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McLaren's expansion plans for Australia: Sports Series entry model, more dealers and fair pricing
British icon McLaren plans on launching a significant assault on Australia's high-end sports car market over the next few years with a ramped-up dealer network to support the forthcoming, Porsche 911-rivalling Sports Series range.
That said, don't expect the profitable company to dip any further down the model chain with an even more affordable model or chase anything resembling sizeable volume in the future. The Sports Series is about as 'entry' as entry gets for the UK marque, it appears.
Set for a global reveal around the middle of 2015 before rolling out to Australia in the following months, the Sports Series range will likely encompass a coupe, convertible and potentially an even more track-honed version of the hard-top.
Furthermore, it will pay stylistic homage to the manic P1 hypercar from 2013, meaning it should turn heads as fast as it handles a set of sweepers.
The Sport Series line-up will form a huge part in McLaren's road car expansion too, and will easily double its global output from about 1600 cars per annum at present to more like 4000 by 2016/17.
It will also send its fledgling Australian operation into the next echelon.
To that point, the company this week launched its second Australian dealership, with its new site in Melbourne's Southbank joining its existing operation in Sydney. Having two sites will give its 650S more traction, but there's more to come, with new sites in the pipeline.
While the company may be struggling on the Formula One circuit, it appears the opposite is true for its separate road cars division.
Speaking with CarAdvice at the Melbourne dealer opening this week, McLaren executive director of global sales and marketing Jolyon Nash said the Sports Series would help the boutique, fiercely independent British car maker drastically build its presence both here and abroad.
We spoke in the shadow of Australia's only licensed McLaren F1, on loan from the owner, as well as an uber-rare left-hand-drive P1 in canary yellow.
"We'll certainly be announcing the car [Sports Series] and showing the car next year and it will go into production. We're going into the sports car segment as opposed to the supercar segment," he said, building on what previous teaser campaigns have told us.
Later, Nash added: "There will be certainly more than one body style, its pretty obvious I guess what it could be", before saying many lessons imparted from the manic P1 — albeit perhaps not its use of electrification off the bat — would be applied.
"Every new product we engineer and develop there's learning in it. A lot has come out of the P1, the visual design, and I think you'll see much of the design language being carried over into the new models.
"I think it [the P1] defines what a McLaren should look like, we say it should be breathtaking design, beautiful yet functional, with a focus on aerodynamics. The P1's shape is all there for a very good reason [cooling and aero, mostly].
"From a pricing point of view its a little bit difficult to look at it in Australia because some of the pricing is a bit upside down. But globally you'd be looking at pricing that is top end 911, R8, Vantage…"
This points to a figure somewhere around $300,000 to $350,000, as compared with the $441,500 650S. By "upside down", Nash is referring to the discrepancies between segment rivals here compared with other markets.
That said — and following on from a previous company position — Nash seem cognisant also of the need to price reasonably without a whiff of gouging.
"Our customers, they're not foolish, I mean we're talking very successful individuals, mostly they're very international, so they know if they're travelling from Australia to Britain or the US, they can see what cars sell for, they understand that the ratios or relativity of prices one car to another, one brand to another, customers understand when positions aren't quite right."
Beyond this, Nash discussed what the Sports Series would mean for the brand and its plans beyond the new entry model.
"I think over the medium term we're probably going to be more than doubling our production. We're flexible and will build to demand, that's how it has to be in the sector… we've got sufficient capacity," he said.
That said, do not expect to see McLaren either slink further 'downmarket' — we use that term with trepidation — or seek to in any way match the volumes of even niche rivals such as Ferrari.
"I don't think we would make… I can't imagine McLaren would bring in a car in a segment below that [Sports Series]. I think we're a super luxury brand and we think that's good positioning for us.
"McLaren will always be a very exclusive product, we have no intention to be anything volume, if we sell double the current number of cars we're selling globally, in two to three years time, we're very happy with that kind of number.
"It's not our intention to sell 10,000 cars around the world every year, or 7000… that's not McLaren."
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富岡鐵道藝術節
About Fugang Railway Arts Festival
走讀富岡
Fugang Poems
裝置藝術作品
Installation art 2
主題活動 & 網路報名
Installation artwork
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Title: Shimmering Images II
Size: Format 1: 168*50 cm Format 2: 164*50 cm Format 3: 100*30 cm
Creator: Hsu Tsung-Chieh
About the creator: Graduated from Department of Theatrical Design and Technology of National Arts College, in 1999. After graduation, he worked for technology art, interactive art and installation design. His personal public art works are mostly based on technology art techniques and change of shadows in nature.
Introduction of work: it is a dynamic sculpture with natural wind as the power. The appearance is simple metal with the elegant form of Egret. It flies with the natural wind power of San Lian Bei. It resembles Egret standing in the water, elegantly walking, lowering the head and searching for food. It responds with the large public art work "Shimmering Images" behind.
Title: Sparkling water, Fugang Garden
Size: 3000x1500x380 cm
Materials: Polyurethane, stainless steel, FRP
Creator: Lai Jun-Jun
About the creator: Master degree of Tama Art University, Japan and participated in artist exchange programs in the U.S., France and Switzerland. The creator has won several awards of public art of Ministry of Culture and Wu San Lian "Art Award". The works are collected by national and foreign art museums and institutes. Founder of SOCA and Taiwan Women's Art Association.
Introduction to the work: "Town of points" refers to the cultural landscape of Taoyuan village, as the shining crystals on the ground. By colorful and flourishing water garden and the charming shadows of flowers, it revives the city of Taoyuan.
Title: Lighting
Size: 140 cm x 140 cm (4 pieces) / 285 cm x 169 cm (1 piece) /318 cm x 231 cm (4 pieces)
Materials: oil painting /spray painting/ multi-material
Creator: Yin Chia-Wei
About the creator: Graduated from oil painting division of College of Fine Arts and Creative Design, Tunghai University, Christmas Land in New Taipei City-installation and lighting design and outdoor product exhibition of Hall 1 of Taipei World Trade Center-installation of the stand of the participant
Introduction to the work : it introduces temperature and human affection by the time change of lighting; by the painting of three primary colors of light, it shows the change of shadow in the barn with the time; by more warm-toned colors, it presents the human affection of change of light.
Light wave conveys the energy and is transformed and save in the rice. After harvest, it is saved in the barn. It means transmission>change> saving>re-transmission (cycle). It not only shows the relationship between humans and nature, but also reveals the rise of the town and the cycle of rice.
Title: Lanmar & Kuba
Size: Lanmar 100* height 243cm Kuba 120*246cm
Materials: wasted components of shuttle and Diesel locomotive, artificial sheet metal
Creator: Ye Shih-Jin, Lung Sheng-Yu
About the creator: Ye Shih-Jin and Lung Sheng-Yu are the employees of Taipei branch of Taiwan Railways and members of art creation division. They create art work after work and by wasted train components in order to increase the added value and reuse rate of wasted components.
Introduction to the work: Kuba works in Taiwan Railways Fugang base of Taipei branch, responsible for the maintenance and repair of electric locomotive bogie. After work, his body is always dirty. In summer particularly, he sweats all the time. This day, Kuba jumps and turns a somersault to see Lanmar and two babies whom he hasn't seen for one week at Fugang train station.
By the characters of animation, we see different kinds of life and thoughts. We treat the joy and difficulties of life by wider perspective. We cherish the time to be with the families even when we are busy.
Title: Whisper of water
Size: 240x65x65cm
Materials: stainless steel forging and polishing, base- Black Granite surface
Creator: Lee Ta-Hao
About the creator: Graduated from Department of Sculpture, National Taiwan University of Arts; master degree of Department of Sculpture, College of Arts, University of Madrid, Spain
Introduction to the work: it shows the interactive image between water in the fields and the mud. Water wave reveals the memory of childhood and hometown.
Title: Space for others
Size: 370 x 115 x 205 cm
Materials: white marble, Black Granite (seat)
Creator: Lin Chin-Chang
About the creator: Graduated from Fu-Hsin Trade & Arts School, present member of Sculpture Association of Taichung City, Hualien Stone Sculpture Association and Taichung Artist Club
Introduction of work: Space for others is the concern for oneself. Tolerance means comprehension. Kindness leads to hope.
