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Heathrow and Gatwick fighting to get support from Scottish MSPs for their runway plans
Continuing with their lobbying across the country, to try to get support for their runway plans, both Heathrow and Gatwick say they would provide more flights to Scottish airports. Both Mr Holland-Kaye and Mr Wingate are due to appear before a cross party group on aviation at the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood. The improved links to London is sold as providing better links for Scotland to global markets. Heathrow says getting a new runway would enable there to be more flights to the regions. These have been cut back in recent years, as they are less profitable than international flights. Heathrow is keen to tell Scottish leaders how very useful Heathrow will be for them, (though they have been conveniently ignored in the past – it is now time to try to win their support). Stewart Wingate is doing his usual negative campaigning, pointing out, helpfully, all the deficiencies of Heathrow's plans, while being conveniently blind to the deficiencies of his own runway plan. Both airports hype economic benefits … lots of figures …The reality is that increasingly flights can be point to point, and people in Scotland have less need to transfer to London, before flying elsewhere. More long haul flights from Heathrow would cut demand for these to develop at Scottish airports.
Flights alert amid runway rivalry
Thursday 28 May 2015 (Herald Scotland)
THERE could be fewer direct flights in and out of Scotland if plans to expand Heathrow Airport get the go-ahead, the boss of a rival London airport has claimed.
Gatwick chief executive Stewart Wingate argued that building a new runway at Gatwick would lead to more competition between UK airports, which would in turn benefit Scotland.
But he has warned that if the plans to expand Heathrow are approved, some long-haul flights in and out of Scotland, including those to North America and the Middle East, could be under threat from the creation of a "monopolistic mega-hub" in the South East of England.
However, the CEO of Heathrow Airport John Holland-Kaye is preparing to tell MSPs today that an expansion of his terminal will create 16,000 new jobs, compared with 4,000 from an expansion of Gatwick.
He will argue that an expansion of Heathrow is the "only option that will grow Scottish exports, increase tourism and attract foreign investment to create local jobs", arguing that the rival airport mainly flies to leisure destinations already served by airports north of the border.
Both men are speaking to MSPs on the cross-party group on aviation today as the Airports Commission continues to consider the best way to increase runway capacity at UK airports.
The commission, which is examining plans to build a new runway at either Heathrow or Gatwick, is expected to make its recommendation to the UK Government in the coming weeks.
Mr Wingate insists that the decision about where the new runway is located is an "important debate for Scotland" and will later address MSPs on Holyrood's cross-party group on aviation.
He said: "The choice boils down to competition versus monopoly. Do we want to protect and strengthen Scotland's growing network of routes by creating a competitive system across the UK, or put that at risk by creating a monopolistic mega-hub at London Heathrow?
"The Airports Commission itself found that in every future scenario, Scotland will have a larger share of the UK airports market if Gatwick expands.
"That amounts to 14 per cent more daily scheduled international services from airports outside London and 50 million more passengers through Scotland's airports."
Mr Holland-Kaye, meanwhile, will tell MSPs the next few weeks are "crucial" for those campaigning for an expansion of Heathrow.
He will say: "To win the global race for jobs, trade and convenient flights for growth, Scotland must have easy access to long-haul growth markets with frequent and Scottish airports have secured direct connections to key markets in Europe, the Middle East and North America over recent years. [sic misquoted ….]
"I have no doubt that within the next decade we will see Glasgow or Edinburgh secure a direct flight to Beijing.
"But there will always be cities that local demand alone cannot sustain but the Scottish economy needs to be connected to. To access that wealth, investment and export potential, Scotland – and the rest of the UK – needs to connected as conveniently as possible."
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/transport/flights-alert-amid-runway-rivalry.127289758
Rival London airports bid for Scots support
28 May 2015 (BBC – Scotland)
The Airports Commission is to choose between expanding Heathrow or Gatwick
Plans to expand Heathrow Airport could mean fewer direct flights to and from Scotland, if they are approved, according to bosses at Gatwick Airport.
But Heathrow bosses insist that expansion there would better improve Scotland's links to global markets.
It comes as the Airports Commission is due to give its recommendation to the UK government on whether a new runway should be built at Heathrow or Gatwick.
The chief executives of both London airports are to appear at Holyrood.
The UK's need to expand its airport capacity in a bid to meet growing demand for air travel means introducing an extra runway in the south east of England.
The short-listed options include a new runway for Heathrow, a new runway for Gatwick, or the extension of an existing runway at Heathrow.
Competitive system
Stewart Wingate, chief executive of Gatwick Airport, believes Scotland's direct air routes would be at risk if Heathrow were to gain a monopoly by being chosen over Gatwick for expansion.
"That amounts to 14% more daily scheduled international services from airports outside London and 50 million more passengers through Scotland's airports."
The Airports Commission will recommend one of three expansion options at either Heathrow or Gatwick Airports.
But John Holland-Kaye, the chief executive at Heathrow, claimed that an expansion at Gatwick would result in Scottish firms losing out to rivals based near London while a Heathrow option would "drive more value for the Scottish economy".
He said: "It would mean 16,000 new jobs in Scotland, £14bn to the Scottish economy and that's because Heathrow helps connect Scotland to more global markets that aren't serviced by Scottish airports directly."
Mr Holland-Kaye added that there are currently 15 to 20 long-haul direct routes to and from Scottish airports and a further 75 routes are covered by Heathrow.
He conceded that flights between Scotland and Heathrow had reduced but added that this was because "Heathrow is at capacity so airlines have had to make a choice between adding new flights to long-haul destinations and maintaining flights to Scotland".
Both Mr Holland-Kaye and Mr Wingate are due to appear before a cross party group on aviation at the Scottish Parliament.
The Airports Commission will deliver its final recommendation to Westminster in the coming weeks.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-32914089
Posted: Friday, May 29th, 2015. Filed in General News, News about Airports, Recent News.


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Saturday afternoons at my house were always unpredictable as a kid. There were seven of us—one boy and six girls—living under one roof. My cousin, Jessie, would often visit on the weekends, making us an even more rambunctious tribe.
On one particular Saturday, a view of blossoming flowers in the yard from my living room window marked a sign of spring. "We have to go outside today," my little sister, Jarnay, exclaimed in almost desperation from the couch, where a few of us sat.
I had to be around nine years old at the time and still trying to understand how a groundhog's missed shadow could be the reason our mom kept saying "no" to us going outside. After months indoors due to the blistering Midwest winter, we had all grown cabin fever. Jessie, who's one year older than me, was visiting that weekend; she shook her head in agreement with Jarnay from her squished space on the couch. My mom was pretty stern back then, but with weather looking good and company to entertain, I knew I could sway a "yes" from her that day. And, I did!
It was me, Jessie, Jarnay, my little brother, Joe, and my other younger sister, Janice, in the backyard, which we'd transformed into a 130-yard, bright-lit football field at the advice of Joe.
