One of the largest water companies in England has applied to the Water Industry Commission for Scotland (WICS) to become the fourth licensed water and sewerage operator when the new competition framework takes effect on April 1.
Osprey Water Services, part of the Anglian Water Group, will join Business Stream, Aquavitae, and Satec, offering its own range of retail pricing and services to the 130,000 business customers in Scotland. WICS expects to give its initial view on the application within the next week.
The new competition framework in Scotland is a world first in the provision of water and sewerage services.
Alan Sutherland, WICS' chief executive said: "We are delighted that a company with the backing of a major utility player such as the Anglian Water Group, has submitted an application.
Customers are now likely to benefit from real choice. They will be able to choose from a range of suppliers both major industry players, and smaller, more specialist companies. No longer will Scotland operate a "one size fits all" approach to the supply of water and sewerage provision.


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`Embedded' truth
Published : May 09, 2003 00:00 IST
The Western media's coverage of the invasion has been neither credible nor objective. By far, they have simply toed the line of the political and military establishments of the U.S. and the U.K.
THIS war was supposed to have been fought to achieve the most honourable of objectives - to bring freedom and liberty to an oppressed people. As such, the media of the United States should have striven to set high standards of transparency and objectivity, which they claim to be their benchmark. Instead, much of the coverage of the war by the U. S. media and by a broad section of the British media was akin to the now-famous photograph showing a crowd of Iraqis cheering as the statue of Saddam Hussein was being pulled down in Baghdad's Firdaus square.
In the form in which it was published in most newspapers around the world, the photograph encapsulated the message that the U.S. administration had conveyed before the war and for its duration. The Iraqis who were trampling the statue were as happy and eager to vent their ire at the deposed oppressor as the U.S. had claimed they would be. That one photograph served to refute the doubters and the anti-war protesters and vindicate those who had authored the invasion. The only problem with the published version of the photograph is that it is a complete distortion of the events that actually took place in Firdaus square.
The information portal Information Clearing House.Info got hold of and published a series of photographs of the self-same event, taken from different angles and distances. The close-up shots showed only Iraqis on and about the fallen statue. But, as the camera angle changes and the lens widens and withdraws to a greater distance, the scene morphs into something wholly different. It becomes obvious that Iraqis are not the only ones present and that there are as many if not more U. S. servicemen in the vicinity. As the camera moves further back, it becomes apparent that the Iraqis who had supposedly pulled off this great "Berlin wall" moment were merely a handful and probably a select bunch that had been let through the ring of American tanks that had sealed off and sanitised the road intersection. Finally, there is the last photograph - actually the first in the series - which shows U.S. Marines perched atop a ladder leaning on the statue, throwing a noose around Saddam's bronze countenance, which, by then had been covered by the Stars and Stripes. The rope led to an armoured recovery vehicle of the type used to tow away broken-down tanks. It was this vehicle, named after some former U.S. martial figure, and not the people of Iraq that hauled Saddam's effigy down.
Among those shown to be dancing on Saddam's graven image were some who were later identified as close associates of Ahmed Chalabi, the quisling whom the Americans want to install on the throne of the Caliphs. It would be tempting to dismiss this farce if it were not for the real tragedy that underlies it. It is just a representative sample of the manner in which the invasion has been sold to a segment of the international community that could have effectively aborted the Bush administration's military plans - the U.S. electorate.
Even before the war was launched, the U.S. public was conned into believing that it was necessary to protect its interests. It was systematically made to perceive the campaign as one fought through honourable means and with the noble objective of liberating the Iraqi people. The campaign of deception took place in parallel with the military action and included the near-complete black-out of reports and images of civilian casualties, the glossing over of mounting evidence that the war was not related to its stated objectives and a persistent effort to show that the Iraqis too were celebrating the Anglo-American advance. There were occasions when the effort to show the war in a positive light acquired sinister overtones. Of the dozen journalists who were killed in the course of the war, at least a couple, if not more, died in circumstances that can be mildly described as dubious.
The Qatar-based television channel Al Jazeera was one of the very few media organisations that consistently telecast images of dead and wounded civilians. Its coverage of the war irked the U.S. administration and the right wing in that country to such an extent that pressure was put on Qatar's Amir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani to black out the channel. Al Jazeera was delisted from the New York Stock Exchange, its website was hacked and its telecasts were blacked out in most parts of the U.S. The death of its correspondent Tareq Ayyoub in an Anglo-American air attack on the channel's Baghdad station seemed to be part of a pattern. Ayyoub was on the roof of the Baghdad station when the fighter-bomber targeted it. Earlier, Al Jazeera officials in Qatar had provided the co-ordinates of the channel's Baghdad office to the U.S. Central Command's headquarters and had been promised that it would not be attacked. The Central Command has offered neither an explanation nor an apology for the attack and the killing of Ayyoub.
A day later, a U.S. tank opened fire on the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad, killing two cameramen working for the news agency Reuters and the Spanish network Telecinco respectively, and wounding three others. It was well known from countless dispatches that the hotel housed almost all the international journalists covering the war from the Iraqi side. Since the Central Command could not plead ignorance, it opted for an outright lie. The U.S. military said that its tank had opened fire because a sniper had shot at it from the Palestine Hotel. Journalists who were either in the hotel or on the road outside are unanimous that they did not hear the sound of a sniper's gunshots. Although it would be impossible to determine whether the deaths of these journalists were caused deliberately, scribes reporting the war from an Iraqi perspective did have the perception that the U.S. establishment was hostile towards them.
Peter Arnett, who during the Vietnam war gained a reputation for getting to the scene of fighting even before the supporting military units did, lost his job with the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) for merely stating on Iraqi television that the invaders had not been able to stick to their original time table. Expressing his shock at being dismissed, Arnett wrote about the enormous sensitivity within the U. S. government to reports coming out of Baghdad. "The right-wing media and politicians are looking for any opportunity to be critical of the reporters who are here, whatever their nationality," he wrote.
A few freelancers and representatives of small media organisations, who tried to follow the path of the invasion on their own (without being "embedded"), were detained, harassed and beaten up by soldiers for being in places where they were not "authorised" to be. A journalist of the calibre of Robert Fisk (The Independent), with a formidable reputation for reportage on West Asia and its wars, had to suffer the ignominy of having his integrity and credibility questioned in the House of Commons by British Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon. Michael Wolff, who wrote for New York Magazine, was abused by a low-key White House functionary and savaged with hate mail for merely questioning the utility of "5am follies", which is what the daily briefings at the Qatar base of the U.S. Central Command had been reduced to.
While the military and political leaderships of the Anglo-American combine made a special effort to stifle any signs of independence in the media, there were not many journalists or institutions either who covered themselves with glory. Far too many journalists, whether embedded with forces or reporting from the briefing centres in Kuwait and Qatar or anchoring news programmes, seemed to have been carried away by the high-tech weaponry and treated the war as an elaborate video game unconnected to the lives of real people.
The politico-military leadership tried to dress up this invasion as some sort of Second World War redux, using terms such as "Allies" to describe a miserable two-and-a-half-bit combination, and "Desert Rats" for the British Division as if it was fighting the "Desert Fox" Erwin Rommel instead of a badly depleted Iraqi army and holding summits in island resorts as if Spain's Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar was Stalin reincarnated. The media preferred to suspend its inherent wisdom and and go along with this charade unquestioningly.
Reports from the electronic media in Baghdad carried routine reminders that journalists operating inside Iraqi lines were restricted in their movements and that their work was being monitored. Until the second week of the war, when the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) started doing so, hardly any attempt was made to inform viewers or listeners that the same conditions and restrictions applied to journalists operating behind the lines of the Anglo-American forces.
Stories that could, and should, have been followed up were ignored. Whether it was the use of cluster bombs against Iraqi villagers in Hilla, or the widespread use of depleted uranium munitions, or the number of instances when civilians, including children were killed at roadblocks by trigger-happy Anglo-American soldiers, no serious effort seems to have been made to elicit a response from senior military officials in Kuwait or Qatar or the capitals of the invading forces.
The overall impression created by the Anglo-American media, especially the embedded variety, was that the entire operation was carried out in as humanitarian and sensitive a manner as possible. It was only as the operations were winding down, and the less popular reports started making the rounds, that a different picture began to emerge. In these reports, the Anglo-American troops emerge as jittery, nervous young people who were often overwhelmed by the circumstances in which they found themselves and therefore responded with less discrimination than was expected of them.
None of the networks showed the courage displayed by Al Jazeera to relay gruesome pictures of dead and wounded civilians, including little children. They seemed to be only too eager to put out their military establishments' spin that the damage to civilians could have been caused by Iraqi weaponry. Fisk and The Independent nailed at least one lie - that the death of several dozen civilians in a market in Baghdad was caused by an Iraqi surface-to-air missile that had gone astray - by producing the serial number on a piece of shrapnel, which established that it was American. But, by then Geoff Hoon, who implied that Fisk had been duped by the Iraqis, had moved on to other topics and was allowed to get away with chicanery.
That the invasion was an epochal event in West Asian affairs, indeed in global affairs, is hardly a justification for the media's reluctance to alienate the military establishments of their countries. In a situation where the unfolding events would have incalculable effects on the citizens of their own countries, the media were under an even greater onus to report the facts freely and accurately. A large section of the media did not take the pains to explore the possibilities that were open. They did not ask the critical, or even the obvious, questions. Foremost among them were the questions pertaining to the reasons cited to justify the invasion, not one of which could have stood up to serious scrutiny.
For over a decade, the U. S. administration and its military establishment have said that an intrusion into Iraq will be necessary at some stage because it was the only realistic means by which its weapons of mass destruction (WMD) could be eliminated. With military operations almost over and with the U.S. and British troops supposedly in control of most of Iraq, no traces of these weapons or the facilities to manufacture them have been found. But the media in the U.S. and the U.K. showed no signs of any serious desire to hold their governments accountable. It continued to give credence to versions offered by the military. For instance, when the Anglo-American forces overran a petroleum facility in the early days of the war, the military spokespersons reported that apparel intended to protect the wearer against chemicals had been found on the site. This was supposed to be critical evidence to prove that Iraq had an undisclosed chemical warfare capability. Not a single reporter seems to have pointed out that gear to protect a person from chemicals is usually found in oil facilities, or bothered to ask whether the quantity of protective gear found at the site was way beyond the normal.
As the Anglo-American forces closed in on Baghdad and entered the "red zone", the media's coverage of the issue of WMDs changed from the pathetic to the ridiculous. The "red zone", the world was informed, was the area outside a 30-km radius from Baghdad into which the Iraqis could lob artillery shells filled with chemical munitions. The raising of the WMD bogey was a blatant attempt to convenience the military just as it was about to besiege and then batter its way into a city of six million people.
The media then went about protecting its collective rear by spinning out all kinds of speculations about the Iraqis and their WMD potential, including the theory that the Iraqis had refrained from using WMDs because they did not have them in the first place.
The U.S. military establishment seems to have miscalculated that the Iraqi people, suffering under the repressive regime of Saddam Hussein, would revolt when the "liberating" armies got close, or at least welcome the liberators once they chased the oppressors. But even after Saddam and his henchmen disappeared from the scene and the Iraqis, including the Shias, continued to protest against the Anglo-American presence, the mainstream media in the U.S. and the U.K. appeared reluctant to report the depth of Iraqi resentment against the invasion. Reports about Iraqi protests were either rounded off with quotes from stray characters who spoke of their goodwill towards the U. S., or "balanced" out with the suggestion that the resentment would die out once security and civic services were restored.
(This story was published in the print edition of Frontline magazine dated May 09, 2003.)

