their car to be. And Maruti was, under R C Bhargava's management, stunningly fast for the era—by 1985, they had rolled out not just the 800 but the Omni and the Maruti Gypsy. It is hard to explain just how dazzling it was to have three models to choose from, how rich it made the average office-goer with his State Bank of India account feel.
I wasn't old enough for a driving licence when DBA 872 came home, but I was old enough to fall in love. Except for the very few Indians in that generation who had lived abroad, driven something other than a "Fiat" or an "Amby", most of us had grown up with a sense of a car as an unruly, clattering beast with an awkward temperament and more sturdiness than grace. In our eyes, the tiny powder-blue 800 was a miracle of speed and fluid lines, a gazelle weaving its way through a herd of cows and buffalos.
It took time to see how deeply and inexorably the Maruti 800 changed India. The Fiat and the Amby were lumbering cars, the steering wheels requiring power and force. My mother drove an ancient World War Two Ambassador, my grandmother in Calcutta zipped around in her ornery Premier Padmini, and over the years, both of them had developed the kind of upper arm muscles that today's gymming crowd would kill for. Even the frailest of women could handle the 800's light, inviting steering, though, and the low seats gave you a different view of the world, of the road, a sense of immediacy and excitement where the Amby gave you distance and enclosure.
DBA 872 and I got on well right from the start. I drove her illegally as a 16-year-old, taking her for short spins around the neighbourhood, tasting freedom like so many of the drivers in my generation who grew up in the Maruti years. We didn't know, and didn't care, that the plastic-and-rexine innards of the Maruti 800 were tacky, that it wasn't by any standards one of the great cars.
It slid into a very Indian gap, between the sarkari years of the Ambassador's reign and the flashy, consumer-driven decades of the BMW and the Merc. It was the first car that promised my generation a kind of freedom that had been unimaginable; the freedom to do long hill drives, to spend a romantic evening out just driving around your city, to party-hop because you could, to cram, improbably, 15 friends into the car on the way back from college.
I drove DBA for 17 years; she accompanied me into my marriage and saw us safely through the first years of houses-with-water-problems and jobs-with-desperately-anorexic-cheques. By her tenth year, the 800 had become ubiquitous on Indian roads, referred to derisively as the "macchar" by bus and truck drivers who hated the little car's ability to zip around them on the highways. By the time DBA 872 was 18, she'd been left far behind on the fashion charts, overtaken by a smart new generation of cars from America and Korea and Japan.
Most of my generation of drivers have moved on, most of us upgrade our cars every two years in the same way that we efficiently remodel our careers, reshape our marriages, rework our retirement plans. We have our dream cars, and then a new wave of models comes in, and we have another set of dream cars, and we have the safe, acceptable backups that will do even if the Lamborghini stays out of reach. Those who're buying their first Nano are already looking ahead, hoping for the Honda years, the Toyota years. Very few of the bright young Indians I know would consider driving the same car for 17 years, and that's a sign of progress.
But when I think of DBA 872, what comes to me is a memory that has little to do with nostalgia. It's a memory of the first time I took that old blue car out for a spin on roads that were sparsely populated, almost bare by today's standards, the fierce thrill of pride that we felt as a generation in our new Marutis, the jolt of touching the accelerator gently and feeling the car speed up to a dashing 70 kmph.
Twenty five years down the line, I know that there was a measure of naiveté in that pride—we boasted of our 800s in such innocence, because we had no idea that there could be better, faster, sleeker cars in the world.
We broke coconuts over their bonnets when, the long, patient wait over, they came home. We revelled in the fact that any mechanic, anywhere in India, could repair a Maruti with a piece of string and a little faith. We boasted when we floored pedal to metal and managed to cross the 110 kmph barrier—the car's panels juddered in warning at 120. We treated the Maruti 800 like it was the best car ever made in the world, and for a while, it felt like it was.


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The three finalists are Aquaponic Experience Hotel by Varinot & Varinot Architectes (VVA) in Paris; Autonomous Travel Suite by Aprilli Design Studio in Los Angeles; and Le Colline Incantate by Network of Architecture (NOA) in Bolzano, Italy.
The Aquaponic Experience Hotel integrates an aquaponic system – a symbiotic system of aquaculture in which the waste produced by farmed fish supplies nutrients for plants grown hydroponically, which in turn purify the water.
Inspired by this concept, Varinot & Varinot Architectes created a hotel that is designed to mirror this closed, vertical system where rainwater is continuously recycled throughout the hotel. Not only does the ecosystem reduce water consumption, but it also produces efficient quantities.
The sustainable hotel offers fresh fruits, fish, and vegetables in the restaurant; flowers and herbs in the bedroom and seaweed to relax in the spa. The modular concept can be adapted to any city, depending on its individual needs and skyline restrictions.
The Autonomous Travel Suite integrates transportation and hospitality through a driverless, mobile suite offering door-to-door transportation service in between a traveller's home and destination. Within a compact hotel room environment, the suite is equipped with basic sleeping, working and washroom functions, allowing guests to be most efficient and productive while optimising travel time.
Operated and maintained by the Autonomous Hotel Chain, once scheduled online or via mobile app, a customised unit is delivered to the traveller's door and taken to a local Autonomous Hotel docking facility at the traveller's destination, where the unit extends into a larger parent suite. Acting as both a personal rental car and hotel room, The Autonomous Travel Suite provides both a new way of travelling and an extension of the conventional hotel experience, from the minute a traveller steps out of their home.