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IT IS partisan. It is biased. It demonises some characters and lionises others without any attempt at balance. And it is written from a perspective the correctness of which the author presumes is self-evident. That said, Richard Rhodes's Arsenal of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race is an unputdownable book. It is a gripping narrative of how the advent of nuclear weapons transformed military strategy even before the end of the great war that dramatically altered the global balance-of-power. It is a story of how the twentieth century's two superpowers realised that they couldn't just stop worrying and live on with so many bombs. By the time Ronald Reagan, one of the book's heroes, concludes that a "nuclear war cannot be won and hence must not be fought", the United States and the Soviet Union had not only amassed enough nuclear weapons and delivery systems to destroy the world many times over, but had come close to a nuclear war entailing mutually assured destruction.
Mikhail Gorbachev is the book's main hero—and a tragic one. He helps save the world (well, put it on the road to being saved) but loses his own job in the process. Side-stepping the usual negotiating routine, he sincerely proposes bold, deep and unilateral cuts in nuclear warheads and missile systems.
Unfortunately, Mr Reagan, his American interlocutor, though a genuine believer in the need to eradicate nuclear weapons, is caught between his diabolically hardline advisors and a delusional faith in a fantastic non-existent technology (the Strategic Defense Initiative, a comprehensive missile defence shield that came to be known as "Star Wars"). The deal doesn't go through, at least initially, because the hawkish villains in the US security establishment play various tricks to prevent every attempt at a compromise.
Perhaps the biggest of those villains is Richard Perle, whose calculated refusal to yield to a compromise on Star Wars wrecked the 1986 Reykjavik summit. But he is only one of a series of individuals—including Paul Nitze, Albert Wohlstetter, General Curtis LeMay, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney—who goaded on the United States to build, deploy and refuse to reduce deliverable nuclear weapons in their tens of thousands. Mr Rhodes does not entertain the possibility that their motives might have had something to do with a genuinely different way of looking at the world. True, they cleverly use the US political system to promote their policy agenda, but Mr Rhodes can hardly argue that such tactics were the monopoly of the nuclear hawks. Nuclear strategy followed the development and use of nuclear weapons, and in those early years of the Cold War, it would have been reasonable to expect both antagonists to build bombs first and think about what to do with them later.
In Mr Rhodes's description, the Soviet Union is really a distressed, militarily weak power, always playing catch-up with the United States, and therefore, never really the adversary it was made out to be. In hindsight, he is right. But those who lived outside the Soviet bloc during the Cold War might not have agreed then. Soviet accomplishments, if not Soviet power, impressed many, not least an idealistic prime minister of a newly independent country that had just broken free from British colonial rule. The Soviets might have been playing catch up, but their strategic arsenal was no less serious because of it. No one, for instance, can reasonably argue that the threat from today's Pakistan and North Korea ought to be taken lightly because they are fragile or failing states.
While it is undeniable that the Cold War arsenals hugely increased the risk of planetary annihilation, Mr Rhodes underestimates the significance of the fact that since 1945, no country has used nuclear weapons, and until Pakistan's Kargil misadventure, no two countries with nuclear weapons had directly gone to with each other.
Surely, the existence of large numbers of nuclear weapons had something to do with it?
One shortcoming of Mr Rhodes's book is the exclusive focus on the United States and the Soviet Union—it excludes the motivations, arsenals and policies of the other actors—Britain, France and most importantly, China. Indeed, as history shows, the most dangerous acts of nuclear proliferation were not the placements of Soviet or US nuclear weapons in their satellites, but China's transfer of nuclear technology, material, warheads and delivery systems to North Korea, Pakistan, Iran, Libya and others.
During the Reagan-era and after, the focus on the reduction of the Soviet arsenal and the security of the warheads in the post-Soviet states came at the cost of action against the China-Pakistan-North Korea nuclear nexus, with damaging consequences for the world today.
Despite its blind spots, Arsenals of Folly does makes a strong case for the nuclear powers to reduce their arsenals, take them off hair-triggers and co-operate to reduce the risks of nuclear war. The time is rife for minimum deterrence. Complete disarmament—even as it provides a hopeful vision for the distant future—is unrealistic in the early twenty-first century geopolitical environment: with big, dramatic shifts in the global balance-of-power on the one hand, and possession of nuclear weapons by regimes such as North Korea, Pakistan and Iran on the other. Great geopolitical shifts are frequently accompanied by great wars. If there is a nuclear disaster, it will be because of these arsenals of folly. But if the early twenty-first century is spared of another Great War it might well be due to the wisely-retained remnants of those self-same arsenals.
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Published on 18 Jan 2022 Updated on 18 Jan 2022
This story is part of Amazon Prime Day 2021, CNET's guide to everything you need to know and how to make sure you get the best deal.
Looking to score a bargain on new headphones or a pair of earbuds? We're on to day two of Amazon Prime Day (yes, it's a two-day event) and it's a fantastic time to find markdowns on all the top brands. We're seeing a cornucopia of new and returning price cuts on various Sony and Bose models, as well as many top-rated Jabra and Samsung models. In some cases, prices for headphones and earbuds are matching or even dipping below their all-time lows.
Here are the best deals on headphones available right now. We'll continue updating this list as more models go on sale for Prime Day 2021 and other deals expire.
Note that prices and inventory fluctuate frequently, but the "deals available now" were verified as of the most recent publication date. We'll continue to update our list of Prime Day headphone deals to keep you informed of the best sales when Prime Day proper hits.
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Google's new Pixel Buds A-Series just hit the market at $99. But if you want extras like wireless charging, wind reduction and swipe controls for volume, we're seeing nice discounts on the earlier Pixel Buds 2, including this $70 blow-out deal at Walmart. At launch, the Pixel Buds 2 had some Bluetooth hiccup issues but they've improved over time with firmware upgrades and are a good set of true-wireless earbuds, particularly for owners of Google's Pixel smartphones and other Android phones. The previous low on these was $120. Read our Pixel Buds review.
Sony's excellent noise-canceling headphones were on sale for $278 during the 2020 holidays and that price returns sporadically. But $248 is their new low. Read our Sony WH-1000XM4 review.
Bose is once again discounting its top noise-canceling headphone for Prime Day. The Noise Cancelling Headphones 700, which usually retail for around $379 (after starting out at $399), can be had for $229 in the "soapstone" color. That's a new low and an exclusive Prime Day deal. Meanwhile, the black and silver editions are down to $300.
The Sony WH-1000XM4 headphones are on sale for $249, but if you had your eye on this Bose model, this is the lowest price we've ever seen for it. Read our Bose Noise Cancelling 700 review.
The AirPods Pro were briefly as low as $169 at Walmart and $170 at Amazon for Black Friday. Now they've been pingponging between $190 and $199, with Amazon currently selling them for $190. That's within about $20 of their best price ever, and a good time to buy.
Read our AirPods Pro review.
Released in mid-2020, the Jabra Elite 45h were essentially billed as the best on-ear headphones for the money. While there's nothing terribly fancy about them, they're among the best on-ear headphone values right now, with good sound quality, a sturdy design and comfortable fit (for on-ear headphones, anyway). Plus, these Bluetooth on-ear headphones perform well as a headset for making calls and include a sidetone feature that allows you to hear your voice in the headphones so you don't talk too loudly. It offers multipoint Bluetooth pairing, a key feature for those working at home who want to pair with their PC and smartphone at the same time. Battery life is also good.
We've seen the Elite 45h hit $70 in recent weeks, but $55 is the low price.
