With hundreds of locations sprinkled across the southern United States, a large regional healthcare system continually endeavors for medical advances and higher quality care. It's not surprising that such systems are among the most comprehensive not-for-profit organizations in the country.
For the health system's energy manager, that means heating, cooling, lighting and powering over millions of square feet of hospitals, doctor's offices, emergency departments and outpatient care facilities.
"To make sure everything around the hospitals work as expected, there's a lot of behind-the-scenes redundancy, preventive maintenance and people spending 24 hours around the clock to keep things running."
Energy costs are always secondary to reliable power and quality healthcare. But every dollar saved – whether through rate reconstruction, consolidating bills or eliminating waste – goes back into care, reducing costs that are passed on to patients. With potential rewards for smart energy management so great, the healthcare system created a council to oversee conservation efforts and work toward a five-year goal: reduce net energy consumption of hospitals by a whopping 20 percent.
"In the last three to four years, energy has become an opportunity and a buzzword here, simply because we need to find ways to lower healthcare costs," the energy manager explains.
The goal is lofty, but the team is employing a variety of methods to combat energy inefficiencies. From lighting projects to control work, retro-commissioning to fault analytics, they have deployed savings tactics paired with nimble strategies for sustaining them as the organization grows and consumes even more energy. With less than a year left to go, they have already managed to cut energy consumption by about 15 percent.
One of the team's guiding principles is "know your numbers," referring to the importance of data-driven decision making. A key strategy they selected to help with this is Panoramic Power® from Direct Energy Business. The device-level energy monitoring solution gives energy managers the real-time visibility necessary to find and eliminate energy waste and predict and prevent equipment failures.
"We heard Panoramic Power is the next best thing since sliced bread, but I had to see it," the energy manager says. "We agreed to try it and told Direct Energy Business that we'd love to pilot it at one of our sites."
They selected a freestanding 24/7 Emergency Department, as their first Panoramic Power site. Though the building is new, it's Energy Use Intensity (EUI) was very high, in part due to an inefficient HVAC system. The building uses two hot water boilers, two air handlers, one chiller, fans and lighting circuits. In total, the all-electric facility costs approximately $20,000 per month to power. With real-time feedback from Panoramic Power, the team would finally be able to expose where all those dollars were going.
It took only three hours for 137 Panoramic Power sensors to be placed on the facility's high-consumption equipment. No equipment required shut down for the installation and patient care continued in the building without interruption.
"As soon as the bridge signal was set up to connect the sensors to the cloud, I almost instantaneously began to get data," recalls the health system's energy manager. "That was quite impressive to me and my mind started whirling, thinking about different things we could do with this data. I was fairly excited when we left that afternoon. I wanted to get back to my office and turn on the dashboard. I also had it set up on my phone, so I could see it from anywhere."
Within the first few days, the team spotted two major impediments to energy savings. First, why was the hot water boiler constantly running during May, when most of the building didn't require heat? And second, why was the energy consumption so erratic?
They quickly discovered answers to both questions. The HVAC system depended on 41 VAV boxes above the ceiling to condition a space by running hot water through the boxes, thereby warming the air. Only six or seven areas in the facility required heat during warm months. But warming and retaining the air temperature in those rooms still required the entire boiler system to cycle on and off. At a price tag of $7,000-8,000 per month, running the boiler during the summer was accounting for as much as 15 percent of the annual energy bill.
The team also discovered that the boiler system was cycling through its sequence continuously, which didn't allow the water temperature to reach the set point before moving to the next stage. By changing the cycling sequence to minutes, instead of seconds, the boiler system could operate in step-up mode on a consistent schedule that consumed less energy.
"In conjunction with the building automation system, Panoramic Power showed us that we were running the boiler to supply hot water to only a handful of VAV boxes. By replacing those boxes with ones that use electric strip heat, rather than hot water, we could turn the boiler completely off during the summer." Annually, that's a $35,000-40,000 savings on heat.
The energy team has been able to demonstrate so much value with Panoramic Power that they're already working on installing over 60 sensors in a second freestanding emergency department site. The team is now almost completely self-sufficient with the tool, running reports and analysis, as well as mapping sensors, a task usually left to the installation team.
"That's what makes Panoramic Power so great," the energy manager maintained. "Common people can take this tool and do wonderful things with it. I'm not an expert on electricity, but I do have a little bit of common sense and I understand facilities. That little bit of knowledge, along with a tool that can measure real-time consumption when I flip a switch or turn a dial – that's invaluable."
So when it comes to energy, it seems that Panoramic Power may be just what the doctor ordered.


Mobile last mile performance is uneven at best. Subscribers demand better coverage and more capacity as ever-Increasing video traffic overwhelms carrier infrastructure on today's 4G LTE networks. However, capacity upgrades are prohibitively expensive in an environment where total revenue and average revenue per user (ARPU) are under constant pressure, and the infrastructure demands of 5G are on the horizon. Moreover, upgrades don't address the real issues.
Mobile networks are subject to factors that are difficult to control. Last mile RF interference, fading and channel access conflicts create jitter that mobile networks treat as congestion, slowing traffic until throughput collapses, even when plenty of bandwidth is available. The result is poor call quality, video that randomly pauses, and stalled applications. In the busy high-speed, small cell, low round trip time networks planned for 5G, the impact of jitter will be devastating, resulting in more throughput collapse than ever. Traditional network optimization does little to address jitter in today's LTE environment, and will be even less effective with 5G. Carriers get far less than optimal use of the infrastructure they have, and costly upgrades fail to deliver the expected results.
WarpEngine™ CT (Cell Tower) leverages Badu Networks' patented technology to eliminate the last mile impact of jitter due to RF interference, fading and other factors that cause mobile network throughput collapse. WarpEngine CT is a single ended solution with built-in GTP support that can be deployed at cell tower base stations to optimize uploads and downloads for smartphones associated with them. No changes to the GTP network configuration are required, and all WarpEngine CT appliances can be controlled from a single WarpManager™ admin console. Carriers typically see more than a 300% improvement in mobile network throughput, enabling them to offer their subscribers 5G quality of experience (QoE) over their existing 4G LTE networks.
Mobile cell sites such as RDUs (Rapid Deployment Units) and COWs (Cell on Wheels) to handle high-traffic scenarios.
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Waterville District Court: Jan. 28-Feb. 15, 2012
WATERVILLE -- The following cases were closed from Jan. 28, 2012 to Feb. 15, 2012 at Waterville District Court.
By Morning Sentinel Staff
WATERVILLE — The following cases were closed from Jan. 28, 2012 to Feb. 15, 2012 at Waterville District Court.
Aitken Gravel, Monroe, rule violation unsafe/defective vehicle, Oct. 21, 2011, in Albion; $250 fine.
Robert Albreada, 54, Torrington, Conn., rule violation, fail to possess previous seven-day status, Dec. 5, 2011, in Sidney; $250 fine.
Matute Ramon Andino, 43, Bridgeport, Conn., rule violation, operation with false duty, March 9, 2011, in Sidney; $750 fine.
Andrew R. Beauchesne, 20, Camden, minor consuming liquor, Sept. 18, 2011, in Waterville; dismissed.
Pierce Beauchesne, 60, rule violation, operation with false duty, Nov. 22, 2011, in Sidney; $750 fine.
Angela L. Berry, 33, Mercer, operating while license suspended or revoked, prior, Nov. 18, 2011, in Oakland; $500 fine.
Justin Charles Berube, 26, Albion, theft of services, Jan. 27, 2012, in Albion; four-day jail sentence, $40 restitution. Violating condition of release, Jan. 27, 2012, in Albion; four-day jail sentence.
Bradley Bessey, 41, Norridgewock, attaching false plates, July 21, 2010, in Oakland; $100 fine. Operating while license suspended or revoked, prior, July 21, 2010; in Oakland; $500 fine.
Tracy L. Bessey, 32, Rockport, operating under the influence (OUI), Oct. 25, 2011, in Waterville; 90-day license suspension, $500 fine.
Geary S. Bonville, 72, Presque Isle, rule violation, operation without duty record, Oct. 17, 2011, in Clinton; $100 fine.
Bradley Bourgeois, 19, Winslow, motor vehicle speeding: 30+ miles per hour over speed limit, Dec. 29, 2011, in Winslow; dismissed. Minor transporting liquor, Dec. 29, 2011, in Winslow; 30-day license suspension, $100 fine.
Richard D. Bowman, 46, Oakland, operating while license suspended or revoked, Dec. 7, 2011, in Oakland; $250 fine.
Spencer Brassard, 42, Augusta, assault, Nov. 6, 2011, in Vassalboro; eight-month jail sentence, $300 fine. Failure to appear in court on criminal summons, Jan. 3, 2012, in Waterville; dismissed.
Robert D. Bulba, 23, Norridgewock, operating while license suspended or revoked, Nov. 14, 2011, in Waterville; $250 fine.
Justin M. Chechowitz, 21, Lawrence, Mass., disorderly conduct, in Waterville; $200 fine. Violating condition of release, Feb. 2, 2012, in Waterville; two-day jail sentence.
Emma Caperton Clancy, 20, Waterville, minor consuming liquor, Sept. 18, 2011, in Waterville; dismissed.
Ricky Nelson Cochran, 43, Belgrade, domestic violence assault, Dec. 31, 2011, in Waterville; 120-day jail sentence. Violating condition of release, Jan. 11, 2012, in Winslow; 120-day jail sentence. Violating condition of release, Jan. 11, 2012, in Winslow; 120-day jail sentence.
Kerri Coderre, 29, Waterville, theft by unauthorized taking or transfer, Nov. 29, 2011, in Waterville; $200 fine.
Richard Cowen, 51, Norwich, Conn., rule violation operated by unqualified driver, Nov. 22, 2011, in Sidney; $250 fine.
Arnold L. Craney, 43, Fairfield, disorderly conduct, loud noise, private place, Feb. 4, 2012, in Waterville; two-day jail sentence, $250 fine.
Hubert Dumais Jr., 43, Guilford, Conn., rule violation, operation without duty record, Oct. 14, 2011, in Sidney; $500 fine.
Oliver M. Dunn, 19, Waterville, minor possessing liquor, Sept. 17, 2011, in Waterville; dismissed.
Jerome Elisha, 52, Garluci, Texas, rule violation, operation with false duty, Dec. 5, 2011, in Sidney; $750 fine.
Nathan M. Feix, 22, Waterville, forgery, Aug. 3, 2011, in Winslow; 30-day jail sentence. Theft by unauthorized taking or transfer, Aug. 3, 2011, in Winslow; 30-day jail sentence.
Amanda Findley, 19, Manchester, minor consuming liquor, Sept. 15, 2011, in Waterville; dismissed.
Rose C. Garson, 18, Waterville, minor possessing liquor, Sept. 15, 2011, in Waterville; dismissed.
Jesse J. Goldrup, 33, Winslow, operating vehicle without license, Feb. 3, 2012, in Waterville; dismissed. OUI, Feb. 3, 2012, in Waterville; 14-day jail sentence, 90-day license suspension, $500 fine. Violating condition of release, Feb. 3, 2012, in Waterville; 14-day jail sentence.