Intended to create a place of security and tranquillity within the hills of Northern Italy, Le Colline Incantate is a retreat for single parents and their children facing a new family situation.
The hotel provides its guests with comfort zones and protected spaces. Designed within its landscape, NOA decided to cover the entire structure with plants alongside waterways for distinct cross-ventilation that establishes a sustainable, comfortable, and consistent temperature throughout the complex without the need of thermal insulation.
The architects worked alongside a psychologist to develop a program with several therapeutic proposals including specific rooms for individual and group sessions, communal group activities, and thoughtful evaluation plans all within an inviting environment.
In addition to the three professional finalists, the jury also selected one student winner from among the student entries and one honourable mention. This year's student winner is Room Extension Solution (RES) by Daniel Cryszczoń and Michał Witalis of Poland's Cracow University of Technology. Receiving the honourable mention is the Floating Hotel concept submitted by Dinh Tam from the Ho Chi Minh City University of Architecture in Vietnam.
Utilising autonomous vehicle technology, RES is a new concept that acts as a hotel room's extension focused on optimising travel time, navigation, comfort, safety, and efficiency.
After stepping off of a flight, travellers will be met at arrivals with a quick check-in service for RES. Inside the mobile hotel room, guests will find a full-size bed, ample storage space for luggage with cabinets and small wardrobe, and a fully-operational bathroom en route to the hotel structure and docking stations. Until the passenger leaves the hotel, the vehicle is part of the overall room. Combining autonomous transport with hospitality has the power to redefine the way we travel around the world.
The Floating Hotel is built to encourage ecotourism. The model integrates local fishing culture and tourism in an eco-hotel. Equipped with fishing cages and efficient space for production, the hotel encourages its guests to experience and participate in farming first-hand. In a shared, sustainable, floating village, tourists and locals are joined to help develop services along the river community.


On Jan. 5, Colorado State Patrol Trooper Josh Lewis had had enough. With winter conditions rendering roads slippery across the state, CSP Troopers had spent all morning coming to the rescue of drivers who had slid off the road. The drivers were behind the wheel of every type of vehicle, from small sedans to trucks and large SUVs -- but they shared one thing in common: they were all driving too fast for the current conditions.
"After spending hours on I-70 that morning, and seeing firsthand how many people could have avoided crashing or sliding off the road by simply slowing down, it came to mind that a simple reminder might be effective in helping people get to their destinations safely," Trooper Lewis said. "CSP has always been a leader of education before enforcement. Basically: if we can teach people how to avoid crashing versus responding when they do, it is time well spent."
Trooper Lewis grabbed his phone and shot a quick selfie-video that he posted to the State Patrol's Facebook page.
In the video, he tantalizes the viewer with an offer to teach them the super secret way to stay safe on winter roads. After a short build-up in which he adds that this information is also the secret to avoiding "cranky troopers" having to pull people out of trouble in freezing cold temps, Trooper Lewis reveals the secret: "SLOW DOWN."
The slightly snarky video was an immediate hit. It struck a chord with drivers all across the world. The video quickly surpassed 1 million views and was featured on numerous local media outlets.
Resulted in a spike of about 10,000 "likes" for the CSP Facebook page, driving the total "likes" from about 45,000 to more than 55,000 within a week.
Trooper Lewis said CSP social media posts have achieved the million-plus viewership range before, but nothing has attained the numbers in the short timespan that this video did.
"Our most popular social media posts involve either animals, tragedy, or sarcasm. I figured some people would respond to a little 'tough love,' but not to the degree of how far reaching it went!" He said.
As for why he thinks the video was so successful, Trooper Lewis surmised it was a combination of the message's simplicity and its delivery. "Nobody responded with 'this is for me, I am a bad driver.' They always think it will happen to someone else, and so with a little bit of snark that makes it funny enough to get a chuckle, they shared it, thinking 'other people need this- but not me!'" Lewis said. He added: "It helped that it was timely, right at the end of a snow storm, so people literally just saw (or experienced!) what I was talking about."
As for his brief moment of internet fame, he's taking the glory with a good dose of humility: "As for fame, well, if I had to be a police officer famous for a video on the internet, I think this may be a 'best case' scenario!"


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Making Buddhas By The Yellow River
The Yellow River
Waking up in the drab, decaying, government hotel could have dampened any solo travelers spirits. The CCP standard hotel room layout (it was exactly the same as our hotel in Tong ren) has been left behind in China's reinvention of itself. The bath-tub was rusty, half the lights didn't work, nor the television, there was no towel and the pillow was packed with a grain of some sort. However the massive curtainless window offered a view to make up for all the failings. Beyond the mix-up cityscape of concrete , mud and brick, interspersed with random pagodas, incinerator chimneys and TV aerials , the mountain range across the river was illuminated by the rising sun, bringing out all the golds, ochres, pinks and reds of the ravined landscape. The tops of the distant mountains were layered with an overnight snow fall. A classic high Asia view.