Jabra's slightly more rugged Elite Active 75t earbuds have been on sale for the last week in certain colors, and now the standard Elite 75t buds are on sale for $55 off at $95 in an exclusive Prime Day deal. The Elite 75t has been out for a while but remains a good set of true wireless earbuds, adding active noise canceling last year with a software update.
Note that the Elite Active 75t are on sale for $120. That's $10 less than their previous low price.
If you can't afford Sennheiser's Momentum True Wireless II earbuds ($230), the CX 400BT are a good budget alternative. They're a little bulbous (they stick out from your ears), but they deliver very good sound and decent noise canceling. Overpriced at their list price of $200, they typically sell for $150 and often drop to $100. This Prime Day Deal is $20 less than their previous low. They're also available in white. Read our Sennheiser CX 400BT review.
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Samsung's Galaxy Buds Live earbuds came out last summer. For Cyber Monday 2020, they were $60 off at Woot and now they're back to $60 off at Amazon for Prime Day. I rated them highly, although the noise canceling is relatively light. A word of warning: While they fit my ears well, due to their beanlike shape, they won't work for everybody. Read our Galaxy Buds Live review.
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Samsung's Galaxy Buds Plus have been out for a while, but they remain one of the better true-wireless earbud options for the money, with really good sound, call quality and battery life along with a comfortable fit. They're a nice value at $85 or $65 off their list price, a deal that's the lowest price we've seen for them.
Read our Samsung Galaxy Buds Plus review.
The second-gen Echo Buds, which feature active noise canceling, shipped on May 13. Amazon was selling them for $100 or $20 off if you preordered them. I expected them to reach that price sporadically throughout the year but am a little surprised they're down to $80. I thought they offered some welcome improvements over the originals, including better sound and noise canceling, and they're definitely good value at $80. You'll need to be an Amazon Prime member to take advantage of this deal, though.
Read our Amazon Echo Buds review.
Anker's Soundcore Liberty Air 2 Pro, the company's first earbuds to feature active noise canceling, are a mostly excellent set of true-wireless earbuds that measure up pretty well against Apple's AirPods Pro for significantly less money. Like the AirPods Pro, they have an IPX4 water-resistance rating (splashproof).
While I had an issue with the included ear tips and had to use some other tips (it's crucial to get a tight seal or both noise canceling and sound quality will suffer), they should comfortably fit most people. Sound quality is better than with Anker's earlier Liberty Air 2, and the noise canceling is effective. These also work well as a headset for making calls and are available in multiple colors.
They were on sale for $100 for a few days when they launched. Luckily, that price has returned on Amazon. Read our Anker Soundcore Liberty Air 2 Pro review.
While Jabra's Elite 75t series has been out for a while, they're still one of the best true wireless earbuds out there and have added noise canceling via a firmware upgrade. Earlier firmware updates improved voice-calling performance.
The Elite 75t buds aren't quite as comfortable to wear as the AirPods Pro, but they arguably sound a touch better, with clearer overall sound and better bass definition, so long as you get a tight seal. (The step-up 85t have more powerful bass.)
The Elite Active 75t buds are slightly more rugged than the standard 75t and usually cost $20 more than the standard 75t. Their current sale price of $114 is the lowest price we've seen for the Active version.
AfterShokz' bone-conduction wireless headphones aren't quite what many people picture when they think of earphones, because they don't go on your ears — these headphones actually deliver sound to your ear through your cheekbones. That openness allows runners and bikers to hear traffic sound, an important safety feature, and these also stay on your head securely and are comfortable to wear.
The company's flagship Aeropex model doesn't go on sale all that often — they came out in 2019, so it's possible a new model may be on the way — so $30 off is a decent deal (it was briefly as low as $125 last December). Note that while AfterShokz continues to make small improvements to performance with each new iteration of its wireless headphones, the sound quality still can't match that of a traditional headphone. Read our AfterShokz Aeropex first take.
Jabra describes the Elite 85t as "semiopen" earbuds, meaning you don't have to jam the tips all the way into your ear canal. Rather, the new, more oval-shaped tips nestle in your ear for a more comfortable fit — according to Jabra, anyway. A touch of sound will leak in, however, because you're not creating a supertight seal. Engineered with Qualcomm technology, Jabra calls the Elite 85t's noise canceling "Advanced ANC," which is designed for earbuds that don't have true noise-isolating designs.
Personally, I didn't find the 85t earbuds any more comfortable than the 75t. They didn't stay in my ears quite as securely, though they did stay in. While the 85t buds are bigger — and so is their charging case — they definitely seem like siblings in terms of design. They do sound richer than the 75t, with more bass, and their voice-calling capabilities are also very good. They also feature multipoint Bluetooth pairing, so you can take a call on your smartphone while being connected to your computer.
Available in multiple color options, they're splashproof like the AirPods Pro (IPX4 water resistance rating) and list for $230, but we've seen them sporadically discounted to $180. $161 is their new low price. Read our Jabra Elite 85t review.
Both Bose's QuietComfort Earbuds and Sport Earbuds are good for workouts, thanks to their StayHear Max tips and secure fit, but the Sport Earbuds are more compact and lighter and also more affordable (the QuietComfort Earbuds do have excellent active noise canceling, however). This is the first time we've seen the Sport Earbuds discounted.
Unlike their step-up sibling, the Sport Earbuds don't have active noise canceling or wireless charging and they give an hour less of battery life, at five hours instead of six. While they do stick out from your ears, they're noticeably smaller and lighter than the QuietComfort Earbuds and their case is about 30% to 40% smaller. It still isn't as small as the cases for such competitors as the AirPods Pro, Samsung Galaxy Buds Plus, Galaxy Buds Live and Jabra Elite 75t, but it feels reasonably compact.They've hit $159 previously, but that's their lowest price to date.
Read our Bose Sport Earbuds review.
The Beats Solo Pro are really good on-ear noise-canceling headphones. The only issue is they're overpriced at $300. Woot had them for the best price we've seen to date — $135 to $140 — earlier in June. Also, for a few weeks, Amazon had certain colors available for $150. Now that best price is only available at Walmart, with the light blue color selling for $142 and most other colors discounted to $150. We'll see if Amazon matches it. Read our Beats Solo Pro review.
The Sennheiser PXC 550-II didn't get much attention when it was released in 2020 and its $350 list price faced daunting competition from Sony and Bose. But we've spotted it for less than $200 on Amazon, a value purchase featuring very good sound (it's got a slightly warmer sound profile), good noise canceling and solid voice calling. Battery life is impressive at around 30 hours with noise-canceling on. The only minor annoyance is that these have micro-USB charging rather than USB-C.
Way back in 2015, Swedish company Earin was the first to release a set of true wireless earbuds. Its third-gen A-3 earbuds look a lot like what the standard AirPods would look like if you removed their trademark extruding stems. Typically $199, they're 20% ($40) off for Prime Day.
They fit my ears securely and they sound decent — arguably better than the AirPods — for this type of earbud, though they're slightly bass-restrained. I also found they work well for making calls even though they don't have stems (their noise reduction is decent though not fantastic), and I liked their charging case.
The A-3 buds have an IPX52 water-resistance rating (they can withstand a sustained spray of water but aren't fully waterproof) and deliver five hours of battery life, with five extra charges from their charging case. They have 14mm drivers, Bluetooth 5.0 and Qualcomm's higher-end QCC5121 chipset. AAC and aptX audio codecs are supported. (Certain Android devices like Samsung Galaxy smartphones support aptX streaming, but iPhones do not.)