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Consequences Of Not Paying Spousal Support | Melbourne, Fl.
This is the next post in my series on the topic of alimony and spousal support in Melbourne, Florida divorce cases. My last article discussed the process of adjusting spousal support after the Court has entered an order. It is important to understand that, quite often, the Court will adjust support up or down as the parties' financial situations change. If you believe that you will not be able to make your payments it is, therefore, important that you consider requesting an adjustment. In this article I will discuss the consequences of failing to pay your alimony. If you or a loved one are in need of assistance then contact my office today to speak with a lawyer.
An order to pay alimony is like any other mandate from the Court. Failing to meet this mandate can result in the offending party being held in contempt. Such a ruling can result in jail time, fines, having to pay the other side's attorney's fees, and still owing the unpaid support at the end of the day. If one is found to have violated the Court order, then the argument of "not having the money" will typically carry little weight with the Judge. This is due to the fact that, as far as the Court is concerned, the offending party could have sought a support adjustment if they were having financial difficulty. In other words, if one cannot make their payments it is important to immediately seek an alimony modification.
If you are the party who is owed money then there are several steps which go into getting paid. Typically, your attorney will first contact the offending party and attempt to work out a solution which does not involve the legal process. Such an arrangement may involve the paying spouse making all future payments on time, and including an additional monthly amount to make up for the arrears. If such an arrangement cannot be reached then it will be necessary to file a Motion with the Court requesting that the spouse be held in contempt. A hearing will be held and the Judge will have several options in dealing with the situation. It is important to realize that in such situations the Court's main goal is typically not to "punish" the offending party; the Judge's main concern will be in making sure that the payee receives their money. As such, the Court's solution will depend on the specific facts of the case.
If you or a loved one are in a dispute, which involves unpaid alimony, then contact my office today to speak with a Melbourne Spousal Support lawyer. I am experienced in handling such matters and my office is ready to assist you. We also service clients in the Brevard County cities of Titusville, Cocoa, Palm Bay, Grant, Valkaria, and Rockledge, as well as in the Indian River County areas of Fellsmere, Sebastian, Vero Beach, Indian River Shores, and Orchid.


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Stenoma cycnolopha es una especie de polilla del género Stenoma, orden Lepidoptera.

Fue descrita científicamente por Meyrick en 1925.

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HomeEntertainmentJunaid Safdar Sings 'Kya Hua Tera Wada' Song at his Wedding Ceremony
Junaid Safdar Sings 'Kya Hua Tera Wada' Song at his Wedding Ceremony
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Maryam Nawaz's Son Junaid Safdar Sings a Beautiful Song at His Wedding
Junaid Safdar, son of PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz and Captain (retd) Muhammad Safdar, surprised everyone by sings 'Kya Hua Tera Wada' song at his Wedding Ceremony
It may be recalled that Maryam Nawaz's son got married on August 22 in a ceremony held in London in which she participated through video call.
Junaid Safdar and Ayesha Saif's wedding photos are circulating on social media and now a video has gone viral in which Maryam Nawaz's son is seen awakening the magic of his voice.
A professional singer was also hired for the wedding of Maryam Nawaz's son, but in the videos that went viral, it can be seen that when Junaid Safdar was caught with a mic, he surprised everyone with his singing.
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Junaid Safdar is seen singing the Indian song 'Kiya Hua Tera Wada' on this occasion and his ability has also impressed social media users.
Remember that 'Kya Hua Tera Wada' is a part of the Bollywood film 'Hum Kisi Se Kam Nahi' which was released in 1977 but this song is still very popular today.
The video of this song sung by Maryam Nawaz's son at his wedding ceremony is not only going viral but is also being highly appreciated.
Another photo from the same event held on August 22 is also going viral on social media in which Maryam Nawaz is talking to Junaid Safdar on a video call.
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In the photo, Junaid Safdar is holding a phone in his hand and Maryam Nawaz is on a video call.
It may be recalled that Junaid Safdar's marriage ceremony was held at The Lance Borough, the most expensive and luxurious 5-star hotel in London.
The wedding ceremony was attended by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and former Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, Shahbaz Sharif's son Salman Shahbaz and his wife and others.