It is great fun to be on random free flow for a change, not really knowing where I am, no map, nor barely a word to communicate with…you never know what will come up and where whatever does come up will lead to. A lovely feeling for sure. In this frame of mind, I set out to see the Confucian temple that Guide was so proud of. (Guide is a city south of Xining, not from the source of the Yellow River.) The first impression was it's toned down color scheme, compared with all the overtly bright Tibetan temples. The site was obviously a well kept tourist attraction, but being early I had the place to myself. There is a very tranquil atmosphere in these temple compounds, the layout creates neat courtyards and shaded spaces, some with trees growing in the middle, others with big iron incense burners blessing the sacred place with scented smoke. The countless large "sacred" statues inside the temples, failed to convince me somehow…after the calming elegance of the various Tibetan Buddha's I have seen, these Confusion deities came across as over painted, gaudy and grotesque in comparison. I do need to know more about them though to make any informed comment. I was intrigued to see one of them holding forth the familiar Masonic symbol of a golden triangle with an eye in it. Ma wang yé, I found out subsequently, is a god of war and fire.
From the top of the pagoda I spotted a little veggie garden, for the temple residents, surrounded by beautiful flowers and a collection of different varieties of sunflower. I later snagged some dry heads to try at home….with the permission of the sweet old lady gardener of course. I miss my garden!
Ancient Public Convenience
My wanderings then took me down some quiet alleys between the rammed-earth walls. I was vaguely heading to a big stupa I had spotted from the pagoda. This was the old part of the town, with a center less of maze of ally's, unpaved streets and shaky old wooden doors. One thing struck me here… Its amazing the shit collection systems in these old towns. I passed a few really basic ones! The most striking one, for the passing pedestrian, must have comprised of a raised platform behind the earthen wall, where you squat inside the yard or house. Then on the alley or public (my) side of the wall there is a street level cubbyhole, where the shit lands! It makes obvious sense really in a "not my problem, after the act" world! Or is it the caring sharing world that is designed to make it much easier for a shit collector to shovel it into his cart to carry to the gardens! You can come and get it any time. I came across another one on the same principle in the ancient house of two old gentlemen wood-block carvers we visited in Tong ren. They had a two level courtyard house, with the upper story being partially roof terrace. At the top of the steps to the terrace, open to the sun or moon, was a rough bricked squat slot cut into the rammed earth. The shit obviously dropped down to a special collection room below …cunning, convenience eh? These ancient systems certainly save a lot of bother with plumbing and septic tanks etc!! I am not saying this will work for all, nor are all Chinese toilets this ingenious. Don't worry, the plumbed ceramic throne is in steady use by the millions of high-rise dwelling Chinese…though I might guess the ceramic squat and it's lesser variations are still the people's choice, certainly in the public sector. After 5000 years of cultural development, the old adage "If it ain't broken don't fix it" holds (and squats) strong. Ok … sidetracked a little there, but it's an important point of interest to us all.
My attention was soon caught by the sound of repetitive dull pounding, coming from a shady area across a mud drain. It didn't take long for me to realize I had stumbled upon a group clay-working operation, nor for me to decide where I was going to spend the rest of the day. I was immediately waved over the drain by a big smiling Tibetan man, who was obviously happy to include me in their group that was gathered, at what transpired to be the back of their temple. The thudding was coming from a line of about 15 elderly Tibetan women, all in their traditional dress, who were sitting on low stools along a ledge pounding at large lumps of clay. As they were pounding they were mixing in handfuls of cotton and an unidentified red powder into the clay.
Ladies Mixing Clay With Cotton
I had encountered this practice a couple of days before when meeting a Tibetan thanka painter and clay Buddha sculptor in Tong Ren. The cotton binds the clay well as it dries, as these works are not fired. The ladies were have a great time (and good exercise) giggling and chatting away. Under a shade cloth around the corner was the continuation of this happy production line. Younger women where gathering the pounded clay and slapping it into handleable rectangular blocks, which were then passed to a couple of the key strong old men to be rammed into two part brass Buddha moulds. With help from an assistant, who would brush a few strokes of melted Ghi (yak butter) into the mould, the mould-masters would sandwich the clay between the two parts and hammer the top mold down with a lunking log mallet and clamp it shut with iron rings, squeezing clay out of the sides. Everything was done with such laughter and positive spirit through out the all age crew. The mold was then turned head down and the pointed end of the log mallet was used to force the clay further into the mold and add more. Once satisfied it was full, the master would then ram a thin bamboo into base, making a shaft to the Buddha's head. He would then produce from his pocket a selection of tightly bound cloth rolls printed with mantras on them and slot them into the shaft, two per Buddha, and different prayers for different models. To cap off this ancient mystical juju, he would sprinkle in a few grains of wheat and some other seeds, then seal the hole and pop the statuette out of the mold to be passed down the line for trimming and cleaning. This is where I was slotted into the process! … though not until after I was invited to a delicious communal lunch, scattered on our haunches around the small temple yard. Noodles, veg and steamed bread rolls. The I-pad and I introduced ourselves to the intrigued group and after a picture viewing session, a few simple gestures, and willing smiles, it was understood that I was here to work with them. No problem….
After lunch I was duly given a seat under the shade cloth, given some tools and a steady supply of Buddha's, there I spent the rest of the day with the trimmers, giggling, scraping and smoothing the shiny Ghi-soaked statues. What a peaceful time, quiet, semi-creative, meditational work Someone put on a recording of some singing and chanting. A well behaved baby boy who's mother was working opposite me would come and collect the scrapings and carry them back to the elderly pounders to be recycled. People would come and go, stand and look, take pictures of me with their cell phones, laugh and swap roles between the chores, or just sit and chat. All the while we plugged out a whole heap of Buddha's that where dutifully carried away to the drying racks in one of the ramshackle rooms next to the leading monks quarters. As for production line efficiency, inclusive of spiritual contentment goes, it ranks as the best I have encountered. There was no suggestion that anyone was getting paid much more than lunch….no boss bossing, though at times a few quieter more important looking monks came by to see how things were going. One of them had an interesting bound set of architectural plans, for the temple expansion. Other monks would drop in and out of the production. When 4'o clock came the gathering began to break up quietly. A few of the girls who had said nothing to me all day surprised me with a perfect English "see you tomorrow !"…and more giggles.
