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Camilla Swift
Camilla Swift is Supplements Editor at The Spectator.
A degree of experience: what apprenticeships offer our brightest young people
Camilla Swift 7 November 2015 9:00 am
Four high-flying apprentices tell Camilla Swift how they had to defy school pressure pushing them towards university
Camilla Swift 19 September 2015 9:00 am
Organising storage in the holidays can be a nightmare for international students. It needn't be writes Camilla Swift
The changing worlds of education
From the editor Camilla Swift
The lessons of exam results season (and what to do about them)
Camilla Swift 29 August 2015 9:00 am
Every year without fail, as the trees start thinking about losing their leaves, the papers are full of the same…
The pitfalls of picnics (and how to avoid them)
Camilla Swift 4 July 2015 9:00 am
Strange, isn't it, that despite having such famously terrible weather, we Brits are so fond of a picnic. It's something…
Why we need no longer fear a prosecco shortage
Camilla Swift 13 June 2015 9:00 am
English vineyards could provide the solution to the summer's prosecco drought
The crash was good news for the City's women
Camilla Swift 23 May 2015 9:00 am
The City is a better workplace for women than it was before the crash
Ten years after the ban, why are there still hunt saboteurs?
Camilla Swift 14 March 2015 9:00 am
Why twentysomethings don't save
Camilla Swift 7 March 2015 9:00 am
Why twentysomethings see no point in trying to save
The sheer joy of hunting
Camilla Swift 17 January 2015 9:00 am
This time three years ago, I hadn't jumped a single thing for almost ten years. This season, I am happily…
Titanium and diamond studs: the loopy world of high-end credit cards
Upgrading from plastic to titanium can transform your lifestyle — at a price
The lost horses of London
Camilla Swift 4 October 2014 9:00 am
The days when horses and humans lived cheek by jowl in the capital are unarguably over. Brewers' drays have disappeared,…
Sloane Rangers vs Arabs – the battle for Chelsea
Camilla Swift 12 July 2014 9:00 am
In Knightsbridge and Chelsea, tension simmers between Sloanes and super-rich Arabs
Seeing London afresh, one bridge at a time
Bridges aren't necessarily something you think of as being beautiful, particularly if you consider them primarily as the means to…
Norman Thelwell: much more than a one-trick pony
'The natural aids to horsemanship are the hands, the legs, the body and the voice.' But a Thelwell pony sometimes…
Exploring the world of Jean Paul Gaultier
Camilla Swift 26 April 2014 9:00 am
'London,' says Jean Paul Gaultier, 'was my vitamin. I love the freedom of London…The energy, the character, all the people…
Behind the scenes at Spitting Image
If Margaret Thatcher is remembered by many more as a caricature than as her actual self, then blame Spitting Image.…
Blackfish and the scandal of caged killer whales
Camilla Swift 30 November 2013 9:00 am
If you were in a bathtub for 25 years, don't you think you'd get a little bit psychotic? Well, yes,…
Going off-piste in Val D'Isere
Camilla Swift 12 October 2013 9:00 am
First things first. Yes, Val d'Isère does have a reputation for being expensive — and it is, especially if you're…
Notes on….Walking in the Scottish Highlands
The simplest and best way to get straight to the heart of the Highlands from London is by sleeper. Board…
Camilla Swift 1 December 2012 10:41 am
Take it from a Norwegian: there's still nowhere like Switzerland for skiing
Seven things to do if you're not skiing
These days, a winter holiday isn't just about skiing. The majority of larger resorts offer a range of activities from…


^ Yep Yoyogi is closed, her last concert there was for CDL 2016/2017 two years ago. I think it will open again in 2020.
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OMG! Such a nostalgic feeling having those unofficial pictures back <3 It's been a long time since we have them, right?
And, omg, she looks great in every singly picture! There's not one single unflattering one!!
How did they manage to take pictures in a small venue with professional camera I wonder? Sneaky photographers.
Those look exactly like the pictures bootleggers sell outside the venues after the shows. I suspect that's the deal.
Nice pic of the Venue, don't see KO anywhere anymore.
Ugh. I hope she kicks Days out in January.
She could kick out How trash you are right now, tbh.
As much as I love Days I hope that she will bring You and/or The way I am back at. She hasn't perfrom You in years and The way I am is a new song and she is promoting the album it is on on this tour after all.
In her newest Instagram post she says that from the CDL onwards the setlist and members will change for the tour and the Kyoto dates are the last dates of "chapter 1".
Yeah, I've just seen that too! Hoping W, Last angel and Startin' will at least remain in the setlist.


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Q: Dijkstra's algorthm modification I am aware of the Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm. However, if I were to modify it so that instead of finding the shortest path it would find the longest path using a greedy algorithm. What would I have to do to the code below:
Here is what Im using:
as a compare function to select the correct node in the shortest path version:
 if (Cost(potential_node) > Cost(current_node) + cost(source , current_node)) then
 cost (potential_node) = cost(current_node) + cost (source, current_node)

However, to get to the flip side this is not working:
 if (Cost(potential_node) < Cost(current_node) + cost(source , current_node)) then
 cost (potential_node) = cost(current_node) + cost (source, current_node)

A bit confused, would really appreciate some feedback

A: The longest path problem is NP-Hard, and thus there is no known polynomial solution.
The suggested modification does not work, because when dijkstra's algorithm marks a node as "closed" it means - there will never be a shorter path to it. The claim is not true when trying to do it for longest path, if you closed a node - it doesn't mean there is no longer path to it.
Recall that this is exactly what we prove on Dijkstra's algorithm at each step (more "relaxations" will not find any shorter path), but if you find a current longest path to a vertex using the midification - it doesn't mean it is indeed the longest one - there might be one longest path not yet explored.

Edit  - counter example when it doesn't work (forgive me I am a terrible ascii artist)
        A
      /   \
     /     \
    1       2
   /         \
  B-----5---> C
V = {A,B,C} ;  E = { (A,B,1), (A,C,2), (B,C,5) }

Now, starting from A, this approach will first find C as the "longest path" and close it. From now on - there is no changes to C according to Dijkstra's algorithm, so you will conclude that the longest path from A to C is of length 2, while the path A->B->C is longer.

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Diving Companies Track Pipes and Cables
Utility companies have been laying pipelines and cables across the ocean floor for more than a century. Prior the introduction of GPS, marking their position was a difficult and tedious task, fraught with error. It is extremely important to know the exact location of existing lines before undertaking dredging operations or when new pipes and cables are laid down.