Joe Keohane passed away in July and was a past Grand Marshal.
Every two years the Columbus Day Parade makes its way back from the North End to East Boston and this year's parade is sure not to disappoint. With four divisions, dozens of marching bands and a parade that will last nearly four hours, the daylong parade is sure to make organizers proud.
This year's parade will kickoff at 1 p.m. on Sunday, October 7 and make its way from Suffolk Downs to Maverick Square via Bennington and Chelsea Streets.
The weather forecast for Sunday calls for a perfect fall day and the streets will be lined with residents trying to catch a glimpse of the hundreds of participants marching in the streets of Eastie.
This year's parade included the marching band sounds of Acton Boxboro High School, Syracuse New York Spartan Band and Providence Brass Band among others. There will be plenty of Eastie marchers from East Boston Savings Bank, First Priority Credit Union, East Boston Neighborhood Health Center, East Boston Central Catholic, East Boston Pop Warner and Little League.
However, the real objective of the parade is to achieve Eastie pride that is sure to resonate throughout the community Sunday.
This year is the 200th Anniversary of the USS Constitution's battle in the War of 1812 and the Parade Committee is pleased to host the Pikemen of Old Ironsides along with its Commanding Officer Matthew J. Bonner. In addition, the committee will welcome to Eastie Capt. John Dorey and the visiting sailors from the USS Anzio, one of our country's finest guided missile cruisers docked at South Boston's North Jetty from October 5-9.
The crowd attendance is estimated at 150,000 people and Eastie's elected officials as well as Senator Scott Brown, Congressman Michael Capuano and Lieutenant Governor Tim Murray will be in attendance.
According to organizer Albert 'Buddy' Mangini, this year's parade will be in honor of the late Joe Keohane who passed away in July. Keohane was a true friend of the Eastie community and the Columbus Day Parade—serving as Past Grand Marshal.
Keohane, a U.S. Army Veteran, died on July 1 but spent a lifetime working for many causes in the neighborhood. Keohane was a Social Worker at the Heritage Apartments for 27 years and a longtime community activist.
Keohane helped organize the East Boston Veterans Council and VFW Post 6712. Through these efforts, Keohane kept the tradition of veterans' services alive through Memorial and Veterans Day observations that became part of an Eastie tradition on these solemn days.
He was the Regional Manager of the VFW Post 6721, Past Commander and Officer of the ITAM Post 6 and was named the 2010 Veteran of the Year.
He also volunteered and spent time helping to build civic groups like the East Boston Chamber of Commerce, the East Boston Rotary Club, the East Boston Social Center Elderly Camp where he served as a Board of Director. He was also Past President of the East Boston Kiwanis.


PARK CITY, Utah — It was a blast from the indie past to watch Richard Linklater soak in the applause of the Sundance Film Festival audience on Sunday after the premiere of his transporting new movie, "Boyhood." Mr. Linklater's first official Sundance appearance was in 1991, with "Slacker," one of the emblematic titles of the American independent scene of that period. Since then, he has repeatedly returned to this festival, which, like Mr. Linklater, has pushed boundaries, experimented with form and transcended setbacks. When he was called to the stage by John Cooper, the festival's director, it felt as if Sundance was both mining its history and looking ahead to a new age.
At once sublimely simple and mysterious, "Boyhood" tracks a sweet Texas boy, Mason (Ellar Coltrane), over the course of 12 years, beginning when he's 6 and living with his divorced mother (Patricia Arquette), and his sister, Samantha (Lorelei Linklater, the director's daughter). Instead of using different actors to play Mason as he grows up, Mr. Linklater worked with Mr. Coltrane and the rest of the cast, which includes Ethan Hawke as Mason's father, a few days for each of those 12 years to capture the transformation from wide-eyed child to lanky adolescent. Over the film's 160 minutes, Mason matures before your eyes, as does Mr. Coltrane, who as he shoots up like a sapling and sprouts facial hair, helps turn a fascinating experiment into a profound viewing experience.
In a sense, Mason's on-screen evolution mirrors that of Mr. Linklater, another child of Texas who has grown up in front of moviegoers, becoming along the way an exemplar of American independent cinema. He has had more than a handful films at Sundance — it originally rejected "Slacker" — which has helped burnish his reputation as a quintessential independent despite his on-and-off adventures with the big studios. The kind of artistic trajectory he's enjoyed, Mr. Linklater said after the "Boyhood" premiere, is hard to imagine these days given how rapidly movies slip in and out of theaters before moving to on-demand. Another difference: When he first hit, if a movie wasn't picked up for distribution, it often faded away; with on-demand, bad movies can live forever.
Sundance hit the big 30 this year, a relatively young age for such a powerhouse event. (By comparison, Cannes celebrates its 67th anniversary this year.) Even after the 2008 economic crisis, attendance has continued to inch up: An estimated 45,947 people were here last year, compared with the 40,291 who flooded in in 2009. The crowds turned out again this year for a festival that, under Mr. Cooper, who took over as director in 2003, has managed the delicate task of shaking off criticism that it had gone Hollywood, while keeping the event Hollywood friendly. This is a place where, waiting in line for a movie, you can overhear the likes of Philip I. Kent, the chairman of Turner Broadcasting System, tell Jeff Zucker, the chairman of CNN worldwide, that he had turned off "American Hustle" after 20 minutes.
Presumably both stuck it out for the movie we were there to see, "Life Itself," a documentary directed by Steve James based on Roger Ebert's memoir that CNN Films has picked up for television. Mr. James began shooting the movie in the final months before Mr. Ebert's death in April 2013. Brutally intimate — it includes graphic images of Mr. Ebert, who lost much of his jaw to cancer, receiving medical treatment — the documentary plaits the personal with the professional through archival material and interviews, including with my colleague A. O. Scott. Curiously, the story of Mr. Ebert's work in television ends rather abruptly with the death of his longtime co-host, Gene Siskel. I don't remember hearing the name of Richard Roeper, who served as Mr. Ebert's co-host for nearly a decade afterward.
Among the other celebrity-oriented documentaries this year was Brian Knappenberger's "Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz," the computer-programming savant turned high-profile hacktivist who committed suicide in 2013 while facing a federal trial on charges of hacking into a network at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Filled with interviews, many of them ardent testimonials about Mr. Swartz's brilliance, the movie is appealing primarily as a personal portrait. But the frustratingly, at times breathlessly hagiographic narration and reductive analysis — it draws a parallel between Mr. Swartz's activism and that of Egyptians who overthrew their government — ends up flattening a complex story about the promise of freedom and its reality.
More successful as both a work of cinema and political activism is "We Come as Friends", the most recent title from the documentarian Hubert Sauper, who directed the 2004 masterwork "Darwin's Nightmare." The new movie finds Mr. Sauper traveling across South Sudan just as the newly formed nation declares its independence, splitting Sudan in two. Going high and low, Mr. Sauper crisscrosses the country in a tiny plane, regularly coming down to earth to speak with citizens as well as the outside parties — Chinese oilmen, the United Nations, American missionaries and business types — that are staking varying claims on the nation. Mr. Sauper missteps in his interstitial use of American jazz, which is too historically freighted, but otherwise scores with a surreal, moving, infuriating and persuasive argument that in South Sudan there's nothing "post" about colonialism.
Among this year's fiction film highlights were "Whiplash" and "Land Ho!," two joyous entertainments that will be headed to theaters courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics. Written and directed by Damien Chazelle, "Whiplash" tells the vaguely autobiographical tale of a jazz student, Andrew (the rising indie star Miles Teller), who longs to become the next Buddy Rich and nearly drums himself over the edge trying. A syncopated story of a young striver, the movie tracks Andrew after he's been selected to play in a school band led by a sadistic musician (J. K. Simmons, bald and fanged), a teacher so cruel, he evokes every big-screen drill sergeant who's ever told a recruit to drop and give him 20, 80, 100. The movie was soon christened "Full Metal Juilliard," but it's deeper and richer than its nickname suggests.
"Land Ho!," written and directed by Martha Stephens and Aaron Katz, is a delightfully funny road movie about two longtime friends, a garrulous American, Mitch (Earl Lynn Nelson), and his rather more reserved former brother-in-law, an Australian, Colin (Paul Eenhoorn), who embark on a road trip through Iceland. By turns playful and wistful, the movie is anchored by its irresistible lead performances, with Mr. Eenhoorn, who played the title character in the indie gem "Martin Bonner," a perfect low-key foil for the outsize Mr. Nelson, the breakout star of this year's festival. The filmmakers adroitly skirt both the cute and the condescending — the default registers of too many movies about geezers — to offer a dual portrait of gloriously alive men who just happen to be old.
The acerbically funny "Listen Up Philip" counts as a great leap forward for Alex Ross Perry after his generously received second feature, "The Color Wheel." Narrated by an anonymous man off screen (Eric Bogosian), a kind of authorial presence who bores into the characters' thoughts and feelings, Mr. Perry's latest is at once a riff on a Philip Roth novel and a sly gloss on some of the criticisms of the same. Its dyspeptic lead character, Philip Lewis Friedman (a very good Jason Schwartzman), is a 30-something New York writer who's being rapidly devoured by his narcissism. On the eve of the publication of his second novel, he effects a scorched-earth policy — sometimes appallingly funny, sometimes just dreadful — toward almost everyone in his life.
The movie nimbly hopscotches from one character to another, including Philip's increasingly alienated girlfriend, Ashley Kane (a strong Elisabeth Moss), and an older, reclusive writer, Ike Zimmerman (Jonathan Pryce, delivering a master class in monstrous egomania), who with a bombardment of hilarious put-downs, becomes Philip's mentor. Although the typeface used for the movie's title self-consciously mimics the exaggerated one used for the original cover of "Portnoy's Complaint" (among others), Mr. Perry's story takes some of its cues from the fictional relationship between Mr. Roth's famous alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman, and E. I. Lonoff, a literary recluse first featured in Mr. Roth's "The Ghost Writer" who has been long-viewed as a stand-in for Bernard Malamud. Mr. Perry's work with the actors is assured and at times dazzling, even if he occasionally shakes the camera too much.
There were other fine selections, including "Frank," a forlorn, off-center comedy about a young musician (Domhnall Gleeson), who joins a band led by the title character (Michael Fassbender), a sensitive eccentric who wears a large artificial head fixed in an expression suggestive of childlike awe every moment of the day and night. It sounds unbearably twee, but the Irish-born director Lenny Abrahamson excavates real feeling from this setup, as does Mr. Fassbender, whose delicate, fluttering hands and strangulated voice incrementally turn a ridiculous cartoon into a figure of pathos. However imperfect, this is the kind of work, both homegrown and imported, which makes Sundance more than just another stop on the festival circuit, and instead an essential one.
A critic's notebook article on Friday about the Sundance Film Festival referred incorrectly in some instances to the director whose film "Listen Up Philip" was shown at the festival. The director, Alex Ross Perry, is Mr. Perry, not Mr. Ross. The article also misstated the year Aaron Swartz, the subject of a documentary shown at the festival, committed suicide. It was 2013, not 2012.