By this time I had already been invited to spend the night, so a couple of the friendly mould-masters showed me to an empty bed room in the temple yard. Don't imagine anything grand here, it is a small set up, there were shrubby unkempt trees, and old incense burner, a pile of brass conduit pipes and prayer money littered on the ground, then a couple of steps leading to the curtained off inner sanctum. I sat in the kitchen, which faced into the yard, drinking cha with an old monk called Kung Cho Jan Su who had taken a fascination to me and my I-pad picture show.
Aragorn With Kung Cho Jan Su
There was little we could talk about, my Tibetan being a lot worse than my Chinese (!) so I entertained him …and hopefully flattered him by sketching him. He was very relaxed and happy to sit quietly with me, enjoying the space-time continuum. He had a quality twinkle in his eye and reminded me a lot of my dear Carib Indian friend Chalo, on one of his more sober reflective days.
It was peaceful place to sit around as the day cooled off. The others had all gone home except a few lamas and monks who wandered in and out of the kitchen. One of these was a lad who painted the Buddha's after they had dried, he apparently did this inside the new Stupa that was nearing completion next to the old monastery we were in. We made a plan that I should help him tomorrow.
Before it got too late I went for a walk down to the great Yellow river, the mother river of China. It is still young in these parts, but not unimpressive all the same. There is a new walkway under construction, across the wetland between the stupa and a huge project being worked on by the river. This structure comprises a large hall, maybe for conferences or worship I am not sure. Across from the hall is a completely untraditional, Disney-like structure of a golden Dharma wheel maybe 100 foot high, coming out of a massive lotus flower. I could not get inside this fantasy building as even in the fading light the place was swarming with workers, cutting marble slabs, running cables, measuring, sweeping and banging. The shining metal on the wheel was an extravagant display of beaten yellow copper, from the top of which in all directions extended 8 dragon heads. I later met the man who made them at the workshops of Tar se, so got a little low down on what is going on here. It is weird and interesting. I haven't understood everything yet, but by the scattered accounts I am getting and from what I saw, the monasteries around Qinghai are undergoing serious expansion . The money is coming in from presumably devout Hong Kong and Taiwanese businessmen, who may well see this as a chance to secure a great future in the next life….or perhaps more realistically are looking for a secure and steady return on their investment from the millions of devout Buddhists in these parts. It is slightly bizarre and I don't know enough about it to give full judgment, but by appearances it has the look of cynical exploitation of the ancient and deep-seated religiosity of the Tibetan people.
There are of course other sides that the mighty lamas must have considered in their council. In the past the monasteries of Tibet and Qinghai had operated as the most powerful and all encompassing institutions in the land. They were the bank, the government, the church, the factories, the super-market etc all rolled into one. Essentially the financial, political, agricultural, social and spiritual centre-points of Tibetan society… not dissimilar to the abbeys of medieval Europe, except the Tibetan " king" was a supreme being and reincarnation of Buddha himself. This explains why the Chinese were so preoccupied with their total destruction during the invasion and occupation of Tibet in the 1950s through to the Cultural Revolution. By expanding and revitalizing these monasteries the lamas must have some vision of restoring their importance in society. However my skeptical mind tells me there must have been some tactical arrangement made between the lamas and Chinese government, aside from the obvious fact nothing in China, or Tibet for that matter, can go on without the governments knowledge, there must have been some agreement on the modus operandi of this resurgence of the religious institutions. I could not tell you whether there are restrictions on the monks and lamas as to how there are to act, or whether they have to tow an acceptable party line. But my observations of the iconography employed in the new structures can only suggest there has been an agreed merger of Tibetan traditional styles and classic Chinese, or Confucian, imagery. I can only really base this on my visit to Guide, where I helped make the Buddhas for the new stupa and saw the new Dharma wheel by the river, but I know there are other huge monastery expansion projects else where in Qinghai and Tibet. These projects are certainly giving a boost to the local construction industry and as I discovered later, keeping a lot of artisans in the region very busy.
After a peaceful nights sleep, snug in borrowed bedding, I breakfasted on more steamed buns, cha and grapes. It was time for some Buddha painting.
The stupa at Guide has very out-of-place stone relief carvings of distinctly Confucian gods on every corner of the structure, the doors are over-ornately decorated with Chinese dragons and inside every square inch of wall space and ceiling space on all three floors was painted in a hybrid Tibetan style, with large panels of totally out of place Chinese classical ink landscape paintings and kitsch bamboo and tiger scenes. Visitors were not allowed into this nearly , but not quite finished sanctuary. I was in with the Buddha painter though, who spends his whole day alone on the second floor, painting the Buddhas , by the light of one bare light bulb, so I got to prowl around a bit. It was quite spooky, alone, by the light of my cell phone torch, feeling my way around this sacred space, coated with newly settled construction dust. The top floor was incredible, there was room after windowless room full from floor to ceiling with stacks of the traditional long-book religious texts, all wrapped in silk sleeves. Not all of the stacking was complete and countless cardboard boxes lay around ripped open , the texts scattered carelessly over the floor. These texts will most likely never be read, nor many of the 1000 plus clay Buddhas, that my friend was diligently lining the shelved walls with, will ever been seen by the lay people. But they are considered the essential core of a stupa that cannot be counted as sacred with out them. Back out in the light I walked around the balcony where regularly spaced niches housed yet more Buddhas, these ones large highly polished brass ones, but they hadn't been unpacked from their wrapping yet, except for a few hands and the occasional faces poking through, they looked like Muslim ladies with glamourous gilded eyes peeking through their scarves.