Regulations require they be buried from several feet to several meters under the ocean bottom to prevent snagging by boat anchors and fishing trawls. This depth of burial typically makes them impossible to find with conventional metal detectors. Two pieces of equipment have proved most effective in finding them; a pinpointing magnetometer and a cable tracker. The pinpointing magnetometer is a very sensitive device that locates iron and steel pipes buried up to 16 feet in the bottom, and the cable tracker is powerful enough to detect a power or communications cable at more than 30 feet away.
One company using both instruments in their subsea operations is WJ Castle PE & Associates. Company founder William Castle has been providing marine and structural engineering services for almost 30 years, and has served on a number of industry boards including the Association of Diving Contractors (ADC). Recently Castle was subcontracted by Brayman Construction to perform an inspection and document the underwater conditions at a utility's proposed site for a diffuser pipe extension. Using JW Fishers CT-1 cable tracker and PT-1 pipe tracker, Castle's team of divers searched for a high voltage power cable and pipeline running through the area. Complicating the job was the excessive amount of debris littering the site including steel plates, beams, and wire rope. Also close by were a seawall constructed of steel reinforced concrete and steel plates. Very high concentrations of ferrous metal in the area prevented the use a standard magnetometer as it would be impossible to locate individual pieces. The primary advantage of the PT-1 is its ability to pinpoint targets, even in areas surrounded by steel structures. Despite the challenges, diver Greg McGrath reports they were successful in finding both the pipe and cable. The team marked the positions of both, and also determined their approximately depth of burial under the gravel bottom.
Based in Hong Kong is the BEKK Group of Companies. They offer a broad range of services in an array of fields including civil engineering, underground construction, marine engineering, and offshore oil and gas. They have worked on projects from the Middle East to the Asia-Pacific Region. Recently the company was awarded a contract to provide marine support, personnel, equipment and materials for the first phase of the offshore wind farm being built for Hong Kong Electric Company. Two of the first pieces BEKK procured to assist in this project are the Fishers PT-1 pipe tracker and Pulse 8X metal detector. Both will be instrumental during the site survey and clearing operations.
Another firm employing the CT-1 cable tracker is Denholm Offshore based in the UK. The company offers complete shallow water power and communications cabling service, including installation and maintenance. They also provide route clearance and cable recovery. Denholm is currently working on a multiple landing telecommunications installation between West Africa and Europe. Company spokesman Gary Waterman reports, "The tracker has worked very well. It's been a great help on this project."
Nava19 Engineering in Thailand is also having good results with the cable tracker. Owner Prajuab Riabroy reports, "We used the tracker to find a submarine power cable. It located the cable very easily, saving us time and money. On another project we induced a signal into a fiber optic cable with the Signal Injector Box. Our divers used the hand-held probe to track the cable for several kilometers. It is a good piece of equipment."
For more information of JW Fishers complete line of underwater search systems go to www.jwfishers.com.

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Industry is a key contributor to economic growth and prosperity, and has been the primary engine of economic development over the last century. It is also a leading global source of greenhouse gases. The International Energy Agency estimates that, to meet global GHG reduction goals, emission reductions of 60-80% will be necessary. Industry is also an important source of innovation and rich with mitigation opportunities: resource efficiency (e.g. energy, materials, water); reducing process emissions of non-CO2 GHGs; industrial ecology; supply chain logistics and geography; manufacturing efficiency; CO2 capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS); and enhanced use of renewables are just some of the areas in which there is great potential for paradigm-shifting progress.
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pump air through water that contains algae and at the other side where the air exist we can condense it and store it.
I think that the main problem with large - scale industry is that many don't communicate within it. This conference would fix that.
Most armed conflicts around the globe are about oil, gas, rare earth minerals, timber, precious gems, water. We can change that. We have to.


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61 Use novelty bash feature to extend IUSE.
82 Add missing slot dependencies on Qt.
102 Improve USE flag descriptions.
110 Do not call get_libdir in global scope.
115 Add more pax-marking by Alex Efros (bug #421859).
119 Reorder SLOTs in x11-libs/gtk+ USE=gtk RDEPEND.
137 Remove IUSE=gtk3 (bug #420563).
250 Improve *SUFFIX replacement (match the upstream install script more closely).
342 Fix PaX marking by Zhang Hongjiu (bug #403363).
406 Correct dev-libs/glib SLOT dependency.
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414 loading libflashplayer.so (bug #363387).
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443 Drop pluginpath.ini patching (perhaps bug #376897).
485 "Opera Next" when appropriate.
608 Add a simple linguas counter.
617 Changed "opera" to "PN" in a comment.
657 Die when we try to remove unknown linguas.
660 Fix desktop file references, from "opera" to "opera-next", by Ja Bi.


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Interview: Andrija Curkovic Of Hi-Fi Media
The advantage of today's audio is easy distribution of music.
Interview By Wojciech Pacuła
On this occasion we exchanged a few words about the Internet and printed press with Andrija Curkovic, editor-in-chief of Hi-Fi Media — and not coincidentally. The magazine run by Andrija moved to a digital platform two years ago, after 25 years of being published in print. As you will read below, the reasons were similar. However, just like the Positive Feedback magazine, which had also been published in print for a long time, he succeeded, in exchanging the material world for a virtual one.
Andrija Curkovic, editor-in-chief of the online Hi-Fi Media magazine, tells Wojciech Pacula about the transformation as well as his first musical and sonic fascinations, audio in former Yugoslavia and present-day Croatia.
WojciechPacula Tell us about yourself, please.
Andrija Curkovic I was born in 1964 in Zagreb, Republic of Croatia, which at that time was part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia under the communist political system.
I got interested in music at the end of elementary school under the influence of my sister who was five years older and at that time listened to albums by the Doors, Janis Joplin, Jimmy Hendrix, King Crimson, or the Beatles, while I leaned more towards harder rock — Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Whitesnake, etc.
Although these vinyl issues were well delayed from the date of official release in the countries of Western Europe, they were relatively accessible to us, unlike in other countries of the Eastern Bloc or the USSR (Yugoton offered most rock albums released in the West – Editor's note).
In those teenage days I had a desire to learn to play the electric guitar. I managed to get a cheap copy of the Stratocaster, but I didn't have the opportunity to get a real guitar amplifier. So, due to "technical reasons" and inconsistent practice of notes on the acoustic guitar, I soon gave up on the idea of becoming a rock star.
