Knit one, purl two. That's all I remember from when I was a kid and tried and tried again to learn how to knit. Unfortunately, I never mastered that talent. But, I know there are many people who love to knit and crochet, and this can be a great way to spend some time doing what you love for a great cause.
While the American Heart Association often looks for volunteers in New Hampshire and across the country to help with their 'Little Hats, Big Hearts' campaign, they were so inundated with hats that they had to stop accepting them for now.
The AHA in conjunction with The Children's Heart Foundation celebrates American Heart Month (February) by providing knitted and/or crocheted red hats for babies born in February. The red hats are given out to thousands of babies during February to empower Moms to live heart healthy lives and to help their children do the same.
However, according to AHA Communications Director Rosie Kelley, "We were inundated with donations last year, which was amazing, but we had to discourage another influx of hats this year."
"The New Hampshire office has reached capacity for accepting hats at this time. We want to thank our community for such a wonderful response. Please check back in the late summer or fall for new due dates and information about this project for the coming year."
So while they are not collecting hats at this time, make sure to be on the lookout later in the year for any info about when the program might be looking for hats once again.
Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that the American Heart Association was looking for volunteers to knit hats. In fact, the association stated that "The New Hampshire office has reached capacity for accepting hats at this time. We want to thank our community for such a wonderful response. Please check back in the late summer or fall for new due dates and information about this project for the coming year."


Avalanche Studios announced their newest self-published game today, Generation Zero. The title will follow in the footsteps of their previous works and be an open-world game, but there's a little bit of a different twist here. Set in a reimagined Sweden during the 1980s, you and up to three buddies can team up to fight off a hostile force of machines.
The announcement came early this morning from Avalanche on the new Generation Zero Twitter account, which was then retweeted by the developer's Twitter. As with all good video game announcements, there was a link to the official website and an announcement trailer to give us a little flavor of the title. Going beyond that, the website features a letter from Emil Kraftling, the game's director, that offers up his perspective on what the game is. Specifically, Emil says the team views this as a "guerilla action game, because it helps paint the picture of how the odds are stacked against you." He goes on to talk about how you'll be scavenging cars, sheds, and other things in the world to find some loot that will help you take on the robots, which are much bigger and stronger than you, a puny human; and sometimes, discretion is the better part of valor and you'll do better to avoid combat.
In addition to all that, it sounds like Generation Zero will include many of the same features as Avalanche's other open-world games, i.e., day/night cycle, big explosions, and "realistic ballistic properties." The game itself is using the Apex engine the studio developed for Just Cause 3 and utilized again for Mad Max.
No release date has been given for the game, but the studio is shooting for a 2019 release on PC, PlayStation 4, and the Xbox One. Four player online co-op will be supported in the game.
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Tad Nelson
League City, TX Personal Injury Lawyer with 30 years of experience
League City,	TX 77573
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Divorce
Thomas M. Cooley Law School
Owner of a boutique criminal and DWI defense firm that lives by the saying, "Big city experience, small town values." A firm that is more concerned with it's clients, our client's family, and our client's peace of mind during the process than the fee the client pays. It is a privilege to represent our clients in court and protect their rights. We also serve our clients in family and divorce law. Houston DWI Lawyer Tad A. Nelson.
Barry Evans
League City, TX Personal Injury Attorney with 39 years of experience
(281) 557-1900	550 Egret Bay Blvd.
Personal Injury, Business, Consumer and Insurance Claims
For over 25 years I have been helping people resolve their legal issues.
John D Pascoe
Friendswood, TX Personal Injury Lawyer with 8 years of experience
(713) 829-4317	1414 S. Friendswood Dr., STE 120
https://www.johndpascoe.com
Friendswood,	TX 77546
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Criminal Defense, Divorce and Insurance Claims
John D. Pascoe is a licensed to practice in the State of Texas and the in front of the U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit. John completed law school and graduated with a Juris Doctor degree in two and half years, from Florida Coastal School of Law. Previous to law school, John attended Texas Christian University (TCU) for his undergraduate degree majoring in English and minoring in History. John D. Pascoe has been actively engaged in several areas of the legal industry.
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Scott Krist
Houston, TX Personal Injury Lawyer with 30 years of experience
(281) 849-4892	17100 El Camino Real
Houston,	TX 77058
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Maritime and Products Liability
The University of Texas School of Law
The owner and lead trial lawyer for Houston's The Krist Law Firm, P.C. I bring twenty-five years of legal experience to the state of Texas where I represent individuals in serious accident and injury cases. I have won some of the largest recoveries within the state and have earned numerous awards over the years. My areas of practice include wrongful death, commercial trucking accidents, defective product, automobile accidents and other types of injuries.
Tony Hernandez
Houston, TX Personal Injury Attorney with 31 years of experience
(713) 203-6545	15200 Middlebrook Drive
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury
This office represents victims of all serious personal injury cases. Mr. Hernandez has extensive experience handling all personal injury matters. He is a former railroad claims agent with the Southern Pacific Railroad and represents all railroad accidents and injuries under the FELA. Since 1990, Mr. Hernandez has had his own lawfirm helping clients receive maximum awards for their injuries. Mr. Hernandez also represents all criminal defendants involving felonies and misdemeanors. He is licensed by the Supreme Court of Texas, and is also licensed by all federal districts in Texas. He represents all defendants...
(281) 488-5500	16874 Royal Crest Dr
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I am Board Certified in Family Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. I am a founding member of the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, Family Law section. I am a member of the College of the State Bar of Texas. I am a former member of the State Bar of Texas Grievance Committee. I was selected as one of the top family law attorneys in Houston, Texas in the 2007 edition of H Texas magazine. I have been in the private practice of law in Houston, Texas since 1965. I am a...
Byron Miles Buchanan
(866) 529-3476	1002 Gemini
Suite 225-C
Personal Injury and Business
The Buchanan Law Office, P.C. is a personal injury law firm committed to protecting and enforcing the rights of those who have been injured by the negligence of others. The firm was founded to provide its clients with access to legal services and the level of representation they deserve when seeking compensation for their personal injuries. Byron was born in Jacksonville, Florida, but was raised in the Houston area. Following his graduation from high school, Byron spent over a decade working as a refinery operator on the Houston Ship Channel. During that time, he earned a degree from the University...
Shari Goldsberry
(281) 485-3500	2600 South Shore Boulevard, Suite 300
Personal Injury, Appeals, Estate Planning and Family
Shari Goldsberry successfully managed her family's business and provided excellent customer service. She carried over the qualities she possessed during her tenure with her family's business to her career in the legal field. Ms. Goldsberry has helped thousands of families and advocates for a fair and just resolution to divorces, child custody, and all areas of family law in Texas City (Galveston County), Pearland (Brazoria County), Houston (Harris County), Sugar Land (Fort Bend County) and contiguous cities. Ms. Goldsberry is considered an expert as she is Board Certified in Family Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and selected...
Ashley Nicole Thomson
League City, TX Personal Injury Attorney with 6 years of experience
(281) 738-3448	2600 South Shore Blvd., Suite 300
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I am passionate about being a lawyer. It isn't because being a lawyer is full of fame and glory - such accolades are few and far between. My passion about my profession comes from the little wins I get every day. I love the fact that I have been given the great honor and the great burden of having others place their problems at my feet and I get to try and fix them. As a child in school, I loved coming up with creative solutions to problems; whether it was using a carabiner to fix a broken swing chain or...
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Houston, TX Personal Injury Attorney
Personal Injury, Maritime and Products Liability
I am a Houston personal injury attorney at The Krist Law Firm, P.C. with a unique perspective in the legal field based on my experience in working in the three branches of government. This experience has given me the opportunity to better help injured Texans and help them obtain the compensation they deserve after being involved in serious accidents. My areas of practice include wrongful death, commercial trucking accidents, maritime cases and other injury cases.
David M Romero
Personal Injury, Divorce, Domestic Violence and Insurance Claims
Marcus Justin Fleming
(713) 224-1970	3027 Marina Bay
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Consumer, Criminal Defense and Divorce
South Texas College Of Law and University of Texas - Austin
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Jamie M Davis
(866) 693-7418	1110 Nasa Parkway
Personal Injury, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Family
Theresa Henry
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(281) 335-7744	18333 Egret Bay Blvd
Deborah Bryant
Personal Injury, Divorce and Family
Cris Rasco
Texas City, TX Personal Injury Attorney with 32 years of experience
(409) 933-2120	Texas City,	TX 77590
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Ashley N. Pribble
Houston, TX Personal Injury Lawyer with 8 years of experience
Personal Injury and Maritime
Ashley Pribble is an accomplished Marine Corps vet and former jet pilot of which is now a personal injury lawyer serving Houston, Texas. A graduate of the University of Houston Law Center, Ashley Pribble is an attorney at The Krist Law FIrm, P.C. and spends 100 percent of her time litigating personal injury cases.
Mr. John R. Fabry
(281) 335-7744	18333 Egret Bay Blvd., Suite 120
Michael L. Aldous
Santa Fe, TX Personal Injury Lawyer with 10 years of experience
(832) 315-8264	11961 FM 1764
Santa Fe,	TX 77510
Personal Injury, Business and Consumer
Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law
Jonathan A. Zendeh Del
Galveston, TX Personal Injury Attorney with 13 years of experience
(409) 740-1111	1813 61st Street
Galveston,	TX 77551
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Oklahoma City University School of Law
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As a founder of Zendeh Del & Associates, PLLC, Galveston attorney Jonathan Zendeh Del has in-depth experience in both civil and criminal cases.