My time was running out, so I went back inside to help my friend paint some blue trim on a dozen or so more Buddhas. I suggested he open the door and use the natural light, instead of sitting by the glaring light bulb. He took to that idea! After a while the road beckoned me and I reentered the ever mobile crowds of the Chinese world, hitching a ride on an electric three- wheeled bike to the bus station, where I didn't have to wait long for a bus to take me to Qinghai Hu, the largest and saltiest lake in China.


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CROMAX Framework
Exitas involves its employees in strategy development
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Exitas case, how employee engagement creates a transformational culture
How employee engagement creates a transformational culture
Exitas builds and manages reliable Oracle-data infrastructure with a focus on availability, security and manageability. The IT-sector, however, is the spearhead in digital transformation and subject to high paced changes. For any company that wishes to keep up with tomorrow's reality, employee engagement is key.
Peter Van Spaandonk has been managing director at Exitas for about 5 years now. He manages a team of bright minds that produce an annual turnoverof over 6 million euro. Van Spaandonk starts off by saying "We've been doing our thing for 20 years- you could say that we're the dinosaurs in our industry" Being a niche company, we operate in a very small market.
And at some point we realised that some of our competitors were struggling because of new, disruptive technologies. Even the technology that we use ourselves was starting to get compromised.
IT evolves at an uncanny pace that is hard to keep track of, after all. We realised that we were doing okay for now, but that our organisation was not ready for tomorrow's reality.
One thing struck us as immediately obvious: in order to stay one jump ahead of the digital transformation, we needed an updated strategy.
Van Spaandonk realised that it would be futile to redesign the entire company's ins and outson his own. It was to be a story in which all Exitas employees were co-authors.
"I've always believed in employee engagement" the managing director adds. "Because my point of view is one thing, but the team's point of view is quite another. You see, any one of our team members has their own expertise, background and network. It makes sense to use that collective intelligence, to work out a new strategy."
"Try thinking outside of the box, when everyone's caught up in their day to day routine."
And thus, Van Spaandonk started to brainstorm with his team on setting a new course, a few years ago. A job easier said than done, apparently. The so-called "reinventing the company" was a task piled on top of the mundane, every day tasks. "Whether it was following up on orders and invoices, or further training courses for our people to integrate new technological evolutions: I noticed that we were all easily distracted by the routine of the regular working week." Van Spaandonk reflects.
"Try thinking outside of the box in that situation. A shame really, because it wasn't for a lack of great ideas. In short: due to the lack of a sense of urgency, the initiatives died out.
Bedenk's newsletter came at precisely the right moment, he claims. "The key question of the email I read, was: 'How do you engage your employees and involve the entire company in the transformation process?", Van Spaandonk goes on. "That was the exact issue I was facing at that point in time. The newsletter didn't talk about big revolutions or innovations, the content was very hands-on and pragmatic about involving staff in the change process. That was the trigger that led me to join forces with the Bedenk fellows.
"In collaboration with Bedenk, we looked at how to directly include our employees from the get-go"
It soon turned out that the original Exitas approach lacked clearly defined goals. "What will we be doing for the next couple of months and years?" was a too vaguely put question, causing employees to head off in all kinds of directions. But this is not how you achieve the hard results you are specifically aiming for. "In collaborationwith Bedenk, we looked at how to directly include our employees from the get-go" Van Spaandonk continues. Over the course of several sessions, we surveyed the current situation and the internal perception of Exitas.
From mission statement to vision, ending in a strategy workshop
Based on the collected input, the management went back to basics: the reason behind the company. In other words: Exitas was first going to define their new mission statement, followed by the (re)formulating of their vision. This was essential in order to implement the necessary changes. "We've really thought long and hard about how the world will evolve during the next five years, how exactly it will be different, and how this affects our way of working." Van Spaandonk recalls. Keeping an ideal scenario in the back of our minds, we formulated a long term strategy. Bedenk made us realise that we should revisit our vision and mission statement, preferably, every year. As this is the only way of staying agile enough, because as a company, due to the rapid pace of change, there is no way that you can properly prepare yourself for the upcoming five years.
"A reflection exercise led to the distillation of six strategic projects. On which we'd focus,for the months and years to come."
Based on the new vision and mission statement, the strategic pillars on which Exitas would focus, were selected. We included a couple of managers during a new reflection exercise - the front- and back office," Van Spaandonk explains. "This exercise led to the distillation of six strategic projects, on which we'd focus for the months and years to come.
Successful projectteams create engagement
Entering the final phase of the strategy roll-out, it was up to the CEO to debut the new strategic pillars in front of the entire company. "We were very eager to present our new mission statement, vision and strategy to our colleagues", Van Spaandonk smiles. "The suspense had been building for some months now, because nobody knew what exactly had become of the survey.