1More's ComfoBuds Pro are currently at their new low price of $70 after recently selling for $75. If you get a tight seal (three different sized ear tips are included), not only do these sound good but they also perform well as a headset for making calls, with three microphones in each earbud. There's a touch of presence boost in the treble and the bass packs a good punch, which gives these a dynamic sound profile (they're not laid back) and they play loud for those looking for that.
You can toggle between two levels of noise cancellation (as well as "off") using the touch controls — and there's a pass-through transparency mode and a wind noise-reduction mode. You can also toggle through all of those modes using the companion app for iOS and Android. Battery life is rated at six hours with noise canceling on and eight hours with it off. The earbuds are IPX4 rated for water resistance, which means they're splashproof, the same as the AirPods Pro.
In short, if you don't want to spend $200 or so on the AirPods Pro, the 1More ComfoBuds Pro is a good budget alternative. Note that 1More also makes an open version of the ComfoBuds (see below), which is similar to the standard AirPods and costs around $50. This Pro version is better.
This is the lowest price we've seen for Sony's true-wireless noise-canceling sports model, the WF-SP800N earbuds. Funnily enough, I wrote at the end of my mostly positive review that I'd like to see them more in the $160-$175 range. Well, in red, they're down to $78.
These aren't quite the WF-1000XM3 earbuds with a water-resistant body — they're missing Sony's QN1e processor — but there's still a lot to like about them, including excellent sound, solid noise cancellation and good call quality. They're definitely a significant upgrade over the WF-SP700N model, which came out in 2018, and their "arcs" (sports fins) lock the buds in your ears. Just make sure you get a tight seal from one of the included sets of ear tips or else both the sound and noise canceling will be lackluster. Read our Sony WF-SP800N review.
The Beats Powerbeats Pro (list price $250) earbuds remain a top true-wireless sports model with many of the same features as Apple's standard AirPods, but in a water-resistant design with better sound. You can get the moss green and lava red options for $160. Read our Beats Powerbeats Pro review.
Samsung's long-awaited active noise-canceling earbuds were released early this year for $200 (yes, the Buds Live also have noise canceling, but it's pretty modest). The Galaxy Buds Pro were briefly on sale at Woot for $140 but are now $170 or $30 off at most retailers. I've been mostly impressed, particularly with the sound quality and call quality, and there are some nice bonus features, including an improved ambient noise mode with voice detection. There's also a virtual surround feature that currently only works with the new Galaxy S21 models, but will slowly trickle out to other Galaxy devices. The noise canceling is also effective if you get a tight seal from the included ear tips. That said, just how good you think they are will ultimately depend on how well they fit your ears. Read our Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro review.
Beats EP is the only wired model we have in this list right now. As long as you're OK with it being wired (some people want that), the EP is actually a really good set of on-ear headphones that's well-built with a sturdy metal headband. It's one of the more comfortable sets of on-ear headphones and is available in several colors.
Read our Beats EP review.
As far as sound, comfort level and build quality, you'd be hard-pressed to do better than Anker's SoundCore Life Q30 for the money, particularly now that it's on sale for $60 with a $20-off instant coupon on Amazon (the blue and pink colors cost $10 more). It doesn't quite have the clarity or bass definition as some of the top premium models, but it's less than one-third the price of those and gets you 75% of the way there in terms of sound: It's well-balanced overall with punchy bass, and there's an app that allows you to tweak the sound. Noise canceling is good for the price, though not at the level of the Sony WH-1000XM4 or Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones 700. Battery life is rated at an impressive 40 hours with USB-C charging.
The only area where the Q30 falls a little short is voice calls. It picks up your voice fine in quieter environments, but it doesn't reduce background noise all that well.
Compared to the Q20 ($50), the Q30 does offer improved sound (it's not a huge difference, but it definitely is a notch up) and a more premium design. Anker often offers the Q20 at a $10 discount at Amazon. Eventually, we should see something like that on the Q30.
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This pretty much ties the lowest price on record for Apple's venerated earbuds, a great pick for anyone who doesn't like the in-ear feel of noise-canceling earbuds (namely the AirPods Pro, which are currently on sale for $190). Not that the price says $119, but you get the $19 discount when you add the AirPods to your cart.
And if you pay using your Amazon Prime Rewards Visa, you'll score 6% cash back, effectively dropping your price to an all-time-low $94. Read our Apple AirPods review to learn more.
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The BBC has revealed a new microcomputer as part of its Make It Digital campaign. Currently called the Micro Bit, it's aimed at getting young students ready to code from an early age.
Similar to a Raspberry Pi and about half the size of a credit card, the device will be made available to secondary schools across the country, with enough for every Year 7 student to have one.
The BBC has legacy in pioneering computing in UK schools. In the 1980s, it released the BBC Micro, which became a staple of the classroom and was for many their first introduction to computing.
Micro Bit will allow kids to learn the basics of coding as a fundamental part of their education, placing it on par with other "basics" such as maths and literacy.
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08	May 2020	Doors: 18:30
Showtimes will be released approximately 3 days before the date of the event.
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and The Bootleg Beatles
Neil Innes presenter
Richard Balcombe conductor
Arrangements by Ian Stephens
Following on from their hugely successful tour in 2017/18, the award-winning Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the nation's premier Beatles group, The Bootleg Beatles, join forces once again to deliver a Beatles experience like no other.
Experience two of the Beatles' most iconic albums performed afresh in this special musical collaboration, adding a classical twist and performing beautifully arranged symphonic versions of these timeless classics, including masterpieces such as 'Here Comes The Sun', 'Come Together' and 'The Long and Winding Road'.
The tour marks 50 years since the release of these final two albums – Abbey Road (released 26 September 1969) and Let It Be (released 8 May 1970), and will explore the journey to the end of The Beatles – celebrating the music of this era and the legacy that endures to this day.
Hosted by writer, comedian and musician Neil Innes, (Monty Python, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The Rutles) this unique live staging will be an unmissable event for Beatles fans of all ages!
Reviews for Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and The Bootleg Beatles 2017/18 Sgt Pepper tour 'It was 50 Years Ago Today':
'Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Sgt Pepper, the real band would have struggled to fake it as well as this…. it was as exhilarating as that remarkable album itself.' ****
The Times, June 2017, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
'A sheer joy to behold'
'Ever imagine what it would have been like to see the Beatles backed by a 70-piece symphony orchestra? Pretty damned special actually' ****
Arts City Liverpool, January 2018
Video links - Sgt Pepper tour:
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The only thing that's more fun than watching a Supersuckers show is talking to the band's singer, Eddie Spaghetti. This is a man who's not afraid to say what's on his mind. Spaghetti and his fellow Seattle band mates are currently walking the Earth to support their fine new album, Sacrilicious, and have recently made a band-member change: Guitarist Rick Sims has been replaced by original guitarist Ron Heathman. Spaghetti recently took time off for a candid chat about drugs, Hootie and bodily functions. "The more embarrassing things I get out in the press, the harder it is for anyone to have anything on me," he notes wisely.
What's the funniest thing you've ever read about the band?