Jonathan has worked on both sides of complex issues, including representing insurance companies in complex personal injury litigation. He currently focuses his practice on DWI/DUI defense, criminal defense cases, and plaintiff personal injury matters. He also serves as local trusted counsel for out-of-town firms who can benefit from a familiar face in the courtroom.
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Patrick Mason Dennis
(409) 877-4545	2415 Market St.
Personal Injury, Insurance Claims, Maritime and Workers' Comp
Patrick obtained a B.S. in Political Science at The University of Houston, where he graduated summa cum laude. At The University of Houston, Patrick was active in the Spirit of Houston Marching Band and supporting Cougar Athletics.
Patrick received his J.D. from The University of Texas School of Law, where he graduated with Honors. Patrick practiced litigation at Vinson & Elkins in Houston for three years before joining Doyle LLP in 2007. Patrick was admitted to the Texas Bar in 2004 and the Arizona Bar in 2012.
Patrick's trial experience includes successfully serving as first chair trial attorney of a Jones Act/Maritime...
Michael Patrick Doyle
Galveston, TX Personal Injury Lawyer with 32 years of experience
(409) 877-4545	2415 Market Street
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Mike's trial practice includes the representation of plaintiffs in maritime personal injury, international and trans-national personal injury, including work and holiday injury claims, and insurance bad faith. Mike is Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and is a Fellow in the National College of Advocacy of the American Association for Justice. Mike has obtained many multi-million dollar verdicts, judgments, and settlements. Mike obtained a B.A. in History at the University of Virginia and a J.D. from the University Of Texas School Of Law. Mike has also completed coursework in marine insurance, international...
Keith French
Pearland, TX Personal Injury Lawyer
(832) 243-6153	2010 E. Broadway St
Pearland,	TX 77581
University of Virginia School of Law
Keith B. French, Jr. is a seasoned litigator with experience leveraging outstanding research, writing, and analytical abilities to effectively defend and represent clients before state and federal courts. In the course of his practice, Mr. French has acquired experience on a wide variety of civil cases, managing matters from inception through resolution, developing case and trial strategies, preparing discovery, taking and defending depositions, drafting dispositive motions and appellate briefs, and negotiating settlements. Mr. French also has criminal trial experience. As a former Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) with the U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Mississippi, Mr. French was involved...
Christopher Soileau
Deer Park, TX Personal Injury Lawyer with 16 years of experience
(713) 581-9042	2318 Center Street
Deer Park,	TX 77536
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Medical Malpractice and Nursing Home
Are you searching for the representation of a Deer Park personal injury lawyer? If so, do not hesitate to contact The Soileau Law Firm, P.C. The founder of the firm, Attorney Chris Soileau, was a nurse for 12 years, enabling him to have a unique insight of personal injury cases. Attorney Soileau understands how difficult it can be to be involved in an accident that was caused by someone else, which is why he offers clients personalized attention and aggressive representation. Rather than dealing with injuries and damages that were caused by someone else's negligence, it can be beneficial to...
David L. Thornton
Friendswood, TX Personal Injury Attorney with 46 years of experience
(281) 810-9687	699 S. Friendswood Drive
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Divorce and Family
University of Houston - Main Campus
As the founder of the Law Offices of David L. Thornton, Galveston County lawyer David L. Thornton offers legal counsel in family law and personal injury cases. Since 1976, he has been licensed to practice as an attorney. He is also a certified mediator who received meditation training at Harvard Law School. On four occasions, Mr. Thornton has been selected for inclusion in the list of Super Lawyers®. He is a member of the State Bar of Texas, American Association for Justice and Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists. For a free case evaluation, contact his firm today.
William C. Abbott
(713) 223-1234	12600 Featherwood Dr
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury and Workers' Comp
Texas Tech University School of Law
Bill Abbott leads his team of aggressive workers' compensation lawyers at Abbott & Associates LLC in Houston, Texas. Although he has handled many different kinds of cases (including personal injury, employment law, maritime offshore injury cases, longshore claims, and more) Bill focuses his firm and practice primarily on representing injured Texas workers.
Bill Abbott was raised for most of his life in the Houston, Texas area. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at Austin before attending law school at Texas Tech University. Since 1998 Bill has been licensed to practice in all Texas courts. In 1999, Bill...
Israel Garcia Jr
South Houston, TX Personal Injury Lawyer with 29 years of experience
(713) 943-9537	712 Spencer Highway, Suite 103
South Houston,	TX 77587
Personal Injury, Criminal Defense, Family and Insurance Claims
Born and raised in Austin, Texas. I now consider myself a Houstonian. I love Houston, would never live anywhere else. I love the outdoors. I play Tennis regularly, watch a lot of College Baseball, Jog regularly. I carry my Tennis Racket and my Tennis shoes everywhere I go! Always up for it! I am blessed to be the Democrat Nominee for Houston, Harris County Justice of the Peace, Pct. 5, Pos. 1. I will be on the November 03, 2020 Ballot. Let's go WIN!
Ricardo N. Gonzalez
(713) 429-1971	8876 Gulf Fwy Ste. 420
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Medical Malpractice and Products Liability
University of Houston Law Center
With over 30 years of experience, Ricardo N. Gonzalez has tried numerous cases to jury verdict. After graduating from the University of Houston Law Center in 1984, Mr. Gonzalez opened up his own law office. He has represented clients involved with many areas of law. Some of these areas include criminal defense, wills, adoptions, juvenile defense, worker's compensation, wrongful death, social security disability, maritime and jones act law, personal injury, immigration and others. Mr. Gonzalez strives to do the best for his clients. Mr. Gonzalez resides in Houston, Texas, with his wife, Martha, a retired schoolteacher....
William Arthur Agnew Jr.
(833) 953-2455	1023 21st St.
Personal Injury and Criminal Defense
Former Prosecutor who has been in Private Practice for over 16 years. I handle criminal cases and personal injury cases.
Ryan Snider
Pasadena, TX Personal Injury Attorney with 13 years of experience
(281) 819-2728	3668 Burke Road
Pasadena,	TX 77504
Donald Douglas Grubbs
(888) 646-4859	11200 Fuqua St., Ste. 120
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Asbestos and Products Liability
D. Douglas Grubbs has been helping victims of defective products since early 2004 when he assisted with a nationwide Fen-Phen docket comprising more than 7,000 injured men and women. From 2005 to 2008, Doug attended South Texas College of Law where he made the Dean's Honor List. Throughout law school, Doug also clerked at a nationally recognized mass tort law firm in Houston.
After earning his jurisprudence doctorate in 2008, Doug accepted an associate position at a prominent East Texas law firm where he focused his practice on the firm's national pharmaceutical and medical device dockets. During that time,...
Michael David West
Pasadena, TX Personal Injury Lawyer with 29 years of experience
(713) 222-9378	3818 Fox Meadow Lane
Davis Lee Haines II
(281) 532-8803	817 Southmore Ave Suite 305
Personal Injury, Products Liability and Workers' Comp
If you want dedicated legal representation from an attorney who cares, look no further Davis Haines. He is a committed Houston personal injury lawyer and the founder of Haines Law, P.C. For him a career in law was not the original plan. After graduating high school, he serviced the country as a marine. After completing his duty, he attended the University of St. Thomas, where he graduated summa cum laude. Always adamant about helping others, he went on to graduate from the University of Houston Law Center with his law degree. Attorney Haines dedicates his time and energy protecting injury...
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4008 VIsta Road
Suite A201
Personal Injury, Elder, Estate Planning and Nursing Home
Brittany C Giddens-Burns
(713) 947-0001	3009 Strawberry Rd
Personal Injury, Estate Planning, Probate and Real Estate
Jayd Arya Piercy
Pearland, TX Personal Injury Lawyer with 16 years of experience
(281) 606-1778	4702 West Walnut Street
Girija Bhargava Patel
(832) 310-5995	817 Southmore Ave.
Personal Injury, Arbitration & Mediation, Business and Criminal Defense
Douglas McAninch
(713) 247-0000	P. O. Box 2290
Personal Injury, Arbitration & Mediation, Business and Insurance Claims
Amir Tavakkoli
(832) 397-6031	3707 Cypress Creek Pkwy
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Criminal Defense, Divorce and Family
Amir Tavakkoli, founder of the firm, was the Vice President of his law school class and graduated Summa Cum Laude. His legal and political experiences include working with Judge Kyle Carter in the 125th Harris County Civil Courthouse, U.S. Representative Al Green, State Representative Garnet Coleman, the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition, and the Houston Bar Association. Amir was also a research assistant at his law school. Amir has successfully tried judge and jury cases in family, criminal, and civil matters.
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There may be no more appropriate place to road trip a new seven-seat SUV than the American Southwest, a region well-acquainted with high-occupancy haulers, from the jump-seat-equipped station wagons of the 1950s and '60s to the suburban mall crawlers of today. But where you once could count on seeing gas stations shaped like cowboy hats, quaint diners, and roadside stalls hawking all manner of tchotchkes, such a journey is now largely a highway slog from one place with a Target to another place with a Target, with long stretches of beautifully barren desert broken up only by quick layovers at the next truck stop/knife emporium/Starbucks. This was the environment in which we drove the all-new BMW X7.
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While our trip included time at moderate altitudes—3000 feet or so—both engines' forced induction meant we hardly noticed, as neither lacked for breath. The six and the eight are each plenty strong at nearly any rpm, and in fact BMW's own acceleration numbers are only 0.6 second apart, with the quicker 50i needing just 5.2 seconds to move its substantial 5,600-plus pounds to 60 mph. Also, the X7 will tow up to 7,500 pounds in gilded jet-skis or whatever you like.