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Travellers outraged after airline asks breastfeeding mother to 'cover up'
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Barge though Netherlands during its spectacular spring
Silversea Cruises celebrate 25 years
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Sri Lanka to slash airfares to help boost plummeting tourism
Doctor barred from boarding flight unless she 'covered up'
Cruise for seven nights on the Kerala Backwaters in southern India
Why do banknotes in India have writing on them?
The ultimate in luxury adventure opens in New Zealand
High-altitude haven: Luxury Himalaya hiking in India's Sikkim province
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Virgin Australia's new plane, the Boeing 737 MAX 10: Can the MAX beat the Airbus A320neo?
Michael Gebicki
Virgin Australia has ordered 40 of the Boeing 737 MAX, including 10 recently converted orders to the larger 737 MAX 10. Photo: Boeing
As fuel costs gobble up a bigger slice of an airline's revenue, the choice of aircraft type becomes ever more crucial. Boeing and Airbus have new single-aisle, middle-range aircraft on order with fuel efficiency as the main selling point and Virgin Australia and Jetstar have signed up, but each has chosen a different aircraft.
Virgin Australia has recently converted orders for 10 Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft to larger MAX 10 aircraft, which will be delivered from 2022. The airline has 40 737 MAX planes on order in total.
Qantas, meanwhile, has gone with Airbus. Back in February the airline announced an order for 18 Airbus A321LRs (LR for long range) for its Jetstar fleet, with the first delivery scheduled for 2020.
Virgin will start receiving the 737 MAX 10 from 2022. Photo: Supplied
Which of these two aircraft is going to rule the skies?
The Boeing 737 MAX 10 will be the latest aircraft to wear the "737" designation, the best-selling commercial jetliner. The first 737 entered service with Lufthansa 50 years ago. Since that time so many new variants have appeared – the 737-200 replacing the original 737-100, then the 737-300 and so on – that Boeing transitioned to the 737 MAX nomenclature after the 737-900.
The MAX 10 is the latest of these, seating between 188 and 204 passengers in a two-class configuration, with a maximum seating capacity of 230. With a commercial launch date of 2020, the aircraft will have a range of 3300 nautical miles, or 6110 kilometres.
While the 737 series has been a winner for Boeing, it's recently faced stiff competition from its Airbus equivalent, the A321neo. The "neo" stands for "new engine option", since the aircraft is powered by more fuel-efficient CFM International LEAP-1A or Pratt & Whitney PW1000G engines, and comes with large wing sharklets, as Airbus calls the upturned wingtips on its aircraft. The original version is the A321ceo, "current engine option", which has a lower maximum seating capacity of 236 passengers, and a much shorter range of 5950 kilometres. Practically the same specs as the Boeing 737 MAX 10, which is still two years away from service.
Is the A321 a MAX killer?
The A321 has been a major headache for Boeing, outselling its current 737, the MAX 9, by a ratio of five-to-one. According to Airfleets.net there are now more than 1700 Airbus A321s flying around the globe, and US airlines are among the biggest operators. In December 2017, Delta Air Lines announced an order for 100 Airbus A321neos, with another 100 options, joining JetBlue Airways, American Airlines, Frontier Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines in the list of US carriers flying the A321.
Most of Delta's A321neos will be built at the Airbus assembly line in Mobile, Alabama, which insulates the order from the tariff wars that the Trump administration has been engineering with the rest of the world, at least as far as Airbus' US customers are concerned. Note too that this follows the earlier decision of the US Commerce Department to slap a tariff of close to 300 per cent on Delta's order for 75 Canadian-built Bombardier CSeries jets, following tough lobbying from Boeing.
That tariff was later rescinded in an unanimous decision by the US International Trade Commission, a panel of nonpartisan government experts, with airline industry analysts concluding that Boeing's bid for tariff protection was a case of corporate overreach. Boeing doesn't even have an aircraft that competes directly with the single-aisle Bombardier, and neither had Boeing put in a bid for the Delta order at the heart of the case.
It is in direct response to competition from the A321 that Boeing developed the MAX 10 – but has Airbus skated away yet again?
The Airbus A321LR, the variant destined for Jetstar, seats 206 in a typical two-class configuration, with a maximum seating capacity of 244. Range is 3995 nautical miles or 7400 kilometres. This gives the A321LR a trans-Atlantic flight capability, a fact underlined by Airbus' advertising for the plane showing the Statue of Liberty on the left and the Eiffel Tower on the right. The extended range has been achieved by the addition of a third fuel tank, increasing the maximum take-off weight to 97 tonnes, 3.5 tonnes greater than for the A321.
The longer range of the A321LR is a new frontier for this aircraft type. While it's the popular trans-Atlantic route that motivated Airbus to develop the LR version, in the Australian context that makes the A321LR capable of operating on sectors such as the 3400-nautical mile Singapore-Sydney route, the 3640-mile route between Auckland and Denpasar, Melbourne to Tahiti at 3620 miles and Perth to Hong Kong at 3260 nautical miles. All these routes are beyond the operational range of the Boeing 737 MAX 10.
The Airbus A321 has been a major headache for Boeing, outselling its current 737, the MAX 9, by a ratio of five-to-one.
Boeing claims the 737 MAX 10 will be the most profitable single-aisle aircraft for the 20 airlines that have already signed on the dotted line. Virgin Australia certainly hopes that proves to be the case, but in the meantime there might be some fingernail chewing at Virgin's Brisbane HQ.
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The Aspire Lounge offers a wide variety of freshly made sandwiches and healthy salads, with hot, satisfying soup too. In addition, guests can help themselves to snacks and treats to make your visit a little more indulgent. There is a great choice of complimentary alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks to choose from, including a fantastic range of wines.
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High Hill Christian Camp is an awesome place where we take our First Christian Students each summer to have fun, grow closer to one another, and ultimately to grow closer with God. Our kids love attending and get excited every year as the time comes closer to leave for camp. However, in the past, this has not been an experience open to all of our students. Until this point, High Hill has not been a handicapped accessible camp. Some of our students right here at First Christian have been unable to attend camp with us for this very reason.
That changes this year. High Hill Camp has been working very hard on building a brand-new, handicapped accessible cabin to be ready by the summer. However, this is a very costly undertaking. High Hill has been working hard to fundraise. The Camp Director, Randy, even did a paddle marathon to raise money for it.
Even with this, the camp is still several thousand dollars short of where they need to be to complete the project. That is where we come in. We are doing a BIG give to raise money to not only help our own students be able to attend camp, but students all around the area in a similar situation. Our goal is $2000. We raised half of that this past Sunday. If you want to help us out, you can make an online donation here (make sure you specify that it is for High Hill) or you can bring it on Wednesday night and drop it off in the student center as we do our final Big Give.
Please help us help High Hill and the handicapped all around the St. Louis area who would love an opportunity to go to camp next summer.