"If there's one thing I've learned, it's that you absolutely have to get people involved in the change process"
Communication only wasn't sufficient of course, as the Exitas management knew. So how did this company take action? "We asked everyone of our employees who wanted to collaborate on a strategic project of their own choosing. This is how we formed the task groups, in which teams regularly meet up to shape and execute the project together. "If there's one thing I've learned, it's that you absolutely have to get people involved in the change processes of your company. Otherwise you simply won't succeed."
Exitas also acknowledges that this a a dynamic exercise. "For instance, during school holidays, certain projects come to a halt", Van Spaandonk explains. "But we are positively optimistic: out of the six projects, four are well under way. One is a bit trickier, but we'll get there in the end."
"We aspire to infuse intrapreneurship into our DNA"
Van Spaandonk says that it's wonderful seeing this guided trajectory made people come forward as role models. "We're part of the Cronos Group, where intrapreneurship is infused into their DNA", he acknowledges. "We share that ambition, and I believe we can already consider this our first success story."
If you want a thing done well, (don't) do it yourself.
If this guided trajectory has taught Van Spaandonk anything, it's to be quicker to collaborate with an external partner. "It's a classic reflex of the Flemish SME to think 'I'll just quickly do it myself'. But to have a fresh outlook, someone to assist you with this, that can be a huge help. Besides, it sort of works as an accountability check as well. It keeps you focused on the task at hand, instead of being distracted by the mundane madness."
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Preview The Invisible Crime Part One and Part Two by going to The Invisible Crime website.
What happens when a typical, upper-middle-class man from a respectable American family becomes the target of a covert organization bent on controlling both mind and body? When that secret organization is armed with high-tech weaponry which includes microchip technology aimed at controlling the minds and actions of its victims, terror reigns.
In this chilling, true-life account, writer Michael Fitzhugh Bell is drugged, abducted, raped, and surgically implanted with microchips.
Tracked and tortured, Michael's predators can even read his thoughts. In this battle of man versus technology turned against us, Michael must prove his case to the police before his attackers not only eliminate Michael's memory-but eliminate Michael.
From the terror of being electronically stalked to the horror of surgical microchip implants and mind control.
Michael Fitzhugh Bell's experiences as a victim will leave you shocked and amazed. His uphill battle with doctors, lawyers, police, Government, F.B.I., C.I.A., and a secret criminal underworld begins in Hollywood, races into and through the North Carolina backwoods, and then back to California.
As you experience Michael's journey on each horrific page, you will see actual medical photos, X-rays, ultrasound and MRI images, all showing non-therapeutic tracking and torture devices.
These instruments and tools are available to anyone on the Internet, including criminal organizations like those which targeted Michael Bell.
His battle for survival continues today.
"What if someone could read your mind, manipulate your dreams, and see and hear everything that you do? What if you were followed and tracked everywhere you went? What if voices were electronically beamed into your head and you were shocked by directed or microwave energy, just as you were drifting off to sleep? What if the technology that made this all possible had actually been in existence for over fifty years and kept secret? What if you became the Victim of the crime and technology and nobody believed you?"
Part Two is the sequel to Michael Fitzhugh Bell's first book.
Less than ten days after moving into Michael's apartment in Palm Springs, California, this covert cellphone tower was installed in a parking lot directly across the street from the apartment building. The entire structure including the base, was installed overnight. One day it was an empty parking lot, the very next morning this camouflaged cellphone tower appeared. This cellphone tower is less than 100 yards from Michael's apartment.
In this controversial true crime story and expose', author and investigative journalist, Michael Fitzhugh Bell reveals a new form of Covert Domestic Terrorism that is being perpetrated on innocent United States Citizens and millions of people around the world.
In his first book, Bell describes how he became an unwitting victim of the United States Government, he's known as a Targeted Individual. Bell has been Illegally implanted with nonconsensual, non-therapeutic biomedical implant devices which cause severe suffering, physical torture and psychological terror.
This crime has infiltrated every aspect of society and is secretly flourishing at the expense of the U.S. Taxpayer.
Whistleblower Michael Fitzhugh Bell is a victim of what is referred to as an Unacknowledged Special Access Program (U.S.A.P.) created by the United States Government, believed to be part of the Military Black Ops portion of the Shadow Government.
Bell is victimized through the illegal misuse of advanced nanotechnology, biomedical devices embedded throughout his body, using clandestine Government Classified Technologies. The first book demonstrated this and used actual verified Doctors reports and documented medical images to prove this fact.
Bell is under constant attack by Bioelectronic Torture Weapons, 24/7, in a non-stop assault on his life, fighting on the front lines of this battle of survival all day, everyday.
In this ongoing account, the author discloses details and unveils an evil truth hidden in plain sight.
This second book shovels hard at unearthing the little known crimes of Organized Stalking, Bioelectronic Torture/Electronic Harassment and Mind Control.
"The Invisible Crime - Part Two - A Targeted Individual, Synthetic Telepathy, and Global Criminal Biomedical Human Experimentation - A True Story", goes further than previously in print, disclosing an astonishing truth that remains part of a secret Government Human Experimentation and illegal, non-consensual clinical trial test program.
Synthetic Telepathy is the process of hacking the human mind using a supercomputer and analyzing and deciphering a human being's thoughts in real-time via their emanating brainwave frequency.