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Commission decides to extend customs and VAT waiver for imports of medical and protective equipment needed to fight the pandemic
On 19 April 2021, the Commission decided to extend the temporary waiver of customs duties and Value-Added Tax (VAT) on imports from non-EU countries of medical devices and protective equipment used in the fight against COVID-19.
The decision prolongs the customs duties and VAT relief available under the already existing exemption, which had been due to expire at the end of this month, until 31 December 2021.
The prolongation takes into consideration the challenges that Member States still face in combatting the COVID-19 pandemic, and the fact that imports of these goods remain significant. The measure will continue to support Member States financially in getting equipment such as masks or ventilators to the medical staff and patients that need them most.
More information on the decision can be found here.
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I'll be honest... I'm not a huge Rick Steves fan. I'm a huge believer in experiencing local culture and getting lost in a city, which is what I did when I lived in Paris, instead of carrying a book around, hitting top sites, and eating at tour-book-approved restaurants where the demographic has shifted from French to American. (That started to sound like a rant!) However, the 2013 Paris guide is actually pretty good.
Like any tour book, it provides historical information about Paris sights, but this book offers a HUGE synthesis of history and culture, and it's extremely well written. I know the city (and French history) well, but it was still fun to read. It includes tips for buying and using the Paris Museum Pass, which is a GOD-SEND that many visitors miss out on. Rick Steves has also written "get lost walks" for tourists who want to feel like they are getting lost in the city (but might be too nervous to actually get lost). If you want to visit Paris and have no idea where to start your research, this book is definitely a good jumping-off point. Just leave it in your home country / hostel / apartment / hotel... okay?
No worry about preowned. Sealed tight.
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By Justin Chandler
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Ryerson's city councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam (Ward 27 Toronto Centre-Rosedale) says Toronto needs to increase property taxes or public services like the TTC will continue to increase in price and become too expensive for users.
In November, the TTC board approved a 10-cent fare hike in an attempt to balance the agency's budget. It will take effect on Jan. 1. Fare has increased in price every year for the past six years, while TTC ridership declined this year.
The TTC should be more subsidized than it is, Wong-Tam said. It's currently one of North America's least-subsidized transit agencies. This year, the government subsidy per-rider is about 90 cents, meaning 90 cents of the real cost of a TTC ride is paid for by taxes. The subsidy for Montreal's system was $1.16 per rider in 2015.
"The cost of running public transit cannot be borne exclusively by the rider," Wong-Tam said.
A post-secondary student Metropass will cost $116.75 in 2017, while adult Metropasses will cost $146.25 in 2017. In a four-week month, college and university students must commute ten times weekly to make the pass cheaper than buying tokens or using a Presto card. Wong-Tam said the TTC will have to keep hiking fares to cover its operating costs if all three levels of government don't work to support the service with public money.
If people can't take transit, they're excluded from employment at places they cannot commute to, Wong-Tam said.
Toronto's 2016 operating budget (which covers day-to-day city services) scheduled $1.86 billion for transit, or about 16 per cent of the budget.
The city's nine-year capital budget (which covers construction and repairs) scheduled $10.5 billion of spending on transit, or about 31 per cent of the budget.
Kristyn Wong-Tam speaking at Ryerson (Photo: Hilary Punchard)
Bringing in $3.9 billion, property taxes represent 34 per cent of the funding for Toronto's tax-supported operating budget. All renters and homeowners pay property taxes that are calculated based on the value of a person's home.
Mayor John Tory has promised not to increase property taxes by more than the rate of inflation, which is an increase in the general price of goods.
Wong-Tam said that's "artificially low" and that Toronto property taxes must go up or the city risks "starving the system."
She added user fees will increase as long as the city is unwilling to raise property taxes. User fees are the additional costs associated with public services like TTC fare, library fines and fees for programming at community centres.
Wong-Tam said this will be a "very regressive time for those who are already marginalized and poor."
Property taxes are progressive, because they're tied to the value of one's home, but user fees do not have this benefit. For example, a low-income student would pay the same user fees as a person in an expensive house.
But an issue with property taxes is that renters pay more for less services than single-family homeowners do, Wong-Tam said.
Wong-Tam said it's unfair that renters pay as much for garbage collection as homeowners do, given that garbage collection services make fewer stops when collecting from apartments than they do when collecting from houses in a neighbourhood.
Every new development in Toronto pays fees that get reinvested into infrastructure and services in Toronto, Wong-Tam said. But the revenue is not reinvested proportionally where it was generated, like Ryerson or the downtown core.
The 2016 capital budget was set to take in $1.4 billion (four per cent) of its total revenue from development charges.
Wong-Tam said downtown residents want to know why they have to accept the negative impacts of development, such as increased residential growth, and not benefit from the revenue it generates.
She said she wants a plan to keep some of the revenue from downtown developments for the downtown Toronto's usage. Wong-Tam said that would be a fair way to invest downtown, where much of Toronto's development occurs.
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Chris Azzopardi
One of Amy Grant's career highlights as a gospel-pop musician was a duet with country superstar Vince Gill. That duet – "House of Love," an adult-contempo crossover hit that followed inescapable early-'90s songs like "Baby Baby" and "Every Heartbeat" – would extend outside of music. The two married in 2000, combining Grant's three children and Gill's daughter. And, together, they had a girl of their own, Corinna.
The family lives in Nashville, where they recently installed a home studio (Grant has recorded five new tunes for a retrospective album due in March), and that "house of love" is now a way of life. But it took time and work to get there, Grant told MetroParent.com prior to two concerts in southeast Michigan in early 2010.
Grant spoke to us about blending families, passing her morals onto her kids and how she's basically just another mom.
What do – or don't – you miss about touring with young children?
What's great about it is everybody's proximity to each other all the time. You go from a bus to a hotel room to a backstage. And the most fun thing – especially on that tour, because we were mostly in arenas and big places – was riding toys. Nobody has access to that kind of smooth concrete!
What I don't miss is transferring into the hotel room at 3 o'clock in the morning; that's always hard. And at that point I had three kids. You don't want some stranger carrying them.
Do you still bring the kids on tour?
They're older, so it's really difficult. The last show I did was with the symphony in Birmingham, Ala., and I actually had two of them with me. My "I do" daughter, Jenny Gill, went and sang all the background parts. Sarah is 17 and, for her birthday, I had an orchestration written for a Mindy Smith song that she loves called "One Moment More," and she sang that.
We have a tour on the books for next Christmas, and I would love for Jenny and Sarah and maybe Corinna to come and participate. Millie doesn't really like to be on stage, and she's 20. And Matt's 22. I think the idea of having to be that restricted would send them to the nuthouse!