The X7s tapped for the trip were all fully loaded or very close to it, so you won't be able to experience their sumptuous, navy and white leather interiors; five-zone automatic climate control; massaging front seats; or top-spec Bowers & Wilkins surround-sound audio systems—among myriad other delights—for anywhere near their starting prices of $74,895 (xDrive40i) or $93,595 (xDrive50i). You'll need to venture into six-figure territory to do so, as our 40i ran $100,995 and our 50i $120,945. In that price bracket, however, there's not a more cosseting or luxurious full-size SUV on the road right now. Mercedes is prepping an all-new GLS for launch later this year, though, at which point the battle will truly be on.
Both versions we drove rode on gorgeous, max-spec 22-inch wheels and run-flat performance tires (20s and all-seasons are standard), so the key difference besides the engine between the X7s we drove was the 50i's optional M Sport and Dynamic Handling packages. The ride quality of both models—the six-cylinder had the standard air suspension, the V-8 the Active Comfort Drive adjustable anti-roll bars—was acceptably supple on the relatively nice tarmac of our drive route, but we'll wait to try similar models, as well as those on smaller wheels and all-season tires, on rougher roads to render a final verdict.
Jörg Wunder, the project manager for the X7 told us that the vehicle was developed to be more in the vein of the 7 Series than to simply be a larger version of the decidedly sporty-leaning X5, and both the extravagant and extensive equipment list and the driving character give truth to his statement. Left in its default Normal chassis mode, the tall X7 is a bit of a bob and weaver, with aggressive or abrupt inputs—or even sawing back and forth on the steering wheel to avoid, say, a stray tumbleweed or turquoise-jewelry vendor—leading to a small but noticeable amount of dive and squat, as well as a slight wiggle in the rear end. The X7 never feels unstable or out of sorts; it simply takes a moment to set itself right. There is a real Bimmer hiding underneath, though, once you activate Sport mode via a center-console-mounted button.
In Sport, especially with the Dynamic Handling–equipped 50i, the X7 cinches itself down, taking a set immediately on any change in direction. Sport also weights up the steering, invigorates the M Sport bundle's active exhaust—which sounds fantastic, particularly from the third row; thrill the kids!—and lowers the ride height by 0.8 inch. Were it our X7, we'd use the Individual mode to select the lighter and slower but still feelsome Comfort steering, Sport suspension, and Sport powertrain settings. The latter two are key to finding the most enjoyment behind the wheel, and the X7 thankfully remembers which mode you were in when it was last turned off. We didn't have a chance to push the 50i hard enough on our wending desert route to truly feel the M Sport differential in action, but our experience in other BMWs says the hardware will do what it's supposed to, namely mitigate understeer and help the big SUV turn into corners with more alacrity.
While the size of BMW's traditional kidney grilles has caused some consternation among the internet commentariat, they're fine in person—more overly renal than overwrought. (The M Sport body kit's huge, Cybertronic mouth is more problematic to our eye.) And really, the X7 is in general more handsome than it might seem in photographs, the upright greenhouse counterbalancing the SUV's acres of sheetmetal and providing a sense of brightness inside, even in the back row of seats.
Accessing the way back is accomplished by moving the power-operated second row forward, which can be done by the driver or via switches inside the C-pillar or cargo area. Prepare to be patient, though, as the electric motors are much slower than a nonmotorized mechanism. (Or just get the second-row captain's chairs; you'll reduce capacity by one but gain an aisle.) Once back there, passengers have access to a glass roof panel with its own power shade, a reasonable amount of room for an average adult, and two USB-C ports. There are also two USB-C ports in the second row, and single USB-C and regular USB ports up front.
BMW may be a vehicle generation behind Mercedes and its GLS-class to the full-size luxury SUV table, but the X7 accomplishes what it set out to do, namely be hugely comfortable, hugely capable, and hugely luxurious. Prepare yourself to see a lot of them—they'll certainly be hard to miss.


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Case Studies of EBRD projects
Yerevan Metro in Armenia
Upgrading the Yerevan Metro in Armenia
The EBRD in collaboration with the EU and the EIB is helping to restore the capital's metro service.
Back in 1971 when the construction of a metro started in Armenia's capital, Yerevan, and the country was part of the Soviet Union, it was considered that metro systems were suited to cities with over 1 million residents and tram systems to those with under 1 million. Building a metro in Yerevan, then with less than a million people, might be viewed as astute forward thinking. Today, Yerevan Metropolitan Karen Demirchyan – named after the man who convinced the then Soviet Communist Party leadership that Armenia needed the metro – serves over 19 million passengers annually.
Growth and decline of the metro
Since opening in 1981, Yerevan Metro has grown from a four-station system extending 7.6 km to 10 stations over 11 km. It has 70 Russian-made carriages, although only 25 carriages are safe to run, with services every five minutes at peak times and every eight minutes off-peak. In past years the metro has been losing passengers to competition from minibuses because of under-investment. This in turn is overcrowding Yerevan's roads and causing traffic and road safety problems.
Restoring a reliable transport service
Intent on regaining its passenger share and restoring a safe and reliable service, Yerevan Metro approached the EBRD and European Investment Bank (EIB) to finance the renovation of the system. An EBRD loan of €5 million is being matched by the EIB. In addition, the European Union's Neighbourhood Investment Facility has advanced an investment grant of €5 million. The total funding will finance refurbishment of the rolling stock, rehabilitation of worn-out track and power supply components, purchase of a maintenance trolley and replacement of water pumping stations.
This financing comes at a critical time when liquidity from local commercial banks has dried up as a result of the financial crisis. However, Yerevan Metro is not just receiving new finance. Through a separate project funded by the EBRD Shareholder Special Fund, it is looking into ways of improving its operational performance. A second phase of renovation will follow the first investment, restoring the metro's fortunes.
Client: Yerevan Metropolitan Karen Demirchyan
Donors: European Union, EBRD Shareholder Special Fund
Project: Yerevan Metro Rehabilitation
Sector: Transport
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Mammoet moves for Mitsubishi
By Sonny Prior2019-03-22T15:10:00+00:00
Mammoet has delivered and installed 120 pressure vessels and modules for the construction of the Caribbean Gas Chemical Limited (CGCL) methanol and dimethyl ether (DME) plant in La Brea, Trinidad and Tobago.
Over the course of a year, Mammoet handled 22 shipments on behalf of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. Mammoet was responsible for port handling activities, the coordination of the inland transport operations and Customs clearance processes. Using up to 96 axle lines of SPMTs, the cargoes were temporarily staged and then transported to the project site for the final installation.
The heaviest vessel, which weighed 610 tons (553.4 tonnes), was lifted using Mammoet's CC8800-1 and CC2800-1 crawler cranes in a tandem. The heaviest reformer, meanwhile, weighed 1,240 tons (1,124.9 tonnes).
In addition to these components, Mammoet delivered 561 containers and 200,000 tons of general cargo from various ports in Trinidad and Tobago to the project site.
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EXG moves modules in India
Express Global Logistics (EXG) has coordinated the transport of four modules from a port on the south-east coast of India to a nuclear unit site.
Van der Vlist adds Zeebrugge facility
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Wagenborg installs viaduct in Germany
The Netherlands-based Wagenborg Nedlift has installed a 183-tonne viaduct bridge in Blankenfelde, Germany.
Bertling teams collaborate for shipment to Türkiye
Freight forwarder Bertling Logistics' teams in Spain and Türkiye have teamed up to deliver out-of-gauge (OOG) cargoes for a petrochemical plant.
Cosmatos handles transformer and military vehicles
Cosmatos Group coordinated the transport of a 240-tonne transformer from Greece to North Macedonia. In a separate move, it delivered military vehicles to a Balkan state.


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Judge Weighs Arguments on UF Policy
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Posted Monday, January 10, 2022 6:46 am
Dara Kam - News Service of Florida
Tallahassee, FL (NSF) - A federal judge sparred Friday with an attorney representing University of Florida leaders in a lawsuit filed by professors challenging a school policy that gives administrators discretion to block faculty from participating in legal cases.
Political science professors Sharon Austin, Michael McDonald and Daniel Smith filed the lawsuit after university officials denied their requests to serve as plaintiffs' witnesses in a legal battle about a new state elections law (SB 90) that will, in part, make it harder for Floridians to vote by mail.
In denying the professors' requests, university officials said that going against the executive branch of the government was "adverse" to the school's interests. The professors, who were joined by three other faculty members in the lawsuit, contend that the university's conflict-of-interest policy violates First Amendment speech rights, discriminates based on viewpoint and content, and is having a "chilling" effect.
Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker held a fiery hearing Friday on the plaintiffs' request to block the university from enforcing the policy.
The university "is not willing to do the very basic step of saying we will never take viewpoint into account in determining whether we have an interest in suppressing the speech" of faculty, David O'Neil, a Washington, D.C.-based lawyer who represents the professors, argued.
"This case is about fundamental principles of academic freedom and free expression in American universities. As you know much better than I do, the University of Florida is one of the top public research universities in the nation," O'Neil said.
"It was when I attended the school," interrupted Walker, who received his undergraduate and law degrees from the university.
The UF policy, established last year, drew a national spotlight after the three political science professors were blocked from testifying in the elections case. University President Kent Fuchs ultimately walked back the decision, saying the professors would be allowed to be paid as plaintiffs' experts if they did so on their own time and did not use school resources. Fuchs also quickly assembled a task force to review the issue and signed off on recommended changes to the conflict-of-interest policy.
Under the revised policy, there is a "strong presumption" that the university will approve faculty or staff requests to testify as expert witnesses.