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Obama Is Right To Criticize Cancel Culture, But The Left Isn't Listening
The irony is that Obama helped sow the seeds of the cancel culture and leftist outrage he now bemoans.
Speaking at an Obama Foundation event in Chicago on Tuesday, former president Barack Obama made headlines when he criticized "woke" cancel culture and online outrage, cautioning young people that, "The world is messy. There are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws."
"This idea of purity and that you're never compromised and you're always politically woke — you should get over that quickly," Obama said.
His remarks are noteworthy not just because he's correct about the frailty of human nature and the folly of rushing to condemn anyone who might disagree with you, but because his admonishment was aimed primarily at the left. Cancel culture is, after all, almost entirely a product of progressive activists seeking to punish anyone who doesn't agree with them, doesn't support their agenda, or holds views they find offensive. It's the opposite of what "liberal" used to mean, and Obama's old enough to know that.
His comments on Tuesday are worth quoting in full, because they highlight just how far the left has drifted from Obama's current way of thinking. He said:
I do get a sense sometimes now among certain young people, and this is accelerated by social media — there is this sense sometimes of the way of me making change is to be as judgmental as possible about other people, and that's enough. If I tweet or hashtag about how you didn't do something right or used the wrong verb, then I can sit back and feel pretty good about myself. Did you see how woke I was, I called you out… That's not activism. That's not bringing about change. If all you're doing is casting stones, you're probably not going to get that far.
Watch President @BarackObama make an excellent point about call-out culture. pic.twitter.com/P6mw9aLWTQ
— ATTN: (@attn) October 30, 2019
This isn't the first time Obama has talked this way. At a town hall in 2015, he lambasted "coddled" liberal college students who can't tolerate conservative speakers on campus. "Anybody who comes to speak to you and you disagree with, you should have an argument with them, but you shouldn't silence them by saying you can't come because I'm too sensitive to hear what you have to say," he said.
To the Left, Cancel Culture Is Good
The irony here is that the left, which once lionized Obama and to some extent still does, isn't interested in what he has to say about any of this. Today, cancel culture and online outrage are the modus operandi of progressive activists on campus and across social media.
Often enough, that outrage migrates offline. We've all seen the images and videos of students shouting down speakers, storming stages, ripping mics away from moderators, and shutting down conservative speaking events through intimidation. In the case of Charles Murray's visit to Middlebury College in 2017, an actual mob attacked him and a faculty member, who suffered whiplash and a concussion.
As with most things that start on campus, cancel culture is now seeping into the mainstream, and especially in corporate America. Just last month, "Saturday Night Live" fired comedian Shane Gillis after videos of him using racial slurs went viral, despite a seemingly heartfelt apology from Gillis. Nike canceled its Betsy Ross flag sneakers this summer after Colin Kaepernick criticized the design as offensive. The Academy Awards told comedian Kevin Hart he had to step down as host of the Oscars unless he publicly apologized for some supposedly homophobic jokes he told years earlier. The list goes on.
For the left, this is all good news. The pressure that online outrage and cancel culture exert on celebrities, schools, corporations—even regular people no one's ever heard of, like Iowan Carson King—is a welcome development in our society, not something to lament. In a recent take on cancel culture at the New Republic, Osita Nwanevu put a benign gloss on the whole thing because, after all, these are just tweets we're talking about, it's not like anyone's really getting hurt: "Perhaps we should choose instead to understand cancel culture as something much more mundane: ordinary public disfavor voiced by ordinary people across new platforms." (A recent Washington Post op-ed takes it a step further, declaring, "Critics of 'cancel culture' really just hate democracy.")
Nwanevu argues that everyone who's been "canceled" is doing fine. Aziz Ansari has a new Netflix special. Kyler Murray, the Heisman winner who last year had to apologize for homophobic tweets he'd written as a teen, is now the starting quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals. Dave Chapelle is a multi-millionaire.
The larger point here is that, far from being a problem, cancel culture is actually a good and salutary development in public life—a way for the marginalized and powerless to hold the powerful accountable (if by "powerless" you include all major universities, Hollywood, and most of corporate America). At the very least, writes Nwanevu, cancel culture "cannot really be understood as a response to the advent of an oppressively censorious monoculture," because look, Sean Spicer was on "Dancing With the Stars."
Obama Helped Sow the Seeds of Cancel Culture
But perhaps the best example of how far to the left progressives have drifted from Obama's way of thinking is the ongoing spectacle of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates trying to out-woke each other. Beto O'Rourke, who'll apparently say anything in hopes of staying in the race, wants to tax churches and other religious institutions that oppose gay marriage. Julian Castro wants to give free health insurance to transgender illegal immigrants. Even former vice president Joe Biden, the so-called moderate in the race, has been forced to tack left, abandoning his long-held support for the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits federal funding for abortion.
It's commonplace on Democratic debate stages for the candidates (and moderators) to refer to President Trump as a racist. The arguable frontrunner, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, told NPR in August that "when the white supremacists call Donald Trump one of their own, I tend to believe them."
It's hard to imagine Obama engaging in this sort of rhetoric. But then again, the seeds of cancel culture and leftist outrage were undoubtedly planted during his tenure in the White House. Back in 2012, for example, Obama would never have openly called Mitt Romney a racist. But he didn't have to because surrogates like Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz did it for him.
Ahead of the 2014 midterms, Rep. Nancy Pelosi said Republicans were reluctant to take up immigration reform because of race. That same year, Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder suggested race was a factor in the "unprecedented, unwarranted, ugly and divisive adversity" he faced from GOP lawmakers.
Beyond race, it was Obama who popularized the idea that "the debate is over"—about health care, climate change, education, and much else. Arguably, "the debate is over" is now the mantra of the woke: if you disagree or offend, you get canceled.
So it's all well and good that Obama is concerned about the corrosive effects of cancel culture and militant wokeness. He should be, as should we all. But his warnings and reprimands are a day late and a dollar short. The woke left isn't listening, not even to Obama. To them, the debate is over.
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Van Dyke è una cultivar di mango originaria della Florida.