I made up for my lack of musicianship by going to rock concerts frequently and listening to radio stations outside of Yugoslavia, such as Radio Luxemburg, which was popular at the time. I was lucky to develop musically in the "golden age" of the British music scene at the end of the 1970s and during the 1980s, when many musical trends and musicians were born that had huge influence on the development of today's modern music scene.
Most of these artists were also available on vinyl that we could buy in local record stores, and if some lucky person managed to get individual original titles from Great Britain, then the whole party would move to his house that weekend for a whole day of listening.
WP: What was your first audio system?
AĆ: My first hi-fi system was the Tosca 20 GP 5660 (shown in the photo), a turntable with an amplifier (2 x 10W), separate speakers and a mechanism for automatically returning the tonearm after a record has been played — it also comes from this period of discovering new music, and it was produced by the domestic company RIZ-ELAK (Radio Industry Zagreb).
My first hi-fi system: Tosca 20 GP 5660 by RIZ-ELAK.
Although at that time in Yugoslavia it was possible to buy devices of some of the renowned manufacturers of audio devices, such as Sansui, Kenwood, Marantz, Rotel, KEF, AR, JVC, Sharp, etc., they were not available to all residents of the former country because you had to have a certificate on the origin of foreign currency to buy them. The devices were paid for in a foreign currency (mainly in German marks), while import costs and customs duties would be paid in domestic currency.
Due to these restrictions, hi-fi equipment could mostly be bought by party officials for themselves or for their circle of acquaintances. The situation eased somewhat in the 1980s, when the one-party system of the time made it possible to buy foreign goods, and to some extent liberalized private imports, also for residents of Yugoslavia who temporarily worked in the countries of Western Europe. As my father worked in West Germany throughout his career and earned a pension there, I had a proof of origin of foreign exchange funds.
However, I was not too interested in hi-fi at that early stage because I was satisfied with the aforementioned turntable and I recorded music from radio stations onto cassettes using a Philips radio-cassette player. As a teenager, I was more interested in going to concerts than the idea of sitting at home and listening to records by myself.
However, towards the end of high school, during summer holidays, a good friend of mine received a Technics hi-fi system consisting of an integrated amplifier, a cassette player, a tuner and a Visaton two-way bookshelf speaker in a kit form as a gift from his dad, also a temporary worker in Germany. If I remember correctly, the integrated amplifier cost 450-500 German marks at the time.
We had our first listening session with Visaton speakers connected and just sitting on a desk, without a box. I didn't like that. Well, my Philips radio cassette player played better, and it cost a fraction of the price of this Technics system. My friend assured me that it will play much better when he builds a speaker box and puts Visaton drivers in it. He heard them assembled in a shop in Munich. Okay, let's try that too. I offered to help him make it. After a few days of sawing and gluing, we assembled a box into which we inserted the speaker units. Everything was ready for the first listening. Bang!
In his student room of about 9 square meters, the speakers nailed us to the wall. We turned the potentiometer up to half (12 o'clock) and the Technics system delivered a loud, powerful and mighty wall of music that we had never experienced before. Wow! Never mind my Philips radio cassette player or my Tosca record player with its own speakers. That day I bit into the "hi-fi apple" and set off on a search for good sound that is still ongoing. The interesting thing is that this friend of mine is still the owner of the same Technics line and does not feel like changing it for something new and more modern.
The experience gained in making the Visaton speakers made me interested in making DIY speakers for myself. At that time, there was a very popular magazine in Yugoslavia in which various designs for self-construction and repairs of everything needed for a household were published, and among them were sometimes designs of hi-fi speakers based on Dynaudio speaker units that could then be ordered from a factory in Denmark.
After I made my first pair of speakers, I got several requests to make them for others too, so I started mini-production in my attic. After a while I saved enough money to buy my first "serious" hi-fi stereo line – it was Technics, of course. In the mid-1980s, I started studying mechanical engineering in Zagreb, so I no longer had time for DIY, and I became interested in ready-made commercial solutions.
Hi-Fi Media's Website
During a gathering with my hi-fi friends, someone mentioned the British speaker manufacturer Rogers and praised it highly. He did not hear them personally, but his brother, who was on a short visit to his cousin in Germany, told him so. His cousin didn't have those speakers, but the brother heard them for the first time by chance in a small hi-fi store which he entered pretending to be a customer, as it was raining outside.
Besides the sound he liked, the shop staff told him that Rogers had a "British sound." But what's British sound? In Germany? We didn't understand it at all. We later learned that it was the Rogers Studio 1 model because we received a letter from his cousin with a copy of a test from an audio magazine where the speaker was well rated. I fell in love with the description and decided that one day I would buy them for myself.
I got the opportunity to buy them after a couple of years when my father was retiring at the end of the 1980s. That's when the privilege of certifying the origin of foreign currency came into play with the added advantage that workers/returnees to Yugoslavia paid less customs duty when importing goods.
I told myself: "Now or never!" I sold my old Technics line, spent two summer months on a construction site doing rough manual labor, and even sold my skis and ski gear, so I could buy Rogers speakers and a new electronics. Fortunately, a new version had arrived — Studio 1a. The rest of the new system consisted of: a Yamaha C60/M60 preamp/power amp, Denon DP-45F DD turntable and Nakamichi RX-505 tape recorder.
This whole story about Rogers speakers was of great importance to me because I accidentally, in some "silly" way, chose speakers that, in my perception of sound, determined the key settings of quality reproduction. Many years have passed since then and my listening experiences have expanded and changed further, but I can say that my point of reference is what used to be called "British sound."
WP: And then Yugoslavia fell apart...
AĆ: Yes, I could call this part: "Audio gear distribution and war."
In 1989, the economic situation in Yugoslavia was very bad. At the end of the year inflation reached an incredible 2,679% per year, so the then new federal government tried to make changes that would improve it. The International Monetary Fund accepted the recovery plan and already in the first half of 1990 the first elements of recovery were visible. One of the new measures was the possibility of privatizing companies whose shares could be purchased by their directors and employees at large discounts.
For a country still under the communist rule, this was a big change. Liberalization of economy also made private investment possible. So, at the beginning of 1990, numerous private small trading companies began to be established. Seeing the possibility to start working professionally with my hi-fi hobby, I founded a company for the distribution of audio products in June 1990. The first brand I distributed was, of course, Rogers.
In addition to me, a few months earlier, two other private companies focused on the distribution of audio products started operating — Media Audio (Mr. TonciDumicic – Split) and Kuzma Audio (Mr. Franc Kuzma – Kranj). The three of us were the first "private hi-fi company owners" in former Yugoslavia.