Title: Train of Book
Size: About 325cm(W)×205cm(H)
Materials: Bronze painted
Creator: Lai Zhe-Xiang
About the creator: Lai Zhe-Xiang received his Master's degree in art from the College of Arts of University of Madrid, Spain, the first place in the 38th National Art Exhibition and the Sculpture Award of the 10th Art Exhibition, has been the lecturer of Department of Sculpture, Taipei National University of the Arts and Ching Kuo Institute of Management and Health and was awarded as the honorary alumnus of the 60th anniversary of National Lo-Tung Senior High School, Yilan.
Introduction to the work: by featured old locomotive, it interprets the culture and local railway characteristics in the old town. On the locomotive, it creates the children who sit or lie down. Thus, Fugang is surrounded in the climate of reading.
Title: Speed
Size: Height of each piece is about 75cm
About the creator: Master's degree in art from the College of Arts, University of Madrid, Spain, the first place in the 38th National Art Exhibition and the Sculpture Award of the 10th Art Exhibition, has been the lecturer of Department of Sculpture, Taipei National University of the Arts and Ching Kuo Institute of Management and Health and was awarded as the honorary alumnus of the 60th anniversary of National Lo-Tung Senior High School, Yilan.
Introduction to the work: by the super wing in the animation, it interprets the police's efficiency when fulfilling the tasks. The policemen work hard on the streets to serve the people.
Title: Ctrl+V
Size: 1800✕800mm
Materials: Iron, wood strip and plywood, waterproof, painting
Creator: Mo Po Zi group Chang Chen-Chun Shih Meng-Xin Guan Ching-Ya Chen Po-Hsuan
About the creator: Graduate Institute of Plastic Arts, Tainan National University of the Arts, Master of Art
Introduction to the work: The work is inspired from the dome on the second and third floor of the house of Lu. By imagination, it creates the invisible, a new and mysterious space. It expects that the audiences can apply their "memory" to the work to experience the concrete history with the creator and obtain new memory experience. It resembles modern digital society in which "building" is reconstructed as "modeling" and finally be re-presented.
Title: Life Continues
Size: Diameter 650cm Height 85/35cm
Materials: core of rattan, antiseptic southern wood board, red plastic moisture-proof plywood
Creator: Wu Wei-Ting
About the creator: Silver award and masterpiece of 2019 Asano Carpenter Competition
Introduction to the work: By long rattan, it depicts the mountains of Taiwan and constructs the seats to interact with the pedestrians and tourists. The design is based on penetrating appearance.
富岡鐵道藝術節 走讀富岡 裝置藝術作品 演出活動 主題活動 & 網路報名 交通指南
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I discovered her probably in 1954, when I was eight. We lived in one of those wonderful turn-of-the-century homes on First Street just a few blocks from downtown Ft. Myers, Florida. Set picturesquely on the banks of the wide, bright Caloosahatchee River, Ft. Myers was then a clean, pretty little town graced with the Spanish-Moorish architecture so prevalent in tropical Florida in the 1920s.
Within easy walking distance of our house was the small Ft. Myers public library. It was directly across the street from the yacht basin. Every Saturday I walked to the library for a new book. Reaching above my head, I'd push firmly on the bar of the heavy glass door and head straight back to the children's room and squat before the shelf of Bobbsey Twin books.
One day, instead of returning home along the sidewalk down First Street, I walked the sea wall home. Though I was unaware of it then, the first house I would have passed was the Burroughs Home (the Cuvier mansion in BANYAN), and farther along, the Rea House, two of the great estates remaining from the days when Ft. Myers had been the winter home and playground of millionaire inventors and industrialists.
As I was walking the seawall bordering the Rea estate, I must have glimpsed a bit of white in my peripheral vision, for I stopped on the seawall and turned and saw her.
I don't think I breathed for a full minute. She was more beautiful than anything I had ever seen in my life. I honestly could not believe what I was seeing. Stepping down off the seawall, mindful that I was trespassing on private property, I approached her cautiously, as to a shrine. She was sitting on a bench overlooking a small gold-fish pond in a tropical garden. The curves of her body were liquid, graceful as cool, slow-curling milk. Her small, perfect face was tilted downward on a neck as gently curved as the stem of a new flower. The thick braid trailing over one soft shoulder was intertwined with a rope of pearls and her dainty white fingertips, pearl-like themselves, hovered just above the teeth of the comb beside her on the bench.
She was from that moment my secret "mermaid." I think I was so enraptured by the pearls in her hair that I missed the anatomical detail of her legs. I began to visit her secretly, always on tip toe, and finally, defying Authority, which dogs the footsteps of children, I touched the pearls in her hair, the teeth of her comb. Her marble shoulders were cool to the hesitant palms of my hands. I glanced frequently toward the house across the sweeping lawn, nervous that the old woman in the house would see me. I could only have assumed that a moldering old woman lived in a house so commanding and ancient, and having grown up on fairy tales, in which old people are always lethal, I feared her.
I grew up, went away, forgot my "mermaid," returning to Ft. Myers infrequently over the years. Then, in the seventies, I found her again. As if she had materialized from a forgotten dream, she was now sitting in front of the library at the yacht basin. I was astonished, and disturbed to find her in a public setting. I realized that she had been relocated from her original home because the old estate she belonged to was now occupied by rows of apartments built on concrete. But to have left her exposed here seemed an act of callous indifference.
The next time I came home, the library at the yacht basin was gone, and she with it. A new, bigger library had been built. I only had to find it to find her.
I found her. She was headless. Part of one arm and her toes had also been hacked off. For fun? In fury?
In the library I inquired and was shown a pictorial history book of Ft. Myers and in the book was a Ft. Myers News-Press photo of the statue taken in the early twentieth century. I discovered that she was famous in local history and that her name was Lorelei. Admiring her in the grainy old photo, along with a few of Ft. Myers' elite and famous citizens, including Thomas Edison, was Ms. Evelyn Rea. Who grew old and lived in the house on the estate where I discovered Lorelei. Who probably stood at a window of the house, peering through lacy sheers at the little girl who came ever so often to gaze at Lorelei in her garden by the river. The old woman would not have been able to hear the child singing to Lorelei, but she may have guessed by the movement of her lips that she was talking to her. And she must have smiled and turned from the window to journey, with the assistance of a cane, back to her comfortable arm chair.
I imagine that she leaned her head against the back rest and closed her eyes, remembering.
The following is excerpted from my novella, BANYAN.
No one had used the walkway from our back veranda to the river for decades. The concrete was broken and ragged with weeds. The fountain in the center of the walk had been dry for forty years. Even the green slime that had covered the old fishpond had long ago dried up, leaving only a black stain.
But hidden there in raveling vines, the old vines thick and wooden and the young green ones interlocking tight as linen around her, was my goddess, my Lorelei. A celestial being held captive by jungle vines, soft as sculpted moonlight, her dreaming face aglow under deep sea green. As a child, my fingers had lightly traced the liquid curve of her arm, of her breasts, of her pearl-woven rope of hair. I had not been able to see her from my window for years, but I felt her in the heart of me, at my core.
Thanks, Brenda. Very good of you to comment.
I'm so glad to know about this statue because I have surely seen her many times before and I really love the way you wrap us up in the nostalgia of old Fort Myers. Makes me want to love it once again.


As the partial federal shutdown continues, Fulton County Job and Family Services offers the following information to federal employees that have been furloughed.
According to the Ohio Department of JFS, furloughed federal workers can be eligible for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP )and/or Ohio Works First (OWF) benefits. Although the worker may have been paid in the past 30 days, they currently have no income and have no reasonable expectation of when they'll be paid again.
This is true even if the federal worker is called into work and is working without pay. Obviously, all other eligibility criteria would have to be met, and a work requirement may be applicable. For individuals working enough hours without pay, the hours of employment could be used to satisfy a work requirement.
If a furloughed worker is approved for OWF benefits, there is a requirement to report a change of income within 10 days of when the change occurs. For SNAP, the individual is required to report once they are in receipt of income greater than 130 percent of the federal poverty level.
It's important to note that the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Nutrition Services has confirmed that administrative funding is available through February.