Storia
L'albero originale probabilmente crebbe da un seme piantato negli anni '30 del Novecento sul terreno della signora Madeline Van Dyke a Miami. Per decenni la varietà che ha originato Van Dyke è stata ignota, sebbene nel 2005 un'analisi del pedigree abbia indicato che la Haden sia stata probabilmente la progenitrice. L'albero cominciò a fruttificare negli anni '40 e fu ritenuto abbastanza valido commercialmente da venir propagato durante gli anni '50. Entro il 1955 il vivaio dei "Flagg Brothers" ne aveva vendute diverse centinaia di alberi. Quello stesso anno Van Dyke fu presentato al Florida Mango Forum per essere valutato.

A Van Dyke fu riconosciuta una qualità del frutto ottima e una colorazione del frutto di tipo superiore; alcune limitate piantagioni commerciali cominciarono ad apparire negli anni '60 e aumentarono nei due decenni seguenti. Il suo potenziale commerciale in Florida fu considerato limitato in seguito, a causa delle dimensioni relativamente piccole del frutto, e la sua suscettibilità a marciumi interni, ma Van Dyke in seguito fu introdotto in Brasile e in Africa orientale ed ebbe successo commerciale, venendo esportato in Europa.

Oggi Van Dyke in Florida è ancora venduto come pianta da vivaio per la coltivazione casalinga, ed è coltivato su piccola scala commerciale. Alberi di Van Dyke sono piantati nella collezione del deposito di germoplasma dell'USDA a Miami, Florida, nell'University of Florida's Tropical Research and Education Center a Homestead, e al Miami-Dade Fruit and Spice Park, anch'esso a Homestead.