Although political relations and intra-national tensions in Yugoslavia rapidly began to become complicated, sales of Rogers speakers went well until the end of June 1991, when the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) intervened militarily in Slovenia, and soon in August openly sided with Serbia in its attack on Vukovar and Croatia. Thus the war for Croatian independence began, ending at the end of 1995.
The covers of three issues — the first one (September 1996); the fiftieth one, after which the magazine changed its title from Hi-Fi to Hi-Fi Media; and the 25th anniversary one.
The first two years of the war were very difficult, and the audio business was at a standstill. The other two years had more frequent periods of truce when we tried to live "normally", so my hi-fi business was also somewhat active. The liberation of Croatia and the end of the war brought positive energy and restored hope for a better future. That was the beginning of my new phase, the launch of a hi-fi magazine.
WP: So that's how the story of your Hi-Fi Media magazine started?
AĆ: Yes, although it was first called Hi-Fi. The idea to establish a magazine appeared straight away after I organized the Zagreb Hi-Fi Show in October 1994.
Although 1/3 of the Croatian territory was still under occupation and we were at war, we tried to live normal lives during armistice periods, which gave me an incentive to organize the audio show. It was held in the most luxurious hotel Esplanade in Zagreb and became a great success. It was not big in terms of the number of exhibitors, but the number of visitors was extremely high. The logical question after such a great success was: "Has the time come to start a local hi-fi magazine?"
Supported by a few distributors and as a complete amateur in the publishing industry, I set off into the unknown, but with a clear goal of what I wanted to create — a magazine for hi-fi enthusiasts with a quality feature about music. I thought that the project would come to life quickly because everything seemed quite simple to me, but it was not like that. It took me two years to find collaborators, learn the rules of publishing and secure financial resources, because printing a magazine costs quite a lot.
At the end of 1995, the consequences of the war were still very visible, which was most felt on the financial market, and banks were not too interested in financing such a project. Information on the launch of the magazine had already spread within the audiophile community and there was no turning back for me after that. I decided to finance the project with my own funds.
OK, I had the idea of the magazine, its layout and some start-up capital, and now the only thing missing were quality authors who would understand hi-fi and be able to transfer their knowledge onto paper. I thought that would be easy to solve as well, but I was wrong. A few older journalists, who occasionally wrote a little about hi-fi in reviews for daily newspapers, made excessive and, at that moment, unrealistic demands, so I was forced to refuse them and find a different solution.
My colleague Danko Suvar, our current technical editor, had already been living in New York for a couple of years, where he studied electrical engineering. As a musician (drummer) and audio lover, he immediately agreed to cooperate. By the way, the two of us met for the first time in 1991 when he came to my shop to listen to Rogers LS4a bookshelf speakers — an experience that turned him into a hardcore audiophile.
At the same time, Douglas Floyd Douglas, a top journalist and PR specialist, winner of several journalism awards in Great Britain for articles on professional and studio electronics, worked for Rogers as marketing director and occasionally wrote for the British audio magazine Hi-Fi World. In addition to the business relationship, the two of us also became very good friends privately, which resulted in his proposal to publish his column from London in the magazine, where he would write about interesting events or products.
Through him we also had access to all articles that appeared in Hi-Fi World and the possibility to publish in our magazine if we expressed such a desire. My colleague Šuvar was also given his own column, so we covered the two most important cities (London and New York) with our correspondents. With their columns, the magazine seemed quite serious and professional.
However, we still lacked a certain number of authors. Douglas suggested that he would talk to the editor of the British magazine Hi-Fi News & Record Review, Steve Harris, and propose that we publish one test from their current issue in each issue of our magazine (it was similar with the Polish Audio magazine, then called Od Radio do Audio, which published product test translations at the beginning – Editor's note).
I liked that idea. Cooperation would make it easier for us to produce each issue, we would increase the importance of the entire project, and our readers would have access to tests of devices that were not distributed in Croatia. It was agreed that I would meet Steve and work out all the details about our collaboration. So, we met in New York in 1996, in the luxurious Waldorf-Astoria hotel, where an AV show organized by the influential American High End magazine Stereophile was held at the end of May.
I came to the show in NY with my colleague Šuvar and a prepared promo flyer about the new audio magazine in Croatia. To my surprise, the conversation with Steve Harris was joined by John Atkinson, editor-in-chief of the Stereophile magazine, who found the information that a hi-fi magazine was being launched in a country that had just emerged from a brutal war very fascinating and interesting. Having received support from both editors of the then most respected hi-fi magazines in the world, I returned to Croatia to complete my domestic search for permanent collaborators, so that the first edition of my magazine could see the light of day.
At that time I was occasionally hanging out with a few younger audiophiles, enthusiasts of good sound and former customers of mine, so I offered them the opportunity to be reviewers for the new magazine that was being founded. Everyone accepted and soon the core of the editorial staff was established. Most of them still write for the magazine today.
From the very first issue, I wanted the magazine to cover all consumer electronics topics that might be of interest to its readers. In addition to hi-fi devices, we immediately devoted ourselves to testing video devices (CRT TVs and VHS recorders) and reviews of film releases (VHS cassettes), but this area of home consumer electronics attracted more attention among readers only after the emergence of DVD media, flat screen TVs and surround sound.
Given my great passion for music and film, the magazine has been thematically composed of three units: AV technology — music — film from the beginning. Unlike the audio domain of the magazine, music and film had a different weight, so I tried to hire the best journalists I could find in Croatia to write those articles. I think that I have succeeded quite a bit in this and that our readers have had the opportunity to read very high-quality texts about music and film in the last 25 years. That part of the magazine is extremely important to us because it expands our readership beyond the audiophile community and lets us maintain a high percentage of readers after the average consumer buys their new audio or home theater system.
The magazine was launched in the form of a monthly, and we kept that rhythm until about 7-8 years ago, when minor and eventually increasing deviations from the set monthly deadlines began. The reason for this is that with time we had become an increasingly complex magazine with many big topics in all the three categories of sections, and at the same time colleagues had less and less time for their daily duties at work and families.
I would like to mention that all authors who participate in the creation of www.HiFiMedia.hr cooperate as external collaborators. For me, each edition is a challenge because I need to connect at least ten authors in approximately the same time frame — they will have time to review, write and submit their texts in time to complete the issue. Sometimes I used to say jokingly: "we only go public when we have something clever to write about."
Although this way of working can be quite stressful for me, I am glad that we are recognized by readers as an independent publisher whose reviews are as transparent as possible and immune to any marketing activities, or any "editorial policy." This commitment to the transparency and independence of the magazine is confirmed by our cooperation with the very influential American internet high-end magazine Enjoy the Music, which dates back to 2012, and membership in the Association of International Audiophile Publications (AIAP) where we are one of eleven founders.