When you're on the road by yourself, how do you stay in contact with the kids – since most children don't actually talk on phones anymore?
The same way I do at home: a lot of texting!
You've always struck me as a humble, DIY mom – even when you were playing big arenas. Is your life much more glamorous?
If glamorous is how you dress, then I'm not. If it's how you spend your time, I guess I'm not either. I really am a homebody. I love being home. My daughters are the exact same way.
As a mom and a person of faith, has it been difficult to pass your morals onto your kids – especially in the spotlight?
Kids emulate their family of origin whether they want to or not. A child of a screamer will probably grow up to be a screamer. … (But) it's a tough lesson when you've come from affluence to understand the value of the dollar. I've probably been so much stricter on my kids just because of that.
You've said the kids were unhappy in the beginning of your marriage to Vince. Like most blended families, adjusting can be challenging. What advice would you give other parents?
The most important thing is to realize that a blended family is the decision of the parents and not the children. And so the best way to be respectful is to let the kids come around in their own time. Another thing: When I had a baby with Vince, I got this advice from another woman who was from a blended family – she said it's kind of different with a half-brother or half-sister, that you should always offer to pay babysitting. I thought that was great advice. Just practical.
If you're asking for (your children) to respect your choices, then you also have to respect where they are. That's just a good key to navigate those waters. Also – as little posturing as possible. It's OK to have several years of awkwardness!
How have your kids influenced your music palette? Are you finding yourself listening to Miley Cyrus and Lady Gaga?
Yeah – as a matter of fact, those are some of Corinna's favorites. Oh my goodness – I just can't keep up with all of it. They just all have a huge appetite for music.
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Frank Wilson
Born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan on October 29, 1925 to Art and Olga Wilson. Frank Edward entered the produce business the day he was born since his dad was Produce Manager for the Saskatchewan Co-operative Creamery Association. When Frank was 4 years old, his dad started Wilson Produce Co. Ltd. So you see, Frank was well steeped in the industry!
As a lad he worked in the plant doing certain jobs which he really didn't like. He hated dry plucking lousy birds. There were other jobs like making up egg cartons, packing eggs, building wooden egg cases which paid 2 cents per box. Frank claims that as he got older, he could make up twenty-five boxes per hour. In 1938, fifty-cents per hour was big money! Wilson produce also bought farm churned. Some crafty farmers, for additional weight, would load the butter with rocks. It was Frank's job to find and remove these foreign objects and pack the butter into 56 pound wooden boxes.
When he reached high school he recalls his work at the Boys Shoppe, unpacking merchandise and working as a sales clerk. It was a nice clean job but he hated the shoe sales because there were so many boys with stinky feet. At night he would work at his Dad's plant to supplement the $5.00 per week which he made at the Boy's Shoppe.
In 1943 Frank joined the Navy, serving on the H.M.C.S. La Malbaie as Radar Operator and technician on the Atlantic from St. Johns, Newfoundland to London Derry, Ireland as convoy escort. The responsibility was great: the Corvette was manned by 105 crew members. Frank considers himself very lucky to come home when the war was over, without a scratch.
Frank, along with many other young war veterans, finished his education after the war ended. In February 1947, Frank graduated with a degree in Business Administration and immediately went to work for Swift's, in the chick hatchery. Swifts were no stranger to the Wilson's. Frank's dad, Art, had worked for for Swift Canadian Company Ltd. from 1912 to 1920. Back in those days, Swift's were big in the poultry industry in Canada, and even bigger in the United States. The opportunities for ambitious young men were unlimited. Frank took advantage of the opportunity and with hard work and long hours (no over-time) the advances came. Assiniboia, in 1949, to Manage the Buying Station. Back to Moose Jaw in 1951, to take charge of the turkey hatchery. On a one day notice, Frank was asked to move to Saskatoon. Swift's General Manager had also told Frank that promotions in the organization were linked to the co-operation of the employees. So off to Saskatoon, as superintendent of the plant and hatchery.
Swift's rewarded the Department Heads by providing "upgrading courses"; Frank Wilson and Art Gault (the only two Canadians) were sent to San Francisco for sales training.
In July of 1947, Frank Wilson and Margret Kelly married and finalized the relationship which began in Grade 7. The bond had strengthened through correspondence during the war. So, through all of the moves, promotions, work-weekends and long hours, raising a family was not easy. Frank and Margret raised three children; Bill was born in 1948, Kelly in 1951 and Francis in 1957. Margret passed away in 1991.
In January 1952, Frank asked for a $5.00 per week increase. Swifts offered $1.00. Frank then decided it was time to move on. At the same time, Wilson Produce was expanding. Frank's dad asked Frank to come in with him, which he did. Wilson produce expanded into handling chicks, feed sales and poultry evisceration, which was just new in the industry. Things progressed very well for a number of years.
As evisceration became a general practice, more poultry products found there way into the menu. The Federal Government, through direct subsidies and grants, such as the Feed Freight Assistance, encouraged the production to move to central Canada. Provincial Governments in eastern Canada also got into the act with interest free loans, etc. All of this was happening at the expense of the Poultry Industry in Western Canada. Saskatchewan's position was reduced from being a supplier of 30% of the Canadian needs to a mere 3% in a period of 15 to 20 years.
On March 17, 1965, Frank continued his "Poultry Career" as an Inspector with Agriculture Canada. He was very involved in the Swift Current Research Station turkey program, with Dr. Dunkelgod and Dr. Salmon
In 1967 Art Wilson died. Wilson Produce closed its doors, out-surviving all but one of the eight competitors in the Moose Jaw areas Poultry Industry.
Along with the routine duties, in 1978, Harry Robbins, District Supervisor, had Frank study the Brandon Egg Show, for the purpose starting a Poultry Show at Canadian Western Agribition. Frank organized the show and chaired it for a number of years with the Saskatchewan Poultry Council being the sponsor. Frank is still active on the
Frank was always working with and for his community. He was Troop Leader of the Moose Jaw Boy Scouts and later a Scout Master. He served on the Board of Managers of the Presbyterian Church, was Past Master and 32nd degree mason; National Vice President of the Canadian Agricultural Workers Union in charge of finance for many
years, leaving the finances in much better standing.
Frank retired in 1990 as the Inspector-in-Charge of southern Saskatchewan.
Frank met Audrey Wingert, in 1992 at the Briar. Since then it's been a continual, happy relationship for both. Their many interests are mutual, with golfing in the summer at
Sherwood Forest where they have a Mobile Home. In the winters, it is usually spent in their Arizona home, enjoying the sunshine and most important, their Snowbird Friends.
In Audrey's leisure time, she is an accomplished artist with Frank being the Critique!
Frank will now join his Father, to be the first Father and Son to be inducted into the Saskatchewan Poultry Hall of Fame.
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A study in subjects present in a large set of MARC records (roughly
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the resulting dataset representing one row for every subject across
all those records (n=8,357,060).  This is a little more data than
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## Process - data prep