I tend to like the uneducated articles that actually believe we're devil worshipers or that we couldn't think our way out of a paper bag. The only thing that really hurts are the bad reviews of the record. What are they trying to do, make me cry?
You cry enough.
I'm a sensitive guy! Nyuck, nyuck!
You played at Farm Aid. What's up with that? I was surprised.
Oh, who wasn't? So we're there, and first they tell me "I've got to do this press conference. So I'm sitting at this panel with all these flashbulbs going off, just like in the movies. And Willie's there, Neil Young's there, Hootie's there, and the Blowfish, just these high-profile artists. And we're the Supersuckers! Hi! I didn't know what to say.
What did they want you to say? The destruction of the family farm and all that?
Well, that's what I was worried about. Because, you know, as sorry as I am for the plight of the family farmer, I don't know jack about it.
You played with Willie Nelson, right?
Here's a good story. So he's up there onstage with Hootie.
What? Rewind!
Well, he got up there and dinked around with a couple of the bands. So he's up there with Hootie, and we went to go to his bus to have a smoky treat with Willie. Then we saw him on the big screen at the end of the stadium with Hootie. So there are some people fumbling around on his mike, and he's kinda just standing there. We go on the bus half an hour later, and we're asking him, "Were there problems with your guitar?" And as we were having a big fat smoky treat with him, he says, "No, I think they were just checking my mike to see if it was working, because I wasn't playing anything! It was working fine! I just wasn't!" That's a revelation: Willie admitting that he wasn't doing jack!
Why have Hootie sold 20 million records?
I don't know. There must be a lot of fraternity guys out there.
What's their retribution in hell?
Maybe they're going to have to listen to their own records over and over again.
The song "Marie" off your new album is very affecting.
I'm uncomfortable with making it a single. This is a song about our old lead singer, who was my best friend all through high school. We all wound up moving to Seattle and doing drugs, and most of us realized it was stupid. He was one of the ones who didn't, so he moved back to Tucson [Ariz.] and continued doing drugs until they killed him, of course. I've never made amends with his mom, and the song "Marie" that's his mom is kind of a communication to her, mostly because I haven't had the balls to call her. I heard that I was, in her mind, one of the primary reasons why he died: "If it wasn't for Eddie, dot dot dot." So this song is about that.
What's the worst advice your daddy ever gave you?
Well, he used to think I was gay, so he would try to tell me, "Come on, Eddie, date as many women as you can! Get as many as you can! You'll figure it out, son!"
What's the best celebrity rumor you've ever heard? Mine is that a certain musician dumps in her drawers before shows because of nerves.
I've crapped in my pants before we played one time. I did. I thought I was just gonna fart I was moonlighting in this other band in Seattle, and I was drinking at a bar, and I was already late for a show. I used to play this game to see how drunk I could get and still play guitar. And I was walking over, and I thought I was just gonna pass the gas. But something happened. I had to play the show with poopy pants.
What's the worst song in the world?
[Immediately]"American Pie," by Don McLean. It's nine minutes of pure hell.
A good hangover cure?
The best hangover cure is about 2,500 mg of ibuprofen, about five bongs and lots of sleep. And eat a big cheesy something or other. It gets in there, and it moves everything right on through.
What's your favorite situation to smoke weed in?
I'm a 24-seven kind of guy. In the morning is my favorite time, though although my girlfriend gets mad at me, because if "I'm on tour, and I get stoned, I forget to call.
All right, give me a nasty, stomach-turning van-travel story.
Our guitarist Dan Bolton has this little thing that he likes to do where he likes to drink and drink and drink and drink. And after that, he likes to drink some more. After a few days of this, his body starts doing what we call Bolton's Decomposition. He lies in the back for a really long time and just starts rotting. And when he gets up, he leaves behind this long stain of I don't know what. It's urea colored. He gets up from this combination of hibernating and just … dying, and he's fit as a fiddle. Good to go again.
What would you put in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame to represent the Supersuckers?
Oh, an eternal flame.
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Posted on July 23, 2014 by Theresa Guzmán Stokes
On Saturday, August 16, 2014 at 11am as part of the City of Newport's 375th Anniversary Celebration, members of the African Alliance of Rhode Island will come together to oversee a ceremony to recognize and celebrate the thousands of persons of West African heritage that once lived, worked, worshiped and died in Colonial Newport that are represented by the several hundred burial markers that remain in God's Little Acre.
The African Alliance of Rhode Island (aari) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of Africans living in the State of Rhode Island. Dating back to 17th century, Rhode Island has been home to many from the continent of Africa. Today, there are over seventy-five thousand Africans from forty African countries living in Rhode Island.
The ceremony will begin at Ellery Park at the corners of Thames and Farewell streets where Newport's Liberty Tree was first planted in 1765. Almost ten years before, enslaved and free Africans would gather every June to elect the "Negro Governor" or tribal chief of the Newport community. This ritual would later be seen in many other 18th century New England communities with large concentrations of Africans. The group will walk down Farewell Street led by an African drummer to the Common Burying Ground and the God's Little Acre section. At the cemetery the program will include a reflection of the history of Africans in Newport and the history of God's Little Acre. Afterwards, an African Griot will formally incorporate the history of God's Little Acre into the oral history of West Africa. A Libation Ceremony led by a tribal Chief from Ghana will include a ritual pouring of a liquid as an offering to god in memory of those who have died. The ceremony will conclude with a walking tour of the historic cemetery.
The public is cordially invited to attend and take part in the ceremonies at Liberty Park and God's Little Acre section of the Common Burying Ground. Parking is extremely limited and it is suggested that visitors park at the Newport Gateway & Visitors Center and walk to the sites.
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One of the more difficult things in life for the golfing traveller with a non golfing partner is where to go on holiday. Unless one has found a latter-day Mother Theresa crossed with the less combative elements of St Joan of Arc, the chances of disappearing off to the links for a five-hour sojourn on a regular basis during the family holiday generally provides two chances, and invariably slim has just left town.
Which is just one of the reasons that Costa Navarino on the south west side of the Greek Peloponnese makes such sound sense, and do forget all those horror stories you will have read in the press about the Greek economy and being unable to get your hands on any cash.
Tourist numbers may be down at the two glorious hotels available overlooking Navarino Bay, but your charge card is welcome everywhere so you do not need to take suitcases full of euros with you. And there are two glorious golf courses to enjoy that, provided you get an early start or else play later in the day, will comfortably see you round in four hours while admiring some of the most sublime coastal views to be found anywhere in Europe.
And during the time that you are away, your partner can either enjoy some fantastic spa treatments, or a game of tennis or take a cab down into one of the nearby villages of Gialova or Pylos to explore. A trip around the crescent shaped Navarino Bay, embarking from Pylos, is a delightful way to spend an afternoon, as is a trip to the historic fort perched up on the hillside.
And for us golfers, we must decide which of the two lush and beautifully manicured courses we should play first, as we must play them both. It is probably best to start with the Dunes course, designed by Bernhard Langer fronting a team with European Golf Design's Ross McMurray behind him.
The development of the 18-hole course involved the movement of hundreds of tons of earth and the import of some 16,000 mature olive trees — some over 1,000 years old. Now, as one walks the undulating fairways between clumps of coarse sea grasses, orange groves and those gnarled old olives on a gently sloping hillside, the Dunes looks as if it has been here for years.