AIAP is an organization that was founded this year and gathers renowned magazines that adhere to the rule that the publication of advertisements in magazines is in no way related to the outcome of reviews of products related to the advertisers (High Fidelity is also one of the member-founders of AIAP – Editor's note; more here).
Our activities as an audio/video magazine over the past 25 years have not been limited to the hi-fi domain, but we have followed the development of other segments of consumer electronics in a timely manner, such as the arrival of DVD, SACD vs. DVD-A, the war between Blu-ray and HD DVD, or LCD and OLED TVs, HDTV, 4K, iPod and MP3 music, audio streaming, etc.
We have also attended all the most important shows in the world: CES, IFA, High-End Munich (before Frankfurt) and ISE as well as (before Covid) press conferences of leading consumer electronics manufacturers (Samsung, LG Electronics, Philips, Panasonic, etc.). Finally, twice (in 2009 and 2016), I was selected as a judge for the CES Innovation Awards.
WP: Why did you move your printed magazine to the Internet?
AĆ: The transition to a completely digital format of the magazine has been primarily conditioned by economic reasons. Namely, since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, the costs of paper and printing have increased significantly, problems have arisen with the distribution of paper magazines, and a large number of domestic audio distributors have canceled marketing due to the crisis.
The contents of the latest magazine issue in a PDF format.
I don't want to shift all the blame to Covid, because the decline of marketing in the printed edition started as early as 2018, when domestic representative offices of television manufacturers (Samsung, Philips, LG, Panasonic, etc.) drastically reduced marketing, and some of them completely canceled their budget for marketing in print editions.
Leaving the printed edition after 25 years was a difficult and quite an emotional decision for us, but we had to do it because I could no longer finance the magazine myself in that form. During this period of transition to a fully digital interface, we continued to produce new editions of the magazine as if they were going to print, with all the permanent sections and thematic blocks for which we are known and accepted among our readers. Only now the magazine will be available in hi-res, PDF format.
A special feature of our way of distributing each issue of the magazine is that we make it available for free download. We were not convinced that the introduction of a minimum subscription would have an effect on our market. We believe that in this way we have retained all our previous readers and aroused the interest of some new ones for whom hi-fi is not a primary domain, but who are simply interested in our excellent articles covering music and film topics.
We had the imperative that the magazine had to survive in the market and now, after two years, it seems to me that we are on the right track to succeed in this because we see an increase in our readership as well as the interest of companies in marketing on our digital platforms.
WP: What are the pros and cons of publishing an audio magazine online?
AĆ: Personally, I will always prefer a printed magazine because I am a visual person and the graphic appearance of the article I read on paper is important to me, as opposed to the web view, which has a lot of limitations.
A print edition is always physically accessible to the reader through touch, it is a materialized and more intimate medium, while the web acts more like its semi-conscious, present and yet not fully materialized version. By turning off the screen, information becomes unavailable, there are no small rituals, there is no special atmosphere and no feeling of the material value of what is read. Maybe I am too subjective and nostalgic because of my project that was forced to go to another dimension of "existence."
The obvious advantage of a digital (web) magazine is its great possibility of market penetration among readers, as it bypasses the newspaper distribution channel which is often a bottleneck for small and specialized magazines on the way to readers. In terms of speed of publishing current news, the web is currently unsurpassed. Also, many of our younger readers do not see any problem with reading longer articles on a computer or mobile phone screen. So, starting this year, we are redirecting all our activities and adapting to the legalities of the web and social networks.
The main problem for publishers in the digital form is content monetization, because most readers are used to receiving online content for free. This problem did not exist with the printed edition.
WP: What do you think about the future of audio — what is good in our world and what not necessarily so?
AĆ: I think the main problem with today's audio is that it has gone to an extreme. When I look at today's high-end products, I often ask myself who these devices were made for, what is the point of a device (amplifier, speaker, DAC, etc.) costing €30,000, €50,000 or more than €100,000? Are we ghettoizing the availability of high-end devices in such a way? How much of the price of such products stands for the actual development of new technologies, and how much is just an easier way of gaining large profits from buyers of luxury goods?
I don't want you to get me wrong, there will always be buyers for top products. However, focusing on such devices often isn't productive for the entire audio community. In recent years, the reactions of visitors after visiting the Zagreb Hi-Fi Show were discouraging because they could only see expensive systems that they would never be able to afford. In line with global trends, local distributors also exhibit mostly only the best devices from their lineup, i.e. what's bigger, stronger and more expensive.
OK, they are all top traders, they probably know what they are doing, but then they shouldn't be surprised when they no longer have the chance to see a new face in their own shop. I am afraid that the younger generations will not be attracted to us in such a way that one day they will buy a better (and more expensive) product.
The advantage of today's audio is easy distribution of music across multiple digital platforms, which has led to a listening revolution. In my opinion, the availability of music (regardless of its quality) is perhaps the seed for the future, so hi-fi as a hobby or someone's livelihood will not die out, because among the billions of young people who listen to music on the move, some will want their own home audio system — even if it means a budget hi-fi one.
WP: What signal sources do you use — files, digital discs or vinyl?
AĆ: I mostly listen CDs/SACDs because of ease of handling, the sound I like, habit; because they are physically in my room and because sometimes I like to read the booklet that comes with the disc.
I have not yet decided to listen to music stored in a digital form on the HDD or via some streaming platform. Maybe I'm just too lazy to make a new archive for myself. Except for me and my colleague Šuvar, everyone else in the editorial team mainly uses this form of reproduction. I have a small vinyl collection from a couple of analog listening periods in my hi-fi life, and now I'm thinking of maybe buying a turntable again. I really like the sound of the turntable, but I didn't often have the patience to stop listening and turn the record from side A to B. Maybe it's time for a turntable now that I'm slowly entering my mature years and I have more time for myself.
WP: Have you got any thoughts on comparing MQA and FLAC (or WAV) files?
AĆ: For now I don't have an opinion on MQA vs. FLAC (or WAV) files because I don't use digital files for playback. My colleagues have been intensively comparing these formats for some time and have come to the conclusion that they will primarily listen to music from FLAC files.
WP: Is room acoustic treatment based on digital DSP processing a good choice?
AĆ: Room acoustics is, unfortunately, often overlooked by audiophiles, which is devastating when you consider how much their better hi-fi or high-end systems cost. From my many years of experience, I know that most audiophiles do not use acoustic treatment of listening rooms, or, if by any chance they do, then it is done rather superficially and unprofessionally.