Michael Fitzhugh Bell is being illegally stalked and tortured wherever he goes, under constant remote electronic surveillance, stripping him of his civil liberties and privacy and severely compromising his health and his life. His every thought being read in real-time using classified technologies by a sinister Government obsessed with control.
This true crime story, told through the eyes of Michael Fitzhugh Bell, takes the reader on a horrifying journey from a life of freedom to one of human enslavement.
Bell reveals how his life has been shattered by an ongoing cruel and inhumane, criminal, unethical, experimental Biological Weapon in the form of an unnatural, manmade pathogen that he was intentionally infected with.
This skin condition, Morgellons Disease, is an unexplained, uncommon skin disorder which is generally characterized by crawling sensations on and beneath the surface of the skin, and fiber-like filaments that emerge from lesions on the surface of the skin. Doctors refuse to recognize this disease as it's part of a highly-classified U.S.A.P. and does not officially exist.
This account is validated by cold hard facts and is presented with additional evidence using diagrams, illustrations and actual photographs and Medical Imaging.
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Late defeat, red card, football is back!
Posted on August 3, 2013 by aloadofcobblers2011
Carter…red card
York City 1-0 Northampton Town
Saturday, August 3rd 2013
Yep…this sounds about right. Long away trip, high expectations, not a lot happening then a red card and a late winner as we lose by the single goal. Oh, football is back all right!
Aidy Boothroyd said a week ago that we weren't ready and despite a couple of decent signings this week it appears that's still the case after chances were few and far between at Bootham Crescent with a 4-5-1 formation that saw Roy O'Donovan leading the line alone. To be fair, there's still a key cog or two to come in with Chris Hackett missing this one whilst a striker is surely still on Aidy Boothroyd's shopping list but that doesn't make yet another disappointing opening day of the season any easier to bear.
The match itself didn't seem to be a classic and could easily have drifted into a goalless draw that would have satisfied most inside the ground and the first half raced by with the home side looking most likely to take the early season by the scruff of the neck. But with around twenty minutes to play, new boy Darren Carter saw red for his second bookable offence and any hope we had of claiming all three points vanished. Roy O'Donovan had earlier smashed the cross bar as Town got more of a grip on the game but the red card gave the Minstermen the left they needed.
It was so nearly a repeat of last season's trip to Bootham Crescent with the Cobblers claiming a point with ten men but with just a minute to play a cross from Ashley Chambers was cleared only as far as former Cobblers loan man Ryan Jarvis who slotted in the only goal of the game with no time for a Cobblers recovery.
With a six man bench made up with plenty of youngsters there's still a lot of questions to be answered for the Cobblers as this season clicks into gear and this defeat will do nothing to convince anyone that last season's away form will be sorted.
But it's still very early days and there's time to get the right players in for the long haul rather than panic and bring in a quick fix. I'm suspecting that Liam Dickinson is still in with a shout of a contract once his latest injury clears up in what could be a week's time and who knows what else is going on behind the scenes.
To me, this is another one of those defeats that if it happens on a Tuesday night in mid-season it doesn't get a lot of attention but because it's the opening day there's immediate panic stations being set up. Plenty of teams have suffered more than we have this afternoon and we've just got to try and put it behind us and hope for the best in the coming weeks rather than predicting the doom and gloom of seasons gone by.
Remember…last time we won on the opening day was a 4-2 success over Cheltenham Town with Leon Constantine scoring (yes, he did that sometimes!) the clincher late on. That season saw us relegated whilst the 1997 and 2000 promotion seasons both began with away defeats (the 1997 one notable for us losing 2-1 at Wigan with TWO red cards, a late team bus and a subsequent fine!).
45 games to go to turn things around…
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Weinstein Company Pulls 'War With Grandpa', 'The Upside' & 'Mary Magdalene' Off Release Schedule
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While the Weinstein Company deals with a few internal matters, it has pulled three films from their 2018 release dates — likely in anticipation of the company changing hands. Robert De Niro-Christopher Walken starrer The War with Grandpa had been set for February 23, Bryan Cranston and Kevin Hart's The Intouchables remake The Upside gives up its March 9 date, and biblical biopic Mary Magdalene starring Rooney Mara has exited the March 30 slot.
War with Grandpa and The Upside were set for wide release, and Mary Magdalene had been slated for a limited now. TWC now lists all three as "unset 2018."
The War with Grandpa already had been on its third release date. The about a brawl that erupts when a kid is forced to give up his bedroom when Gramps moves in first was set to hit theaters on April 23, 2017 then October 20 before settling into the March 9 slot. TWC said in August that the then-latest date change was due to a late production start.
Director Neil Burger told Deadline in August that The Upside "really spoke to the divisions in the country now." "Divisions of race and wealth and all the rest of it, and it spoke to it by addressing it, actually—the movie is about two people connecting across the divides of race, ability and wealth," he said. The pic is a remake of TWC's 2011 French film The Intouchables, a smash hit in France and internationally, though it only made $10.1M stateside.
Helmed by Lion's Garth Davis, Mary Magdalene also features Tahar Rahim, Ryan Corr, Joaquin Phoenix as Jesus Christ and Chiwetel Ejiofor as Peter the Apostle.
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A summary of U isotope observations in the geologic record. We do not know if changes in the U isotope composition of the carbonate sink represents changes in the amount of U exported by reducing reactions or changes in the size of the isotopic fractionation due to changes in the reductants, seawater chemistry or other unidentified phenomena.