Descrizione
Il frutto ha una forma ovale con una base arrotondata e un apice smussato. La maggior parte dei frutti contengono anche un piccolo becco laterale. Essi pesano in media meno di mezzo chilo a maturità, con l'epidermide di un chiaro e uniforme giallo unito a un deciso e luminoso colore rosso. La polpa è gialla con pochissima fibra, ed ha un aroma e un sapore ricchi e dolci. Contiene un seme monoembrionico. Il frutto in Florida, generalmente, matura tra giugno e luglio è la produttività è considerata buona. Van Dyke è moderatamente resistente alle infezioni fungine.

Gli alberi di Van Dyke sono vigorosi con chiome aperte e larghe.

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Cultivar di mango

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Hawkeyes fend off Cincinnati
By JOHN JACKSON
CHICAGO — Despite losing a 15-point second-half lead, the Iowa players say they never had any doubts.
They played like it down the stretch.
CJ Fredrick had 21 points, Joe Wieskamp had 16 and Luka Garza had 12 points and 13 rebounds as the Hawkeyes pulled away late for a 77-70 victory over Cincinnati on Saturday night.
Bakari Evelyn had 15 points off the bench as Iowa (9-3) won its third straight and eighth in 10 games. The Hawkeyes closed with a 15-6 run over the final 4 1/2 minutes to win in spite of committing 24 turnovers.
"We were never in doubt with each other," Fredrick said. "We stayed connected as a group, and I think after that we only had about two turnovers and finished the game."
Jarron Cumberland had 18 points for Cincinnati (7-5), which has dropped three of four.
Cumberland has 1,496 career points to move past Yancy Gates (1,485) for 15th place on Cincinnati's all-time scoring list.
The teams met in the first round of the NCAA tournament last March, with Iowa winning 79-72 in Columbus, Ohio.
Iowa was playing its first game since senior guard Jordan Bohannon had season-ending surgery on his left hip on Thursday. Bohannon, who had the same procedure on his right hip in May, averaged 8.8 points and 3.3 assists in 10 games. He is a career 40.3% 3-point shooter in 112 games with the Hawkeyes.
Iowa scored eight straight points late in the first half for a 35-27 advantage with under two minutes to play. Fredrick, who had 10 first-half points, started the run with a short jumper and then Wieskamp and Garza hit back-to-back 3-pointers.
The Hawkeyes led 39-31 at halftime.
Iowa had another run of eight straight early in the second half — five by Garza — to open up a 50-35 lead, its biggest of the game.
But then the Hawkeyes went scoreless for six minutes, 10 seconds as Cincinnati scored 10 straight — capped by a 3-pointer by Mika Adams-Woods — to pull within 50-45 with 11 minutes remaining.
Iowa, which missed the front end of two 1-and-1 opportunities during the drought, ended the scoreless streak when Connor McCaffery made two of three free throws after being fouled on a 3-pointer with 10:41 to play.
The Bearcats continued their surge with defensive pressure, forcing Iowa into turnovers on four straight possessions at one point. Keith Williams tied the score at 62 with a pair of free throws with 5:35 to go and then gave Cincinnati the lead on the next possession with a follow basket off his own miss.
"We just tried to pressure their ballhandlers," said Bearcats guard Chris McNeal, who came off the bench for five steals. "We know they're without their starting point guard that they've had for some time, so we just wanted to pressure their ballhandlers and make them uncomfortable and it kind of led to steals."
Wieskamp then hit a 3-pointer to put the Hawkeyes back on top, 65-64. After a miss on the other end, Evelyn hit a 3 to make it 68-64 with 3:51 left.
After taking the lead, Cincinnati suddenly went ice cold from the field, going scoreless on seven of the next eight possessions as Iowa held on.
"One of the things that always hurts us is being undisciplined," Cincinnati coach John Brannen said. "You've got to marry playing hard and being disciplined. We weren't disciplined at the end of the game to be able to finish."
Iowa was proud of its poise late.
"They're a really aggressive defensive team," Garza said. "They try to get up into you and force those turnovers. I think we let that get to us a little bit during that stretch in the second half (after) we got a lead. It's a good lesson for us going forward just to make sure that can't happen again.
"You've gotta win the ugly ones, too."
Cincinnati: Despite a 78-66 home win over No. 21 Tennessee on Wednesday, the Bearcats have hit a rough patch and now have a 10-day break to regroup before beginning conference play.
Iowa: The Hawkeyes will need to take care of the ball better once the Big Ten season begins next month.
With Bohannon out, freshman Joe Toussaint moved into the lineup and had a tough debut as a starter, going scoreless with three turnovers in 3 1/2 minutes.
"He fell the first three times he got the ball," coach Fran McCaffery said. "I really wanted to get him back in, but he'll settle down. He's a really good player. This is all part of the growth process. He's young, but he's a competitor. He'll have an opportunity in the next one."
Cincinnati hosts UConn on Jan. 1 in the American Athletic opener.
Iowa hosts Kennesaw State on Dec. 29.
Time to get back to normal routines
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Doyle's 31 helps Iowa top No. 12 Indiana
Hatred slashes the bonds of brotherhood
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Fundraising for 1ne
Help Ann-Marie raise cash for life-saving addiction charity
I am cycling from London to Brighton for 1ne because they save lives & help put families back together
Event: London to Brighton Cycle 2018, 16 Sep 2018
1ne
We offer multi award winning services to enable people to live drug/alcohol free
Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page. One North East (http://www.1ne.org.uk/) London is an amazing charity that provides an abstinence based treatment programme for addicts wishing to maintain a sober lifestyle. The charity includes a relatives service with counselling support for family members affected by someone else's addiction, and support for teenagers whose parents or carers have an addiction problem. 1NE, formerly known as WACS (Working at Continuous Sobriety) has helped SO many people and has been running for more than 30 years after it was set up by a mother and daughter. Without 1NE many people would not have turned their lives around, and many families would not be restored. 1NE is tiny but its impact in the community is HUGE!!! It has lost a lot of funding over the years and recently lost more. I, and many others, would be devastated if it were not able to continue provide helping people the way it does. It is one of a few services in the country and the ONLY service in its community that is abstinence based. I usually call running to the takeaway shop before it closes exercise, but I have changed my habits, bought a bike and am pushing the pedal to the metal, and competing in the London to Brighton bike ride on 16 Sept!! I would be so very grateful if you could please help me raise as much money as possible for 1NE. Once you donate, Just Giving will send your money directly to the charity. Thanks so much for your help. Love, Ann-Marie.
1ne, provides a full time, abstinence based treatment programme for addicts who wish to maintain a sober lifestyle. We provide education, counselling and support for anyone affected by another's addiction and NE Teens provides counselling for young people (12+) affected by addiction.