Walker on Monday rejected a request by university leaders to dismiss the case. The university leaders argued, in part, that the lawsuit was "moot" because administrators have changed the policy and that the professors lack "standing" because the university ultimately authorized their requests to serve as expert witnesses.
During Friday's hearing, O'Neil pointed to comments by UF Board of Trustees Chairman Morteza "Mori" Hosseini, who lashed out at unidentified professors during a board meeting last month. Hosseini accused faculty members of having "taken advantage of their positions" by using their university jobs "to improperly advocate personal political viewpoints to the exclusion of others. … Our legislators are not going to put up with the wasting of state money and resources, and neither is this board."
University leaders are seeking to "silence the viewpoints that some professors would express because they fear that the opinions anger the state's political leaders," O'Neil argued.
"And what is perhaps most alarming is that the university believes it's perfectly entitled to suppress faculty speech in this way. The university is wrong, and it needs to be stopped," he said. "So while this case is about these plaintiffs and this university, it's also about safeguarding our centers of higher education from political interference by the state."
O'Neil said the policy gives university officials "unbridled discretion" to prevent professors from testifying as experts in legal cases. Walker pressed O'Neil and attorney Christopher Bartolomucci, who represents the defendants, on the issue.
"We have people for decades that have served as experts … on all manner of noncontroversial topics, but we've carved out and we've now clarified our policy to say we're really going to give ourselves the ability, though, to stop speech when it could hurt our bottom line as a university to alienate the people that fund the university," the judge said. "Help me understand why is that not the ultimate viewpoint discrimination if it's set up in such a way where there's a presumption there will be no restriction unless you're truly offending somebody."
"That is the ultimate viewpoint discrimination," O'Neil responded.
But Bartolomucci disagreed.
"The revised policy is clear that there's neither viewpoint discrimination nor unbridled discretion," he said. "In fact, it's almost the opposite. There is a heavy burden on the university to overcome the strong presumption that expert witness requests will be approved. And the policy goes on to explain that a request may only be denied when clear and convincing evidence establishes that the testimony would conflict with an important and particularized interest of the university, which the university must set forth in writing and explain."
Walker wasn't satisfied, however.
"The fact that you're saying there's a strong presumption … how does that actually help? It seems to me what it says is, 'Look we're really only going to do it under these very limited circumstances,' which seems to me to suggest from the plain language of the new policy, unless you really offend somebody or unless there's a really hot-button issue," he said.
But Bartolomucci said the three political science professors were granted permission to testify as experts in the elections case even before the policy was revised. McDonald last month also was granted permission to write a memo on partisan fairness for Democratic members of the New Jersey Redistricting Commission, which Bartolomucci said demonstrates that the new policy is not having a chilling effect on faculty.
Bartolomucci also tangled with Walker over Hosseini's remarks, which the lawyer said the judge had "misconstrued."
"The chairman's remarks don't mention the revised policy at all. He expressed not a hint of hostility toward the revised policy, so with respect, your honor, I think the chairman …," Bartolomucci said, drawing a rebuke from the judge.
"That, counsel, generally means without respect. Why don't you just delete that from your hard drive, because I know what 'with respect' means. I was a lawyer as well. But aside from being slightly offensive, we're just not doing that," Walker said.
Hosseini's remarks "do nothing to support the plaintiffs' First Amendment claim," Bartolomucci told the judge.
Walker will hold another hearing Jan. 14 on the plaintiffs' motion for an injunction.
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L.A. Rams Launch Fan Prediction Game, the NBA Considers Moving Up Nightly Lineup Announcements
Jared Goff and LeBron James (Scott Cunningham/Getty Images :: Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)
By Andrew Cohen Aug. 13, 2019
Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019 – A roundup of some of the key sports technology stories you need to know, including SportTechie's own content and stories from around the web.
The Los Angeles Rams launched a free-to-play prediction game during the team's first preseason game last Saturday. "Rams Pick'em" offers non-cash prizes such as game-day experiences and memorabilia to fans 18 and older who correctly predict what happens during the game. The prediction game will run during the three remaining preseason games and can be accessed via the Rams' mobile app or online. It is powered by Tally, which also created a prediction game for the ...


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Wealthcare has upgraded its website …
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Financial advisory firm Wealthcare has upgraded its website with a host of new features designed to improve its service to existing and potential clients.
The five-month project was carried out by Bolton agency Sizzle Creative.
The improvements enable clients to securely log on to Bury-based Wealthcare's internal data system to transfer documents, send messages and stay up-to-date with their finances.
Other user-friendly additions include technology which automatically re-sizes the site to suit any device on which it is viewed.
Measures to make the site easier to navigate also feature strongly, including colour coding for Wealthcare's core divisions – individual, corporate, healthcare and mortgages.
Staff profiles, more information about Wealthcare's range of services and a company news section have also been introduced.
Richard Harris, joint managing director of Wealthcare, said: "We gave Sizzle Creative the brief to design and develop a digital platform with a focus on providing an excellent user experience.
"With mobile web traffic overtaking that via desktops in 2014, it is important that all of our existing and potential customers receive an optimal viewing and user experience, no matter which device they use to access our website.
"We're delighted with the improved website, as it also symbolises how we have modernised the business in the past year, with new premises, a new brand identity and greater use of social media channels."
Sizzle director Paul McMahon said: "I believe we've delivered not only an aesthetically-pleasing website, but also a functional sales tool that will help Wealthcare to flourish even more strongly over the coming years."


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Pork Cube Steak w/ Mashed Potatoes, White Gravy, and Sugar Snap Peas
June 2, 2013 at 5:07 PM | Posted in beans, Bob Evan's, Ground Pork | Leave a comment
Tags: Beef Cube Steak, Canola, cook, Golden Brown, Gravy, Kroger, Mashed potato, Walmart
Today's Menu: Pork Cube Steak w/ Mashed Potatoes, White Gravy, and Sugar Snap Peas
I spent the morning doing some price comparing at Walmart and Kroger, you can read about that in an earlier post from today. What a beautiful morning it was this morning. I went out, about 6:30 am, and got the 2 Sunday Papers and it was a perfect morning out. Birds singing, Sunny and about 68 degrees. The sky in the east looked like a rainbow. I prepared something for dinner that I've never had a Pork Cube Steak, purchased at Walmart. I had a Beef Cube Steak before but never a Pork. For dinner I prepared a Pork Cube Steak w/ Mashed Potatoes, White Gravy, and Sugar Snap Peas.
To prepare the Pork Cube Steak I seasoned it with Sea Salt and Ground Black Pepper. I then rolled them through the classic seasoning and breading of Seasoned Flour, Egg Beater's, and Panko Bread Crumbs. A fantastic trio to bread most any meat. I seasoned the Flour with Sea Salt and Ground Black Pepper, added a few shakes or more of Frank's Hot Sauce to the Egg Beater's, and Garlic Powder to the Panko Bread Crumbs. After breading I pan fried them in Canola Oil to a Golden Brown, about 7 minutes per side. As I said it was the first time I tried them and really liked them better than the Beef Cube Steaks, a lot more tender. I'll be using them again!
For sides to go with the Cube Steak I heated up some Pioneer White Peppered Gravy along with Bob Evan's Mashed Potatoes, microwave a total of 6 minutes and ready! Then I also microwaved a bag of Walmat Marketside Sugar Snap Peas . For dessert later I had bought a Bunch of Bananas while out so I'll just have a Banana tonight.
Ground Pork Pesto Burger w/ Baked Baked Steakhouse Seasoned Griller Potatoes
July 1, 2012 at 5:37 PM | Posted in diabetes, Ground Pork, Healthy Life Whole Grain Breads, Ore - Ida | 1 Comment
Tags: Black pepper, Ground Black Pepper, Linebacker, Morton Salt, Olive oil, Ore-Ida, Pesto, Pork
Today's Menu: Ground Pork Pesto Burger w/ Baked Steakhouse Seasoned Griller Potatoes
For Dinner tonight I had a Ground Pork & Pesto Burger along with some Baked Steakhouse Seasoned Griller Potatoes . The pesto mixed in with the Ground Pork is a perfect combo! I had made up several of these and froze them that way Iv'e always got them on hand. I used Kroger Brand Ground Pork, 180 calories and 0 carbs. I combined the Ground Pork with Buitoni Pesto w/ Basil and Italian Style Bread Crumbs and mixed by hand until everything was well combined and made it into patties. I fried the Burger in Extra Virgin Olive Oil and seasoned it with Morton Salt Substitute and Ground Black Pepper. I topped it with just a splash of JB's Fat Boy Haugwaush BBQ Sauce and a slice of Sargento Muenster Cheese and served on a Healthy Life Whole Grain Bun. The Pesto and Pork are a fantastic pairing! You have to give these a try. I left the recipe at the end of the post. I also had a side of Ore Ida Baked Steakhouse Seasoned Griller Potatoes . For dessert later a Jello Sugar Free Chocolate Pudding.
(Makes 4 Burgers)
1 LB. Ground Pork
1/4 Cup Basil Pesto (You can add more or less to taste)
1/4 cup Italian Style Bread Crumbs
Sea Salt and Ground Black Pepper, to taste
4 Slices of Smoked Gouda Cheese or Muenster Cheese, Optional
Lettuce, sliced Tomato optional
* In a mixing bowl add your bread crumbs, pesto, and ground pork. Mix together and form into 4 Burgers
* Spray a large skillet and heat on medium heat and add 1/2 tablespoon Extra Virgin Olive Oil
* Fry the Burgers to your liking, I fried these for about 4 minutes per side.
* Serve on a Bun of your choice (I used Healthy Life Whole Grain Buns). Add Sauteed Baby Bella Mushrooms, Reduced or Lite Mayo, and a Slice of Cheese.