It is the perfect holiday resort course at 6,600 yards off the tips and lots of forward tee positions with generously wide fairways to allow the high handicapper to get round without losing dozens of balls, yet with the prevailing sea breeze, enough cavernous, well-placed sand bunkers and large raised greens with fiendish undulations to keep even the most demanding single figure handicappers happy too.
Certainly the front nine on the Dunes offers the toughest stretch of golf on either course, although there are sufficient bailout areas not to depress the less talented player. The only downside is that the two luxurious Starwood-owned hotels dominate the surroundings.
This is certainly not the case at the Bay course, designed by Robert Trent Jones junior and Bruce Charlton, which is the shorter of the two, at 6,400 yards, although the more breathtaking, not only for the views but also some precipitous climbs that take us up to the 10th and 11th holes.
Despite opening in 2011, there is still only a temporary clubhouse with what will be the opening hole, a long downhill par 4 to the bay currently playing as the 13th. This leads to a tough opening hole where we have to tee off across a large and intimidating lake.
Trent Jones took the course through three different landscapes: seaside, canyon — where we can be teeing off from rocky outcrops — and grove, where we are back among the centuries-old olive trees that were first domesticated in this part of Greece.
What is most remarkable about such a young course is how remarkably well-bedded in the greens and fairways are. The latter are blemish free with not a divot mark to be seen, while the greens are firm and true yet still providing some subtle, even waspish, breaks as we found on the Dunes course.
And standing on the elevated tee of the par-3, 123- yard 11th, with a gentle sea breeze blowing in off the bay, there are few better views in golf, unless of course you happen to hole your tee shot. And that dear reader is just what I did; making an already perfect morning just that little bit better.


Volkswagen Group unit Electrify America said on Monday it will install Tesla Inc. battery storage packs at more than 100 charging stations across the United States to keep costs down for drivers charging electric vehicles.
"If you pass the demand charge onto the customer in a high-demand charge market" it can cost anywhere from $70 to $110 to charge a vehicle, Electrify America's COO Brendan Jones told Reuters. "If you did that, obviously nobody would buy an electric vehicle."
During a conference call with analysts last week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said "stationary storage" is a growth opportunity for the automaker.
He said that apart from keeping charges down for consumers, Electrify America will examine the possibility of selling stored energy to lower charging stations' costs.


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We went up to Santa Fe so I could do some street shooting. I try to take shots that don't look as if I were on a tour and had 10 minutes to shoot the entire city. I also like to play around.
Santa Fe as seen through the park benches.
The Plaza in Santa Fe.
This one is a Tourist Shot. Native American artists come to Santa Fe for the opportunity to sell their art at the Palace of the Governors. A bell is rung each morning, and lots are drawn to determine who can sell their art that day. All art must be made by the artist. I was astounded at the quality of the work. The jewelry I saw was so beautiful I wanted to give up beads because my work is so inferior to what I saw.
This was a throw away shot. I decided to make a half-hearted attempt at photographing a pigeon. Considering how fast the pigeon was moving, I'm surprised at how well the shot came out. Moral: Always take the shot.
Fall has lingered this year and there were still roses and hibiscus blooming.
I wanted something cute to wear to the Farmers & Craft Market. Something that shows me as an artist. I found this fabric in Albuquerque and wanted to take advantage of the print. So…I made a scrub top. I still have no idea where my ribbing is. Last time I used this pattern, I used a piece of spandex in place of the ribbing. It worked, but was a bugger and a half to sew on. Spandex doesn't stretch as much as ribbing. This time, I added 3" to the sleeves and put in a button hole and a button. I didn't measure, and I left the cuffs too lose. I'll need to move the buttons a bit.
I had my best day ever at the Farmers & Craft Market on Saturday morning. The good news: I sold a lot of pots. The bad news: I now need to make a lot of pots to replace the ones I sold. But I have class and I'm modeling on Tuesday and Thursday. There's no way I can get my pieces made, bisque fired, glazed and glaze fired in time for them to be cool enough to unload well before dawn on Saturday. I'll have to take what I've got on Saturday and take the new pieces I'll be making the following Saturday. Such problems!
I got to hear the famous question on Saturday. A lady picked up a small bowl glazed in blue, green and pink celedons. "Do you have this in blue?" No. She wants it in blue and with a lid. Yes, I can do that, but if I need to make a lid, I have to price the pot higher. I'm not going to worry about it.
I sold a pair of earrings from my store, DebThumanArt.com. The nice part is someone I don't know bought the earrings. I appreciate the support of my friends and I'm glad I'm being found by people I don't know.
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Rolling out dough for a big, soft pretzel is a cross between rolling out a coil and pulling a handle. I've got a sourdough recipe for English muffins. I can't fit more than 8 English muffins on a pan, so I'm making 8 English muffins and 8 big, soft pretzels. I had ordered some pretzel salt from King Arthur Flour Bakers Store and I've been wanting to give it a test bake. Rather than cook the English muffins on a griddle, I'm baking them in the oven. I have English muffin rings (King Arthur Flour Bakers Store). I put parchment paper on one cookie sheet, grease the rings, put a glob of dough in each ring, cover with parchment paper, and put another cookie sheet on top of the raw English muffins. As the muffins rise and later bake, the muffins are confined to their rings and end up the size and shape of commercial English muffins. I put parchment paper on top of that cookie sheet, and made dough ropes to form into pretzels. There are pretzel makers who can flip the dough into a pretzel. I'm not one of them. English muffins and pretzels are rising at the moment.
I've been working on little pinch pots to be used as glaze experiments. I put the bottom glaze on the inside and part of the outside of the pinch pot. Then I put the top glaze only inside the pinch pot. No runaway glaze disasters if the two glazes are only on the inside. I was aiming at a Wednesday glaze firing, but that's not going to happen. I have no energy today and I've got a half dozen mugs, a plate, a rattle, and two large planters to glaze before I can fire.
I've had an energy problem the last few days. In some ways, it feels like before I was diagnosed with hypothyroid. In other ways, it's just weird. Normal manic events have a culinary nature. I have an incredible urge to cook and I'm buying things for making whole grain baked goods. Normal manic events come with too much energy. I have to be careful not to get too wound up or I won't be able to wind down. This time, I hardly have enough energy to walk across the room. I think this is a mixed episode. Whoopee.
In an effort to become healthier, I've been pushing exercise on myself. Last night, I was about to get on the elliptical machine when I looked out the sliding glass door.
So I took time to do some photography. I've been trying to get the sky and the ground to look in a digital image how it looks to my eyes. I'm still working on that.
Yes, I did get on the elliptical machine after taking 54 photos.
Thursday, I stopped into JoAnn's. I have my writing class on Tuesdays and Thursdays and I have no intention of paying for a parking pass for one class. I park in the strip mall parking lot nearby. JoAnn's is in that strip mall. I was armed with sales fliers and coupons. My original intent was to fondle the JoAnn's version of a fabric called Minky. I need a longer kimono (the one I have is knee length). I thought Minky would be a good choice. I never found the Minky. What I found was this.