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    % ./marc2csv.py my-records.mrc.xml extracted-subjects.csv

To invoke it using ```parallel``` on hundreds of files:

    % ls *.mrc.xml | parallel -j+0 --eta './marc2csv.py {} csv_extracts/`basename {.}`.csv'

This will result in one csv output file for every input file, generated
using all of the available cores on your machine.  It should give you
linear speedup.

Once that step is complete (it took about 15 minutes on my laptop, which
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redirection step:

    % cat *.csv >> all-extracted-subjects.csv

If that resulting file is big (millions of rows, rather than
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See the Jupyter notebook in this directory for the rest.

## Requirements

The ```marc2csv.py``` python script requires
[pymarc](https://github.com/edsu/pymarc).

The Jupyter notebook requires a working Spark installation and a
kernel for Jupyter to be installed correctly.  [These
instructions](http://thepowerofdata.io/configuring-jupyteripython-notebook-to-work-with-pyspark-1-4-0/)
helped me with that step quite a lot. For what it's worth, I ran
this on an OSX 10.10 laptop with apache-spark installed via
[homebrew](http://brew.sh/), Jupyter installed via
[Anaconda](https://www.continuum.io/why-anaconda), and the following
kernel installed in ```~/.ipython/kernels/pyspark/kernel.json```:

```json
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        "display_name": "pySpark (Spark 1.5.1)",
        "language": "python",
        "argv": [
            "/Users/dchud/anaconda/bin/python2",
            "-m",
            "IPython.kernel",
            "-f",
            "{connection_file}"
        ],
        "env": {
            "SPARK_HOME": "/usr/local/Cellar/apache-spark/1.5.1/libexec",
            "PYTHONPATH": "/usr/local/Cellar/apache-spark/1.5.1/libexec/python/:/usr/local/Cellar/apache-spark/1.5.1/libexec/python/lib/py4j-0.8.2.1-src.zip",
            "PYTHONSTARTUP": "/usr/local/Cellar/apache-spark/1.5.1/libexec/python/pyspark/shell.py",
            "PYSPARK_SUBMIT_ARGS": "pyspark-shell"
        }
    }
```

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Cochin Flower Show 2017, The the District Agri-Horticulture Society organized Kochi Pushpamela will be held from January 7 to 15 at Ernakulathappan Ground / Shiva temple ground.
The Cochin flower show 2017 will be featured with around 30,000 flowers under various categories.
Entry time: 9.00 AM to 9.00 PM all days.


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Colorado Cycling's "Field of Dreams"
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Doug Emerson runs one of the most successful independent bike stores in the United States. Located in the downtown area of cycling-mad Boulder, Colorado, University Bikes has been a mainstay of the Boulder commercial scene since the mid 1980s. And even in a town of 100,000 where there are more than twenty bike shops, "U Bikes" regularly polls as one of the most customer-friendly and popular stores in town.
Emerson grew up in the suburban Philadelphia area and migrated west to attend the University of Colorado in the late 1970s. "For me growing up, it was all Bruce Springsteen and muscle cars," he says. "I don't know why, maybe call it the hand of God, but I had wanted to own a bike store since I was ten years old." This was before the cycling craze really got started in the U.S., before Greg LeMond brought international racing to the attention of everyday Americans, long before Lance Armstrong. After initially working in a small local store, Emerson says he got tired of always answering the same three questions. "Do you rent bikes? No. Do you sell used bikes? No. Do you know anybody who does? No."
He capitalized on the niche and opened his own business in the early 1980s, working out of his house, with fifteen used bikes and a toolbox. The business grew steadily and at times rapidly over the years as American interest in cycling expanded through the LeMond and Armstrong eras, and University Bikes began to build a kind of legend along the way as the bike shop "where the pros go." A story which Emerson can confirm is when long-time resident and Giro d'Italia champion Andy Hampsten brought five-time Tour de France champion Miguel Indurain and his Spanish teammates to Boulder in 1995.
"They wanted to train at altitude before racing in the World Championships in Colombia. Andy asked me if I could meet them at the airport to help haul their equipment to Boulder, so I showed up with my pickup and a trailer. We dropped all the Banesto-emblazoned bike bags at the shop, and the next morning, my wide-eyed crew asked, 'What's all this stuff?' I hadn't told anyone about Banesto's visit, because I myself hardly believed it was going to happen. It was like owning a record store, and having the Rolling Stones hang around for a week."
Today, University Bikes employs more than fifty people. Says Emerson, "I borrowed $10,000 from my dad to open this store back in 1985; today I sell bikes that cost more than that!" As an exclamation point on his success, University Bikes was voted the best bike shop in the country at the Interbike Awards ceremony in 2014.
As the success of his store grew Emerson had the luxury to look at other cycling business opportunities, and he began to look at other ways to contribute and give back to the Boulder cycling community. The area had great participation in road racing; Boulder had hosted stages of the early Red Zinger and Coors Classic races in the 1970s and 1980s, and, more recently, several stages of the USA Pro Challenge and Colorado Classic races – events which featured the top cycling teams in the world. It had become a mecca of mountain biking. Boulder's new Valmont terrain park hosted the national cyclocross championships in 2014, only two years after its original construction. Boulder also has a strong BMX community and the city heavily promotes bike commuting.
"But we looked around, and said 'Where is the track racing?' Without it, Boulder felt like a Hawaiian Island without any surfing spots. Why don't we have a velodrome?"
Emerson saw an opportunity to complete the circle of Boulder's cycling culture. "Track riding is cycling at it's purest. No gears, no brakes, no car traffic to worry about. It is an exhilarating and almost Zen-like experience to peel off 60 laps in a well-coordinated paceline. It clears your mind. Everyone who tries it finds it exciting; the experience sells itself every time," says Emerson. And experience and expertise on the track is often an important prerequisite or training step for success in other disciplines – particularly road racing. "You're much more likely to do interval training on a track," says Emerson, "and if you want to learn how to finish a sprint in a criterium, you should practice it on a velodrome."
Yet, because of costs, siting and permitting challenges and other logistical difficulties, there are fewer than 25 velodromes in the entire United States. Boulder had seen at least a half a dozen semi-serious efforts to build a velodrome since the 1970s, but those usually consisted of "getting together once a week, drinking beer, getting the newspaper to write an article, and then fading away," says Emerson. "We felt that the community was really ready for a velodrome," Emerson continues, and so he and a partner, Frank Banta, simply took the "Field of Dreams" approach – they just decided to do it, and started looking for a suitable piece of land. That initial commitment has turned into a fifteen-year long saga – at times more of a nightmare – but one which ultimately resulted in one of the country's very few brand new velodromes.
After an exhaustive search beginning in 2004, Emerson and Banta acquired 4.2 acres of land in nearby Erie, Colorado in 2008 and spent more than two years just trying to get the requisite municipal and country permissions and permits. True to Boulder's cycling roots, they tapped into the network of top pros and ex-pros to drum up interest and investment – Andy Hampsten, Taylor Phinney, Colby Pearce, Cari Higgins, and Thomas Prehn all became founding Members of the project. After getting all the approvals, breaking ground and finally beginning construction in 2011, the velodrome project ran into a series of one-in-a-million obstacles that delayed its progress and formal opening another three years.
The Colorado Front Range area doesn't typically get tornadoes, but in August 2013, the partially constructed velodrome was hit by a surprise twister that destroyed 70 meters of the track. They were only about a week away from finishing the oval track. "Did we have insurance for tornados?" asks Emerson. "No. Erie doesn't get twisters, why would we?" After a month spent cleaning up and fixing the damages, lightning struck again in the exact same place. The facility was slammed in September by the massive Boulder flood – the worst in the city's history – which decimated the city and surrounding areas, ultimately resulting in over $4 billion worth of property and infrastructural damages, and ten deaths.
"When you see someone on the news who has lost their home to a natural disaster, you feel bad, but it's hard to relate," says Emerson. "That really changed for us. Every piece of our equipment was under mud and water." Again, the facility had made plans to install a flood-gate at the tunnel into the track, but it was still a few weeks away from construction. "Woulda, coulda, shoulda," says Emerson. "It's easy to look back."
But Emerson and Banta persevered, and finally opened the Boulder Valley Velodrome (BVV) in 2014 – and it has been a good regional success story since that time. Says Emerson, "Architecturally, the facility is stunning – it looks like something that just landed from outer space. It is a fun and inspiring place to be." Besides a regular schedule of racing and training events, the velodrome has hosted marriages, concerts, various types of parties and fund-raising events.
From a financial perspective, the main revenue sources for a velodrome are memberships, advertising/sponsorships, cycling classes and other special events. The BVV has active programs in all these areas, though it has not yet identified a primary or naming sponsor – preferring to leave that for a future owner. On the expense side, the BVV has full-time paid positions for a track director, a communications director, and an advertising/sponsorship salesperson. Most of the rest of the maintenance and administration is taken care of by dedicated volunteers. "It appears that we have a bunch of old cycling guys whose wives don't allow them to be home between 10 am and 4 pm," says Emerson. "Thank God for them; their dedication has been critical to our success."
When asked about the rewards of the project, now looking back, Emerson says, "Unfortunately, Mother Nature basically removed the potential for any financial rewards. But to me, that's not the most critical thing. The satisfaction of completing a project of pure passion has been very emotionally rewarding. Building an Olympic-sized velodrome is a tough bucket list item. Jumping out of an airplane will seem pretty easy now."
The facility is now becoming one of the top go-to locations in world cycling, and is already playing a role in helping to develop young riders who may one day qualify for the Olympics. As one of the few easily accessible high-altitude tracks, the facility hosted the Dutch Olympic team prior to the Rio Olympics, and many other national and international teams have trained here for top-level competitive events. "Theo Bos was here for a while, and when he went full gas," says Emerson of the Dutch Olympian and world champion sprinter, "the track actually made a different sound." But just as significant, says Emerson, is that "we are introducing many non-racers to the track, and we believe we have created the most inclusive, welcoming atmosphere of any velodrome on earth."
Emerson and Banta are both now at or nearing a retirement age, and still have numerous other business interests. They have decided that it is time for the facility to take the next step – and hence they are seeking a new owner who can take the velodrome to the next level. BVV is a successful operation and is close to breakeven financial status. It was a long and difficult process to build the track, and often a difficult juggling act to manage, but its presence has brought new benefits and opportunities to Boulder's cycling community. "The heavy lifting is done," says Emerson, "Almost every metropolitan area in the country has looked at trying to build a velodrome – ours is done, we're riding it every day. We followed our passion, we persevered through some pretty epic setbacks, but we got the ball across the goal line." Emerson and Banta now hope that they can find the right and committed new owner who can help them do an end zone dance – and who can provide Colorado's growing cycling community with a world-class velodrome to enjoy into the long-term future.
Steve Maxwell and Joe Harris, August 8, 2018