Although the benefits had to be issued prior to Jan. 20, the recipients do not have to spend/use the benefits by that date. There is no change to the spending/usage requirements. Recipients are reminded that these are not new or bonus benefits and that they need to budget through February.
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BUENOS AIRES (REUTERS) - Chinese President Xi Jinping and the leaders of major developing economies condemned protectionism at a G-20 summit in Argentina on Friday (Nov 30) overshadowed by US President Donald Trump's threat to escalate tariffs on China.
This year's two-day gathering is a major test for the Group of 20 industrialised nations, whose leaders first met in 2008 to help rescue the global economy from the worst financial crisis in seven decades.
With a rise in nationalist sentiment in many countries, the G-20 - which accounts for two-thirds of the global population - faces questions over its ability to deal with trade tensions, which have roiled global markets.
Hanging over the summit in Buenos Aires is the trade dispute between the United States and China, the world's two largest economies, which have imposed tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars on each other's imports after Trump launched an effort to correct what he views as China's unfair commercial practices.
Xi and leaders from the Brics group of leading emerging economies - which comprise Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - issued a statement calling for open international trade and a strengthening of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Beijing hopes to persuade Trump to abandon plans to hike tariffs on US$200 billion (S$274 million) of Chinese goods to 25 per cent in January, from 10 per cent at present.
US stocks seesawed between slight gains and losses on Friday, as investors kept away from making big bets ahead of Saturday's talks.
"We're working very hard. If we could make a deal that would be good. I think they want to. I think we'd like to. We'll see,"he said, speaking during a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
A Chinese foreign ministry official in Buenos Aires said there were signs of increasing consensus ahead of the discussions but that differences remained.
On the eve of the summit, G-20 nations were still trying to reach consensus on wording for the summit's communique on major issues including trade, migration and climate change, which in past years have been worked out well in advance.
Earlier this month, officials from countries attending a major Asia-Pacific summit failed to issue a joint statement for the first time after the US delegation clashed with China over trade and security.
However, delegates to the Buenos Aires talks said good progress had been made on economic sections of the final communique overnight. Argentina's presidency voiced cautious optimism that consensus would be reached, but a White House official said the United States would walk away from any statement that prejudiced U.S. interests.
Highlighting the deep rifts within the G-20, European Council President Donald Tusk said the European Union would extend its economic sanctions on Moscow next month, after Russian ships fired on Ukrainian ones in the Sea of Azov last week, seizing the boats and sailors.
Trump cited Russia's seizure of the ships as the reason he cancelled a planned bilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, where they had been expected to discuss the US leader's threat to withdraw from the Cold War-era Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty.
Moscow said US domestic politics may have been the real reason behind the cancellation after Michael Cohen, Trump's former longtime personal lawyer, pleaded guilty on Thursday to lying to Congress about a proposed Trump Organization skyscraper in Moscow.
The presence of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the summit also raised an awkward dilemma for leaders, and Saudi Arabia's de facto leader cut a lonely figure standing at the edge of the G-20 family photo.
Prince Mohammed arrived under swirling controversy over the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct 2. Human Rights Watch asked Argentine prosecutors to investigate him for human rights abuses.
British Prime Minister Theresa May said she would be robust when she talks to Prince Mohammed, urging him to hold a full and credible investigation. Saudi Arabia has said the prince had no prior knowledge of the murder.
Oil markets were awaiting a bilateral meeting between Putin and Prince Mohammed on Saturday afternoon for any sign of a breakthrough in a deal for Russia to participate in a production cut by the OPEC oil cartel next month.
Trudeau still had a few barbs on Friday. He called the deal by its old name NAFTA, prodded Trump over US steel and aluminum tariffs and said General Motors Co's decision to cut production and its North American workforce, including in Canada, was a "heavy blow."


List building and follow up are areas of business strategy everyone needs to give attention to, yet it seems to often be resisted by service providers. They feel like they either have nothing to say or that people won't want to hear from them. Cindy Bidar used to feel that way, but she got over it and ultimately changed her entire business.
Over here she is writing about why service providers need to go ahead and start that mailing list and develop a funnel.
2. The ability to scale quickly.
3. A built-in audience when you decide to branch out.
4. Better word-of-mouth marketing. Sound counterintuitive? It's not.
5. The ability to earn passive income.
GO read this post especially because it has a golden nugget – a little funnel plan right in the content that you could start using today.
Thanks so much for sharing Kelly!
f there were one thing I would go back and change, it would be to get my funnel in place right away when I started my business. I waited (and waited, and waited) because I didn't think I had anything to say, and that was a big mistake. Even if you just started your business yesterday, get that funnel going. Your future self with thank you!


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We Love Pernell Karl! (and You Should Too)
Give us all the Subbans. You can keep the rest, Montreal.
By ThisIsntLeonard Sep 23, 2014, 10:00am EDT
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Player We Love: (I don't care that he doesn't play on the PK) Subban
Across all major sports, there have been elite players that have faced off regularly against Boston sports teams and given us fits. Jeter for the Yankees. Manning for the Colts & Broncos. Kobe for the Lakers. And this generation, the Bruins' arch nemesis is once again a Canadien. Move over, Thomas Vanek. P.K. Subban is the newest (and best) Bruins killer. And god damnit, do we love him.
Montreal's best defenseman became their franchise defenseman over the summer, signing an 8-year, $72 million contract that'll pay him $9 million annually. At the end of the deal, he'll be turning 33, so he is signed through the absolute prime of his career. Even if he's being paid the most per year, I'd much rather pony up the cash per year if I get P.K. through 2022, as opposed to having Ryan Suter or Shea Weber on the books for $7.5+mil when they're 40 and 41 respectively. Plus, the salary hurts a lot less when you have Max Pacioretty's gift of a contract for the majority of Subban's term.
David Krejci is heralded for his playoff performance. Last postseason, Subban was 3rd among defensemen in points per game, behind on Brent Seabrook and Torey Krug. He took over the Bruins series with 7 points, including 4 goals. Like this one. This game-winner. And, of course, the best one...
Don't forget when he almost single-handedly knocked the Bruins out of the playoffs in 2011. He was the only reason Montreal was in overtime of Game 7, first by drawing the penalty and then rifling the goal past Tim Thomas. P.K. Subban is a baller, he wants the puck on this stick in crucial moments, he loves being in the spotlight, and he is nails in the playoffs. He is the epitome of the player you love to hate and hate to love. I'm certain I'll be cursing his name through the television during six regular season games and likely seven postseason games.
He also makes his teammates better. Aside from Brandon Prust, every single Canadien P.K. played more than 100 minutes alongside had a higher CF% with Subban on the ice. Several, substantially so. Desharnais by 6.4%, Pacioretty by 6.9%, Daniel Briere by 8.2%, Francis Bouillon by 9.2%, Travis Moen by 10.2%. And that's all just 5-on-5.
Not only is he a beast offensively, but he's not a shell of a defenseman in his own zone either. Subban plays the game like Johnny Boychuk--brutal hip checks and blistering slap shots. And his heady play allows for quick transitions out of the Montreal zone. His 5v5 FF% (Fenwick For) over the last four years is a .522, while his Opponents' FF% is at .499, resulting in more scoring chances he's in on than he's defending against. When that same start is Zone Start Adjusted, his FF% actually jumps to .527. And if you look at 5v5 GF% (Goals For) when the game is close? Subban's got a .569 over the last 3 seasons. When the game is close, Subban's team scores just under 57% of the goals while he's on the ice--for reference, Zdeno Chara is just a smidge better at .570, and Alex Pietrangelo is far and away the best at .601.
But Subban was ahead of Duncan Keith. Ahead of Brent Seabrook. Ahead of Drew Doughty, Erik Karlsson, and Niklas Kronwall. In a close game during the final minutes, P.K. Subban is one of the best defensemen to have on the ice, in the entire league. So enough with the "he only plays offense" argument. He's a better offensive player than he is defensively, but that doesn't mean he can't do both. Patrice Bergeron and Zdeno Chara are more beneficial when they're defensively focused, but they've both showed the skill to put the puck in the net. Subban is just the opposite.
How can you hate this face?
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Nevertheless, while I love watching P.K. Subban glide up and down the ice, it's bittersweet because...