Ground Pork Pesto Burger w/ Baked Crinkle Fries
June 15, 2012 at 4:44 PM | Posted in cheese, Ground Pork, Healthy Life Whole Grain Breads, low calorie, low carb, mushrooms, Ore - Ida | 1 Comment
Tags: Black pepper, Bun, Ground Black Pepper, Linebacker, Olive oil, Ore-Ida, Pesto, Pork
Today's Menu: Ground Pork Pesto Burger w/ Baked Crinkle Fries
Ground Pork BurgersI had a Ground Pork & Pesto Burger along with some Baked Crinkle Fries. The pesto mixed in with the Ground Pork is a perfect match! I had made up 4 of these and froze 3 of them and kept 1 out for dinner. I used Kroger Brand Ground Pork, 180 calories and 0 carbs. I combined the Ground Pork with Buitoni Pesto w/ Basil and Italian Style Bread Crumbs and mixed by hand until everything was well combined and made it into patties. I fried the Burger in Extra Virgin Olive Oil and seasoned it with Morton Salt Substitute and Ground Black Pepper. Itopped it with Sauteed Mushrooms and a slice of Sargento Muenster Cheese and served on a Healthy Life Whole Grain Bun. The Pesto and Pork are a fantastic pairing! You have to give these a try. I left the recipe at the end of the post. I also had a side of Ore Ida Baked Crinkle Fries. For dessert later a Jello Sugar Free Chocolate Pudding.
May 11, 2012 at 5:04 PM | Posted in diabetes, diabetes friendly, Ground Pork, Ore - Ida, Sargento's Cheese | Leave a comment
Tags: Black pepper, Bun, Burger, Gouda (cheese), Linebacker, Olive oil, Ore-Ida, Pesto
I had a Ground Pork & Pesto Burger along with some Baked Crinkle Fries. The pesto mixed in with the Ground Pork is a perfect match! I had made up several of these and froze them. So after getting one from the freezer and thawing it out I fried the Burger in Extra Virgin Olive Oil about 4 minutes per side. It came out moist and juicy bursting with flavor. I topped it with Sauteed Baby Bella Mushrooms, a slice of Sargento Muenster Cheese and Reduced Kraft Mayo and served it on a Healthy Life Whole Grain Bun. I left the recipe at the end of the post. If you've never had a Ground Pork Burger you have to give them a try! As a side I had Baked Ore Ida Crinkle Fries. For dessert/snack later a 100 Calorie Mini Bag of Jolly Time Pop Corn.
Ground Pork Burgers
1 LB. Ground Pork (I used a 93/7 Blend)
One of America's Favorites – the HamBurger
March 28, 2012 at 8:52 AM | Posted in BEEF, Food, grilling, Ground Pork, ground turkey | 7 Comments
Tags: April 1995, Charlie Nagreen, Hamburg, McDonald, NEW YORK, Salisbury steak, Texas, Wendy
A hamburger (also called a hamburger sandwich, burger or hamburg) is a sandwich consisting of a cooked patty of ground meat
(usually beef, but occasionally pork or a combination of meats) usually placed inside a sliced bread roll. Hamburgers are often served with lettuce, bacon, tomato, onion, pickles, cheese and condiments such as mustard, mayonnaise, ketchup and relish.
The term "burger", can also be applied to the meat patty on its own, especially in the UK where the term "patty" is rarely used. The term may be prefixed with the type of meat as in "beef burger".
The term hamburger originally derives from Hamburg, Germany's second largest city, from where many people emigrated to the United States. In High German, Burg means fortified settlement or fortified refuge; and is a widespread component of place names. Hamburger can be a descriptive noun in German, referring to someone from Hamburg (compare London -> Londoner) or an adjective describing something from Hamburg. Similarly, frankfurter and wiener, names for other meat-based foods, are also used in Germany and Austria as descriptive nouns for people and as adjectives for things from the cities of Frankfurt and Wien (Vienna), respectively. The term "burger" is associated with many different types of sandwiches similar to a (ground beef) hamburger, using different meats, such as a buffalo burger, venison, kangaroo, turkey, elk, salmon burger or veggie burger.
The first printed American menu which listed hamburger was claimed to be an 1826 menu from Delmonico's in New York. However,the printer of the original menu was not in business in 1834.
Between 1871-1884, "Hamburg Beefsteak" was on the "Breakfast and Supper Menu" of the Clipper Restaurant at 311/313 Pacific Street in San Fernando. It cost 10 cents—the same price as mutton chops, pig's feet in batter, and stewed veal. It was not, however, on the dinner menu, only "Pig's Head" "Calf Tongue" and "Stewed Kidneys" were listed.
Hamburger Steak, Plain and Hamburger Steak with Onions, was served at the Tyrolean Alps Restaurant at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.
According to the Library of Congress, Louis' Lunch, in New Haven, Connecticut, is the original American Hamburger, being served since 1895.
Texas historian Frank X. Tolbert attributes the American version of the Glasse cookbook to Fletcher Davis of Athens, Texas. Davis is believed to have sold hamburgers at his café at 115 Tyler Street in Athens, Texas in the late 1880s, then brought them to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. An article about Louis' Lunch in The New York Times on January 12, 1974 stated that the McDonald's hamburger chain claims the inventor was an unknown food vendor at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. Tolbert's research documented that this vendor was in fact Fletcher Davis. Dairy Queen spokesman Bob Phillips made a similar claim for Dairy Queen in a commercial filmed in Athens in the 1980s calling the town the birthplace of the hamburger.
Residents of Hamburg, New York, which was named after Hamburg, Germany, attribute the hamburger to Ohioans Frank and Charles Menches. According to legend, the Menches brothers were vendors at the 1885 Erie County Fair (then called the Buffalo Fair) when they ran out of sausage for sandwiches and used beef instead. They named the result after the location of the fair. However, Frank Menches's obituary in The New York Times states instead that these events took place at the 1892 Summit County Fair in Akron, Ohio.
The Seymour Community Historical Society of Seymour, Wisconsin, credits Charlie Nagreen, now known as "Hamburger Charlie", with the invention of the hamburger. Nagreen was fifteen when he reportedly made sandwiches out of meatballs that he was selling at the 1885 Seymour Fair (now the Outagamie County Fair), so that customers could eat while walking. The Historical Society explains that Nagreen named the hamburger after the Hamburg steak with which local German immigrants were familiar.
The Library of Congress credits Louis Lassen of Louis' Lunch, a small lunch wagon in New Haven, Connecticut, for selling the first hamburger and steak sandwich in the U.S. in 1895. New York magazine states that, "The dish actually had no name until some rowdy sailors from Hamburg named the meat on a bun after themselves years later", noting also that this claim is subject to dispute.
There is good evidence that the first hamburger served on a bun was made by Oscar Weber Bilby of Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1891.
"In April of 1995, the Dallas Morning News reported Oklahoma author says Tulsa beats out Texas as the birthplace of delicacy. Michael Wallis, author of "Route 66, The Mother Road", was quoted by the newspaper to say he had discovered Tulsa's place in culinary history. The discovery was made while researching the state's tastiest hamburgers. What better place to start than the restaurant that has been voted Tulsa's best burger more often than any other restaurant since 1933…Weber's Root Beer Stand. Mr. Wallis' research revealed that Oscar Weber Bilby was the first person to serve a real hamburger. On July 4, 1891, ground beef was served on his wife's homemade buns. The Fourth of July party took place on his farm, just west of present day Tulsa. Until then, ground beef had been served in Athens, Texas on simple slices of bread, known presently and then as a "patty melt". According to the Tulsa-based author, the bun is essential. Therefore, in 1995, Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating cited Athens, Texas' feat of ground beef between two slices of bread to be a minor accomplishment. The Governor's April 1995 Proclamation also cites the first true hamburger on the bun, as meticulous research shows, was created and consumed in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1891. The Governor's Proclamation on April 13, 1995 cites Tulsa as "The Real Birthplace of the Hamburger."
The hamburger bun was invented in 1916 by a fry cook named Walter Anderson, who co-founded White Castle in 1921.
* 1921 — White Castle, Wichita, Kansas. Due to widely prevalent anti-German sentiment in the U.S. during World War I, an alternative name for hamburgers was Salisbury steak. Following the war, hamburgers became unpopular until the White Castle restaurant chain marketed and sold large numbers of small 2.5-inch square hamburgers, known as sliders. They started to punch five holes in each patty, which help them cook evenly and eliminates the need to flip the burger. White Castle began in 1995 selling frozen hamburgers in convenience stores and vending machines.[29]
* 1940 — McDonald's restaurant, San Bernardino, California, opened by Richard and Maurice McDonald. Their introduction of the "Speedee Service System" in 1948 established the principles of the modern fast-food restaurant. The McDonald brothers began franchising in 1953. In 1961, Ray Kroc (the supplier of their multi-mixer milkshake machines) purchased the company from the brothers for $2.7 million and a 1.9% royalty.
Hamburgers are usually a feature of fast food restaurants. The hamburgers served in major fast food establishments are usually
mass-produced in factories and frozen for delivery to the site. These hamburgers are thin and of uniform thickness, differing from the traditional American hamburger prepared in homes and conventional restaurants, which is thicker and prepared by hand from ground beef. Generally most American hamburgers are round, but some fast-food chains, such as Wendy's, sell square-cut hamburgers. Hamburgers in fast food restaurants are usually grilled on a flat-top, but some firms, such as Burger King use a gas flame grilling process. At conventional American restaurants, hamburgers may be ordered "rare" (occasionally requiring the signing of a waiver), but normally are served medium-well or well-done for food safety reasons. Fast food restaurants do not usually offer this option.