Since the mid-1990's, Grygera and Son's has produced a number of surfboard labels at their Southern California factory, and has quickly earned a name for themselves for on-time delivery, superior craftsmanship and excellent customer service. Their clientele includes Rusty, Hobie, Infinity and Christenson. The factory was founded by shaper and designer, Jeff Grygera, who named the company after his son's.


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We loved Korea. We loved the people. We loved the sights. We loved how clean everything is. We loved how organized everything is. And so… we tried to like Korean food. We really did. And while we did enjoy the sushi from the little carts in the street, and the potato/onion pancakes, when it came to dinner we were really done with kimchi by the time we got to Andong. So we thought we'd give Italian a try. To be fair, I'm vegetarian, and so have eaten Italian food in LOTS of places all over the world (thank you Italians for blanketing the globe in veggie-friendly pasta and pizza!). While veggie food was pretty easy to find in Korea, it seemed be largely vegetables. Which doesn't really hit the spot after a long day on your feet.
And so, we headed off to Lavender, in the downtown pedestrian area of Andong, for some good ol' pasta. The restaurant is right downtown, so it was very convenient to the love hotel we were staying at. The prices are reasonable, and the meals all come with garlic bread, salad and coffee. They even serve wine. The air conditioning was a welcome relief from the heat, and the service was great as usual, with our waiter trying very, very hard to understand us. I had the mushroom pasta with cream sauce and Ian had something with meat… It wasn't an Italian meal in Italy, but it was a very welcome change. So much so that we went back the next night!


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The interior of the Grade 2* 1922 "Wren-naissance" Bank by Sir Edwin Lutyens had been mutilated by a succession of Bank managers as they integrated new work processes: cellular offices, computers, security measures and fluorescent lighting. Sir Edwin Lutyens had defied modern trends by taking the 17th Century Wren Church as his inspiration for his 1922 building. In 2002 the pioneering Hauser & Wirth Gallery audaciously bucked the trend for white cubes exhibition spaces by choosing the timber panelled bank as their flagship London Contemporary Art Gallery.
In close collaboration with English Heritage Annabelle and I transformed the bank into a 'hybrid' of its original design, restoring what was there and subtly integrating modern interventions to provide all the necessary services and structural connections that would facilitate a rotating programme of exhibitions by radical installation artists. With an important building it is sometimes best to get under the skin of the original architect and work as within their mindset. The panelling of the main Banking Hall was restored, adapted to contain services and modified to fill in areas where panelling previously either did not exist or was damaged.
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You cannot learn solely through a text book; you can only learn by life, and that is the basis on which I have designed the concept of delivering training.
We are committed to creating the next generation of innovative leaders, facilitators and managers. Scope Vision is made up of a dedicated team of motivated professionals who have combined their vision, foresight, and experience to revolutionise the delivery of training. With their extensive experience and passion, the facilitators at Scope Vision deliver current, relevant and dynamic training within an environment which utilises state-of-the-art equipment and resources to deliver nationally-accredited training programs.
Our innovative and interactive teaching style stimulates a high degree of technical proficiency in learning outcomes. Our courses are designed in consultation with the client and respond to their specific requests for training, in alignment with the National Training Competency Standards. The key to success lies in not delivering the theory alone, but instilling in your clients confidence from our ability to 'stand in their shoes' and see their business from all angles, offering solutions, recommendations and praise as we find appropriate.
Delivering exceptional service ensures that the relationships we build endure the normal hurdles and minefields of a competitive market place and firmly enforce in the minds of our clients our commitment to deliver exceptional service and never below!
MJ's curiosity into what drives people and businesses to achieve success, has been the passion recognised in her award-winning business. The drive to continue to train and embrace lifelong learning has been her key to success. Holding a Bachelor of Commerce, with an Accounting major, a Post Graduate Diploma of Education (Training and Development), and 15 Vocational Education and Training qualifications in leadership, management, marketing, hospitality and work health and safety, demonstrates MJ's commitment to the values she believes in.
Starting Scope Vision in 1997, MJ's passion and curiosity shaped the businesses she worked with and her longevity in these relationships continues to inspire her to share her thoughts and experience with others. MJ has customised and delivered initiatives for the Housing Authority, Department of Transport, Royal Perth Hospital, Princess Margaret Hospital, Armadale Health Services, West Australian Police, Western Australian Museums, WorkCover, Colonial Leisure Group, Australian Leisure and Hospitality Group, Holyoake, Brightwater Care Group, The Ability Centre , Paramount Health, Airflite, Air Services Australia, Automotive Holdings Group, AMCAP/Covs, CEVA Logistics, Western Australian Cricket Association, Fulton Hogan, Ertech, Western Power, Logsys Power Services, Future Grid, Perth Power Lines, Marra Worra Worra, Mobile MOUSe, Home Base Expo, Australian College of Beauty Therapy and the Australasian Academy of Cosmetic Dermal Science to name just a few.
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Huawei is set to launch a new phone days ahead of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2017 in Barcelona, Spain. According to an image teaser released by the company, the new Honor V9 will be unveiled on February 21, with Chinese swimmer Sun Yang as its brand ambassador.
As listed at TENAA, the Honor V9 will feature a 5.7-inch Quad HD display. It will be powered by a 2.4GHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 octa-core processor, with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage. There will also be another variant with 6GB / 128GB memory configuration. The storage can be further expanded up to 128GB via micro SD card.
The Honor V9 will feature a 12MP + 2MP dual-rear camera setup with dual LED flash and hybrid laser autofocus. There will also be an 8MP front snapper. Its dimensions are 157mm x 77.5m x 6.97mm, and it weighs at 184g.
Huawei's latest offering will run on the latest Android 7.0 Nougat operating system with Emotion UI 5.0 skin on top, and it will come with an impressive 3900mAh battery capacity.
We shall soon be seeing the actual device on its official launch this coming February 21.