Player We Hate: Everyone Else
Tomas Plekanec sucks. Alexei Emelin sucks--plus, why is it pronounced "Yemelin"? Josh Gorges, you suck. Carey Price, Rene Bourque, Lars Eller? Suck, suck, suck. There are very few players on that team you can respect, nevermind like.
Max Pacioretty has skill, and plays--for the most part--a legit game. P.K. Subban gets under your skin, but he puts his money where his mouth is and can hurt you. Young players like Tokarski and Galchenyuk, and free agents like P.A. Parenteau that haven't been tainted by the filth floating around the locker room, you're cool. But the rest? My god. How do you root for a team like this?
Plekanec was just named an alternate captain staple (along with Markov; Subban and Pacioretty will split the 3rd A, home and away). This guy is your team leader? This guy is the leader in the locker room? This piece of crap, who actually has some talent but focuses too much on falling down when he's breathed on. No wonder why it's spread throughout the locker room so. damn. much. So much so that league's new embellishment rule? He was the main example.
3. The first example the NHL showed in its diving video was Tomas Plekanec's head-snap in the Eastern Conference Final. The league wasn't so sure about publicly naming those warned or fined, but the players pressed for it. Montreal's centre is going to be closely watched at the start of the season. - Sportsnet.ca
It's pathetic, and it ruins the league. The worst part? Other teams need to stoop to Montreal's level. The Rangers weren't diving and flopping all over the ice in the first two rounds last year. But during the Montreal series, they had to try and draw penalties to keep equal. It infects other teams and other players. The first few years of his career, Brad Marchand was taking cheap shots, but he wasn't doing somersaults over Red Wings players. This is what you get when you play against a pathetic team like Montreal as much as you do.
The Canadiens don't win on talent. They have talent, that's not the issue. They have plenty of talent on their roster to make the Bruins fight for the division each and every year, now and going forward. But they don't win on talent. They win on being weasely, and take no shame in it. They win on drawing cheap penalties in the final minutes of a playoff game in which they already lead 3-0, and they're facing the opposing team's backup goaltender. But no, they don't dare win a hockey game even strength, and use actual skill. It's no wonder they had the most penalty minutes per game in the postseason last year, with 12 power play goals in only 17 games. For Howe's sake, they only scored 51 goals in the entire postseason, meaning that almost 1/4th of their scoring came on the man advantage and not even strength.
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WINDHOEK - Desert Fruit Namibia (DFN) has been awarded with a Khalifa award, namely the Award of Pioneering development and productive project by Professor Abdelouahhab Ziad, Secretary General of the Khalifa Date Palm. This award, which DFN shares with SAHAM Agriculture of Morocco, recognises Desert Fruit Namibia for their invaluable contribution to the Date agricultural sector, with special emphasis on the high quality, tonnage and variety that Desert Fruit produces and the fact that all of this is achieved in the Southern Hemisphere. According to Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan, Minister of Tolerance and President of the Award's Board of Trustees, the Khalifa International Award for Date Palm and Agricultural Innovation has been established in recognition of the outstanding efforts and contributions made by both individuals and institutions in the field of agricultural innovation and date palm and to encourage and motivate them to exert further efforts towards upgrading the agricultural sector and date palm tree.
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IamTheTorus January 21, 2023, 12:10pm #1
Recently adding ads to the URL bar
TechRadar – 8 Oct 21
Ads have even invaded the Firefox URL bar now
Firefox Suggest shows ads from Mozilla's partners in Firefox's address bar
EME DRM botnet downloaded by default
Pocket (proprietary service, ads, promoted content)
en.m.wikipedia.org
Pocket (service) | History
Pocket was introduced in August 2007 as a Mozilla Firefox browser extension named Read It Later by Nathan (Nate) Weiner. Once his product was used by millions of people, he moved his office to Silicon Valley and four other people joined the Read It Later team. Weiner's intention was to have the application be like a TiVo for web content and giving users access to that content on any device. Read It Later obtained venture capital investments of US$2.5 million in 2011 and $5.0 million in 2012. The...
The integration was controversial, as users displayed concerns for the direct integration of a proprietary service into an open source application, and that it could not be completely disabled without editing advanced settings, unlike third-party extensions.
Automatically installing Mr. Robot adware through experimental extensions program
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Breaking css UI customization features
Breaking user modifiable options (most recent compact mode)
https://www.ghacks.net/2021/04/07/mozilla-decides-to-hide-compact-mode-in-firefox-for-new-users-but-keep-it-for-existing-ones/
Removing about:config sorting and filtering, completely removed on Android
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red0bear January 22, 2023, 1:49am #2
tor desktop you mean browser or just standalone tor ?
WofWca January 22, 2023, 11:15am #3
Looks like not 100%, but measures are taken. See:
Make sure EME is no tracking risk in Tor Browser (#16285) · Issues · The Tor...
The EME architecture got uplifted to Firefox 37 (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1137045) and is included in ESR 38 as well. We should make sure there are...
Use sane about:config value: extensions.pocket.enabled = false (#27890) ·...
While reading through various about:config security hardening guides, I found several bad default values for the Tor Browser: extensions.pocket.enabled = false
IamTheTorus January 23, 2023, 2:15am #4
I would have hoped and expected for them all to have been fixed. I don't own a Mozilla account so can't even read details about the issues. Do you think any are worth worrying about?
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thorin January 23, 2023, 12:16pm #6
That list … uggh (sorry if I sound like this)
Please don't regurgitate this nonsense. It is found in every mozilla-hating troll's rants, and it looks like you've just copypasted this from elsewhere and read falsely into it all. I'm not saying that user's don't get upset by change, or misunderstand things, or that all these issues can't be discussed - I'm just saying they need to be put into context and discussed with all relevant information
I'm going to address each one briefly in generalized terms (this is all from memory, I do not have the time to look things up just for this), and hopefully enlighten you. First of all, before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes … then criticize them because, one: you'll be a mile away, and two: you''ll have their shoes. Jokes aside, you should have all the information and view it from the other perspective. Do you have all the decision making info that Mozilla had? Mozilla don't make changes based on whims. We don't have to always agree with what Mozilla does, but we should respect, and trust, the process. This is from a Tor Browser (TB) user's hat, even as a Firefox (FF) user, and with my foresight and knowledge.
not listed, but pocket does nothing unless you sign up for it. TB removes the icons. Activity Stream (where recommended pocket stories links end up) is not used by TB, and in FF you can disable them from settings. I'm not entirely sure on the privacy, I think pocket make share anonymized hit rates on stories - certainly no PII.
December 2017 … this was over FIVE years ago. Not saying it was a good look… this was an internal issue where safeguards/checks/common-sense was lacking. Because of that incident, safeguards and protocols have been put in place - such as signoffs from a select few people, forms to be filled in, etc. As for FF, telemetry and being able to push experiments via normandy is perfectly fine and normal - chrome also pushes A/B testing. You can always opt out. For TB, none of this matters, as it is disabled and remote calls nixed - it does not make sense in the TB world anyway. Anyway, over FIVE years later, nothing like it has happened again at FF (because protocols, safeguards are in place) and nothing like it can ever happen in TB. So beating a 5+ year old drum is not very productive or indicative of today
Promotes Cloudflare
I am not a networking (or tor protocol) engineer. DoH is not some great evil. It can improve privacy/security - see the EFF article, I'm sure you can search for it. In order to roll it out (and only three countries have been, and it has been widely received as a positive thing, not negative, in those countries), Firefox needed a partner (or two) - IIRC they signed agreements with privacy respecting clauses for users. Users could also choose their own providers. And when rolling it out, users had a say - i.e they were notified and could choose to not use DoH (I do not remember if it was opt-out). Ignoring all that and I'm not going to debate it - the answer you are looking for here, is that it does not matter for TB which handles networking and DNS differently.
let me just stop you right there. The FP protection afforded by RFP and especially in Tor Browser with some additional patches and a large crowd … is world leading (three letter agencies basically said it was game over years ago - they could couldn't do it [edited typo]), so let's not make wide general misleading statements. Now as for extension UUIDs - Mozilla's solution could be argued as superior - as least it doesn't leak on all extensions on demand, and vetted/good extensions don't leak anything at all. That said, leaking a unique ID (for your ext install) is worse than leaking the generic ext one. Either way, it's not great (blink or gecko), but in TB we do not leak NoScript (nor uBO in Tails), and we do not recommend adding any other extensions
old extensions
XUL had to go. It was preventing multiple process, hindering changes and causing progress bottlenecks (I wish I could find the link about how a single code change had to wait a year to get added, tested, finalized due to legacy extensions). And from a security perspective, it was essential it had to go. Nothing of value was lost except perhaps some APIs that helped workflow (not a privacy issue). None of this has anything to do with Tor Browser (except the security part and good riddence to XUL).