My advice to buyers has always been that if they don't have solid acoustics in their own room, they should decide to buy a cheaper hi-fi system than they thought, because they will do less damage considering the investment/gain. Today's DSP solutions are extremely good and definitely essential in home theater systems where they do a fantastic job. If used sparingly, DSP can also be helpful in audio systems located in acoustically inadequate rooms. However, for the best music reproduction, I would still prefer good room geometry and passive acoustic treatment.
WP: How you see the situation of the audio world in the Covid era?
AĆ: Apart from problems that Covid caused in the distribution system of audio products and manufacturing materials, and the fact that it disrupted the business flows we had before the pandemic, it also did some good things. One of them is that during the time of isolation, interest in stereo reproduction increased and, on average, audio systems were bought more often than in the previous period. I hope that the time of restrictions and isolation due to Covid is behind us because I don't think that the world's population and economy could withstand another two years of torture.
WP: Tell us something about your ten favorite albums.
AĆ: I don't have such a list, except that there are two artists from my youth that I can always listen to — Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin. I listen to a lot of classical music, especially when I'm not doing anything and just want to relax, and a bit of jazz (mostly jazz standards).
What I usually do every day when I'm at the office or while driving my car, is listening to FM radio. It may sound paradoxical nowadays, but the local student FM radio has an excellent selection of music from various genres, so in recent years it has become one of my sources of information on what interesting appeared on the world music scene, or as a reminder of some artists and songs that I have forgotten over time.
Although I often find great recommendations for a new artist or album from my music editorial colleagues, listening to radio stations with the Shazam app on my phone gives me the true pleasure of discovery.
As I finish writing my answers to these interview questions, on the radio I hear Fiona Apple's Rack of His from the album Fetch The Bolt Cutters, while a little earlier it was The Strokes' Ode To The Mets from the album The New Abnormal. Both releases were at the top of our ranking of the best albums in 2020. Then, in the next half an hour, I jot down the songs: Courtney Barnett's Before You Gotta Go, Dub War's Prisoner, Unkle's Safe In Mind, Dry Cleaning's Leafy and Wet Leg, and Chaise Longue who have just released their excellent debut album under the same title.
When comparing the quality of individual audio devices that I am interested in, I naturally rely on proven music titles that guarantee high quality of reproduction, although most "popular audiophile releases" slowly begin to irritate me, because I have heard them countless times at many audio demonstrations and hi-fi shows in the last 32 years. The only audiophile CD I haven't grown tired of yet is the test CD that I released and gave away to our readers with a copy of the magazine on Christmas 1997. The test CD included selected titles from the productions of Dorian Recordings, Pope Music and Sheffield Lab, with whom I was collaborating at the time.
This is a list of titles and albums where the tracks came from:
1. Pierre Attaingnant: Pavane & Branle Gay, Dorian Recordings, DOR-90225.
2. Anonimni: Greensleeves, Dorian Recordings, DOR-90126.
3. Walter Piston: Polka Finale, Dorian Recordings, DOR-90224.
4. Amadeo Roldan: Ritmicas 5, Dorian Recordings, DOR-90245.
5. Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin: Scene (part), Pope Music, PM-1002-2.
6. Valery Gavrilin: Grand Waltz, Pope Music, PM-1015-2.
7. Lori Liberman: One Thing, Pope Music, PM1001-2.
8. Michael Ruff: Lover's Mask, Sheffield Lab., CD 35.
9. Pat Coil: Sierra Highways, Sheffield Lab., CD 10031-2F.
10. Harry James & His Band: Caravan, Sheffield Lab., 10057-2G.
I already know these compositions so well that I make a final opinion about a product with them.
WP: Thank you very much and see you!
AĆ: Goodbye! I also thank you that I've been able to share my story with your readers.
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Leading Merseyside law firm, Mace & Jones, is launching a short story competition to coincide with Liverpool's year as European Capital of Culture.
The competition has a maximum word count of 3,000 words and a deadline of August 31 2008. All entry fees of £10 go to Local Solutions, a charity supported by Mace & Jones. The short story competition is open to entrants of any age and background, whether they are published authors or beginners, with the prizes on offer being first prize £500, second prize £250, third prize £150 and fourth, £100.
All entries should be typed, indented, double-spaced and written in Size 12 Times New Roman font. Entries can be submitted by email via the Mace & Jones Website, www.maceandjones.co.uk, or by standard post to: Samantha Kinnear, Mace & Jones, Drury House, 19 Water Street, Liverpool, L2 0RP. Cheques and Postal Orders should be made payable to Mace & Jones and please include a Self Addressed Postcard with all postal entries to receive notification of receipt of entry.
Further details can be obtained from Mace & Jones' Marketing Manager, Samantha Kinnear, on samantha.kinnear[AT]maceandjones.co.uk.
Mace & Jones, which has offices in Liverpool, Manchester and Knutsford in Cheshire, has long had literary connections. Two previous senior partners, Brian Fraser Harrison and Barrie Marsh, published books and, more recently, Martin Edwards has published non-fiction books, edited and contributed to short story anthologies and written highly acclaimed crime fiction novels, including his much loved Lake District Mysteries and the ever popular Harry Devlin series which is set to return in May with Waterloo Sunset (Alison & Busby).
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Horse & Hound Awards: Nomination terms and conditions
Horse & Hound 16 August, 2016 10:25
1. Promoter of the Horse & Hound Awards ("Awards"): Time Inc. (UK) Ltd, ("TIUK"), which has its registered offices located at the Blue Fin Building, 110 Southwark Street, London SE1 0SU and is a company registered in England and Wales under company number 53626.
2. Method of Nomination
You can complete the nomination form in Horse & Hound's 4 August 2016 issue and send the completed form to:Horse & Hound Awards, Pinehurst 2, Pinehurst Road, Farnborough Business Park, Farnborough, Hants, GU14 7BF.
You can go to the website at www.horseandhound.co.uk/awards and follow the instructions to complete the relevant online nomination form.
3. Start date for entries: 4 August 2016
4. Closing date for entries: 23:59 on 22 August 2016
5. Shortlisted Nominees notified: By 15 September 2016.
6. Voting opens on: 15 September 2016
7. Winners announced: At Horse & Hound awards ceremony on 27 October 2016.
8. Eligibility:
Nominees ("Nominees") must be UK residents, excluding TIUK's current and past employees (including their families, including any live in partner), any of the category sponsors, TIUK's printers and agents and anyone materially connected to the administration of the Awards.