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Home » News » Renewable energy chief touts 'green hydrogen'
Renewable energy chief touts 'green hydrogen'
Source: By Nathanial Gronewold, E&E News reporter • Posted: Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Francesco La Camera (left), director of the International Renewable Energy Agency, shakes hands with U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres. International Renewable Energy Agency
Natural gas has a bleak future, and gas exporters would be wise to pursue alternatives, warns the head of the International Renewable Energy Agency.
Francesco La Camera, director general of IRENA, made those remarks yesterday to gas-exporting country representatives at the start of the final day of an annual meeting of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum. GECF is a coalition of large pipeline and liquefied natural gas suppliers.
This year's GECF meeting was conducted online as a precaution due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The United States and Australia, which have emerged as major LNG exporters in recent years, are not members of GECF, but La Camera's comments were aimed at them as well. Norway is a GECF observer but not a full member.
La Camera spent the bulk of his presentation on the growing interest in hydrogen as a substitute for fossil fuels for use in applications where electric battery power isn't feasible, such as heavy industry and transportation.
He said IRENA's thinking on hydrogen has evolved and that the agency now believes it likely will become a big deal given major wealthy governments' growing interest in hydrogen technology applications and the rising pressure faced by those same governments to lower greenhouse gas emissions.
This pressure on governments to act aggressively on climate change does not bode well for natural gas, La Camera said. He pointed to the growing chorus of nations making net-zero commitments — or pledges to eliminate net greenhouse gas emissions from their economies — as a troubling sign for GECF members and other gas exporters. "Natural gas cannot deliver on this," La Camera said.
"The political pressure and the momentum for fighting climate change is growing," said La Camera. "The world has changed."
La Camera's talk highlighted rising interest and investment in hydrogen produced from renewable energy-powered electrolysis, a technology used to separate hydrogen from water. Most hydrogen produced today is derived from natural gas, but he said governments have no intention of expanding the footprint of this more polluting form of hydrogen.
He said Middle Eastern nations were well-positioned to build so-called green hydrogen industries due to their abundant sunlight and close proximity to Europe. Solar power could be utilized in electrolysis hydrogen production, while markets such as Germany are poised to become major hydrogen consumers in the coming decades, he said.
He said IRENA still is evaluating the future for green hydrogen developments. But the agency sees production costs for hydrogen produced from electrolysis falling in tandem with decreasing costs for building and operating wind and solar power applications.
Initial findings from IRENA research suggest that green hydrogen has a real future, La Camera stressed.
"Its high energy density makes it more suitable than some battery applications," he said. Green hydrogen exports "can act as a new revenue source from traditional fossil fuel-exporting countries."
The chair of the meeting, GECF Secretary-General Yury Sentyurin, countered that gas exporters were well aware of renewable energy's rise but that natural gas was showing strength of its own. He said gas will still have a major role to play in the energy transition, according to GECF projections, and he invited IRENA to cooperate further on this front.
"Together, natural gas and renewables will provide almost 60% of 2050's electricity supply," Sentyurin said. "This abundant, flexible, clean source of energy will expand across all regions, with perhaps the exception of Europe, due to the advancement of renewables as well as enhancement of environmental and energy efficiency policies in European countries. Meanwhile, the Asia Pacific, North America and the Middle Eastern markets will be responsible for more than 75% of the total gas demand growth by 2050."


Philadelphia Eagles defensive end Chris Long will be 34 when next season begins.
Whether he'll still be suiting up at that point is in question, however.
Long considered retirement last offseason after the Eagles won the Super Bowl, but ultimately came back for his 11th NFL season.
Long is coming into the final year of his contract, which would pay $3.5 million.
A starter for nearly all of his first eight seasons with St. Louis after being selected with the second overall pick in 2008, Long has settled in to a reserve role with the Eagles. Still, he's forced six fumbles, made 11.5 sacks and registered 51 tackles in two seasons with Philadelphia, never missing a game.