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Not great. Especially since it was the second time. It's complex as to why it happened, a post-mortem was conducted, extra safeguards and documentation put into place IIRC. The other thing to come from this was that Mozilla were able to push via a mechanism, a fix to users without updating. This method has been hardened and can be used again in future (FYI: it is not possible to use this on TB) - it has never been used since (let alone abused), and again, must go strict procedures. I'm sure you can google the mozilla results of the post-mortem write up, I think by eka (eric rescorla, CTO)
userchrome … css tweaks are not officially supported, and this has nothing to do with TB or privacy or security
how much time do you need to spend in about:config. No one cares about sorting and filtering - unless you are an expert or knowledgeable in these things, you shouldn't be in there. And if you are, they you know what you're looking for.
about:config was removed on stable android because geckoview (android) is quite different to gecko (desktop). Users could easily break their profile/app, and on android there is no easy way to recover it. This is a safety feature for FF's target audience. If you require about:config you can use other builds such as nightly. On TBA (TB Android), about:config is not blocked.
compact mode has nothing to do with privacy/security. Are you a UX expert? Your preference is not necessarily the main one. Code complexity and overhead is a real thing. Mozilla runs on limited funds and do amazing things with a 20+yr old spaghettified code base - at this point with rust, servo like css, warp, e10s, removal of XUL, adding the new web ext, manifest 3, stencil, a unified look & feel, and other reworked components, that they have probably rewritten half of it - that's 10's of millions of lines of code. If they chose to remove compact mode, deal with it. It's not actually removed, and you can always use userchrome.css. Can you do that in blink?
poor security
once mozilla shook off XUL, and sped up the browser (quantum) and were able to quickly rewrite large parts of it (css is in rust from servo) they achieved fission in approximately 3 years. It took blink almost 8 (but I'm sure they had a different time pressure). I am not a security specialist, but madaidan keeps moving the goalposts IMO. He says the rust implementations are not in places that matter (they have made a difference in security bugs, I wish I could find the paper) so -1 for FF, but that chromium will start using it too so +1 for chromium. Do you see how biased that is. For a long time FF didn;t have fission, so that was a point against it (in his post). Now it does, but wait it's not quite as strong as chromium's, so that's still a point against it. See the bias yet? I am not arguing about his points - what I am saying is that cherry picking points and enumerating them is not how you measure security. It is a many layered thing and hard to measure. Trying to compare two entirely different and very complex browsers is an fool's errand.
has nothing to do with privacy or security. Ignoring the fact that the browsers mentioned are over a year old. IMO this is mostly a load of nonsense and usually anecdotal. Perf only matters in perception and in real world cases. Fore sure, there are areas where chrome really shines vs firefox. But there are also areas where FF kicks ass - for example, ever tried to measure the reflow on a page with lots of characters (thus causing lots of fonts to be used) - in Firefox it takes milliseconds, on blink it takes many seconds - that there is due to css written in Rust (AFAICK). Try it - scripts - load in FF and it's almost instantly shown, load in blink and it says … waiting for reflow for ages.
what does make a difference for FF users, is blocking bloated ad nonsense, and cross party rubbish (e.g. uBO). And for most browsers and most webpages, the differences between FF vs blink is not measurable to humans. For TB, the issue is latency in tor, not browser perf.
to answer the first part. Search suggestions are opt in on Firefox IIRC, and these things are removed in TB anyway, if they use remote calls or have any privacy concerns. They are also configurable in the Settings. Nothing to see, move along.
final word: all companies make mistakes (even if they are only optics and not privacy ones such as Mr Robot), it's how they deal with it and fix it and future-proof it that matters. Sorry if my answer/tone comes across as a bit harsh, but just throwing out large spurious lists of concerns in a single thread is not how it works in my world (and comes across as naive at best, deliberate at worse). I'm not going to debate any of my points - so don't ask me about them.
three letter agencies basically said it was game over years ago - they could do it
worst possible typo … couldn't do it - i.e the fingerprinting protection held up
red0bear January 23, 2023, 4:35pm #8
a standard compiled one shouldn't give you any problem against ads. here i didnt get those stuff.


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Australian feral camel population estimated to be at 1.2 million and growing fast
AN INVASIVE species is spreading across Australia at an alarming rate and baffled Aussies are running into them for the first time ever.
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The growing feral camel population is seen as a major problem. Picture: Australia State of Environment Report 2016.Source:Supplied
MORE than 1.2 million feral camels are raising havoc across Australia and they're spreading further afield every day.
It may be a while before they're clocked strolling along Circular Quay, but eyewitness reports from baffled farmers confirm they have been spotted unusually far south — in the southeast coastal district of Western Australia.
It is understood the nomadic desert beasts are migrating away from dry conditions in the Nullarbor and Goldfields in a desperate attempt to find food and water.
According to the latest Australia State of Environment Report (ASER), camels were introduced to Australia around 1840 and by 2008, an estimated 1 million camels were roaming the central arid lands of Western Australia, the Northern Territory, South Australia and Queensland.
Despite culling efforts between 2009 and 2013, which resulted in the deaths of 160,000 camels in Central Australia using ground-based and aerial culling techniques, the population has now swelled to around 1.2 million.
The feral population is estimated to be growing by 8 per cent every year. Picture: Supplied/James O'ConnorSource:News Limited
That's according to the Centre for Invasive Species Solutions, which predicts the feral population is growing by 8 per cent each year.
Confused farmers have spotted now spotted groups of camels strolling up on to their Western Australia properties for the first time ever.
One of those, Brett South, who spotted a group of eight on his farm in Beaumont, about 130km northeast of the coastal town of Esperance, said he was "blown away" when they suddenly appeared.
However, he wasn't pleasantly surprised.
"They wreck all your waterholes, they have no respect for your boundary fences and your gates," he told the ABC.
"The number of pests we have up here, we don't need to add camels to the list."
It's a common sentiment between farmers who have been unfortunate enough to bump into the humped travellers in WA — which is now home to the largest herd of feral camels in the world.
According to the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, the state is now home to 45 per cent of the nation's camels.
And, they're not just trashing farms. The non-native mammals are also causing headaches for a number of other reasons.
According to the ASER, the "major impacts" of this burgeoning camel population includes damage to native vegetation and wetlands, increased competition with native animals for food, shelter and water resources, and damage to infrastructure and road hazards.
The last federally-funded control program was the $19 million Australian Federal Camel Management Project.
It supported the development of a commercial feral camel industry and contributed to a reduction of the feral camel population to around 300,000 by 2013.
A report commissioned by the Northern Territory and South Australian governments in 2016 found the harvest of wild camels could become a major industry which would be "both profitable and viable for a few years".
After this point, the report recommended the way to ensure profitability would be to boost camel farming businesses, as well as diversify meat production to include culled horses and donkeys.
"There must be a transition to farmed camels to maintain the supply of camels to market and stay profitable," the report read. "This is because there will be a vacuum effect created through the repeated removal of wild camels from current hotspot areas."
Camel meat, however, is rarely eaten in Australia, despite pushes from certain restaurants to experiment with its rich flavour.
Last year, Max Mason, owner of the Henry Austin restaurant in Adelaide, announced he would be serving up true blue Aussie camel and encouraged foodies to get on-board.
He said the meat "is everything you want in a steak".
Some entrepreneurs are looking to make a buck from the camel boom. Picture: Adam HeadSource:News Corp Australia
"We char it on an open fire and serve it off the bone, with heirloom carrots, ice plant and macadamia cream," he said. "And we are also trialling a camel tartare, which is an even better way of getting the true camel flavour."