The bolt on the shelf didn't have the 5 yards I needed. Fortunately, there were two full bolts up on a high shelf. I told the clerk to give me 6 yards. Then there was one yard left on the bolt and I got it for half price. The fabric, a cotton knit, was on sale and I had a 25% off coupon. It will be a kimono and a jacket when it grows up.
Then I found a fake fur that I think will be a nice purse. I bought a yard and it, too was on sale.
That's about all I have energy for right now. Can't wait for this episode to be over. I'm linking with Nina Marie here. Stop by and see what other artists have been doing.
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Case Study | Kicking It Off: Solidifying A Soccer City With Lynn Family Stadium | SPINITAR
Kicking It Off: Solidifying A Soccer City With Lynn Family Stadium
Lynn Family Stadium, which opened in 2021 in Louisville, Kentucky, is the largest soccer-specific stadium in the region with seating for 11,600 fans and a maximum capacity of 15,304. As a stadium that hosts the biggest soccer games in the area along with other community festivals and events, it was essential to equip the space with world-class technology and digital signage that pumps both energy and sound quality into the venue.
(65) 43-inch E437Q displays installed in the stadium's luxury suites • (34) 50-inch E507Q displays, (12) 55-inch E557Q displays, and (14) 65-inch E657Q displays installed in the bars and restaurants as digital signage and game streams, with a number of displays spread outdoors in between the four corners of the stadium.
A state-of-the-art stadium with digital signage that provides game time updates, wayfinding, event messages, and menu boards in an open-air setting. NEC displays help solidify the stadium as the go-to soccer venue in the region and the future of Louisville as a soccer city.
A Variety of Content Needs
As a brand new stadium build with no existing technology, IT and AV integrator Strategic Communications started from scratch. Alongside the builder, they consulted on a number of content needs including wayfinding solutions, live game feeds, and menu boards, and landed on Sharp/NEC as the go-to display provider. The stadium would need to provide live game streaming so that visitors walking along the outer ring of the stadium don't miss a beat when they aren't in their seats. Each of the 18 luxury suites would need a display showcasing a live feed of the game, as well as the stadium locker rooms and training facilities for players and coaches not on the field. The stadium's restaurants and bars would also need digital signage for their ever-changing menus and seasonal specials. All displays would also need the ability to switch to wayfinding and messaging content for non-game time announcements, including concert or festival branding, and even emergency alerts. Further, with two soccer teams calling this stadium home, the display content would need to be easily adaptable for either team's branding. After working with experts from Sharp/NEC, Strategic Communications went with 125 NEC Multisync® E Series displays in varying sizes that would be installed throughout the stadium.
Quality Performance and Warranty Guaranteed
As a stadium that will host championship games and high-profile events, Lynn Family Stadium needed its technology to match the world-class events it will produce. Strategic Communications' decision to use NEC displays was two-fold. Not only did they know they would get the best quality and performance in a display, but the products come backed with a three-year warranty, an essential offering for the brand new stadium build to ensure a good return on their investment. The commercial-grade Multisync E Series displays offer direct LED backlighting, reducing power consumption while localized dimming gives a greater dynamic contrast ratio. As an open-air stadium that hosts events all year round, the visibility of displays is a huge factor. To combat periods of ambient light throughout the day and sun shining into the stadium during different months of the year, it was crucial to choose a display that can showcase bright, sharp imagery and messaging and won't become washed out no matter how much light it is exposed to. The E Series displays also provide 4K UHD resolution for high visual acuity. Their integrated multimedia USB player makes digital signage simple and easily adaptable for various content needs and a thin bezel maintains aesthetics. The E Series displays also have built-in NTSC/ATSC analog or digital tuner allowing for high-definition broadcast capabilities and their low-profile 10W speakers enhance the stadium experience with superior sound.
A City Centerpiece
Now equipped with digital signage throughout, the Lynn Family Stadium is poised to host a multitude of different events and sports teams for years to come. The venue's digital signage provides vital game time updates, wayfinding, event messages, and menu boards in an open-air setting. The stadium now acts as a showcase "billboard" for Butchertown and Louisville with thousands of people driving past it daily, and sends a strong statement about the future of professional soccer in Louisville.


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Letter: Cash with appology in Asian cultures
Unfortunately, like many people today, the Editor or Editorial Writer for the Sooke News Mirror has no understanding of Asian cultures
Re: Letters: How far back do we go? — a Sooke News Mirror editorial published in the Langley Times, March 13, 2013. Unfortunately, like many people today, the Editor or Editorial Writer for the Sooke News Mirror has no understanding of Asian cultures, where a small amount of money enclosed in an envelope that accompanies an apology, no matter how small the amount is, helps in the forgiveness of a wrong-doing. As for apologizing for wrong-doings in the past, some wrong-doings then were in contravention of the law of the day or of a treaty that was pertinent to the area in which the wrong-doing was carried out, or in the two cases cited, to the morality of the so-called "Christian" Canadians for the day, but ignored for the sake of political convenience as bigotry seemingly ran amok — undoubtedly a carry-over from our British cultural background. Unfortunately, people in Canada, before and after Confederation, have chosen to ignore laws and other wrong-doings that they don't like or that might upset them. And as for our political leaders, it seems that re-election is a greater concern than being morally correct. As our world becomes more culturally diverse, it is wise to address wrong-doings in a way that will make the recipient of the apology feel that the wrong-doer's descendants realize the error that their ancestors have made and are genuinely apologizing for it. G.E. MacDonell,Abbotsford, B.C
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Home|Posts|Tips / Strategy|REALTOR® Feedback Guides RPR's new Refreshed Look and Functionality
REALTOR® Feedback Guides RPR's new Refreshed Look and Functionality
It's finally here! RPR is excited to launch a completely revamped version of its website. An upgraded and improved version to help you "wow" your clients and close more deals.
The new RPR is cleaner, simpler, and offers users a more overall intuitive experience. It's also been reorganized to help you find your most-used features and saved items.
You Asked—We Listened
Why does the platform look and perform this way? Because you asked for it! That's right, the latest version of RPR is a direct result of your feedback. Months of focus groups and one-on-one user studies provided us a blueprint to rebuild RPR to be more tailored to your most-used features. It's more powerful, more flexible and more… you.
Reorganized, redesigned and refreshed for your success.
We're really excited to share the new version with you! It offers the same robust data, tools and reports REALTORS® expect, but with several improvements and new features, including:
A cleaner look and feel
The first thing you'll probably notice is the overall look and feel. Fresh, crisp, inviting! Just a few of the terms that some of our users have used to describe the new RPR layout. It offers users an overall cleaner interface with more white space. It's also 30% wider with bigger fonts and larger images.
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Search all properties from one spot
This one's a biggie. You now have the ability to search residential and commercial properties from one search bar area. Just toggle between "Residential" and "Commercial" and the search settings change accordingly. (We've eliminated the "Commercial" site, which means less clicks and less confusion.) It also further solidifies RPR as the only residential and commercial site exclusively for REALTORS®.
A user-centric homepage
The new site was redesigned with one REALTOR® in mind—you. The more user-centric homepage was retooled for productivity, with your regular routine in mind. Rethought and rebuilt for efficiency, the new homepage offers "Shortcuts" to tools and features, and personalized "My Market" areas with quick access to property info. Simply put, users can now get more done with less clicks!