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Nick Tassoni's record walleye
Wed, January 11, 2012
Illinois' oldest fishing record has been rewritten.
That's thanks to 15-year-old Nick Tassoni, who caught a 14-pound, 12-ounce walleye Saturday (Jan. 7, 2012) to establish a new record in Illinois.
Tassoni, a freshman at Rockford Auburn, was fishing the Pecatonica River with his father, David.
"I'm more ecstatic than if it was myself who caught it," David said. "When we saw the fish surface we knew it was big. My best is 11 1/2 and this one looked twice that size."
The previous long-standing Illinois record of 14 pounds came out of the Kankakee River in 1961 and was caught by Fred Goselin.
Nick Tassoni caught the fish after a brief nap and a long morning of slow fishing on the Rockford-area Pecatonica.
"I woke up (from the nap) and was cold and wanted to go home. My dad said no. He's a diehard," Nick Tassoni said. "He said we were going to make one more pass."
Just 30 seconds after Nick got his line in the water for another trolling pass, the fish hit. He was fishing with a No. 7 Fire Tiger Rapala Minnow Rap, his father's Falcon Carolina Lizard Dragger rod, an Abu Garcia Ambassadeur 5000 reel that had belonged to his grandfather (Gerald Tassoni) and 10-year-old 10-pound test Trilene Big Game line that had belonged to his great grandfather, Walter William Fox.
"I was reeling the fish in and I didn't know if I had a fish or a log," he said. "So about 20 feet from the boat this fish started shaking its head like a walleye. I said, 'If this is a walleye, it's a big one.'
"We got this fish up to the boat and my dad netted it and as soon as it was over the side of the boat we knew it was a state record."
The fish was verified by Conservation Police Officer Brian Alt and was weighed on a certified scale at Pinnon's in Rockford.
"There were about 30 people in line (during the weigh-in) cheering and clapping and afraid," Nick said.
The fish was 31 inches long and had a girth of 20.25 inches.
"It's just an absolutely perfect walleye," said fisheries biologist Dan Sallee, who saw the fish Sunday. "It's a female and she's still green. So she probably would have gained another half pound or better (in egg weight) by March."
"A lot of the records I've got are kind of beat up, gnarly looking stuff," Sallee said. "This is not. It's really a nicely conditioned fish."
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New Tinnitus Sufferer? Please Help!
Discussion in 'Introduce Yourself' started by Sonnie, Feb 7, 2013.
Hi I need some help regarding possible tinnitus. Last January a very loud firework exploded just 4 feets away from me, causing a total reboot to my system (bright light and a total hearing loss for few seconds) and my whole body flew 30 feets away. When I went to bed I heared a buzz in my left ear, at first I thought it would go away the next day, but now it has been with me 24/7. I only hear the buzz in quite places, like in my workspace and at night. But the weirdest thing is that I can make the noise almost go away by putting pressure with my finger in my ear at a particular area, but without covering my ear hole completely, if I do cover my ear hole completely I hear the buzz loudly. I had a hearing test after the accident and so far I have not had any hearing loss. I also had them checked out visually by the doctor and they looked fine. The doctor gave me Betaserc to help me getting rid of the buz, but still without any progress. Does this description sound familiar to anyone? If so have you had any luck getting rid of this buzz?
Hi Sonnie, Are you from Canada or UK ? I have not had any luck totally getting rid of buzz, but some drugs help.
I tried Betaserc, or Serc, or Betahistine,, but I found it gave me upset stomach ,so I quit. One of my many trials on T.
In the US, the FDA has not approved Betahistine. I had to get it compounded or get it from Canada.
Hi, I'm from Iceland and I don't know if Betahistine is allowed here or not.
I'm also very curious to know if someone else can put pressure with their finger on the ear without blocking the hole and get some buzz relief? That calmed my nerves down after I realized that this could be a permanent tinnitus.
I have tried putting pressure on many places around my ear and jaw and none of it had any effect on my T.
Regarding betahistine however, you need to know that it takes about 2-3 weeks to work and the recommended length of this therapy is 3 months. Truth be told I've been using it for over 4 months now and I keep going, I am afraid my T may go back to the old (loud) level once I stop taking it. Betahistine has been extensively tested in my country and it shows a perhaps unremarkable 34% effectiveness rate on alleviating tinnitus symptoms. It has a good safety profile with no lasting side effects.
Fish - has Bethistine worked for you to reduce the noise? Your T isnt noise-induced is it?
Hi Fish, Do you get upset stomach at all on betahistine ? I did not give it a long enough trial, I know that. I read that it is prescribed a lot in the UK. The FDA in the US isn't convinced it does anything vs a placebo thats why they dropped it over here.
Problem is I cannot say what helped me. My T has permanently gone down in volume to a much more acceptable level, but it was either one of the three therapies - AM101 treatment, betahistine or massages and physical exercise (I have a related spine problem). I do not know for 100% what was the cause of my tinnitus either.
I will always urge every tinnitus sufferer to give betahistine a try. As far as I know it is the only drug that has been shown to have SOME effectiveness. I have posted this before I believe, only an abstract and test results are in english: LINK 34% tinnitus reduction, 22% total elimination of tinnitus. Not much I guess but better than nothing.
I am lucky to have had no side effects so far!
Thanks Fish. Its great that something worked for you. What's the electrical stimulation of the cochlear? Where would you get that?
I didn't mention it to avoid further confusion, I do not want to hijack Sonnie's thread. I am sorry!
Louise - didn't your GP offer you betahistamine when you first went with T? I thought it was the norm in the UK as a couple of people I've spoken to also had it at their first visit and I was given it as well. I took a few but I stopped pretty quickly because it completely took away my appetite and I wasn't sure if it was the betahistine causing 'foggy head' etc. In retrospect it was probably the anxiety! I do know that it's prescribed a lot in the UK and some people are given it to help them lose weight. Apparently it does increase blood flow to the ears so if T is caused by iffy arteries or something similar it does help.
No Click my GP didnt offer this drug. They wont prescribe anything 'off-label' there anyway. Dont you have to take this for about 3 weeks before knowing if itll help or not? I think I read that somewhere.
Yes, I think you're right. I didn't get past 4 days so it was no help to me. My GP told me that people take it 'long term'. I'm just surprised that it varies so much - what the GP does in the first instance.
I know, its a lottery on knowledge as well. So your GP said people take it for T long term and get benefit? Might be worth a try then I guess.
Although... I do distinctly remember that the first GP said that she could see that my ears had catarrh, the second GP said absolutely no catarrh but I had an ear infection and the third GP said no ear infection (and denied that the previous GP had thought it because he hadn't written it down) & no catarrh. These visits were all within days of each other. Talk about leaving the patient confused!
Its so disheartening isnt it? And then they wonder why we do our own research, take our health into our own hands.
I went for my hearing aids re-doing and we nearly came to blows when I asked a few questions and instead of giving me the answer she kept telling me I didnt need to know. They are my ears arent they? And arent we supposed to be working TOGETHER to make ME better? I have a good mind to write a complaint letter about her attitude. Its funny how if you're paying for a service you get treated a lot better and with some respect instead of like a low-life freeloader who should be grateful for any crumb thrown in their direction. I really could have bashed her in her seat.
PS. Did you see that other post where it mentioned one of the causes of T can be 'moving to a quieter environment'?
I've also just made a post of a long document that goes into why some peoples T comes and goes. There's a switch! Its a tough read but worth it I think.
I have used betahistina , and have a little experience , will work ok when circulatory problems are in the innear ear , but it has to be taken , at least 3 or 4 months and high doses , at least 24mg tid . It is known to be a good "constructor" for the inner ear problems , but imagine your ear are on fire now , because of the inflamation , so betametasone , to calm down like 2-3 weeks , then betahistine to construct . Some Otoneurolgist think betahistina at the begining is worst depending on each case . but almost all prescribe then after the acute event .
by the way ,betahistine is very , very secure . can take large doses no problem , but has to take minimum 24mg three times a days and like 4 months , this is better medicine for menieres desease . im my opinion infection or trauma must use steroids first . just my opinion .
We have betahistine here in Chile , its called microser . But cost like usd 50 for 15 days of treatment because of course one has to take tid .
New Sufferer with Reactive Tinnitus. Advice, Please.