However, efforts to curb the growing population have been thwarted because the invasive species are able to breed in the massive swathes of unmanaged Crown land and the 800,000-hectare Dundas Nature Reserve in WA, according to the main organisation carrying out control programs on camel populations.
"This problem will just get worse and worse with weeds, camels, dogs and whatever other pests build up in the unmanaged Crown land, until there are control programs funded to deal with the problem where it lies," Goldfields Nullarbor Rangelands Biosecurity Association's chief executive Ross Wood told ABC.
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Mortgage rates may yet have further to fall, after the Reserve Bank's cutting of the OCR to 2.75% today.
The RBNZ's move, which surprised no one, came in response to an adjusting domestic economy and softening global economic growth.
New Zealand is currently dealing with a sharp decline in export prices, the plateauing of the Christchurch rebuild and weakening business and consumer confidence.
He also indicated that further easing in the OCR is likely to come – although this will depend on the emerging flow of economic data.
Market response to the RBNZ announcement was rapid.
The New Zealand dollar fell by about US1c, swap rates were sent 3 basis points lower, and Kiwibank immediately cut its floating rate to 5.90%.
Westpac chief economist Dominick Stephens said the RBNZ's move was bang in line with expectations, but left economists in "data watch mode" to try and determine whether there will be a further OCR cut in October.
He noted the RBNZ did talk about downside risks to its central forecast – and issued an alternative scenario in which global growth slows sharply which could see the OCR falling to 2.0%.
While the RBNZ expects the falling exchange rate to produce ongoing tradables inflation, Stephens' view is that it will produce only a temporary burst of inflation.
"This difference of view, combined with our slightly more downbeat view on economic growth, leaves us very comfortable forecasting a 2.0% low-point in the OCR.
Stephens added that, in the MPS media conference, Wheeler said there is plenty of scope to cut the OCR "substantially" if global growth weakened further or if El Nino weather conditions produced a drought in New Zealand.
Meanwhile, BNZ chief economist Tony Alexander said that by the end of October the RBNZ will probably have unwound all of last year's rates tightening.
This means it will have reversed rate rises for the second time post-GFC – in common with other central banks.
"The post-GFC world is producing far lower inflation than traditional economic models have suggested.


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In many people's eyes the one real benefit of winter arriving in Europe is that it brings with it Christmas and the wonderful European tradition of Christmas markets. When deciding where to go to enjoy this beloved celebration, I'm sure many would say that there's no better destination to visit during winter than Germany.
Christmas in Germany is special, packed full of tradition and a true feast for the senses. You have the beautiful lights and the tantalizing smells and tastes of the food, not to mention the music and songs. And if you're lucky enough to get some snow, the atmosphere becomes truly magical. Germany loves its Christmas markets, and these celebrations practically take over in the lead up to Christmas Day. It's no surprise that so many other countries try and copy German Christmas markets, they're so adored.
But once you've settled on visiting Germany, what then? Germany is a big country and every city, town and village seems to have a Christmas market that you shouldn't miss. Well, put your mind at ease, as we've put together a list of the best Christmas markets in Germany, so you'll know exactly where to go this winter season.
The first destination on this list will be of no surprise to those who have spent any time looking for fun winter destinations in Europe. After all, Nuremberg is often considered to have the best Christmas markets in Germany, let alone Europe. This captivating medieval city in the state of Bavaria is downright magical once its famous Yuletide festivities arrive.
A big part of what makes the Nuremberg Christmas markets so special is their overwhelming sense of tradition and history. The city's markets date back to the 16th century, which means the modern markets echo hundreds of years of local customs and eccentricities. For instance, in Nuremberg the central figure at Christmastime isn't jolly old Saint Nick but the Nuremberg Christkind. This angelic figure with gold wings and a crown is the traditional giver of presents in this part of Germany. It's also who the Nuremberg Christkindlemarkt is named after.
As for the markets themselves, they are set in Nuremberg's medieval Old Town, within the main market square Hauptmarkt. It is here that the city's festivities are concentrated, from the double-storey carousel to the young woman dressed as the Christkind greeting kids in the crowd.
A visit to the Nuremberg Christmas market wouldn't be complete without taking in all the different stalls and the goods on offer. On the food front you'll find scrumptious gingerbread and Nuremberg sausages, which are a roll with three small sausages for convenient holding. Of course, this is best washed down with an invigorating mug of warm mulled wine called glühwein in Germany. As for gifts and ornaments, there's the rauschgoldengel, a small gold foil Christkind figure, and the whimsical prune men, stick figures made from dried prunes.
Of Germany's Christmas destinations, the city of Dresden is a close second, thanks to its long held ties with this season of merrymaking. Today it hosts over three million visitors during the festive season, with its Christmas markets being the main draw.
The city hosts 11 Christmas markets, but the one to visit above all others is the Dresden Striezelmarkt. After all, this year marks the 584th Dresden Striezelmarkt, making it one of the oldest Christmas markets in Germany. Held on Altmarkt square, the market has a long avenue of Christmas lights leading up to it along Prager Straße and Seestraße. The market has a strong focus on traditional Saxon treats and folk art. Its name comes from a treat once known as striezel, but now beloved as stollen.
Dresdner stollen is a Christmas fruit loaf and even has its own festival, Dresden Stollenfest, on the 8th of December. This one-day festival features a pageant and a massive oversized stollen weighing several tonnes, cut up and served for charity fundraising. Other popular items sold at the market include Moravian stars and Lusatian blue damask fabrics. The Striezelmarkt also involves activities to entertain and delight like a puppet theatre and enchanted forest.
Other Dresden markets that illuminate and liven up Dresden's ornate Baroque architecture include the Neustädter Advent across the Elbe and the Mittelalter-Weihnacht im Stallhof, a medieval themed market with minstrels and even a public bathhouse.
The size of German Christmas markets tends to reflect the size and layout of their cities. In the case of Berlin, the German capital, this means lots and lots of different markets spread out across this fascinating city. Despite their briefer history (compared to others on this list) and their smaller individual size, Berlin still manages to host some of the best Christmas markets in Europe.
Throughout the curious and complex city of Berlin you can typically find between 60 and 80 separate markets. That means a whole boatload of different themes, types of stalls and entertainment opportunities. No matter the day or time, there's bound to be something special going on in the lead up to Christmas and an endless bevy of foods and crafts to explore.
For a place to start, why not go for a traditionally-styled market with the Weihnachtszauber am Gendarmenmarkt. This classic market benefits from a great location and has daily Christmas performances that are a real hit with locals. Next up is Berlin's earliest market, Winterwelt am Potsdamer Platz, which is the first market to open by quite a margin. Featuring a DJ, a giant luge you can ride on and a game called eisstockschießen that appears similar to curling, there's plenty to do in this winter wonderland. One last market worth mentioning is the market behind Alexanderplatz, Berliner Weihnachtszeit, which includes an ice skating rink and Ferris wheel.
Berlin's Christmas markets aren't just music and outdoor activities though. They're also a minefield of delicious snacks, whether its oversized, heart-shaped gingerbread cookies or mini doughnuts known in Berlin as schmalzkuchen. Those snacks are sure to leave you with plenty of energy to power on from one market to the next.
Germany's fourth largest city and a popular tourist destination already, it's little wonder that Cologne knows how to celebrate when Christmas comes around. Spending the lead up to the holidays here means you can split your time between regular sightseeing and visiting the city's markets. After all, sightseeing is always more fun when you can relax afterwards with a nice warm mug of mulled wine or hot chocolate, right?
Admittedly, Cologne does lack some of the deep history regarding Christmas markets that others on this list enjoy. In fact, for decades the Cologne Christmas markets were banned due to their popularity and boisterousness before being revived in the 70s. Today, the best-known market sits right outside the city's iconic Cologne Cathedral in Roncalliplatz and boasts around 150 different stalls. Dig into chestnuts and gingerbread as you wander about admiring the handcrafted ornaments and souvenirs.
Cologne typically has a mix of large and small markets, like the ones at the Alter Markt and Neumarkt, which both pre-date the one outside Cologne Cathedral. Neumarkt is home to the Angel's Market, where you may even meet a real-life angel as they walk through dressed in white.