The McDonald's fast-food chain sells the Big Mac, one of the world's top selling hamburgers. Other major fast-food chains, including Burger King (also known as Hungry Jack's in Australia), A&W, Culver's, Whataburger, Carl's Jr./Hardee's chain, Wendy's (known for
The McDonald's Big Mac
their square patties), Jack in the Box, Cook Out, Harvey's, Shake Shack, In-N-Out Burger, Five Guys, Fatburger, Vera's, Burgerville, Back Yard Burgers, Lick's Homeburger, Roy Rogers, Smashburger and Sonic also rely heavily on hamburger sales. Fuddruckers and Red Robin are hamburger chains that specialize in mid-tier "restaurant-style" variety of hamburgers.
Some North American establishments offer a unique take on the hamburger beyond what is offered in fast food restaurants, using upscale ingredients such as sirloin or other steak along with a variety of different cheeses, toppings, and sauces. Some examples would be the Bobby's Burger Palace chain founded by well-known chef and Food Network star Bobby Flay.
Hamburgers are often served as a fast dinner, picnic or party food, and are usually cooked outdoors on barbecue grills.
Raw hamburger may contain harmful bacteria that can produce food-borne illness such as Escherichia coli O157:H7, due to the occasional initial improper preparation of the meat, so caution is needed during handling and cooking. Because of the potential for food-borne illness, the USDA recommends hamburgers be cooked to an internal temperature of 170 °F (80 °C). If cooked to this temperature, they are considered well-done.
A high-quality hamburger patty is made entirely of ground (minced) beef and seasonings; this may be described as an "all-beef hamburger" or "all-beef patties" to distinguish them from inexpensive hamburgers made with added flour, textured vegetable protein, ammonia treated defatted beef trimmings what the company Beef Products Inc, calls "lean finely textured beef", Advanced meat recovery (see below: Health-related controversies) or other filler to decrease their cost. In the 1930s ground liver was sometimes added to the patties. Some cooks prepare their patties with binders, such as eggs or breadcrumbs. Seasonings may be included with the hamburger patty including salt and pepper, and others such as parsley, onions, soy sauce, Thousand Island dressing, onion soup mix, or Worcestershire sauce. Many name brand seasoned salt products are also used.
Burgers can also be made with patties made from ingredients other than beef. For example, a turkey burger uses ground turkey meat, a chicken burger uses ground chicken meat. A buffalo burger uses ground meat from a bison, and an ostrich burger is made from ground seasoned ostrich meat. A deer burger uses ground venison from deer.
Rehydrated textured vegetable protein, TVP, has a more than 50 year safe-track record of inexpensively extending ground beef for hamburgers, without reducing its nutritional value.
A veggie burger, garden burger, or tofu burger uses a meat analogue, a meat substitute such as tofu, TVP, seitan (wheat gluten), quorn, beans, grains or an assortment of vegetables, ground up and mashed into patties.
In 2011, a Japanese scientist named Mitsuyuki created a synthetic burger made from human feces. The "burger" consisted of synthesized protein with soya and steak sauce for taste preservation. Mitsuyuki claimed the taste was similar to beef, and explained that the makeup of the burger was 63 percent protein, 25 percent carbohydrates, three percent lipids and nine percent minerals.
In the United States and Canada, burgers may be classified as two main types: fast food hamburgers and individually prepared burgers made in homes and restaurants. The latter are traditionally prepared "with everything", which includes lettuce, tomato, onion, and often sliced pickles (or pickle relish). Coleslaw and french fries usually accompany the burger. Cheese (usually processed cheese slices but often Cheddar, Swiss, pepper jack, or blue), either melted on the meat patty or crumbled on top, is generally an option.
Condiments might be added to a hamburger or may be offered separately on the side including mustard, mayonnaise, ketchup, salad dressings and barbecue sauce.
Other toppings include bacon, avocado or guacamole, sliced sautéed mushrooms, cheese sauce and/or chili (usually without beans), fried egg, scrambled egg, feta cheese, blue cheese, salsa, pineapple, jalapenos and other kinds of chile peppers, anchovies, slices of ham or bologna, pastrami or teriyaki-seasoned beef, tartar sauce, french fries, onion rings or potato chips.
Standard toppings on hamburgers may depend upon location, particularly at restaurants that are not national or regional franchises. A "Texas burger" uses mustard as the only sauce, and comes with or without vegetables, jalapeno slices, and cheese. In the Upper Midwest, particularly Wisconsin, burgers are often made with a buttered bun, butter as one of the ingredients of the patty or with a pat of butter on top of the burger patty. This is called a "butter burger". In the Carolinas, for instance, a Carolina-style hamburger "with everything" may be served with cheese, chili, onions, mustard, and coleslaw. National chain Wendy's sells a "Carolina Classic" burger with these toppings in these areas. In Hawaii hamburgers are often topped with teriyaki sauce, derived from the Japanese-American culture, and locally grown pineapple. Waffle House claims on its menus and website to offer 70,778,880 different ways of serving a hamburger. In portions of the Midwest and East coast, a hamburger served with lettuce, tomato, and onion is called a "California burger". This usage is sufficiently widespread to appear on the menus of Dairy Queen. In the Western U.S., a "California" burger often means a cheeseburger, with guacamole and bacon added. Pastrami burgers may be served in Salt Lake City, Utah.
*A hamburger with two patties is called a "double decker" or simply a "double", a hamburger with three patties is called a "triple". Doubles and triples are often combined with cheese and sometimes with bacon, yielding a "double cheeseburger" or a "triple bacon cheeseburger", or alternatively, a "bacon double or triple cheeseburger".
*A hamburger smothered in red or green chile is called a slopper.
*A patty melt consists of a patty, sautéed onions and cheese between two slices of rye bread. The sandwich is then buttered and fried.
*A slider is a very small square hamburger patty sprinkled with diced onions and served on an equally small bun. According to the earliest citations, the name originated aboard U.S. Navy ships, due of the way greasy burgers slid across the galley grill while the ship pitched and rolled. Other versions claim the term "slider" originated from the hamburgers served by flight line galleys at military airfields, which were so greasy they slid right through you; or because their small size allows them to "slide" right down your throat in one or two bites.
*In Alberta, Canada a "kubie burger" is a hamburger made with a pressed Ukrainian sausage (kubasa).
*In Minnesota, a "Juicy Lucy", or "Jucy Lucy", is a hamburger having cheese inside the meat patty rather than on top. A piece of cheese is surrounded by raw meat and cooked until it melts, resulting in a molten core of cheese within the patty. This scalding hot cheese tends to gush out at the first bite, so servers frequently warn patrons to let the sandwich cool for a few minutes before consumption.
*A low carb burger is a hamburger where the bun is omitted and large pieces of lettuce are used in its place, with mayonnaise and/or mustard being the sauces primarily used.
March 27, 2012 at 5:25 PM | Posted in diabetes, diabetes friendly, Food, Ground Pork, Healthy Life Whole Grain Breads, low calorie, low carb | 5 Comments
Tags: Black pepper, Bun, Burger, Kraft Mayo, Olive oil, Ore-Ida, Pesto, Veggie burger
I love these Ground Pork Burgers the taste is fantastic, the pesto mixed in with the Pork is a perfect match! I had made up several of these and froze them. So after thawing I fried the Burger in Extra Virgin Olive Oil about 4 minutes per side. It came out moist and juicy bursting with flavor. I topped it with Sauteed Mushrooms, reduced Kraft Mayo, a teaspoon of Basil Pesto Sauce, and a slice of Smoked Gouda Cheese and served it on a Healthy Life Whole Grain Bun. I left the recipe at the end of the post. As a side I had Baked Ore Ida Crinkle Fries. I also had a bottle of the new Snapple Drink, Half and Half Iced Tea & Lemonade Diet Snapple. Plus it's only 10 calories and 0 carbs! For dessert later a slice of Pillsbury Nut Quick Bread.
4 Slices of Smoked Gouda Cheese, Optional
* Serve on a Bun of your choice (I used Healthy Life Whole Grain Buns). Add Reduced or Lite Mayo and Slice of Smoked Gouda Cheese.
Do you do the Hanky-panky?
March 2, 2012 at 1:23 PM | Posted in baking, cheese, Ground Pork, ground turkey | Leave a comment
Tags: Beef mince, Cincinnati, cook, Home, Meat, Super Bowl, Turkey, Velveeta
If you've been in Cincinnati long enough, you probably do
By Polly Campbell
For a city with a reputation for being conservative, Cincinnati sure gets up to a lot of hanky-panky. Super Bowl parties around town this Sunday, for instance, are sure to be huge hanky-panky occasions.
We speak, of course, of the snacks made of ground beef, sausage and processed cheese, piled on squares of cocktail rye and broiled or baked. They have a special place in Cincinnatians' hearts and at Cincinnatians' parties. They are sometimes called hanky-pankys, sometimes hanky-panks. Both spell cheesy deliciousness.
"They're a local dish," said Bill Head, of Fort Thomas, who owns Arnie's on the Levee in Newport, where they're on the menu. He is also a pilot for American Airlines. "I've been all around the country, and I've never seen them anywhere else. We'll serve them at cocktail parties at home to people from out of town, and they'll ask us what the heck they are."
Sav-a-lot grocery stores did a Snack-Down poll in 2009 about what people in different cities around the country like to eat at Super Bowl parties. Cincinnatians mentioned, along with standards like wings and pizza, Cincinnati chili and hanky-panks. (The Minneapolis company that ran the poll had absolutely no idea what they were talking about.)