There is no limit on the number of nominations you may submit.
You can nominate yourself or someone else but it is your responsibility to obtain permission from the person you are nominating before submitting the nomination.
If you are under eighteen (18) years old, you must have the permission of your parent or legal guardian to submit a nomination and you must provide the name and daytime telephone number of your parent or legal guardian on request.
For Nominees under 18 years old, you must obtain consent from their parent or legal guardian before you nominate them for the award and you must provide the name and daytime telephone number of their parent or legal guardian on request.
TIUK reserve the right to contact the relevant parent or legal guardian to check consent and to exclude nominations for which the requisite consent has not been given.
Nominees must be available to be contacted between 22 August 2016 and 27 October 2016.
The shortlisted and winning Nominees must agree to take part in any interviews, photographic shoots and post-winning publicity surrounding the Awards and will be required to give consent for TIUK and selected partners to use the images and interviews howsoever they see fit, including for promotional purposes, with no financial claim by the winner. It is your responsibility to make the Nominee aware of this.
As part of the selection process, Nominees may be asked to disclose whether they have ever been convicted of a crime or are the subject of on-going criminal proceedings or investigations.
Proof of eligibility must be provided upon request.
Nominations submitted online using methods generated by a script, macro or the use of automated devices will be void. Nominations that are incomplete, illegible or indecipherable will not be valid and will be deemed void. Use of a false name or address will result in disqualification.
No nominations or photographs can be returned.
9. Prizes:
Each shortlisted Nominee will receive two (2) tickets to the Awards. There are 10 categories and there will be one winner for each category (each a "Winner") who will win an engraved award and the award title.
The shortlisted Nominees and their guests are responsible for expenses and arrangements not specifically included in the Prizes, including any necessary travel documents, passports and visas.
The Prizes are as stated and are not transferable to another individual. No cash or other alternatives will be offered. The Prizes cannot be used in conjunction with any other special offer.
Prizes are subject to availability. TIUK accept no responsibility whatsoever for elements of the Prizes being withdrawn. In the event of a Prize being unavailable, the TIUK reserve the right to offer an alternative prize of equal or greater value.
The Prizes are subject to the terms and conditions of the relevant sponsors or prize supplier which will be provided to the Winner when booking the Prize or with the Prize (as applicable).
The Winners in each category will receive their awards at the Awards ceremony on 27 October 2016. There will not be any monetary or similar prize. If the Winner is not able to attend the ceremony, TIUK will send the award to them.
TIUK reserves the right to refuse entry to the Awards ceremony to any individual or group.
10. Nomination Selection Process
All nominations received by the closing date and time will be considered. A shortlist of three to five entries in each category will be selected by the judging panel to be put forward for public vote.
The shortlisted Nominees will be selected by the judging panel from the best stories and examples of excellence and the judging panel will be influenced by the number of nominations for any particular nominee as well as the strength of their entry.
The judging panel consists of members of the Horse & Hound team and at least one independent judge, who will decide the shortlist. The decisions of the judging panel will be final and no correspondence will be entered into over the decisions.
Judging of nominations will take place from 22 August 2016 and shortlisted Nominees will be notified by 15 September 2016.
Shortlisted Nominees will then be put forward for public vote by Horse & Hound magazine readers and website users. Voting opens on 15 September 2016. The Winners will be announced at the Awards ceremony on 27 October 2016.
Failure to respond to information requested by TIUK, failure to provide a valid UK address for delivery, or failure to meet the eligibility requirements may result in forfeiture of the Prize.
The Winner in each category will be published in Horse & Hound on 3 November 2016.
11. Use of information provided
All nominations will become the property of TIUK. TIUK accept no responsibility for nominations unsuccessfully submitted.
By submitting a nomination form, you consent to give TIUK a royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, modify, publish, create derivative works from, and display the nomination (and any photograph included with the nomination) in whole or in part, on a worldwide basis, and to incorporate it singly or collectively into other works in any form, media or technology now known or later developed (including, without limitation, magazines and online), including for promotional or marketing purposes. If necessary, you will sign any necessary documentation that may be required for TIUK to make use of the non-exclusive rights you are granting to use the nomination (and any photograph included with the nomination).
TIUK reserve the right to make the nomination and all reproductions thereof available, either wholly or in part, in any manner or form whatsoever and in any medium or format, either separately or in conjunction with any other content.
TIUK reserve the right to publish names, photographs and country of residence of any Winner. The Winner agrees to the use of their name, photograph and disclosure of county of residence.
You agree to waive all moral rights or any similar personal rights in any nomination you submit.
Any personal information, including without limitation, your and the Nominee's name, age, address (including postcode) and/or email address will be used by TIUK in accordance with its privacy policy available at www.timeincuk.com/privacy/.
Your information and the information of the Nominee may be shared with the relevant class sponsor — NAF, TopSpec, Horseware, Country & Stable, Pikeur, Spillers, Charles Owen and Equo – and event management company Music Plus Sport Live Ltd. for the purposes of prize fulfilment and the administration of the Awards, which will use such information subject to its privacy policy.
By submitting a nomination you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions.
Your submission of nominations is not dependent on any purchase.
No responsibility can be accepted for entries lost, damaged or delayed in the post, or due to computer error in transit.
TIUK reserve the right to hold void, suspend, cancel or amend the Awards at any time. TIUK reserve the right to change these terms and conditions at any time.
TIUK also reserve the right to cancel individual nominations without liability to affected participants where such nominations do not (in the opinion of TIUK) enter into the spirit of the Awards or if the security or proper administration of the Awards or the validity of a nomination is adversely affected. In the event of cancellation, termination or suspension, TIUK may, at their discretion, select a winner from eligible, non-suspect or unaffected nominations, received prior to the event requiring such cancellation, termination or suspension.
In the event of a discrepancy between these terms and conditions and the details in the promotional material, the details in these terms and conditions shall prevail.
These terms and conditions shall be governed by the laws of England and Wales and any dispute shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
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Tesla Announces Electric Semi-Truck and Flashy Roadster
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Tesla has unveiled a snazzy new car that puts the electric vehicle company in direct competition with other premium sports car manufacturers.
The media and a handful of lucky future customers got a peek at the sleek, new Tesla Roadster Thursday night during a special ceremony. Priced at a whopping $200,000, the reservation price for the baseline model comes in at $50,000. There will also be 1,000 'Founders Edition' Roadsters available to anyone willing to fork over $250,000.