Powerful and flexible search results
The data available in the search results has been organized in a more logical and visual pleasing way. Users can now scan properties in multiple views, including List view, Photo view, and Map view. This customizable viewing option allows you to display your search results in a format most conducive to your needs.
Working with a client who is looking for a specific style of home? Click Photo view. Want to compare property facts directly from the results view (or print it)? Let List view sort it all down to the grid that emphasizes text. And the map-based version of search results allows you to consume the data the way you want to consume it.
So many map pins, so little time
Map searches are now easier, faster, and more intuitive for all of your property research and exploring needs. Map junkies will surely appreciate how RPR has tamed the chaos of the previous maps, without losing any content. The data layer functions are a big improvement and will only get better as we roll out even more updates throughout the year.
Get up to speed and down to business
Getting in and taking the new website for a spin is highly encouraged, but it's not the only way to learn the new RPR. We have multiple training and educational sessions to get you up to speed on all the updated changes and features.
Experience the new RPR now
So… what are you waiting for? Jump in and check out all the new bells and whistles for yourself. The latest "refreshed" version of the RPR website is now live at narrpr.com.
We hope that our users will love it. It's simplified and reorganized with a razor-like focus on new and productive ways to use the platform. You've asked for an easier and more streamlined way to find your items, past searches and saved properties. RPR has listened and learned, and with this new update, we're confident that we've delivered on that and much more. One final thought…
"Changes aren't permanent… but change is."
Okay, we know change can be a tough adjustment. And that getting used to a new version of something can be a hurdle, especially if you were used to and liked the previous version.
However, please try the new version out and give yourself some time to get a feel for it. And of course, let us know in the comments what you think. As always, we appreciate feedback from REALTORS®. Good luck, have fun exploring the site, and thanks for using RPR.


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Holidays in Sölden. Freizeit Arena included.
There are many good reasons for a holiday at Birkenhof. One of them is a very special highlight: staying at our Hotel or Guesthouse in Sölden you can enjoy in winter a daily three-hour admission to the wellness area and the adventure swimming pool at Freizeit Arena Sölden. You can use varied sauna parlors, steam baths, infrared heat cabins and the lovely adventure bath with many pools and extras free of charge every day. Fancy a match of tennis or a round of bowling after the sauna? Freizeit Arena Sölden has it all. What's best, it is located right next to your Hotel and Guesthouse Birkenhof.


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Celiac Disease: When Your Gut Screams No!
Allergic to bread? Here's how to find relief from celiac disease
By Alice Mangum
Bread is often called the "staff of life." But for the more than one million people in North America who have a genetic inability to absorb gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley, rye, and some oat products, that staff may feel more like a big bully's stick-to the stomach. If you have celiac disease (CD), also known as celiac sprue (celiac means "pertaining to the abdominal cavity"), this is what happens: When your body is exposed to gluten, the membrane that lines your small intestine gradually loses its usual texture, becoming inflamed, smoother, and less and less able to absorb nutrients. As a result, you can suffer increasingly acute abdominal pain and swelling, diarrhea, fatty yellow stools, weight loss, and lack of energy. And that's just the beginning.
Undiagnosed CD can lead to intestinal damage, gastrointestinal cancers, and serious autoimmune disorders such as insulin-dependent diabetes. In addition, the nutritional deficiencies that are a hallmark of the disease can precipitate a host of seemingly unrelated problems, including osteoporosis and even fetal distress. (Low folic acid stores in moms can predispose unborn babies to serious neurological problems such as spina bifida.) Getting diagnosed isn't easy, but try to persevere: Once you know you have CD, dietary changes can soothe your stomach and reverse the damage that can lead to more serious illness.
The First Step Is the Toughest
It takes an average of 10 years—and as many different physicians—to be diagnosed with CD. The longer a celiac is exposed to gluten, the greater his risk of autoimmune disease or cancer, so it's imperative that a potential celiac seek out the right help. The problem is that CD can be masked by—or mistaken for—a laundry list of similar or associated conditions. Diabetes, thyroid disease, and digestive cancers often take the rap, as do anemia, allergies, colitis, irritable bowel syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome, and plain old, garden-variety stress. Throw in a CD-related food sensitivity such as lactose intolerance, and you have mass confusion—on the part of the doctor as well as the patient.
To get the right diagnosis—and get it promptly—you may have to see a specialist. If you suspect that you may have CD (either because you're experiencing symptoms or you have a family history of the illness), get a referral, if necessary, and schedule an appointment with a gastroenterologist, a physician who specializes in problems affecting the stomach, intestines, gallbladder, and bile duct. Gastroenterologists are often more experienced at recognizing and treating people with CD and will know exactly what to do.[pagebreak]
It's in Your Genes
CD is genetic. Unfortunately, the tests for genetic markers don't tell you if you have the disease; they're used to rule out CD. For a positive diagnosis, the gold standard remains a small- bowel biopsy, in which doctors remove a tiny piece of your intestinal wall to analyze its texture and note any CD-related changes. Before you sign on for this outpatient procedure, however, you may want to ask your doctor about two relatively new blood tests: the antiendomysial antibody test and the tissue transglutaminase test. Both tests are designed to reveal the presence of CD-related antibodies in your blood—and to diagnose the bedeviling disease with a quick stick. If you test positive, your doctor will want to follow up with a small-bowel biopsy to make sure.
The only way people with CD can remain disease-free is to swear off gluten forever, eating only gluten-free foods (grains such as rice, corn, sorghum, flax, amaranth, buckwheat, and quinoa) and nut-, bean-, or potato-based flours. In the total absence of gluten, most of the symptoms of CD disappear within 6 months, says Joseph Murray, MD, a gastroenterologist at the Mayo Clinic. And recent research indicates that within 5 years of starting treatment, a celiac's risk of malignancies diminishes to match that of the general population.Trouble is, eliminating gluten from your diet doesn't just mean eliminating foods made from grains that contain gluten. Gluten itself is used as a food additive, so it might show up where you don't expect it. And finding it on a food label can be tricky. Gluten is contained in other food additives ("modified food starch," for instance), so it's often not mentioned by name.
If you suspect that you have CD, talk to your doctor before eliminating gluten from your diet. In order to use one of the new diagnostic blood tests, you must be consuming gluten at the time of the test, or your results may not be accurate. A registered dietitian can help and can even suggest ways to help you stick with your gluten-free diet. To find one near you, ask your physician for a referral or contact the American Dietetic Association at (800) 366-1655. Another big help: gluten-free products, which are available in some health food stores, by catalog, or online.[pagebreak]
Here are a few of the foods that may contain "undercover gluten":
Herbal teas (some)
Nondairy creamer
Soup (mixes and cans)
What Triggers CD?
Celiac disease is inherited. That is, your susceptibility is written in your chromosomes. But the actual disease isn't always passed down from parent to child. And if it is, it can be triggered at any stage of life—from infancy to adulthood—by severe emotional stress, physical trauma, viral infection, pregnancy, or even surgery.
Celiac Disease Foundation (818) 990-2354
Celiac Sprue Association (402) 558-0600
Gluten Intolerance Group (206) 246-6652
Alice Mangum Alice Mangum is a former editor with Prevention's Special Interest Publications
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