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Margot Livesey's first book, a collection of stories called Learning By Heart, was published by Penguin Canada in 1986. Since then she has published six novels: Homework, Criminals, The Missing World, Eva Moves the Furniture, Banishing Verona and The House on Fortune Street.
Recently I asked her what she was reading. Her reply:
I don't read as many books as I should by Antipodean writers. Richard Flanagan's gorgeously written novel Wanting made me want to correct this failing. Flanagan is a Tasmanian writer and Wanting is set in the nineteenth century, partly in Tasmania and partly in London. In 1854 Lady Jane Franklin, the widow of the famous polar explorer Sir John Franklin, visited the novelist Charles Dickens, then at the height of his fame, and asked him to rebut an article that suggested that her husband's crew had turned to cannibalism during the last days of their desperate expedition. This meeting provides the dark spark that ignites Flanagan's novel. In alternating chapters he explores Dickens's relationship with his wife, Sir John Franklin and a young actress named Ellen Tiernan and the Franklins' relationship with a young aboriginal girl named Mathinna. Flanagan succeeds in making both Dickens's inner life and the genocide of the aborigines in his native Tasmania equally powerful.
The Scottish writer, James Kennaway, was born in 1928 and died in a car crash in 1968. I first heard of him because he attended the school in Scotland where my father taught but happily, during the sixties, many other people knew him because of his brilliant novels. I just read his posthumously published novel, The Cost of Living Like This. The subject matter could easily sound trite - a married man in his thirties, who's dying of cancer, has an affair with a much younger woman - but the writing is electrifying, crackling with wit and energy and passion. I wanted to stop strangers in the street and read them passages.
Currently I'm re-reading Jane Eyre, and marvelling all over again at Bronte's capacity to invoke the giant passions of childhood and the stages of Jane's journey as she makes her way from girlhood to adulthood. This time I'm trying to pay more attention to Bronte's handling of religion throughout the novel. She was, after all, a minister's daughter.
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Also, check out brands like Apple on Amazon. the iPhone, iPad 2, and iPad Touch will have some special pricing available on or around 2013 Black Friday and Cyber Monday. As it has been over the last few years, Apple products and the holidays seem to be a match made in heaven. In addition to the many Black Friday 2013 electronics deals, there will also be slashed prices on books, DVDs, clothing, furniture, home decor, Christmas decorations and so much more.
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At Asian fusion discotheque Neverland II recently, it looked like the Hallyu, or Korean pop music wave, had swept over to hubba-hubba land.
The show-stealers were a group of six leggy South Korean women, who could easily have passed for a professional K-pop girl group eyeing Girls' Generation's throne.
Never missing a beat, the six cutesy women who go by the name Viva Girls hip-swayed and twirled on stage in unison, singing renditions of popular K-pop numbers with harmonised vocals.
One of them, 25-year-old South Korean Rena Kwon, mesmerised the crowd as she belted out English love ballads by the likes of Alicia Keys and Adele.
In a bid to cater to a wider audience and keep the Asian fusion club concept fresh, more Asian club operators are casting their nets farther afield in a bid to go international with their entertainment offerings.
It is now common to find male and female singers and dancers from places such as South Korea, Taiwan, Japan and even as far away as Russia and Ukraine performing at such clubs.
Only a few years ago, the majority of foreign entertainers in Asian clubs hailed from Thailand and China.
But in the past year, clubs have begun hiring entertainers from other parts of Asia and even Eastern Europe.
Life! counted at least a dozen Asian clubs that now feature such performers who either work at the club from four months to two years at a stretch or are engaged for one-off performances.
Says a spokesman for the Neverland Group, which runs a stable of nightclubs, including Neverland in Orchard Plaza, Neverland II and Club Sonar in Orchard Hotel: "We brought in Korean and Eastern European performers to keep our entertainment offerings fresh with new acts, which is also in line with our vision in redefining live entertainment."
The Neverland Group hired Viva Girls through an entertainment agency based in South Korea and also employed a group of Russians and Ukranians to dance freestyle during the DJ sets at the club.
Club patrons are taking to the Asian melting pot concept.
"Koreans dance way better than a lot of other performers from other countries. They are more professional and they look like they work very hard and practise every day," says Mr Sebastian Tan, 47, an IT executive who occasionally visits Asian clubs and enjoys performances by Koreans and Taiwanese.
At nine-month-old Chinese club Allurez in Middle Road, Taiwanese and Japanese male and female singers and dancers entertain club patrons, performing Cantonese, English, Hokkien and Korean pop songs. Taiwanese make up the bulk of its foreign entertainers.
One of Allurez's four owners, who wants to be known only as Mr Z. Ho, 33, says when they set up the club, they "felt there was a market for such performers from Taiwan, because no one was really doing it".
Back then, performers from Thailand and China were all the rage and no one had thought about hiring entertainers from other parts of Asia.
"The flower club concept is unique in Asia and we wanted to take it to the next level by injecting it with a different culture and cater to a wider, sophisticated audience," says Mr Ho, referring to the flower garland culture popular in Asian clubs, where patrons show appreciation for performers by purchasing flower garlands and silk sashes for them.
South Korean group Viva Girls show off their polished dance moves while singing at Neverland II.
At Allurez club, Taiwanese and Japanese performers take to the stage.
South Korean club dancer Coco Min.