There's even a band named for the snack, The Hanky-Panks. Their slogan, according to lead singer Billy Scott, is "Sausage, ground beef and Velveeta on party rye. Emphasis on the party."
Many people think of the little snacks as not just Cincinnatian, but particularly native to the West Side.
"I have always thought of them as a Cincinnati thing, and particularly a West Side thing," said Matt Huesman, owner of Maury's Tiny Cove in Cheviot. Huesman grew up in Price Hill and other western reaches of the region.
"Whenever we had a family get-together of any kind, someone had to bring the hanky-pankys."
His grandmother who made them was from Clifton, but she had originally gotten the recipe from a West Side friend. "They became my aunt's responsibility," Huesman said. "That and Jell-o." He put them on the Maury's Cincinnati appetizer plate along with mini-reubens and goetta balls.
"Customers love them, and I feel like they respond to them as a beloved West Side dish."
Hanky-pank enthusiast Kristin Waldvogel, who grew up in Green Township and now lives in Columbia Tusculum, serves them often.
"If I'm hosting a tailgate or having people over to watch the game, rest assured hanky-pankys will be served," she said.
In support of the notion that there's more hanky-panky going on west of I-75, she said she has two Cincinnati native roommates. "One is from College Hill and has also grown up eating hanky-pankys, and the other is from from Hyde Park, who, hand to God, thought we were eating dog food on toast when we first made them for a party."
Rookwood Restaurant in Mount Adams, definitely not the West Side, has them on the menu.
"We wanted something very Cincinnati on our menu to go with our Cincinnati history theme," said part-owner and chef Jon Mouch. "Also, we didn't want people to take us too seriously." It was a chef from, yes, the West Side, who suggested them.
Rookwood has intensified the Cincinnati spirit in its hanky-panks by using goetta instead of sausage. They toast the rye bread first, too.
That mini-size cocktail rye bread is an important element of the dish. Josh Knepfle, of Delhi Township, who grew up in Bridgetown, said a roommate of his from college once made them on regular rye.
"To this day, he's still known for his giant hanky-panks," he said.
If the Velveeta and ground beef give hanky-panks an unsophisticated, pre-foodie American feel, you should know that David Cook of Daveed's Restaurant, also in Mount Adams, has them on his catering menu. Sure, he includes caramelized onions, two kinds of sausage, red pepper flakes and Frank's Red Hot sauce, but he keeps the Velveeta. (People often mention it has to be "real" Velveeta, a little like insisting on genuine Naugahyde.)
Cook is from New Jersey, and hanky-panks had not entered his life until his West Side brother-in-law made them for a family party. "I stuck my nose up at them, but then I ate about 22," he said. His version, which is called sausage-cheese toasts on the menu, is very popular for corporate events.
"And I mean the top executives," Cook said.
Sandy Koenig, of Montgomery, said that she made hanky-pankys for the first time when she was a young wife in 1979.
"I haven't made them in quite a long time. My waist thanks me for that," she said. "But the other day I heard my 24-year-old daughter mention hanky-pankys. I asked if I had heard her correctly. She said, yes, they were the best things she'd ever tasted. I guess when something is this good it lives on and on."
So hanky-panks seem to have advocates on the west, east and Kentucky sides of town, and among all ages and strata of Cincinnati society. Now they're even served in restaurants. (The new Bend in the Road Tavern in Green Township has them on the menu, too, made with chorizo and a homemade cheese sauce.)
But mostly they're a homemade thing and associated by many with televised sports. There's not much controversy over the recipe. Almost everyone who has posted a recipe for hanky-pankys somewhere on the Web agrees: You cook a pound of ground beef and a pound of sausage together, blend in a pound of Velveeta cheese until melted, then pile on cocktail rye and broil or bake. Some people add oregano, some Worcestershire sauce; some go a little crazy with minced dried onion or garlic salt. I have come up with some other variations.
Even her Hyde Park roommate is on the bandwagon, said Waldvogel.
"Now that she's tried them, she LOVES hanky-pankys."
Hanky-Pankys
The classic version
1 pound pork sausage
1 pound Velveeta cheese, diced
1/2 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
2 loaves of cocktail rye bread
In a medium skillet, brown the beef and sausage together, breaking up thoroughly with a fork. Drain extra grease. Add the Velveeta , oregano and Worcestershire sauce and stir until cheese is melted. Put 2 teaspoons of the mixture on top of each piece of rye bread and arrange on a cookie sheet or broiler pan. Preheat broiler, then broil the hanky-panks until the cheese is bubbly and hot.
Makes about 60.
These freeze very well. Just put them in the freezer in a single layer, and when they're frozen solid, move to zip-lock bags. At the party, put in a 450-degree oven until bubbly and warm through, about 10 minutes.
One hanky-pank has about 87 calories
Hank-Panks
The traditional hanky-panky is pretty high-fat. (Have you checked calorie counts on breakfast sausage?) I've cut down the fat and calories (and slimmed down the name) by using poultry, and they still taste pretty good. These have about 60 calories per piece.
Follow above recipe, but for the beef, sausage and cheese, substitute:
1 pound chicken breakfast sausage
1 pound 2% Velveeta
Hanky-Spankys
Hanky-pankys spice up well. For the sausage, use a spicy variety, or Mexican chorizo, add a teaspoon of Frank's Red Hot sauce, or more to taste, and top with a slice of jalapeno. That'll spank your taste buds
Hankety-Panketys
Oh, go ahead. Get creative. Hanky-panks take well to variations. And I made up this version, which I think is a little more refined and a little leaner than the original. The recipe is highly improved by making crispy toast from the bread first, and pumpernickel makes a nice change. At the Rookwood Restaurant, they serve a little giardiniera, or pickled vegetables, with their hanky-pankys. That addition of something crunchy and pickly is a good contrast to the rich meat.
1 loaf pumpernickel cocktail bread
1 loaf cocktail rye
Olive oil or butter
1 onion, minced fine
2 cloves garlic, minced or pressed
1½ pounds Laura's lean beef
1/2 pound chicken breakfast sausage
1/2 pound Velveeta
1/2 pound grated extra-sharp cheddar cheese
Preheat broiler. Brush the bread slices lightly with olive oil or melted butter. Toast under broiler, watching very carefully. Turn over, toast second side, then remove and let cool. Heat oil in a skillet, add the minced onion and cook until very soft and starting to brown. Add garlic and cook another minute. Add the meats and cook, breaking up with a fork. Then add the cheeses and Worcestershire, stir until melted. Pile on toasts, broil.
Then top each piece with one of these:
cocktail onion
relish (Marble Hill's cucumber-bell pepper is especially good)
pickled Mexican carrots (find them in a can in the Hispanic section)
Totally Cincinnati Hanky-Pankys
Use goetta instead of sausage
Hanky-Panky dip
Keep the meat-cheese mixture warm in a crock pot and serve with the cocktail rye on the side. Or you could use rye crackers.
German Hanky-Pankys
Stir in 1 cup of sauerkraut to the meat-cheese mixture
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20120201/LIFE01/302010034/Do-you-do-Hanky-panky-
Ground Pork Pesto Burger w/ Green Beans
February 29, 2012 at 6:56 PM | Posted in cheese, Food, greenbeans, Ground Pork, Healthy Life Whole Grain Breads | 1 Comment
Tags: Black pepper, Bun, Burger, Green Bean, Kraft Mayo, Olive oil, Pesto, Veggie burger
Today's Menu: Ground Pork Pesto Burger w/ Green Beans
Love these Ground Pork Burgers the taste is fantastic, the pesto mixed in with the Pork is a perfect match! I fried the Burger in Extra Virgin Olive Oil about 4 minutes per side. Comes out moist and juicy bursting with flavor. I topped it with some reduced Kraft Mayo and a slice of Smoked Gouda Cheese and served it on a Healthy Life Whole Grain Bun. I left the recipe at the end of the post. As a side I had Green Beans. A bit different for a side for a Burger but it just sounded good! Green Beans are my favorite Veggie. i also had a bottle of the new Snapple Drink, Half and Half Iced Tea & Lemonade Diet Snapple. Really liked it, has a fantastic flavor. Plus it's only 10 calories and 0 carbs! For dessert later a Yoplait Delight 100 Calorie Chocolate Eclair Parfait.
* Serve on a Bun of your choice (I used Heathy Life Whole Grain Buns). Add Reduced or Lite Mayo and Slice of Smoked Gouda Cheese.
Ground Pork Pesto Burger w/ Crinkle Fries
February 19, 2012 at 6:16 PM | Posted in baking, diabetes, diabetes friendly, Food, Ground Pork, Healthy Life Whole Grain Breads, low calorie, low carb, Ore - Ida | 1 Comment
Tags: Black pepper, Bun, Burger, Kraft Mayo, Olive oil, Ore-Ida, Pork, Vanilla Ice
Today's Menu: Ground Pork Pesto Burger w/ Crinkle Fries
I made up a new batch of the Ground Pork Burgers and froze all but one of them. Love these Ground Pork Burgers the taste is fantastic, the pesto with the Pork is a perfect match! I fried the Burger in Extra Virgin Olive Oil about 4 minutes per side. Comes out moist and juicy bursting with flavor. I topped it with some reduced Kraft Mayo, a teaspoon of Basil Pesto, a slice of Smoked Gouda Cheese and served it on a Healthy Life Whole Grain Bun. I left the recipe at the end of the post. As a side I had Ore Ida Crinkle Fries with Heinz 57 Sauce on the side for dipping. For dessert later a bowl of Breyer's Carb Smart Vanilla Ice Cream topped with Smucker's Sugar Free Hot Fudge Topping.