Other magical creatures can be found at the Alter Markt, home to the heinzelmännchen, a race of little creatures like house gnomes that were said do housework during the night for the citizens of Cologne. Unlike most markets, each alley of this market is themed like the medieval guilds of old.
In countries like Germany, Christmas is a time of tradition and nowhere is this more true than the city of Munich in the heart of Bavaria. Rich with history, Munich's love affair with Christmas markets can be traced all the way back to the 14th century. It's thanks to the conservative nature of Germany's south that these markets have been able to retain their traditions through the years.
The most celebrated of the Munich Christmas markets is certainly the one held before the Old Town Hall on Marienplatz in the city centre. Taking pride of place in this market is the majestic Christmas tree, magically lit up with 2,500 lights. You can also be serenaded every afternoon with live music from the Town Hall balcony.
For a warm and tasty snack, find yourself some reibekuchen, which are German potato fritters. Of course, you can also explore other Bavarian cuisine specialties or go with an old standard, such as an appetizing bratwurst sausage. While it's very common to find hot mulled wine in Germany and beyond, Munich also features unusual delights like hot beer and herb liqueur.
However it's not all completely focused on tradition in Munich, as the Pink Christmas Market on Stephansplatz will show. Created by Munich's gay community, this small market packs a lot of character with shows featuring comedians and musicians, a touch of glamour and an all around fun and social atmosphere that welcomes everyone. This is just one of Munich's many themed markets that celebrates different interests and walks of life.
When it comes to the prettiest Christmas markets in Germany, conversation is sure to turn to Stuttgart. This major southern city really sparkles when Christmas rolls around, and its centuries-old markets are bound to delight all of your senses. The 3.6 million people that flock to Stuttgart to visit the hundreds of stalls at the Stuttgart Christmas markets every year can't be wrong.
The city's main market, the Stuttgarter Weihnachtsmarkt, is found on Marktplatz in the heart of the city. It stretches from there across to the Schlossplatz outside the city's New Palace, although the festive season is first kicked off from the inner courtyard of the Old Castle nearby. Still, Marktplatz is the beating heart of Christmas in Stuttgart, especially since the Town Hall there becomes one giant advent calendar for the season.
Although Stuttgart shares many of the hallmarks of German Christmas markets, it would be unfair not to mention the city's Finnish Christmas Village. Celebrating festive traditions from Finland instead, here you can even find reindeer meat, smoked salmon and Finnish beer and vodka. It's sure to make a nice change of pace and show you something completely different.
As for what treats and trinkets can be found across the rest of the Stuttgart market stalls, you'd be hard-pressed to come away from them empty handed. Whether it's adorably old-school teddy bears, candied almonds, fruitcake or anise biscuits, there's something sweet for everyone.
Christmas in Leipzig kind of has it all. Now considered one of the country's coolest cities, this city in eastern Germany also enjoys the festive season thanks to its stellar markets. That's hardly surprising given that its tradition of Christmas markets stretches all the way back to 1458, making it another of Germany's oldest Christmas market destinations.
The central focus for Leipzig at this time of year is the market that fills Marktplatz outside the city's Old Town Hall. This is where you'll find the great big Christmas tree. Sprawling from here and throughout the historic centre you'll find as many as 250 – 300 market stalls, making it one of the largest in all of Germany. Other markets to look out for include the "Old Leipzig" at the Naschmarkt and the market in Augustusplatz.
For people traveling to Germany with kids, you'll be glad to hear that the Leipzig markets are known for their child-friendly atmosphere. Your kids are going to love all the fun attractions that include everything from a carousel to a model railway and elves workshop. The market even features a massive Advent calendar! Don't miss the daily performance by brass musicians from the balcony of the Old Town Hall, which should entertain young and old alike.
In the markets themselves you're going to find many of the expected goodies, from local arts and crafts to traditional Saxon German food and drink. This means glühwein, punch and "kinder punch" for children, with the coolest place to get your punch clearly being the Christmas pyramid by the Nikolaikirche.
Often seen as more of a business and shopping destination, the city of Düsseldorf also happens to be a formidable Christmas destination. Unburdened by history and tradition, the Düsseldorf Christmas markets can get creative, with seven different themed markets spotted around the city. If you're looking for variety in your festivities, look no further.
That being said, Marktplatz is the place to go if you are searching for a traditional Christmas in Germany. Surrounded by the elegant Town Hall, this Christmas market has everything from glass-blowers to a carousel and even a to-scale nativity scene. This is actually the rare market to be found within Düsseldorf's modest Old Town.
Most of Düsseldorf's festivities are found over by the city centre and business district. It's in this area that you'll find both the Little Angel Market and Little Star Market on Heinrich-Heine-Platz and Stadtbrückchen. Just nearby within the city's ever-popular shopping district, pretty light displays run along Königsallee all the way to an ice rink that has taken over Corneliusplatz.
Much like the rest of the year, Düsseldorf is a city for shoppers, so flitting between high-end boutiques and market stalls is to be expected. Stalls are often found right outside Düsseldorf's modern shopping complexes, such as the Schadowplatz market outside Kö-Bogen. It's a great place to refuel on glühwein and waffles.
One of the greatest surprises come Christmas in Germany is the lesser-known city of Erfurt. Yes, this charming city in central Germany manages to be both a hidden gem and also home to one of the best German Christmas markets in the country.
The best place to start with the Erfurt Christmas markets is in Domplatz, right in the city's medieval centre. It's here, by the Erfurt Cathedral and St. Severi, that you'll find the city's main market whose stalls are dwarfed by a mighty 25-metre-high Christmas tree. The square is also home to a staple of German Christmas markets, a Christmas pyramid, which in Erfurt features 12 meters of special, handcrafted woodwork and five special themed tiers.
Once at the Christmas markets, they are a fabulous opportunity to explore local delicacies from the surrounding region of Thuringia, like the Erfurt schnittchen, a local variant of the German fruit loaf stollen. Then there's the Thuringian bratwurst, the region's spicy take on the beloved German sausage. On the crafts front, Erfurt is particularly known for its pottery and blue-dyed fabrics. Blending the two is the Children's Eco-Bakery, where kids can make their own biscuits from organic dough.
Since Christmas is one of the prettiest times to visit Germany, why not make a beeline for one of Germany's prettiest towns, Rothenburg ob der Tauber. This charming town is found on the scenic Romantic Road (a tourist route linking a number of picturesque towns and castles in Germany) and makes the ideal setting for a Christmas market.
Set among an enchanting medieval town, you'll find Rothenburg's Reiterlesmarkt. Its presence has been celebrated since the 15th century and like Rothenburg, it's barely changed over the centuries. Admittedly small, the Reiterlesmarkt compensates by creating a winter wonderland that's best appreciated from the Town Hall tower on Fridays and Saturdays. The Christmas market owes its name to the "Rothenburg Riders", mythical horseback messengers whose arrival is greatly anticipated by locals.
Just as it's starting to feel like the food and drinks on offer at the German Christmas markets are all the same, along comes Rothenburg. Here, one of the distinctly local Christmas snacks is a shortcrust pastry known as a Rothenburg Snowball or schneeball. Then there's how the locals like their hot mulled wine, aka glühwein. Although mulled wine is generally thought of as made with red wine, Rothenburg is one place where white mulled wine is a winter favorite.
So, there you have it, without a doubt the best Christmas markets in Germany. From the traditional and historic to the more modern, offbeat siblings, these are the best places to celebrate the season of good cheer when visiting Germany.


Ian Lloyd is one of the most distinctive lead singers in the business. With his band "Stories", Ian had the #1 hit "Brother Louie" in 1973, and sold millions of albums. He has continued his solo career working with Foreigner, Rick Ocasek and many others. His latest album O-De-Po won the best hard rock song at the Global Marijuana Music Awards, and a new album is in the works for 2017.
Madhouse: Let's start from the beginning. So Ian, you're a nice Italian kid born in Seattle, Washington, but I always thought you were British. Why did I always think that?
Ian Lloyd: I'm sure there is a multitude of reasons. I was born in Seattle but I never lived there. I was literally on the plane out of there as soon as they would let an infant onto a plane to fly back to New York.
Madhouse: So you're definitely not British?