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Home Immigration News When it comes to immigration, the UK is already in a post-Brexit era
When it comes to immigration, the UK is already in a post-Brexit era
Author: Professor Jonathan Portes
Almost three years after the UK voted to leave the EU, and we're still very much a member – and may be for some time yet. But anybody looking at a chart of net migration could be forgiven for thinking that Brexit did indeed happen in June 2016.
Net migration from the EU has dropped by more than 100,000, although it remains positive. Meanwhile, the hole has at least partially been filled by migrants from outside the EU, whose numbers have returned to the levels of 2011.
Credit: Office for National Statistics: Long-Term International Migration
These statistics should be taken with a considerable amount of salt. As I've been pointing out for some time, the ONS's figures on net migration – people entering and leaving the country – are well out of line with the population statistics – its figures on who's actually here.
Indeed, the ONS figures on population, also published today, show an even more dramatic reversal: the number of people born in the EU fell by more than 100,000 in 2018, driven in particular by a reduction in the number of Polish residents.
But nonetheless the overall trend is clear. The UK has become much less attractive to European migrants, but, as non-EU migration has risen, the overall level has not fallen nearly as sharply, and remains historically high. In some sectors, especially the NHS, the direct connection between the two is obvious; the number of newly registered nurses from the EU has fallen by about 90 per cent, while those from outside the EU has shot up sharply, and is likely to rise further as the NHS struggles to fill vacancies.
What does that tell us about the future, Brexit or no Brexit?
First, it debunks the myth that Brexit will enable us to choose the migrants we want, selecting by skill level. The end of free movement will give us greater control over who we let in – but they still need to choose us first. If the UK is unattractive to skilled Europeans after Brexit, they won't come, regardless of what system we have in place, and we will be poorer as a result.
Second, it emphasises the extent to which economic migration is driven by labour demand, as much as if not more than policy. If demand is high in a specific sector, then reduced migration from one source is likely to result in increases from others.
So just as EU migration rose when Theresa May imposed steadily tighter restrictions on non-EU migrants – frustrating the government's attempts to meet its self-imposed target – the fall in EU migration resulting from the Brexit vote has had the reverse effect. While the government can constrain supply, demand matters as least as much.
Third, it suggests that the view that employers simply hire Europeans because it's cheaper and easier than hiring Brits, and that ending free movement will force them to recruit locally, is optimistic to the point of naivety. It's neither cheap nor easy to recruit non-EU migrants, who have to jump through numerous bureaucratic hoops and pay substantial fees.
It hardly seems plausible that employers would choose to turn to them if it was relatively painless to substitute British workers instead. Again, this is particularly obvious in sectors like nursing, where government policy – years of pay cuts and the abolition of bursaries – has directly reduced domestic supply. But it is also the case in much of the private sector.
Fourth – and as direct consequence of the first three – it suggests that economic pressures will mean that, if free movement does indeed come to an end, the UK will have to significantly liberalise policy towards economic migrants from outside the EU, rather than hoping that British workers will miraculously fill the gap.
Indeed, to a limited extent, this has already happened, with the loosening of the quota on Tier 2 skilled work visas. The Immigration White Paper published in December proposed some further moves, and, just last week, the Home Secretary asked the independent Migration Advisory Committee for advice on whether the restrictions could be relaxed even further.
The departure of the Prime Minister – by far the most restrictionist member of the cabinet, and the one most associated with policies that prioritise "control" over the needs of the economy – removes the single largest roadblock. After almost a decade in which Theresa May, first as Home Secretary and then as PM, did her best to make the UK as unattractive a destination as possible to foreign workers and students – to the horror of our businesses and universities, and the delight of our competitors – the pendulum may swing decisively back.
So where does that leave us? Immigration and free movement was by far the most important substantive policy issue in the referendum campaign. But while Brexit itself is stuck, when it comes to immigration we seem already to be in a post-Brexit era. Paradoxically, Brexit or no Brexit, future UK immigration flows may look much more like they did before free movement moved to the centre of the UK political debate, with, for example, fewer Poles and more Indians. Perhaps there is hope for Global Britain after all.
Source: https://ukandeu.ac.uk/when-it-comes-to-immigration-the-uk-is-already-in-a-post-brexit-era/
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