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High school rivals continue success as college pole vaulters
Travis Snyder has a good crack at qualifying for the NCAA Division I championship, while Ben Drummey is ranked second in Division III after a breakout freshman season.
By Steve CraigPress Herald
Travis Snyder of Saco needs to be in the top 12 in Wednesday's East Preliminary to qualify for the NCAA Division I pole vault championship. Stephen Slade photo/UConn athletics
Two years ago they were competing against each other in SMAA outdoor track and field meets.
Now pole vaulters Travis Snyder of Saco and Ben Drummey of Biddeford are each vying for NCAA Championship honors.
And the once fairly large difference between the former high school foes and occasional summer training partners is shrinking.
University of Southern Maine freshman Ben Drummey of Biddeford is the second-ranked pole vaulter in Division III this season and will be gunning for a national title on Thursday in North Carolina. Birds Eye Media Services photo
Snyder, 21, a 2019 graduate of Thornton Academy, won the Big East Conference championship earlier this month in his first outdoor season for the University of Connecticut. On Wednesday he will compete in the NCAA Division I East Preliminary in Jacksonville, Florida. Entering as the 13th seed with a best height of 5 meters, 28 centimeters (equivalent to 17 feet, 4 inches), Snyder must finish in the top 12 to qualify for the June 9-12 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon.
"The point of the meet is just to see who goes to the next round," Snyder said. "The goal for me is to make the finals or come away with a new school record." UConn's school record is 5.45 meters.
Drummey, 19, is in a different situation. The University of Southern Maine freshman has a legitimate chance to win a Division III national championship Thursday in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Drummey is seeded second with a best jump of 5.20 meters (17-0 3/4). Noah Zastrow, a junior at University of Wisconsin-Stout, is the top seed at 5.36 meters (about 17-7). The all-time D-III championship record is 5.45 meters.
"That's always the goal, to win. I'm excited to compete with some names I've been watching and looking at their stats," Drummey said. "I think if I have a good day I have the poles in my bag to compete with them."
Some of those poles were used by his father in the 1990s. Mike Drummey is in his 18th season as USM's pole vault coach and, at least for now, is the family record holder at 17-8 1/2, set at Southern Connecticut State.
"That's what brought me here to USM," said Ben Drummey. "No matter where I go, no one is going to know my jump like my dad."
This year Drummey has topped his high school PR of 16 feet, set indoors as a senior, by nearly 13 inches. Along the way he broke USM's record multiple times, set a Costello Fieldhouse record (previously held by Snyder), and recorded the nine best vaults in program history. He was named the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association's New England Division III Field Athlete of the Year on Tuesday.
"Over the past four, five years, it's been a foot improvement each year," Mike Drummey said, adding with a laugh. "If he can do that for the next three, four years he'll be in a great place."
The world indoor and outdoor records, held by Mondo Duplantis, are just over 20 feet.
When they were in high school, Drummey was good but not in Snyder's category. At the 2019 Class A state championship, Snyder set a state record of 16-9.25 inches. Drummey was second at 14-6. This past summer they trained together a few times.
"I know I'm finally at a level where I can start to compete with him," Drummey said. "We're only a few inches apart at this point. Even though it wasn't much of a competition in high school, I'm slowly catching him."
MATT BRADY OF Biddeford joins Snyder on the UConn contingent headed to Jacksonville. Brady, a senior academically with two more years of college eligibility, is seeded 47th of 48 shot putters with a personal-best throw of 17.65 meters (57 feet, 10 7/8 inches). The top 12 will advance to Eugene.
"My main goal is just to beat my seed spot and really to get a taste of the competition," Brady said.
TWO WOMEN ON the USM team are returning to the Division III meet. Adela Kalilwa of Lewiston, a 2019 All-American in the long and triple jump, has again qualified for both events. She's seeded 10th in the triple, and 11th in the long jump. Sophia Slovenski, a junior from Cape Neddick, is the third seed in the javelin. As a freshman at Bowdoin College, Slovenski was an All-American in the javelin.
Also competing at the Division III meet will be Bates College sophomore Elise Lambert (Amherst, New Hampshire), the fourth seed in the women's 800; and Colby College sophomores and Thornton High grads Sabria Merrifield and Katie-Marie Roy, on the Mules' sixth-seeded 4×100 relay team.
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"A tiny museum but with a wealth of knowledge from the volunteers - would have loved to have gone on a day when milling was taking place. Word of warning - the steps up to the two levels are very steep and uneven but worth the effort, also have to watch out for very low ceilings! Bought milled flour and plum loaf - would buy my bread flour from them all the time if I could but I'm not local - will have to stock up next time I'm in the area!"
"An interesting visit to a working water mill where you can learn about milling, then buy some milled flour. Afterwards take the 10 minute riverside walk into Sleaford town centre."
"Love visiting here. Kids always enjoy and staff are always helpful and answer the endless questions. Shop is good and the days they have the mill working are well worth a visit."
"A nice walk from town at side of river Slea brings you to this pretty watermill. It is good that it was saved from falling in disrepair as all the other mills on the river have gone. There are some interesting old pictures of former tenants and their children to see as well as all the implements involved in milling flour. A nice free place to visit in a lovely location."
"Worth a visit , if in the area ,good history on this mill been there since year dot , Check for working days."
"It was a very nice day out with my youngest granddaughter, we found the mill very interesting lots to see would have been better if it was working, but it only works once a month"
"Lovely little place with lovely staff. Visited 17/9/17 well worth the short walk from town although there is a car park right next to it."
"Wow what a stunning little water mill in Sleaford. Only a few minutes walk from the town down the river. Definitely worth a visit."
"We were in Sleaford and as it was a lovely day decided to walk along the river to the Mill. The mill was not working during our visit but you can still have a look around and there is a small gift shop area as well as information leaflets. There is a small car park if you don't want to walk from Sleaford and it is in a lovely position on the river. Free to visit."
"Free entry to very interesting attraction"
"You don't get much for free these days and parking is free for 2 hours as well so you can stroll along the canal bank as well . The mill has special days when it is working check website for details next one is 9th July . This has been restored to working order using lots of 're engineered pieces to make as authentic as possible along with extra strengthening for safety . The Miller has been there for many years and says that they are looking for a younger energetic person to take it on as at 72 years old it is getting a bit too much for him and getting up and down the steps was difficult but well worth it for us . There is also a gift shop with local produce and crafts at reasonable prices".
"You can walk along the side of the river from the centre of Sleaford which is very pleasant or alternatively there is a small car park close to the mill. The mill does have open days when you can see the mill working. A lovely building and well worth a visit".
"Beautiful setting, so close to the town centre, yet you feel as if you are in the heart of the countryside. River Slea is so clean you can seethe pebbles on the bottom. The Mill is very interesting and mentioned in the Doomsday Book. The hot chocolate was delicious and very hot. I would definitely recommend to anyone".
"Perfect Place for a Stroll"
"Free Entry. The Mill has a fascinating history laid out on a timeline inside. Good details of the mechanics of the Mill, and access on 3 floors to see how a water Wheel works. Next 'working' day 14/05/17. Its a charming 10 minute walk fro Town Centre - lots to see on the walk, and a shop at the Mill. Hot drinks only available from a machine on the day we attended 12/04/17."
"If you don't mind low ceilings and un even floors and stairs then this is excellent, full of interesting things and history."


The Master Lock X055 security safe is ideal for protecting precious valuables and electronics. It is fitted with a programmable electronic lock allows you to chose your combination while the override key makes sure you can always access to your safe, even in the case of forgotten combination. The carpeted floor keeps the content protected from scratching during storage. The Master Lock X055 security safe is secured by 2 steel live-locking bolts and concealed hinge for more protection against attacks. It is supplied with bolts for wall or base fixing and has a recommended cash rating of £1,000.


Know as App State, ASU or App, Appalachian State University is comprehensive public institution of higher education located in Boone, North Carolina. The University is a part of the North Carolina system.
App's is comprised of the following six academic divisions: College of Arts and Sciences, College of Fine and Applied Arts, Mariam Cannon Hayes School of Music, Reich College of Education, Walker College of Business, and Cratis D. Williams Graduate School. Moreover, App State houses 11 academic centers/institutes.
Appalachian State University is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
Students at Appalachian State University may benefit from a variety of financial aid options available for students. Scholarships, student employment, student loans, and grants are the types of aid students can apply for. In addition there are numerous varieties of each of this type, which means each student can find an option best suited for his/her needs.
My overall experience at ASU was positive. I was in the Community Counseling graduate program. The classes were very easy. My internship was very easy. If you are looking for a easy masters degree I would recommend ASU.
The academics are out standing. I would like to be a professor of history at ASU some time in the future.
I graduated from ASU in 2000 and have been extremely successful since then. I found a job straight after graduating through an internship that I got through the English department and have always been able to work in my field. I have come across some very interesting job opportunities and now live and work in Europe. I found the English department very helpful and the philosophy department fantastic. Appalachian is a very special university and I see it becoming a major player in the near future.


Real Wireless has published an exclusive insight into the use of its modelling tools to calculate the costs of network densification for a European regulator.
Working on behalf of Austrian regulator, RTR, Real Wireless experts were asked to consider the network densification and cost-impact of coverage obligations in the 700MHz band for MNOs in Austria.
The brief was to take a number of potential throughput targets for population, roads and broad geographic coverage, and suggest what the cost would be to meet each of them.
For the first time, and with the permission of RTR, the project outline and approach has been made available to download. The project summary shows how Real Wireless used its unique, tried and tested tools – applying one of its own densification algorithms to show how cost evolves as an MNO densifies the existing network and increases consumer throughput.