Ian: I am definitely not British but I am an Anglophile. And also you know we're talking early 70's which was the British Invasion which affected me and my music and all of my influences greatly. So that's definitely a great part of it but you know if you listen to Brother Louie and then you listen to the album it's on it sounds a lot different then all the other music on there and that's because me and my co-writer Michael Brown were Anglophiles and we were heavily influenced by the Beatles so a lot of people thought we were British. And you know it was that whole 70's thing with the long hair and the bell bottom jeans look.
Madhouse: I remember seeing you guys on 'Midnight Special', I was like nine at the time and I was like "oh man these guys are the coolest, I love this song, I love his voice".
Ian: Yea I mean it was a tremendous time and especially when you see what's happening today, it was great and I'm so glad I could have that success and be apart of that time period.
Madhouse: I read that you were classically trained in piano and violin.
Ian: Yup, all of which is long gone. But yea my mom was a Soprano and my dad was a professional violinist, who actually was one of the string players that toured with Sinatra, so I was learning the basic music through that. And I think that singing, because I never took lessons, just came from listening to my mom warm up when I was a child. So that was basically my training. And I mean I would much rather have gone out and played baseball when I was kid, instead of playing the violin, but you know I'm grateful for the music. But I am a big baseball fan!
Ian: Well I live in New York City so I am Yankees all the way.
Madhouse: That's what I was hoping to hear! But let's get back to your musical influences. I know you loved the Beatles, but what was your main influence?
Ian: I mean the Beatles were my favorite band but I was alive way before 1965 so I grew up listening to Frankie Avalon, Sam Cooke, Danny and the Juniors you know "rock and roll is here to stay it would never die" that's how I lived man. Even to this day I will quote Danny from Danny and the juniors. But personally when I got out of college the British Invasion was starting and it was the most exciting thing of my life! The music was so advanced and so different and so I was influenced by the music I grew up listening to but also this new genre.
Madhouse: So now let's talk about Stories and "Brother Louie". I'm sure you've talked about it a million times but I don't personally know the story and I know pretty much everything (haha) but like you said you formed stories with Michael Brown from the Left bank,how did you guys get together?
Ian: Well basically the story is his dad and my dad were professional violinists doing session work together so we all knew each other from that.
Madhouse: Hot Chocolate wrote the song "Brother Louie" and then you recorded it. How did that come about? Who brought the song to you and said you guys should perform it?
Ian: You know it's so crazy because it was so long ago but I always said that there were a couple of things happening simultaneously that led me to that song. For one, the album "About Us" was already done and "Brother Louie" wasn't originally on it and you know people used to complain about that.
Madhouse: Yes I actually heard a funny story that you used to carry around 45's with Brother Louie on it and hand them out to fans because they were so upset that that song wasn't on the album.
Ian: Yea you know me and stories were very open, and it was the 70's so we didn't have to deal with the horror that happens today, but if people had enough initiative to come back stage that was great man, I would talk to them, sign autographs, you know whatever man. I remember it was in Tulsa, Oklahoma and we were playing under a tent at a festival and at one point I was just kind of frisbee-ing copies out to the audience.
Madhouse: Do you remember what the recording session was like? How you felt when you first heard it on the radio and when it became a big hit?
Ian: Brother Louie is a whole vague thing in my head. I was looking for outside material to find that one song that we could include in the "About Us" album (and obviously it became Brother Louie). But I was listening to a bunch of different demos and 45's and when I heard that one I just knew that it was the one. I knew it was going to be a hit. I mean of course that hook is eccentric! But actually Brother Louie and other songs on the B track were all recorded in one take. And actually, Hot Chocolate was so pissed about Brother Louie because that was supposed to be there big break out song in America. It was released in Britain and was #1 for a while but they were not happy because they released the song in America around the same time as us but ours just went BANG you know.
Madhouse: Yea but they got paid for it if they wrote it.
Madhouse: Yea but to this day it is still one of my favorite songs ever. When I hear it on the radio I turn it up and I just love that song. It's just 99.9% of the people in this world will never have a hit song or a #1 song and that is something no one can take away from you. Congratulations on that!
Madhouse: So you re-recorded it?
Ian: Yea like an extended version of the hook.
Madhouse: So after Stories, which were only around for a short time, you had a solo career with awesome songs like "Slip Away" which was a top 40 hit and you worked with Ric Ocasek on that. How did that come about?
Ian: Well that was a part of the Goosebumps album, which was my third solo album. But you know I was involved with the beginning of Foreigner. I brought Nick Jones and Ian McDonald and brought them into the studio to work on my first solo album and that subsequently became Foreigner. But basically I was looking for new stuff to do and Nick introduced me to Ric who came down and did some back up vocals for the album.
Madhouse: And now I read that your album "O-De-Po" won some kind of marijuana award?
Ian: The title track in "In the Land of O-De-Po" was voted and won best hard rock track at the Global Marijuana Music Awards. But you know "O-De-Po" was very special to me because my son who produces me now and writes with me now said "dad there is no one in this world who deserves this award more than you" I was like you know "haha thanks son".
Madhouse: Yea so now let's talk about your son and your new album that is coming out. Your son is a singer and a musician as well you must be proud of that.
Ian: Yea well you always have mixed feelings because the music industry is so insane, especially today's market. I mean I'm doing my next album because I have to for myself, it's what's inside of me. You know I gotta get it out and I gotta finish it. The songs are all short and what I call "progressive pop." Short songs that have melodies you can sing along with right away but it has this progressive structure and feel. I'm so excited, I mean I'm going crazy trying to get everything done. You know how life gets in the way even for a creative person that can mentally bend you out of shape and take you out of your groove but I'm hoping to get back into the studio in about 3 or 4 weeks.
Madhouse: So you think you'll have this album out by the end of the year?
Ian: You know my son would say yes but I would say we would have it out early in the beginning of next year, maybe the spring we could start playing some of the songs live. I mean I've practiced it all because I wrote everything on acoustic guitar and piano so I've made like a mock set that I can play all the way through. But you know I do four songs on the guitar, then one on piano, then 5 on guitar and then I'm back to piano so in my head I'm already performing it. But I've actually already had a couple of rehearsals, cause you know after I left the bass position, nowadays I perform as the front man which I absolutely love doing. So all of my old songs I will be performing as the frontman, but with this next album I will be playing rhythm guitar, maybe keyboard and such so I'm really excited to play this next album live with a full band. It's gonna be really exciting.
Madhouse: Yes that's really exciting. Well Ian, it's been great talking to you I've learned so much, I can't wait for the new album.
Ian: Alright buddy take care!


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Mosul marks beginning of Daesh caliphate's end in Iraq, says UN
By Michael AstorAssociated Press
Wed., Nov. 9, 2016timer1 min. read
The operation to liberate the Iraqi city of Mosul marks the beginning of the end of Daesh's so-called caliphate in Iraq, the UN envoy for the country told the Security Council on Wednesday.
Jan Kubis said efforts by the Iraqi Security Forces, the Peshmerga and other allies are making steady progress in liberating the city, while seeking to minimize civilian casualties.
"This liberation operation marks the beginning of the end of the so-called 'Daesh caliphate' in Iraq," Kubis said.
Kubis also said he has received credible reports of Daesh, also known as ISIS or ISISL, forcing tens of thousands of civilians to relocate inside Mosul, for use as human shields.
He warned that reconciliation and restoration of confidence in the government was necessary if the victories against Daesh are to be lasting.
"Reconciliation at both community and national level is the way to make military victories against ISIL sustainable, to make Iraq truly peaceful and united," he said, using another acronym for the group.
Kubis said the operation to liberate Mosul has so far displaced some 35,000 people, with about 20,000 of them being sheltered in camps organized by the UN and its humanitarian partners and the rest being housed in host communities.
He said the humanitarian agencies were continuing to prepare for an ever greater number of displaced people as winter approaches.
Kubis also noted that the UN Assistance Mission in Iraq had referred scattered reports of acts of revenge against captured Daesh fighters to the Iraqi government for investigation.
"The Government must continue its efforts to prevent such incidents from occurring and to investigate and punish any such incidents should they occur," he said.
United Nations, Daesh, Islamic State


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