The Roadster, which will be up for gabs in 2020, can go from zero to 60 in 1.9 seconds, and can do a quarter of a mile in 8.8 seconds. With a top speed of more than 250 miles per hour, it just might live up to Tesla's boast of it being "the quickest car in the world."
CEO Elon Musk said the Roadster is "a hardcore smack-down to gasoline cars."
With its 620-mile range per charge, the four-seater may live up to Musk's promise.
"You'll be able to travel from LA to San Francisco and back at highway speed without recharging," Musk said, adding that, "driving a gasoline sports car is going to feel like a steam engine with a side of quiche."
Musk also announced Tesla's entry into the big rig industry with its electric semitractor-trailer. With production slated to begin in 2019, prospective customers can reserve their model with $5,000 down.
The semi will be able to haul an 80,000-pound load for 500 miles on each electric charge making it, Musk said, more cost-efficient than diesel models.
"Owners can expect to gain $200,000 or more in savings over a million miles based on fuel costs alone," the company said in a press release.
The vehicles will come with Tesla's autopilot system, enabling a convoy of the transports to autonomously follow the lead vehicle.
The plan, Musk said, is to install a network of solar-powered "megachargers" across the globe to accommodate the electric vehicles.
(Via Reuters)
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Sheehan and Co. made sure they didn't make the same mistake twice.
The Little Lions dialed up the intensity in the second half and scored twice to seize a 5-3 advantage. They led the rest of the way, and the game was never really in doubt from that point.
State College's Andy Mader sprinted from the back to score that first goal in the third quarter, while Sheehan padded that cushion with another later in the period.
McDowell cut the lead to 5-4 with 37 seconds left in the third quarter. But Sheehan and the Little Lions learned their lesson; they didn't let up — and scored two more insurance goals, thanks to Brady Dorner and Ryan Franks. Overall, State College out-shot McDowell by better than a 2-to-1 margin (29-14).
Franks finished with two goals and one assist. Five different State College players scored goals overall, including Franks (2), Sheehan (2), Mader, Dorner and Paul Olivett.
"That was the kind of game we needed," King added.
With the first round of the state tournament less than a week away, Sheehan wants to see an even better performance against the next opponent. He's not about to abandon his motto now —so he wants to see how driven this team is to advance.
"We want to go farther than we've ever gone and just push ourselves to the maximum effort," he said.


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MONDAY, Aug. 27, 2018 (HealthDay News) — Finding a practice that provides opportunities to do deliveries is a considerable barrier to performing obstetric deliveries, according to a study published in the May-June issue the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine.
The researchers found that 87 percent of the 2,018 respondents who provided direct patient care did not deliver babies. Excluding the 899 respondents who selected "not interested" as a reason, almost 60 percent of the remaining 865 respondents reported that there were no opportunities to do deliveries in the practice they joined and/or that lifestyle considerations influenced their decision not to include deliveries.
"Removing barriers to family physicians who want to include obstetrics would increase access to care and may be part of the solution to the maternal morbidity problem," the authors write.


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I was speaking to a neighbor yesterday at the park. She said, they have some friends who are thinking of moving to our city, but the husband is a runner and doesn't think our city would be great for running compare to where they live now. She spoke to the right person. Our city is the best for running.
There are many pedestrian only paths and some bridges and tunnels to cross streets without actually crossing them. There is not one stop light in the city. All the intersections are traffic circles. Thine sidewalks are wide enough for people to pass each other without feeling crowded. There are many people who are out all throughout the day, whether walking, running or just waiting for a bus.
I told her to tell him, I run 4-6 miles a day 5 times a week and the longest I have ran was 10 miles. I also, said I have a path that will complete a 13 mile loop without crossing the same street twice. She said she would relay the message to him. Running is a terrible reason to not move to the city.
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Racial Reckoning: Prosecuting America's Civil Rights Murders
Few whites who violently resisted the civil rights struggle were charged with crimes in the 1950s and 1960s. But the tide of a long-deferred justice began to change in 1994, when a Mississippi jury convicted Byron De La Beckwith for the 1963 murder of Medgar Evers. Since then, more than one hundred murder cases have been reopened, resulting in more than a dozen trials. But how much did these public trials contribute to a public reckoning with America's racist past? Racial Reckoning investigates that question, along with the political pressures and cultural forces that compelled the legal system to revisit these decades-old crimes. Renee C. Romano brings readers into the courthouse for the trials of the civil rights era's most infamous killings, including the Birmingham church bombing and the triple murder of Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Mickey Schwerner. The activists who succeeded in reopening these cases hoped that bringing those responsible to justice would serve to highlight the state-sanctioned racism that had condoned the killings and the lingering effects of racial violence. Courtroom procedures, however, worked against a deeper exploration of the state's complicity in murder or a full accounting of racial injustices, past or present. Yet the media and a new generation of white southerners―a different breed from the dying Klansmen on trial―saw the convictions as proof of the politically rehabilitated South and stamped "case closed" on America's legacy of violent racism. Romano shows why addressing the nation's troubled racial past will require more than legal justice. Download Link
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New Mexico attorney general sues to stop horse slaughter
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20, 2013 – New Mexico's attorney general has filed a lawsuit in a bid to block the planned opening of a horse slaughter plant on New Year's Day.
Attorney General Gary King said Valley Meat Co. would be violating state laws related to food safety, water quality and unfair business practices, according to a USA Today report.
"We don't eat horses in New Mexico, and we think this is an inappropriate use of this plant,'' King told the newspaper.
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Blair Dunn, a lawyer for Valley Meat owner Rich De Los Santos, said the lawsuit was frivolous and that the plans for opening the facility on Jan. 1 haven't changed.
King's move followed a federal appeals court decision rolling back a court order that prevented Valley Meat from starting operations this fall. Congress lifted a ban on domestic horse slaughter two years ago.
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Don King's practice primarily involves representation of debtors, creditors, and committees in Chapter 11 reorganizations, and he also represents other types of debtors and creditors, particularly businesses and institutional lenders, in all phases of the bankruptcy process including workouts. Since 1991, he has served as a Chapter 7 Trustee in Bankruptcy for the Eastern District of Virginia, and he is currently head of the firm's Bankruptcy & Creditors' Rights practice.
Don has received an AV Rating, the highest rating given by Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review Ratings™ for his legal ability and general ethical standards. He has been listed in the Best Lawyers in America® for the past 13 years. Don was also selected for inclusion in the Virginia Super Lawyers listing for the past ten consecutive years and in the Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers listing for nine years. Recently, he was named among Virginia Business magazine's "Legal Elite" in 2012, 2014 and 2017.
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