Ground Pork Burger w/ Crinkle Fries
December 15, 2011 at 6:47 PM | Posted in diabetes, diabetes friendly, Food, Ground Pork, Healthy Life Whole Grain Breads, low calorie, low carb | Leave a comment
Tags: Black pepper, Bun, Burger, Menu, Olive oil, Ore-Ida, Pork, Turkey Bacon
Today's Menu: Ground Pork Burger topped with Turkey Bacon, Smoked Gouda w/ Crinkle Fries
Love these Ground Pork Burgers the taste is fantastic, the pesto with the Pork is a perfect match! I had froze about 5 of them and this is the last one. Time to make another batch! I fried the Burger in Extra Virgin Olive Oil about 4 minutes per side. Came out moist and juicy bursting with flavor. I left the recipe at the end of the post. I topped it with a slice of Turkey Bacon and a slice of Hardwood Smoked Gouda Cheese. Served it on an Healthy Life Whole Grain Bun. As a side I had Ore Ida Crinkle Fries. For dessert later a Chocolate Dipped Frozen Banana. You can find the recipe for this in my previous post.
1/4 Cup Basil Pesto (You can add more to taste)
* In a mixing bowl add your pesto and ground pork. Mix together and form into 4 Burgers


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Call for UN climate agency to back Robin Hood Tax
By John Parnell
The UN climate secretariat must show its support for a Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) if proposals for it to contribute to international climate action are to be fulfilled.
According to the Sustainable Energy & Economy Network/Institute for Policy Studies (SEEN/IPS) in Washington DC, the UNFCCC must send a signal to governments that the FTT has a legitimate role to play in raising funds to help developing countries cut their emissions and adapt to their new climate reality.
While the FTT may well fall beyond the reach of the UNFCCC's remit, SEEN/IPS Co-director Janet Redman believes there is a role for it to play at the next meeting in Qatar this November.
"The UNFCCC in Doha can name and encourage the use of a variety of sources of innovative funding to send a political signal," she told RTCC. "We've seen this with a levy on bunker fuels for shipping and aviation encouraging action through their respective industry organisations at the UN, the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) and International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO)."
Nathalie Kosciusko the then French Minister for Ecology, Sustainable Development, Transport and Housing shows her support for an FTT at the Durban climate talks. (Source: Ainhoa Goma/Oxfam)
The FTT, sometimes referred to as the Robin Hood Tax, applies a small levy to financial transactions such as share dealings, commodity trading and currency speculation and could raise billions of dollars annually.
Clarification over details such as "additionality", the pledge that countries donating money will not simply draw funds from allocated overseas aid budgets should also be on the finance agenda in Doha but it is the urgency of finding climate finance for 2013 that takes precedence said Redman.
"We need to see a firm commitment from developed countries around the volume and timetable for scaling up climate finance from now to 2020, and a commitment to specific mechanisms to raise and deliver that money.
"We also need to see Parties moving forward from recognising, to taking action on defining exactly what climate finance is, defining what comprises "new and additional" funding and developing a common platform for reporting how and where climate finance goes," she said.
In tweets: UN climate change finance workshop #LTFchat
Will the billions needed for climate change finance be found in Doha?
Green Climate Fund continues to make slow but steady progress
SEEN/IPS have been campaigning for the FTT for several years targeting investment bank JP Morgan in particular and were also co-signatories to a letter of support sent to Hilary Clinton.
Recent opposition from developed countries via the US at a UN workshop in Bonn, and separate concerns from developing nations via the Philippines this week, have knocked some of the air out of its sails.
At the second long term finance workshop organised by the UNFCCC in Cape Town this week, Bernarditas Muller from the Philippines delegation said that the FTT would be split to fund projects in several sectors, making it an unpredictable source of climate finance.
At the first UNFCCC workshop this year in July, Paul Bodnar from the US State Department raised the issue.
"The FTT is almost impossible to impose globally. The private actors involved would work around the attacks and could erode tax base further by driving activity to offshore havens," he said.
"Market based efforts to price carbon emissions are promising. We need sources of finance that are linked to emissions," he added.
This was met with opposition from NGOs including Friends of the Earth US and ActionAid US who wrote in a letter to Secretary of State Hilary Clinton: "Indeed, we urge you to support efforts to enact a financial transaction tax to pay for international public goods at climate change negotiations, the G20 and other important international venues."
Janet Redman, Co-director, Sustainable Energy & Economy Network/Institute for Policy Studies was a signatory of that letter.
"I understand her position the representative of the Philippines, which is shared by other developing countries, that climate finance from developed countries must be predictable," said Redman.
"It's right the developing world wants to see financial obligation fulfilled. Many developing countries have advocated for national budget contributions as the most predictable source, but securing contributions through national budgets can be very unpredictable in different national systems. In the US, climate finance is allocated each fiscal year. It's an uphill battle to secure this financing every time the question comes up in front of Congress."
FTT feasible for climate finance
Redman points out that some developing nations, Brazil, Bolivia, Pakistan and South Africa have spoken in support of FTT at previous UN climate summits.
"South Korea just passed an FTT in their own country. For many it's not so much the mechanism itself that is in debate, as how it relates to the UNFCCC," she added.
With FTT revenue passing through national governments anyway, Redman argues they would be no more, or less, predictable than a straight forward national contribution, direct from a government.
"Revenue raised by an FTT could be nationally directed to the Green Climate Fund, or it could free up money for international climate finance that would otherwise be used for domestic public needs. The fact is that FTT could be an additional source of revenue that developed country governments use to meet their climate finance commitments."
Other sources of finance such as carbon taxes and emissions trading schemes provide an incentive to emit less greenhouse gases. The US argument at the meeting in May is that this is the form all climate finance should take.
"I don't think the most important criteria for choosing innovative sources of finance is whether or not it's linked to emissions. We need sources of climate finance linked to the scale of the need," said Redman.
"FTT is the only mechanism that comes close to raising the volume of money needed. Taxes don't always relate to the things they are taxing, we tax property in the US to pay for education. FTT is one tool among many, and it should complement tools like shifting fossil fuel subsidies, redirecting military budgets and carbon taxes."
Proceedings from the two climate finance workshops will now be condensed into a report that will be submitted to the Doha summit for consideration by negotiators and ultimately, ministers.
USA accused of obstructing plans for Robin Hood Tax
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Do You Feel Like There's Too Much Food on P90X?
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Remember that the calorie recommendations in the P90X Nutrition Guide aren't random figures. There's a scientific reason they are phased. Calorie intake is set at optimal levels by highly educated nutrition and fitness experts in order to keep you healthy while maximizing results. The experts know the science behind the changes your body will be going through – and, they also know that a fit body both is likely to burn more calories during exercise and more at rest.
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Free-to-list portal claims 800 new enquiries for agents in four weeks
A new global free-to-list property portal says it has secured 800 new property enquiries for estate agents in the last four weeks - its first milestone for growth.
Residential People, which launched in March and last month announced it had 740 independent agents in the UK on board, is currently 'live' in this country and six others - the United Arab Emirates, South Africa, Bangladesh, India, Nigeria and Pakistan.
It says it will also launch soon in Australia, Ireland, China and other countries across the Middle East, and claims that in the UK it will hit 6,000 new property enquiries per month and have 1.6m listings by the end of the year.
Chris May, co-founder and director, says: "The support we have had from agents across the UK so far has been fantastic, and we are confident that we will be able to continue to create an attractive value proposition as we gradually scale-up our business to support more agencies from across the UK and beyond."
"In terms of value, our plus points are easy to see, we are a completely free-to-list portal and one that stays the same no matter how big or small an agent might be."
The portal describes its approach as "creating a level playing field that does not discriminate against local expert agents or national firms" which means it appeals to smaller agencies as well as international companies. Non-independent agents on board include Belvoir and Countrywide's commercial arm, Lambert Smith Hampton.
The portal cites one UK client - Daniel Nulty, manager at Open House Estate Agents - who comments: "We've been thoroughly impressed by the number of leads generated since joining Residential People, and are proud to work alongside a company that aims to offer a unique product within the property sector."
In addition to free listings the portal also offers an optional, state-of-the-art marketing suite to help agents market properties and drive traffic to their websites; it says this suite enables smaller regional agents to access tools that would otherwise only be accessible to multi-office national players.
It says independents can use the suite to create property brochures and micro-sites for individual listings; there is also an automated online video generator which can then be uploaded to an agent's YouTube channel to help improve SEO.
Residential People
Property Pundit
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Sam West
12 July 2019 12:47 PM
I'm looking forward to seeing the growth, we registered a few months ago and seen as the site is fairly new I'm not expecting a ton of leads but i guess any lead is a free lead?
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Dangers of Wi-Fi Should be Reevaluated, Possibly More Harmful Than Previosuly Indicated
W-Fi could be a lot more dangerous to children's health than previously thought, says a British health agency. The guy behind the call to arms, Sir William Stewart, points to evidence that shows signal strength from a Wi-Fi router at a distance of one meter is stronger than a cellphone tower's at a distance of 100 meters. Or, in something I like to call "English," Wi-Fi signals are a hell of a lot more powerful than cellphone signals and therefore could pose more of a threat.
I wonder, if it's discovered that Wi-Fi is indeed detrimental to one's health, what would happen? Would the industry just collapse in on itself or is the basic technology modifiable so as to eliminate the danger? And what of those people who are sensitive to electromagnetic waves already, are they screwed either way?
I wonder if in a few years' time, Future People will be all, "Can you believe they willingly subjected themselves to radiation without studying its effects?"
Wi-Fi risks in schools 'must be reviewed' [Telegraph]